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1903. NEW ZEALAND.

THE GOLDFIELDS OF NEW ZEALAND: REPORT ON ROADS, WATER-RACES, MINING MACHINERY, AND OTHER WORKS IN CONNECTION WITH MINING.

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by Command of His Excellency.

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Page. Page. Accidents .. .. .. 23, 99, 107, 139 Roads constructed by direct Grants .. .. 2 Alluvial Mining'— Roads and Tracks subsidised .. .. 1 Marlborough, Nelson, and West Coast .. 10,103 Rock Phosphate .. .. ..23,139 Otago and Southland .. .. .. 10, 114 Soheelite .. .. .. .. 23, 139 Antimony .. .. .. .. 23, 139 Schools of Mines— Battery Superintendents— Coromandel .. .. .. 65 Examination Papers .. .. .. 182 Karangahake .. .. .. 69 Holders of Certificates .. • .. .. 186 Nelson .. .. .. .. 71 Centrifugal Pumps, High-lift .. .. 75 Otago .. .. .. .. 71 Cinnabar .. .. .. .. 23, 139 Reef ton .. .. .. .. 69 Copper .. .. .. ..23,139 Thames .. .. .. .. 63 Davis' Patent Grapnel .. .. .. 13 j Waihi ... .. .. .. 66 Dredge Mining*— Westport .. .. .. .. 70 Marlborough, Nelson, and West Coast 11, 105-6 Expenditure on Schools .. .. 74 Otago and Southland .. .. .. 11,128 Shaft Linings, Paper on .. .. .. 78 Construction of new Dredges and Improve- Statistical Tables — ments in Dredges .. .. .. 12 Gold Duty credited to Local Bodies .. 227 Gold-saving on Dredges: Paper by Mr. J. P. Gold Exported, 1857-1902 .. .. 228 Smith .. .. .. .. 74 Gold Exported, Comparative Return, Years Holders of Dredge-master's Certificates .. 187: 1901-1902.. .. .. .. 228 Particulars of Dredges built .. .. 15 Gold Exported, 1857 to 31st March, 1903 .. 229 Electrically-driven Dredge .. .. 12 Gold Exported, Comparative Return for QuarExamination Papers— ters March, 1902, and March, 1903 .. 229 Battery Superintendents .. .. 182 Goldfields Revenue, Quarter ending 31st March, Mine Managers (Mining Act) .. .. 180 1903 .. .. .. .. 225 Galena .. .. .. .. 23,139 Goldfields Revenue, Comparative Return, Quar-Gold-dredging (see Dredge Mining). ters 31st March, 1902, and 31st March, 1903 227 Gold-mining Industry, The .. .. 2 Goldfields Revenue, Comparative Return, Hydraulic Mining*— 1901 and 1902 .. .. .. 226 Marlborough, Nelson, and West Coast .. 10, 103 i Goldfields Revenue, Year ending 31st DecemOtago and Southland .. .. ..10,114 ber, 1902 .. .. .. .. 224 High-lift Centrifugal Pump .. .. 75 Gold purchased by Banks .. .. 196 Inspecting Engineer (Report) .. .. 1 Machines employed .. .. 188-191, 233 Inspectors of Mines (Reports) — Mining Leases .. .. .. 236 Mr. Coutts, Thames .. .. .. 83 Price of Gold, &c. .. .. .. 230 Mr. Green, Dunedin .. .. .. 107 Prices of Provisions .. .. .. 231 Mr. Tennent, Westport .. .. 99 Quartz crushed .. .. .. 192-195 Iron-ore .. .. .. .. 23,139 Quartz-crushing Machines .. .. 188 McCallum and Roberts' Patent Screen .. 13 Rates of Wages .. .. .. 232 Mine Managers— Statement of Affairs of Mining Companies .. 237-244 Examination Papers .. .. .. 180 Summary of Works constructed .. .. 196 Holders of Certificates .. .. .. 184 Wardens' Court Tables and Cases .. .. 224-235 Mining Privileges— Water-races, &o. .. .. .. 234 Hauraki Goldfields .. .. .. 25 Water-races, Results of Working .. .. 223 Marlborough Goldfields .. .. 30 Works completed on 31st March, 1903 .. 196-200 Nelson and West Coast Goldfields.. .. 31 Works in progress on 31st March, 1903 .. 200 Otago and Southland Goldfields .. .. 44 Subsidised Roads and Tracks .. .. 1 Payne's Patent Elevator Bucket .. .. 13 The Gold-mining Industry .. .. 2 Petroleum .. .. .. .. 23 Timber in Mining Districts .. .. 24 Pontoon Ventilator .. .. .. 13 Wardens' Reports— Prospecting for Gold .. .. .. 2 Mr. Burgess, Clyde .. .. .. 169 Production of Gold and Silver .. .. 3 Mr. Bush, Thames .. .. .. 141 Quartz-mining* .. .. .. 3 Mr. Carew, Dunedin .. .. .. 166 North Island .. .. .. 3, 83 Mr. Crnickshank, Lawrence .. .. 168 Otago and Southland .. .. 9, 107 Mr. Hawkins, Greymouth .. .. 151 West Coast, &o. .. .. .. 9,99 Mr. Hutchifon, Auckland .. .. 140 Inspectors' Reports .. .. 83, 99, 107 j Mr. Keddell, Oamaru .. .. .. 166 Loss of Tailings .. .. .. 9 I Mr. McCarthy, Invercargill .. .. 172 Machines employed .. .. .. 188-191 Mr. McEnnis, Naseby .. .. .. 167 Quartz crushed, and value .. .. 192 Mr. MacFarlane, Hokitika .. .. 161 Reports— Mr. Roberts, Tauranga.. .. .. 147 Inspecting Engineer .. .. .. 1 I Mr. Smith, Blenheim .. .. • • 147 Inspectors of Mines .. .. 83, 99, 107 Mr. Wilson-Heaps, Nelson .. .. 148 Managers of Water-races .. .. 173, 178 Water Conservation Engineer's Report .. 179 Wardens, 140, 141, 147, 148, 150, 161,166, 167, 168, 169, Water-race Managers' Reports— 172 Mr. Aitken, Kumara .. .. .. 173 Water Conservation Engineer .. .. 179 Mr. Murray NaHebv .. .. .. 178

* See also reports of Wardens.

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1903. NEW ZEALAND.

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by Command of His Excellency.

Mr. John Hayes, F.S.Sc, Inspecting Engineer, to the Hon. James McGowan, Minister of Mines. Sib,— Mines Department, Wellington, 11th May, 1903. I have the honour to submit my report, together with those of Inspectors of Mines, Wardens, and other officers connected with the Department, for the year ending the 31st December, 1902. In accordance with the usual custom, the tables showing Government expenditure on roads, bridges, tracks, prospecting operations, &c, are given for the financial year (Ist April, 1902, to 31st March, 1903).

SUBSIDISED EOADS AND TEACKS. The expenditure (as subsidies) authorised and the liabilities on outstanding authorities for the year ending the 31st March, 1903, are as follows: —

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THE GOLDFIELDS OF NEW ZEALAND: EEPOET ON EOADS, WATEE-EACES, MINING MACHINEEY, AND OTHEE WOEES IN CONNECTION WITH MINING.

Name of Local Body. Expenditure for the Year ending 31st March, 1903. Liabilities on Authorities on 31st March, 1903. £ s. d. £ s. d. 100 0 0 112 10 0 99 0 0 75 0 0 'hames County 'hames Borough )hinemuri County ... 'iako County iollingwood County Suller County i-rey County 'uapeka County [napdale Eoad Board iontingencies 174 "2 6 283 10 0 137 0 1 200 0 0 189 8 1 400 0 0 250 0 0 485 11 11 340 0 0 50 0 0 109 11 6 Totals ... 1,493 12 2 1,512 1 11

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EOADS CONSTEUCTED BY DIEECT GEANTS. The following statement shows the expenditure and liabilities on authorities issued on roads from direct grants to the several local bodies during the year ending the 31st March, 1903 : —

PBOSPECTLNG FOE GOLD. The following statement shows the expenditure and liabilities on authorities issued in subsidies to prospecting associations and parties of miners recommended by the local bodies in the different counties for the year ending the 31st March last : —

THE GOLD-MINING INDUSTEY. Notwithstanding the fact that several mines have closed down during the last two years, the yield of gold throughout the colony has increased. For the year ending the 31st December, 1901, the value of gold entered for exportation was very largely in excess of that of the previous year; and it is satisfactory to note that an increase, amounting in value to £197,650, is reported for the year ending the 31st December, 1902, the total value for the year being £1,951,433. This is the highest yield since 1873, and makes a total value of £61,111,316 for gold exported from the year 1857 to the end of 1902. The various branches of the industry are referred to under their several headings.

Name of Local Body. Expenditure for the Year ending 31st March, 1903. Liabilities on Authorities on 31st March. 1903. Coromandel County Thames County ... Thames Borough... Ohinemuri County Piako County Tauranga County Pelorus Eoad Board Wairau Eoad Board Collingwood County Waimea County ... Buller County Inangahua County Grey County Brunner Borough Westland County Hokitika Borough Taieri County Bruce County Tuapeka County ... Vincent County ... Lake County Southland County Knapdale Eoad Board Wallace County ... Eoads Department Public Works Department... £ s. d. 6,424 2 9 4,047 19 6 50 0 0 S,190 4 5 105 0 0 100 0 0 96 0 0 £ s. d. 5,484 11 6 2,960 10 8 4,494 6 0 1,721 19 0 689 0 0 4,750 0 0 2,462 12 10 4,245 0 0 231 12 0 3,424 6 5 187 0 0 261 0 0 600 0 0 2,929 16 6 734 5 8 8,550 0 0 2,390 8 0 2,416 0 0 127 15 0 1,925 0 0 797 10 0 850 0 0 150 0 0 1,761 14 6 100 0 0 400 0 0 22 5 0 2,000 0 0 2,725 0 0 1,810 0 0 950 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 3,165 6 8 3,871 3 0 5,050 9 3 9,758 2 0 Totals ... 50,196 13 2 48,063 7 6

Name of County. Expenditure for Year ending 31st March, 1903. Liabilities on Authorities on 31st March, 1903. Coromandel Thames Ohinemuri Marlborough Collingwood Buller £ s. d. 123 10 0 39 9 10 16 0 0 39 0 0 £ s. 26 0 886 9 d. 0 4 Inangahua Grey Westland ... Tuapeka ... 133 9 3 17 13 6 250 0 0 511 17 9 19 10 340 11 121 1 91 10 311 15 25 0 0 9 6 0 0 0 Totals 1,131 0 4 1,821 17 7

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PEODUCTION OF GOLD AND SILVEE. The following comparative statements show the quantity and value of gold entered for exportation for the last two calendar and financial years : —

QUAETZ-MINING. Noeth Island. In the Northern district the chief centre of activity is at Waihi. The Waihi Gold-mining Company's mine and plant have been further extended, and, with a view to the development of the property at deeper levels, preparations are being made for the erection of a very large pumping-engine at No. 5 shaft. There is already a compound Hathorn-Davey differential Cornish pumping-engine at No. 2 shaft, and also a similar engine, having a stroke of 10 ft. and working a 17 in. diameter set of pumps, at No. 5 shaft. This latter shaft is intended solely for pumping purposes. When the new pump and engine are erected the present pump will be utilised for unwatering the shaft below its present level as the work of sinking proceeds, the new pump— 24 in. in diameter by 12 ft. stroke, worked by compound Hathorn-Davey differential engine—being used to lift the water from the present lodgment to the surface. With the addition of this new plant it is anticipated that a depth of 2,000 ft. may be reached, and should this be effected there appears little doubt but that the result of pumping from so great a depth will be to drain not only the company's property, but areas adjoining. Such a course would materially and favourably affect neighbouring properties, and it appears quite possible that in the near future some mutual agreements may be advantageously entered into between the Waihi Gold-mining Company and owners of adjacent mines for drainage generally, or, at all events, down to a given level at least. In the mine sixteen different reefs or lodes have been found. A few of these are narrow, but several are of good workable width. The famous Martha lode is of very large size, and in one part of the mine—where two other reefs junction with it—the great width of 81 ft. is attained. This is made up as follows : Magazine reef, 10 ft.; Eegina reef, 19 ft.; Martha reef, 52 ft. : total, 81 ft. Where the reef attains such a great width it is worked in two divisions of about 40 ft. each, the system of filling the stopes in vogue at this mine lending itself admirably to the method of work adopted. Filling material (mullock, clay, soil, &c.) is sent down passes from the surface and spread in the stopes as the ore is taken out. This sets very compact, gives the men a good footing to work on, and reduces the amount of timber —which would otherwise be required for securing the ground very materially. In working the extra-wide reef it is found that by keeping the sloping of the first division well ahead of that of the second division the material used for filling becomes well

Name of District. Year ended 31st December, Year ended 31st December, 1902. 1901. Increase for 1902. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. Decrease for 1902. Quantity. Value. Auckland Marlborough Nelson ... West Coast Otago Canterbury Oz. 201,583 601 5,947 118,796 181,116 2 £ 721,977 2,404 23,649 475,272 728,124 7 Oz. 191,968 133 7,212 113,286 142,940 22 £ 695,551 513 28,138 454,006 575,492 83 Oz. 9,615 468 5,510 38,176 Oz. i.,265 20 Totals 508,045 1,951,433 455,561 1,753,783 52,484* Name of District. Year ended 191 31st March, 38. Year ended 31st March, 1902. Quantity. Value. Increase for 1903. Deorease for 1903. Quantity. Value. Auckland yiarlborough kelson ... SVest Coast Oz. 203,158 401 6,235 125,399 155,056 £ 724,892 1,604 24,704 501,639 623,213 Oz. 201,861 277 4,207 104,441 128,200 19 £ 728,498 1,108 17,118 418,322 515,265 71 Oz. 1,297 124 2,028 20,958 26,856 Oz. 3tago Canterbury 19 Totals 490,249 ; 1,876,052 439,005 1,680,382 51,244+ * Total net increase, value £197,650. f Total net inorease, value £195,670.

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consolidated, and forms a fair wall for the working of the second division of the reef. A very noticeable feature in this reef is that oxidized ore and sulphide ore are to be seen dipping in parallel veins. The ore-reserves appear to be ample for very many years to come. The battery-works have undergone considerable alterations, and wet crushing has been substituted for the former system of dry crushing ; in fact, dry crushing, which for several years was very general in the northern goldfields, is not now practised in New Zealand. The Union battery of forty stamps (formerly the property of the Waihi-Silverton Company) now belongs to the Waihi Company, and has been thoroughly overhauled and modified. This brings up the company's total crushing-power to 330 stamps, as follows: Union battery, 40 stamps; Waihi battery, 90 stamps; Waikino battery, 200 stamps : total, 330 stamps. The ore treated during the year was 379,485 tons (this being an increase of 20,160 tons as compared with the previous year), yielding a value of £520,138 155., or nearly £2 18s. per ton. The number of persons employed by the company was 1,141. Dividends amounting to £208,644 18s. lid. were paid, bringing the total amounts of dividends since commencement to £1,005,934 6s. 2d. None of the other properties at Waihi have yet reached a productive stage, but hopes are entertained that present difficulties will be overcome, and the mines made to yield an addition to the local output of gold and silver. Three mines at Karangahake—namely, the New Zealand Crown Mines, the Talisman Consolidated, and the Woodstock—employed 456 persons and treated 54,733 tons of ore during last year. The returns amounted to £107,362 4s. 2d. This represents an average value over the whole of a little less than £2 per ton, but the value from the Crown Mines was rather more than £2 4s. per ton, and a reasonable profit was made on the year's work. Mining at Waitekauri has been disappointing. Calcite has largely taken the place of goldbearing quartz, and very little is being done beyond some prospecting-work at Golden Cross shaft. The Komata Eeefs Mines have acquired an area formerly held by the Waitekauri Company, which is being worked. The output for the year was 12,190 tons, value £27,140, or approximately £2 4s. 6d. per ton. Tairua Broken Hills Mine, which is now held by an Auckland company, has had a very successful year. The mill, of twenty-stamp capacity, is well fitted out with gold-saving appliances, including cyanide plant; and the stone in the mine looks promising. The owners of this mine recently purchased the property known as the Mahara Eoyal Mine and battery at Tapu, with the intention of removing the plant to Tairua, but have decided, before doing so, to give the Mahara Eoyal another test at a lower level. Work is in hand at Neavesville to open up the reef there and erect a battery, the result of prospecting and assays of the quartz being considered sufficiently good to warrant the expenditure. Somewhat extensive prospecting-work is in hand at Te Puke. For some years a little desultory work has been carried out, and a body of ore running approximately north and south has been struck at various levels. It is with a view to the determination of the extent and value of this ore that the present work has been undertaken. At Thames quartz-mining is being principally carried on by tributers and small parties of miners, operations by the large companies having come to a complete standstill. The question as to whether payable lodes exist at a greater depth than has hitherto been worked is still unsettled, notwithstanding its great importance not only to the locality but to the colony at large. The hopes that sinking operations would be resumed at the Queen of Beauty shaft have not been realised, and at the end of the year the prospects of such resumption appeared very remote. Some boring has been undertaken by the Victoria Quartz-mining Company, but work is at present suspended. There is little doubt that the question of payable lodes at deep levels will have to be faced either by sinking or boring, or probably by both methods. The whole matter is one which requires careful consideration, and for the information of those directly interested I cannot do better than quote the following abstracts from a memorandum on the subject by Mr. Alex. McKay, F.G.S., Government Geologist. Mr. McKay says,— "The Thames Goldfield, during the first twenty years subsequent to the discovery of gold, yielded fortune-making and highly satisfactory returns, after which period the product of the field gradually declined. For some years past, and at the present time, the state of the goldfield has caused, and is causing, the greatest anxiety as to its future prospects. Many mines have ceased to be as payable as was the case formerly, and not a few are in abeyance altogether; and those interested in the field have devised various schemes by which it was hoped a renewal of prosperity might be established. " Foremost amongst the proposals indicated is sinking to deeper levels, in the hope of reaching another horizon of gold under the comparatively barren rock that underlies the auriferous zone that has hitherto yielded the bulk of the gold obtained. This seemed at first sight an altogether reasonable idea, the general opinion being that the gold in the upper portions of the reefs had reached that position from greater depth in the earth. Agreeably to this generally accepted belief, all that was required to be done was to fix on the most favourable position where deep sinking might be carried on. When Mr. Eeginald Murray, the late Government Geologist of Victoria, visited New Zealand, Mr. Gordon, who was then Inspecting Engineer of the Mines Department, and myself accompanied him over the goldfields, and when at the Thames this matter of deep sinking was much and anxiously discussed. The bulk of opinion seemed to favour a position between the Prince Imperial and the Queen of Beauty Mines, principally for the reason that the mines in this part were worked to greater depth relative to sea-level than in other portions of the field. The geological data placed before us seemed to have little influence, farther than it was considered that the Hape Creek breccias had been reached in some of the deeper mines, and consequently further sinking would be commenced in rocks the position of which it had been ascertained

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underlaid the more productive zone hitherto worked. I listened at the various consultations, but had too slender a grasp of the conditions to venture any opinion, more especially as it seemed to me mainly a matter of what mining property should carry the works than the suitableness of any one for the purposes in view; and, indeed, I may say now there was nothing of advantage to choose between them excepting the greater depth of the Queen of Beauty shaft, and the proximity of that to the untried ground of Shortland Flat. Finally, it was afterwards decided to prospect for gold at deep levels from the Queen of Beauty shaft, and a large pumping and winding plant has been installed on that property. " Another form of prospecting had in the meantime for some years been in progress— i.e., the Moanataiari Tunnel. This at or near sea-level had been driven eastward across the direction of various reef systems, in the hope of thereby intersecting gold-bearing lodes, known lodes at various levels, and yet others it was hoped by this means might be discovered. This work was prosecuted a total distance of 3,000 ft., but scarcely yielded the results anticipated. Hence deep sinking was specially favoured, and considered the more promising procedure, when this as a means of discovery was proposed. " As mines were worked to greater depth it was found that decomposed andesite was still mainly the rock in which the reefs were contained, and on the foreshore claims east of the Beach Slide country of this class—the ' sandstone ' of the miner—has continued to as great depth as has been reached—in the case of the Queen of Beauty shaft to 748 ft. from the surface of the flat at or near sea-level. As to the alterations of the rock at the surface, and at such considerable depths below sea-level, it is not necessary to inquire at this stage, but is a subject that may have to be dealt with further on. " That part of the field within which lie clustered by far the greater number of reefs, productive or unproductive, finds its limit towards the north near the mouth of the Kuranui Creek, and towards the south on the southern spur of Una Hill, or along the valley of Hape Creek finds its extreme limit. The greater number of reef systems closely clustered together are situated about the middle or north of the middle part of the field. The general trend of the reefs is between N.N.E. and E.N.E., a few, however, having a more northerly or N.N.W. course. They thus extend inland along the valleys of Moanataiari, Waiotahi, and Karaka Creeks from one mile to a mile and a half from the shore of the Firth of Thames. Though productive reefs are found throughout the distance named, their continuity from the low grounds of Grahamstown and Shortland Flat is broken by the occurrence of a very pronounced line of fault, which is known as the Moanataiari Fault, and the country lying to the west and east of that may be considered as constituting the two principal divisions of the field. The Moanataiari Fault has been considered to have a downthrow on the west, displacing the rocks on that side to a lower level a distance estimated at from 900 ft. to 1,000 ft. The actual amount of displacement has not been accurately determined, but the probabilities are that this is not less than here stated. The hade of the fault-line is clearly shown on its eastern wall, and is at an angle of 45°. There is also a probability that some shifting of the country on the west side took place, whereby even vertical reefs are not to be found immediately opposite their western parts on the east side of the line of fault. The fault-line is supposed to begin on the shore immediately north of where Shellback Creek enters the Firth of Thames. It is continued in a curving line, gradually acquiring a more southerly direction, through the hills and across the valleys of Shellback, Kuranui, Moanataiari, Waiotahi, and Karaka Creeks to the western base of the northern part of Una Hill, along the western lower slopes of which, with a yet more southerly trend, it is continued to Hape Creek, beyond which it cannot be said to be distinctly traceable. " At the mouth of the gorge at Karaka Creek it is joined by another line of displacement called the Collarbone Fault. This is much more obscure. It is supposed to reach across Punga Flat into the watershed and some distance along the middle course of Tararua Creek. There is a probability of two or three faults occurring along this line, none of which are directly connected with one another. Even in Collarbone Gully itself it is not certain that a true fault is present, but only a slide of the surface rocks, which gravitating down the valley has ground along the side of the range to the east, and has produced to the depth of the moving mass a polished and slickensided wall on that side. As a slide its superficial character is easily detected, whether we look up the valley from Karaka Creek or from the saddle at the head of Collarbone Creek down the valley. The Collarbone Fault, however, is not likely to influence the speculations that are to follow. "The Moanataiari Fault has displaced and carried to I,oooft. lower level the strata on its west side. The rocks thus displaced, to a large extent, have been protected from denudation, while those on the eastern side of the fault have correspondingly been subjected to that influence. It follows, therefore, that the difference is greater by the excess of denudation on the east side of the fault-line. The hilly country west of the fault is not more than 200 ft. above the sea, and that immediately east of the fault not more than 100 ft. higher ; but, to make sure, let it be assumed that they are 400 ft. in height (I do not speak of the southern part of the field, where Una Hill is considerably higher). On the Grahamstown Flat some 200 ft. of rock has been removed in excess of what has been denuded from the hills west of the slide, thus discounting the disparity on the two sides of the fault by so much. On the other or east side of the fault the hills are not more than 200 ft. higher than on the west side. They have therefore, on the assumption of 1,000 ft. of displacement by the fault, hading 45°, lost one foot of height for every foot back from the slide, and a proportionately lesser amount as the slide is approached till the difference becomes nil at the actual slide itself, and the 200 ft. of. loss on the Grahamstown Flat must be credited or discounted in the same way. Thus, by selecting a position for deep sinking east of the fault by so-many feet as this may chance to be from the fault-line, this measurement has to be added to the throw of the fault, and the total would represent the advantage gained, less the height above

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sea-level. It is therefore clear that not west, but east, of the fault-line deep-sinking operations should be carried on, where a saving of from 1,000 ft. to 1,300 ft. of sinking, compared with any position taken up on the west side, would be effected. As it was, however, the Queen of Beauty shaft was decided upon, the influence of the Moanataiari Slide" not being taken into account. " But on whichever side of the fault-line a deep shaft may be put down, or boring operations carried on, there has to be considered the probability of such reaching another ' plank 'of country carrying payable gold. The venture must be regarded as somewhat risky, but considering the interests at stake much may be hazarded, and here it may be well to examine the evidence for and against a successful issue of such an undertaking. " An accumulation of clastic volcanic material, such as appears over the greater part of Cape Colville Peninsula, does not readily lend itself to the distinguishment of the exact superposition of the different deposits that have taken place, and the presence of sheets of lava between this can only be of very local assistance. Nevertheless, within limited areas something like a rude stratification can be made out, and the superposition of one mass upon another determined. Hence Hutton speaks of the upper and lower parts of the whole, and Cox refers to the Tararu Creek breccias as being at the base of the whole series of accumulations. Park also, in his section from Bonemill Creek to Hape Creek, indicates a like rude succession of the rocks; and, in spite of the obscurity of the section, I have little doubt that along Tararu Creek the lowest rocks are towards the west, and the highest towards the east, near the source of the creek; and in other parts of the district of Cape Colville the andesites, taken together, are followed by trachytic rocks, including rhyolite. Locally, such superposition is not difficult to determine, even when an inconsiderable thickness of rock is concerned, but over a wider field a greater thickness of rock has to be dealt with as a single stratum, and over the whole only the great groups of rocks can be considered as indicating such an arrangement. " It has been objected that I have dealt with the geology of Cape Colville Peninsula as though the volcanic rocks thereof were stratified deposits. If this has been so, I was quite unconscious of making any special effort in that direction ; but I necessarily noted superposition where it appeared in limited sections, and the succession of the larger masses of rock over a greater field. There is no real difference in the mode of accumulation of clays and sands on the one hand and coarser volcanic debris on the other ; and successive sheets of lava superimposed on each other are subject to the law of successive deposition, and it is only when molten masses are injected between former accumulations that this rule can be set aside. On the Thames Goldfield the general arrangement of the volcanic material indicates the lower beds in the west, and more narrowly examined the dips seem to be N.E., E., and S.E., the focus of such dip lines being a point in the Firth of Thames opposite Shortland. This may be taken to indicate the area immediately west of Shortland as the eruptive centre from whence the bulk of the material piled up to the eastward has emanated. As a matter of fact, this is a highly speculative conclusion ; and in passing it may be stated that centres of eruption are hardly anywhere determinable near the Thames, or, indeed, over the entire peninsula. The only evidences in this direction are a few hardened or coarse agglomerate cores and the presence of much sinterous matter, which may be presumed to have broken out on the flanks of volcanic cones once existent in the neighbourhood, but now, through denudation, not to be distinguished from the surrounding ash and lava fields. To the west of the Thames all such evidences have been eroded away or overflowed by the waters of the sea, and it is only in the Kauaeranga Valley and in the Look-out Eocks between the upper part of Tararu Creek, the source of Karaka Creek, and the Kauaeranga that such evidences are to be met with. To meet all the requirements of the case on the supposition that the old volcanic vent was situated three-quarters of a mile west of the shore of the Firth of Thames, opposite the Town of Shortland, or the mouth of Karaka Creek, a mountain 4,300 ft. in height was a necessity in order to unite in one even grade the western slope of the imaginary mountain with the Lookout Eocks and the sinterous quartz deposits of the Otonui Valley. Excepting one-third of the slope on the eastern side, and what lies below the longer slope from the Look-out Eocks to the Firth of Thames, this mountain has been wholly removed to, and to a considerable distance below, sea-level; but while it yet had considerable mass the processes by which fissures were formed and filled with auriferous quartz must have been going on and were completed before the fracture and displacement constituting the Moanataiari Fault was formed, there being no fissures filled with reef-matter crossing this. "After the volcano as such became extinct, thermal action continued for a long time, and there is evidence that the mountain had been considerably reduced in height and mass before the sinter deposits of the first northern tributary of the Kauaeranga were deposited. These, however, were probably the, latest deposits of their kind, and post-date the formation of many of the reefs. "By what process the reefs were formed, and whence was derived the gold now found in them, is necessarily a matter of speculation. As sensible, though minute, traces of gold are found in the solid and less-decomposed rocks of the Thames Goldfield, even at considerable distances from the reefs that traverse them, it has been thought the erupted rocks themselves are the source of the gold, and that the alterations which have taken place, ending in the production of the grey decomposed form of andesite—often described as propolyte, and as frequently called the sandstone of the miner—favoured the leaching of a portion of their silica from the rocks, and at the same time most of the contained gold, which eventually was deposited in the form of auriferous reefs in fissures previously existing, or widening and formed at the time of deposit. This action could scarcely have been set in motion and carried on by the mere access of superficial waters; and, as the rock alteration continues to a great and unknown depth, ascertained to be at least 750 ft. below sea-leval, thermal waters, no matter what their source, must be considered as largely responsible for the results.

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"It is evident that an agent more potent than the mere percolation of surface waters has operated in the decomposition of the rocks on the Thames Goldfield. And, as the uprising of deep-seated thermal waters was a fact, as testified by the presence yet of sinterous and chalcedonic quartz at Otonui and the altered and mineralised deposits of the Look-out Eocks, not to mention other evidences of thermal action, it may with safety be assumed that such was an important factor in bringing about the changes that to great depths in the crust of the earth have taken place. The rock decompositions noted and specified are thus probably referred to their actual cause, but it is yet matter of debate whether the whole or any material part of the gold was brought by thermal waters from great depths in the earth. " A theory prevails that the gold has, as it occurs in the reefs, been mainly derived from the adjacent rocks by lateral secretion, and this, it is held, is partly proved by the fact that the undecomposed andesites forming the hard bars of the Thames Goldfield contain a percentage of gold. This percentage, however, is small; and, in opposition to the theory that the gold has come from the rocks adjacent to the same horizon at which it is found in the reefs, it is maintained that, though the rocks were leached to the last fraction of a grain of all the gold which they contain, the supply would be insufficient to equal in amount the gold that exists in the reefs. Where reefs are abundant, as at the Thames, and all more or less gold-bearing, some very richly so, the narrow bars of country that thus necessarily separate and divide them from one another could not have been the source of supply, and thus as a consequence some of the gold must have reached into the higher parts of the reef from below. " But we have equally to determine where and what is the source of the gold that comes from below. Was this also leached from the rocks bounding the lower part of the reef fissure, the thermal pipe, or whatever other means the water had of rising from great to lesser depths in the crust of the earth ? And by such means was there likely to be impoverishment of the lower parts of the reefs that may descend to such depths ? " This is the very crux of all the matters that have to be determined in connection with deep sinking at the Thames, and it must be carefully considered in all its bearings. " It has been said that great thickness of volcanic rock, barren of quartz and gold, underlies the productive zone or plank of the Thames Goldfield west of the Moanataiari Slide ; and in proof of this our attention is directed to this non-productive country both to the north and the south of the central part, and it is undeniably true that between Shellback Creek and Tararu Creek the hills abutting on the shore-line flat have not been productive of gold, and the Tararu breccias between Tararu Creek and Eocky Point show no indications whatever of the presence of reefs. Of the other or southern boundary of the field the story is somewhat similar, and beyond Hape Creek gold is said not to be present, because the rocks in that direction occupy a position considerably below or above the auriferous zone. These facts I admit, but not the inferences, in as far as they may be made applicable to the middle and richer part of the Thames Goldfield. It is perfectly true that underneath the zone of productive country that has been worked most of the reefs have become too poor to work, not yielding anything like the high returns they formerly did, and that it must be considered that for some considerable depth below the productive zone no great improvement may be expected. " Formerly I thought that this underlying zone of poor productiveness practically barred the likelihood of deep sinking proving a success, but the further attention that I have lately been compelled to give the subject convinces me of possibilities to the contrary, and this without admitting the favourable character or the likely productiveness of the Tararu Creek breccias and overlying rocks to Shellback Creek, or even to Kuranui Creek. " A rule is a rule, but there is no rule absolute in human experience of this sort, nor one without its exception. It has been customary to regard the breccia ash-beds of the Thames as being unfavourable country for the yield of gold in reefs which may chance to be confined between walls of this rock, and as this dictum springs from and is the result of a lengthened experience it deserves respect, and as respects ground hitherto worked it may be regarded as an approximation to the truth. But it does not apply everywhere, and it need not necessarily apply to the Thames district at deep levels, supposing the rocks in question are actually present. It has also been mooted that at no great depth below the levels now reached further sinking will have to be undertaken in slate rock. To my mind, there is little likelihood of such being the case, and the chances are so remote that I forbear to discuss the question. " Why reefs when they pass through breccia bands should be poor in gold or without gold I am unable to say. The original magma of these breccias and the solid lava-streams with which they are associated must have been the same, and the breccias themselves show ample evidence of being none other than the material of broken-up lava-streams that have cooled at the surface. How, then, were they deprived of their gold ? It is said that they contain none. Are we to suppose that all those breccias were desiccated of their gold by intense heat in the pipe-walls of a volcano ? And if this did take place in part, can it be supposed that all the breccia material was treated in this way ? " The speculation is not even probable. How was the gold lost by decomposition and percolation of waters since they occupied the position in which they are now found ? This is exactly what has happened to the solid lava-streams now converted to the sandstone of the miner. Altogether, I see no solution of this problem except that the breccias are in no way different, in respect of contained gold, to the decomposed lavas, both having possessed it and both having lost it. But it is a fact, reported on the best of authority, that in some parts of America breccias of this character carry reefs rich in gold, not in a solitary case, but as a characteristic of the field. There cannot therefore be a reason that the precipitating agents could not operate, or operated under unfavourable conditions. Therefore we may dismiss the rule as applying only to shallow

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depths on the Thames Goldfield, and proceed to consider the peculiar position of the bulk of the reefs at the Thames in relation to the old volcanic centre, which it has been assumed existed about a mile from the foreshore opposite Shortland. " The strip of country N.E. and S.W. which contains the greater number of reefs, and along which they lie in the same direction, points S.W. directly to the centre of the old volcano, the position of which was not determined by the prolongation of this line, but by the convergence of the dip lines of what remains of the eastern part of the volcanic cone, which are S.E. and N.E., focussing at the point indicated. From some undetermined cause fissures and rents for thermal waters were established along the N.E. line from the crateral pipe ; and, subjected to the solvent action of the heated waters, the decomposition of the andesitic rocks was effected to great depth, fissures were filled with quartz and enriched with gold in part derived from the more superficial rocks, but, for reasons already given, in part also from deeper-seated sources. But, if the deepseated rocks were drained to supply what was deficient in the higher, it may be asked, how is it to be expected that the reefs at low levels will even approximately yield gold as rich as was met with from the surface to the 400 ft. level ? To this it may be replied that the thermal waters had not their source in and from a vast cavity filled with hot water, but was collected widely from a greater breadth of rock than the waters affected by their heat and solvent action in the middistance of their passage to the surface, or near and at the surface. More likely it was that, from the whole heated area of the base of the mountain, thermal waters as mere oozings escaped from the rocks into a number of minute fissures and channels of lesser size than that by which the waters reached the surface; and thus, ere well started on the journey to the surface, the waters would be of a highly saline character, and when conditions were fit might deposit their burden in the upper, middle, or a yet lower part of the course by which they reached, or were forced along, if they on certain lines did not actually reach, the surface. " There is therefore as little difficulty in supposing the presence of rich deposits at low levels as there is at higher, though the lower part of the lode would be required to be filled at a later date than the upper part. And here it may be asked, was not the auriferous store exhausted prior to the complete sealing-up of the lode fissures? The doctrine of the reopening of a lode and the introduction of fresh mineral matter of a valuable kind, which many facts prove, will be a sufficient answer to that objection. The question of favourable containing-walls has already been discussed. " Having shown, then, the possibility, not to say the probability, of workable gold at deep levels on the Thames Goldfield, it but remains to indicate in what manner this may be best and most easily reached. Taking the displacement of the Moanataiari Fault as being approximately 1,000 ft., the downthrow being on the west side and the hade at an angle of 45°, it is clear that nowhere west of the fault-line is the position at which a prospecting-shaft or borehole should be placed. The best position would be at as low a level as would afford sufficient tip for the stuff mined, and at any moderate distance east of the fault-line. " The amount of the downthrow on the west side of the fault would thus be avoided. I need not take into consideration the general eastern inclination of the rocks, for that is a factor scarcely affecting the case. With respect to boring on the foreshore, the same remarks apply and the same prospects are held out, provided boring to a very considerable depth is undertaken ; but the chances against boring passing through a reef where all are standing at comparatively high angles makes this method of testiug deep ground at the Thames somewhat risky. " As an instance of the success of the deep penetration of payable gold into the volcanic rocks of Cape Colville Peninsula, it will suffice to mention the case of the mines at Karangahake. The Crown reef and the Woodstock and Talisman reefs have been traced, the first to the higher part and the last to the top of the mountain, which is 1,786 ft. above sea-level, and the works of the Crown Mine must now be considerably below the level of the sea ; and in connection with the Woodstock, the lode promising to maintain a good show of gold, it was some time ago proposed to sink to levels that would prove the continuance of the lode through a vertical distance of more than 2,000 ft. Whether this work is being proceeded with I cannot say, but there is here sufficient evidence of the continuance of gold in depth, and what, if it be not a warrant, is at least an encouragement to prosecute the search at the Thames. "It is true that Karangahake has been particularly favoured with respect to the natural exposure of its reefs in a vertical distance of 1,700 ft., but this fact has no bearing on the question of the penetration of the reefs and their gold-bearing quality, since did the gorge of the Waitawheta not exist the fact of the existence of the reefs had been the same. Information respecting barren zones at various levels in both the Martha, Shepherd's, and Crown reefs would be of great interest in connection with any proposal for deep sinking at the Thames. Such information has not been compiled with the care that is required in this case, but it could easily be obtained. " The successful issue of deep prospecting at the Thames is a matter of such importance that it must form my only excuse for penning such a lengthy communication on the subject, and should this lead to right methods being adopted and carried to a successful result a great purpose will have been served." At Coromandel mining matters were a little brighter last year than was the case for the year previous. A few good patches of gold have been got at two of the mines near the town, and this had the effect of renewing interest in mining-work in the locality. Taking the district, however, as a whole, the industry is decidedly quiet, and the necessity for the closing of the Kauri Freehold Gold Estates Company's mines and battery at Opitonui, and also of the Kapai-Vermont and Mariposa joint properties at Kuaotunu, is most unfortunate. In both cases it was found that the ore was not sufficiently rich to pay. At Opitonui the battery plant was of the most modern type, and included appliances for cyanide extraction and filter-presses; but the value of gold and silver won during the part of the year for which work was carried on was only £15,653 6s. 6d. from 16,121 tons of ore, or an average value of 19s. sd. per ton.

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In other portions of the Coromandel district some mines have closed down, but at others, such as the Eoyal Oak at Tokatea and the Waitaia at Kuaotunu, work has been steadily prosecuted by the companies. Several properties have been worked under tribute, with varying results, and prospecting has also engaged a certain amount of attention. The Gumtown mines have not yet done much as producers. Excellent prospects have been obtained at the Big Beetle Mine, 2 tons of selected stone having been reported to show a value of something like £75 per ton. A small battery is about to be erected. The Kapowai Mine employs a few men, and a little prospecting has been undertaken in the locality of the mines mentioned. At the Welcome Jack Mine it was found that the payable stone did not live down ; operations have therefore been discontinued. Middle Island. Turning to the Middle Island, it may be noted that a little work is going on at Top Valley, some miles above Blenheim. To the south of Collingwood the operations of the Taitapu Gold Estates, Limited, and the Golden Blocks (Taitapu), Limited, represent all that is doing in that portion of the West Coast district. From these mines a yield of gold having a value of £16,852 7s. 4d. was obtained from 5,844 tons of ore. Two small properties have been worked to a limited extent near Wahnangaroa, and another up the Mokihinui Eiver ; but their united production for the year only amounted to a value of £706 4s. Bd. At Lyell the production for the year was 2,369 tons, for a gold value of £5,218 12s. 6d. As the proved extent of ore above adit level is practically exhausted, sinking has been undertaken, with the object of proving the ground at greater depth. Taking the Eeefton district as a whole, gold to the value of £188,839 15s. Id. was obtained during the year from 98,665 tons of ore, the principal producer being the Progress Mine. The foregoing figures give a district average value of rather more than £1 18s. 3d. per ton. The methods of amalgamation, concentration, cyanide treatment, and chlorination are all adopted in the general battery practice. The developments at the New Inkerman Mines prior to the erection of a modern battery plant have been carried out at a cost of something like £57,000, and a considerable area of ground has been opened up. A portion of the old battery plant has been put into repair, and concentrators and cyanide plant added. With this it is intended to thoroughly test the commercial value of the ores. Should these operations prove satisfactory, a modern mill and extraction-works will doubtless be erected, and the gold-production of the Eeefton district materially increased in the near future. It is also expected that mining on the Paparoa Eanges will soon help to swell the returns from this district. The returns from quartz-mines in the Southern district only amounted to £24,533 15s. Id. for the year. It is, however, to be remembered that no large mines are at present working, and that the Achilles Mine at Bullendale, the Cromwell Mine at Bendigo, and the O.P.Q. Mine at Waipori have been idle during the year. Efforts are being made to float several claims in the Macetown district, and if these are amalgamated into one or two concerns and worked on comprehensive lines, instead of on the small scale which has hitherto characterized quartz-mining in many places in Otago, it is quite probable that satisfactory results will be obtained. The only mine working in the locality is the Premier-Sunrise, and this, although a small mine and working under rather difficult conditions, cleared the sum of £1,200 for the year after all costs and charges were defrayed. Gold to the value of £7,025 was obtained from 2,178 tons of ore, equal to an average value of £3 4s. 6d. per ton. Barewood Mine, a property taken over by Home syndicates about six years ago, and abandoned by them before the possibilities of the ground had been fairly tested, has also been worked on a small scale, for a yield of gold for the year valued at £8,553 6s. lOd. from 2,133 tons of ore by amalgamation only, or just over £4 per ton on the average. The proved values per ton quoted are, I think, quite sufficient to cause more attention to be paid to quartz-mining in Otago than has been the case for the last few years. That investors in the district have neglected this branch.of mining for a considerable time past is no doubt largely due to the fact that the quartz-mines which gave such rich returns some years ago were working ore from near the surface, and this, being naturally oxidized, was very free milling, and the gold easily extracted by amalgamation. At greater depth oxidation ceases and the ores become refractory to some extent, necessitating a change in the method of treatment. This was found to be the case at mines which, when working oxidized quartz some years ago, yielded splendid returns. At that time the modern methods of treatment had not been perfected, and, as the alluvial fields of Otago presented considerable scope for the lucrative investment of capital, interest in quartz-mining naturally declined. It is, however, only a matter of a few years when much of the alluvial ground will be worked out, and the possibilities of the quartz reefs must again command more earnest attention. Interest is already manifesting itself in a few places, and as a result of pro-specting-work which was undertaken during the year it may be reasonably inferred that develop-ment-works will follow. Loss op Tailings. It is now well known that since the introduction of the cyanide process of extraction several mines which could not previously be made to pay, owing to the amount of gold carried away in the tailings, are now profitable concerns. It was a frequent practice to sluice away the tailings into rivers and streams, and thus place them in most cases beyond the chance of recovery. At a few places where such facilities did not exist the tailings were stacked in heaps. It is almost needless to add that upon the introduction of the cyanide.process at those batteries where stacks of tailings existed, these stacks have been, or are being, treated for the recovery of the gold they contain. Not only is this the case, but small works have recently been erected for the purpose of collecting and treating tailings from mills where the amalgamation process only was 2—C. 3.

