4 Sept. 9, 1854 (24) ACT FOR THE BETTER MANAGEMENT OF THE 5 Oct. 25, 1854 (34) 1 APPENDIX. NEW SOUTH WALES. Sept. 28, 1853 (23) An Act to amend the Act for regulating the management VICTORIA. NEW SOUTH WALES. VICTORIA. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. FURTHER PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN AUSTRALIA. NEW SOUTH WALES. Despatches from Governor-General Sir C. A. FitzRoy. No. 1. COPY of a DESPATCH from Governor-General Sir C. A. FITZROY to the Duke of NEWCASTLE. (No 158.) MY LORD DUKE, Government House, Sydney, I HAVE the honour to enclose the following returns for the quarter ended on the 30th September last. 1st. Return showing the quantity and value of gold exported: gold brought to Sydney; and the number of licenses granted to dig, search for, and remove gold; to erect temporary buildings, tents, &c., and to carry on business in any way at the Gold Fields. 2d. Return of the quantity and value of gold exported from the colonies of New South Wales and Victoria. 2. The total amount brought to Sydney by the government escort and by the post-office mails during the quarter was 31,015 oz. 6 dwts. 3 grains, not including 20,280 oz. 10 dwts. brought down by the Sydney Gold Escort Company. The licenses to dig, &c. amounted to 11,405l. 2s. 6d., not including the leases to work auriferous quartz veins, the royalty on matrix gold, and the conveyance of gold by escort. 3. The gold exported from Sydney in the last quarter was 1,384,826 oz. 11 grains, value 4,500,6297., but this includes the amount brought by sea from Victoria. 4. I also forward a copy of the Rev. W. B. Clarke's ninth report on the Geology of the Clarence District and the adjoining region, and a copy of Mr. Stutchbury's tenth quarterly report. (Signed) His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, I have, &c. CHARLES A. FITZROY. No. 1. June 24. 1853. RETURN showing the Quantity and Value of Gold exported,-Gold brought to Sydney,—and the Number of Licenses granted to dig, search for, and remove Gold, to erect temporary Buildings, Tents, &c., and carry on Business in any way at the Gold Fields, &c. &c., and the Amount received from the same,-during the Quarter ended 30th September 1853. 8,467 £8 10 0 11,485 2 6 1 175 0 0 49 8 1 874 11 1 12,504 1 8 * Includes a portion of the gold brought from the neighbouring colony of Victoria, out which cannot be distinguished. + Licenses.-Crown Lands.-British subjects pay a fee of 30s. per calendar month, and 15s. for the residue of a month after the 15th day thereof. Foreigners pay double fees for the same periods. Private Lands-British subjects and foreigners pay one half only of the fees chargeable for Crown Lands. No Licenses issued within the Murrumbidgee District, in consequence of all digging being stopped by the very wet season. N.B. The Act of Council 17th Victoria, No. 23, which came into operation 1st October 1853, reduces the fee on licenses to dig, &c, for gold to 10s. per month in all cases. RETURN of the Quantity and Value of Gold Exported from the Colonies of New South LETTER from the Rev. W. B. CLARKE, to the Honourable the COLONIAL SECRETARY, on the Geology of the Clarence District and the adjoining regions. SIR, REPORT No. IX. Coolambarra, County of Stanley, IN my last Report, dated 7th May, I expressed an intention of completing my barometrical section from the interior to the tidal waters, on a due west and east course; and a hope, that I might, thereafter, be able to report on the geology of the Clarence River district. I have now the honour of stating for the information of His Excellency the Governor General, that, having completed a double section between the interior and the dividing range, in about 29°40' south, after the delay of a week, which was required for the purposes of rest and the completion of my last Report, I started to the eastward, and, I am happy to add, successfully accomplished my intention, carrying, without accident, the same instruments throughout both journeys, which extended in direct distances, to and fro, 334 miles, the mean section being 150 miles in length. NEW SOUTH WALES. Encl. 2, in No. 1. Encl. 3, in No. 1. |