THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

claims contiguously, but so as not to exceed in
the whole the extent allowed for eight persons.

Space left between Claims.

6. A space or wall of three feet in breadth
   for shallow sinking, and six feet for deep, must
   be left between the boundaries of adjoining
   claims.

River Mining.

7. The extent of ground that shall be
   allowed to each claim for river or creek mining
   shall be seventy-two feet in length frontage.

Water-courses may be diverted.

8. Any person may, by consent of the Resi-
   dent Magistrate, or Commissioner appointed
   for that purpose, divert any stream or part of
   a stream from any place where it is not at the
   time required, to some other place where it
   may be required, by the construction of a dam
   and race, or otherwise.

Water-works not to be injured wilfully.

9. No person shall injure any race or dam,
   or do anything to obstruct the water, or to
   deprive the person who has diverted the water
   of the use thereof.

Claims for reward to be registered.

16. All claim or claims to the reward
    promised by the Provincial Government to be
    registered with the Resident Magistrate, who
    will duly forward the same to His Honor the
    Superintendent.

Assented to on behalf of the General
Government.

H. H. TURTON, R. M.,
(Commissioner of Crown Lands,)
Chairman.
With forty-six signatures.

POSTAL.

General Post Office,
Auckland, April 5th, 1862.

H IS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to authorise the following Officers
to receive Official Letters and Packets from
Natives free of Postage, in terms of the Pro-
clamation of the 13th February last,

The Resident Magistrates in Native Districts.

HENRY SEWELL,
In the absence of the Postmaster-General.

POSTAL.

General Post Office,
Auckland, April 5th, 1862.

T HE following Despatch from the Right
Honorable the Postmaster-General of for to
the United Kingdom is published for general
information.

HENRY SEWELL,
In the absence of the Postmaster-General.

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GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS RESPECTING THE
CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN FRANCE
AND NEW ZEALAND.

General Post Office,
20th January, 1862.

SIR, - The Government of New Zealand
having signified its acquiescence in the arran-
gement, under which it is proposed that the
entire postage upon letters exchanged between
France and New Zealand may be paid in ad-
vance or at the place of destination, I am di-
rected by the Postmaster General to inform
you that an Agreement, of which I enclose
some copies, has been concluded with the
French Post Office, for the purpose of giving
effect to the arrangement, and I am to request
that steps may be taken for carrying the
measure into operation in New Zealand on the
1st April next, the date named in the
Agreement.

I am, however, to explain that, according to
the scheme proposed in the first instance it was
intended that Newspapers and Printed Papers
exchanged between France and New Zealand
should be paid to destination, but that, as the
East Indian Post Office has, up to this time,
declined to adopt this part of the scheme, and
as it is desirable to maintain uniformity in the
Postal arrangements between France and the
several British Possessions in the East, it has
been decided that for the present the French
and the British sea rate on all Newspapers and
Printed Papers shall be collected in France, as
heretofore, and that the Colonial rate shall be
collected in New Zealand both on Papers re-
ceived and on Papers despatched.

The following regulations must be observed
on the despatch of Mails to France and on the
receipt of Mails from France.

Two mails for France must continue to be
made up, one for the Post Office at Marseilles
and the other for the Travelling Post Office
between Marseilles and Lyons.

The correspondence addressed to France or
to the several Foreign Countries, the Letters
for which are sent through France, must be
despatched in one or the other of those Mails,
according to your present practise.

With each Mail a Letter Bill, similar to one
herein enclosed, must be forwarded, and in it
must be entered, in the several places provided
for the purpose, (Column 5,) the weight of
each class of correspondence contained in the
Mail; the weight of the paid letters being
stated in British ounces and the weight of the
unpaid letters and of all printed papers being
stated in French grammes.

In the Letter Bill the names of the several
Foreign Countries for which letters may be
sent through France are arranged in classes,
A. to F, according to the rate to be accounted
when the postage of the letters
has been prepaid, letters for the Countries in-
cluded in classes B. D. E. and F. may be re-
gistered but; if registered, the postage at double
the ordinary rates must invariably be prepaid.