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(in past years) in use. The expense of collecting and carting these scattered tailings forms a charge which might have been avoided, and the fact also remains that only a portion of these old tailings —which might have been saved.—are now available for collection. It now goes without saying that at mines where the output is fairly large the battery plant will comprise a cyanide or other plant for the extraction of such gold as is contained in the sands after amalgamation, but there are numerous small mines where the output is not sufficient to warrant the expenditure which the installation of a cyanide or similar plant would entail. It has been suggested that, as the methods of gold-saving are being rapidly improved upon, it might even pay to stack the tailings from those mills which have cyanide plants; but, in any case, tailings from such batteries as have amalgamating appliances only ought certainly to be saved for future treatment. In the case of a single small mine the cost of a plant for chemical treatment would hardly be entertained, but, as there are frequently a number of small mines in the same locality, the importance of tailings being saved will be seen when it is pointed out that the combined collections of tailings from several small places would in a few years' time furnish a sufficient amount to warrant the erection of an extraction plant —not necessarily a large one—in a centrally convenient position. The matter, although not apparently great as applying to one or two small mines, becomes one of considerable extent when viewed collectively, and is of real importance to the entire colony. Most batteries have a little spare power, and, as tailings-elevator wheels are easily made and cheaply worked, there is little or no real difficulty (so long as a suitable site is available, or can be made without much expense) in stacking tailings with a view to their being operated upon in the future.

HYDEAULIC AND ALLUVIAL MINING. The interest in this class of mining, which abated considerably during the recent " dredging boom," now shows a tendency to revive. During the past year no new works on what may be termed a large scale are reported, but the accuracy of the statement made in my annual report of 1900, as to the greater suitability of hydraulic mining as compared with dredging for some areas of ground then taken up as dredging claims (and which have in some instances since been actually worked as such), has again been verified by the fact of dredges proving unsuitable and being displaced by hydraulic-mining plants which are giving better results. At Mahakipawa operations have been commenced which are expected to effect a renewal of mining activity to some extent, In the neighbourhood of Takaka the work of bringing in a water-supply has been in progress, and good results have been obtained by the Takaka Hydraulic-sluicing Company. No fresh developments of any note are reported from the West Coast district, matters generally being much the same as has been the case for the last two years. As showing the present working-value of the Government water-races at and near Kumara, the following figures, made up for the twelve months ending the 31st March, will be interesting. The several races supplied water to an average of 165 men, for a total yield of gold amounting to 13,434 oz., valued at £52,392 125., or £3 18s. per ounce. This gives an average of £317 10s. 7d. per man for the year's work. The sales of water for the same period amounted to £5,672 ss. 2d., and the expenditure in connection with the races and water-supply works to £5,648 13s. Bd. Full details of this appear in the report of Mr. Alex. Aitken, Manager of the Government races in the Kumara district. Work in Otago and Southland is very fully described in the report of the Inspector of Mines for the Southern district, Mr. E. E. Green. From this it will be seen that a considerable number of men are employed in the class of mining under notice. The siphons in connection with the Mountain Hut Eace at Maerewhenua were approaching completion at the end of the year. The several siphons above the dam are of 18 in. diameter pipes with telescopic joints, and, except when work is stopped by frost, the water will be constantly running through these. The siphon below the dam (where it crosses the Maerewhenua Eiver) is 22 in. diameter, and the pressure at the lowest part is that due to a head of 750 ft., or approximately 325 lb. per square inch. This siphon will only be in use during working-hours. The various sections of the race have been cut by a working party of diggers, and the pipe-siphon connections supplied by the Government. This work will be the means of infusing fresh life into the Maerewhenua Diggings. It is to be regretted that in the Waikaia district three hydraulic claims, upon which considerable sums of money have been spent in water-races and plant, should be compelled to cease operations owing to poor ground and indifferent water-supplies. The Argyle Company's claim, however, continues to do well, and dredging is to be commenced near the mouth of the Argyle Stream. At my last visit to the goldfields of Otago and Southland I noticed that in some instances ground overlying the old shallow underground workings of the early days of mining, and also blocks of ground which had been left in the old workings, were being sluiced away and payable results obtained. As hydraulic and alluvial mining has been steadily carried on for many years, much ground has naturally been worked out during that time, and on the present scale of working it is not unreasonable to infer that within the next decade several of the auriferous areas now available to the present methods of hydraulic and dredging operations will be largely exhausted. There are, however, many claims which have, to all appearances, a good long working-life still ahead of them, and gold-bearing areas of ground which are as yet practically untouched are not unknown. The largest and most important plants connected with hydraulic mining are at Blue Spur (Lawrence), Eoxburgh,-St. Bathan's, Nokomai, and Bound Hill (Southland). On the Shotover Eiver several parties are working the river-beaches with the aid of Smith and Son's jet-pump

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elevator. This simple appliance has solved a difficulty experienced in the early days of mining on the Shotover Biver, and has enabled holders of claims to sluice the bed of the river where such is wide enough to allow of the stream being temporarily diverted when the river is low.

DEEDGE-MINING. This branch of the gold-mining industry may now be said to have settled down after the excitement of the " boom." As predicted in a former report, several claims which were taken up for dredging purposes, and in some instances equipped with dredges, have been found unsuitable for this class of mining, with the result that the system of hydraulic sluicing and elevating has either been reverted to or adopted in preference to dredging. On the other hand—and entirely apart from dredging in river-beds —considerable areas of auriferous land which cannot be worked by the method of hydraulic mining, owing to the absence of a sufficient volume and pressure of water, are being successfully worked by dredges. The following summary shows the number of dredges returned for each district at the end of the year 1902 :—

Owing to the number of fatal accidents which have occurred in connection with boating-work, such as is incidental to the working, moving, and coaling of dredges on deep or swift-flowing streams, it has been deemed advisable that dredgemasters should be men of experience in boating, &c. Provision was therefore made in the Mining Act Amendment Act of 1901 for the masters in charge of dredges working in such streams as may be classed by the Inspector of Mines or Warden as " deep or swift-flowing " being certificated. Certificates of service have been granted to those persons who have acted in the capacity during a given period, and all future certificates will be granted after candidates have passed the required examinations and given proof of their sobriety and general good conduct. For general information it may be stated that up to the 31st December last the rivers and streams mentioned below have been scheduled as deep or swift-flowing streams within the meaning of the Mining Act and its amendments, and that masters of dredges working on these streams must hold certificates either of service or by examination. Some of the streams enumerated may not come within the literal meaning of the term "deep or swift-flowing" in dry weather, but in times of heavy rains are perfect torrents; hence the necessity to class them as streams of the character named. Marlborough and West Coast District. —Wakamarina, Wangapeka, Aorere, Lower Matakitaki, Inangahua, Buller, Ahaura, Totara, Nelson Creek, Grey, Teremakau, Lower Greenstone, Hokitika, Mikonui. Southern District. —Pomahaka, Clutha,* Kawarau, Shotover, Manuherikia (lower end only), Dart, Mataura, Waiau. It is much to be regretted that nine fatalities occurred during the year to men employed on dredges —viz., four in the West Coast district, and five in the Southern district. Of these, two were in connection with machinery, the others being boating accidents. It is to be feared that workmen are not nearly careful enough in the use of boats, and also that many of them are not sufficiently experienced. The industry has grown so much of late years that it is not an easy matter to man all dredges with experienced hands, and a further difficulty lies in the fact that dredges in the very rapid rivers, and especially on gorge claims in those rivers, can only work during portions of the year; consequently experienced and competent men will not rely on them for employment, and more casual or less experienced men have to be engaged. I need hardly say that it is in the working of dredges so circumstanced that the greatest risks have, as a rule, to be run, and the necessity for having the most perfect safety appliances always ready for use, as well as untiring vigilance on the part of the man in charge, is obvious. The Inspectors of Mines report that the majority of dredgemasters now appear to realise their responsibilities, and are doing their utmost to promote the safety of their employees. There are, however, exceptions yet to be found, and repeated visits of inspection have in some instances been necessary to educate such dredgemasters to a sense of their responsibilities. It may not be out of place to remark that penalties are provided for in the case of violations of the special rules which have been framed for the promotion of safety in connection with dredgework ; also that the observance of these special rules is incumbent on employees as well as employers, and it is the duty of the latter not only to comply with the rules and regulations themselves, but to enforce compliance by the former.

* This river is often erroneously called " Molyneux " for a portion of its course.

District. Working. Standing. Building. Under Removal. Wrecked. Total. Marlborough and West Coast Southern ... 50 151 16 36 15 8 14 2 81 211 Totals 201 52 23 14 292

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In regard to the class of boats for use in conjunction with dredges working on swift-flowing streams, experience has gone to show that a boat should have considerable beam in proportion to its length, and be built with high bluff bows. This latter feature enables the boat to take plenty of sheer when attached to a line, and thus the risk of swamping is considerably reduced. It has been found necessary in some cases to condemn unsuitable boats, and to prohibit their further use. Such boats have usually been ships' boats or light craft supplied either through ignorance of the class of boat required or else on the penny-wise principle. It sometimes happens that accidents occur to men through being caught by parts of machinery in motion, although reasonable provision is made for the fencing or guarding of exposed belts, flywheels, shafting, &c. These accidents, as a rule, occur whilst oiling or examining the machinery when running, also to men crossing the bucket-chain when in motion. This latter practice is distinctly prohibited by the special rules; it has been the cause of several accidents, and any workman guilty of such an act (or of any other in violation of the regulations) should at once be summoned by the dredgemaster to answer to his offence before a Court of justice. Oiling of machinery in motion should also be prohibited by the dredgemaster in charge. It may be that familiarity with danger breeds contempt for it, but this is no excuse for the ofttime reckless and foolhardy actions of workmen which have from time to time resulted not only in serious but in fatal accidents. CONSTEUCTION OP DeBDGES. As regards dredge design and construction generally, various modifications, alterations, and improvements are being made from time to time with the object of gaining increased efficiency in both machinery and gold-saving arrangements. It is pleasing to note that in some instances the pontoons have been divided into compartments, in order to minimise the risk of sinking in the event of damage to any portion of the pontoons. The ventilation of the pontoon compartments is another feature which will be referred to and illustrated further on. Among improvements and modifications referred to in last year's report may be mentioned the Payne and Peck patent centrifugal elevator and O'Brien's hydraulic-power dredge, both of which are to be seen at work. The first-named machine is working successfully on a number of dredges, and stacks the tailings very uniformly. In watching this elevator in action I noticed, and subsequently urged, the desirability of the tailings being conveyed to it with the least possible amount of water. There should be very little difficulty in preventing the water from reaching the elevator. The object of the elevator is to stack tailings, and not to raise water. By allowing the latter to flow on to the elevator and come within the scope of its action, power is uselessly absorbed; in fact, it is simply acting like so much brake-power on the engine. Not only is this the ease, but, the water being thrown from the vanes, or " beaters," of the elevator in the form of a spray (which is more or less dense in proportion to the amount of water allowed to come into contact with the machine), the passage of fine tailings is retarded, and therefore they are not thrown as far from the dredge as would be the case if the spray were absent, the latter presenting a dense medium through which the stones, small gravel, &c, have to pass. O'Brien's method of working dredges by hydraulic pressure through the medium of Pelton wheels has proved a practical success at Waipori and at Cardrona. Of course, it is only applicable at places where water-power is available, but, given these conditions, the system is about the most economical yet adopted, as the power employed on steam and electrically driven dredges to pump water for washing the gravels is saved entirely where the amount required can be taken from the pressure-pipes. Failing this, the water which is used for driving the Pelton wheel can be exhausted into the sluice-boxes, and so reduce the volume to be lifted. The accompanying illustrations of the La Franchi dredge at Cardrona show the system of ball-and-socket joints in the pipe-line which admits of a flexible connection between the pressure-pipes on land and the floating dredge. Current-wheel dredges are now practically things of the past. The most modern installation was in the Clutha Eiver below Alexandra (Otago). It is found that dredges so driven do not work steadily; they can only work in the current, and this is liable to be checked or diverted by the stack of tailings piled up by the dredge. It is proposed to drive the dredge referred to by oil-engines ; in fact, one engine of this class is already driving the centrifugal pump. Electrically driven dredges are not so general as might have been expected. The difficulties and expense attending the coaling of dredges in the gorge below Alexandra are such as would naturally lead to the adoption of an electric-power station at or near the coal-mines, if only the several dredging companies could amalgamate with such an object in view, or form a company for the supply of electric power. The Earnscleugh No. 3 dredge—one of the largest in the colony —has been put to work since the commencement of the year, and is driven by electricity generated by water-power from the Fraser Eiver. I understand that the dredge is working satisfactorily, and that the electric plant is powerful enough to supply current for the working of more dredges. In America, Mr. E. H. Postlethwaite, formerly of Dunedin, New Zealand, and now of the Eisdon Iron and Locomotive Works, San Francisco, has done good work in connection with gold-dredging on the New Zealand system. In addition to the designing and building of steamdriven dredges, Mr. Postlethwaite has given considerable attention to the question of driving dredge machinery by electrical power, and several dredges of this class have been constructed by the firm with which he is now associated. Through the courtesy of Mr. Postlethwaite I am enabled to reproduce a drawing showing the general arrangements of one of his electrically driven dredges. A prominent feature in connection with the working is that, instead of one large motor driving the bulk of the machinery —as is generally the case on steam-dredges—every department of work has its own motor. On reference to the drawing it will be noticed that there are six motors disposed as follows :—

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GOLD DREDGE, driven "by ELECTRIC POWER.

»l Autlnrlt, i Jo/,,, Mackay, Bommmmt Printer. • 7 03.^2.7.

DAVIS'S PATENT GRAPNEL

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FEDDERSEN DREDCE

Fourteen-mile Beach Dredge, near Alexandra, Otago, showing Electric Installation.

(Muir and Moodie, photo.)

.Face p. 12.]

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Golden Falls Current-wheel Dredge, Clutha River, Otago.

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One motor driving the chain of buckets ; one driving screen and elevator ; one driving winch working the bucket-ladder ; one driving winches for head and side lines; one driving centrifugal pumps ; and one driving sand-pump for fine tailings. These arrangements will, no doubt, be viewed with interest by the several classes of persons interested in dredge design in this colony. A recent dredge designed by Messrs. Cutten Bros., of Dunedin and Greymouth, for the Feddersen Gold-dredging Company (Limited), Three-Channel Flat, Buller Eiver, and recently put to work, is illustrated. Its length is 86 ft., beam 29 ft., depth 7 ft. The ladder is 56 ft. long, and when at an angle of 45° is capable of dredging to a depth of 30 ft. The buckets have a capacity of 5 cubic feet each. The elevator is rope-driven, the power being applied to the top tumbler, and the tailings can be stacked to a height of 30 ft. Steam is generated in a multitubular boiler of 30 nominal horse-power. The main engines are of the compound type, rated at 16 nominal horsepower, and built by Marshall, Sons, and Co. (Limited), of Gainsborough, England. The winches are worked by a small pair of coupled vertical engines. A revolving screen is used, and the tables are covered with expanded metal above the matting. The Davis patent grapnel has been adopted on this dredge. The Davis Patent Grapnel. —ln addition to the adoption of this appliance on the Feddersen dredge just referred so, it is also in use on the following machines : viz., Kohikohi, Grey Lagoons, Stafford Waimea, Golden Bay, Amikitea, Three-mile Greenstone, Greenstone Junction, New Greenstone, Greenstone Creek, and Earnscleugh. The invention is intended to supersede the ordinary grab-hook as usually found on the bucket-chains, and the advantages claimed for the grapnel are that owing to the method of its construction it acts as a pick in loosening the face of work on which the dredge is operating, and so effects a saving in the wear-and-tear of bucket-lips. The construction of these grapnels is such that on reaching the five-sided bottom tumbler they project past the line of the bucket-lips, and tear into the tight gravels, receding within the line of the lips immediately they leave the tumbler. For comparison with the ordinary grab-hooks, it may be said that the latter are constructed to stand about 4 in. beyond the line of the bucket-lips, and in lowering the ladder the hooks are the first things to catch the drop-shute. The Davis grapnelhooks are said to keep within the line of the lips in passing the drop-shute, and the ladder may consequently be lowered further than with the ordinary hook. An additional feature is that the Davis grapnel-hook does not project beyond the line of the bucket-lips until it reaches the five-sided bottom tumbler, and therefore does not tear up the bottom to the same extent as the ordinary hook does. Pontoon Ventilator. —This consists of a sheet-iron casing provided with doors and attached to the ashpit of the dredge-boiler, as shown on the drawing reproduced. The ashpit is therefore connected with the inside of the pontoon through openings cut in the deck, and the draught required for the furnace of the boiler passes through the pontoons, and may be controlled from any part. The principle is really that of furnace-ventilation adapted from the method formerly common for the ventilation of coal-mines, is quite simple, and can be fitted up at small cost. Adequate ventilation of the interior of wooden pontoons is very essential. I have to thank Mr. W. Faithful, of the firm of Cutten Bros., Greymouth, for the drawings of the Davis grapnel and pontoon ventilator. Payne's Patent Elevator-bucket. —The following particulars and the drawings of elevatorbuckets have been furnished by Mr. F. W. Payne, consulting engineer, Dunedin: Fig .A shows the patent bucket. The shoot delivering into buckets illustrates the way in which the tailings are filled into the buckets without any falling through between. It will also be noticed that the buckets open out and have plenty of freedom at top and bottom tumblers, which is a most important point. In the tray buckets, Fig. B, the illustration shows the form usually employed, and the laps of the buckets, it will be noticed, are unavoidably arranged to allow the tailings material to get in, and also leakage of water to take place. If the laps were arranged the other way it would be impossible to obtain a clear delivery over the top tumbler. In the V form of bucket shown on Fig. C the laps are necessarily the same as in the tray bucket, and an additional drawback is that the buckets close together in coming round the tumblers. This is especially objectionable in the bottom tumbler, as stones are apt to fall and roll between the top and bottom lines of buckets, and get pinched between the backs of buckets in coming round bottom tumblers. A further great advantage of the patent buckets is that, not being composed of a continuous line of buckets as in all other classes of elevator-buckets, but alternately bucket and set of links, like main buckets, they allow of the links and buckets being all bushed in the same manner as main buckets. Some of the dredges fitted with this bucket are the Dunstan Lead, Leviathan, Grey Eiver, Olrig, and at the time of writing a leading Otago dredging company are having their original class of bucket replaced by the patent ones. From experience gained from those already in use, a great saving is effected both in ordinary wear-and-tear and in freedom from breakdowns where this bucket is used. McCallum and Roberts's Patent Improved Screen. —-The description and drawing of this invention (which is applicable to other purposes than dredging) has been supplied by Mr. Edward Eoberts, consulting engineer, Dunedin. Its object is to replace the circular screens at present in use with a view to more effectual screening, and, in the case of gold-dredges, to enable the material to be more thoroughly washed. In the ordinary gold-mining circular screens the material simply lies in the hollow, rising and falling with the motion of the screen for 1 ft. or 15 in., but not turning over. To assist the stones being turned over angle irons and bars of various kinds have been tried, but with doubtful results. If these bars are made too high the stones get jammed and carried around, often damaging and sometimes destroying the sparge-pipe. The improved screen may be made hexagon shape or any other polygonal form, or corrugated or oval, as desired. The material must of necessity be turned over and shaken about, and consequently more effectively washed by the action of the water from the sparge-pipe. Another advantage this screen possesses is the fact that in the polygonal form the plates are flat and in sections, and can therefore be made any thickness,

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and are easily renewable. Thus the plates could be made thicker in the centre, where the chief wear would take place. Moreover, the plates could easily be made of manganese steel, and the holes cast in, thus saving great expense, as the flat plates would be easy to mould, the patterns leaving their own cores. There is no doubt that in any form of screening it is a distinct advantage to have a jerky motion, as may be witnessed in screening sand in a foundry or for building purposes, the operators usually giving the sieve a peculiar jerk and sometimes tossing the sand in the air during the process. In screening materials such as bonedust the circular screens require hammering to keep them clean. The polygonal screen will most effectively accomplish the above objects. In connection with the method of Messrs. McCallum and Eoberts, I may remark that some years ago it was found to be a decided advantage in the screening of coal by mechanical (shaking) screens to have bars of iron across the screen at intervals. This had the effect of causing the coal to tumble over, and any dust or slack which would otherwise have been carried, on large lumps of coal, and deposited into the wagons was thrown off and passed through the meshes of the screen. This experience is merely related to show that there is something to be gained by preventing too smooth a passage for the material which has to be screened. The following interesting return has been compiled by the Assistant Inspector of Mines for the Southern district from information obtained principally from the several consulting engineers and builders of dredges. This return gives the leading dimensions and approximate cost or present value of a large number of dredges, the names of the designers, and also of the builders of the engines and boilers : —

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PONTOON VENTILATOR

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ELEVATOR BUCKETS

Mc CALLUM & ROBERTS' PATENT SCREEN.

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Particulars of Dredges Built for Work in New Zealand.

M., Marshall, Sons, and Co. (Limited); G., Garratt and Sons; R., E. Roberts; T., Tangyes (Limited) ; C, Cutten Bros. ; M. C, Morgan and Cable ; P., F. W. Payne; B.M., Brown and May; R.P., Ruston and Proctor; S., Sparrow; J., Johnston; A.P., Aveling and Porter; Gy., Gwynne; Pax., Davey, Paxman, and Co.; Eo., Robey and Co.; P.S., Posthlewaite ; C.S., Clayton and Shuttleworth ; A., Anderson; K., Kincaid and McQueen; S.P., Stevenson and Poole. Centrifugal elevator : (Payne and Peck's patent). Cost-price of dredges: The prices given are mainly contract prices. In a few cases (marked " ( a ) ") the present approximate value of the dredge is given. Where blanks occur information not available. Particulars of West Coast dredges include information obtainable in Dunedin. Pontoons. Ladder and Buckets. Elevator. Machinery. "5 s "S a > ° o a a <D 3 Name of Dredge and Locality. Dredge designed by Whether Dredge in Active Operation or partially constructed. a a a a a f i tol Capacity ol Buckets tin Cubic Feer). Length (in Feet). Boiler, Nominal HP. Engine, Nominal H.P. So 3ft Otago. Clutha River. Scottish Chief, Tuapeka Mouth Lioness, Rankleburn New Paul's Beach, below Beaumont.. New Golden Gravel, Beaumont Champion, Beaumont New Britannia, Tallaburn Otago No. 2, below Island Block Island Block, Island Block E. Roberts L. H. Reynolds E. Roberts Operations suspended Shifting to Gore Working 91 28 89 25 90 20 91 28 91 28 98 30 110 30 105 28 6 6 5 6 6 6 7 7 60 61 GO 60 60 7(1 70 36 40 40 or 35 38 43 45 4* 4} 4± 4J 42 Not re Not re 42 42 43 42 Centrifug. 4'6"D. x2' 74 42 90 74 21 quired quired 21 21 20 21 35 20 R. 20 Ro. 16 M.C.. 20 R. 20 R. 20 Ro. 35 R. 20 M. 16 M. 16 Ro. 12 G. .(•9,13,O.C.)G 16 Ro. 20 R.P. 16 M. Oz. 12 13 10 £ I 4,500 l,000( a ) 5,800 5,800 7 6 9 7 7 7 7 Mouat and Wales .. E. Roberts F. W. Payne 6,500 Golden Horseshoe, Island Block Gunton's Beach, above Island Block.. Golden Run, Miller's Flat .. Pride of Clutha No. 2, Miller's Flat Pride of Clutha No. 1, Miller's Flat Golden Gate, Miller's Flat Otago, Miller's Flat Golden Treasure, above Miller's Flat.. Majestic, above Miller's Flat Golden Bed, Ettrick Ettrick, Ettrick Gold King, below Roxburgh Main Lead Hercules, below Roxburgh Endeavour, below Roxburgh Roxburgh Jubilee, Roxburgh Lady Roxburgh, Roxburgh Teviot, Roxburgh .. Molyneux Kohinoor, Coal Creek Flat Coal Creek Flat, Coal Creek Flat Gold Deposit, Coal Creek to Alexandra Gorge .. Long Valley, Coal Creek to Alexandra Gorge .. Golden Elbow, Coal Creek to Alexandra Gorge Fourteen-mile Beach. Coal Creek to Alexandra G. E. Roberts Shifting to West Coast Pontoons built Working 100 30 81 28 110 31-36 100 31 90 23 92 23 108 20 90 27 105 ! 30 101 27-32 100 31 113 30 113 30 113 30 100 32 113 31 103 30 99 27 86 27 106 i 26 100 30 102 31 85 26 7 6 6-8 5-7 5 5J 5 5 6 5-7 5-7 6-7 6-7 6-7 6-7 7 6-7 7 6 7 6 7 7 70 58 70 GO GO 62 72 68 68 63 66 82 82 70 82 70 f>8 58 73 SO 75 61 45 34 40 43 35 25 36 40 42 35 40 46 4G 4G 50 50 40 48 30 50 48 50 35 6 5 4 3 5 5 5J 4* 5 4± 4j 37 21 45 37 45 R. 16 M. 40 R. 28 R. 20 M. 12 M. 25 M. 20 M. 9,834 7,960 7 Kincaid and McQueen Cutten Bros. F. W. Payne Cutten Bros. E. Roberts Shifting Working 36 40 38 Not re 110 74 66 42 66 74 66 35 Not re 74 Not re 35 Not re Not re 18 20 20 quired 55 37 33 21 33 37 35 20 quired 37 quired 18 quired quired 20 R. 20 K. 20 S. 20 M. 40 C. 28 R. 35 R. 35 R. 35 R. 35 R. 35 R. 30 C. 20 28 R. 20 T. 30 C. 20 M. Electric 14 M.C. 12 K. 16 M. 16 M. 20 M. 20 M. 20 M. 20 M. 20 M. 20 M. 20 M. 20 M. 16 (*9,13.O.C.) G 16 R.P. 16 M. 16 M. power 12 12 12 13 14 15 1G 3,200 2,650 6,200 9,000 7,742 8,800 8,250 7,650 8,330 7,362 8,369 8,000 7,439 6,500 7,800 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 8 7 8 7 1 S Cutten Bros. A. C. McGeorge E. Roberts F. W. Payne Cutten Bros. F. W. Payne L. H. Reynolds 11 13 Pontoons built Standing 11 9 * Diameter of c; linder in inches.

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Pontoons. Ladder and Buckets. Elevator. Machinery. o a £& Capacity ■* of "o *= Buckets d ~ (in Cubic 3t,J Feet I. Q & β-g a> M a g, to £a go o O a Name of Dredge and Locality. Dredge designed by Whether Dredge in Active Operation or partially constructed. Fq — hi a H a a a Length (in Feet). Boiler, Nominal HP. Engine, Nominal H.P. o © f<3 Otai io —contim led. Clutha River -continued. Golden River, Coal Creek to Alexandra Gorge.. Molyneux Palls, Coal Creek to Alexandra Gorge New River Molyneux, Coal Cr'k to Alexandra G. New First Chance, Coal Creek to Alexandra G. Bendigo, Coal Creek to Alexandra Gorge Sailor's Bend, Coal Creek to Alexandra Gorge Manuherikia, Coal Creek to Alexandra Gorge .. Clyde (Moa No. 1), Coal Cr'k to Alexandra Gorge Moa No. 2, Coal Creek to Alexandra Gorge .. Alexandra Lead, Alexandra Molyneux Hydraulic, Alexandra Alexandra Eureka, Alexandra New Golden Beach, Alexandra Ngapara Extended, Alexandra Ngapara No. 1, Alexandra E. Roberts F. W. Payne E. Roberts F. W. Payne J. C. McGeorge E. Roberts Cutten Bros. F. W. Payne E. Roberts F. W. Payne E. Roberts F. W. Payne Working .. Wrecked .. Working .. Standing .. Working .. 100 27 103 30 100 27 95 I 26 95 26 94 26 101 ! 27 90 28 109 31 117 35 90 27 80 22 92 \ 28 105 ! 26 74 ' 23 7 7 7 7 6 6 7 5 7 6-7 5-6 5 5-6 7 5 72 70 66 72 72 J 62 78 57 78 S 63 59 I 55 60 73 53 30 43 45 37 40 40 42 36 50 40 30 40 35 50 30 4} 5 4 5 4 Not re quired Not re quired Not re quired Not re quired Not re quired Not re quired 60 35 50 25 50 25 114 57 58 30 36 18 78 40 36 18 Centrifugal 25 34 17 66 30 145 80 121 70 62 31 Centrifugal 25 35 17 82 41 35 17 72 36 120 60 45 23 29 14 45 22 Not required Not re quired Not re quired Not re quired Not re quired Not re quired 28 R. Current 20 M. 20 M. 20 Ro. 20 M. 20 M. 23 R. 30 C. 40 P. 27 R. 20 M.C. 27 R. 20 M. 20 M. 16 M. -wheels, 20' D. 16 M. 16 M. 16 Ro. 16 M. 16 M. 12 M. 20 M. 25 M. 16 M. 12 M. (*9,13,O.C.)G 16 M. 12 M. Oz. 22 14 is 6,119 7,000 7,158 7,100 6,000 9,480 4,000 9,059 12,700 5,000 8 4 S S 8 8 9 8 8 9 7 8 10 7 8 14 12 18 7,289 7,250 Enterprise No. 1, Alexandra Enterprise No. 2, Alexandra Fraser Flat, above Alexandra Earnscleugh No. 3, Alexandra Earnscleugh No. 2, Alexandra Earnscleugh No. 1, Alexandra J. Sparrow E. Roberts F. W. Payne L. H. Reynolds Cutten Bros. E. Roberts Pontoons built Working .. 81 21 90 30 119 35 132 30 98 34 80 25 100 18 100 33 95 31 95 31 112 45 99 28 85 ! 26 109 39 105 24 105 24 106 26 110 27 100 27 95 i 26 5 7 9 6-7 7 5 38 66 63 88 j 65 50 35 45 30 50 40 22 3 7 4 20 27 R. 40 P. Elect (2)16M. 14 (*9,13,O.C.)G 25 M. ric power 20 M. 12 15 15 12 23 14 3,250 6,000 10,000(») 9,500 3,000f») 7 7 10 9 8 Chicago, Alexandra Sandy Point (Glasgow), Alexandra Perseverance No. 1, Alexandra Perseverance No. 2, Alexandra Dunstan Lead, below Clyde Matau, below Clyde Unity, below Clyde New Vincent, Clyde Old Dunstan, Clyde Davis Bend, Clyde to Cromwell Gorge New Leaning Rock, Clyde to Cromwell Gorge Monte Christo, Clyde to Cromwell Gorge New Half-way House, Clyde to Cromwell Gorge Kelly and Casey, Clyde to Cromwell Gorge F. W. Payne Cutten Bros. F. W. Payne Cutten Bros. F. W. Payne Cutten Bros. F. W. Payne 4 7 7 7 9 6 7 6 5-6 5-6 7 7 7 6 44 60 61 61 63 70 60 80 73 75 84 ! 72 66 62 25 36 35 35 42 40 40 45 50 53 50 50 40 50 7 5 5 7 5 •5 4f 40 P. 30 C. 30 C. 40 P. 20 M. 20 M 20 M. 20 M. 20 M. 20R.P. 20 M. 28 R. 20 M. 20 M. 20 M. 20 M. 25 M. 16 M. 16 M. 16 M. 12 M. 16 M. 16 R.P. 16 M. 16 R.P. 16 M. 11 9 9 15 14 14 12 3,000(a) 7,150 7,350 14,000 6,100 5,000 6,500 6,500 8,000 6,600 6,128 7,200 7 8 8 8 7 7 7 S 9 8 8 8 14 12 E. Roberts P. W. Payne 12 * Diameter of cylinders in inches.

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Pontoons. Ladder and Buckets. Elevator. Machinery. CO O *c a 9 CD irjlC <3ri Q cS '*h A LB*! d tx. o fl CD Name of Dredge and Locality. Dredge designed by Whether Dredge in Active Operation or partially constructed. CD fe fl a CD - CD a ri CD PO r r fe fl O, CD 0 CD CD r. fl S3 fl CD r\ Capacity of Buckets (in Cubic Feet). Length (in Feet). Boiler, Nominal H.P. Engine, Nominal H.P. CO r? W 9 g CD ri So ? CD o ■rl-6 _ CD S3 >• 55 Otagi i i—co intim :ed. Clutha Biver— continued. Great Central, Clyde to Cromwell Gorge Alpine Consols, Clyde to Cromwell Gorge Riley's Beach, Clyde to Cromwell Gorge Alpine No. 2, Clyde to Cromwell Gorge Hartley and Riley, Clyde to Cromwell Gorge .. Central Electric, Cromwell Junction Electric No. 2, Cromwell .. New Royal Maori, Cromwell Point d'Or, above Cromwell Rise and Shine, above Cromwell Rising Sun, above Cromwell L. H. Reynolds P. W. Payne E. Roberts P. W. Payne Cutten Bros. P. W. Payne Shifting to Waikaia Working 90 95 105 95 98 105 98 93 85 110 117 25 26 24 26 27 26 23 24 23 33 37 6 6 7 6 6-7 7 5-6 6 5 6-7 6-7 61 75 75 71 69 73 62 62 58 81 82 35 40 46 40 50 50 50 40 30 50 50 4| 4| ii 4 4 6 7 Not re quired Not required Not required Not required 39 20 Not re quired Not re quired 15 ..0 14 66 33 Centrifug. 30 3'2"D.x2' 43 21 Not re quired Not re quired Not re quired Not re quired 20 R.P. 20 M. 16 R.P. 16 M. Oz. 7,200 6,000 I 14 20 M. 20-R.P. 20 M. 22 J. 16 M. 20 S.P. 35 R. 16 M. 12 R.P. 16 M. 12 M. 12 M. 14 S.P. 20 M. 14 17 14 6,000 5,500 6,500 9 7 7 10 P. W. Payne Stevenson and Poole E. Roberts P. W. Payne .. j .. 7,009 1,717(») 9,350 Building •• Rise and Shine No. 2, above Cromwell Golden Chain, Luggate Vulcan, Luggate Upper Clutha, below Albertown Prince Albert, below Albertown J. C. McGeorge E. Roberts .. I Working Pontoons built Working 101 90 81 76 84 27 30 28 26 25 7 6 6 5 6 66 60 58 49 54 35 31 31 26 30 5 4 4 20 20 M. 16 M. 16 M. 20 Ro. 16 16 M. 12 M. 12 M. 16 Ro. •• I - 6,128 4,500 7 6 L. H. Reynolds •• Kawabau Riveb. Cromwell No. 2, above Cromwell Junction Electric No. 1, above Cromwell Junction Electric No. 2 (late Eclipse), above Cromwell Cromwell, above Cromwell Electric (Lady Ranfurly), above Cromwell Electric No. 2, Kawarau Gorge Voltaic, Kawarau Gorge Upper Magnetic, Kawarau Gorge Gentle Annie, Kawarau Gorge Meg and Annie, Kawarau Gorge Grand Junction, below Victoria Bridge Kawarau Consolidated, below Victoria Bridge Gibbston, Gibbston J. C. McGeorge E. Roberts L. H. Reynolds P. W. Payne Wrecked Re-erecting Working .. 106 100 100 106 109 110 105 105 105 105 105 103 105 25 27 26 26 25 25 30 27 26 30 25 25 26 7 6 7 7 7 7 6 7 6 6 7 6 7 74 72 66 75 75 75 68 76 73 62 76 63 76 43 45 40 50 50 50 42 50 42 45 52 40 50 4| 5 6 6 4| ii 4 64 32 Centrifug. 20 3' 2"xl'8" Not re quired 35 17 Not rejquired Not required Not required Not re quired 60 30 35 Ro. 20 M. 20 R. 20 Ro. 25 M. 30 P. 20 M. 20 M. 20 M. 20 M. 20 R.P. 20 M. 20 M. 16 Ro. 16 M. 16 M. 16 Ro. 16 M. 16 M. 16 M. 16 M. 16 M. 16 M. 16 R.P. 16 M. 16 M. 19 6,494 8,000 6,000 6,126 9,000 8,000 6,300 6,400 7,700 7,000 7,500 7 9 10 9 8 7 a 8 S I 13 17 Pontoons built Working Centrifug. 20 3'2"xl'8" Not re quired Not required '7 Merrimac (now Golden Molyneux), Gibbston .. Kawarau Bridge (now Junction Waikaka), Gibbston Morven United, above Kawarau Bridge Gold Vein, above Kawarau Bridge Morven Ferry, above Kawarau Bridge Kia Ora below Plankton L. H. Reynolds P. W. Payne Standing Working Pontoons built 105 105 106 93 93 93 30 26 26 24 24 24 6 7 7 6 6 6 68 73 74 62 62 62 42 50 45 40 40 40 4| 4| 4J 4 4 4 Not re quired 27 13 28 14 28 14 20 M. 20 R.P. 20 M. 16 M. 16 R.P. 16 M. 16 M. 16 R.P. 16 M. 12 M. 12 R.P. 12 M. 6,600 7 ' Working 5,500 7 .

