FURTHER REPORTS OF SELECT COMMITTEE ON GOLDFLELDS.
Repoet No. 8.
Re petitions of 41 and 46 miners and others interested in the district of Waikouaiti.
Your Committee, haviug considered the petitions, and taken a large amount of evidence, report as follows : — 1. That the laud applied for by Mr. Gellibrand in the Waikouaiti Hundred ia highly auriferous, and has main tained a considerable number of miners for years -past. 2. That a number of men are now employed on the land so applied for by Mr. Gellibrand and adjacent thereto.
Your Committee, therefore, recom mend that the boundary of the exist ing goldfield be extended in the fol lowing manner, namely, by including in it all that area in the province of Otago containing by estimation twelve thousand (12,000) acres, more or less; bounded towards the north by the main tributary of , the south branch of the Waikouaiti river, which intersects blocks VII and Till, Waikouaiti Survey District, and by the Blueskin Commonage Reserve ; towards the east by tho south branch of the Wai kouaiti river, by block I, Waikouaiti Survey District, and by Kilinog creek; towards the south by the southern boundary line of Waikouaiti Survey District, and its extension westward to Silver Peak Hills; and towards the west by tho present boundary of the Otago G-oldfield.
Report No. 9. Re Petition of GOl residents of Otago, praying for the erection of a bridge over the Molyneux.
