✨ Gold Fields Correspondence
OTAGO PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
JOHN L. C. RICHARDSON, Superintendent.
Vol. IV.] THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1862. [No. 176.
OTAGO GOLD FIELDS.
Superintendent’s Office,
Dunedin, 26th March 1862.
THE following Correspondence is published for general information.
[His Honor the Superintendent to the Hon. the Colonial Secretary.]
Superintendent’s Office,
Dunedin, 3rd October 1861.
SIR,—I have the honour to solicit the attention of the General Government to the difficulties which I encounter in endeavouring to act upon the power delegated to me under the “Gold Fields Act, 1858,” and to request such a communication of their views as may enable me efficiently to carry out the trust confided to me.
Each succeeding week brings me tidings of gold having been discovered and worked in every quarter of the Province; and I have reason to believe, from concurrent testimony, that the gold deposits are widely spread, and in such quantities as will inevitably lead to the introduction of a large mining population, which, despite all attempts at restriction, will roam over the face of the country, and locate themselves where gold is to be remuneratively worked.
You will at once perceive that such a state of things is highly prejudicial to the interests of a very important section of the community, which having taken out depasturing licenses for fourteen years, though determinable at an earlier period, are entitled to protection at the hands of the Government. The Gold Fields Act of 1858 makes a provision to this class for losses sustained on any gold field by the presence of the horses and cattle of the miners; but the very existence of mining operations on any run to any considerable extent involves the removal of the sheep; and it might be a question whether the law would not embrace not only the consideration of those losses sustained by the
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Otago Provincial Gazette 1862, No 176
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🗺️ Correspondence regarding Otago Gold Fields
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Gold Fields, Mining, Land Rights, Depasturing Licenses
- John L. C. Richardson, Superintendent