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Pontoons. Ladder and Buckets. Elevator. Machinery. "o 1 1 I m D CD S* > O 1 l Name of Dredge and Locality. Whether Dredge in Active 8 Dredge designed by Operation or partially &■ constructed. c % c I CD s is , - Q Capacity of Buckets (in Cubic Feet). Length (in Feet). O>j,o Boiler. Engine, Nominal Nominal H.P. H.P. So < 9 p. !_ Shotover River. Prince Arthur, Moke Greek Maori Point, Deep Creek Cardrona Valley. Lone Star, above Branch Creek Lafranchi's, Cardrona Valley Otago — ci F. W. Payne .. Working .. .. 80 Morgan and Cable .. „ .. 84 >ntim ed. 6 5 Oz. £ 5,400 20 24 58 4S 26 24 Sluic e box Slnic e-box 16 M. 20 M.C. 12 M. 16 B.M. ie> 7 7 ..84 E. Roberts .. , .. 95 28 I 35 I 5 6 CO (50 20 25 4J Sluic e-box 42 21 20M.C. O'Brien sys 16 B.M. 's water-power tem 7 4,000 4,500 8 7 Nevis River. 5 5 5 5 6 5 60 50 10 38 38 15 18 14 20 15 15 22 3,500 Crewe, Nevis Upper Nevis, Nevis New Nevis, Nevis Ngapara No. 2, Nevis Ngapara No. 3, Nevis Remarkables, Nevis „ .. » .. .. ] 56 F. W. Payne .. Shifting .. .. I 75 Cutten Bros. .. Working .. .. ' 60 F. W. Payne .. » .. .. j 45 Stevenson and Poole „ .. .. j 60 Cutten Bros. .. Shifting to Nevis j 70 Crossing 28 24 24 27 27 25 4 4 4 3 84 17 35 17 40 20 19 10 31 15 16 M. 16 C. 30 P. 30 S.P. 18 R.P. 12 M. 12 M. 10 M. 12 M. 16 M. 12 R.P. 11 8 12 5,000 3,250 7 7 6 7 7 7 • • Bannockburn. Shepherd's Creek, Shepherd's Creek .. Manuherikia River. Manorburn, Manuherikia Morning Star, above Alexandra Olrig, Springvale Coronation, Galloway Plat Nil Desperandum, Chatto Creek Chatto Creek, Chatto Creek.. Naseby. Robert's Naumai, Upper Kyeburn Cairntrodlie, Poolburn TUAPEKA. Taniwha, Tuapeka Flat Lawrence, Tuapeka Flat Reliance, Tuapeka Flat Tuapeka, Tuapeka Flat Gabriel, Tuapeka Flat Happy Valley, Wetherstone's Imperial Waitahuna Havelock, Waitahuna Gordon, Waitahuna Manuka, Waitahuna Waitahuna Gully, Waitahuna Gold Bank, Glenore Stirling, Glenore L. H. Reynolds .. Standing .. .. 62 j Dismantled .. j 75 Robert Mason .. Working .. .. 70 F. W. Payne .. „ .. 78 L. H. Reynolds .. Re-erecting 80 E. Roberts .. Shifting to Waikaka 65 F. W. Payne .. Working .. .. 66 E. Roberts .. ' „ .. 87 F. W. Payne .. „ .. 60 Cutten Bros. .. „ .. 60 .. I 66 Cutten Bros. .. „ .. .. I 78 j 60 ..70 ..68 Morgan and Cable .. „ .. .. 72 Stevenson and Poole „ .. .. I 70 Morgan and Cable .. „ .. .. i 70 i 71 F. W. Payne .. „ .. .. 69 .. i 90 E.Roberts .. . .. ..80 24 26 18 30 25 29 25 30 22 24 30 25 24 24 25 25 24 25 19 26 24 24 6 3 7 6 6 8 6 7 5 4 3 5 5 4 5 5 6 5 5 6 6 6 43 53 42 40 42 54 50 36 25 36 46 38 18 39 48 65 65 22 31 18 26 25 22 23 31 26 16 12 22 16 23 20 20 44 3 4 4J 4j 34 3 3* 3J 2} 4J Not re quired Not re.quired Not required 35 ! 17 45 25 36 18 37 18 50 25 Sluic e-box Sluicje-box Sluicje-box Sluicje-box Sluicje-box Sluicje-box Sluicje-box Sluicie-box Sluicje-box Sluic|e-box Sluicje-box Sluic e-box 30 14 30 14 16 R.P. 16 M. 25 A. 20 R.P. 25 Ro. 20 M. 16.M. 28 R. 14 R.P. 16 M. 16 A.P. 14 M. 16 M. 16 M. 16 R.P. 20 M.C. 16 M. 20 M.C. 16 S. 12 M. 20 P.S. 20 M. 12 R.P. 12 M. 20 A. 16 R.P. 16 Ro. 16 M. 12 M. 16 M. 10 R.P. 10 M. 12 A.P. 12 M.< 12 M. 12 M. 12 R.P. 16 B.M. 12 M. 16 B.M.. 15 S. 10 M. 14 16 M. ! " 15 -I. ! •• I 11 8 10 14 ! 9 ; 10 5,500 7,160 2,464 7 6 8 6 7 7 7 7 3,650 2,515 4,478 4,300 3,000 3,100 3,000 500(»| 4,000 7 23 16 20 35 35 ; 7 8 ; 9 ; 10 i I 1 1 I 1 l

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Pontoons. Ladder and Buckets. uckets. Elevator. Machinery. O c ® Name of Dredge and Locality. o <D Z'3 CD O < -4-1 O a CD 3 Dredge designed by Whether Dredge 'in Active Operation or partially constructed. rd - CD '- s CD fa S3 Pi Q S <ffl" J- *Orr 5 °dr, =0 «Mcd rr Cr" Capacity S3® Buckets Le 5g8' (in *„ (iu Cubic Feet) ' SS Feet). m" ©— A O O > as a. S^Sing Sr=g.2~ n Boiler, Nominal H.P. Engine, Nominal HP. 2g < "o 9 CO 3 P. S5 Waipori River. Bakery Plat, Upper Waipori New Jutland Flat, Upper Waipori .. Quilter and party, Waipori Upper Waipori, Waipori Waipori Consolidated, Waipori Perseverance (McNeil's), Waipori Empire No. 1, Waipori Success, Waipori Golden Shore, Waipori Empire No. 2, Waipori Lower Enfield, Lower Waipori Waipori Gold King, Berwick Enfield, Verterburn Oceanic, Waipori Broad Creek, Welch's Plat Shag River. Inch Valley, Inch Valley Inchdale, Inch Valley Dunback, Dunback Pomahaka River. Green vale, Pomahaka Ardmore, Pomahaka Taieri River. First Taieri, Rock and Pillar J. T. Johnston W. O'Brien Otagi Building Working )— CO 84 86 51 90 66 71 72 70 78 66 66 62 66 71 84 mtini 20 26 20 20 24 22 25 25 24 24 25 31 25 25 25 ed. 5 52 6 56 3 36 5 65 5 42 5 45 5 45 5 45 5 50 5 42 ! 6 43 4 43 5 43 5 49 5 54 ! 22 20 20 25 20 22 22 22 28 20 21 18 21 28 30 31 4 3 3 4 34 31 4 21 4 34 3 Sluice Sluicji; Sluicje Sluidf Sluic < Sluic < Sluic ( Sluic( Sluic ( Sluic i Sluic i 40 40 43 e-box e-box e-box , e-box !e-box e-box e-box e-box e-box e-box e-box e box 28 18 20 Johnsto O'Brien O'Brien 14 S. O'Brien 16 M. 16 M.C. 14 M. 25 S. 16 M. O'Brien 20 A. 16 Ro. 16 Ro. 16 C. n's Pat. Hydr. s Patent Hydr. 's Patent Hydr. 10 M. Oz. j 6 4 14 64 £ 7 4 8 7 6 7 7 7 7 7 Kincaid and McQueen L. H. Reynolds Cutten Bros. Morgan and Cable .. 3 Patent Hydr. 10 M. 12 B.M. 12 M. 10 S. 12 M. Cutten Bros. L. H. Reynolds E. Roberts L. H. Reynolds Standing Working Re-erecting Standing 11 11 14 11 6 2,600 3,150 4,700 s Patent Hyd r. 12 A. 12 Ro. 12 Ro. 12 M. 9 5,655 8 Cutten Bros. E. Roberts Cutten Bros. Working 76 72 66 25 25 25 5 48 5 42 5 42 4 62 j 3 47 j 35 20 20 35 22 3? 34 45 45 Sluic i 20 20 16 M. 16 M. 14 M. 12 M. 12 M. 12 M. 10 3,398 4,950 3,900 7 7 Shitting to Waimumu e-box Standing .. Working .. 90 66 > 20 2 Sluic i Sluic i e-box : e-box 20 A. 6 h.p. 12 A. portable, K. E. Roberts Dismantled .. I 56 I 24 I 4 - 35: 20 *l Sluicli :le-box ' 16 M. 1 10 M. Mataura River. Two Creeks, Edendale Mataura Consolidated, Mataura Island Central Mataura No. 1, Gore Graham and party, Gore Waikaka River. Sheddon's Freehold, Waikaka Valley Waikaka Syndicate, Waikaka Valley Sheddon and King's, Waikaka Valley 'outhi land. E. Roberts Standing .. 81 71 90 70 28 21 24 24 I 6 60 5 55 7 68 5 45 28 25 27 25 ! e-box Ve-box :e-box ;ie-box 12 M. 26 20 A. portable Working Building 60 55 68 45 ■i 3 I Sluic Sluic i Sluic 1 Sluic! 20 R. 16 25 A. '< 12 h.p. 9 7 7 I Owners C. L. Watt D. Sherrifi Morgan and Cable .. Working 80 81 80 25 25 25 6 56 5 56 5 56 56 56 56 25 25 30 4 4 Sluic Sluicj Sluic ;;e-box ;je-box :e-box 20 16 M. 20 M.C. 16 12 R.P. 16 B.M. 10 5,600 7 Re-erecting Victoria, Waimumu Working .. : Lilliesleaf, Waikaka Valley •• 60 21 5 50 50 25 3j I Sluic! ;!e-box i 16 M. 12 M. 11

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Pontoons. Ladder and Buckets. Elevator. Machinery. O "o a 9 Name of Dredge and Locality. Q ho e8r-^ A -£ 9 9 '- > o GO O a Dredge designed by Whether Dredge in Active Operation or partially constructed. CD CD CD - ID fe a a n 8 CD '- a 0 Si a CD rl Capacity of Buckets (in Cubic Feet). Length (in Feet). CDrr ■ 0 O > C$ S3 a"£ G£ /°' 5 = Boiler, Nominal H.P. Engine, Nominal H.P. CD S CD O CD o Q CI' a a Waikaka River — continued. Waikaka, Waikaka Gleniti, Waikaka Paterson's Freehold, Waikaka Paterson's No. 2, Waikaka McGeorge's Freehold, Waikaka Record, Waikaka .. Phcenix, Waikaka Perry's Pioneer, Waikaka Little Waikaka River. Little Waikaka, Waikaka Ibbotson's, Waikaka Globe, Waikaka Waikaka United No. 1, Waikaka Waikaka United No. 2, Waikaka Waikaka Queen, Waikaka .. Waikaka Forks,. Waikaka Lee's Steel, Waikaka Ibbotson and party, Chatton Gold Creek, Chatton Waimumu Stream. Waimumu Treasure, Waimumu Waimumu Queen, Waimumu Waimumu Extended, Waimumu Waimumu, Waimumu Royal Waimumu, Waimumu Waimumu Central, Waimumu Spec Gully, Waimumu McLean's Freehold, Waimumu Charlton Creek. MacCharlton, Charlton Charlton Creek, Charlton Central Charlton, Charlton Charlton Valley, Charlton Lady Charlton, Charlton Waikaia River. Mystery Flat, Waikaia New Fairdown, Waikaia Hessey's, Waikaia Nugget, Upper Wakaia Muddy Creek, Muddy Creek Waiau River. Southland —contim ed. Working .. .. 78 26 Standing .. .. 71 23 Working . .* .. 80 25 Re-erecting .. 82 25 .... 27 Working .. .. 65 24 71 26 70 24 7 5 6 6 7 3 5 5 Oz. £ Mouat and Wales .. E. Roberts J. C. McGeorge L. H. Reynolds J. C. McGeorge J. M. Walker E. Roberts J. R. Perry 12 52 61 64 30 4<J 24 20 25 35 35 10 25 15 41 41 4 4f 5 3 3 Sluic Sluic Sluic Sluic Sluic Sluic Sluic Sluic e-box e-box e-box e-box e-box e-box e-box e-box 20 M.C. 16 M. 20 Ro. 16 12 b.p. 16 M. 20 Pax. 16 B.M. 12 M. 16 Ro. 20 portable, A.P. 12 M. 16 Pax. 10 7 9 io 3,608 2,500 7 7 J. R. Perry J. C. McGeorge ..66 24 ..72 24 ..84 20 .. I 80 25 80 25 80 25 56 25 88 24 69 26 Dismantled .. 70 24 3 5 5 6 6 6 5 7 5 3 30 42 49 52 52 52 32 69 48 40 11 14 23 25 25 25 18 40 20 24 3 3 4 4 4 34 4 3 Sluic Sluic Sluic Sluic Sluic Sluic Sluic Sluic Sluic Sluic e-box e-box e-box e-box e-box e-box e-box e-box e-box e-box 12 A.P. 12 h.p. 12 S. 16 S. 20 J 16 12 M. 16 16 M. 12 12 A.P. portable, M. 10 S. 12 M. 16 T. 12 10 M. 12 12 B.M. 12 7 'J 12 11 7 9 12 11 2,000 2,000 3,200 4,780 2,670 7 7 9 10 E. Roberts 3,400 7 F. W. Payne '! Morgan and Cable .. Shifting to Waikaka 80 25 Working .. .. 80 25 .. 66 26 78 28 5 5 5 5 50 50 42 52 30 30 23 30 41 41 2j *4 Sluic Sluic Sluic f,6 e-box e-box e-box 20 20 M.C. 20 M.C. 14 M. 16 M. 16 B.M. 16 B.M. 12 M. 12 M. 10 12 4,000 4,000 8 8 8 8 Cutten Bros A. and T. Burt Morgan and Cable .. Cutten Bros. 10 12 5,252 80 25 .. 68 25 72 25 5 5 5 50 42 42 30 20 20 41 3f 3f Slu Slu Slu Slu ice ice ice ice 20 M.C. 16 M. 16 M. 16 B.M. 12 M. 12 M. 11 12 12 11 12 12 4,000 3,300 3,000 8 7 8 Cutten Bros. L. H. Reynolds Mouat and Wales .. Cutten Bros. 81 27 .. 68 25 55 24 .. 74 26 78 25 6 5 5 6 5 49 42 48 45 4S 20 20 10 27 25 4 33 4 4 3J Slu Slu Slu Slu ice ice ice ice 14 M. 16 M. 16 Ro. 16 Pax. 16 M. 12 M. 12 M. 10 Ro. 12 Pax. 12 M. 12 12 12 12 12 12 4,200 3,256 7 9 7 43 21 3,700 5,000 Morgan and Cable .. F. W. Payne Cutten Bros. L. H. Reynolds J. C. McGeorge 85 25 Building .. .. 78 25 81 25 Standing .. .. 71 25 Working .. .. 80 25 5 6 5 5 6 00 48 54 49 52 32 30 30 25 25 41 4 3| 44 4 Sluic Sluic Sluic 40 Sluic e-box e-box e-box 20 20 M.C. 16 M. 16 B.M. 12 M. 5,000 7 8 16 M. 12 M. 3,635 e-box Belmont, Waiau Mouat and Wales .. .. I 84 39 5 54 30 41 Sluic' !e-box 20 M.C.! 16 B.M.

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Pontoons. Ladder and Buckets. Elevator. Machinery. (A o 'o O a 9 r, I Whether Dredge in Active ® | "g Operation or partially j rH i © constructed. a s: - m a C at CD CD 1 rr I « CD CD fe S3 z - 9 Capacity Buckets Length (in (fnCublc Feet >' Feet). «r- ' O S: ° m a m* =e fe 33 r~ w C *" O rt £ o < d 9 Name of Dredge and Locality. Dredge designed by fe S3 CD a a .2fe Q Boiler, Nominal H.P. Engine, Nominal H.P. 9 rU o CD 9 at Marlborough. Omdurman, Top Valley Golden Point, Wakamarina Pride of Marlborough, Top Valley Imperial, Wakamarina .. C. E. Marchant .. Cutten Bros. .. Cutten Bros. .. Standing .. .. Working .. .. Standing .. Mi irlboi 85 73 ■ough. 26 5 61 25 5 48 22 -5 45 36 25 20 41 66 30 20 M.C. 3f 32 16 16 C. "3 37 18 12C. Oz. j £ 16 B.M. .. 12 M. .. | 3,600 8M. ..I 68 Nelsi ,n. Nelson. Wangapeka, Wangapeka River Parapara, CoUingwoodf Kaituna, CoUingwoodf Slate River, CoUingwoodf .. .. D. Sherrifi.. .. Altering TT. 94 30 6 62 30 44 Centrifug. elevator 20 16 Westport. Wareatea, Fairdown Island Creek, Fairdown Buller River. Amikitia, Upper Buller Kohikohi, Upper Buller Feddersen, Three-channel Flat Mokoia, Three-channel Flat Buller Junction, Three-channel Flat.. Welcome, Inangahua Junction Premier, White Cliffs Rocklands, Rocklands Old Diggings, Berlin's El Dorado, Berlin's Boatman's. Reeves's Proprietary Al Grey Valley. Greymouth Lagoons, Blackwater Grey River Consolidated, Big Grey .. Waipuna, Big Grey Great Lead, Big Grey Westland, Big Grey Mosquito, Mosquito Creek Shellback, Caledonia Creek Garibaldi, Moonlight Creek Moonlight, Moonlight Creek Wellington, Moonlight Creek Ruby Creek, Ruby Creek Totara Flat, Duffer's Creek Erickson's Reward, Orwell Creek Orwell Creek, Orwell Creek Watterson's Consols, Ahaura River .. Daylight, Ahaura River Ahaura, Ahaura River .. E. Roberts .. J. Bishop .. .. Cutten Bros. .. J. Bishop .. .. Cutten Bos. .. F. W. Payne .. Cutten Bros. .. E. Roberts .. Cutten Bros. .. F.W.Payne .. McGeorge Bros. .. E. Roberts .. F. w". Payne .. J. Bishop .. .. E. Roberts .. Cutten Bros. .. E. Roberts .. Standing .. .. Working .. .. Working .. .. Working .. .. Working .. .. Working .. W 'est C hast. 75 80 26 5 49 18 4 47 49 47 30 22 4 42 21 16 M. 4 .. .. 20 R.P. 12 M. .. 4,500 .. 12 R.P 86 92 90 85 85 29 7 56 30 7 54 27 7 54 29 7 54 29 7 54 50 54 54 54 54 30 28 28 28 28 5 60 30 30 C. 5 62 31 30 M. 5 62 31 30 C. 44 62 31 20C. 4| 50 25 20 C. 16 M. .. 7,400 .. 16 M. .. 7,150 .. 16 M. .. 7,400 .. 16 M. .. 7,400 .. 16 M. .. 7,150 .. 103 24 6 62 02 40 4 '.'. '!! .. 80 77 25 6 56 29 6 46 56 40 33 25 3 50 25 ; 4J 62 31 20C. 5,500 .. 12 M. .. 6,200 .. 90 84 65 82 89 80 84 84 83 84 30 7 65 30 7 54 29 6 34 27 6 48 31 6 55 25 6 55 27 6 58 30 7 54 31 6 48 30 7 54 28 6 60 31 7 66 28 6 60 25 5 54 28 6 60 65 54 34 48 55 55 58 54 4,8 51 39 25 20 30 42 25 35 25 34 25 35 40 35 28 35 44 47 23 30 C. 4J 42 21 28 R. 1 3| 29 14 20C. 4| 4 35 17 20 R.P. ( 4 44 22 I 16 4| 42 21 20 M. 4J 42 21 28 R. 4 52 26 44 42 21 28 R. 1 5 42 21 20 R. ( 4J 74 37 28 R. I 5 42 21 20 R. ( 3| 32 16 20 C. 5 42 21 20 R. ( 16 M. .. 7,770 ! .. (*9,13,O.C.)G .. 6,447 .. 12 M. .. 4,750 .. .. (»73,HJ,O.B.)G. ■• 5,600 .. 12 12 M. .. 5,985 .. (*9,13,O.C.)G : 12 6,227 .. ! .. 5,700 .. (*9,13,O.C.)G (*7J, 11$, O.B.) G. ■• 6,555 .. (*9,13,O.C.)G .. 7,590 ! .. (♦73,114, 0.B.)G. •• •• 12 M. (*7|,11J,0.B.)G. •• 6,272 .. 12 91 J 100 91 84 91 00 66 00 54 60 * Diameter of c; 4inder in inches. + No larticulars.

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Name of Dredge and Locality. Dredge designed by Whether Dredge in Active Operation or partially constructed. a. CD - mtoons. r CD 33 fe fe a a 3 Pi CD CD 03 C 9 0 fe CD CD CD rb A CD CD fe 3 Ladder and Buckets. r- rr £& Capacit y -" of % Buckets =e — (in Cubic ■Sag Feet). &A F*H : 9~ ■. O > O r- ai cc Length (in ' °-h-: Feet,. 3S>"~. Lu ar° — Elevator. Machinery. Boiler, Kngine, Nominal Nominal H.P. H.l'. I ca c C CO rX 1 as £ O 5 jr. fe H ! $*h A, A \ > ° cP a 33 C CD CD S3 cr, A A Grey Vaij^by— continued. Nelson Creek, Nelson Creek Pactolus, Nelson Creek Aldinga, Nelson Creek Victory, Nelson Creek Trafalgar, Nelson Creek Callaghan's, Callaghan's CreekNo Town. No. 1, No Town Creek Caledonia, Grey River Ford's Creek, Ford's Creek No Town No. 2, No Town CreekGolden Banner Red Jack's, Red Jack's Creek Maori Gully, Stillwater Creek Kangaroo, Red Jack's Creek Grey River, Grey River North Beach, North Beach Dohson No. 2 Pactolus No. 2, Nelson Creek Saltwater Creek. Leviathan, Saltwater Creek Leviathan Freeholds, Saltwater Creek New River. Maori Queen, New River Marsden No. 3, New River Marsden No. 1, New River New River, New River Cornwall, New River Teremakau and Tributaries. Teremakau, Teremakau River Greenstone Three-mile, Greenstone Creek Greenstone Creek, Greenstone Creek Greenstone Gold, Greenstone Creek .. Greenstone Junction, Greenstone Creek Stafford-Waimea, Waimea Creek Hauhau Creek. Hauhau, Hauhau Creek Hokitika. Perry's Reward, Tucker Flat Woodstock, Hokitika River Great Woodstock, Shenandoah Creek Mahinapua, Mahinapua Lake Commissioner's Flat, Kanieri Hokitika River, Hokitika River Hokitika Junction, Hokitika River .. Ross, etc. West Coast -eontinuec 1 1 eon 1 46 54 55 48 60 50 62 62 1 54 70 48 48 58 25 4J 30 44 34 4j 34 4 35 5 29 35 35 44 40 4 30 44 45 44 30 4j 26 4| 35 4£ 50 25 50 25 32 16 32 16 42 21 33 16 62 31 28 14 50 25 63 31 35 17 39 20 42 21 Cutten Bros. Working .. .. 77 .. 77 89 .. 83 .. 91 ..60 90 93 Standing .. .. 85 Working .. .. 98 82 Working .. .. 74 84 29 29 31 31 28 25 29 24 29 29 27 26 27 29 6 29 6 31 6 31 6 28 6 25 6 29 6 24 6 29 7 29 6 27 6 26 6 27 6 20 C. 12 M. 20 C. 12 M. [Oz. £ ; .. 6,172 j .. 6,200 Oz. £ 6,172 6,200 7,175 5,800 F. W."Payne 10 7.175 io E. Roberts Cutten Bros. F. W.'Payne Cutten Bros. 20 M. 16 M. 20 R. 16 R.P. 16 12 30 C. 20 M. 16 M. 12 M. 20 C. 20 C. 16 M. 20 M. 16 M. 20 C. 12 M. 20 M. 12 M. 10 7,175 5,800 7,500 5,700 5,600 6,750 5,785 7,500 5,700 5,600 F. W."Payne Cutten Bros. E. Roberts J. Bishop .. F. W. Payne Cutten Bros. F. W. Payne E. Roberts 85 Working .. ..90 85 Working .. ..100 30 27 30 32 30 6 27 6 30 6 32 7 51 51 51 70 32 "4} 30 34 30 4J 50 4J 30 18 54 27 36 18 74 37 20 M. 16 M. 20 C. 16 M. 20 M. 16 M. 40 R. 20 M. 5,600 6,500 5,500 6,750 '.'. 5,785 5,600 6,500 5,500 F. W. Payne Cutten Bros. .. 91 .. 89 31 29 31 7 29 7 51 55 32 4j 35 4 53 26 35 15 40 J. (*9,13,O.C.)G 30 C. 16 M. ' .. 6,000 6,000 j .. 82 78 78 26 29 29 26 6 29 5 29 5 60 ' 48 48 36 3i 25 3} 25 3j 50 25 43 21 43 21 20 C. 12 M. 16 C. 12 M. 16 C. 12 M. .. j 5,000 5,000 J. Bishop .. A. C. McGeorge •• •• Working .. Cutten Bros. 109 Working .. .. 77 77 ..88 ..85 31 29 29 25 29 31 7 29 7 29 7 25 6 29 6 76 46 54 61 60 50 5 25 44 30 44 37 4| 35 44 62 31 50 25 50 25 45 22 62 31 30 C. 20 M. 20 C. 12 M. 20 C. 12 M. 16 Ro. 12 Ro. 20 C. 16 M. 7,800 6,400 6,750 7,800 L. H. Reynolds Cutten Bros. F. W. Payne 6,400 j .. 6,750 '.'. •• •• i J. Bishop .. I __ E. Roberts F. W. Payne Under alteration .. 81 Working .. ..107 101 28 31 31 6 8 7 58 75 68 32 4£ 45 4j 44 4§ 42 21 60 30 42 21 16 M. 12 M. 20 M. 16 M. 20 P. 16 M. 4,000 4,000 j .. J. Bishop .. E. Roberts Cutten Bros. F. W. Payne Standing Working .. ..105 103 101 31 31 31 7 7 7 70 72 '68 43 54 35 54 32 4J 66 33 37 18 42 21 45 R. 20 M. 40 C. 25 M. I .. 7,940 .. 10,000 7,940 i '.'. 10,000 6,000 6,000 Totara, Totara River Day Dawn, Donnelly's Creek Prince of Wales, Prince of Wales Kohinoor, Mikonui River Okarito, Okarito Lagoon Wanganui-Wataroa, Okarito Saltwater, Little Wanganui.. Cutten Bros. Working .. .. 82 ..107 ..104 29 31 32 7 7 7 54 75 60 '30 "44 52 4J 40 54 51 25 60 30 60 32 20 C. 16 M. 40 P. 20 M. 30 20f 7,500 F. W."Payne J. Bishop .. G. H. McKenzie Cutten Bros. 7,500 '.'. .. ". '.'. .. 89 27 0 52 30 3 .. .. .. ... •• .. ... — .\^ - -v - * Diameter of cylinder in inches'. . Kansomes, Sims, and Jefferies.

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ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. The following statement shows the number of non - fatal accidents attended with serious personal injury which have been reported to the Department, and also the fatalities in connection with the gold-mining industry during the year : —

OTHEE MINEEALS THAN GOLD. SCHEELITE. Messrs. Donaldson Bros., of Golden Point, Macrae's, Otago, have separated some 40 tons during the year. The mineral occurs in the quartz, and is saved by concentration. Cinnabar. Further operations of a prospecting character have been carried on during the year at Waitahuna Heights, near Lawrence, Otago, but no ore has yet been sent away from the mine. Antimony. Operations at Alexandra, Otago, have been stopped. \ trial shipment was sent to Australia, but the costs of cartage, railage, and sea freights are too great at present to admit of the claim being profitably worked. Galena. The lode at Preservation Inlet is not being worked. A shaft was sunk close to deep water some five years ago. The lode is, so far as it has been driven on, from 2 ft. 6 in. to 3 ft. wide, and has a hade of about 65 degrees from the horizontal. It carries galena, copper, silver, gold, &c, The galena lode near Te Aroha (Auckland District) has recently received some attention, and a trial shipment of 50 tons is to be sent to Australia for treatment. lam informed that an assay made in Auckland gave a bullion value of £3 per ton, and over £10 per ton for lead; copper was also present, but its value is not stated. Copper. Although no work is being done at any of the deposits of copper-ore in the colony at the present time, there are evidences of some interest being directed towards the question. A report on the Payne-Gillies process for the treatment of copper-ores was forwarded to the Mines Department by Mr. J. W. Jaffray, engineer, 350, George Street, Sydney, New South Wales, and published in the New Zealand Mines Record of February last. It is possible that the report referred to may be of service to those persons who are interested in copper-ore mining, hence my reason for referring to the matter here. Iron. Negotiations have been commenced during the year with the object of working the ironsanddeposits of Taranaki and the ironstone at Parapara. Petroleum. Samples of crude oil have from time to time been obtained in the locality of Lake Brunner, between Greymouth and Otira. Boring and prospecting operations were commenced during the year with a view to determine the existence of the oil in paying quantities. KOCK-PHOSPHATE. A discovery of this material was reported from Clarendon, Otago, in the spring of the year 1902 ; and since that time developments have progressed rapidly. The value of phosphate as a fertiliser is so well known and appreciated by the farming community that very little difficulty has been experienced in obtaining a market for the products, and this discovery bids fair to become of very great value to the colony. The deposit occurs in proximity to the limestone rocks which are so abundant in the locality, and its character and value were first recognised by Mr. E. Ewing. A company known as the Ewing Phosphate Company (Limited) acquired an area of from 1,300 to 1,400 acres of freehold land embracing the best-known phosphate-deposits, and commenced operations without delay. In June last operations were commenced at Kiln Point, where there was an old lime-kiln convenient for burning, and in which this very rock had been burned under the impression that it was limestone, the quarrying and burning being discontinued owing to its supposed inferior quality. This opening enabled the company to get out large quantities of rock for treatment and placed on

Nonhern District. West C Distn 'oast ict. Southern District. Totals. Class of Mining. Serious. Fata Fatal. al. i Serious. Serious. Fatal. Serious. Fatal. Serious. Fa'al. Quartz Hydraulic and alluvial Dredging ... ... j 3 No wor No wor 2 kings, kings. 3 1 1 4 1 3 3 "a 5 7 4 4 2 8 9 Totals 3 7 8 15 14

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the market in time for the 1902 cereal and green crop, which have greatly benefited by the application of the prepared fertilisers. Concurrently with this, further prospecting was done in localities easy of access, and deposits of phosphate were found to exist which, when opened out, proved quite equal to the most sanguine expectations, and fully justified the laying-down of tramways, of which two lines have been constructed, meeting at a point admirably suited for central works and roasting depot. From these quarries 2,000 to 3,000 tons have already been mined, and there is a considerable quantity in sight. The rock is of an extremely hard nature, and high explosives followed by charges of blasting-powder, are necessary to successfully carry on mining operations. The overburden is not heavy, and indications point to many thousands of tons being obtained from the present workings without opening out the more extensive deposits that exist in other portions of the property, the total yield from which it is almost impossible to estimate. The supply may now be considered assured, and as the industry develops the whole colony will reap a material benefit from the discovery of this mineral in such a convenient and accessible situation. The rock, when finely ground and subjected to chemical treatment, makes an excellent superphosphate, the results from which during the past season are reported to have given satisfaction. The prepared guano from the same material has also turned out well. Phosphate manures are largely used by farmers in New Zealand, and large quantities are imported. As the field becomes further developed and the native product better known it is quite reasonable to expect that the products of this rock will become largely used instead of the imported article. Besides this, there is the possibility of these products being exported in the future to other countries. The photographs which are reproduced show the locality of the deposit, and also the quarrying, stacking, and roasting operations. After being roasted the rock is ground and subjected to chemical treatment.

TIMBEE IN MINING DISTEICTS. I would like to draw attention to the fact that in some of our mining centres timber for mining purposes is becoming somewhat scarce and expensive, although in other districts this condition has not yet been felt. There are large areas of land which, whilst not suited for agricultural purposes, would (judging from the fact that forests formerly existed) be available for the growth of timber. In the Northern district especially, and also in parts of Central Otago, areas of considerable extent exist, which might, in my opinion, be utilised for forestry purposes. The kauri forests of the North, as well as those in various parts of the country from which rimu, totara, and many other timbers are obtained, are being extensively worked, and it is only a matter of time when New Zealand, in common with several other countries, will actually require timber which ought to be growing at the present time.

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Clarendon Rock-phosphate Deposits: Round Hill Quarry.

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Number and Date of License. Area. Locality. Block. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner. THE HAURAKI GOI iDFIELDS. Coromande: Quartz Glair is. 68. 12/5/96 146. 23/7/96 a. r. p. 5 2 1 60 0 0 Kuaotunu .. Matawai i I. Otama X. Coromandel Handsworth Progress-Castle Rook L ndon Grand Moehau Free. Synd. No. 1 Ditto No. 2 Oriana .. Pride of Tokatea .. New Hauraki Gold Prop. No. 1 Ditto No. 2 Tawera Noko Ida Nora British Kapanga Freehold Prop. Ditto Trig. Hill Louis Woodoock. Progress-Castle Rock G.M. Oo. 12. 5/4/97 9. 22/3/97 51 2 0 93 1 28 Kennedy Bay Cape Colville IX. Harataunga I., II. Moehau .. H. Teuterangi and Agnes Preeoe. Fitzgibbon Louch. 10. 22/3/97 L06. 7/6/97 107. 7/6/97 153. 5/8/97 100 0 0 48 2 10 38 0 18 94 1 24 Tokatea II. Coromandel Hauraki Mines. Coromandel VI. "„ New Hauraki Gold Properties. L54. 5/8/97 161. 24/7/97 162. 24/7/97 22. 30/6/97 24. 30/6/97 194. 5/8/97 66 0 0 71 0 0 82 0 0 13 0 0 25 3 16 98 0 0 Kennedy Bay Coromandel a m X. Harataunga VI. Coromandel V. I. Arthur F. Witty. Joseph H. Witheford. Henry Thomas Gorrie. James Halley. Kikowhakarere [95. 5/8/97 28. 15/9/97 60 0 0 15 1 20 m Coromandel ii a VI. T. Morrin, S. T. George, J. Russell, and J. M. Lennox. Kauri Freehold Gold Estates. L25. 7/6/97 187. 24/7/97 188. 24/7/97 10. 21/2/98 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 90 0 0 Opitonui IV. Otama XII. Coromandel VII., XI. VII. Murphy's Hill Owera .. Hilda Castle Rock Consol. Minn No. 1. Ditto No. 2 „ No. 3 „ No. 4 „ No. 5 „ No. 6 „ No. 7 „ No. 9 „ No. 9 Wuitaia Waitaia Extended Juno Great Mercury .. » 11. 21/2/98 12. 21/2/98 13. 21/2/98 14. 21/2/98 15. 21/2/98 16. 21/2/98 17. 21/2/98 IS. 21/2/98 4. 8/6/99 13. 6/4/99 14. 6/4/99 26. 8/6/99 90 0 0 90 0 0 90 0 0 90 0 0 90 0 0 90 0 0 90 0 0 90 0 0 85 2 0 21 1 16 8 3 32 28 0 12 VII." XI. I XI. I • • a a m Kuaotunu .. V. Otama Waitaia Gold-mines. u • • II. "„ V. William Alfred Styak. Amy M. Thomson and Joseph J. Craig. Irene (Hauraki) Gold-mines. Kuaotunu Syndioate. 35. 6/7/99 44. 6/7/99 45. 3/8/99 46. 3/8/99 21. 8/12/99 13. 5/7/00 43. 14/3/01 31. 12/2/02 46. 16/4/02 60. 16/4/02 00. 17/7/02 06. 13/8/02 L30. 16/10/02 41. 25/7/98 1. 9/3/99 3. 9/3/99 6. 6/4/99 7. 6/4/99 8. 6/4/99 17. 8/6/99 9. 8/6/99 19. 8/6/99 20. 8/6/99 33. 6/7/99 34. 6/7/95 14a. 6/7/99 38. 6/7/99 55. 5/10/99 20. 2/11/99 1 11/1/00 1. 11/1/00 3. 5/4/00 4. 14/6/00 5. 14/6/00 57 2 0 6 1 12 35 3 19 100 0 0 2 0 0 35 2 8 29 1 35 15 0 0 20 0 0 36 0 20 15 0 0 32 3 29 15 0 0 100 0 0 0 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 20 0 0 52 2 22 5 0 0 10 0 0 18 3 0 39 1 9 75 2 2 2 0 0 28 3 11 68 1 31 2 0 0 10 0 12 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 Gumtown .. Kuaotunu .. Mahakirau .. Gumtown .. Kuaotunu .. Gumtown .. Kuaotunu .. Tiki Coromandel Cabbage Bay Driving Creek Matawai Coromandel II. "„ '. '■ VII. Whitianga I. Otama XV. Coromandel VII. Whitianga V. Otama VII. Whitianga V. Otama X. Coromande V. VI. IX. Harataunga II. Co r omande X. II. Irene Try Fluke Ext. .. Kapai Vermont .. Try Fluke Flying Fox Kapowai No. 2 Ocean View Ext. .. Nil Des-perandum Day Dawn Rangihau Golden Bob3 Beetle Extended .. Kentish Man Charley Beresforu Pai Hauraki Coromandel Queen Cabbage Bay Sir George Grey .. Vaughan Queen of the North Les Coties Ruby Golden Pah Royal Oak(Hauraki) Tokatea of Hauraki Samoan.. Hauraki Waikoromiko Bismarck Little Prospector.. Original Pohutu .. Glencoe .. .. Tiki Star of the North John B. Ferguson. Kapowai Gold-mining Co. Peter Johnson. Arthur Joseph Presoott. John Black. John Chas. Holloway. Edward Ryan. Henry Aubrey Shaw. John Lynch. Hauraki Freeholds. Edward McMillan. George Beattie. Daniel Leahy. Francis Danny. Queen of the North G.M. Co. Frederick Jeune. Archibald Kelso. Golden Pah (Hauraki), (Limited). Royal Oak of Hauraki, (Limited). Tokatea V. I II. Coromandel Kennedy Bay Coromandel Waikoromiko V. 1 II. Joseph Hyde. Hauraki Gold-mining Company. John F. Goodall. John Dyer and G. V. Sohultze. Augustus F. Busby. George Baskiville. J. F. McNeil and H. G. Applegate. Thomas Cull. Thomas Conolly. 9 Waikanae .. Matawai Paul's Creek Tiki Driving Creek V. Harataunga X. Coromande II. X, II.

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Numboi' aDd Date of License. Area. Locality. Block. Survey District. Name of Olaim. Name of Registered Owner. the haura: KI GOLDFII RLDS — continued. COBl DMANDEL — COn itinued. Quart \z Claims —co intinued. A. R P. 16. 11/10/00 7 3 17 8. 11/10/00 5 0 0 21. 1/11/00 9 3 33 22. 29/11/00 11 1 35 9. 1/11/00 5 0 0 10. 1/11/00 5 0 0 36. 14/3/01 20 0 0 41. 14/3/01 20 0 0 81. 16/4/01 100 0 0 X. II. V. Coromandel Pukewhau New Trilby Hauraki Freeholds Hauraki No. 2 Mafeking General White .. King Edward VII. Forest Queen Macaronio Charles W. Hovell. William Silke. Hauraki Freeholds. Hauraki No. 2 Gold-mining Co. A. H. McNeil and G. H. Applegatn George Herbert Applegate. John Morrissy. William Coulson. Frank Augustus Mens. Tiki Coromandel Driving Creek Bk II. Oape Colville Driving Creek Matamataharakeke Ditto Coromandel e I., II. ek II. a- VI. CapeColvilh Coromandel Harataunga 82. 16/4/01 100 0 0 142. 13/8/01 3 0 12 190. 16/10/01 53 1 18 197. 16/10/01 99 2 0 182. 16/10/01 15 3 5 183. 16/10/01 20 0 0 193. 16/10/01 13 2 11 234. 13/11/01 14 1 1 243. 13/11/01 24 2 30 239. 13/11/01 5 0 0 246. 12/12/01 20 0 0 9. 16/1/02 20 0 0 11. 16/1/02 16 1 28 37. 13/3/02 5 0 0 41. 13/3/02 8 0 0 49. 16/4/02 15 0 0 58. 16/4/02 20 0 0 68. 14/5/02 20 0 0 70. 14/5/02 20 0 0 V. VI. Coromandel Macaronic Ext. .. Bunker's Hill Poneke No. 2 Standard Poneke No. 3 Josephine West Tokatea Empress Mermaid* Lone Hand Gem Scotty's.. New Tokatea Una Magnum Bonum .. Shotover Kapanga Sea View South Kapanga .. Bunker's Hill Gold-mining Co. George Henry Boyd. Driving Creek Tokatea Coromandel Driving Creek Kennedy Bay Driving Creek Tokatea Tiki Driving Creek Kennedy Bay Driving Creek Coromandel Driving Creek ek II. VI. V. ek II. iy vi. ek II. X. ek VI. ly II. Harataunga Coromandel James Robson. West Tokatea Gold-mines. Samuel Hesketh. Henry Edward Wild. Henry Cope. James Sweeney. Joseph Thomas Martin. West Tokatea Gold-mines. Alexander Bruoe. Ragnar Henri Magnus Kemner. Hugh Simmons. William James Lavington. Francis Hodge. Frank W. A. Moore, Angus H MoNeil, and Inez O'Dwyer. Edward E. Noble. New Four-in-Hand G.M. Co. Edward McMillan. Thomas H. Matthews. Frederick Jeune. William J. E. Moyle. Henry Price Hornibrooke. Ebenezer Pearce. ek VI. ek I., II. 105. 13/8/02 17 2 0 107. 13/8/02 89 3 20 108. 13/8/02 63 2 24 109. 13/8/02 73 0 0 120. 10/9/02 5 0 0 121. 10/9/02 10 0 0 125. 10/9/02 7 15 132. 16/10/02 20 0 0 Moehau Waikoromiko Coromandel Waikawau .. Coromandel Waikoromiko Coromandel VI. to II. I VI. III. V. to II. V. VI. Moehau .. Coromandel Harataunga Coromandel Heart of Oak New Four-in-Hand Irvine Cousin Jack .. La Belle Vue New Tandem Abyssinia Try-again Southern Star Elsie Harbour View Syndicate New Hero Golden Hill Commonwealth .. Exalt Charles M. Dunster. Arthur J. Prescott. 136. 16/10/02 88 2 33 137. 16/10/02 63 0 37 Tokatea II. 142. 12/11/02 30 0 0 147. 10/12/02 10 2 30 148. 10/12/02 10 0 0 153. 10/12/02 10 0 0 Driving Creek Tiki Kennedy Bay ek .. XIII., XIV. ,y IX. Harataunga Henry P. Hornibrooke. William McQudd. John D. Regan. William F. McNeil. • X. Paeroa. National H. Brett, A. H. Curtis, and R. Hellaby. Ditto. Komata Reefs Gold-mining Co. Woodstock Gold-mining Co. H. Brett, A. H. Curtis, and R. Hellaby. Komata Reefs Gold-mining Oo. Rising Sun Gold-mining Oo. New Alpha Gold-mining Co. Talisman Consolidated. Maratoto Gold-mining Co. Talisman Consolidated. 93. 15/3/99 23 2 28 Waitekauri.. Ohinemuri 94. 15/3/99 26 1 32 109. 15/3/99 29 1 0 137. 12/4/99 72 1 18 139. 12/4/99 80 2 5 Komata Karangahake Komata :e I. X. Aroha Ohinemuri Alpha Extended .. Komata Extended. Woodstook United Burbank 141. 12/4/99 79 1 24 205. 11/5/99 58 1 21 206. 11/5/99 97 2 24 208. 11/5/99 62 0 18 212. 11/5/99 80 2 2 213. 11/5/99 79 2 15 263 26/4/99 30 0 0 289. 25/5/99 9 2 23 316. 28/6/99 61 2 37 336. 12/7/99 100 0 0 337. 12/7/99 100 0 0 338. 12/7/99 99 2 6 344. 28/6/99 6 3 20 500. 23/8/99 5 0 0 561. 23/8/99 10 0 25 588. 27/9/99 99 3 4 593. 27/9/99 98 2 0 594. 27/9/99 90 1 36 597. 27/9/99 98 0 31 598. 27/9/99 87 0 11 680. 27/9/99 21 3 24 764. 25/10/99 85 0 29 808. 15/11/99 99 2 0 872. 12/10/99 23 1 27 Waitekauri.. Karangahake Maratoto Karangahake Waitekauri .. Karangahake Waitekauri.. XIV. X. te I. VI. te I. XIV. te I. .. X., XI. X. .. X., XI. ce II. I. X. VI. .. VI., VII. ce I. Ohinemuri Aroha Ohinemuri Aroha Ohinemuri Aroha Ohinemuri n Komata Reefs Rising Sun Alpha Imperial Walker's Maratoto Talisman Ext. .. Crown Extended .. Waitekauri Stanley .. Golden Cross Croesus Socket California Agnes Abbey Huanui Waitekauri Consols Takapuna Crown Mines Earl of Glasgow .. Junction Adeline Reefs Jubilee .. Laira m Waitekauri Gold-mining Oo. Woodstock Gold-mining Co. Waitekauri Gold-mining Co. Karangahake Waitekauri.. Aroha Ohinemuri Matthew Lusoombe. New Zealand Crown Mines. John McLennan. Edward Ryan. Karangahake Aroha New Zealand Crown Mines. Waitekauri .. Karangahake Waitekauri .. X. te I., II. XIV. Ohinemuri Aroha Ohinemuri Waitekauri Gold-mining Co. Talisman Consolidated. New Zealand Jubilee G.M. Charles John Stone. H • • »Si jcial sea-beach claim.

