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quarter day preceding the application. If the lease be not taken out, the rent 
and survey fees deposited are forfeited. If the application be refused after 
survey, the deposit of rent only will be returned. If withdrawn before survey, 
the survey fees only will be returned. 
HINTS TO PROSPECTORS. 
Prospector’s Outfit. 
With the exception of the Kimberley District, travelling in this Colony is 
perfectly safe; therefore, firearms are quite unnecessary; a gun is even a useless 
encumbrance, as so little game is to be met with. 
As most of the mineral belts are a considerable distance from the coast, and 
the means of transport very poor, only what is absolutely necessary should be 
taken, and this question of what is absolutely necessary is very difficult to define 
and must vary a great deal according to where operations are intended to be 
carried on. 
On all the well established fields everything necessary can be obtained, at 
rather high prices it is true, but then it pays a man better to give a little more for a 
thing where and when he wants it. We will, therefore, consider that it is intended 
to prespect a new district where there are only sheep farmers at present. Stations 
are sure to be met with, for all the country is taken up as far into the interior 
as there is permanent water, and should prospectors be induced to go further they 
still can make one of these homesteads their base of operations. 
At these stations rations, clothes, medicine, etc., can be obtained, as there is 
always a stock kept of assorted stores; therefore, it is only necessary to be provided 
with enough of these to carry on from one station to the next. 
A man would, therefore, require: — 
A blanket. 
Calico tent or fly, 6x8. 
Change of clothes (shirt, trousers, and socks). 
Shovel (pattern a matter of taste). 
Pick do. 
2 Dishes do. 
Water-bag (canvas) (6 pints). 
Billy can (I quart or larger). 
Rations—meat, flour, sugar, and tea. 
Towel. 
Sheath knife. 
Pocket compass. 
This list is for a footman, and anyone will find that it is quite heavy enough 
when you have to cany it all day under a semi-tropical sun ; but when a man has 
horses" of course he can go in for a much more extensive outfit, as one good pack- 
horse will carry 2001bs. 
Small things that a digger should never be without are a compass, magnifying 
glass, and magnet; the simplest* way to carry a magnet is to magnetise a pocket 
knife. 
