performance of his duties, or if his services shall be no
longer required.

10. The applicants shall defray the cost of all necessary
    renewals and repairs and of the working and removal of
    the drill and appliances.

11. The Minister may allow the use of a drill and appli-
    ances free of rent, charges, &c., and may subsidise the
    persons employing the same in connection with prospecting
    for gold at deep levels to the extent of one-half the necessary
    expenses of renewals, repairs, and working, so long as the
    drill is employed in prospecting operations and not used
    for working a mine at a profit; but the cost of all neces-
    sary tubing shall be borne entirely by the persons employing
    the drill.

12. The amount of subsidy shall be based on approved
    vouchers of expenditure, and any claims for such expenditure
    may be amended or may be rejected if they appear to the
    Minister to be excessive or unreasonable.

13. The payment of subsidy up to the amount of £100
    shall be deferred and the money be retained by the Minister
    until the drill and appliances are returned to the Mines
    Department, and any portion of the amount so retained
    shall, on the order of the Minister, be applied in making
    good any damage to or deficiency in the drill and ap-
    pliances, and in defraying any expense incurred by the
    department through any breaches of the conditions on the
    part of the persons employing the drill.

14. The drill and appliances shall at all times be subject
    to the inspection and supervision of an Inspector of Mines,
    or any other qualified person the Minister may appoint,
    and boring operations shall be suspended or absolutely
    discontinued, and the drill and appliances shall be removed
    from the control of the persons using the same, at any time
    on the order of the Minister.

The Requirements, Capacities, and Method of Construction
of Water-races and Storage Reservoirs.

15. Assistance by way of subsidy may be granted by the
    Minister towards the construction of water-races or storage
    reservoirs, on his being satisfied that the construction of
    such works will be for the benefit of the majority of the
    miners in the locality in which it is proposed to construct
    the same.

16. All applications for assistance for the construction
    of water-races shall be made to the Minister in writing,
    and shall be accompanied with detailed plans and longi-
    tudinal and cross sections of the ground where it is pro-
    posed to construct the water-races, together with the
    dimensions of the channels, the length of tunnels, open
    ditching, and fluming to be constructed on the line of such
    water-race, and a statement in detail of the cost of the
    proposed work. On receipt of such application the Minister
    shall cause an examination to be made and a report furnished
    to him by a qualified officer of the public service as to the
    extent and character of auriferous ground such water-races
    would be likely to command, and generally as to the proposed
    works. After receiving such report, and upon being satisfied
    that the applicant's proportion of the cost is available, the
    Minister may grant a subsidy towards the proposed work;
    but such subsidy shall in no case exceed one-third the total
    cost of constructing such work; or he may refuse to grant
    any subsidy.

17. No assistance shall be given to any person towards the
    construction of any water-race if the carrying-capacity is
    less than twenty sluice-heads of water, nor to any person
    constructing a reservoir having a storage-capacity of less
    than 20,000,000 cubic feet of water.

18. All applications for assistance towards the construction
    of water-races or storage reservoirs shall be accompanied
    with a statement showing the source of supply from which
    it is proposed to take the water; the area and estimated
    depth of proved auriferous ground that such water-race or
    reservoir would command; the number of miners actually
    engaged in carrying on mining operations within such area;
    and the extra number of miners that could be profitably
    employed if such water-race or reservoir were constructed.

19. Any person applying for assistance towards the construc-
    tion of a storage reservoir shall forward a plan and sections
    of the work proposed to be executed, and also of the site,
    together with a specification showing how it is proposed to
    execute the works, and what is the total estimated cost of
    the same.

20. On receipt of such application the Minister, if satisfied
    that such storage reservoir is required for the further develop-
    ment of the mining industry, and that the applicant's
    proportion of the cost is available, may grant assistance
    to the extent of not more than one-third of the total cost,
    or he may decline to grant any assistance.

21. Before any assistance is granted towards the construc-
    tion of any water-race or storage reservoir the rates to be
    charged for water from such water-race or storage reservoir
    shall be submitted to and approved by the Minister.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations for Special Dredging Claims below Low-water
Mark, and for granting Certificates to Mine-managers
and Battery Superintendents.