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Number and Date of License. Area. Locality. Block. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner. TH E HAURAK I GOLDFIE LDS — continued. Pae :roa— contini \ed. 1208. 8/3/00 A. R. P. 60 0 0 Karangahake | X I iL XI1I..XIV. Aroha Ohinemuri 1 Aroha ) Ohinemuri Talisman Talisman Consolidated. (L. M. Brown, H. Gordon, and W. Tregoweth. N.Z. Crown Mines Co. 2400. 19/12/00 12 0 0 Karangahake* 2403. 31/1/01 2404. 31/1/01 2406. 31/1/01 104 0 0 101 1 0 » Mammoth Hercules 2458. 7/2/01 90 0 0 99 3 36 m » it j XIII. 1 I. ( XIIL, ■ XIV. [ I., II. XIIL Aroha Ohinemuri Aroha Ohinemuri Ravenswood Crown North Woodstock Gold-mining Oo. 2501. 7/2/01 2502. 7/2/01 2674. 21/3/01 2676. 21/3/01 2680. 21/3/01 2682. 27/2/01 2789. 11/4/01 2868. 25/4/01 2869. 25/4/01 2870. 25/4/01 13 0 0 25 3 34 61 3 4 78 3 35 51 1 9 20 0 20 99 1 10 100 0 0 100 0 0 94 0 0 Waitekauri.. Maratoto Karangahake Waitekauri.. Karangahake VI. XIV. • Mackaytown* Mammoth Ext. .. Waitekauri Rock Khartoum Great Britain Young New Zealand Victor Waihou .. Warrior Victoria Comstook United.. Frederick Mercer Brown. N.Z. Crown Mines Co. George Carrick. Edwin Walter Bonwiok. N.Z. Crown Mines Co. Young New Zealand G.M. Co. Talisman Consolidated. N.Z. Crown Mines Co. I. XIIL,XIV. Aroha Ohinemuri 2871. 11/4/01 4006. 23/5/01 4170. 25/7/01 4307. 22/8/01 4308. 22/8/01 4342. 5/9/01 4383. 19/9/01 4398. 10/10/01 4399. 10/10/01 19 0 26 14 2 28 100 0 0 8 3 27 29 3 4 100 0 0 30 0 0 85 1 20 61 0 24 I. I., II. I. VI. XIV. VI. Aroha Adeline Reefs Ext. Ravenswood Ext. Incognita Cis Fashoda Omdurman Byron Bay Komata Bonanza Pay - rock Consolidated Nonesuoh Maratoto Consolidated Justin-Time Shotover Saxon No. 1 Waitekauri King .. Eclipse Saxon No. 2 Birthday Commonwealth .. Gordon Te-Ao-Marama .. Waitekauri Ext. .. Grace Darling Falls Jubilee Extended Great Lead William Tregoweth and H. L. Simmons Talisman Consolidated. N.Z. Crown Mines Co. H. W. Dawson and J. Diokson. William Henry Judd. Edwin Walter Bonwiok. Maratoto Waitekauri.. Maratoto Ohinemuri Komata Maratoto X. VI. .it William Parsons. Komata Bonanza G.M. Co. Hikutaia Gold Syndicate. 4423. 10/10/01 4631. 19/12/01 5 0 0 94 0 14 Maokaytown Maratoto XIIL VI. George Waters. Hikutaia Gold Syndioate. 4728. 20/2/02 4769. 20/3/02 4793. 3/4/02 4645. 19/12/01 4873. 8/5/02 4901. 4/6/02 4945. 10/7/02 5023. 18/9/02 5033. 9/10/02 5034. 9/10/02 5035. 9/10/02 5036. 9/10/02 5057. 6/11/02 5075. 3/12/02 5093. 17/12/02 47 3 20 99 0 0 89 2 0 5 0 0 1 0 13 98 1 21 100 0 0 99 2 0 100 0 0 63 3 19 42 1 0 59 3 17 5 0 0 62 0 19 13 3 29 Komata Karangahake Waitekauri .. Karangahake Waitekauri.. Karangahake Maratoto Komata Waitekauri.. X. I. XIV. I. XIV. I. VI. X. VI. X. XIV. Aroha Ohinemuri Aroha Ohinemuri Aroha Ohinemuri T. B. Williams and E. Edwards. John Moginie Chambers. Charles Colclough. John James Broadbent. William Henry Skene. Hannah Mackay. William Morgan, sen. David Morton Dunningham. Thomas Corbett. Komata Reefs Gold-mining Cn. Waitekauri Gold-mining Co. Owharoa Waitekauri .. Maratoto » Robert Harvie. N.Z. Jubilee Gold-mine. James MoGowan Loughlin. VI. * Special river clai: m. Thames. is. A. R. P. 47 0 0 Waiokaraka, Thames 67 1 0 Thames 90 0 0 Quartz Claim IV. Thames .. Queen of Beauty Extended Deep Sinker Deep Levels Consolidated Waiotahi 9. 22/3/88 The Thames-Hauraki Goldfields. 31. 14/8/95 36. 14/9/95 ar u • • » * • • * 430. 5/9/95 22 3 20 Waiotahi, Thames 100 0 0 Puriri 96 0 0 68 1 0 Thames 9 1 20 8 0 0 3 3 37 Tairua 21 0 20 Tapu 1 0 0 100 0 0 Neavesville .. 100 0 0 Puriri ■v * • • Waiotahi Gold-mining Oo. 484. 15/2/97 485. 15/2/97 721. 11/9/97 595. 16/11/97 601. 16/8/98 3. 17/1/99 1. 7/2/99 6. 7/2/99 11. 11/4/99 21. 11/4/99 XIII. Inverness Wandoline Fortuna New Eileen Golden Drop Hikuwai* Agnes Little Maggie Chelmsford Sheet Anohor Edwin T. Dufaur and J. Russell. IV." V. "„ '.. IV. ... Henry Rabe. New Alburnia Gold-mining Co. George Fisher. Thomas Seccombe. Daniel Sheridan and 4 others. James McCormick. Chelmsford Gold-mining Co. William David Tilsley and John Newdiok. William David Tileley. III. "„ '. . XI. Hastings .. 29. 25/4/99 50 2 21 X. Tairua .. XIII., XIII. Thames, Taiand IV. rua, Waihou XIII., I. Tairua, Ohinemuri IV. Thames .. Capstan 31. 25/4/99 34. 2/5/99 37. 2/5/99 29 3 32 Thames 21 0 0 100 0 0 Great Barrier Island 59 0 0 Neavesville.. 100 0 0 92 2 37 100 0 0 Puru 15 2 17 Waiotahi, Thames VI. Fitzroy .. Kuranui-Caledonian Nonpareil Great Barrier Ext. Kuranui-Caledonian G.M. Co. William MoCullougb. Barrier Reefs Gold-mining Oo. 48. 6/6/99 49. 6/6/99 50. 6/6/99 52. 6/6/99 60. 20/6/99 III. Ohinemuri Minnesota New Wentworth .. Rapid Russell Extended Cambria Mananu Gold-mining Co. II. Thames .. IV. . Puru Consolidated G.M. Co. New Moanataiari G.M. Co. * Opal mineral license.

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Number and Date of License. 1 Area. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner. Locality. Block. THE HAURAKI GOLDFIELDS -continued. Thames — continued. 69. 4/7/99 72. 4/7/99 84. 18/7/99 86. 1/8/99 92. 1/8/99 93. 1/8/99 94. 1/8/99 95. 1/8/99 96. 1/8/99 Quartz Claims —continued. 59 2 13 I Puriri .. XIII. Tairua .. Miner's Right .. 93 2 0 Puru .. II- Thames .. Russell 30 0 0 Tairua .. III. Tairua ..-Star*.. 20 0 0 Ohui .. IV. . • • Lord Kitchener .. 94 3 26 Thames .. „ Thames .. Moanataiari 74 1 0 „ - • . a - • St. Hippo 92 1 0 „ •■ . . •• May Queen 64 2 0 . •• . „ ■■ Cardigan 99 0 0 Tapu .. XI. Hastings .. Sheridan George Greenaway and 3 others. Puru Consolidated G.M. Co. Walter Smith. Albert Terry Day and 2 others. New Moanataiari G.M. Oo. May Queen (Hauraki). Alfred Price, James Hawkes, and William Moore. Barrier Reefs Gold-mining Co. 103. 15/8/99 113. 5/9/99 125. 3/10/99 126. 3/10/99 127. 3/10/99 128. 3/10/99 13G. 3/10/99 139. 17/10/99 141. 17/10/99 142. 17/10/99 143. 17/10/99 144. 17/11/99 152. 21/11/09 154. 21/11/99 162. 23/1/00 163. 23/1/00 164. 23/1/00 165. 23/1/00 166. 23/1/00 168. 6/2/00 8 2 13 Great Barrier VI. Fitzroy .. Whangapara Island 16 0 0 Whangamata XV. Tairua .. Luokylind 100 0 0 Tairua .. VI. . .. Broken Hills 100 0 0 • • • ,. ■■ Broken Hills No. 2 69 3 24 • • » » ■ • Broken Hills No - 3 70 3 26 • • " „ . ■ Broken Hills No. 4 5 0 0 Omahu .. L Ohinemuri Looh Naford 100 0 0 Upper Tararu II. Thames .. Vuloan .. 62 2 26 Thames .. IV. . .. Favountef 100 0 0 Tararu, II. . •• Eclipse .. Thames 4 3 24 Omahu .. I. Ohinemuri Manawanui 99 1 0 Puriri .. XIII. Thames and Lucky Chanoe .. Tairua 85 1 37 Omahu .. I. Ohinemuri Klondike 7 1 22 Wharekawa VI. Tairua .. New Glentanner .. 100 0 0 Tairua .. IX. . •• Essex .. 100 0 0 •• i ii ■ ■ Chelmsford Ext. 96 125 Tapu '■'■ XI. Hastings.. Mahara-Royal .. 98 0 13 •■ » " Shannon 99 2 22 Puriri '. . Xill. Thames .. New Aurarius 5 0 0 Karaka, •• . •• New Year Thames 2 0 0 Thames .. IV. „ .. Seahorse 37 2 36 Neavesville .. IX. Tairua .. Golden Belt 19 0 0 Tairua .. V., VI. ,. •. Gem No. 2 100 0 0 Gumtown .. VII. Whitianga i Welcome Jack .. ioo o o . •• . „ . » B ° etle 50 0 0 Tairua .. X. Tairua ..Eureka.. .. 88 2 16 KarakaCreek, V. Thames ... Gloucester Ext. .. Thames ' 73 0 0 Thames .. IV., V. . .. May Queen Ext. .. 2 0 0 Tairua .. t I 1 "'™* .. Buller .. 83 0 7 Puriri XIII. Thames .. Moncreith 4 0 3 Waiomo .. XIV. Hastings.. Hector Macdonald 45 0 38 Tairua V., VI. Tairua .. Myosotis Gem .. London and N.Z. Corporation C >. Tairua Broken Hills G.M. Co. Klondike Gold-mining Co. The Eolipse (Limited). Victoria Gold-mining Co. The Eclipse (Limited). Ruka Ngapapa. Puriri Gold Estates. Klondike Gold-mining Co. Albert Bruce. John Collins. Chelmsford Gold-mining Co. Henry Hopper Adams. Puriri Gold Estates. Andrew Agnew. 171. 20/2/00 177. 3/4/00 179. 3/4/00 180 20/4/00 198. 19/6/00 200. 19/6/00 204. 3/7/00 John Hayes. Golden Belt Gold-mining Co. William Gorrie and 4 others. Welcome Jack Gold-mining Co. The Big Beetle Gold-mining Co. Charles Edward Button. Samuel Johnson Hill and 3 others. 206. 17/7/00 208. 17/7/00 212. 21/8/00 214. 21/8/00 217. 4/9/00 May Queen Extended G.M. Co. Robert Stevenson. Puriri Gold Estates. Robert Lowrie. William Gorrie, Geo. Cundy, and Gordon Agnew. New Gloucester Gold-mining Co. 218. 4/9/00 222. 18/9/00 224. 18/9/00 100 0 0 KarakaCreek, V. Thames .. New Gloucester .. ThfLUlGS 20 0 0 Tararu .. L, IV. . •■ Bullion .. .. 94 3 0 Kauaeranga V. . ... New Haurak.J .. Timothy Buckley. William Cobb, Robert L. Stevenson, and Ebenezer Hadrill. James Dobson. James Miller. James Thomson. Archibald Campbell. Tbe London and New Zealand Exploration Co. Andrew Manfred McMahon. 230. 6/11/00 231. 20/11/00 233. 20/11/00 237. 4/12/00 238. 4/12/00 4 0 36 Waiomo .. XIV. Hastings .. Baden Powell .. 9 3 24 •• « »•• Victory .. 100 0 0 Wairoa .. , Wairoa .. Manakau|| 50 0 0 Puru .. XV. Hastings .. Eaglehawk 12 0 30 Tairua .. . Tairua .. Triangle.. 241. 18/12/00 244. 22/1/01 245. 22/1/01 249. 22/1/01 250. 22/1/01 100 0 0 Great Barrier VII. Fitzroy .. New Aotea 80 0 0 Ditto"* .. . • • Barrier Reefs .. 53 2 25 Kirikiri .. IX. Tairua .. Oharlcote 29 0 14 Puriri .. XIII. . • Union Jack 100 0 0 Tairua ..XV. .. Luck at Last .. Barrier Reefs Gold-mining Oo. James Thomson. John Molnnes. Tbe London and New Zealand Exploration Co. Ditto. 251. 22/1/01 252. 22/1/01 259. 5/2/01 267. 19/2/01 270. 5/3/01 273. 19/3/01 ioo n n , ... Luck at Last Ext. 22 Sl7 " " - " Wharekawa 21 129 Otanui, V. Thames .. Shamrock Thames _ , ., 1 0 28 Hape Creek, . » ■• Summerhih Thames 5 0 0 Lower Tararu I. . £°P U . ■ ■ . 82 0 3 Otanui, V. Otanui Consols .. Thames _, „ ,. 75 2 20 Thames .. IV., V. . Thames Talisman 56 3 0 Ohui .. IV. Tairua . Waihui 4 l 0 Waiomo .. XI. Hastings . j Duke of Cornwall 30 0 0 Tairua .'. VI. Tairua . Taniwha 46 o 20 . • ■ IX -, X. „ • ■ j Chelmsford Reefs James William Hirst. Jeremiah Sullivan and Patrick Fogarty. Joseph Coruwell Williams. James William Hirst. 274. 19/3/01 278. 23/4/01 279. 23/4/01 280. 7/5/01 281. 7/5/01 Thames Talisman G.M. Co. Waihui Gold-mining Co. Frederick Lowrie. Taniwha Gold-mining Co. Peter Macfarlane and Kauri Timber Co. Tairua Broken Hills G.M. Co. Benjamin Anderson and 6 other.. •282. 7/5/01 284. 7/5/01 qq 0 15 VI. ., • j Broken Hills No. 5 5 0 0 Whangamata HI. Ohinemuri i Venture ■. t Speoial foreshore olaim. t Cinnabar mineral lioense. U Mineral license. •O lal mineri il lioense.

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Number and Date of License. Area. Locality. Block. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Kegistered Owner. THE HAURAK I GOLDFIELDS-cowtowed. Th/ imes— continued. Quartz Neavesville IX. Thames .. IV. Claims —continued. Robert John Farrell. New Whau Gold-mining Oo. Victoria Gold-mining Co. Wi.liam Thompson McGiegor. George Hunter and W. C. Kelly. New Alburnia Gold-mining Oo. Agnes Graham Trowor. 286. 4/6/01 288. 4/6/01 289. 4/6/01 294. 9/7/01 296. 23/7/01 301. 20/8/01 302. 20/8/01 303. 20/8/01 304. 20/8/01 306. 3/9/01 307. 17/9/01 312. 19/11/01 313. 19/11/01 315. 19/11/01 a. r. p. 99 3 25 73 1 10 41 3 10 100 0 0 5 0 0 54 2 0 69 1 7 90 0 12 7 10 93 2 0 37 0 0 64 0 0 30 0 0 0 1 35 Tararu .. II. Tapu .. XI. Thames .. IV. Tararu .. „ Tairua .. Fulminate Thames .. New Whau „ .. Victoria .. .. Eclipse Extended Hastings .. Final Flutter Thames .. New Alburnia „ .. Creek .. Tararu .. .. Little Mabel .. Thames Reefs Tairua .. Broken Hills No. 6 „ .. Tairua Hastings .. Oem and Crown .. Thames .. Pump II . . n Thames .. . Tairua .. VI. Waiomo .. XIV. Thames .. IV. Charles Longhurst. Joseph James Macky. Tairua Broken Hills G.M. Co. Thomas Atherton Ashton. Monowai Gold-mines. Henry Andrew Gordon and 2 others. Alexander Whitley. 317. 3/12/01 318. 3/12/01 88 2 0 97 0 0 Tararu .. „ „ .. Tararu Big Reefs „ .. Dixon's Consolidated Tairua .. Taniwha No. 2 .. Hastings .. Monowai Thames .. Fame and Fortune Tairua .. Wellington-Blucher Hastings .. Paroquet Ohinemuri Cascade Caledonian Thames .. Tui .. Old Argosy Tairua .. Harp of Tara „ .. Manaia .. „ .. Rangipai .. Kaikoura Thames .. Keystone .. Kuranui Waihou and We Three Ohinemuri Tairua .. Southern Cross .. „ .. Taniwha Extended Thames .. Hidden Treasure .. Old Anchor .. Nonpareil Ext. .. Hastings .. Tihoi Thames .. Tararu* .. George Turnbull .. .. Kia Ora.. 319. 3/12/01 321. 3/12/01 331. 21/1/02 335. 18/2/02 336. 18/2/02 338. 4/3/02 339. 4/3/02 342. 18/3/02 344. 8/4/02 347. 22/4/02 348. 22/4/02 358. 6/6/02 359. 6/6/02 364. 17/6/02 365. 17/6/02 369. 8/7/02 17 2 0 57 3 39 71 3 29 100 0 0 16 0 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 30 0 0 16 2 0 18 0 0 18 0 0 17 2 29 73 3 5 100 0 0 Tairua .. VI. Waiomo .. XIV. Thames .. IV. Tairua .. VI. Waiomo .. XI., XIV. Whangamata III. Omahu .. I. Puru .. II. Tararu .. I. Ohui .. IV. William Gongh Webb. Monowai Gold-mines (Limited). Fame and Fortune Mine (Ltd.). William Burton. William Sylvester Stjak. Edward Vardy Turnbull. Charles Odium. Hare Ngairo, Tuhi Kawa. Joseph Govan, John Gibb. Joseph James Macky. Tairua .. VI. Thames .. IV. Alfred George Rule. William Gough Webb. William John McCirmick. Kuranui Gold-mining Company. John Thomas James Tilsley. Omahu .. IV.', I. 370. 8/7/02 371. 8/7/02 374. 22/7/02 378. 5/8/02 379. 5/8/02 380. 19/8/02 381. 16/9/02 382. 16/9/02 383. 16/9/02 18 0 16 20 0 0 39 2 39 32 1 23 10 0 13 0 3 30 0 0 27 3 34 4 2 29 Tairua .. IV. VI. Thames .. IV. Hape Creek V. Waiotahi .. IV. Mata Creek.. VII. Tararu .. IV. Karaka .. V. IV. William Armstrong. George Morrison. John Thomas Baker. Eugene O'Sullivan. William MeCullough. Hori te Manutaupua and 2 others. Charles Edward MacCormick. George Arrindell Dougall. Edward Costley Keven and William John Ward. Hare Ngairo. Willie Ludwig. Hugh McLiver. 384. 16/9/02 385. 16/9/02 386. 7/10/02 5 0 0 10 0 99 1 22 Puru .. II. Tararu .. IV. Great Barrier VII. Island Omahu .. I. Tararu .. „ Thames .. IV. Waiomo .. XIV. Wharekawa VI. Tararu .. IV. Wharekawa VI. Thames .. IV. .. Te Kapo „ .. Taranaki f Fitzroy .. Sunbeam 387. 7/10/02 389. 21/10/02 392. 18/11/02 393. 2/12/02 394. 15/12/02 395. 15/12/02 396. 15/12/02 398. 15/12/02 15 0 0 65 0 5 57 3 8 7 0 32 75 2 4 85 3 20 75 2 25 6 0 1 Ohinemuri Klondike Ext. Thames .. Temple Bar „ .. New Una Hastings .. Kelvin Grove Tairua .. Coronation Thames .. Jubilee Tairua .. Coronation Ext. .. Thames .. West Coast John McLennan. Archibald Campbell. Robert Spiers Thorburn. Lewis Edward Autridge. Newell Butler Lusk. Andrew McLeod. Newell Butler Lusk. John Northey. ♦Special sea-beacl i claim. t B: [tended river claim. Waihi. 207. 4/5/99 J09. 11/5/99 210. 11/5/99 211. 11/5/99 237. 25/5/99 239. 25/5/99 314. 28/6/99 315. 28/6/99 324. 12/7/99 100 0 0 Waihi .. XVI. 40 2 20 | . .. XV. 98 2 30 I 98 1 0 100 0 0 „ .. XVI. 66 2 8 60 0 0 „ .. XV. 66 3 9 100 0 0 Wharekirau- VII. punga 90 0 0 Waihi .. XV. )uartz Claim. Ohinemuri Key West Golden Lure Haines Morrin Waihi North Waihi Extended .. Waihi Gladstone .. Christmas Box New Year Royal Standard .. Waihi Consolidated (Limited). Waihi Consols G.M. Co. (N.L.). Waihi Extended G.M. Co. (Ltd.). H. Gilfillan, jun. Waihi South Gold-mining Co. Francis Hodge. .■ 327. 12/7/99 328. 12/7/99 329. 12/7/99 330. 12/7/99 332. 12/7/99 333. 12/7/99 334. 12/7/99 335. 12/7/99 396. 26/7/99 558. 13/9/99 559. 13/9/99 100 0 0 „ .. XVI. 90 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 Waikino .. XIV , IS. 100 0 0 Waihi .. XV., XVI. 34 3 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 „ .. XV. 82 3 38 „ .. XVI. 91 1 7 • Aroha Ohinemuri Waihi West Waka Grand Junotion .. Union Fern Spur Martha Ophir Britannia Favona Silverton No. 2.. Waihi Grand Junotion Goldmining Co. (Limited), Ditto. Waihi Gold-mining Co. (Limited). Waihi Consolidated (Limited). Waihi Gold-mining Co. (Limited)

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Number and Date (f License. Area. Locality. Block. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner. THE HAURAKI GOLDFIE] [jDS— continued. Waihi — oontinui id. 807. 15/11/99 967. 13/12/99 968. 13/12/99 .168. 22/2/00 .308. 11/4/00 .569. 7/6/00 .953. 24/9/00 !327. 19/12/00 !402. 31/1/01 1737. 21/3/01 1738. 21/3/01 1739. 21/3/01 1819. 11/4/01 1030. 23/5/01 1031. 23/5/01 1009. 6/6/01 ,030. 6/6/01 1051. 6/6/01 1115. 11/7/01 1171. 25/7/01 1172. 25/7/01 1279. 22/8/01 1281. 22/8/01 .341. 5/9/01 .799. 3/4/02 1827. 24/4/02 A E p Quartz Claims —cor 100 0 0 Waihi .. XV. Ohinemuri 53 1 32 . .. XVI. 101 3 4 „ .. XV. XVI. 100 2 30 „ .. XVI. 99 3 30 „ .. XV. 47 1 32 99 2 2 . .. XVI. 100 0 0 99 3 35 „ .. XII. 81 2 10 Waihi Beaoh II. WaihiNorth 97 0 0 37 1 24 m a " 81 3 27 Waihi" .. XV. Ohinemuri ioo o o . .. xii. 100 0 0 Waihi Beach II. WaihiNortl, 89 2 18 Waihi .. XV. Ohinemuri 13 2 26 12 2 14 100 0 0 Wharekirau- VII. punga 100 0 0 Waihi .. XII. i00 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 38 3 27 . •• XV. 8 3 4,, 5 12. itinued. Waibi Weloome .. Amaranth Golden Run Rosemont Buller Consols Brilliant Pride of Waihi .. Waihi Standard .. Waihi Beaoh No. 1 No. 2 Foreshore Alma Coronet Waihi Surprise .. Pendine Waihi No. 1* „ No. 2* Duke of York Waihi South G.M. Co. (Limited). Waihi Gold-mining Co. (Limited). Waihi Alma G.M. Co. (N.L.). Waihi Consols G.M. Co. (N.L.). Waihi Consolidated (Limited). Pride of Waihi Gold-mining Co. Wm. Blomfield. Waihi Beach United G.M. Co. Waihi Alma Goldmining Co. Wm. Hollis and James Lucas. Peter Conway. Waihi Alma Gold-mining Oo. J. A. Thomson. 0. D. Finn. Remus Romulus Waihi Main L<ad Waihi Proprietary Waihi Alma Wyveru* Waihi Dredging No. 3* Federal Kitchener Federal Extended No. 2 Alexandra Martha Hill Ext. Martha North Pride Extended .. Wm. Eddowes. James Daly and others. E. M. Joll. Waibi Alma Gold-Mining Co. F. A. Rioh. 1828. 24/4/02 1829. 24/4/02 28. 24/6/02 29. 24/6/02 46. 30/7/02 81. 27/8/02 82. 27/8/02 171. 29/10/02 98 1 32 97 2 20 90 2 0 . .. XVI. 100 0 0 . .. XV. 9 0 2 Waikino .. II Aroha 99 0 0 Waihi .. XV. Ohinemuri 34 1 0 19 2 0 . •• XVI. Robert Worth. Waihi Alma G.M. Co. (N.L.). Robert Worth. J. W. Walker. Waihi Gold-mining Co. (Limited ). J. L. MoKeown. Waihi Extended G.M. Co. (Ltd.). * Special dredging claims. Te Aroha. Quartz Claims. 267. 374. 50. 97. 88. 375. 268. 382. 53. 49. 52. 69. 40. 93. 397. 269. 47. 51. 345. 1901 1902 1896 1900 1899 1902 1901 1902 1896 1896 1896 1897 1896 1899 1902 1901 1896 1896 1901 30 0 0 35 1 0 100 0 0 53 2 12 4 3 19 78 1 8 28 1 35 19 0 0 27 2 0 100 0 0 99 0 0 99 0 0 94 0 0 61 0 29 60 0 0 3 3 18 99 1 21 46 3 32 30 0 0 Wairongomai Te Aroha .. Wairongomai Te Aroha .. Wairongomai Te Aroha .. Part X. Aroha .. Cadman .. Champion Lode Ex. IX., X. „ .. Gipsy King IX. „ .. Golden Crown .. Golden Lead X. „ .. Kia Ora .. , „ .. Loyalty Palace XII. „ .. Mammoth Reefs .. X. „ .. Manchester IX., X. , .. Merchant of Venice X. „ .. Mount Ryan IX , .. Mount Ryan Ext. X. „ .. New Munster IX. , .. Ranfurly X. „ .. Sceptre .. „ .. Surprise.. IX. „ .. Te Aroha V., IX. „ .. Te Aroha Extended X. , .. Te Aroha Lead-mines Thomas Gavin. Arthur E. Langley. W. B. Maxwell. Alexander Watson Edwards. John Kennedy. Thomas Gavin. Edwin Henry Hardy. A. A. Lockwood. Robert Kelly. T. R. Eskrigge and C. F. Johnson. William Shaw. New Munster Gold-mining Co. Patrick 0'Meagher. Thomas Gavin. Thomas Hill. Richard Dovell. Edwin Edwards. MARLBOROUGH GOLDFIELDS. 40b. 81b. 93b. 117. 6/9/01 13/2/02 12/6/02 1/9/00 5 0 0 5 0 0 110 2 0 0 Top Valley .. Fabian's Creek Top Valley .. Blenheim. Alluvial Claims. III. Mt. Olympus Allen's Claim XVIII. Pine Valley Eureka .. XVI. „ Extended Venture Robert Bell Allen. Charles Samuel Neville. Willie Allnutt. Thomas Eckford. 95b. 100. 17b. 125. 33b. 130. 7b. 1/7/02 19/7/99 6/6/01 1/1/01 15/8/01 1/1/01 6/6/01 53 0 0 39 3 39 52 0 0 4 0 0 73 2 0 21 0 0 78 0 0 Arm-chair Ck. Top Valley .. Timm's Valley Enohanted Ck. Top Valley .. Timm's Valley Bartlett's Ck. Top Valley .. Dredging Claims. XVI. Pine Valley Alpine II. Mt. Olympus Builder XVII. Pine Valley Chamberlain VI. Mt. Olympus Enohanted II. , Lord Kitchener .. Pt. XVII. Pine Valley Lord Roberts Pt. IX. and Onamalutu Luck at Last XIII. II. Mt. Olympus Omdurman Alexander Crawford Leslie. Joseph Mitchell. Robert Howard Nolan. William Malone. Arthur William Budge. William Benoni Parker. Arthur R. V. Lodder. 69b. 9/1/02 79 2 16 Egmont Gold-dredging Company,

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Number and Date of License. I Area. Locality. Block. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner MARLBOROUGH GOLDFIELDS- continued. Blenheim— continued. A E p Di edging Claims —continued. .20. 1/1/01 32 0 0 Top Valley .. Pt. XV. andl Pine Valley |Pride of Marlborough Pride of Marlborough Gold-dredg XVI. ing Company. 13b. 27/2/02 24 0 0 . .. XVI. . Ranfurly .. Duncan Campbell. '8b. 30/1/02 28 2 0 Arm-chairCk. II. Mt. 01ympus| Redvers Buller .. Arthur Sidney Tonks. 10b. 4/7/01 73 2 0 Top Valley .. „ I Sink to Rise .. Thomas Fowler. Quartz Claims. 3b. 6/6/01 85 0 0 Top Valley .. Pt. XVI. Pine Valley Albion .. .. Thomas Palmer Coveney. 17b. 25/10/01 100 0 0 Arm-ohair Val. XVI. „ Duke of Cornwall K. Macleod and F. Macleod. 16b. 25/10/01 50 0 0 , „ „ Duke of York .. Samuel Munson Neville. '7b. 23/1/02 30 0 0 Top Valley .. „ „ Great Duke .. W. B. Parker and Robert Powles .11. 30/12/99 80 3 0 „ „ „ Jubilee .. .. Jubilee Gold mining Company. .10. 30/12/99 82 2 0 „ .. „ „ Just for Luck .. T. P. Coveney and John Wright, 12b. 6/6/01 100 0 0 „ „ „ Lord Hope toun .. Jubilee Gold-mining Company. r 9B. 1/2/02 100 0 0 „ „ „ Missing Link .. Kenneth Macleod, John Hayes D. Campbell, and S. M. Neville 104. 1/12/99 20 0 0 „ .. XVII. Mt. Olympus Shotover .. Harry Edward Good. 61. 5/12/01 95 2 0 „ .. XVI. Pine Valley Surprise.. .. Thomas Eckford. 18b. 25/10/01 100 0 0 Arm-chair Ck. „ „ Vida Marion .. Richard Turnbull and G. Scott. 4b. 1/4/01 100 0 0 Top Valley .. Pt. XVI. „ Wellington .. P. K. Watty and T. W. Young. Havelock. Alluvial Claim. .83. 9/7/01 | 2 2 0 | Wakamarina | X. |Wakamarina| Golden Hope .. | J. K. Hart, of Canvastown. Dredging Claims. 59. 30/6/94 4 2 11 Wakamarina .. Wakamarina Wakamarina Gorg, Coveney and Chote, of Wellington .34. 16/8/01 21 2 15 „ XIV. „ Wakamarina Golden Wakamarina Golden Point Dredg Point ing Company. Quartz Claims. 63. 13/11/95 8 2 15 Wakamarina | .. Wakamarina Federation Extended, Walter James Hunt 64. 13/11/95 24 2 21 „ .. „ Great Yorkshire 09. 19/8/96 30 0 0 „ .. „ Golden Bar . . Wakamarina Golden Bar G.M. Co 77. 25/10/96 16 1 6 , .. . „ .. I . . NELSON AND WEST COAST GOLDFIELDS. Nelson. Dredging Claims. 13. 24/4/01 63 0 0 Bed of Wanga- Sec. C5, VI. Wangapeka Wangapeka .. Wangapeka G.D. Oo. peka River 14. 24/4/01 98 2 0 Ditto .. Sec. C 4, XI. 16. 24/4/01 63 2 0 .. Sec. 17, X. 17. 24/4/01 45 0 0 „ .. Sec. 20, „ Bonanza King .. Fergus Ferguson McLeod, Wa XIV. nganui. 18. 24/4/01 34 0 0 Bed of Rolling Sec 0, XII. Owen .. Wangapeka .. William Young, Wanganui. River Motueka Alluvial Claims 45. .. | 30 0 0 Tableland, Seo. 1, V. Mt. Arthur .. I Charles Lewis. Mt. Arthur 52. .. | 1 8 33 Ditto Collingwood. Alluvial Claims. 12.10/5/99 5 0 0 McArtney's IV. Aorere .. .. Henry Peter Hawkins. Hill 48.18/8/99 2 0 4 Anatoki River IX. Waitapu.. .. (Mrs.) Eliza Harvey. 60.16/9/99 3 0 32 Spittal'sFlat, VIII. „ .. .. William Morrison. Anatoki River 61. 16/9/99 8 0 0 Anatoki River „ „ ■ • John Patrick Hayes. 19. 7/3/00 4 0 0 Sec. 4 .. „ „ .. William Morrison. 21. 9/3/00 9 3 9,, 9 .. X. Aorere .. .. The Collingwood Goldfields (Ltd.). 25! 15/5/00 48 2 21 „ 12 .. XIV. „ 26. 15/5/00 46 3 29 „ 6 .. X. „ 27. 15/5/00 85 3 5 „ 7 .. ,. „ 28. 15/5/00 100 0 0 „ 2 .. XIV. „ 54. 18/5/00 6 2 8 „ 18 .. IX. Waitapu .. .. Francis Roach. 55! 28/6/00 81 1 24 „ 21 .. IV. Aorere .. .. The Slate River Sluicing Co. 57! 28/6/00 83 0 0 „ 1 .. I. Waitapu.. .. The Parapara H.S. and M. Co. 76. 10/10/00 25 1 16 „ 32 .. VITT. Aorere .. 85. 15/11/00 64 3 35 . 24 .. IV.

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Number and Date ot License. Area. Locality. Block. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner. I NELSON AND WEST COAST GO] LDFIELDS -continued. Colli [NGWOOD — com tinued. 87. 16/11/00 18. 28/2/01 25. 16/1/01 28. 18/1/01 61. 13/11/01 25. 13/8/02 26. 13/8/02 33. 13/9/02 A B p Alluvia 4 0 0 Spittall's Flat, VIII. Anatoki River 2 0 0 Part of see 14 IV. 23 1 Sec. 12 C .. 4 0 4 Sec. C9 .. IX. 50 0 0 Sec 0 7 2 0 0 Druggan's Flat 2 0 0 Ditto 2 0 0 Kaituna River III. tZ Claims —oo mtinued. Waitapu .. (Mrs.) Eliza Harvey. Aorere James Day. The Slate River Sluioing Oo. (Mrs.) Eliza Harvey. The Takaka Sluicing Co. William Nicholas. Waitapu .. Aorere George Henry Allan. James Peterson and Leonard Thomason. 14. 19/2/01 46. 18/7/01 41. 22/11/02 40. 7/11/02 28. 9/9/02 42. 13/3/01 45. 18/7/01 37. 1/6/01 10. 14/5/02 11. 14/5/02 1. 6/3/02 L 68 2 24 Sec 15 .. IV. 80 2 0 „ 5 .. I. 83 3 29 „ 12 and 13 VII. 39 0 29 „ 8 .. XIV. 7 0 16 „ 23 .. IV. 12 1 8 „ 21 .. III. 34 2 32 „ 6 .. I. 60 2 22 „ 5 .. XIV. 58 2 32 „ 3 75 1 11 „ 4 50 0 0 „ 14, C8 .. IV., VII. dredging. Aorere Waitapu .. Aorere Pakawau .. Aorere Aorere G.D. Co. Frederick A. Boyes. Golden Bay G.D. Co. Edmund Goodbehere. William Grant. Kaituna River G.D. Co. Parapara Flat G.D. Co. George Willis Riley. Thomas Wardell. Waitapu .. Pakawau .. Aorere Wellington Prospecting Syndicate. Quasrtz Claim t. 59. 25/7/00 | < 19 0 0 | See. 8 .. | X. | Aorere .. | Joseph Taylor. Lyelj iL and Murci HISON. 42w. 12/3/94 95w. 12/7/00 160w. 13/9/00 191w. 17/1/01 212w. 9/5/01 220w. 11/7/01 223w. 11/7/01 A 100 0 0 Section 1 .. VII. 10 0 0 Matakitaki 29 3 37 Section 2 .. XV. 39 2 34 20 0 0 Fern Flat 20 0 0 Matakitaki 19 0 20 Seotion 114 .. lluvial Clain H», Matakitaki Mammoth .. Thomas George Macarthy. Uriah Hannah. Record .. .. George Walker. Hector .. .. Hector Bates Walker. Houston Francis Logan. James McDowell. Neville and Perkins Neville and Perkins Hydraulio Sluicing Co. Ditto. E. D. Davies and J. Barclay. Ah Gin. John, James, and W. Ryan, Welshman's Matteo Delia Vedova. Terrace Burnett Lyell .. 232w. 12/9/01 310w. 11/9/02 309w. 11/9/02 312w. 11/9/02 12. 26/4/99 76 1 23 20 0 0 Newton Flat 20 0 0 20 0 0 Fern Flat 97 2 2 Seotion 13 .. HI. Inangahua 172. 13/3/02 20 0 0 Lyell William Robinson. Dr 'edging Clain Lyell is. 49w. 11/1/00 50w. 11/1/00 146w. 13/9/00 201w. 14/3/01 202w. 14/3/01 221w. 11/7/01 222w. 11/7/01 247w. 14/11/01 248w. 14/11/01 265w. 16/1/02 267w. 16/1/02 266w. 16/1/02 275w, 13/3/02 276w. 13/3/02 288w. 15/5/02 289w. 15/5/02 290w. 15/5/02 297w. 10/7/02 306w. 11/9/02 307w. 11/9/02 308w. 11/9/02 311w. 11/9/02 19. 18/5/99 24. 1/8/99 25. 1/8/99 32. 14/9/99 37. 2/10/99 40. 9/11/99 58. 11/1/00 i'tO. 7/11/00 123. 9/5/01 : 41 1 19 Seotion 14 .. XV. 34 2 28 Seotion 13 .. 15 0 0 Matakitaki .. 42 0 12 Section 1 .. XV. 99 3 0 Seotion 12 .. V. 20 0 0 Matakitaki.. 20 0 0 45 0 0 Section 46 .. XVI. 19 0 0 Fern Flat 12 0 0 Matakitaki 20 0 0 10 0 0 58 0 0 Seotion 1 .. II. 34 3 37 Section 6 .. I. 98 0 0 Section 2 .. XIII. 10 0 0 Fern Flat 20 0 0 Matakitaki 46 2 0 Section 3 .. IX. 68 0 0 Section L15 V. 44 1 39 Seotion 40 .. I. 60 1 20 Section L14 VI. 20 0 0 Matakitaki 20 0 0 Lyell 83 1 25 Seotion 37 .. V. 56 1 22 Seotion 7 .. VIII. 18 0 0 Lyell 59 0 0 Seotion 15 .. VI. 25 0 0 Section 5 .. IV. 100 0 0 Seotion 52 .. 59 0 30 Seotion 39 .. V. 20 0 0 Lyell . ..I Lyell Tutaki .. Northern .. Buller United G.M. and D. Co. Auokland Hauhau.. .. Houston Franois Logan. The Newton .. Charles A. Ulrioh. Kohikohi .. The Kohikohi Gold-dredging Co. George Van Belle. Lyell'' Fern Flat .. The Fern Flat Proprietary. John R. Randerson. Tutaki .. Walter Gibbs. John R. Randerson. Owen McArdle. The Fern Flat Proprietary. George Walker. Lewis Henry Balfour Wilson. George Walker. Houston Francis Logan. Alioe Maud Gow. Charles G. Morel. Thomas Joseph Malloy. Premier .. .. Premier Gold-dredging Co. Old Diggings . . Old Diggings Gold-dredging Co. Premier .. Premier Golddredging Co. Mokoia .. .. Mokoia Gold-dredging Co. Thomas Joseph Malloy. Rocklands .. The Rocklands Beach G.D. Co. Weloome .. Weloome Gold-dredging Co. John Cullen. Tutaki .. Matakitaki Inangahua Ohika Inangahua Ohika Inangahua

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Number and D."6e of License. Area. Looality. Block. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner. NELSON AND WEST COAST GOLDFIELDS— continued. Lyell and Murchison — continued. 127. 11/7/01 133. 11/7/01 147. 14/11/01 148. 14/11/01 149. 14/11/01 156. 16/1/02 157. 16/1/02 170. 13/3/02 172. 13/3/02 173. 13/3/02 175. 13/3/02 186. 15/5/02 203. 13/11/02 A. R. P. 63 0 36 85 12 0 53 0 0 46 3 0 10 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 32 0 20 20 0 0 17 0 0 20 0 0 16 0 0 60 1 0 Dredging Claims —continued. Seotion L2 .. V. Inangahua Buller Junotion .. Buller Junotion G.D. Oo. Seos. 5, 6, 22 VI. „ .. Matteo Delia Vedova. Section 18 .. III. „ .. James Henry McKay. Seotion 19 .. » „ .. John P. Burley. Lyell .. .. .. .. John Cullen. Vernon Hill. „ .. .. .. .. John Cullen. Section 17 .. III. Inangahua .. William Henry Penno. Lyell .. .. .. .. William Robinson. Andrew Campbell. Frederick 0. Feddersen. „ .. .. .. Buller Junction .. Buller Junction G.D. Co. Seotion L8 .. XVI. Orikaka .. Feddersen's .. The Feddersen G.D. Co. 27. 1/8/99 28. 1/8/99 95. 12/7/00 105. 13/9/00 111. 7/11/00 154. 16/1/02 155. 16/1/02 174. 13/3/02 189. 10/7/02 96 3 28 57 3 32 16 0 0 30 0 0 20 0 0 19 0 0 19 0 0 17 0 0 10 0 0 Quartz Claims. Sec 23, 94, 100 XIII. Lyell .. Alpine Extended.. Alpine Extended G.M. Oo. Sec. 38 „ Lyell .. .. .. Tyrconnell .. John Kelly and party. Sec 67 .. I. Maruia .. Maid of the Forest John McNeill. Lyell .. .. .. .. Frederiok Harrison and party. Jaketh Leggoe. Walter Bird. , .. .. .. .. Michael Dunn and party. „ .. .. .. .. Gordon Harcourt. Westport. 74. 19/7/00 197. 19/7/00 218. 6/3/01 320. 22/9/01 409. 1/3/00 413. 15/3/00 8. 20/6/00 56. 15/3/00 34. 7/3/99 ■199. 1/6/99 41 1 0 33 0 15 20 0 0 15 0 0 18 0 0 10 0 0 19 0 0 9 3 9 20 0 0 32 1 2 25 1 33 55 0 20 10 2 28 100 0 0 41 2 37 20 0 0 66 2 0 99 3 0 10 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 94 3 39 5 0 0 4 2 10 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 4 0 0 2 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 19 0 0 | Alluvial Claims. Addison's .. II. Waitahu.. .. Alex. Senior and others. Karamea .. XV. Oparara .. .. Daniel Scarlett, jun. Virgin Flat .. Waitahu .. Warne Bros. .. Henry Warne. Bradshaw's.. .. Steeples „ Lowther and party T. Lowther and H. M. Lowther. II. „ .. .. Charles Lind and others. Addison's .. .. Waitahu .. .. Thomas McCann and others. Bradshaw's.. .. Steeples .. Bradshaw's Terraoe James M. Dennehy and another. Addison's .. II. Waitahu .. Halligan and party Peter Halligan and others. I. Ohika .. .. William Mouatt and others. Old Diggings IV. Inangahua .. The Wellington Mining and Water-supply Co. Addison's .. II. Waitahu .. .. James Morgan and others. II., IV. Waitahu* .. Addison's Long Tunnel G.M. Co. Steeples II. Waitahu.. .. William Gould and others. IV. Steeples .. .. Golden Sand G.M. Co. II. Waitahu.. .. William Millikin and others. „ „ .. Philip McEnroe. V. „ .. Shamrock Lead G.M. Co. I. „ Virgin Flat .. The Virgin Flat G.M. Co. Callinan and party John Callinan. „ .. .. .. Dynan and party.. John Dynan and others. Karamea .. X. Oparara .. Golden Flat .. E. Catchpole and T. L. Bennett. Fairdown .. V. Kawatiri .. Roohfort .. Wilfred Thomas Slee. Bradshaw's.. Unsurveyed Steeples .. .. Edmund Gillon. Addison's .. „ Waitahu .. .. Alex. Senior and party. Mokihinui .. » Mokihinui .. Chas. Stewart and J. Watkins. Waimangaroa „ Kawatiri .. .. Walter Davis. Buller River . Ohika .. .. William Beuly. „ „ „ .. .. Riohard Felton. Birohfield .. „ Kawatiri .. .. Frederick Lowe. Buller River „ Ohika .. .. John Hubert Hill. Birohfield .. „ Kawatiri.. .. Jeremiah Sullivan. „ .. .. Alexander Simpson. I Bradshaw's.. „ Steeples .. .. Edmund Gillon and Jas. Collins. 237. 31/8/99 238. 1/9/99 302. 6/9/99 322. 1/9/99 323. 1/9/99 385. 31/1/00 388. 18/2/02 402. 4/3/02 515. 16/7/02 539. 6/8/02 547. 20/8/02 592. 5/11/02 35. 7/3/99 473. 2/5/00 46. 15/8/00 160. 12/12/00 206. 6/2/01 231. 20/3/01 575. 22/1/02 475. 22/5/02 509. 16/7/02 510. 16/7/02 553. 3/9/02 Dredging Claims. 282. 3/7/01 293. 18/7/01 279. 7/6/01 408. 15/3/00 410. 5/4/00 406. 15/3/00 520. 19/4/00 354. 15/11/99 521. 1/7/00 98 1 0 97 8 8 95 2 16 55 3 0 31 2 39 52 2 0 29 1 0 20 0 0 64 0 0 52 3 0 20 0 0 28 1 0 66 2 0 20 0 0 Waimangaroa II. Kawatiri.. Buller Fed. No. 1 Buller Federated G.M. and D. Co. I. „ „ No. 2 II. „ Buller United .. Buller United G.M. and D. Co. Buller River III. Ohika Ngakawau .. VI. Ngakawau Buller River III. Ohika „ Buller United .. Charles Adalbert Ulrioh. „ .. Inangahua Waimangaroa II. Kawatiri .. „ Stony Creek Gold Mining and Dredging Company. Buller River III. Ohika .. No. 1 Ohika-itl .. Buller United Gold Mining and Dredging Company. „ IV. Inangahua .. John Patrick Burley. Birohfield .. II. Kawatiri.. Castalia Spring .. Charles Adalbert Ulrioh. Buller River IV. Inangahua El Dorado .. El Dorado Gold-dredging Co. 407. 15/3/00 260. 20/9/99 454. 15/3/00 47. 15/8/00 355. 15/11/99

