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GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
COMMISSIONER OF RAILWAYS—John Houston,
Esq, M.L.A., to be the Commissioner of Rail
ways, and to be a member of tbo executive
council.
Appointments — Robert Williams Pohlman,
Esq, to be the judge of the county court at Mel
bourne. Arthur Nicholas Vrixon, Esq, to be
the judge of the county courts at Belfast, Colac,
Guelong, Palraerston, Portland, Sale, and Warr
naiubool. John George Forbes, Esq, to bo the
judge of the county courts at BacchiiB Marsh,
Castleunine, Dandenong, Daylesford, Fryers
town, Gisborne, Kyuetou, Maldon, and Tara
dale, viae S. H. Hindon. Esq, relieved.
Charles Alexander Smyth, Esq, Crown Prose
cutor at Castlemaine, ic, to be also Crown Pro
secutor at Circuit Courts holrten at Maryborough;
Butler Cole Aspinall, Esq, Crown Prosecutor at
Ballarat, Sec, to be also Crown Piosecutor at
Circuit Courts holdeu at Ararat; Thomas Wm,
Palmer, Esq, to bo Associato to Ilia Honor Mr
Justice "Williams; Win. Henry Andersou, to be
Clerk of Petty Sessions at GeePng,
CONTRACTS ACCEPTED.—C. H. Milne, supplying
rations to prisoners in jiil at Dunolly—scale 1,
per ration, 18d; 2 do, 7d; 4 malo do, 13d; 4
femalo do, Is. James Tait, do at Campcrdown—
scale 4 male, per ration, 21d; 4 female do, lSd.
Mason, Tumbutl and Co., works at Kilmore jail,
1/1900. John Jones, new. dead bouse
at Yarra Bend, L199. Enoch Hughes,
iron fencing, Botanical Gardens, L637.
Pleydell and Clerk, fencing post office reserve at
Clunes, 1,123 ; F. E. Gilbert, subdivisional
surrey of country lands according to schedule of
prices, 22,000 acres; Thomas Forbes, do, 30,000
acres; Charles Piuniger, do, 28,900 do; A. F.
Walker, do, 50,000 do; Charles Bone, do,2-5,000
do; J. B. Henderson, do, town lots, Yackan
dandah; Dove, Oswald, and Ingles, purchoso of
the old copper shipped off H.M.S.S. Victoria, at
Tjdperlb.
The Rush at Amherst.—Tho Government
has at last, after a very tedious delay, granted
permission to the miners to work tho reservoir
reserve, on the condition that for each claim the
sum of £2 is deposited with the warden, the said
sum to bo returned on the holes sunk beiog filled
in. Acting upon these instructions MrCrespigny
yesterday morning at the Warden's office, Back
Creek, received applications for prior possession
from parties who had registered their claim1*
which were granted to the extent of twent).
five, on the above conditions being complied
with. To the very inclement weather of yester
day, may be ascribed, no doubt, the small num
ber of applications made, and doubtless to-day
there will be a far greater number for the
consideration of the Warden. Several holes havo
been bottomed within the reserve and upon it is
widely reported good prospects. That part of the
lead on tho Amherst side of the dam is being, in
some places, worked vigorously. Tho gold ap
pears to bo patchy, a cluster of claims here and
there, paying well, Small hope is expressed ai
to tracing the gold in the direction of Amherst.
Now that the reserve is thrown open to the
miners it will soon be definitely ascort,lined as to
whether a defined lead of gold extends in that
direction. There have been seven! rumors afloat
as to the discovery of heavy pieces of gold, vary
ing in weight from lib to 61bs. Wo
have endeavored to ascertain the truth or other
wise of these reports, but without tracing
them to any reliable source or discovering the
exact part of the lead from wbeuce these mysteri
ous pieces are supposed to havo been taken.
Stores that have been erected in tho reserve aro
still threatened with ejectment. This evideutly
a bad arrangement. Wo cannot see how it will
interfere with the reservoir, the erection of a
dozen or so of stores, as in mo3t instances they
are erected above the presumed water level of the
dam. Under any circumstances there cannot be
surely any reasouable objection to their erection,
so long as the miners are working within tho re
serve. We had almost forgotten to state that in
order to prevent the reservoir filling with water
during tho late rains, the escape pipe was kept
clear, and consequently the water ran through it,
and found its way down the flat.—NoW/t Western
Chronicle,
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