GLASGOW, Governor.

WHEREAS by the three hundred and forty-first section
of "The Mining Act, 1891," it is enacted that it
shall be lawful for the Governor, subject to the provisions of
the said Act, from time to time to make, alter, amend, and
revoke regulations for all or any of the purposes therein
mentioned:

And whereas, in pursuance and exercise of the hereinbefore
in part recited authority, regulations were made on the
twenty-third day of December, one thousand eight hundred
and ninety-one, and came into operation on the first day of
January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two: And
whereas it is desirable to revoke certain of the said regula-
tions and the schedules thereto as hereinafter set forth, and
to make other regulations and schedules in lieu thereof:

Now, therefore, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of
the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers and
authorities conferred on me by the in part recited Act, do
hereby revoke Part XXX., Nos. 280 to 289, inclusive, and the
schedules therein referred to, being Nos. 45 to 51, inclusive, of
the aforesaid regulations of the twenty-third day of Decem-
ber, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one; and in lieu
thereof I do, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and
authorities conferred upon me by the three hundred and
forty-first section of "The Mining Act, 1891," and the eighth
section of "The Mining Act Amendment Act, 1894," make
the regulations and schedules herein set forth, that is to
say:-

PART I.-REGULATIONS FOR GRANTING SPECIAL DREDGING
CLAIMS BELOW LOW-WATER MARK.

1. All special dredging claims below low-water mark shall
   be subject to the regulations for special claims and licensed
   holdings, unless otherwise hereinafter specially provided, in
   addition to such terms and conditions as may be prescribed
   by the Warden: Provided that if at any time, in the
   opinion of the Warden, navigation is likely to be injuriously
   affected, he may impose such additional conditions as he
   may deem advisable, and, subject to the approval of the
   Minister, may cause mining operations on any special
   dredging claim to be suspended; but no claim to or right of
   compensation shall accrue to any person in respect of any
   such suspension.

2. The extent of any such special dredging claim shall not
   exceed one mile of frontage on the foreshore, but there shall
   be no limit to the extent seawards at right angles to the line
   of pegs on the foreshore.

3. The claim shall be marked by two pegs, one at each end
   of the foreshore, above high-water mark, such pegs to be not
   less than 4 inches square, and to stand at least 2 feet above
   the surface of the ground.

4. There shall at all times be at least ten men employed
   on every such special dredging claim, and failure to comply
   with this provision shall render the claim liable to forfeiture.

PART II.-REGULATIONS FOR GRANTING CERTIFICATES OF
MINE-MANAGERS AND BATTERY SUPERINTENDENTS.

5. The Chairman of the Board of Examiners, appointed
   by the Governor, shall preside at all meetings of the Board;
   but in the absence of the Chairman the Board may appoint
   any one of its number to act as Chairman during such
   absence: and the said Board, at all meetings, of which four
   shall form a quorum, may transact any business in connec-
   tion with the examinations of mine-managers and battery
   superintendents, and the granting of certificates on the re-
   sults of such examinations; and shall examine, or cause to be
   examined, any applicant for certificate of mine-manager or
   battery superintendent, on the subjects hereinafter specified.

6. The said Board may appoint supervisors from time to-
   time to conduct such examinations, and shall grant certifi-
   cates, in the form set forth in Schedules 1, 2, and 5 hereto
   annexed, to such persons as shall have passed the prescribed
   examinations, and shall have produced certificates of cha-
   racter and otherwise to the satisfaction of the said Board.

7. Every application to pass an examination with the
   view of obtaining a certificate as a mine-manager or as a
   battery superintendent shall be made in writing under the
   hand of the applicant to the Secretary of the Board of
   Examiners, Mines Department, Wellington, accompanied
   with a fee of £1 sterling, together with a certificate that
   the applicant is not less than twenty-one years of age, and,
   in the case of a certificate as a mine-manager, that he has
   been employed for a period of not less than three years in