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Number and Date of License. Area. Locality. Block. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner. NELSON AND WEST COAST GOLDFIELDS-cowimMed. Westport— continued. A. R. p. 89 2 0 Dredging Claims— continued. Fairdown ... I V. Kawatiri.. Fairdown Oreek .. Fairdown Gold-dredging Com28. 17/7/00 262. 15/5/01 173. 13/12/00 130. 2/11/00 131. 2/11/00 19. 4/7/00 57. 19/7/00 514. 10/7/02 278. 7/6/01 330. 16/10/01 431. 5/4/00 411. 5/4/00 403. 4/3/02 172. 13/12/00 540. 6/8/02 77 1 24 97 1 24 84 3 0 57 2 30 55 3 26 59 0 0 32 1 15 47 0 25 65 1 0 20 0 0 11 0 32 20 0 0 <J1 3 32 28 0 7 pany. Birohfield .. II. „ Hope of Birohfield Charles Adalbert Ulrich. Fairdown .. i V. „ Island Creek .. Island Creek Gold-dredging Company. Karamea .. i XIV. Oparara .. Karamea River No. 1 Robert Johnson, jun. XV. „ „ No.2 Mokihinui .. „ Mokihinui King's Own .. Edwin Croucher Kingswell. „ .. „ „ Lord Roberts .. Thomas Alexander. Waimangaroa I. Kawatiri .. MooreWaimangaroa John Brodie. Birohfield .. V. Ngakawau Saxon .. .. Fred Beverley. II. Kawatiri .. „ Extended .. James Bradley. Mokihinui .. .. Mokihinui .. Edward Seager. Ngakawau .. I. Ngakawau .. Stony Creek Gold-dredging Oo. „ Stony Creek .. „ Waimangaroa I. Kawatiri.. Waimangaroa .. Wallace Mackenzie. „ II. „ Waimangaroa River Waimangaroa River Gold-dredg-ing Company. Karamea .. IX. Oparara .. Walters and party William Benjamin Walters. 329. 16/10/01 90 1 0 39. 19/7/00 319. 20/9/01 370. 21/1/02 417. 16/4/02 389. 18/2/02 463. 7/5/02 410. 2/4/02 100 0 0 99 2 0 88 1 13 20 0 0 20 0 0 5 0 0 20 0 0 Quartz Claims. Denniston .. | X. Kawatiri.. Al .. .. Arthur D'Oyley Bayfeild. Stony Creek „ Ngakawau Britannia . Britannia Gold-mining Co. .. Stony Creek Gold-mining Oo. Seatonville .. XIII. Maruia .. Muckle i'fld party ThomaB Muokle. Mokihinui .. „ „ .. .. | Red Queen Gold-mining Oo. Seatonville .... „ .. XHI. „ .. Southern Light .. I Alex. Stewart and Chas. Stewart. Charleston. 75/00 87/01 8 0 0 60 3 0 Alluvial Claims. Croninville .. IV. Waitakiri Great Extended .. J. O'Donnell and M. O'Donnell. 9-mile Beaoh I. „ Great Northern .. B. Boese, R. Bourke, and R. J. Powell. GreatNorthernNo.2 Ditto. The Totara .. James Seager, Thomas Roskruge. The Totara Ext. Charleston .. VI. „ .. Edward MoClatohie. 9-mile Beach HI. „ Powell's Claim .. John Morgan Powell. Brown's Ter. .. „ .. Alfred Parsons. Croninville .. VI. „ .. | Thomas Shine. 88/01 89/01 90/01 92/01 7/01 31/02 40/02 59 3 0 91 2 16 87 3 4 8 2 37 37 3 16 14 0 0 10 3 39 Reefton. 543. 1/12/99 8 0 0 Alluvial Claims. 217. 1/6/99 277. 30/6/99 85. 24/3/99 271. 1/7/99 802. 1/6/00 890. 1/9/00 900. 1/10/00 998. 1/1/01 1042. 1/4/01 1174. 17/1/02 1175. 17/1/02 1202. 11/4/02 1256. 15/8/02 1261. 29/8/02 20 0 0 30 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 3 0 0 5 0 0 20 0 0 5 0 0 4 0 0 6 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0Adjoining A1 .. .. Capleston .. James Billett. Co's. S.C. Frying - pan .. .. Balfour .. R.J. F. Davie. Flat Seotion 8 .. VI. Reefton .. .. Walter Irving. Blackwater .. .. .. .. Thomas Rea and M. Minehan. Lankey's Ck. .. .. .. Frank Willis. Blackwater.. .. .. .. Chow Gow and others. Antonio's .. .. .. .. Patrick McGeady. Stony Batter, .. .. .. 0. T. Milner and another. Boatman's Cariboo .. .. .. .. Edward Johnston. Cronadun .. .. .. .. Robert J. F. Davie. Boatman's Ck. .. .. .. W. Surgeoner. Merrijigs .. .. .. .. Samuel Veale. Boatman's .. .. .. .. Tai Shong and Ohu Tai. Deadman's Ck. .. .. .. James P. Seymour. Upper Black- .. .. .. John Fyfe and Charles Porter. water Ditto .. .. .. .. Louis Ourry and A. Ourry. George Bannan. 1263. 29/8/02 1270. 12/9/02 5 0 0 3 0 0 355. 11/8/99 .060. 1/5/01 .208. 16/5/02 999. 1/1/01 12 0 0 74 2 2 82 3 38 99 2 16 Dredging Claims. Sec 9 .. VI. Reefton .. A1 .. A1 Gold-dredging Co. „ G3 .. „ .. „ „ 11 and 12 „ „ .. Boatman's Creek.. Boatman's Creek G.D. Co. „ 3 .. IX. Inangahua .. Annie Williams and T. Fagan. 148. 21/4/99 395. 25/8/99 128. 7/4/99 -199. 14/3/02 114. 7/4/99 112. 7/4/99 99 3 11 100 0 0 100 0 0 54 1 6 100 0 0 100 0 0 Quartz Claims. Sec 174 .. i XIV. ; Reefton .. Albion .. Consolidated Goldfields of N.Z. „ 151 ..i II. Waitahu .. Ballanoe .. Progress Mines of N.Z. „ 169 .. ; XIV. Reefton .. Beaoonefield .. Consolidated Goldfields of N.Z. Seos. 19 & 28 X. Waitahu .. Big River .. Big River G.M. Co. Sec 143 .. XI. Reefton .. Blake .. Consolidated Goldfields of N.Z. „ 139 .. I „ „ .. j Cadman

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Number and Date of License. Area. Locality. Block. Survey District Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner. NELSON AND WEST COAST GOLDFIELDS—conimued. Reefton — continued. 398. 25/8/99 486. 27/10/99 394. 25/8/99 489. 27/10/99 397. 25/8/99 121. 7/4/99 129. 7/4/99 233. 1/6/99 127. 7/4/99 391. 25/8/99 118. 7/4/99 1021. 1/3/01 1118. 16/8/01 443. 29/9/99 84. 24/3/99 1170. 17/1/02 1066. 1/6/01 117. 7/4/99 136. 7/4/99 137. 7/4/99 139. 7/4/99 140. 7/4/99 122. 7/4/99 123. 7/4/99 393. 25/8/99 1172. 17/1/02 A. R. P. 16 0 21 100 0 0 100 0 0 51 0 0 98 3 6 29 3 20 54 0 0 60 0 0 100 0 0 52 2 12 95 0 0 37 3 16 8 2 16 67 0 0 16 2 0 16 2 14 77 1 25 49 2 0 28 2 25 16 1 27 21 1 36 34 3 38 29 3 20 29 3 31 100 0 0 10 0 0 Quartz Claims —continued. „ 142 .. II. Waitahu .. ' Carbine .. | New Inkerman Mines. „ 141 „ , „ 148 .. „ „ ..Carroll .. Progress Mines of N.Z. „ 157 .. „ „ .. i Clarence .. New Inkerman Mines. „ 161 .. „ „ .. ] Deep .. Progress Mines of N.Z. 3 .. XII. Reefton .. I Earl Brassey .. Kirwan's Reward G.M. Co. „ 201 .. XIV. „ .. i Energetio .. Consolidated Goldfields of N.Z. „ 149 .. XVI. „ .. Fiery Cross „ 168 ' .. XIV. „ .. j Gladstone 15 .. II. Waitahu.. Globe .. Progress Mines of N.Z. „ 199 .. XIV. Reefton ..! Golden Fleeoa ..; Consolidated Goldfields of N.Z. „ G6 .. VI. Waitahu.. Golden Lead ..'Golden Lead G.M. Co. 124. 7/4/99 491. 27/10/99 120. 7/4/99 134. 7/4/99 410. 1/9/99 268. 9/6/99 329. 14/7/99 330. 14/7/99 93 2 4 49 3 15 100 0 0 100 0 0 8 0 0 29 1 11 13 2 30 5 0 0 S< o. 203 .. XIV. Reefton .. Golden Treasure .. Consolidated Goldfields of N.Z. 15 „ „ .. Hercules .. Keep-it-Dark Quartz-mining Co. 11 .. i VI. Waitahu .. Industry .. Dan Walsh and R. Lees. „ 172 .. XIV. Reefton .. Inglewood .. P. N. Kingswell. „ 181 .. „ „ .. Juno .. Consolidated Goldfields of N.Z „ 166 .. „ „ .. Keep-it-Dark .. Keep-it-Dark Quartz-mining Co. „ 68 „ ., 14 .. „ 105 .. . . „ .. 4 .. XVI. Reefton .. Kirwan's Reward Kirwan's Reward G.M. Oo. 2 .. XII. „ .. Lady Brassey .. „ 140 .. II. Waitahu .. Larnaoh .. I Progress Mines of N.Z. Portion of VI. „ .. Last Chanoe .. I A. Fleming, J. Morris, and Sees. 31 & 38 I J. Scarlett Sec 1 ., XVI. Reefton .. Lord Brassey .. Kirwan's Reward G.M. Co. 159 .. II. Waitahu .. Louisa .. New Inkerman Mines. „ 139 .. XIV. Reefton .. Low-level Tunnel Consolidated Goldfields of N.Z. „ 155 .. II. Waitahu .. New Scotia .. New Scotia G.M. Co. Adjoining „ „ .. Oriental .. Progress Mines of N.Z. Section 161 Sec 182 .. XIV. Reefton .. Peroival .. D. Ziman. „ 34 .. II. Waitahu.. Progress .. Progress Mines of N.Z. (Ext. Claim) „ „ Sec 84 Sec. 42 „ „ „ 160 „ ... „ (Wedge) .. „ 138 .. „ „ Progress 82 ... „ „ .. j Progressive 37 .. XIII. Reefton .. Revival .. Gerald Perotti. 18 .. II. Waitahu .. „ .. New Inkerman Mines. „ 143 „ „ .. „ 152 .. „ „ Rose .. .. Progress Mines of N.Z. „ 200 .. XIV. Reefton .. Royal .. .. Consolidated Goldfields of N.Z. „ 171 .. „ „ .. Salisbury .. „ „ 138 .. XI. „ .. Seddon . D. Ziman. „ G 22 .. XV. „ .. Victoria .. P.N. Kingswell. 79 .. XIV. „ .. Wealth of Nations D. Ziman. 7 .. VI. „ .. Weloome .. Welcome G.M. Oo. „ 103 ..XI. „ „ 63 .. VI. „ „ 164 .. II. Waitahu .. Wilson .. New Inkerman Mines. 32 VI. „ .. W. King, R. Mills, and E. Mills. „ 180 .. XIV. Reefton .. .. John Windelbum. 331. 14/7/99 332. 14/7/99 890. 25/8/99 392. 25/8/99 66. 10/3/99 488. 27/10/99 487. 27/10/99 396. 25/8/99 119. 7/4/99 116. 7/4/99 269. 9/6/99 1098. 1/6/01 267. 9/6/99 131. 7/4/99 132. 7/4/99 133. 7/4/99 490. 27/10/99 1253. 15/8/02 1283. 14/11/02 15 3 33 22 3 20 89 1 16 31 0 23 85 3 24 33 0 0 57 2 0 100 0 0 99 2 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 80 0 0 63 1 13 16 0 26 23 2 8 23 0 26 99 0 9 9 2 35 5 8 32 Kumara. 17. 10/5/99 4 0 0 Alluvial Claims. Shamrook XII. Waimea .. .. Henry Burger. Lead Shamrook .. « .. .. Henry Burger. Flat Quinn's Ter. G.O. .. .. Zep One. Blue Bluff Cape Terrace „ .. .. T. T. Lohmann. Brat. Dill- W.O. .. .. J. Shrives. man's Road Kapitea Creek „ .. .. M. Eggleton. Shamrock XII. Waimea .. .. Julia McGrath. Lead Larrikin's .. „ „ Morris's Pt. VII. „ .. .. William Morris. Payne's Gully XII. „ .. .. Annie Anderson. Maori Point II. Hohonu .. .. Patrick Ryan. Westbrook .. IX. .. .. Greenstone Creek G.D. Co. Shamrook XII. Waimea .. .. George Burger. Flat Cape Terraoe „ „ .. .. Elizabeth Burr. Quinn's Ter. G.C. „ .. ■. W. H. Evenden. Fuohsia Ck. „ ,, .. .. Ah Lye. Cape Terrace „ „ .. .. Patrick Tansey. 29. 5/7/99 5 0 0 39. 26/7/99 40. 26/7/99 42. 26/7/99 52. 23/8/99 3 0 0 2 0 0 20 0 0 3 0 0 131. 17/1/00 W328. 12/9/99 2 0 0 41 0 9 W319. 12/9/99 W342. 5/12/99 W354. 5/12/99 G34. 13/12/99 W334. 5/2/00 16. 28/3/00 32 1 2 82 3 31 26 1 39 30 0 0 82 2 0 10 0 0 W299. 2/5/00 54. 13/6/00 58. 13/6/00 63. 4/7/00 9 0 0 8 0 0 5 0 0 9 0 0 Note.— W.C. in " Block " column meaus Westland County, and G.C. Grey County.

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Number and Date of License. | Area. Locality. Blook. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner. NELSON AND WEST COAST GOI jDFIELDS— continued. Ku: mara— contim ted. Alluvial ! Claims — con itinued. 78. 19/9/00 80. 1/8/00 89. 22/8/00 91. 12/9/00 95. 12/9/00 23. 18/4/00 105. 26/9/00 109. 11/10/00 110. 11/10/00 118. 24/10/00 A. R. P. 20 0 0 12 0 0 7 0 0 4 0 0 5 0 0 4 0 0 4 0 0 60 0 0 4 0 0 16 0 0 Paddy's Gully IX. Fine-gold Ter. W.C. Revell'sTer. G.C. Paddy's Gully Nailor Flat.. W.C. Fine-gold Ter. XIII. Larrikin's .. W.C. Shamrook XII. Lead Ditto Hohonu .. S. R. Harris. A. H. Wheeler. Ah Shin. W. G. Whitton. Thomas Candy. A. H. Wheeler. Kumara Long Tunnel Co. James Anderson. John Cullen. Waimea .. 119. 14/11/00 120. 14/11/00 121. 14/11/00 123. 14/11/00 129a. 6/12/00 132. 6/12/00 133. 6/12/00 7 0 0 6 0 0 8 0 0 4 0 0 92 2 0 4 0 0 7 0 0 Henry George. George Worsley. James Stephens. Daniel Hyan and others. William O'Kane. Martha Foley. George Schroder. 136. 6/12/00 137. 6/12/00 138. 6/12/00 139. 6/12/00 149. 6/12/00 10 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 10 0 0 4 0 0 Westbrook .. G.C. Shamrock XII. Lead Mignonette W.C. Flat S h amr o o k XII. Lead Ditto Kumara .. „ Shamrook Lead Ditto Quinn's Ter. G.C. Sham rock XII. Lead Waimea .. Waimea .. Thomas Thorn. ! Mary Candy. George Brown. S. Arnerioh. G. B. Way. 150. 6/12/00 12. 16/1/01 19. 13/2/01 5 0 0 7 0 0 4 0 0 Waimea .. Mary Candy. W. H. Evenden. Thomas Dawson. 24. 27/3/01 15. 28/3/00 2 0 0 5 0 0 IX. Shamrock XII. Lead Ross Terrace G.C. Quinn's Ter. Maori Point.. Sco t s m a n 's Valley Larrikin's .. W.C. Hayes'Ter... G.C. Cape Terrace Larrikin's .. W.C. Peter's Ter... Upper Lar'kns W.C. Revell's Ter. G.C. Sandstone „ Bluff Larrikin's .. W.C. Mign o n e 11 e Flat Ditto Larrikin's Flat Larrikin's XII. Duke's Ter... G.C. Irishman's „ Gully E. B. Line .. W.C. Duke's Ter... G.C. Hohonu .. Wuiinea .. Louis Korman. John Flanagan. 25. 10/4/01 31. 24/4/01 32. 24/4/01 39. 22/5/01 8 0 0 9 0 0 3 0 0 20 0 0 Gerald Dillon. P.H. Smith. F. Bisohoff. W. G. Whitton. 45. 20/6/01 52. 3/7/01 56. 18/7/01 62. 21/8/01 69. 4/9/01 85. 18/12/01 87. 18/12/01 88. 18/12/01 5 0 0 10 0 0 6 0 0 12 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 20 0 0 3 0 0 Waimea .. John Netherway. G. B. Way. W. Dreykluft. William Steel. Ah Key. Thomas MoGrath. W. G. Whitton. William Robertson. 2. 19/2/02 18. 21/5/02 2 0 0 6 0 0 Patrick Caldwell. James Shannon. 19. 4/6/02 22. 18/6/02 25. 30/7/02 29. 3/9/02 41. 5/11/02 43. 19/11/02 3 0 0 6 0 0 8 0 0 12 0 0 10 0 0 6 0 0 Waimea .. Conrad Werner. John Ritchie. Edward Roohford. Frank Thorn. John Harrington. Henry Bunn. 44. 19/11/02 45. 3/12/02 8 0 0 10 0 0 William Berdmer. James Bigg. 18. 13/2/01 61. 21/8/01 77. 6/11/01 27. 13/8/02 100 0 0 100 0 0 100' 0 0 50 0 0 Di redging Claim Waimea .. ,s. John White. A. Bruhn. H. Bruce. Three-mile Greenstone Ck. D. Oo. VIII., XII. 34. 22/10/02 35. 22/10/02 61 1 10 78 3 28 VII. IX. (XII. JIX. XII. Hohonu .. Waimea) Hohonu} Waimea .. New Greenstone G.D. Oo. Greenstone Junction G.D. Oo. A\ Ahaura. lluvial Claimi Ahaura .. Mawhera-nui .. 105. 24/10/98 42. 27/3/99 9 0 0 30 0 0 Ahaura River I. Blackball .. III. Ahaura Hydraulio Arthur Dunn and Harriet Finlay. J. T. Kinsella, J. Shrives, and J. Stenhouse. Republic .. Republic Sluioing Company. The Shetland Terraoe H.S. Co. Michael O'Brien and Jas. Joyoe. C. Hillier,R. Long, & H. Marsden. J. Pettitt, J. Hay, G. Phfalert, and H. Marsden. Republic Sluioing Company. 53. 24/4/99 75. 24/4/99 98. 22/5/99 102. 22/5/99 104. 22/5/99 30 0 0 2 0 0 6 0 0 7 0 0 15 0 0 Moonlight .. XI. Nelpon Creek VIII. Healey's Gully III. Blackball .. Waiwhero Mawhera-nui 165. 27/7/99 20 0 0 Healey's Gullv Note. —W.C. in "Block" column means Westland County and G.C. Grey County.

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Ahaura— continued. 169. 23/11/99 174. 27/7/99 176. 27/7/99 184. 24/8/99 290. 28/9/99 302. 28/9/99 324. 28/9/99 431. 23/11/99 438. 23/11/99 450. 21/12/99 472. 21/12/99 478. 25/1/00 491. 25/1/00 533. 22/3/00 774. 31/5/00 779. 31/5/00 785.31/5/00 845. 28/6/00 880. 28/6/00 960. 23/8/00 991.27/9/00 1001. 27/9/00 1116. 19/12/00 1168. 30/1/01 1184. 30/1/01 1190. 30/1/01 1206. 27/2/01 1230. 27/2/01 1235. 27/2/01 1270. 27/3/01 1284. 24/4/01 1286. 24/4/01 1293. 24/4/01 1349. 22/5/01 1351. 22/5/01 1423. 24/7/01 1458. 28/8/01 1462. 28/8/01 1465. 28/8/01 1473. 25/9/01 1474. 25/9/01 1475. 25/9/01 1476. 25/9/01 1501. 23/10/01 1502. 23/10/01 1503. 23/10/01 1504. 23/10/01 1522. 27/11/01 1523. 27/11/01 1524. 27/11/01 1537. 11/12/01 1538. 11/12/01 1539. 11/12/01 1540. 11/12/01 1559. 29/1/02 1560. 29/1/02 1561. 29/1/02 1564. 29/1/02 1591. 26/2/02 1593. 26/2/02 1616. 26/3/02 1618. 26/3/02 1640. 23/4/02 1654. 28/5/02 1655. 28/5/02 1656. 28/5/02. 1657. 28/5/02 1694. 25/6/02 1695. 25/6/02 i i A B p Alluvial Claims— continued. 49 3 9 Blaokball .. III. Mawhera-nui .. The Montgomery Ter. H.S. Oo. 10 0 3 Nelson Creek VIII. „ .. R. Larkin, P. Sweetman, T. O'Rourke, J. Curnew, and M. Healey. 2 0 0 Moonlight .. .. Waiwhero .. Charles Ashby and Jos. McGuire. 4 0 0 Ahaura .. IV. Mawhera-nui .. Charlie Jones, Thow Yun, and Yep Fong. 5 0 0 Nelson Creek VIII. „ .. Samuel H. Thrower. 5 0 0 Ahaura River IV. „ .. Arthur Dunn. 2 0 0 Nelson Oreek VIII. „ .. John Straker. 10 0 0 Ahaura River I. Ahaura .. .. Arthur Dunn. 3 0 0 No Town Creek XI. Mawhera-nui .. G. Gamble and M. MoDonough. 10 0 0 Blackball .. III. „ .. Montgomery Terrace H.S. Oo. 49 2 23 Bell Hill .. I. Kopara .. .. T. V. Byrne, J. H. Hopkins, C.P. Carlsson, W. J. Mcllroy, and E. H. Scott. 2 0 0 Blackball .. III. Mawhera-nui .. Montgomery Terraoe H.S. Oo. 3 0 0 Ahaura River I. Ahaura .. .. C. Jones, Thow Yun, & Yep Fong. 15 0 0 Healey's Gully III. Mawhera-nui .. D. Hyndman, W. Baxter, E. Smith, J. Gittos, J. Balamie. 3 0 0 Orwell Creek II. Ahaura .. .. Antonia Giambonini. 3 2 0 Blackball .. III. Mawhera-nui .. G. Anderson, J. Pettitt, J. Hay, and G. Phfalert. 10 0 0 „ .. „ „ .. Hugh Allison and Henry Weber. 10 0 0 Red Jack's.. VII. „ .. The Red Jack's G.D. Oo. 3 0 0 Try-again Ter. VIII. „ .. Richard Larkin. 2 0 0 Ahaura .. VI. Ahaura .. .. Ah Too and Ah Tohoo. 2 0 0 Red Jack's .. VII. Mawhera-nui .. Sue Yin and Soo Gee. 4 0 0 No Town II. „ .. Thomas Wharton. 2 0 0 Moonlight .. XV. Waiwhero .. Anton Anderson. 10 0 0 Blackball .. III. Mawhera-nui .. J. Cox, H. Dimond.W. Sherman, and E. P. Fowler. 5 0 .0 Half Ounce.. XIV. Mawhera-iti .. James D. Harper. 12 0 0 Ahaura River I. Ahaura .. .. Thomas Prendergast. 40 2 25 Duffer's II. „ .. C. Ashby and J. D. Harper. 2 0 0 Nelson Creek VIII. Mawhera-nui .. Pat, Peter, William, and Pat (jun.) Donnellan. 2 0 0 Moonlight .. XV. Waiwhero .. T. Clancy and P. Clancy. 2 0 0 Red Jack's .. XI. Mawhera-nui .. P. Fallon and S. Frankpitt. 8 0 0 Blackwater.. VIII. Mawhera-iti .. Thomas Eldon Coates. 2 0 0 Moonlight .. XV. Waiwhero .. R. Mitchell and W. Russell. 2 0 0 Blackball .. III. Mawhera-nui .. William Hunter. 6 0 0 „ .. „ ., .. J. S. Hodgson and W. Greening. 10 0 0 „ .. „ „ .. Jacob Weber. 5 0 0,,... „ .. F- Boustridge and H. Egden. 20 0 0 „ .. J. O'Laughlin & T. T. Kinsella. 4 0 0 Ahaura River I. Ahaura .. .. Samuel Samuels. 6 0 0 Nelson Creek VIII. Mawhera-nui .. P. Donnellan. 82 3 20 Moonlight .. XI. Waiwhero .. The Shetland Terraoe H.S. Oo. 81 2 30 ... 20 0 0 Blaokball .. III. Mawhera-nui .. The Montgomery Ter. H.S. Co. 4 0 0 Moonlight .. XV. Waiwhero .. Thomas Brock. 20 0 0 Bray's Creek VI. Mawhera-nui .. Benjamin Wayler. 20 0 0 Grey River .. „ „ .. Henry Bignell. 14 0 0 „ .. „ „ .. John Gieaeking. 15 0 0 Blackball II. „ .. Henry Bignell. 6 0 0 Ahaura River I. Ahaura .. .. Thomas Prendergast. 3 0 0 Blackball .. II. Mawhera-nui .. Frederick Boustridge. 2 0 0 Callaghan's.. IV. „ .. Chow Yok. 2 0 0 Healey's Gully III. „ .. Charles Hillier, R. Long, and H. Marsden. 6 0 0 Blaokball II. . .. Joshua Molntyre. 10 0 0 „ .. „ . .. Hugh Allison. 15 0 0 » .. „ „ •■ James Pettitt and J. MeGuigan. 15 0 0 .. „ . .. Jacob Weber. 20 0 0 „ .. ., „ •• Riohard Henry Wessels. 5 0 0 „ .. » „ .. Andrew Jamieson. 3 0 0 Moonlight .. XV. Waiwhero .. Alexander Njtman, E. Simonson, and J. Hoyer. 5 0 0 Blaokball .. II. Mawhera-nui .. Joseph Butler. 5 0 0 Brandy Jaok's XIII. Mawhera-iti .. J. Witham and M. Hoare. 4 0 0 Moonlight .. XV. . Waiwhero .. M. Devereux, E. Carton, E. Murphy, and J. Graham. 2 2 0 Nelson Creek VIII. Mawhera-nui .. Thomas Jamieson. 3 0 0 Ahaura River I. Ahaura .. .. G. Poppleston, M. Cahill, and J. Johnston. 6 0 0 Totara Flat.. XIV. Mawhera-iti .. J. Marshall and D. Steele. 3 0 0 Blackwater.. VIII. „ .. J.Martin. 3 0 0 Nelson Creek » Mawhera-nui .. J. J. Costigan and F. M. Tibbies. 2 0 0 Blackball II. „ .. J. Butler. 12 0 0 Gow's Creek VIII. „ .. Pat. Donnellan, sen., P. Donnellan, jun., and Wm. Donnellan. 2 0 0 Moonlight .. XV. I Waiwhero .. J. MoGowan and J. Martin.

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Number and Date of License. Area. Locality. Block. Survey District. ' Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner. NELSON AND WEST COAST gol: DFIELDS— continued. Aha lura — con tinui ed. A. R. P. A lluvial Claims —oonti inued. 1696. 25/6/02 I 1732. 23/7/02 | 1757. 27/8/02 1758. 27/8/02 1779. 24/9/02 2 0 0 4 0 0 15 0 0 12 0 0 5 0 0 Ahaura River T. Try-againTer. VIII. River-view .. I. No Town .. XI. Blaokball .. II. Ahaura Mawhera-nui Ahaura .. Mawhera-nui .. S. Hayes and E. Morgan. William Donnellan. Frederick Marshall. Stewart Robertson. I J. Pettit, J. McGuigan, and L. Kear. Henry Cooper. Alexander Notman. Daniel Riley. Joseph Hyndman. 1790. 22/10/02 1791 22/10/02 1823. 10/12/02, 1822. 10/12/02! 100 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 6 0 0 No Town .. XI. Moonlight .. XV. Ahaura River I. Healey's Gully III. Waiwhero Ahaura .. Mawhera-nui 331. 26/10/99 967. 23/8/00 1096. 19/12/00 1777. 24/9/02 1036. 25/10/00 1118. 19/12/00 1325. 22/5/01 1102. 19/12/00 1337. 22/5/01 1095. 19/12/00 842. 28/6/00 1258. 27/3/01 1379. 26/6/01 940. 23/8/00 1106. 19/12/00 838. 28/6/00 697. 31/5/00 700. 31/5/00 699. 31/5/00 1244. 27/3/01 1472. 25/9/01 1326. 22/5/01 1327. 22/5/01 1162. 30/1/01 1471. 25/9/01 '1778. 24/9/02 1161. 30/1/01 1245. 27/3/01 1163. 30/1/01 100 0 0 11 0 17 53 2 17 44 0 30 84 0 20 18 0 0 34 3 0 38 3 34 20 0 0 41 2 24 61 0 38 6 0 0 20 0 0 98 0 6 63 0 0 77 2 0 48 2 8 75 1 9 94 0 32 98 2 0 67 3 20 96 0 26 73 0 7 88 2 19 88 3 20 30 1 0 96 2 0 100 0 0 99 3 21 Dr, Ahaura River I. Nelson Oreek XII. No Town .. XI. Blackwater.. VIII. Callaghan's.. IV. Nelson Creek V. Blackwater .. VIII. Moonlight .. XV. Ahaura River VI. I. Blackwater.. VIII. Grey River .. III. Ahaura River I. Orwell Creek II., III. Ford's Creek II. VI. Moonlight .. XV. Grey River . . XIV. Moonlight .. XV. Grey River .. "„ '■ '■ IV. Blackwater .. VIII. Snowy Creek XL Grey River .. VI. !. iv. edging Claims j Ahaura Mawhera-nui i. Ahaura River .. Ahaura River Gold-dredging Co. Aldinga .. .. Aldinga Golddredging Co. Mawhera-iti Mawhera-nui Bignell's No Town G.D. Oo. Blackwater River G.D. Co. Callaghan's Creek G.D. Co. Ahaura Mawhera-iti Waiwhero Ahaura .. Olaughessey's Freehold G.D. Co. William James Coates. William Cummings. Daylight .. Daylight Gold-dredging Co. Mawhera-iti Mawhera-nui Ahaura .. Alexander Doig. Duke of Wellington Hugh Calder and Henry Grust. Arthur Dunn. Erickson's Reward Erickson's Reward G.D. Co. Ford's Creek .. Ford's Creek Gold-dredging Co. Mawhera-nui Waiwhero Mawhera-iti Waiwhero Mawhera-nui Garibaldi .. | Garibaldi Gold-dredging Co. Golden United .. Golden United G.D. Co. S. H. Graves. Great Lead .. Great Lead Gold-dredging Oo. Ahaura .. Mawhera-iti Grey Consolidated Alex. Kyle and Jas. Hargreaves. Greymouth Lagoons G.D. Co. Mawhera-nui Grey-No Town June Wm. Creagan and C. E. Fabian. Grey River Consols W. Wardell, H. Clement Harley Grey River Consoli- Grey River Consolidated G.D. Co. dated Jamieson's Reward Jamieson's Reward G.D. Co. Just in Time .. John Turner. Kangaroo Creek G.D. Co. Kapai .. .. Kapai Golddredging Co. P. N. Kingswell. H. W. Kitchingham. Lord Nelson .. Edward Murphy and Hy. Crust. Lower Nelson Creek Henry August Wick. Major Robin .. Raphael Squarise and Henry August Wick. Moonlight Gold-dredging Co. Moonlight Creek G.D. Co. Mosquito .. Mosquito Gold-dredging Co. Mosquito No. 2 .. Mosquito No. 2 G.D. Co. Nelson Creek Gold-dredging Co. No Town Creek Gold-dredging Co. No Town No. 2 Golddredging Co. Orwell Oreek .. Orwell Creek Gold-dredging Co. Ahaura 1413. 24/7/01 701. 31/5/00 1470. 25/9/01 1103. 19/12/00 1617. 26/3/02 1207. 27/2/01 939. 23/8/00 1521. 27/11/01 1030. 25/10/00 68 2 38 29 2 36 94 2 0 100 0 0 2 0 19 51 1 10 96 0 10 92 0 27 99 3 22 Nelson Creek VIII. Moonlight .. XV. Kangaroo Crk. VII. Grey River.. XV. Nelson Creek VIII. Grey River .. XV. HI. - Nelson Creek VIII. Grey River .. III. Mawhera-nui Waiwhero Mawhera-nui Mawhera-iti Mawhera-nui Mawhera-iti Mawhera-nui 1179. 30/1/01 1211. 27/2/01 942. 23/8/00 1275. 24/4/01 j 1416. 24/7/01 1251. 27/3/01 1324. 22/5/01 551. 26/4/00 841. 28/6/00 938. 23/8/00 1164. 30/1/01 941. 23/8/00 1328. 22/5/01 984. 27/9/00 987. 27/9/00 1587. 26/2/02 1160. 30/1/01 4 0 0 79 2 12 I 77 0 0 ; 99 2 20 I 87 0 29 ; 56 2 20 ! 90 0 15 17 3 27 100 0 0 68 0 27 98 0 3 66 0 34 96 2 0 100 0 0 99 0 26 49 3 0 72 0 0 47 1 13 99 3 30 67 0 0 73 2 0 59 3 18 3 0 0 4 0 0 44 3 9 30 2 32 100 0 0 96 1 2 Moonlight .. XV. j Mosquito Crk. III. j Nelson Creek VIII. : No Town .. X. No Town Crk. Orwell Creek II. Nelson Creek VIII. Grey River .. XV. XVI. VI. Red Jack's .. XI. Ruby Creek VI. Junction Ahaura River I. Shellback Crk. XVI. Duffer's Creek XIV. Totara Flat.. Nelson Creek VII. VIII. Waipuna Creek XV. Ahaura River I. Grey River .. IV. Waiwhero Ahaura .. Mawhera-nui Ahaura Mawhera-nui Pactolus .. Pactolus Golddredging Oo. Waiwhero Mawhera-nui Pactolus No. 8 .. Pactolus No. 3 G.D. Co. Perrett's Junotion Perrett's Junction G.D. Co. T. W. Ponsonby, Ralph Raynor. Red Jack's Gold-dredging Co. Ruby Creek June J. H. Chester and Albert Wick. 1588. 26/2/02 1329. 22/5/01 1250. 27/3/01 985. 27/9/00 886. 26/7/00 1565. 29/1/02 968. 23/8/00 1092. 19/12/00 989. 27/9/00 840. 28/6/00 887. 26/7/00 Ahaura .. Waiwhero Mawhera-iti William Rundle. Shellback Gold-dredging Oo. Sullivan's Lead .. Sullivan's Lead G.D. Oo. Totara Flat Gold-dredging Co. Trafalgar Gold-dredging Co. Mawhera-nui . • m Viotory .. .. Victory Gold-dredging Co. Mawhera-iti Ahaura .. Waipuna Creek G.D. Co. Watterson's Consols Watterson's Consols G.D. Co. Zealandia Syndioate.

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Number and Date of License. Area. Locality. Block. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner. NELSON AND WEST COAST GOLDFIELDS -continued. AKA-Vn\—continued. a. r, p. Quartz Claims. 41,27/3/99 100 0 6 Paparoa Mt. XTV. Waiwhero Croesus .. .. I Croesus Gold-mining Company. 38. 27/3/99 95 0 13 „ X „ Garden Gully .. Gerald Perotti. 37. 27/3/99 95 3 17 „ XIV. „ Minerva 1243. 27/3/01 99 2 0 1693. 25/6/02 30 0 0 39.27/3/99 100 0 0 . „ , Taffy .. .. Taffy Gold-mining Company. Greymouth. Alluvial Claims. 324. 8/10/00 5 0 0 Canoe Creek .. .. .. John Keele. 329. 22/10/00 5 0 0 Ten-mile .. .. .. .. John Meiklejohn. 359. 22/10/00 4 0 0 Barrytown .. .. .. .. John Ryall and John Heffernan. 363. 19/11/00 7 0 0 Maori Gully .. .. .. John Hogan, jun. 281.19/11/00 2 0 0 Dunganville .. .. .. John Patterson and S. Milligan. 17. 14/1/01 5 0 0 North Beach .. .. .. William Duffy. 91. 25/3/01 3 0 0 Marsden .. .. .. .. Thomas Isbester and 2 others. 223. 12/8/01 3 0 0 Limestone .. .. .. .. Dey Chung and Dey Baugh. 25a. 17/2/92 16 1 0 Near Marsden IV. Hohonu .. .. Young Marn and 5 others. 2. 14/4/97 25 0 0 Barrytown .. I. Waiwhero .. Evan Henry Lewis. 71. 1/6/99 7 3 6 Dunganville „ Hohonu .. .. Claus H. Lins. 27. 13/4/99 2 0 0 Stillwater .... .. R. Fletcher and W. Fleteher. 60.1/7/02 2 0 0 Welshman's .. .. .. Ah Yoh. Terrace 92. 22/8/99 5 0 0 Bell Hill .. .. .. .. Antonio Devesoovl. 93. 22/8/99 5 0 0 Barrytown .. .. .. .. Thomas O'Grady and another. 140.27/9/99 92 2 12 „ .. IX. Waiwhero .. The Barrytown Flat G.M. Co. 195.25/10/99 4 0 0 North Beach .. .. .. Daniel Liddy. 252. 19/5/98 99 3 7 „ I. Waiwhero .. The Waiwhero Sluicing Co. 253. 19/5/98 99 3 30 256.4/12/99 4 0 0 Dunganville .. .. .. Soo Mee and 5 others. 174.8/5/00 3 0 0 Cameron'sTer. .. .. .. Munohin Keenan. 241. 11/6/00 2 2 0 Marsden .. .. .. .. Young Marn and 5 others. 278.8/8/00 95 112 Barrytown.. I. Waiwhero .. Tbe Waiwhero Sluioing Co. 319.8/10/00 2 0 0 Canoe Creek .. .. .. James Walsh and Maxwell Walsh 228.12/8/01 10 0 0 Wooley Creek .. .. .. The Kells Sluioing Co. 257. 7/10/01 7 0 0 McLean's Ck. .. .. Ernest Gardener and 2 others. 10.27/1/02 15 0 22 Rutherglen.. IV. Waimea .. .. Hugh Francis Doogan and party 28. 24/2/02 3 0 0 Marsden .. .. .. .. John Flannagan. 29.24/2/02 3 0 0 „ .. .. .. .. James Finn. 283. 25/11/02 2 0 0 „ .. .. .. .. Young Hing and Loo Ching. 66.7/4/02 2 0 0 NearBarryto'n .. .. .. The Waiwhero S. and D. Co. 67. 7/4/02 5 0 0 70. 21/4/02 5 0 0 95. 26/5/02 2 0 0 Marsden .. .. .. .. Young Fong. 125. 23/6/02 5 0 0 Barrytown .. .. .. .. Hugh Steel. 126.23/6/02 67 0 0 Nine-mile .. I. Cobden .. .. Nine-mile Sluicing Company. 152. 21/7/02 5 0 0 Limestone .. .. .. .. Loo Lin and Hing Jum. 154. 21/7/02 5 0 0 „ .. .. .. .. Young You and Young Get. I. Dredging Claims. D 151.8/5/00 2 0 0 Maori Gully .. .. .. Maori Gully Gold-dredging Co. 210. 11/0/00 59 2 7 Paroa .. XVI. Greymouth .. Francis Wallace MoKenzie. 274.8/8/00 80 0 36 North Beach II. Cobden .. .. North Beaoh Gold-dredging Co. 277.8/8/00 42 127 Grey River .. X. Arnold .. .. Grey River Extended G.D. Co. 292. 8/8/00 18 0 0 „ .. .. 251.23/9/01 81 113 Section G90 I. Hohonu .. .. Cornwall Gold-dredging Co. 299. 23/12/01 72 1 10 Seven-mile .. „ Cobden .. .. j Matthew Ryan and another. 206.6/10/02 2 3 24 Paroa .. .. .. .. Leviathan Freehold G.D. Co. 233.24/11/02 5 0 0 Stillwater .. .. .. .. Charles Josh. Gibbs. 265. 22/12/02 2 3 0 Paroa .. .. .. .. Leviathan Freehold G.D. Co, 268.22/12/02 67 0 8 South Beach XVI. Greymouth .. Stony and Mosquito Loads Gold dredging Company. 338. 22/10/00 58 0 0 Maori Gully XV. Arnold .. .. Maori Gully Gold-dredging Co. 339.22/10/00 89 1 0 „ XIV. „ .. .. E. J. Smith and H. J. Bignell. 366.19/11/90 37 0 32 South Beach XVI. Greymouth .. Leviathan Freehold G.D. Co. 367.19/11/90 30 2 25 Grey River .. X. Arnold .. .. Grey River Extended G.D. Co. 368. 19/11/90 82 3 26 South Beaoh III. Waimea .. .. D. M. Luckie and 9 others. 370. 19/11/90 100 0 0 Barrytown .. I. Waiwhero .. Henry Philip Hill. 8.7/1/01 52 2 12 Grey River.. IX. Mawheranui Grey River Golddredging Co. 11. 7/1/01 98 1 8 „ X. Arnold .. .. Thomas Jones. 95. 16/4/01 43 0 10 New River .. II. Hohonu .. .. Maori Queen Gold dredging Co. 145.25/5/01 95 3 15 South Beach XVI. Greymouth .. Leviathan Gold-dredging Oo. 147.27/5/01 48 2 31 North Beach IV. Cobden .. .. John Druce and W. J. Joyoe. 154.20/5/01 75 110 New River.. II. Hohonu .. 213. 22/7/01 84 0 20 North Beaoh IV. Cobden .. .. John Druoe and W. J. Joyoe. XVI. II. X. I. XVI. XV. XIV. XVI. X. III. I. IX. X. II. XVI. IV. II. IV.

