THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 119

No Jumping allowed.

10. No person shall take possession of any ground
    previously held and registered as a claim, or of any
    registered right or privilege whatsoever, without the
    consent of the registered owner or the authority of
    the Warden in writing, unless such claim, right, or
    privilege has been surrendered or abandoned by entry
    in the Mining Register.

Injuries to Claims.

11. No person shall remove, injure, destroy, or deface
    any posts, pegs, logs, fence, notice, or any mining
    plant of any description, without permission of the
    owner of the claim on which the same is situate, or
    interfere with any mark or boundary.

Debris.

12. The owner of any claim who shall be unable to
    discharge the debris from his workings upon his own
    or upon unoccupied ground may, on application to
    the Warden, obtain authority to discharge the same
    upon, or convey the same over, any adjacent claim
    or claims, provided that such discharge or conveyance
    does not interfere with the working of such adjacent
    claim or claims.

13. If the owner of any claim shall damage any
    adjacent claim by the discharge or conveyance on to
    or over it of any rubbish, tailings, or other debris, the
    owner of the claim so damaged shall be entitled to re-
    cover compensation for such damage by action in the
    Warden's Court.

Damage by adjoining Working.

14. If the owner of any claim shall have reasonable
    cause to suspect that his claim is receiving, or is likely
    to receive, damage from the mode of working any
    adjoining claim, the Warden may, on complaint to that
    effect made, order an inspection of such claims at the
    expense of the complainant, and may, if he shall think
    fit, order the suspension of the working of such claim
    or claims until the case shall have been decided by
    him.

Notice before Blasting.

15. Five minutes previous to the discharge of any
    blast of gunpowder or other explosive substance within
    fifty (50) feet from the surface of the ground, due
    notice of such intended discharge shall be given by
    the persons preparing the same to all other persons
    working, residing, or passing within a distance of
    one hundred (100) yards from the place of such
    discharge. When any road or footpath passes through
    any such claim, a red flag not less than one foot
    square shall be exhibited at each extremity of the
    intersection of the claim by such road or footpath for
    five minutes before the discharge.

Prevention of Accidents.

16. Any person who may sink a shaft or make an
    excavation on his claim in search of auriferous quartz,
    shall substantially fence in, to the satisfaction of the
    Mining Inspector, such shaft or excavation to the
    height of at least four (4) feet, and maintain the
    same during the occupancy of such claim, and shall
    leave it so fenced on relinquishment or abandonment
    of the claim. Any miner working in alluvial ground
    within twenty-one (21) feet of any public road or
    crossing-place, shall enclose any shaft or excavation
    which he shall make upon such claim by an embank-
    ment or fence at least four (4) feet in height, so as to
    afford thereby a reasonable security against accidents
    to passengers, and no miner shall, when he abandons
    his claim, destroy or remove any such fence or em-
    bankment or portion thereof. Where from the nature
    of the ground it is impossible to prevent the descent
    of rocks, boulders, stones, earth, or other heavy
    substances when disturbed by working, it shall not
    be lawful to mine on such claim, unless notice boards

with the words "Danger from Stones," in letters not
less than four (4) inches in length, painted thereon,
shall be placed at intervals of ten yards along any
line of road or footpath near to the place where such
rock, stone, or heavy substance is likely to fall.

17. No person shall remove any props or timber the
    removal of which may endanger life or injure the
    workings of any claim, and no person shall draw slabs
    or timber out of any shaft or abandoned ground with-
    out filling in such shaft as timber is removed.

Amalgamation.

18. The owners of any number of adjoining claims
    may, by writing under their respective hands, amalga-
    mate the same, provided such amalgamation shall be
    duly registered, and that the area of such amalgamated
    claims shall not exceed 30 acres.

Penalty for Holding Surplus Ground.

19. When any miner or miners shall have marked
    off or taken possession of more ground than he or they
    are entitled to under these Regulations, any other
    miner or miners may mark off the surplus on any side
    or end thereof: Provided always that any such
    surplus does not include any existing shafts, drives,
    or other workings in use by the previous occupants.

Tunnelling.

20. The owner of any claim who shall desire to make
    any level, adit, drive, or tunnel through other Crown
    lands, whether held as claims or not, shall apply to
    the Warden, who shall, upon hearing all parties
    interested, make such order as to him shall seem just,
    prescribing the mode in and the terms and conditions
    on which such level, adit, drive, or tunnel may be made,
    and fixing the compensation, if any, to be paid to any
    person who may be injured thereby.

WATER-RIGHTS.

Superior Rights Defined.

21. Superiority of right to a supply of water shall
    be determined by priority of occupation, the earlier
    occupant having the superior right. In all cases
    when the occupier claims under a certificate or other
    authority in writing by the Warden, occupation shall
    be taken to have commenced at the date of such
    certificate or authority.

Heads of Races.

22. All races that may hereafter be cut shall have a
    point specified at which they shall be taken from the
    creek or river; in races already cut, this point shall
    be taken to be the spot from which the race now
    heads. No person shall shift or alter the head of any
    race without the written sanction of the Warden, nor
    to the prejudice of any existing right.

Alteration of Races.

23. The alteration or extension of a race at any
    time shall not in any way affect any right or privilege
    attached to such race, and the holders thereof shall,
    during such alteration or extension, be deemed to be
    in occupation of all the rights and privileges attached
    to such race: Provided that such alteration or exten-
    sion shall first be approved of by the Warden.

Water-guage.

24. If any dispute shall arise between holders of
    water-rights deriving their supply from the same creek
    or watercourse, relative to the quantity of water to
    which each of them, the said holders, is or may be
    entitled, the following shall be taken to be a head of
    water, and such holders shall be limited thereto :-
    (a.) A stream of water gauged by a box twelve
    (12) feet long ten (10) inches deep and twenty
    (20) inches wide, all measured in the clear;
    the box shall be covered throughout. The