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Number and Date of License. Area. Locality. Block. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner. NELSON AND WEST COAST GOL! DFI ELDS— con tinned. Stafford and Goldsbi orough. 543. 20/11/02 536. 30/10/02 534. 30/10/02 532. 30/10/02 Alluvial Claim 12 0 0 Waimea .. XV. Waimea .. 5 0 0 Scandinavian XIV. Hill 4 0 0 Stafford 7 0 0 Waimea .. XV. ts. Samuel Perry. Hugh Linklater. 531. 30/10/02 529. 30/10/02 525. 30/10/02 519. 9/10/02 510. 4/9/02 501. 24/7/02 493. 19/6/02 461. 20/3/02 457. 20/2/02 440. 19/2/01 2 0 0 5 0 0 Stafford .. XIV. 2 0 0 German Gully „ . 3 0 0 . . . 9 0 0 Kelly's Ter. „ ,. 10 0 0 Waimea .. XV. 3 0 0 Arahura Flat „ Arahura .. 4 0 0 German Gully XIV. Waimea .. 6 0 0 Red Jack's 20 0 0 Waimea .. XV. George and Henry Linklater. Francis and Mary Carmini and Henry L. Picket. T. Dunne and F. Roohford. George Pimpernel!. Ah Joe and Ah Buck. \ , P. Romas and P. Franzini. Joseph Kidd, James Linooln, and Daniel Twoomey. Frederiok Henne. Gladius and Eugene Rebay and John Rebustette. Joseph Manzoni. ,. Chiok Sun and Tank Que. Waimea Hydraulio Sluioing Oo. Jane McWhirter, W. Hanrahan, and Joseph Dolph. Joe Din, Ah Duck, Ah Hung. M. Bernson and F. Linborn. Joseph Manzoni. ,, J. Mundy, F. Bernhard, and Thomas Low. John Gallagher. 436. 21/11/01 8 0 0 Middle Branoh „ . 433. 21/11/01 427. 21/11/01 410. 19/9/01 407. 19/9/01 399. 19/9/01 396. 19/9/01 354. 16/5/01 849. 16/5/01 3 0 0 German Gully XIV. 5 0 0 Italian Gully „ „ 2 0 0 German Gully „ „ .. 5 0 0 5th and 6th „ . Terraces 4 0 0 Swindler's ,, „ .. Terraoe 20 0 0 Italian Flat.. XV. 2 0 0 Fitzhenry's ,, „ Terraoe 3 2 0 Middle Branoh „ ... Stephen R. Honey. Albert Tomasi. H. J. Atkinson, M. Fitzgerald, and P. Toker. Bartholomew Cox. 348. 16/5/01 335. 18/4/01 326. 21/3/01 290. 28/8/89 269. 15/11/00 256. 18/10/00 2 2 0 Cameron's , „ .. Gully 2 0 0 Greenstone . ... Road 8 2 14 Callaghan's.. » , 4 0 0 J. Gallagher „ . I 2 0 0 Tunnel Ter... XIV. i 6 0 0 Middle Branoh XV. T. Dunne and F. Roohford. J. Dolph and J. Manzoni. J. Gallagher. Frederick Martini. R. Straight, H. Atkinson, and H. Burger. George Darbyson. Stephen R. Honey. Ah Yum and Yep Turn. 231. 26/7/00 207. 28/6/00 70. 24/8/99 66. 24/8/99 2 0 0 Callaghan's.. . „ .. 10 0 0 Pakihi Swamp ., „ 2 0 0 Lamplough „ „ Gully 2 0 0 Tunnel Ter... XIV. 65. 15/12/99 62. 24/8/99 44. 15/6/99 42. 15/6/99 i 96 3 0 Waimea .. XV. 8 0 0 Middle Branch . » 2 0 0 „ . ,i 30,000 sq. ft. Kapitea Crk. . „ W. Mitchell, sen., W. Mitohell, jun., P. and J. Mitchell. Wheel of Fortune G.M. Co. G. Rebay and J. Rebustette. William Lenihan. W. Hyndman, J. and G. Hunt. John Dinan, Thomas Hunt, and Charles Brown. L. Morgan and J. Isbester. 41. 15/6/99 25,000 sq.ft. . ,. ... 37. 18/5/99 17. 13/4/99 12. 27/4/95 2 0 0 Pretty Wo- XIV. . ... man's 11 18 0 Waimea .. XV. 6 0 0 Middle Branch „ » Joseph Dolph. D. Thompson, G. Burger, R. Rothwell, R. Thompson, W. Boyd, and T. McDonald. Stephen R. Honey. Sung Lee, J. Sung, and party. 10. 31/3/92 .9362. 26/8/98 11315. 17/8/98 2 0 0 Callaghan's.. , ,. 3 0 0 Cornishman's „ „ Gully 6 0 0 Callaghan's.. , . 11307. 7/8/98 6 0 0 German Gully » „ .. P. Martini, J. Manzoni, and J. Dolph. S. Rowe, Debau, A. Gambozzi, and party. Jeremiah O'Sullivan and party. B. Lanini and A. Tomasi. 14237. 20/1/98 14241. 26/1/98 12639. 6/5/96 12651. 3/6/96 17354. 24/7/95 S7543. 31/7/95 >7250. 26/6/95 S7513. 29/5/95 >7510. 15/5/95 >7508. 1/5/95 53236. 17/10/94 6 0 0 Middle Branch „ „ 2 0 0 Fitzhenry's „ „ .. Terraoe 4 0 0 Parihaki » . Swamp 4 0 0 Italian Flat.. „ „ 2 0 0 Middle Branch „ „ 6 0 0 Callaghan's.. „ ., .. 2 0 0 Foxes 6 0 0 Greenstone „ „ Road 2 0 0 Middle Branoh » ,, 4 0 0 Stony Creek „ „ .. 4 0 0 Callaghan's.. „ „ ■■ Stephen and Joseph HaviH. G. Darbyson and party. Robert Cook. Robert Anderson. J. and R. Newton. Daniel Griffen and party. J. Burke and G. Punoh. P. MoGrath and party. W. Hyndman and party.

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Number and Date of License. Area. Locality. Block. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner. NELSON Al ND WEST ( 30AST GOLI )FIELDS— continued. Sta: .FFOBD AND < iOLDSBOBOUG] a— continued. A. R. P. 2 0 0 Callaghan's.. Alluvia: i Claims —con itinued. 53230. 29/8/94 45698. 11/7/94 45667. 28/2/94 5 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 4 0 0 2 0 0 6 0 0 2 0 0 5 0 0 Fitzhenry's Terraoe Callaghan's.. Greenstone Road Callaghan's.. Italian Flat.. , Waimea Callaghan's.. Greenstone Road XV. Waimea .. m • • .. F. Piokering and A. Johanson. 0. Johanson and party. Lorenzo Bertie. f. » • • 45624. 25/10/93 45612. 24/9/93 m C. Olsen and J. Hyndman. Thomas Delphano. m 45632. 15/11/93 45528. 1/3/93 45529. 1/3/93 39744. 24/8/92 39754. 31/8/92 39703. 20/4/92 37295. 9/3/92 C. Johanson and party. Joseph Manzoni and party. ■ . n Chow Mon and Ah Mun. T. Helens and W. J. Mcllroy. S. R. Honey. D. Thomson and party. * 37244. 2/12/91 34792. 24/9/91 34791. 24/9/91 34774. 2/9/91 34776. 5/9/91 297. 10/4/90 24958. 3/9/90 15700. 20/6/89 4 0 0 6 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 6 0 0 4 0 0 4 0 0 4 0 0 Ditto Callaghan's.. Italian Flat.. Callaghan's Flat » T. F. Jones and party. John Stewart. John Stenhouse and party. Outhbert Priest and party. J. J. Burns and party. J. Dolph and party. M. Bernson and party. A. Morretti and party. » 15688. 6/6/89 15630. 31/1/89 9993. 8/11/88 6 0 0 3 0 0 2 0 0 6 0 0 4 0 0 Ditto Middle Branch Fitzhenry's Terrace Middle Branoh Fitzhenry's Terrace J. Dolph and party. E. Johnston and party. Charles Deas and party. 9986. 8/11/88 9992. 8/11/88 a P. Kiely and party. John White and party. 9995. 6/12/88 9991. 8/11/88 9989. 1/11/88 44743. 11/6/83 4 0 0 4 0 0 6 0 0 6 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 4 0 0 2 0 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 5 0 0 6 0 0 4 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 2 0 0 6 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 Ditto Red Jaok's Gully Goldsborough German Gully Fourth Ter... Humphry's .. Gilbert's Terrace CheBterfield.. German Gully Ballarat Hill Pretty Woman's Taipo Stafford McKinley's Terraoe German Gully Kapitea Creek Chickenhearted Terrace Scandinavian Terraoe Arahura Kelly's Terraoe O'Neil's Gully Tunnel Terrace Robert Johnston and party. Thomas Brown and party. Denis Maher and party. Philip Williams. 36662. 26/3/84 36640. 21/2/84 91375. 26/10/98 91322. 17/8/98 84980. 23/7/98 XLV. M. Flynn and party. Paul Arnerioh and party. P. Peterson and D. Thomson. Sue Bun and Ah Shue. Young Moy and party. 84952. 21/4/98 84924. 2/2/98 84902. 9/12/97 77271. 30/9/97 Thomas'Furlong and party. Sung Sin and Lue Hung. John Schilling and party. .. G. and R. Taylor. 77233. 20/5/97 72860. 25/1/97 62993. 31/7/96 • Henry Cotheral and party. T. O'Brien and party. P. Hargreaves and party. 62979. 29/9/96 62974. 31/8/96 62963. 31/7/96 G. and S. Glasson. R. Lee and M. Reedy. Ah Chow and Ah Gow. 62946. 9/5/96 George Pimpernell. 62940. 5/5/96 62933. 18/3/96 V Arahura .. Waimea .. W. and J. Olderog. Daniel Sullivan and party. 53997. 28/11/95 53980. 21/8/95 .. G. Dunoan. W. H. Teague and party. 53968. 27/5/95 53919. 7/12/94 37385. 24/4/94 37316. 28/2/93 34899. 28/11/92 34886. 5/11/92 34872. 1/9/92 30740. 13/3/91 2 0 0 12 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 6 0 0 2 0 0 5 0 0 6 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 5 0 0 4 0 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 Arahura Gillian's Gully German Gully Tunnel Ter... Gillian's Gully Humphry's.. Piper's Flat.. Blake's Terrace Tunnel Terrace Taipo (near Kumara) Ballarat Hill Swindler's Ter. Tuoker's Gully | Tunnel Ter... Arahura .. Waimea .. Daniel Dwyer and party. James Davidson, Joseph Manzoni. Peter Mitohell. Thomas Sell and party. Wm. Yea Poot and Gun Hung. J.N. Smyth. Edward Quinn and party. 21066. 24/4/90 * • ■ William Martin. 21041. 16/2/89 Miohael Crowley and party. 21019. 8/10/89 W290. 12/7/89 12590. 12/7/89 12583. 12/7/89 1.2548. 22/2/89 Sew Ying and party. John Gallagher. Ah Kie, Ah Wah, and Ah Young. Joe Cum and Fong Lee. J. Gardiner and P. Arnerioh. ' » ' •

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Number and Date of License. Area. Locality. Blook. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner. NELSON A ND WEST 1 COAST GOLDFIELDS— continued. Stai ?FORD and Goldsborough— continued. 489. 19/6/02 487. 19/6/02 a. r. p. 3 0 0 Kelly's Ter. 7 0 0 Dre XIV. X. edging Claims. Waimea .. .. Ronald Sutherland. „ .. .. A. Jamieson, G. Taylor, sen. R. Fleuty, G. Taylor, jun., J. Merewether, and R. Cleaver. Arahura .. .. Joseph Taylor. 481. 19/6/02 73 2 38 Auckland Beach 480. 19/6/02 479. 19/6/02 478. 19/6/02 347. 16/5/01 291. 17/1/01 200, 28/6/00 199. 28/6/00 W272. 28/7/87 (V271. 28/7/87 V269. 28/7/87 83 2 36 Ditto 84 1 32 99 1 0 57 1 0 Waimea 52 0 0 83 2 16 60 1 26 Middle Branoh 16 0 0 Taipo 16 2 4 16 2 4 IX., XIV. Edmund Wickes. John Caldwell. James D. Gillies. Waimea .. .. T.V.Byrne. Alexander Gibson. Chas. Davey and S. R. Honey. Stafford-Waimea G.D. Co. . .. .. Teremakau Quartz-mining Go. Hokitika. 304. 24/4/00 395. 19/5/00 437. 13/7/00 466. 24/8/00 467. 24/8/00 498. 24/8/00 520. 5/10/00 544. 2/4/00 546. 2/11/00 593. 15/1/01 597. 15/1/01 171. 17/11/99 429. 29/6/00 422. 25/1/87 5 0 0 Sandy Gully 2 0 0 Rimu 9 0 0 Brighton Ter. 3 0 0 Back Creek .. 5 0 0 Brennan'sCrk, 11 0 37 Blue Spur .. 3 0 0 Back Oreek .. 3 0 0 Brighton Ter. 18 0 0 Seddon's Ter. 1 0 32 Tucker Flat.. 10 0 0 Seddon's Ter. 3 2 0 Woodstock .. 12 0 15 0 0 Kanieri Forks Al ii. XI. i. IX. i. lluvial Claims. Nicholas Beroz. William Surgenor. John Duske and party. William Wieblitz and party. Matthew Wouldes. Kanieri .. .. Augustus Boys. J. H. Spenoe and Robert Knight, Patrick Douglas. John Johnston and party. John F. and Fred. A. Bergmann, John Johnston and J. Stewart. Kanieri .. .. Willetts and Shannon. „ .. .. J. Willetts and party. Kanieri Lake Water- Charles Davey and others, race and Mining Oo. Waiho .. .. Waiho H.S. and Water-raoe Co. Kanieri .. .. William Noble and others. Gillespie's .. J. Strachan Bridges. Kanieri .. .. Richard Allan Harcourt. Thomas McDonald and party. Christian Neilsen and party. John Johnson. 47. 22/3/97 451. 8/7/97 48. 29/1/98 458. 3/11/98 2. 24/2/99 6. 9/3/99 11. 23/3/99 14. 23/3/99 16. 23/3/99 25. 6/4/99 50 0 0 Waiho 9 0 0 Kanieri 75 0 0 S. Westland 11 0 9 3 0 0 Seddon's Ter. 3 0 0 Back Oreek .. 5 0 0 Mahinapua Creek 2 0 0 Back Creek .. 5 0 0 Mahinapua Stream 5 0 0 Mahinapua Oreek 6 0 0 Seddon's Ter. 3 0 0 4 0 0 Arahura Flat 2 0 0 Mahinapua Creek 4 0 0 Arahura 4 0 0 Arahura Flat 5 0 0 TuokerFlat.. 4 0 0 Back Creek .. 100 0 0 Arahura ... Philip Boyd and party. Henry Butland. William Maofarlane. 33. 6/4/99 34. 6/4/99 35. 6/4/99 59. 20/4/99 Riohard Wild and John MoKay. John Duske and party. William Brown and party. William Sohoemaker and another. 66. 4/5/99 80. 26/5/99 90. 22/6/99 101. 21/7/99 105. 26/5/99 iii. Richard A. Haroourt and party. Grant Harcourt and another. David John and T. Hutchison. Robert Knight and party. Kanieri .. .. Humphrey's H.S. Oo. (now Consolidated Goldfields of N.Z.). „ .. - .. Consolidated Goldfields of N.Z. 106. 26/5/99 107. 26/5/99 108. 26/5/99 116. 18/8/99 167. 17/11/99 210. 6/4/99 229. 8/5/99 243. 9/3/00 264. 24/4/00 265. 24/4/00 294. 6/4/00 647. 22/2/01 658. 8/3/01 701. 7/6/01 718. 5/7/01 775. 20/9/01 799. 1/11/01 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Kanieri Forks 5 0 0 3 0 0 Keenan's Gully 13 8 Molntyre's Gully 3 0 0 Seddon's Ter. 100 0 0 Rimu 97 0 2 12 0 Brennan'sCrk. 5 0 0 Hauhau 4 0 0 7 3 32 Seddon's Ter. 2 0 0 Brighton Ter. 4 0 0 Rimu 6 0 0 Kanieri II. V., IX. V. John Roberts and party. Laohlan McLaohlan. Frederiok George and party. William Milner and J. Forsyth. John O'Donnell and party. Kanieri .. .. Joseph Grimmond. „ .. .. Martin Cashman. Ye Mun and party. Robert Mark Brown. Luoy J. and W. M. Haroourt. William Berry and party. Charles Sears. Samuel Si Icock. Lanoelot Huff and party.

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Number and Date of License. I I Area. Locality. Block. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner. NELSON 1 lND WEST COAST GO] Hokitika— contir, Alluvial Claims —oo: III. Kanieri .. LDFIELDS— contin: :ued. utinued. eu. 818. 6/12/01 821. 6/12/01 850. 24/1/02 890. 21/3/02 895. 21/3/02 902. 4/4/02 927. 2/5/02 945. 6/6/02 946. 6/6/02 958. 4/7/02 962. 18/7/02 968. 1/8/02 A. r. p. 66 0 14 5 0 0 8 0 0 5 0 0 4 0 0 3 3 0 2 0 0 6 0 0 10 0 0 19 0 0 10 0 0 92 3 16 Humphrey's Hauhau Kanieri Forks South Hokitika Kanieri Forks Blue Spur .. Baok Creek .. "* Humphrey's Hydraulio S. Oo. Hugh McKinnon. Riohard Lemain and party. John Beroz. George Pfahlert. Patrick McQuilkin and party. James H. Spenoe and party. Peter Hansen and party. Francis L. Kirwan and party. Lucy Jane Harcourt. John Stewart and party. Henry Gilfillan, jun. Woodstock .. Arahura Flat Kanieri River Seddon's Ter., Baok Creek Ditto V., IX. Kanieri .. 969. 1/8/02 970. 1/8/02 971. 1/8/02 972. 1/8/02 975. 1/8/02 964. 18/7/02 982. 15/8/02 983. 15/8/02 984. 15/8/02 988. 15/8/02 998. 5/9/02 L000. 5/9/02 L008. 26/9/02 L009. 26/9/02 95 2 21 90 0 31 97 0 24 6 0 0 7 0 0 12 0 0 6 0 0 4 0 0 3 0 0 4 0 0 6 0 0 4 0 0 4 0 0 6 0 0 V. ... David Abbott. Dunoan Edward Clerk. Wilfred Ewing Bruce. John Anderson. Anna 0. Moloney and party. Arthur Olifton and party. Thos. Brown and William Green. H. Hartke and Robert Thomson. Augustus Boys. John Duske and party. Arthur John Knowles and party. R. Hyndman and D. W. Wells. John Druce and party. Robert G. Surgenor and Frederiok Willoughby. W. H. Harvey and T. McDonald. William O'Connor and party. I.,V. "„ '.'. Back Creek.. Seddon's Ter. Brighton Ter. Baok Creek.. Blue Spur .. Back Creek.. Brighton Ter. V. Kanieri .. 1014. 10/10/02 1032. 5/12/02 6 0 0 12 0 0 Blue Spur .. Seddon's Ter. I. „ 254. 24/3/00 255. 6/4/00 682. 12/4/01 688. 26/4/01 694. 10/5/01 747. 2/8/01 943. 6/6/02 978. 15/8/02 979. 15/8/02 99 0 17 100 0 0 28 2 21 10 0 0 97 1 32 69 3 21 88 3 2 37 0 0 96 0 0 Kanieri Dredging Clain I. Kanieri .. I..V. I. . is. Riohard Wild. Hokitika River Dredging Co. Hauhau Creek Dredging Co. John Kulsen and party. Augustus Boys. Woodstock Gold-dredging Co. Commissioner's Flat G.D. Co. James Park and Arthur Boyes. J. J. Caldwell and James Cropper. Blue Spur .. Kanieri River Blue Spur .. Woodstock .. Kanieri Three-mile .. II. Kanieri .. I..V. .006. 23/9/02 100 0 0 Wataroa XIII. Waimea .. X. . .. (XV. Wataroa ) |lll. Waitangitaona j XI. Mahinapua Montezuma Albert Everett. 342. 19/5/00 350. 24/4/00 445. 30/7/00 447. 30/7/00 460. 21/8/00 462. 17/8/00 80 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 56 1 37 34 2 19 Totara Lagoon Hauhau Creek I. Kanieri .. V. „ I. „ V. „ .. IIV. Mahinapua 1 t I. Kanieri } XI. Mahinapua I. Kanieri .. V. I. Aylmer Lead G.D. Oo. Hauhau Creek Dredging Oo. Great Woodstock G.D. Oo. Hokitika Junction Dredging Oo. Hauhau Creek Dredging Co. Woods took Gold-dredging Co. 480. 4/9/00 100 0 0 John Magnus. 514. 4/10/00 557. 27/7/00 572. 7/12/00 573. 7/12/00 575. 7/12/00 576. 7/12/00 577. 7/12/00 619. 28/1/01 87 1 17 23 2 0 99 3 28 41 3 31 96 2 8 100 0 0 38 0 18 84 0 0 Mahinapua Kanieri V. I. III., IV., VII., VIII. VIII. Shenandoah No. 2 Mahinapua G.D. Co. Great Woodstook G.D. Oo. Charles Evans. Philip James Perry. John Staines. William Albert Stapleton. John McKenzie. Eleotric Dredging Company. 620. 28/1/01 621. 28/1/01 622. 28/1/01 623. 28/1/01 624. 28/1/01 643. 19/2/01 645. 19/2/01 84 0 0 84 0 0 84 0 0 74 0 0 71 0 32 52 1 32 100 0 0 H m * I. ". '.'. William G. Cooper and party. Thomas Furlong, r878. 2/10/89 r879. 2/10/89 r623. 14/2/91 r768. 1/3/84 r774. 1/5/84 r906. 15/12/99 1. 27/2/99 282. 9/3/01 386. 21/9/01 432. 8/2/02 467. 22/3/02 496. 24/5/02 513. 14/12/02 10 0 0 21 1 32 7 0 0 25 0 0 48 0 3 100 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 5 0 0 Ross Ross. Alluvial Claim II. Totara .. ,s. Mont d'Or G.M. & Water-raoe Co. // m • • * it • • Mont d'Or G.M. '& Water-raoe Co, DonneHy's Crk. Ross Lake Ianthe Donnelly's Crk. Totara Donnelly's Crk. if. Totara .. William and S. Pryor. Antonio Traversi. J. and A. Allen. Thomas Pryor. Albert John Brown. W. E. Phillips. John Smith. i .

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Number aud date of License. Area. Locality. 1 t Block. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner. i NELSON AND WEST 1 COAST GOLDFIELDS— continued. T748. 1/3/83 176. 23/6/00 241. 17/11/00 242. 17/11/00 255. 1/12/00 243. 17/11/00 257. 1/12/00 248. 17/11/00 257. 1/12/00 260. 1/12/00 259. 1/12/00 286. 23/3/01 318. 15/6/01 305. 25/5/01 338. 24/8/01 354. 21/9/01 357. 21/9/01 359. 21/9/01 363. 21/9/01 366. 21/9/01 367. 21/9/01 385. 2/11/01 386. 2/11/01 411. 14/12/01 419. 11/1/02 420. 11/1/02 421. 11/1/02 428. 25/1/02 429. 25/1/02 499. 7/6/02 510. 23/8/02 R 60 0 0 Donoghue's II. 100 0 0 Mikonui .. I. 31 2 8 Donnelly's Crk. II. 100 0 0 Donoghue's I. 74 0 0 Mikonui 60 0 0 Donoghue's 76 0 3 Mikonui 100 0 0 57 1 8 19 0 32 Totara .. II. 74 0 0 40 0 0 .. XIV. 80 0 0 .. XI. 73 0 0 i Totara .. I. 39 2 0 Donnelly's Crk. II. 80 0 0 .. XII. 80 0 0 .. XIV. 80 0 0 80 0 0 80 0 0 80 0 0 Donnelly's Crk. II. 80 0 0 .. XIV. 80 0 0 40 0 0 Jones Creek II. 80 0 0 .. XII. 80 0 0 80 0 0 39 3 27 . .. I. 100 0 0 .. II. 91 0 0 .. XIV. 60 0 0 Mikonui .. ' I. toss — continued. Wedging Claims. Totara .. .. Prinoe of Wales G.D. Oo. Kohinoor G.D. Co. George Woolhouse and others. „ .. .. Gardiner D. Wilson. William Wardell. Prince of Wales G.D. Co. John Magnus. F. H. King. John Magnus. G.D.Wilson. „ .. .. George Guild and others. Mahinapua .. Totara Shellbaok G.D. Co. Thos. H. James and A. Burnett Totara .. .. Samuel Gibbons and others. „ .. G. and M. Manira. Mahinapua .. Alfred Bing and others. Totara .. .. Ross Day Dawn G.D. Oo. Mahinapua .. Alfred Bing and others. Totara .. .. Totara Shellback G.D. Oo. Mahinapua .. Alfred Bing and others. Totara .. .. John Booth. Fergus Macleod. Mahinapua .. Aylmer Lead G.D. Co. Totara .. .. Fergus Ferguson Maoleod. 905. 23/12/96| I 50 0 OlDonnelly's Crk, | II. | Quartz Claim. | Totara .. I .. | Antonio Zalla. Okarito. 015. 12/9/00 •017. 12/9/00 016. 12/9/00 °|j; 112/9/00 065. 27/8/01 059. 28/11/01 057. 28/11/01 056. 28/11/01 060. 1/2/02 L 75 0 0 Okarito .. VIII. 50 0 0 75 0 0 100 0 0 75 0 0 Gillespie's IX. Beach 100 0 0 I Five-mile .. XIV. 40 0 0 Okarito .. XII. 40 0 0 100 0 0 Saltwater .. XIV. Dredging Claims. Okarito .. .. Luoio Zala. Henry Friend. William MoLeod. Gillespie's .. . Henry Butland. Okarito .. .. A.N. Field. .. Christopher Smith. Mount One- .. Fergus MoLeod. one Subdistriot Okarito .. .. William Liddell. 062.. 1/5/02 S 100 0 0 Five Mile .. .lluvial Claims. O50. 31/5/99 151. 19/7/01 045. 27/8/02 185. 28/11/01 7. 31/5/99 46. 1/2/00 168. 28/11/01 178. 28/11/01 184. 28/11/01 50 0 0 Waiho .. XI. 20 0 0 100 0 0 4 0 0 10 0 0 Bullook Creek 3 0 0 Waiho 5 0 0 Mapourika 5 0 0 Waiho .. XI. 4 0 0!. Waiho .. .. Westland D. and S. Oo. W. H. Harris and G. Wise. Waiho .. .. John Irwin. Martin Cunningham. W. J. Taylor and E. L. Batson. j Alexander Graham. OTAGO AND S( 10UTHLAND GOLDFIELDS. Naseby. Alluvial Claims. 122. 11/7/90 130. 5/5/93 133. 23/2/95 150. 12/2/95 160. 13/10/96 140. 30/11/96 162. 23/9/97 166. 17/2/98 167. 17/2/98 196. 27/9/98 11222. 17/12/90 16 0 20 29 2 32 24 0 0 18 2 26 19 2 28 39 0 30 95 2 0 75 3 34 93 0 25 14 3 0 2 0 0 Section 63 .. I. 2 .. VII. 27 .. II. Pt. of I. Section 28 .. II. „ 71 .. I. „ 74 .. Sees. 80, 24 .. I., IV. Section 81 .. I. 12 .. II. Two-mile Ck., Branoh Gully St. Bathan's Mt. Buster St. Bathan's Naseby Macrae's Bank of New South Wales. United M.and E. Water-race C< Mt. Buster Mining Co. John Ewing. John Hore. John Harous.

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Number and Date of License. Area. Locality. Block. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Rogistered Owner. OTAGO AND SOUTH LAND GOLE •FIELDS — continued. Nasi eby— continue :d. 51. 27/3/99 77. 25/4/99 A. R. P. 2 0 0 9 0 0 Alluvial C Shepherd's Hut, Puketoi Run Run 253a Olaims —conti: tiued. .. Patrick McOluskey and John Joseph McOluskey. Long Valley B. Diamond, D. Diamond, and R. Stringer. Joe Fong. 86240. 22/2/98 81308. 24/8/99 84151. 1/1/98 2 0 0 2 0 0 6 0 0 Head of Main Gully West side of Main Gully Johnston's Crk. Naseby .. Near Manuherikia Highlay .. Neil Nicholson. 118. 3/5/99 169. 15/8/99 172. 17/8/99 2 0 0 30 0 26 20 0 0 Seotion 43 .. II. ( . 8 .. VII. 1 t . 38 .. II. f 1 .. IJohn Harcus. St. Bathan's Scandinavian W.R. Co. (Rgd.). F. G. Laing, C. Allen, T. Kirk, J. Samson, Donald Ross, John Mone, John Symes. J. Kennedy, H. Butt, j. Carling. Nenthorn 188. 25/8/99 3 0 0 „ 18 .. X. Maerewhenua Patearoa .. 214. 3/10/99 219. 29/9/99 14 0 0 3 0 0 Caledonian Gully Section 9 .. X. Joseph Hambly, John Hambly. Maerewhenua Long Valley James Kennedy, E. G. Carling. 257. 31/10/99 258. 31/10/99 268. 14/11/99 47 3 10 50 0 0 8 0 0 „ 5 .. XIII. „ 4 .. Cook's Flat.. J. McNeil, G. R. Story, S. Brookes 271. 14/11/99 279. 10/11/99 814. 23/11/99 20 0 0 7 2 37 2 0 0 Coalpit Gully Section 65 .. I. „ 10 .. XII. Kyeburn Diggings Naseby St. Bathan's Rock-and-Pillar Maerewhenua St. Bathan's Budle Naseby .. A. M. Beer, Pnilip Beer, and L. W. Beer. Wm. Beck, J. Hewitt, J. Beck. Harry Ercell, John W. Coulson. P. Patterson, W. Sasse. 320. 22/12/99 8 2 0 Seos. 58, 120 IX. Peter Alfred Botting. 324. 19/1/00 351. 6/2/00 355. 6/2/00 859. 26/1/00 17 3 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 Seotion 29 .. II. Two-mile Gully Mulholland's Gully Seotion 53 .. IX. Scandinavian W.R. Oo. (Rgd.). Ge Chong. Duck Yee, Sue Mong. Maerewhenua Naseby .. W. S. Yeoman and J. Oberg. 365. 20/2/00 368. 28/2/00 375. 6/3/00 393. 20/3/00 394. 20/3/00 408. 30/3/00 438. 24/4/00 494. 26/7/00 84029. 10/11/97 1675. 13/1/72 501. 9/7/00 521. 13/8/00 522. 13/8/00 532. 27/8/00 570. 28/9/00 18 0 0 3 0 0 40 0 0 2 0 0 15 0 0 2 0 0 6 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 15 0 0 20 0 0 6 0 0 6 0 0 3 0 0 Mulholland's Gully East Cambrian Township Seotion 38 .. III. Maori Gully, Puketoi Run Main Spur, west of Sowburn West side of Golden Gully West side of Sowburn Township Coalpit Hill Near Pound.. North side of Lagoon Fiddler's Flat Coalpit Gully East side Taieri, opposite junotion Bullook Ck. Enterprise Gully Duffy Gully.. Joe Fong. St. Bathan's D. Jones, Griffith Jones, and Catherine Jones. .. Launcelot Hore. Patrick McOluskey, George F. McOluskey. Robert T. Stewart. Maniototo Livingstone .. John Christian. Patearoa .. Robert T. Stewart. Cambrian Naseby St. Bathan's J. MoGuckin and R. McGuokin. William Cain, James Cain. Anthony Gallagher. Kyeburn .. Naseby .. Simon Hewitt. W. Beck, Jos. Hewitt, J. Beck. Frank Parker. Naseby .. .. Matthew Young. 34514. 5/1/92 2 0 0 Milkman's Gully Maerewhenua Naseby .. Amy Frater. G. W. MasoD, H. Mason, S. B. Gibson, H. Donnelly, C. F. Greenslade, W. Pearson. Ditto. Jos. Frater and Morris Frater. 7242. 24/1/88 618. 29/10/00 2 0 0 2 0 0 Ditto Section 9 .. X. Maerewhenua Naseby .. 620. 4/12/00 648. 19/12/00 653. 21/12/00 2 0 0 11 2 20 2 0 0 Spec Gully Section 61 .. I. Part Sec. 18.. X. Maerewhenua Ditto Robt. Mountain, Wm. Marslin. Julia Guffie. Tnomas Cooper. 658. 21/12/00 659. 21/12/00 666. 21/1/01 706. 11/3/01 2 0 0 3 0 0 6 0 0 6 0 0 Seotion 57 '. '. IX. German Gully Seotion 10 .. II. Kyeburn .. Naseby .. William R. Barnes. W. S. Yeoman and J. Oberg. P. Beer, A. M. Beer, L. W. Beer. Chong Hoy,

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Number and Date of Lioense. Area. Locality. Block. Survey District.. Name of Claim. Name of Registerod Owner. OTAGO AND SOUTH! LAND GOLI )F 115LDS — continued. Na; seby— contim ted. 86436. 12/7/98 738. 15/4/01 44758. 10/2/93 A. R. P. 3 0 0 8 0 0 4 0 0 Alluvial Tucker Gully Wet Gully Welshman's Gully '. Claims —con tinued. Kyeburn .. Naseby .. Manuherikia A. M. Beer. Henry Moore. P. Dillon, S. Dillon, J. Lynch. 790. 31/5/01 791. 31/5/01 838. 23/9/01 864. 27/9/01 15 0 0 6 0 0 4 0 0 5 0 0 Ditto Surfaoe Hill Spec Gully Sees. 10,13.. X. St.Bathan's Naseby .. Maerewhenua Ditto Jas. Hesson, Jas. Simmonds. P. Jacobs, S. Simmonds S. Foxwell S. Dillon. P. Garty and A. Gallagher. Frederiok W. Inder. G. Adams, jun., D. L. Weir, Charles Adams. John Matheson. Jas. Cain and Jas. Merohant. 874. 27/9/01 879. 14/10/01 881. 14/10/01 883. 14/10/01 885. 17/10/01 886. 17/10/01 894. 28/10/01 901. 15/11/01 902. 15/11/01 914. 29/11/01 918. 29/11/01 919. 29/11/01 937. 16/12/01 938. 16/12/01 3 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 7 0 0 5 0 0 4 0 0 4 0 0 2 0 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 10 0 0 16 2 17 10 0 0 6 0 0 „ 10,16 .. East side Kyeburn Flat Milkman's Gully Main Gully Patearoa Taieri River, above bridge at Patearoa Station Between Nase-by-Ranfurly Road and Lennane's Hill West side Main Gully, near Target Main Gully, near Lollyworn an ' s Gully Part Seo. 53 I. Seotion 2 .. II. 7 .. VII. Euterpriseand Coalpit Gullies Taradale Gully Naseby .. Naseby .. Frederiok J. Hore. William Guffie. Robert T. Stewart. Joseph Hambly, John Hambly. Henry Moore. Elizabeth E. Baxter. Leopold Botting. St. Bathan's Catherine Dungey. Scandinavian W.R. Co. (Ltd.). Nasuby .. F. W. Indur and Colin Brown, Enterprise Gully Water-raoe Company (Registered). John H. Stewart. 940. 16/12/01 8 0 0 Forgie's Gully Upper Kyeburn 945. 16/12/01 956. 20/12/01 958. 20/12/01 6 0 0 4 0 0 2 0 0 Smoker's Gully North side of Golden Gully West of Seo. 10 X. Albert Ravenwood and G. Buchanan. John Christian. Livingstone 959. 20/12/01 960. 20/12/01 961. 20/12/01 984. 25/2/01 4 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 Golden Gully 18 chains east Golden Hill Dam 200 yards east of Robertson's Woolshed Section 53 .. IX. Maerewhenua Livingstone James Guthrie, Wm. MoGrath, and M. MoGrath. Benjamin Yeoman. Thomas Frank Christian. .. James Meikle. Maerewhenua Livingstone Maerewhenua Ditto Livingstone William McQuade. 965. 20/12/01 966. 10/1/02 2 0 0 1 2 0 Golden Gully Seotion 53 .. IX. Frank Smith. W. S. Yeoman. 967. 20/12/01 969. 20/12/01 978. 16/1/02 992. 27/1/02 2 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 , 10 .. X. 400 yards east of Robertson's Woolshed Section 19 .. IV. SohoolFlat.. J. Brayshaw and Riohard Light. George Meikle. Upper Taieri Kyeburn Diggings Naseby .. John Lusher. Moses Brown and John Brown. 996. 27/1/02 1001. 27/1/02 ! 1012. 24/2/02 1013. 24/2/02 1017. 24/2/02 1021. 10/3/02 f9692. 18/6/97 2 0 0 2 0 0 5 0 0 4 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 Wet Gully .. '■ Near Target West side of Main Gully Enterprise Gully Main Gully.. iEast side Mulholland's Gully Section 9 .. X. Lee Ying. P. D. Botting, Enterprise Water-raoe Co. (Registered). LauncelotHore and J.HoreJun. Naseby D. and H.S. Co. (Ltd.). Lee Ying and Ah How. Maerewhenua James Braj shaw. 1047. 25/3/02 14 0 0 Junction of Deep Creek and Little Kyeburn I iBaao Parfitt, jun.

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Number ind Date of License. Area. Locality. Block. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner. OTAGO AND SOUTH! LAND GOLI LAND GOLDFIELDS -continued. Nas; eby— continut eby— continued. p Alluvial 3 0 0 Seotion 64 .. IX. Claims —cont Claims —continued. 1054. 14/3/02 Maerewhenua Livingstone Maere- .. Riohard Clark Cook. 2 0 0 West side of Golden Gully 41 1 34 Seos. 21,39.. I., III. 15 2 22 „ 19,70.. Vlll., I. whenua 1056. 14/3/02 Livingstone .. Norman Lory. 1064. 7/4/02 1065. 7/4/02 Maniototo Town of Naseby St. Bathan's Maniototo .. Naseby D. and H.S. Co. (Ltd.). Town of .. Thomas 0. Hore. TiJqooVii, 1083. 25/4/02 1130. 16/6/02 62 1 11 Section 82 .. I. 2 0 0 Fennessy's Paddock, Kyeburn Rd. 8 0 0 Whitton's Small grazing Run 2 0 0 Section 121.. IX. 7 2 0 , 9.. X. 3 0 0 Sees. 51, 121 IX. 3 0 0 Seotion 51 .. 2 0 0 Sees. 10,11.. X. 5 0 0 Golden Gully Spur 15 0 0 West side of Golden Gully 2 0 0 1J mile from Road east side Rough Ridge 12 0 0 Back of Hyde Township 2 0 0 Nardoo Spur Naseby St. Bathan's .. Vinegar Hill H.S. Co. (Ltd.). Gum Yong and Ah Toey. 1145. 20/6/02 Maerew henua Maere- .. Franois W. Botting. w henua 1146. 20/6/02 1150. 20/6/02 1151. 20/6/02 1152. 20/6/02 1153. 20/6/02 1160. 20/6/02 Ditto Ditto Edward Kean. Jonas Oberg. Peter Alfred Botting. John O'Donnell. Livingstone .. Dennis O'Grady. Livingstone 1164. 20/6/02 '0634. 10/11/96 H. Lory, N. Lory, and W. S. Yeoman. Louis Day. 1189. 13/8/02 Robert Arthur Mathewson. 1204. 8/9/02 Lower Kye- .. B. Smith and W. Smith (exeburn outors late W. Smith). Hamilton .. .. Guy F. Hooper and Hy. Home. 1216. 6/10/02 10 0 0 N.W. Shepherd's Hut 5 10 Main Gully, opposite Inder's Slaugh-ter-yard 15 0 0 Main Gully, above Govt. Water-raoe 8 0 0 Partly Main Gully and partly Mulholland's Gully 12 0 0 Matheson's Run 2 0 0 Below Govt. Water-race, joining John Hore's Claim 8 0 0 Seo. 53 .. IX. 1217. 6/10/02 Naseby .. .. J. W. Reed, N. S. Reed, and M. Reed. 1218. 6/10/02 William Guffie. 1219. 6/10/02 Franois A. E. Reed. 1223. 15/10/02 Highlay .. .. Samuel Simmonds. 1234. 20/10/02 Goon Ching. 1241. 13/10/02 1243. 13/10/02 1245. 13/10/02 1246. 13/10/02 1259. 13/10/02 10 0 0 9 .. X. 5 0 0 „ 64 .. IX. 28 2 32 .128 5 0 0 Part Seos. 10, X. 14, 16 5 0 0 Cambrian .. 2 0 0 East side Main Gully ,at foot of Hore's Traok 3 0 0 Seo. 19 .. IV. 16 0 0 Eastern bank, Sowburn Ck. 3 0 0 Spec Gully, near H. Donnelly's residenoe 3 0 0 Seo. 9 .. X. Maere- .. Franois W. Botting. whenua Ditto .. .. James Brayshaw. „ .. .. John James Cook. John Christian. Amy Frater. 1268. 31/10/02 1291. 2/12/02 Wm. Gay and Jas. Fordham. Naseby .. .. Peter Pomory, D. Botting. 1297. 12/12/02 1298. 12/12/02 11381. 12/10/97 Upper Taieri .. Owen Cambridge. R. T. Stewart (trustee for Patearoa Sluioing Co.). F. W. Inder. Maere- .. John Rodgers. whenua Ditto .. .. John Christian. 1311. 19/12/02 1818. 19/12/02 2 0 0 ,,109 .. IX. 1063. 7/4/02 I 1283. 17/11/02| Dre 69 1 11 i Seo. 2 .. I IV. I 61 2 21 I Seos. 26, 13 V, VI. '.dging Claims. Kyeburn .. | .. I William Bertram. .. | .. j Roberts's Naumai G.D. Oo. Qv. lartz Claims. 193. 7/7/98 194. 20/10/98 149. 20/7/99 16 3 19 Seo. 10 .. VIII. 27 0 0 „ 9 .. IX. II 0 0 . 8 Dunback .. I .. H. Spears, G. Ross, and H. Ross. Highlay .. .. George Donaldson. Dunback .. I .. Latham O. Beal.

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Number and Date of License. Area. Locality. Block. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner. OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND GOLDFIELDS continued. Naseby— continued. 150. 20/7/99 289. 23/11/99 405. 14/3/00 406. 14/3/00 476. 20/6/00 477. 20/6/00 665. 16/1/01 683. 13/2/01 1190. 14/8/02 A. r. p. Quartz Claims— continued. 1Q o rt / Seo - 5 •• IV. Budle ..1 T ,, _ _. . 19 ° ° | „ 5 .. IX. Dunback.. } •• Latham O. Be 1. 10 3 174 „ 5 .. VIII. ... .. J. Cunningham C. E. Griffin, J. O'Donnell, M. Callery, C. Cunningham, H. A. Griffiths. 30 0 0 „ 4 .. IX. Highlay .. .. William Donaldson. 30 0 0 . 10 V. , .. .. Robert Cockerell. 20 0 0 Highlay Dist. .. .. .. Robert James Cockerell. 20 0 0 Mareburn Ck. .. Mt. Highlay .. Charles E. Cockerell. 20 0 0 Part Sec. 10 VIII. Dunback .. .. Henry Spear. 20 0 0 Mareburn .. .. Highlay .. .. Robert Cockerell. 19 1 21 Lot 2 .. VIII. „ .. .. Charles MoGill. Pembroke. 20. 7/6/02 | Dredging Claim. 2 0 0 | Branch Creek ( .. | Cardrona.. | .. | Dan Goodman. Queenstown. Alluvial Claims. 36. 29/5/99 37. 29/5/99 38. 1/5/99 44. 31/7/99 58. 4/9/99 65. 2/10/99 70. 16/10/99 74. 16/10/99 118. 12/2/00 128. 5/3/00 144. 2/4/00 152. 2/4/00 157. 2/4/00 164. 7/5/00 187. 7/5/00 205. 4/6/00 210. 4/0/00 216. 2/7/00 221. 2/7/00 222. 2/7/00 227. 6/8/00 247. 3/9/00 259. 1/10/00 268. 5/11/00 269. 5/11/00 286. 4/2/01 299. 4/3/01 302. 4/3/01 303. 22/2/01 337. 6/5/01 350. 3/7/01 410. 4/11/01 417. 4/11/01 423. 2/12/01 427. 2/12/01 448. 3/2/02 480. 2/6/02 491. 7/7/02 499. 7/7/02 504. 4/8/02 534. 1/9/02 540. 6/10/02 541. 6/10/02 542. 6/10^02 5 0 0 Seel .. X. Skipper's Ck. .. James Edward Davis. 12 1 17 Sees. 19, 53, XI. „ .. August Sorenson and John Henand 120 derson. 7 2 31 Sees. 21,23,30 „ , .. Elizabeth Stevenson. 5 0 0 Maori Gully .. Few's Creek .. Robert Parkin Lee. 5 0 0 ShotoverRivsr .. .. .. John Smith. 2 0 0 Strahle's Flat .. Skipper's .. Adolph Helms, Thomas Hardy. 5 0 0 Shotover River .. .. .. Edward McLeod. 20 0 0 Sandhills .. .. Upper .. A. Campbell, D. Aspinall, S. Shotover White, W. Anderson, P. Connolly, J. Hamilton. 10 0 0 Monk's Ter- .. Sandhills.. .. Robert Lee, Geo. Reid, J. Stenrace house, Simon W. Wilson. 4 0 0 Deep Oreek.. .. Upper .. Gilohrist McNay. Shotover 22 1 0 Seo. 5 .. VIII. Humboldt .. S. Farrant and J. McDowall. 20 0 0 Muddy Oreek .. .. .. James Commins, James CosTerrace tello, Michael Dwan. 10 0 0 Bill Guy's Ter- .. .. .. Wm. Lovell Davis and Jas. Edrace ward Davis. 5 0 0 Skipper's Ok. .. .. Ah Quay. 4 0 0 Precipice Ck. .. Glenorohy .. Ernest Every Valpy. 31 0 0 Seo. 112 .. XIX. Shotover .. .. James Tyrrell, jun. 5 0 0 Racecourse .. Arthur's Pt. .. • Annie Greig. Terrace 9 1 10 Seo. 135 .. XI. Skipper's Ck. .. Benjamin Rogers and Alexander Johnston. 19 0 0 Buoklerburn .. .. .. James Andrew Wilson. Creek 19 0 0 Ditto .. .. .. .. Thomas Wilson. 10 0 0 Cattle Flat .. .. Dart River .. William Alexander Grant. 62 0 24 Seotion 126.. XI. Skipper's Ck. .. Skipper's Sluioing Co. 14 0 0 Shotover R. .. .. .. Daniel Ward. 6 2 32 Sees. 32 & 41 XI. Shotover .. .. John Stephen Collins. 9 3 12 Seotion 46 .. , .. 12 0 0 Twelve-mile .. Lake Waka- .. George and James Reid and tipu David Macdonald. 17 0 20 Section 108 .. XIX. Shotover .. Lawrence and Wm. Jas. Lynoh. 2 0 0 Boomerang .. Maori Point .. Wong Gong. Terrace 4 2 22 Soction 18 .. XI. Shotover .. .. Egbert Sainsbury. 54 2 21 I Seotion 20.. XIII. and Mid. I .. Moonlight Sluioing Oo. I • »>•• Vll. | Wa k a tipuJ 4 0 0 Boomerang .. Upper Shot- .. John R. Tripp. Terrace over 2 0 0 Colville's Ter. .. Maori Point 3 0 0 Shotover R. .. .. .. Alfred and Alfred E. Smith. 2 0 0 Big Beach .. .. Arthur's Pt. .. James Tyrrell, jun. 19 0 0 Part of Sec. 1 IX. Earnslaw.. .. Charles William Constable. 5 0 0 Frenchman's .. Shotover .. .. Mary Reisler. Beach 73 1 31 Seotion 6 .. IV. Skipper's Ck. .. James Samson. 5 0 0 Shotover R. .. .. .. Edward MoLeod. 14 0 0 Sheepyard Ter. .. Moonlight .. Lorenzo Resta. 14 0 0 Section 134 .. XL Skipper's Ck. .. Alfred Smith and Sons. 1 o n n 1 Section 20.. VII. 1 I J Elizabeth M. Peat and Adolph 12 U ° t . 138 .. XI. J " •' t Helms. 20 0 0 Near Skipper's .. .. .. W. L. Davis and J. Henderson. 2 0 0 Big Beaoh .. .. Arthur's Pt. .. James Tyrrell, jun. 2Q0 Table Terraoe I .. Sandhills .. .. William Anderson. IX. IV. XL VII. XI. I

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Number and Date of License. Area. Locality. Blook. Survey IM strict. Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner. I OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND GOLD] ?IELDS— continued. Qu kbnsto wn— contit tued. A. R. P. Alluvial Claims —cont inued. 561. 8/12/02 3. 22/2/99 4. 24/4/99 33. 1/8/99 14 0 0 12 2 30 73 2 0 52 1 30 47 2 18 Kawarau R. Seotion 22 .. .. Glenorchy 21 .. Sees. 26, 109, XI. Skipper's 110, 116,119, Creek 130, pt. 103 Sees. 89, 90, . Ditto 104, and 113 John Henry Shore. Hon. T. Fergus, Jas. Hazlett, A. Thomson, J. B. Callan, P. McCarthy, T. Brown. Ditto. Robert Johnson. 34. 1/8/99 William Lovell Davis and Jam s E. Davis. 61. 16/10/99 103. 1/12/99 207. 4/6/00 313. 1/4/01 ; 315. 1/4/01 ; 479. 2/6/02 500. 4/8/02 552. 3/11/02 66 1 0 3 0 0 30 2 37 43 2 20 44 0 14 100 0 0 36 3 30 5 0 0 Dredging Claims Seotion 137 .. III. Shotover .. I Deadman's Ck. .. Shotover R. Seotion 110a XIX. Shotover.. Sees. 42,45,47 „ „ .. Sees. 114, 115 „ „ Section 2 .. VIII. HumboL .. Sees. 141a, 142; XI. Skipper's Ck. Maori Point .. I ;. Horseshoe Bend G.D. Oo. William Tracy Palmer. Prince Arthur Gold-dredging Co. Maori Point Gold-dredging Co. Prince Arthur Gold-dredging Co. George Reid. Peter R-id. Maori Point Golddredging Co. Quartz Claims. 27. 1/8/99 j 93 3 12 j 75 0 0 6 0 0 2 1 30 2 0 0 24 0 0 46 1 4 2 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 i (Sees. 14, 18, 1 TT ) II and 26 | , Skipper's 1 Sees. 2,3,19. I TTT f Creek [ 20,21, & 24)' "''• ) I Section 32.. II. ) „.,. t . 30.. III. } D,tt0 - 1 ;. 4 .. 10 .. Sees. 12,19, 21 II. Sees. 6,7, & 8 XI. Jenning's .. Skipper's .. Gully Ditto Near Skipper's .. „ Achilles Gold-mines (Limited). 28. 1/8/99 a> 29. 1/5/99 30. 1/5/99 31. 1/5/99 32. 1/5/99 40. 1/9/99 256. 3/9/00 . 457. 7/4/02 484 26/6/02 540. 6/10/02 Shotover Q.M. Oo. (N.L.). William George McPherson and Martin Tobin. John MoMahon. Edward Woolhouse. W. L. Davis and J Henderson. Arrowtown, 177. 27/11/00 181. 11/12/00 195. 31/1/01 198. 31/1/01 251. 28/6/01 3 0 0 26 0 10 2 0 0 2 0 0 5 0 0 4 0 0 2 0 0 | 118 0i 13 0 0 Alluvial Claims. Bush Creek.. .. Arrow River Section 27 .. I. j Cardrona .. Hood's Gully .. Macetown German Hill .. Arrow River Whitechapel Flat Criffel Face .. Cardrona .. I Coal Creek .. .. Kawarau R. i Arrow Falls .. Arrow River Criffel Face .. .. Cardrona .. I. j Peter Rattigan. Daniel O'Leary. Charles Ross. James Hamilton. Robert Porter. 294. 24/9/01 335. 17/12/01 340. 17/12/01 379. 25/3/02 Albert Zala. Hugh Robertson. Arrow Falls G.M. Co. (Ltd.). Wm. Anderson, sen., and Neil McLellan. Hugh Robertson. 385. 7/4/02 4 0 0 19 1 8 2 0 0 ! 2 0 0 i 27 2 5 4 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 4 0 0 5 0 0 3 0 0 Head of Coal .. Kawarau .. Creek | Section 39 .. XVIII. j Sho(over ; Mason's Gully .. Arrow River : Deep Creek .. .. Gibbston .. Sees. 17 & 18 VII. Cardrona .. Bracken's .. Arrow River Gully East side of Arrow River East side of Cardrona Ck. Twohy's Creek .. Cardrona.. ; Bush Creek .. Arrow River Red Hill .. .. Macetown 408. 29/7/02 XVIII. 1 X. I ( tl f t Eugene C. D. Hay and George McH. Hay. Albert Lister and Scobie McKay. J. Bowler and A. A. Schieb. Walter Little. Richard Cotter and Florence Dunn. Charles and Henry Steele. 422. 26/8/02 433. 23/9/02 475. 22/12/02 7. 11/4/99 VII. 21. 30/5/99 113. 3/4/00 114. 3/4/00 116. 3/4/00 134. 5/6/00 I A. Torrie, P. Galvin, A. Torrie, jun., and J. Torrie. Wm. Robson and Daniel Miller. Patrick Barron. W. Reid, T. Reid, and C. Patton. 25 2 30 30 1 31 Dredging Claims, Section 23 .. II. Kawarau .. 17 .. XIV. Shotover .. Dn I Kawarau Consolidated G.D. Co. Wm. H. Anderson, Jas. Anderson, and William Hannah. Lafranchi Freehold Gold-dredg-ing Co. (Limited). 69. 3/10/99 90. 6/3/00 II. XIV. 92. 6/3/00 53 1 3 100 0 0 8 0 0 26 3 12 16 0 0 27 2 20 Section 18 and I. Cardrona part Sec. 3 | Section 11 .. H. j Cardrona .. Twohy's Gully Sect : on 24 .. II. Kawarau .. 29 .. I. „ 28 .. „ . I. 109. 3/4/00 111. 3/3/00 129. 5/6/00 44. 3/10/99 45. 7/11/99 II. VII. i Lone Star Dredging Co. ii! i. Anna Maria Lafranchi. Bonanza Gold-dredging Co. Waiora Gold-dredging Co. Eclipse Gold-dredging Co.

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Number ana Date of License. Area. Locality. Block. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner. OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND GOLDFIELDS— continued. Arrowtown— continued. 55. 15/11/99 68. 3/10/99 67. 3/10/99 i 150. 5/6/00 ! 161. 30/6/00 159. 24/7/00 161. 28/8/00 237. 18/6/01 A B p Alluvial Claims— continued. 39 2 10 Seotion 33 .. V. Kawarua (Seos. 21 & 22 II. ) 19 0 20 J Section 25.. III. ... { „ 35 .. V. J 18 2 34 Section 31 .. I. 21 1 0 „ 20 .. „ Cardrona 4 0 0 Cardrona 76 0 0 Section 27 .. II. Kawarau .. ,„,,,( „ 18 .. XIV. Shotover .. I 20 2 15 | . 3 .. III. Soho .. \ 30 3 0 „ 14 .. II. Kawarau Gibbston Gold-dredging Co. Kawarau Bridge G.D. Co. Charles Fleming. Lafranchi Freehold G.D. Co. George Sidney Otway. James Partridge. Neville Sievwright. 6. 17/3/99 25. 1/8/99 26. 30/5/99 27. 30/5/99 28. 30/5/99 29. 1/8/99 30. 1/8/99 455. 28/10/02 Quartz Claims. 4 0 0 August's Bush .. Arrow River 52 3 21 8ecs.il, 12,23, XII. Skipper's 29, 49, 52 Creek 29 3 12 Section 54 .. „ Ditto 16 0 0 . . 87 .. 10 0 0 53 .. 75 2 30 56 .. 80 3 35 Sees. 51 & 55 5 0 0 Caledonian .. Macetown Gully ' Patrick Barron. Glenrook Consolidated. William John Farrell Richard Baloh. Cromwell. Alluvial Claims. 966. 6/3/02 976. 5/6/02 1064. 7/8/02 1118. 9/10/02 1133. 6/11/02 1162. 11/12/02 1163. 11/12/02 1165. 11/12/02 1167. 12/12/02 1168. 12/12/02 800. 11/10/01 830. 7/H/ol 880. 7/2/02 901. 6/3/02 966. 6/3/02 976. 5/6/02 1064. 7/8/02 1118. 9/10/02 1133. 6/11/02 1162. 11/12/02 L163. 11/12/02 1165. 11/12/02 1167. 12/12/02 1168. 12/12/02 800. 11/10/01 830. 7/H/ol 880. 7/2/02 901. 6/3/02 916. 10/4/02 918. 10/4/02 920. 10/4/02 963. 8/5/02 602. 13/12/00 615. 7/2/01 616. 7/2/01 627. 7/2/01 670. 11/4/01 691. 9/5/01 19 0 0 Back of Gee's .. .. .. Flat on south side of Kawarau River 200Left-hand branch of Gravel 1 v Gully, Wanaka Road 2 0 0 Doctor's Flat .. Bannockbn. 5 0 0 Gee's Flat .. .. Kawarau Gorge 7 2 12 Section 74 .. I. Cromwell.. 12 0 0 Terrace behind .. Kawarau Gee's Flat 13 0 0 Gee's Flat .. .. Kawarau Gorge 12 0 0 Near Luggate, between right and left branches o f Luggate Creek 6 0 0 Poverty Gully, I. Bannookbn. part of Sec. 19 6 0 0 Smith's Gully, „ ,, •• part of Seo. 19 18 0 0 Nt vis .. .. Nevis 5 0 0 Kawarau Gorgr 5 0 0 Whit ton's Ck. Upper Nevis 6 0 0 South side of Kawarau R., back of Gee'sFlat 12 0 0 Back of Gee's .. Kawarau Flat Gorge 3 0 0 Terrace back of Gee's Flit 6 0 0 Between Bannockburn Oreek and OldWoman't Gully 2 0 0 Carriek Range, middle spur, Duffer's Gully 7 0 0 Pipeclay Trr. .. Bannookbn. .. • 57 126 Section 26 .. XIV. Cardrona.. 100 0 0 „ 10 .. VI. Lorn 5 0 0 Paddy's Gully .. UpperNevis 3 0 0 South side of .. Nevis .. .. I Cameron's Gully 35 2 4 Section 8 .. VII. Lorn 6 0 0 6 0 0 18 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 6 0 0 John Robertson. George Gordon Woodhouse. Thomas Rooney. Thomas Cr*ig. John Wrightson, jun. James A. Gordon and Mary A. Rowe. Wm. J. Williams and J. McK. Niool. W. W. White, R. White, and J. Sheath. William Lynn. John Lynn. Edwin McDonald. R. Ritohie and W. H. Thomas, William O'Com.ell. James Bethune. William Foreman. Jas. A. Gordon and M. A. Rowe. William Horn. Thomas Smith. James Hancock, jun. P. Harrington and J. Oavanagh. Jessie M. Ellis. Robert R. Macdonald. Charles Williamson. Jeremiah O'Connell. 916. 10/4/02 12 0 0 918. 10/4/02 3 0 0 920. 10/4/02 6 0 0 963. 8/5/02 2 0 0 602. 13/12/00 615. 7/2/01 616. 7/2/01 627. 7/2/01 670. 11/4/01 7 0 0 57 1 26 100 0 0 5 0 0 3 0 0 691. 9/5/01 35 2 4

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Number and Date of License. Area. Locality. Block. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner. OTAGO AND SOUTH LAND GOLDFIELDS—continued. Chom well — continued. a. r. p. Alluvial 3 0 0 North bank of Kawarau R. 4 0 0 Cornish Point, opposite Cromwell 117 2 9 Seotion 26 .. III. 50 0 0 2 .. IX. 2 0 0 Pipeclay Ter. 4 0 0 Luggate Crk., below Slip Spur 8 14 Seotion 61 .. I. 2 0 0 Kawarau Grg., north side of Cromwell 2 0 0 No. 1 Branoh, Gravelly Gully 3 0 0 Flat near Kawarau Gorge 2 0 0 Terrace at Quartzville 9 2 0 Section 18 .. II. 5 0 0 Nevis Gorge, above Deep 2 0 0 No. 1 Branoh, Gravelly Gully, near Queensberry 6 0 0 South side of Quartz Reef Creek 3 0 0 North side of Kawarau River, above Cromwell 4 0 0 North side of Poverty Gully 9 0 0 Garvey'sHill 94 3 32 Section 1 .. VII. 16 0 0 Poverty Gully and Deep Lead Ter. 8 0 0 North bank of Kawarau River, above Cromwell 19 0 0 Galvin's Gully 5 0 0 North side of Duffer's Gully 3 0 0 Near Drummond's Crk. 5. 0 0 Flat, both sides of Cameron's Gully 3 0 0 Terraoe at mouth of Cameron's Gully 12 0 0 South side of Frenchman's Gully 3 0 0 Near Drummond's Crk. 6 0 0 North side of Smith's Gully 2 0 0 Quartz Reef Point 2 0 0 200 yd. above Maori Point, Clutha River 2 0 0 Quartz Reef Point 15 0 0 Section 3 .. XIII. Claims —continued. 736. 4/7/01 Kawarau .. Jeremiah MoElligott. Gorge 738. 4/7/01 Nicholas Thomas. 2. 13/1/88 339. 24/4/00 358. 20/4/00 367. 20/4/00 Wakefield .. Cromwell Proprietary G.M. Oo. Lorn .. Joe Park. Bannockbn. .. David A. Jolly. Patrick Towey and James Bruce. 370. 16/11/99 445. 9/6/00 Cromwell.. .. Charles Holden. Thomas Wilson and Marion Jenkins. 493. 9/8/00 Ting Fonk Tong and Suun Shang. 500. 9/8/00 Nicholas Thomas. 523. 7/9/00 Bannockbn. .. Thomas Hunter. 535. 5/10/01 548. 5/10/00 II. Cromwell.. .. The Electrio G.D. Oo. (Ltd.). Robert Girdwood. 90. 2/2/99 Ting Fonk Tong and Suun Shang. 116. 8/6/99 James Partridge. 129. 6/7/99 Tommy Ah Joe. 132. 6/7/99 Bannookbn. .. James Crabbe. 134. 6/7/99 147. 3/8/99 183. 14/9/99 VII. Upper Nevis .. John C. Bayles. Kingston .. .. John K. Jameson. Bannockbn. .. James Crabbe. 184. 14/9/99 Wong Shen, Look Lira, and others. 205. 19/10/99 208. 19/10/99 Nevis .. .. John Mill. Bannookbn. .. Lee Kim and Jack Lee. 210. 19/10/99 Nevis .. .. Joe Park. 218. 19/10/99 E. McMillan. 219. 19/10/99 ... • • • 223. 19/10/99 Luggate .. .. Johnson, Lawson, Edie, and Wilde. 238. 19/10/99 • • Nevis .. .. Joe Park. 249. 16/11/99 Bannockbn. .. Archibald Ritchie. 39853. 10/11/98 James Bethune and P. Ewart. 39867. 10/11/98 Henry Hotop. 33507. 8/12/98 3103. 17/9/96 XIII. John Chapman and James Crombie. Nevis .. .. W. Masters, Charles Masters, and D. and J. Adie. Mt. Criffel .. Craig and Robertson. 6646. 29/5/91 I 2 0 0 West side of Cotter's Gully

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Number and Date of License. Area. Locality. Blook. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner. L_ OTAGO AND SOUTH LAND GOLI )FIELDS— continued. Crom well — continued. 50. 2/2'99 76. 4/5/99 85534. 9/12/97 77851. 3/3/98 89702. 9/6/98 77858. 3/3/98 89762. 8/9/98 89764. 8/9/98 89773. 8/9/98 89803. 6/10/98 89819. 6/10/98 89822. 6/10/98 89849. 10/11/98 76553. 12/3/97 76586. 12/3/97 85586. 3/2/98 79321. 22/4/97 89817. 6/10/98 80745 9/9/97 80792. 7/10/97 88182. 9/6/98 77811. 3/2/98 83197. 9/12/97 88184. 9/6/98 A R p Alluvial 2 0 0 Between Adams's and Pigroot Guls. 5 0 0 Long Gully 2 0 0 North Terrace, Pipeclay Gul. 5 0 0 North bank of Kawarau River, above Cromwell 2 0 0 Bailey's Gully 2 0 0 Campbell's Gully, Qrtz. Reef Point 6 0 0 On south side of Pipeolay Terrace 2 0 0 Terrace west of Pipeclay Gully 2 0 0 North side of Quartz Reef Creek 2 0 0 North bank of Kawarau River 2 0 0 Quartz Reef Point 2 0 0 Birchall's Gully 2 0 0 Quartz Reef Point 4 0 0 Dootor'sFlat 2 0 0 South of Fourmile Creek, Quartz Reef Point 2 0 0 Multum in Parvo Gully, south of Dry Creek 2 0 0 East bank of Clutha River, about 1J m. above Queensberry Chair 3 0 0 Quartz Reef Point 2 0 0 Duffer's Gully 2 0 0 South side of Quartz Reef Creek 2 0 0 Maori Point, Clutha River, below Queensberry Chair 2 0 0 About a mile above Devil's Creek, near Bendigo Rd. 2 0 0 Upper Nevis Flat 2 0 0 Quartzville Terrace Claims— oont iinued. .. Henry Murray. Bendigo .. Bannockbn. Ah Nui. John Parsons, James and R. Ferguson. Ah Thick, Ah Long, Ah Fue, and others. Bannockbn. James B. Horn and J. H. Horn. William Clmgie and William Ewart. Bannockbn. W. T. Talboys and party. . Adam and Thomas Aitken. N. Thomas and J. Ellis. Thomas Bain and F. Jones. Alexander Campbell. Lowburn .. George H. Scoles and another. Thomas Wood and W. Wood. Bannockbn. John Short and N. MoLellan. James Bethune and G. Logan. Lindis .. i John S. Harvey and H. Munro. William Wood and B. Burrowes. George Scoles, William Henry Thomas, and W. Mayne. Chow Tong. William Tillman and William Wilson. Henry Hotop and George A. Morris. Malcolm MoLeod and others. Thomas Steel. John W. Ellis. 62531. 17/1/96 88102. 14/4/98 73116. 15/10/96 85583. 3/2/98 73191. 3/12/96 20 0 Terrace on south side of Whitton's Creek 2 0 0 South side of Town ship Flat 2 0 0 Junction of Shepherd's and Bannockburn Creeks 3 0 0 Right branoh of Luggate Creek, below Slip Spur 2 0 0 Mt. Criffel, right branoh of Luggate Creek Nevis Samuel and Andrew Graham, R. J. May and Wm. Churstain. .. i Jas. Begg and J. Donnelly. .. i John Vlictstra, Wm. Gannon, Jas. Bruce. Elijah 0. Hedditoh and J. Seramens.

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Number and Date of License. Area. Locality. Blook. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner. OTAGO AND SOUTH] LAND GOLD: FIELDS - continued. Crom [well — contini tied. 76527. 11/2/97 73210. 12/11/96 76551. 12/3/97 59784. 11/10/95 04099. 23/5/96 67604. 12/6/96 61112. 26/10/95 a. R. p. Alluviai 3 0 0 Menzies' Terraoe 2 0 0 South Terraoe, Bendigo Ck. 2 0 0 Terrace about a mile east from Lindis River 3 0 0 Graham's Gully 4 0 0 Quartz Reef Point 2 0 0 Drummond's Terraoe 2 0 0 Pipeclay Ter. I Claims —con tinued. Bannookbn. I Wm. Hitohens. Wm. Bonner and 0. Maher. Pat Neilan and Jas. Mann. Nevis Charles Tavlor, S. Soper, and T. Soper." Wm. Gillman and Jas. Partridge. Henry Mason and Robt. McDonald. Noil MoLellan, Jas. Lawrence. Nevis Bannookbn. 62596. 13/3/96 61176. 22/11/95 2 0 0 Poverty Gully 2 0 0 Gee's Flat .. Kawarau Gorge Jas. Begg and John Donnelly. Gordon and Rowe. 62507. 18/12/95 62508. 18/12/95 53110. 7/9/94 67683. 17/9/96 57193. 19/7/95 2 0 0 South side of G a 1 v i n ' s Gully 4 0 0 Quartz Reef Point 2 0 0 Cromwell side of Limestone Gully 4 0 0 West bank of Clutha River, above Cromwell 4 0 0 Bannookburn Nevis James Masters and Chas. Williamson. Ed. Murrell and Hy. Murrell. Ernest Sanders and Thomas MoNulty. John Weeks, Geo. Hayes, W. Tilly, and Chin Hough. 57184. 5/7/95 59754. 18/9/95 ■56745. 8/3/95 56747. 8/3/95 57127. 17/5/95 59719. 2/9/95 79371. 10/6/97 64098. 23/5/96 50891. 10/8/94 53114. 7/9/94 59712. 2/9/95 2 0 0 Bendigo, on spur west of Aurora Gully 2 0 0 Raupo Gully 3 0 0 About a mile above Nevis Township .. 2 0 0 Nevis 2 0 0 South side of Pipeolay Gully 2 0 0 UpperBendigo 4 0 0 Adjoining Nevis Township 2 0 0 Smith's Gully 3 0 0 North side of Pipeolay Gully 4 0 0 West bank of CluthaRiver, about3miies above Luggate Punt 6 0 0 Pipeclay Terraoe J. Pryde, T. Aitken, R. Ritohie, and Fredk. Pryde. Fredk. Abelsted and Matthew Todd. Alexander and Donald Ross. W. H. Thomas, H. Thomas, and W. Ohurston. Bannookbn. Margt. Murphy, T. Hutchison. Jas. F. Ray and R. M. Ray. Charles O'Donnell. Ch u retain, Williamson, and Thomas. Bannockbn. W. Clunnie and Jas. Graham. Adam Aitken and Thos. Aitken. Wong Wee, Ah Loh, Wong Tan, Sey Youk. Bannookbn. . • D. A. Jolly, W. T. Talboys, A. Aitken, J. Lawrence, J. Lawrence, jun., and 0. and A. Lawrenoe. R. Fand, E. T. Kitto. 59722. 2/9/95 2 0 0 Four-mile Ck. Quartz Reef Point 53120. 7/9/94 53143. 5/10/94 2 0 0 Quartz Reef Point 2 0 0 Nevis Flat John Hayes and John Chapman. 53179. 16/11/94 64096. 12/6/96 55139. 14/12/94 55168. 18/1/95 50722. 9/2/94 50833. 25/5/94 50858. 15/6/94 2 0 0 Bailey's Gully 3 0 0 East side of Pi pe olay Gully 2 0 0 Wash Creek.. 3 0 0 South side of Pipeolay Terrace 2 0 0 On bank of Kawarau River 2 0 0 Head of Blackman's Gully 2 0 0 Quartzvilie Terraoe Bannockbn. Alex. Robertson and James MoKelvie. Fredk. Rowley and John Perry. P. Paterson, T. Rooney, and J. Ball. Mt. Pisa .. Bannockbn. Alf. Brown and John McDonald. Archibald McGregor and Edmund Kennedy. .. Felix MoFelin. Quartz Reef Point Bannockbn. J. Willson and P. Hosking. James Hanoook.

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Number and Date of License. Area. Locality. Block. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner. OTAGO AND SOUTH: LAND GOLI >FI ELDS— continued. Crom' well— contim led. A. R. P. 2 0 0 3 0 0 Alluvial Sohoolhouse Creek Bendigo Claims —com Inued. 50875. 6/7/94 Nevis T. P. Norris and Geo. Olough. 57672. 17/9/96 Patrick Neilan, Jas. Marm, and Fredk. Hunter. Chas. Kooh and Jas. Thompson. S7106. 26/4/95 53113. 7/9/94 15033. 25/8/93 13145. 10/10/94 15064. 6/10/93 2 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 2 0 0 Terraoe north of Smith's Gully Half a mile below Macand re w's Bridge Anthony's .. Gully, south side of Whitton's Creek North bank Kawarau River, outside Cromwell boundary Between Wash and Lockar Creeks Terrace east of Luggate Ck. Nine-mile 0k. Kawarau Gorge South side of Fleming's Gully Junction of .. Five-mile Creek and Hatter's Gully Potter's Gully Fix Gully Bannookbn. Kawarau River Nevis Pisa Run.. T. MoElligott, T. Bain, and A. Horn. Samuel and Andrew Graham. Wong Him, Yeng Klew, and Lock Too. Keith Campbell. 15076. 20/10/93 2 0 0 Carl Hanson, Claude Vlictstra, J. J. Vlictstra, and W. Craven. Kong Chew and Tow Sie. F. K. Edwards, Thos. and Pat. MoElligott. Thomas Shaw. 15087. 20/10/93 19325. 10/11/93 2 0 0 3 0 0 54092. 12/6/96 2 0 0 Nevis 57642. 13/8/96 2 0 0 Thomas Wood. 4939. 21/4/93 14949. 5/5/93 3 0 0 2 0 0 Oarriok Rug Kawarau Gorge Ah Hou, Jaok Lye, & Ly Shun. George and John Henderson. 14967. 19/5/93 5 0 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 4 0 0 3 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 South bank of .. Kawarau River, half a mile above Cromwell Eastern bank of Nevis River North bank Kawarau River, below Gentle Annie Bridge North side of Drummond's Creek Quartz Reef Point Bannockburn Cookburn Gully Luggate Key Let, Tong Yeu, Ham Wong, Duck Chee, and Ah Hee. 14969. 19/5/93 2 0 0 J. Macdonald and C. J. Morris. 4987. 9/6/93 4 0 0 Ah Kew, Ly Kow, Suun Moy, and Sue Fok. 15013. 7/7/93 4 0 0 Nevis Edward McMillan. 14245. 21/1/93 3 0 0 Maurice Leahey and party. 14247. 21/1/93 14257. 10/2/93 2 0 0 2 0 0 Mt. Criffel W. Robertson and C. Tippett. Patrick and Michael Towey. 15173. 18/1/95 4 0 0 Ah Loh, Wong How, Wong En, and Dam Wee. Patrick Towey. George and Richard Redhead. 16702. 8/2/95 :4263. 10/2/93 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 Poverty Gully Kawarau Gorge Green's Gully n,. Mt. Criffel ,5041. 4/9/93 2 0 0 Carrick Rng. James Lawrenoe. 1121. 9/10/02 | 12 0 0 12 0 0 19 0 0 : 23 2 14 I 21 3 15 21 1 38 53 1 0 ] 49 0 10 49 2 0 30 0 0 23 0 28 : 17 2 23 ! 00 0 0 Dr, Bannockburn .. i Creek i Lower Nevis I Sec. 19 .. V. 1 „ 4 .. VI. Sees. 13,14,15 IV. Sec. 3 .. VIII. J „ 21 .. VII. I t „ 22 .. VIII. j „ 26 .. II. .,10 .. I. : Sees. 6 & 7 .. XIV. if See. 18 .. VI. ) it . 9 ■• VII. }| Sees. 16 & 19a V. Dn idging Claims Oromwell G.D. Co. (Ltd.). 1122. 9/10/02 1132. 4/11/02 1161. 9/10/02 756. 5/9/01 794. 11/10/01 795. 11/10/01 796. 11/10/01 844. 5/12/01 870. 7/2/02 872. 7/2/02 895. 6/3/02 19 0 0 23 2 14 21 3 15 21 1 38 53 1 0 V. VI. IV. VIII. VII. I VIII. I II. I. XIV. VI. ) VII. J V. Nevis Wakefield Kawarau .. Cromwell.. Tarras Archibald Ritchie. James L. Soott. Daniel Haynes. Voltaic Dredging Co. (Ltd.). Patrick Thomas. 49 0 10 David Pinkerton. 49 2 0 100 0 0 23 0 28 Nevis Leaning R'k. John Franois Kitto. James Horn. Isabella Hedley. 17 2 23 Lorn James Austin. 100 0 0 Wakefield Rise and Shine G.D. Oo. (Ltd.)

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Number and Date of Liceuse. Area. Locality. Blook. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner. OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND GOLDFIELDS -continued. Cromwell— continued. 896. 6/3/02 898. 6/3/02 899. 6/3/02 900. 6/3/02 594. 13/12/00 595. 13/12/00 639. 7/3/01 667. 11/4/01 668. 11/4/01 692. 9/5/01 694. 9/5/01 717. 6/6/01 718. 6/6/01 723. 6/6/01 727. 6/6/01 732. 6/6/01 755. 5/9/01 289. 16/12/00 346. 20/4/00 361. 20/4/00 362. 20/4/00 403. 11/5/00 404. 11/5/00 422. 12/5/00 428. 9/6/00 512. 6/9/00 537. 5/10/01 559. 4/10/00 165. 14/9/99 172. 14/9/99 180. 14/9/99 246. 16/11/99 271. 14/12/99 274. 17/12/99 '3158. 1/10/96 1. 14/1/99 '7889. 2/4/98 82. 7/7/99 A B p Dredging Claims —continued. 52 2 32 See. 30 .. VII. Low'r Hawea .. Patrick Thomas. 100 0 0 Sees. 17 & 25 V. Wakefield .. Rising Sun G.D. Oo. (Ltd.). 69 3 29 | g^° s g & 1 q" VI j I Lorn .. .. James H. Cheshire. 94 0 0 Seo. 18 .. III. Nevis .. .. New Nevis G.D. Co. (Ltd.). 15 0 25 Sees. 6 & 7 .. III. & VII. Lorn .. William Wills and party. 14 2 38 Seo. 5 .. III. „ .. Remarkables G.D. Co. (Ltd.). 15 0 0 { Se^ S ' io & 11 IV } Cromwell.. Central Magnetic D. Co. (Ltd.). 19 0 0 Seo" 28 .. II. Kawarau.. .. William D. Jolly. 18 1 28 | Sees. 56 & 7 XVIII. Leaning R'k. .. Kelly & Casey Beaoh D. Co. (Ld.). , f „ 20 & 23 V. 1 Wakefie , a ) 45 3 20 Seo. 11 .. VI. J WaKehem .. point d , 0r Q D Co -^ I „ 71 .. I. Cromwell.. I 21 0 0 „ 5 .. VI. Kawarau.. .. Gold Chair G.D. Co. (Ltd.). 58 3 o | 1 g •• xvT' 1 Tarras • • • • David A - Joll y42 2 27 1 24 .. V.' Wakefield .. Rise and Shine G.D. Oo. (Ltd.). 33 2 0 { ;; JJ ;; f { %:i™2t*} - Prince Albert G.D.OO. (Ltd.). 90 3 0 „ 5 .. VIII. Tarras .. .. James Burrowes. 98 0 0 Sees. 19 & 29 VII. „ .. .. Golden Chain G.D. Co. (Ltd.). 20 3 30 , 18 & 20 II. Kawarau .. .. Meg and Annie G.D. Co. (Ltd.). 74 1 24 Sec. 31 .. IV. Lwr.Wanaka .. Prince Albert G.D. Co. (Ltd.). 40 2 0 , 14 .. VIII. Lwr. Hawea .. E. and J. Knewstubb. 23 1 0 j " *g •• VI } Kawarau - •• Gentle Annie G.D. Co. (Ltd.). 22 0 0 ",. 13 '.'. II. „ .. .. Grand Junotion G.D. Co. (Ltd.). 40 1 0 „ 37 .. IV. Lwr.Wanaka .. Edward D. Mason. 44 3 0 Seotion 18 .. VII. Tarras .. .. Edward C. Holmes. 84 116 , 28a.. „ Lwr. Hawea .. Vuloan G.D. Co. (Limited). 18 2 0 „ 15 .. II. Cromwell.. .. Electrio G.D. Co. (Limited). 34 1 30 70 .. I. „ .. .. Junction-Electric Gold-dredgiDg Oo. (Limited). 63 2 0 „ 28 .. III. Tarras .. .. John Vlictstra. („ 63 .. I. Cromwell 24 116 J ,. 21.. V. | Wakefiela .. Royal Maori G.D. Co. (Ltd.). 11 0 20 Seos. 49 & 50 I. Cromwell.. .. Central EleotrioG.D. Co. (Ltd.). 32 4 0 , 40 & 44 „ „ .. Cromwell G.D. Co. (Limited). 14 2 20 Seotion 5 .. IV. „ .. Second Magnetic Gold-dredging Co. (Limited). 10 0 0 „ 8 .. VI. Wakefield .. Alpine No. 2 G.D. Co. (Ltd.). 22 0 20 { ;; I ;; xv h. ( ™S) •• New Alpine Consols D. Co. (Ltd.). 26 3 12 Seos. 1&4.. XVIII. Leaning R'k .. New Half-way House Golddredging Co. (Limited). 32 0 0 j Section 43 .. I. Cromwell | I Hartley and Riley Beach Dredg- ( „ 6 .. VI. Wakefield f | ing Co. (Limited). 68 0 10 . 10 .. XIII. Nevis .. .. Ngapara No. 3 Co. (Sohaumann and party). 31 0 0 7 .. VI. Wakefield .. Riley's Beach G.D. Co. (Ltd.). 97 1 24 , 2 .. XIII. Lindis .. .. Pioneer Eureka G.D. Co. (Ltd.). Quartz Claims. 964. 8/5/02 1011. 10/7/02 1137. 6/11/02 347. 20/4/00 348. 20/4/00 '7815. 3/2/98 57609. 20/6/96 57610. 20/6/96 52595. 13/3/96 57685. 17/7/96 19 0 0 Reliance Hill .. Bendigo .. .. Leo. Salmond. 6 0 0 .. .. .. .. J. Pascoe, R.Russell, and others. 19 0 0 Mt. Pisa Range .. .. .. James Partridge. near Moonlight Creek 71 3 21 Bendigo, S. 25 III. Wakefield .. Cromwell Proprietary Gold-min-ing Co. (Limited). 32 1 16 „ S.10 II. „ .. Ditto. 300 ft. by Rise and Shine .. Bendigo .. .. C. O'Donnell and A.MoLoughlin. 300 ft. Gully 600 ft. in Pipeolay Gully .. Carrick .. Evan Jones, Jas. Horn, W. T. length Range Talboys, Jas. Marshall. Ditto .. „ .. Ditto .. .. Ditto. 300yd. by Bannockburn .. .. .. Hugh Robertson, B. Burrows, 300yd. and D. Mackintosh. 600 ft. in j Pipeolay Gully .. Carrick .. Chas. Cooper and Geo. Guilford. length j Range Clyde. Alluvial Claims. 9. 4/3/99 54. 8/5/99 74. 10/6/99 102. 8/7/99 3 0 0 j Fraser River .. .. .. Wm. Hookey and another. 4 0 0 Blackman's .. .. .. T 0 ng Poy and others. Gully 2 0 0 BankofMoly- ... .. .. John Sheehy. I ueux River 3 0 0 ! Fraser River ,. .. ., Wm. Hookey and another.

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Number and Date of License. Area. i Locality. Block. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner. OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND GOLDFIELDS— continued. Clyde— continued. 128. 9/9/99 820. 17/2/00 156. 7/7/00 A r p Alluvial Claims —continued. 2 0 0 Springvale .. .. .. .. H. H. Watson and another. 2 0 0 Blackman's .. .. .. Sue Hack and others. Gully 8 0 0 West bank .. .. .. Claude F. Faisandier. Molyneux R. 5 0 0 Ditto .... 2 0 0,, .. .. .. .. F. McKenzie and another. 4 0 0 Blackman's .. .. .. Chow Kee and others. Gully 199. 13/4/01 246. 7/9/01 260. 15/10/01 367. 8/11/02 2 0 0 Ditto .. .. .. .. Frederiok McCarthy. 37. 6/5/99 89. 26/6/99 90. 26/6/99 255. 9/12/99 347. 16/3/00 414. 12/6/00 431. 7/7/00 190. 9/2/01 196. 9/3/01 218. 6/7/01 239. 10/8/01 294. 12/5/02 295. 12/5/02 317. 14/7/02 376. 15/12/02 877. 15/12/02 Dredging Claims. 44 3 0 Section 149 .. II. Leaning R k Davis Bend .. Davis Bend Dredging Oo. 60 1 8 „ 93.. I. „ New Vinoent .. Vinoent Gold-dredging Co. 96 2 33 Sees. 99 & 33 I. & VII. „ Matau .. Matau Dredging Oo. 26 0 15 „ 105 & 155 I. & II. „ Old Dunstan .. Old Dunstan Dredging Co. 68 124 Seotion 12.. III. ,, Monte Christo .. Monte Christo Dredging Co. 28 3 29 Seos. 13 & 14 „ „ Boundary Creek .. 98 0 0 Section 40.. VII. „ Dunstan Lead .. Dunstan Lead Gold-dredging Co, 12 3 6 „ 35 .. X. „ ... John Magnus. 88 3 0 „ 100 .. I. „ Unity .. Unity Gold-dredging Oo. 13 2 0 , 36 .. X. „ Upner Fraser .. Upper Fraser Gold-dredging Oo, 99 2 14 „ 46 .. „ , Sandy Point .. Sandy Point Gold-dredging C . 28 2 36 Sees. 22 & 42 . .. John Bourke. 50 3 0 Seotion 47.. „ „ .. Robert Gilkison. 50 0 0 „ 161 .. II. „ New Leaning Rock New Leaning Rook G.D. Oo. 17 3 36 . 109 I. . .. Thomas Barry. 16 3 36 . 49 .. VII. Black's. 120. 1/7/93 109. 10/12/92 184. 18/3/96 312. 27/4/98 158. 5/9/99 Alluvial Claims. 24 2 25 Sees. 8a, 9a, 111 VII. Lauder .. Matakanui .. 1 Matakanui Gold-mining Co. 30 2 34 „ 25 & 32 „ „ Tinker's .. Tinker's Gold-mining Co. 21 0 20 Seo. 35 „ „ .. Matakanui .. Matakanui Gold-mining Oo. 26 2 7 „ 3 .. XVI. Tiger Hill .. William P. Guthridge. 6 0 0 In Poolburn .. .. .. 0. 0. Botting. Creek 13 2 0 On Poolburn .. .. .. F. W. Botting and another. Flat 14 2 0 Maori Gully .. Ida Valley .. Leopold Botting and another. 15 0 0 Near Sugar- .. Matakanui Undaunted .. Undaunted Gold-mining Co. pot 90 1 8 Sec. 44 .. VII. Lauder 2 0 0 Next Seo. 25 „ „ Tinker's .. Tinker's Gold-mining Oo. 17 1 10 Seo. 45 , 60 0 0 .49 .. „ „ .. Mount Morgan .. Mount Morgan Sluioing Co. 20 0 0 Near Sec. 44 „ „ .. Tinker's .. Tinker's Gold-mining Co. 6 0 0 At Black's .. Ida Valley .. Duncan Hardie and others. No. 3 2 0 0 Scrubby Flat .. German .. Edward Tupker and another. Gully 55 2 30 Sec. 51 .. VII. Lauder .. Tinker's .. Tinker's Gold-mining Co. 159. 5/9/99 161. 11/10/99 109. 20/9/00 194. 30/1/02 203. 24/4/02 205. 24/4/02 216. 24/7/02 217. 24/7/02 238. 24/7/02 235. 25/9/02 252. 9/12/02 107. 20/9/00 | Dredging Claim. 99 2 0 i Sec. 5 .. | XII. | Tiger Hill J Cairntrodlie .. | Cairntrodlie Gold-dredging Co. Alexandra. 287. 12/11/00 291. 17/12/00 Alluvial Claims. 11 2 5 | Seo. 1 .. VI. Cairnhill.. .. James Rivers. 2 0 0 I At Butcher's .. .. .. Ah Lye and another. Gully 2 0 0 Conroy's Gully .. .. .. Frederick McCarthy. 2 0 0 East bank of .. .. James Rivers. Manuherikia River 5 0 0 Galloway Flat .. .. .. Kathleen Thompson. 5 0 0 „ .. .. .. Edwin Appleton and another. 3 0 0 Seo. 2 .. III. Cairnhill .. .. George Hesson and another. 5 0 0 Galloway Flat .. .. .. William Holihan. 5 0 '0 „ .. .. .. Craven Paget. 2 0 0 „ .. .. .. Kathleen Thompson & another. 2 0 0 , .. .. .. Thomas P. Beck. 16 2 35 Sees. 64 & 71 I. Cairnhill.. .. Pierce Carroll and another. 2 0 0 Blackman's .. .. .. Robert Proffitt. Spur 62 3 6 Sees. 65 & 72 I. Cairnhill.. Last Chanoe .. Last Chanoe H.S.E. and D. Co. (Limited). 97 2 22 Seo. 23 .. VI. Tiger Hill Bonanza .. Alexandra Bonanza G.D. and S. Co. (Limited). 381. 12/11/01 432. 15/4/02 435. 18/4/02 436. 18/4/02 437. 18/4/02 439. 18/4/02 440. 18/4/02 441. 18/4/02 447. 18/4/02 229. 1/3/97 77. 12/6/99 144. 11/9/99 243. 20/11/99

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Number and Date of License. Area. Locality. Block. Survey Distriot. Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner. OTAGO AND SOUTH LAND GOLD )FIELDS — continued. Alexjs lNdra — contim ued. A . B . p. Alluvial 354. 12/3/00 8 0 6 Butcher's Gully 231. 13/8/00 20 3 4 Sec. 76 .. I. Claims —oonf tinued. John Eady and others. Oairnhill .. Last Chanoe .. Last Chance H.S.E. and D. Co. (Limited). Frederiok McCarthy. 241. 10/9/00 2 0 0 Chapman's Gully 448. 18/4/02 4 2 0 Fourteen-mile Beaoh 457. 13/5/02 99 2 5 Seo. 33 .. VI. William Sasse and others. 468. 13/5/02 5 0 0 Galloway Flat 469. 13/5/02 5 0 0 482. 10/6/02 5 0 0 483. 10/6/02 5 0 0 502. 10/6/02 10 0 0 584. 14/10/02 6 0 0 Springvale .. 609. 16/12/02 23 2 20 Seo. 78 .. I. 610. 16/12/02 5 0 0 Chapman's Gully 612.16/12/02 5 0 0 Tucker Hill.. Tiger Hill Bonanza .. Alexandra Bonanza H.S.E. and D. Co. (Limited). J. E. Thompson. J. E. Thompson and another. James Wing. James Norton. George Simpson and others. James Gartley and another. Last Chance .. Last Chance H.S.E. & D. Co. W. Noble and another. Oairnhill .. James Rivers. Drei 180. 16/10/95 27 2 10 Section 22 .. I. 176.16/10/95 57 2 0 Sees. 11, 13.. X„ VII. 254. 16/7/97 98 1 7 Section 9 .. IX. 282. 6/12/97 20 3 24 , 5 .. II. 315. 12/5/98 93 0 11 „ 18 .. VII. 20. 6/3/99 24 3 0 „ 15 .. III. 26. 17/4/99 99 3 0 I " ™ " V y H ' 68. 12/6/99 97 3 23 I 40 " ¥' 69. 12/6/99 94 3 18 "„ 25 '.'. X. 70. 12/6/99 83 3 0 „ 24 .. 71. 12/6/99 100 0 0 „ 23 .. 79. 13/6/99 100 0 0 „ 39 .. I. 85. 26/6/99 99 0 37 „ 36 .. VII. 86. 26/6/99 97 1 12 „ 35 .. I Seos. 17, 20 81. 13/6/99 63 1 25 j Seo ' P tB " 2 - XVL ( Part 1 XXI. 109. 26/6/99 29 2 26 Section 14 .. VII. 141. 11/9/99 93 3 2 Seos. 44, 103 I. iging Claims. Fraser Leaning Rk. Manuherikia .. i Manuherikia Golddredging Co. Chicago .. I George Spencer. Manorburn .. Manorburn Gold-dredging Co. First Chanoe .. j First Chanoe Gold-dredging Co. Ngapara .. | Robert Ross and others. Golden River .. Golden River Dredging Oo. [ Olrig .. .. Olrig Dredging Co. [ Fraser Flat .. Joseph McGeorge. Earnsoleugh I. .. Earnscleugh G.D. Co. II. .. III... Golden Beaoh .. Golden Beach H.E. and D. Co. Perseveranoe .. Perseveranoe Golddredging Co. Fraser Leaning Rk. Cairnhill .. Leaning Rk. Tiger Hill.. Leaning Rk. Fraser Leaning Rk. Fraser Leaning Rk. Town of Alexandra Ditto Leaning Rk. Fraser, Town Alexandra Cairnhill .. Fraser [Molyneux Hy- Molyneux Hydraulio Co. I draulio ) Enterprise .. Enterprise Gold-dredging Co. Alexandra Lead .. Alexandra Lead G.D. Oo. 246. 20/11/99 27 2 0 Seotion 55 .. II. 313. 19/2/00 57 2 0 , 45a.. I. 346. 12/3/00 44 2 6 , 7 .. II. 232. 13/8/00 39 3 13 „ 41 .. VII. 240. 10/9/00 67 0 7 „ 30 .. VI. 269.12/11/00 47 2 0 Sees. 13, 14.. II. 454. 13/5/02 20 1 0 Section 56 .. 455.13/5/02 54 2 33 Sees. 42, 43.. IX. 456. 13/5/02 I 97 2 4 | Section 22.. VIII. 494.15/7/02! 90 139 Seos." 18,37. '. VIII., IX. 568.14/10/02 100 0 0 Seotion 33a.. VI. 569. 14/10/02 93 3 8 , 34 .. 570. 14/10/02; 72 3 24 ( • *j .. 571. 14/10/02 1 38 0 16 1 35 .. VI. 288. 17/12/00 26 3 24 Seos. 54, 5 .. II., XXI. 298. 11/2/01 1 35 0 38 Section 49 .. II. 329. 10/6/01 91 2 34 Sees. 22, 26; VII., X„ 27, 28 ; 4 XVI. 384. 12/11/01 59 1 0 Section 47 .. I. 395. 11/2/02 36 8 0 Sees. 34, 8 .. I., II. 431. 15/4/02 11 3 35 Seotion 6 .. XVII. CY11 Leaning Rk. Tiger Hill.. Cairnhill .. River Molyneux .. New River Molyneux G.D. Oo. 0. G. V. Leijon and others. Bendigo .. Bendigo Gold-dredging Co. Golden Link .. Golden Link Dredging Co. Chatto Creek .. Benj. W. Davis and others. Fourteen-mile Bch. Fourteen-mile Beach D. Co. Doctor's Point .. Doctor's Point Dredging Co. Jeremiah Drummey. Leaning Kk. Tiger Hill.. Leaning Rk. Tiger Hill.. [ Olrig II. .. James Rivers. John Gordon. Samuel Cameron. John Pattison. Leaning Rk. Tiger Hill.. Cairnhill .. t .. Thomas Wilkinson. Leaning Rk. Alexandra Fraser Harry Leicester. Davis Bend .. Davis Bend Dredging Co. Golden Falls .. Golden Falls Dredging Co. Enterprise .. Enterprise Gold-dredging Co. m • • Cairnhill .. Clyde .. .. Clyde Dredging Co. Sailor's Bend .. Sailor's Bend Dredging Co. Duncan Bringans. ,artz Claims. Robert Symes. Qu 121.1/7/92 I 27 1 25 | Seotion 3 .. II. 139.3/10/93 8 3 34 Seos. 23, 24.. 234. 27/4/97 9 2 32 Seotion 46 .. 19. 6/3/99 19 2 0 52 .. 407. 11/3/02 15 0 0 Conroy's Gully 129.2/6/93 30 0 0 ( Seotion 9 .., VII. 128. 29/8/93 61 0 17 Seotions 6, 8 319. 27/6/98 10 3 27 Seotion 34 .. V. 4. 9/3/99 3 0 0 .. II. 33. 20/4/99 97 3 30 Seotion 30 .. I. Cairnhill .. Franois W. Gray. Graoe M. Symes. Teviot John Ewing. V ■ • Pleasant Valley .. Pleasant Valley G.M. Co. Thos. P. Michelle and another. Roxburgh Amalga- Roxburgh Amalgamated Sluiomated ing Co. Enterprise .. Enterprise H.S. Co. • . . 93. 26/6/99 50 1 35 „ 1 .. X. Long Valley

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Number and Date of License. I 1 Area. Locality. Blook. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner. OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND GOLDFIELDS-co««inu«d. ROXHURGH. A R p Alluvial Claims. 105. 13/7/99 3 0 0 OommisB'ner's .. .. .. Joseph Haughton and others. Flat 220. 26/10/99 7 0 0 Horseshoe .. .. .. Robert Stewart. Bend 221. 26/10/99 12 0 0 .. II. Teviot .. .. A. J. Manuel and another. 283. 14/12/99 5 0 0 Beaumont .. .. .. William Pearson. Run 338.22/2/00 3 0 0 Near Ettrick .. .. Digger's Pride .. James Kitto. 246. 16/8/00 3 2 0 Moa Flat .. .. .. .. William N. McLean. 345. 14/2/01 12 0 0 Section 75 .. II. Teviot .. .. T. P. Michelle and another. 440. 15/8/01 22 2 31 „ 1 .. „ Whitecomb .. James Logan. 471. 14/11/01 12 0 Roxburgh .. .. Roxburgn Amalga- Roxburgh Amalgamated Sluic East mated ing Co. 523. 14/11/01 18 2 30 Seo. 41 .. I. Teviot .. .. Richard George and others. 528. 13/3/02 5 0 0 Lower Poma- .. .. .. James McKenzie and others. haka 560. 15/5/02 18 0 0 Part Sec. 2 .. XII. Whitecomb .. Frederiok Beverley. 586.14/8/02 4 2 0 .. VIII. Benger .. M. Russell and others. 594.11/9/02 100 0 0 Seo. 1 .. I. St. Abbs .. Fortification .. John T. Johnson. 620. 13/11/02 59 2 16 „ 74 .. „ Teviot . . ! Ladysmith .. Ladysmith Gold-dredging Co. 629. 18/12/02 100 0 0 „ 24 .. VII. Benger . . .. John Ewing. 630. 18/12/02 45 2 15 „ 23 „ „ .. ' Dredging Claims. 214. 18/2/97 46 3 8 Sec. 96 .. III. Benger .. Otago .. | Otago Gold-dredging Co. 252.18/6/97 11 2 16 ! Sees. 66, 101 VIII., III. „ .. Miller's Flat Electric Miller's Flat Electric D. Co. 29.20/4/99 100 0 0 , 54,19,18 I, VII., & „ .. Gold King .. Joseph Sparrow. XIV. 28.20/4/99 80 2 35 Sees. 75,102,34II., III., VI. . .. Golden Run .. Golden Run Dredging Co. 92. 26/6/99 61 3 16 „ 33, 95 .. VI. & III. „ .. Golden Gate . . Golden Gate Dredging Co. 108.26/6/99 66 O 0 „ 98,34,61 III., VI., & „ .. Golden Treasure .. Golden Treasure Dredging Co VIII. 110. 26/6/99 51 3 24 ! Sec. 94 .. III. „ .. Golden Run .. Golden Run Dredging Co. 127. 7/9/99 10 0 0 Ruby Creek .. ,.. .. .. William Murray. 143.11/9/99 57 0 0 S.cs.80, 30.. III. & VI .. John Pringle and others. 152.26/10/99 62 1 0 . Sec. 67 .. VIII. „ .. Majestic .. Majestio Gold-dredging Co. 260.14/12/99 95 3 32 Sees. 45,73.. I. & II. .. Teviot .. .. Teviot Gold-dredging Co. 262.14/12/99 41 2 0 ! ,| Seotion 13 .. VII. " I Main Lead .. Main Lead Heroules G.D. Co. I „ &0 . . «• -DOiigBr f 263. 14/12/99 34 2 29 „ 46 .. I. Teviot .. Golden Elbow . . Golden Elbow Dredging Co. 264. 14/12/99 21 1 8 „ 39 .. V. „ 305. 22/2/00 57 2 0 „ 77 .. II. Benger .. Golden Horseshoe Golden Horseshoe Dredging Co. 345.22/2/00 5 0 0 Near Seo. 65 VIII. „ .. .. Robert O. Wbyte. 382. 26/4/00 4 12 Sec. 48 .. I. Teviot .. Golden Elbow .. Golden Elbow Dredging Co. 419. 14/6/00 13 0 24 „ 41 VIII. „ .. Arthur Richards. 420. 14/6/00 21 3 4 „ 11 .. XI. „ .. Maione's Beaoh .. Maione's Beach Dredging Co. 443.12/7/00 30 3 0 „ 18 .. XII. Benger .. Gunton's Beach ,. Gunton's Beach Amal. G.D. Co. 236. 16/8/00 37 2 0 „ 103 .. III. „ .. .. James Murray. 237. 16/8/00 29 2 0 „ 69 .. VIII. „ .. .. William Murray. 245. 16/8/00 59 2 30 „ 72 .. I. Teviot .. Kohinoor .. Molyneux Kohinoor D. Co. 254.16/8/00 81 3 2 „ 79 .. II. „ .. Lady Roxburgh .. Lady Roxburgh G.D. Co. 256. 16/8/00 61 3 10 „ 11 .. VII. „ .. Endeavour .. Endeavour Gold-dredging Co. 266. 13/9/00 35 2 24 „ 22 .. XII. Benger .. Ruby .. .. Ruby Gold dredging Co. 281.11/10/00 14 3 12 „ 20 .. „ „ .. Gunton's Beach .. Gunton's Beaoh Amal. Oo. 298. 16/11/00 49 2 0 ,56 .. I. Teviot .. Rox. Jubilee . . New Roxburgh Jubilee Oo. 321. 22/12/00 99 2 22 „ 70 .. VIII. Benger .. Golden Bed .. Golden Bed Dredging Co. 360.14/3/01 19 2 0 „ 46 .. „ Teviot , Ext Pourteen . miie Extende d Fourteen-mile Beach 361. 14/3/01 8 2 24 j '■ |{ ' rf. Cairnhill j Beaoh Gold-dredging Co. 377. 18/4/01 74 0 30 1 83 .. II. Teviot .. Coal Creek Flat .. Coal Creek Flat Dredging Co. qfid 18/4/01 91 0 12 1 " 55 •■ VIU - Benger ) dS4. ia/4/oi J1 u " j , ii .. .. Town of Ettriok .. .. Ettrick Gold Steam D. Co. Ettrick j 463.17/10/01 10 0 0 .. II. Benger .. Island Blook .. Island Blook G.D. and S. Co. 510. 13/2/02 35 3 0 Sees. 73, 88.. I. & II. Teviot .. .. Robert Cockburn. 511.13/2/02 11 117 Seo. 89 ..II. „ 514.13/2/02 14 2 15 Seos. 103, 103a III. Benger .. Otago .. .. Otago Gold-dredging Co. 519.13/2/02 1 50 0 0 „ 38,43,87 V., V..&II. Teviot .. Long Valley .. Long Valley Gold-dredging Co. 559.15/5/02 28 3 27 Seo. 39 .. VIII. „ .. Sixteen-mile Beaoh E. S. Paterson and another. 570. 12/6/02 8 0 0 „ 75 .. , Benger .. Ettrick .. .. Ettrick Gold Steam D. Co. 571.12/6/02 16 2 16 „ 68 .. I. „ .. .. Robert Craig. 587. 14/8/02 3 0 0 .. III. „ .. Majestic .. Majestio Gold-dredging Co. 595. 11/9/02 21 1 0 Seo. 42 .. VIII. Teviot .. .. Laurence Ryan. 634. 18/12/02 48 0 35 Seos. 19, 21.. XII. Benger .. Gunton's Beaoh .. Gunton's Beaoh Amal. Co. Lawrence. Alluvial Claims. 36. 26/4/99 61 3 7 I Blue Spur .. XVIII. Tuapeka E. Blue Spur .. Blue Spur and Gabriel's Gully Consolidated Gold Oo. 71 22/5/99 1 53 3 29 Waipori .. XIV, „ Lammerlaw Flat.. William Edward Caudwell and j William E. S. Knight.

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Number and Date of , Area. License. Locality. Blook. *J™£ Block. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner. OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND GOLD •FIELDS— continued. Lawrence— continv led. A. r. p. 86. 1/6/99 1 34 2 0 101. 27/6/99 20 3 9 104. 1/7/99 48 1 18 107. 1/7/99 70 2 15 135. 7/8/99 10 1 36 192. 23/10/99 6 0 0 33. 11/12/99 18 1 32 147. 2/7/00 70 3 34 213. 22/10/00 38 2 26 240. 10/12/00 60 3 0 242. 10/12/00 19 0 0 4. 7/1/01 90 1 0 48. 22/4/01 49 2 27 82. 22/7/01 55 2 24 Alluvial Claims —oonti Waitahuna.. VI. Munro's Gully VIII. XVIII., XIX. C V. Waitahuna Waitahuna .. \ East ( VII. Table Hill V. Waitahuna East Glenore .. IV. Table Hill Waipori .. VI., VIII. Waipori .. Beaumont .. j ™. C^tT Waipori .. XIV. Tuapeka E. | „ \ IV. Waipori .. Crookston .. XV. Crookston Wetherstone's X., XIX. Tuapeka E. Waipori .. XIV. „ .. VI. Waipori .. nued. Lower German Flat A. Sutherland and party. Perseverance .. John Kitto and party. Edward Mills and E. Browne. ' Sailor's Gully .. Sailor's Gully (Waitahuna) Goldj mining Co. City of Dublin .. Joseph Ferris and party. John Stewart. Lewis Fearsall. 172. 10/2/02 8 0 0 181. 24/2/02 14 0 0 201. 14/4/02 14 0 0 278. 8/9/02 29 2 0 282. 8/9/02 5 2 0 290. 22/9/02 47 1 27 296. 22/9/02 8 0 0 310. 20/11/02 57 2 32 315. 14/11/02 34 1 24 7. 22/3/99 5 0 0 154. 11/9/99 3 0 0 229. 12/11/00 2 0 0 228. 26/5/02 3 0 0 237. 9/6/02 4 0 0 German Flat VI. Tuapeka E. Tuapeka Flat XX. Bungtown .. IX. Waipori .. XIV. Wetherstone's XIX. Waipori .. XIV. Wetherstone's X., XIX. Waipori .. XIV. Waitahuna .. .. • Waitahuna Tuapeka Flat XIX. Tuapeka W. Wetherstone's .. Tuapeka E. Waipori .. .. Waipori .. Waitahuna .. VII. Table Hill I Undaunted .. John Edie and J. Kirkpatriok. Sew Kew. [ Farrell's Deep William John Farrell. f Lead John Whelan and E. Curtin. Golden Crescent .. Golden Crescent Sluicing Co. Golden Point .. John Claffey. Post offioe Creek .. Post-office Creek (Waipori) Goldmining Co. William Jennings. German Flat .. John Girvan and S. Johnston. Thomas Sing Lee. William Brown and party. Riohard John Cotton. Looal Industry .. Local Industry Gold-mining Co. Golden Point .. John Claffey. Golden Rise .. W. Forrest Smyth and party. T. F. Quil:er and V. Kirby. Thomas Quilter and party. Watts Goodwin. Michael Whelan. George Edwatd Bertenshaw. Sailor's Gully .. Sailor's Gully (Waitahrna) Goldmining Co. Robert Forrest. Andrew Wilson. John Wilson Christie and others. James Dunnett. 257. 14/7/02 2 0 0 258. 14/7/02 2 0 0 272. 11/8/02 3 0 0 283. 8/9/02 5 0 0 Waipori .. III. Hedgehope Wetherstone's XIX. Tuapeka E. Munro's Gully XVIII. Dredging Claims. Stirling G.D. Co... ; John Nelson. Golden Shore Gold- ; C. Leijon and B. Throp. dredging Co. 51. 8/5/99 16 0 0 74. 22/5/99 86 3 20 Glenore Waipori .. V. Waipori .. 88. 1/7/99 170 2 35 158. 1/10/99 185 2 0 32. 8/1/00 68 1 0 34. 8/1/00 83 0 0 35. 8/1/00 67 3 0 37. 8/1/00 75 1 0 44. 12/2/00 66 3 3 47. 12/2/00 60 2 20 50. 12/2/00 60 3 27 127. 1/6/00 67 2 2 177. 13/8/00 27 0 0 194. 10/9/00 18 0 0 224. 12/11/00 69 1 0 8. 7/1/01 99 0 36 19. 11/2/01 94 3 25 23. 25/2/01 96 3 10 24. 25/2/01 100 0 0 ( XIV. Tuapeka E. IV. Waipori .. " 1 VII. Town of \ Waipori XIV. Tuapeka E. Tuapeka M'th I. Waitahuna West Waipori .. j VI. Waipori .. Beaumont .. : IV. Beaumont Tuapeka Flat XX. Tuapeka E. Waitahuna.. XXXIV. Town of Havelock Waitahuna.. XXXI., Town of XXXIV. : Havelock Tuapeka Flat IV. Tuapeka W. Beaumont .. I. i Crookston m i -ci. i- I VI. Tuapeka W. Tuapeka Flat , ly ! Tuft * eka B . Waipori .. V., VIII. Waipori .. ( VII. Beaumont Beaumont .. j IX. Benger .. ( XV. | Crookston iXXXHI., Town of „. ., . XXXIV. Havelock Waitahuna.. , x V Vaitahuna ( East Molyneux M'th I. S. Molyneux Waipori .. IV. Waipori .. !- Upper Waipori .. Uppet Waipori Alluvial G.D. Oo. Jutland Flat .. Jutland Hydraulio Dredging Oo. Scottish Chief .. : Scottish Chief Dredging Co. Enfield .. .. Enfield Gold-dredging Co. ■ Golden Mile .. Golden Mile Gold dredging Co. Gabriel G.D. Co... John Harris and party. McCormick D. Go. Robert Johnston. Manuka D. Co. .. ; Alfred Carter Broad. I Reliance .. Reliance Gold-dredging Co. Golden Gravel .. Golden Gravel Gold-dredging Co Lawrence .. Lawrence Gold-dredging Co. i Lawrence .. | „ Lower Enfield .. ■ Lower Enfield G.D. Co. [ Golden Glen .. Golden Glen Dredging Oo. [Imperial Gold- : George Soott. j dredging Co. / i James Drysdale. Perseverance Gold ' James McNeil. dredging Co. Champion .. Champion Gold-mining Oo. Waitahuna .. i Waitahuna Dredging Oo. 44. 22/4/01 100 0 0 84. 22/7/01 61 1 32 134. 1/11/01 47 3 0 138. 12/11/01 100 0 0 Beaumont .. „ f Beaumont Waitahuna.. X. Waitahuna East Beaumont .. IV. Beaumont Waipori .. » Waipori .. Golden Mile .. Golden Mile Gold-dredging Oo. Waipori Consolidtd. Waipori Consolidated Gold, dredges. Tuapeka .. Tuapeka Dredging Co. Empire.. ., : Empire Gold-dredging Co, 154. 1/2/02 29 3 15 182. 24/2/02 14 0 0 Tuapeka Flat III. Tuapeka E. Waipori .. V. I Waipori ..

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Number -nd Date of License. Area. Locality. Block. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Registered Ownei OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND GOLDFIELDS— continued. Lawrence— continued. A B p Dredging Claims —continued. ( IX. Waitahuna ) 184. 10/3/02 48 3 38 Tuapeka Flat J West \ Evans Flat .. Evans Flat Dredging Co ( „ Tuapeka W. J 185. 10/3/02 14 0 0 Waipori .. V. Waipori .. Empire .. .. Empire Gold-dredging Cj. 193.14/4/02 98 3 12 , .. IV. „ Oceanic. .. Oceanic Steam G.D. Co. 194. 14/4/02 59 1 22 „ .. IV., V. „ .. Thomas Sing Lee. 227.26/5/02 10 0 0 „ .. IV. „ ■• •• William Edward Short Knight, 273. 25/8/02 88 3 0 , .. V. ... Empire .. .. Empire Gold-dredging Co. 277. 25/8/02 14 0 0 Waipori .. .. . ' .. • • Thomas F. Quilter and party. fVI., IX. Tuapeka W. 1 289. 22/9/02 49 2 7 Tuapeka Flat I -J- Waitahuna I Lawren06 • • Laurence Gold-dredging Co. ( ' West J 291. 22/9/02 80 3 0 Waipori .. V. Waipori .. Suooess .. .. Suooess Golddredging Co. IX. Waitahuna \ East XVI., Town of .. William McKenzie and party. XXXIII., Havelock XXXIV. } 297. 13/10/02 84 1 27 Waipori .. XIV. Tuapeka E. Bakery Flat .. Bakery Flat Sluicing Co. 115.7/5/00 2 11 Wetherstone's X. , Happy Valley .. Happy Valley Golddredging Oo I „ Waitahuna \ 259.14/7/02 3 0 0 Waitahuna.. | xxxm of [imperial .. George Soott. [ Havelock j Sea-beach Claims. 203. 14/4/02 ! 5 0 0 Molyneux M'th I. IN.Molyneuxl .. Thomas Hines. 204. 14/4/02 5 0 0 „ , „ .. Thomas Johnston. 205. 14/4/02 [ 5 0 0 „ „ \ „ .. James Herring. Quartz Claims. 5. 6/3/99 | 16 2 17 Table Hill . V. Table Hill Table Hill .. John Lawson. 42.26/4/99 76 132 Waipori IV. Waipori .. O.P.Q. Mine .. O.P.Q. (Waipori) Gold-mines. 153. 11/9/99 5 2 28 ,, . , „ .. Robert Cotton. 174. 9/10/99 28 2 20 , . • « „ 93. 22/7/01 10 0 0 Table Hill . j V. Table Hill Table Hill .. John Lawson. 202.14/4/02 10 0 0 Waipori ,.| XIV. Tuapeka E. Bella Reef .'. Samuel Stewart and party. Mineral License. 22. 22/1/01 | 85 0 0 [ Waitahuna J VII., IX. I Waipori .. 1 Waitahuna Oinna- I Waitahuna Cinnabar Oo. Heights J I bar I Dunedin. Alluvial Claims. » ,,mmn oe nor, (Seo. 4 .. VII. i Lee Stream ) I Deep Stream Amalgamated Hy 4.14/8/99 36 0 32 | _ 4 __ x j Sutton _ j .. j dr^ulio Sluioing g 0 . 5.14/8/99 « 0 0 " ™; stretun } •• Ditto. 6. 8/8/99 13 2 12 . 5 .. X. I Sutton .. 7. 8/8/99 3 3 17 „ 9 .. VII. I Lee Stream 1. 1/2/00 * 5 0 0 . 4 .. 3. 23/6/99 j 27 3 24 | Seos. 4,5, 7, 81 VI. | Nenthorn.. | .. Wolter and party. Waikaia. Alluvial Claims. 37. 6/6/99 5 0 0 Nokomai .. VII. Nokomai.. ! Sew Hoy .. | Nokomai Hydraulio Sluioing Co 41. 1/7/99 40 0 0 . .. , „ Nokomai Victory John France. 57. 1/8/99 5 0 0 Waikaia .. V. Waikaia .. .. Wm. Hendry. 74.5/10/99 2 0 0 „ .. I. ... .. Leung Chun. 89. 3/10/99 70 1 0 Nokomai .. „ Nokomai .. Lion .. .. Lion Gold-mining Co. 103. 5/11/99 4 0 0 , .. VIII. „ .. H. T. Selwood and party. 107. 5/11/99 2 0 0 Wendon .. I. Wendon .. .. Lye Chun and party. 128. 19/12/99 26 1 1 Waikaia .. VI. Waikaia .. Piano Flat .. Piano Flat H.S. Co. 50. 3/4/00 69 3 35 . .. I., III. „ .. Argyle .. .. Argyle Hydraulic Sluioing Oo. 56. 1/5/00 39 3 0 . .. VI. ... .. Robert Hutton. 57. 1/5/00 61 2 0 Nokomai .. VII. Nokomai .. Sew Hoy .. Kum Poy. 58. 1/5/00 34 0 0 . .. . „ , .. Sew Hoy. 104. 1/10/00 74 3 24 Wendon .. V. Wendon .. Break-'em-All .. Winding Creek Gold-mining Oo, 14. 7/5/01 35 0 0 Waikaia .. „ Waikaia .. Gow's Creek .. Gow's Creek Gold-mining Co. 15. 7/5/01 41 1 0 .. „ ... 1.4/2/02 6 0 0 „ .. VI. . .. Piano Flat .. Piano Flat Co. 7. 8/4/02 20 0 0 Nokomai .. VII. Nokomai .. Sew Hoy .. Nokomai Hydraulio Sluioing Oo 11. 8/4/02 5 0 0 Waikaia .. V. Waikaia .. .. R. C. McKay. 12. 8/4/02 500 „ ..; . „ .. .. Heotor McKay. 22.6/5/02 32 3 0 Nokomai .. I., IV. Nokomai.. Sew Hoy .. Nokomai Hydraulic Sluioing Co, 23. 6/5/02 20 0 0 Waikaia ■.. j V. Waikaia .. Gow's Creek .. Gow's Creek Gold-mining Co. 24.6/5/02 5 0 0 Nokomai .. VII. Nokomai.. .. T. F. Goldie. 26. 8/7/02 5 0 0 Waikaia .. V. Waikaia .. .. Eric White. 28.8/7/02 5 0 0 „ .. „ „ .. .. A. Kennedy and party. 32. 5/8/02 5 0 0 Nokomai .. ' VII. Nokomai .. .. John Franoe.

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Number and Date of License. Area. Locality. Block. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner. OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND GOLE •FIELDS — continued. Waikaia— conti m nued. A R p Dredging Clai 49. 3/4/00 78 2 4 Waikaia .. VI. Waikaia .. 9. 5/3/01 99 0 0 „ .. I., VIII. 11. 5/2/01 53 1 0 Wendon . . I. Wendon .. 27. 2/7/01 99 3 16 „ . . XXI. 32. 8/10/01 100 0 0 „ .. I. 4. 4/3/02 69 1 30 19. 6/5/02 67 0 0 20. 6/5/02 57 1 0 „ .. XXI. 21. 6/5/02 100 0 0 Waikaia .. I. Waikaia .. 31. 5/8/02 64 2 0 Wendon .. „ Wendon .. 34. 6/10/02 83 0 0 ims. Nugget .. Daniel Ferguson. Switzer's .. Switzer's Dredging Co. T. F. Goldie. Mystery Flat .. Mystery Fiat Gold-dredging Co. R. W. Hall. Muddy Creek .. Muddy Creek Co. Robert Boag. T. F. Goldie. Hessey .. .. Hessey's Dredging Co. D. M. Cameron. Thomas Taylor. Tapanui. Dredging Claim: 4. 20/2/00 46 2 30 Pomahaka VIII. Greenvale River 6. 17/7/00 12 0 Ditto .. „ „ 12. 16/4/01 26 1 36 Glenkenioh.. III. Glenkenioh s. J Daniel Dougherty, I Robert Foster. Gore. Dredging Claimt i. Section. 13. 20/7/99 19 0 0 Waikaka .. 9 Waikaka .. 16. 17/8/99 36 0 9 „ .. 9 Cbatton .. 23. 21/9/99 10 0 0 Otama .. 2 Otama .. 26. 21/9/99 94 2 0 Chatton 14 Chatton .. 27. 21/9/99 90 3 0 „ 14 28. 21/9/99 58 1 0 „ .. 13 29. 21/9/99 99 0 0 „ .. 9 „ 35. 19/10/99 15 0 0 „ .. 14 41. 19/10/99 66 3 0 „ .. 9 „ 42. 19/10/99 93 1 0 „ .. 14 43. 19/10/99 79 1 30 „ . . 14 45. 23/11/99 8 0 0 „ .. 14 47. 23/11/99 6 10 Waikaka .. 2 Waikaka .. 3. 1/1/00 62 0 0 „ 2 5. 1/1/00 99 0 20 „ .. 8 Chatton .. 9. 1/1/00 58 1 32 Croydon .. 872 Hokonui .. 22. 19/4/00 57 3 10 Chatton .. 14 Chatton .. ' 29. 23/11/99 35 1 0 „ .. 13 ... 37. 1/9/00 100 0 0 „ .. 2 8. 6/2/00 58 3 0 „ .. 3 4. 1/3/98 27 1 3 „ 14 45. 18/10/00 99 2 27 „ .. 9 46. 1/11/00 95 0 38 Waikaka .. 14 47. 1/11/00 11 0 0 „ .. 14 53. 1/12/00 44 1 0 Croydon .. 864 Hokonui .. 4. 21/2/01 36 1 36 Waikaka . . 14 Chatton .. 6. 21/3/01 6 10 . 14 ... 7. 16/4/01 6 10 „ .. 9 ... 8. 18/4/01 61 0 34 Chatton 14 9. 22/5/01 16 1 0 Waikaka 9 , 10. 22/5/01 67 2 0 Chatton 10 12.25/10/01 70 0 0 Croydon .. 854 Hokonui.. 13. 5/12/01 10 0 0 Charlton 495 „ . 14. 5/12/01 5 0 0 . .. 495 „ 2. 6/3/02 3 0 0 » 487 „ 4. 24/4/02 10 0 0 Waikaka .. 4 Chatton .. 8. 21/8/02 66 1 0 Croydon .. 853 Hokonui .. 9.21/8/02 42 1 0 Waikaka 14 Chatton .. 11. 4/9/02 6 0 0 12. 25/9/02 7 0 0 „ 2 Waikaka.. 13.25/9/02 52 3 5 Maitland 1 to 16 MaitlandVil. 14. 23/10/02 63 1 0 Croydon . . 852 Hokonui .. 15. 27/11/02 7 0 0 . .. 854 ... Globe Co. David Riohardsor. Paterson's Freehold Co. Waikaka United Co. Lavingt >n G. Roope and others. John W. Byars. Henry Pemble. Michael Louis Spratt. Lavington G. Roope and others. Robert Sheddan. Adam J Niohol. David Richardson. William F. Bennetts and others. Waikaka Queen Co. Robert Lee. Thomas A. Fleming. Lavington G. Roope and others. Waikaka United Co. Phoenix Co. Robert E. Edge. Central Mataura Oo. Lavington G. Roope and others. William F. Bennetts and others. Globe Co. William Brownlie and others. William Hugh Paterson. Thomas H. Ibbotson and others. John M. Graham. The MacCharlton Oo. Charlton Creek Co. Lady Charlton Co. Samuel A. Mcintosh. Central Mataura Co. William H. Grey. Robert S. White. Frederio T. King and another. Robert S. White. Central Mataura Co. George Taylor. Riverton. Alluvial Claims. I. Smith Company .. j Smith Gold-mining Co. Ourawera Gold-mining Oo. J.W. Murdock & J.W. Thomson. E. C. Stewart & W. Thomson. Undaunted .. i L. Cross and others. RoEaid Hill Mining Co. Block. 253. 1/10/99 39 1 29 .. VII. Longwood 376. 1/2/00 57 0 0 Section 29 .. 427. 1/3/00 94 1 37 Seotions 8, 10 VIII. Pegasus .. 428. 1/3/00 56 1 35 Seotion 21 .. VII. 452. 31/10/99 5 2 0 Orepuki 618. 17/4/01 90 2 8 Section 33 .. VII. Longwood 619. 17/4/01 94 2 38 . 32 .. 663. 2/10/01 2 0 0 Round Hill 703. 14/1/02 4 0 0 Riverton .. 709. 4/2/02 9 0 0 Section 34 .. VII. Longwood 726. 9/4/02 27 3 22 „ 36 .. 731. 7/5/02 29 2 22 „ 21 .. 743. 22/7/02 2 10 Round Hill 775. 25/10/02 5 0 0 Oolao Smith Company .. Undaunted Ellen Smith & C. E. Hopgood. William Boyd. Ourawera Gold-mining Co. Jewett's Gully No. 2 Joseph Harrison. T am .ii). n,.n'.. Jewett's Gully No. 2 Jewett's Gully Jewett 8 Gully .. „ Ourawera Gold-mining Oo, James Phillips.

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Number and Date of License. Area. Locality. Blook. Survey District. Name of Claim. j Name of Registered Owner. * OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND GOLDFIELDS— continued. Riverton — continued. a. r. p. Mineral License. 777. 11/11/021 94 0 0 (Sections 13, | VIT. I Pegasus .. I .. I J. R. Thomson, R. Fraser, and 14, 19 I I J. Thomson. Quartz Claims. 121. 21/3/99 77 3 15 Sees. 11,12,15 IV. I Preservation! Morning Star .. : New Star Gold-mining Co. 426.1/5/00 29 1 8 „ 1,2,3.. III. . ! Venus .. .. j F. G. Gray. 583. 13/2/01 29 2 0 Section 4 .. , I Venus Extended .. T. M. Gillies. 613. 17/4/01 100 0 0 8 .. I. Anglem .. Baden Powell . R. Graham, H. Graham, and W. T. Widdowson. 614.17/4/01 99 0 0 .. j . „ .. „ ..! Ditto. Orepuki. Alluvial Claims. 46. 7/8/00 I 4 0 0 Orepuki .. .. .. J. W. Wilson, F. H. Wilson, D. Dunda?, H. Dundas, A. Hodgkirson, and L. G. Roope. 47. 7/8/00 ! .. „ .... .. .. W. S. Todd, J. Kingsland, and A. M. Dawson. 70. 1/11/00 '330 . .. .. .. .. J. S. Evans, J. Evans, W. Evans, and E. Evans. 183.14/8/01 200 „ ..j,. .. .. E. Crabb and Wm. Cummings. 152.28/1/02 19 3 0 West Waiau ,. .. ,. J. Hinchey and W. Hinchey. 153. 28/1/02 : 13 3 31 176. 22/7/02 ' 5 0 0 Orepuki .J .. .. J. Arthur,jun.,W. Atley.F. Quinn. Wykdham. Dredging Claims. 37. 4/4/99 i 15 3 27 Otara .. VII. Otara .. .. William Bennett. 48. 3/4/00 I 64 3 25 Oteramika .. „ Oteramika .. William Timpany. 61. 14/8/00 , 43 2 0 . .. XXIV. „ .. John Mitchell, jun. 62. 21/11/00 45 0 0 Wyndham .. 52 Wyndham .. William R. Perkins. 64. 21/11/00 26 0 0 ... 44

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SCHOOLS OP MINES. These institutions continue to serve a good purpose in affording mining students and candidates fdr certificates as mine-managers and battery-superintendents an opportunity for gaining knowledge in the several branches of work connected with the mining industry. At the last examination of schools of mines students Mr. J. H. Adams, of Thames, succeeded in obtaining a scholarship which entitles him to three years' instruction at the Otago University at Dunedin without cost, and also a grant of £50 per annum. THAMES SCHOOL OF MINES. Mr. F. B. Allen, M.A., B.Sc, the late Director, who resigned to take a position under the Government of Western Australia, has been succeeded by Mr. 0. G. Adams, F.C.S., A.O.S.M. Mr. Adams reports as follows : — The attendance has been somewhat limited owing to the depression existing at Thames. However, towards the end of the year prospects seemed to be brightening, and so the outlook for 1903 is promising. In July Mr. P. B. Allen, M.A., B.Sc, resigned the position of Director, having been appointed to a similar position in Western Australia. The vacancy thus caused here was filled by my appointment, and I took up my duties on the 28th August. Owing to my recent arrival here my report will necessarily be somewhat incomplete. Mr. A. H. V. Morgan, M.A., assistant lecturer; Mr. E. G. Wright, lecturer and instructor in electricity ; and Mr. T. J. Mountain, drawing-master, have all done excellent work, and brought their students well on. The annual examinations, held in December, were supervised by myself and my assistant. The results are given in tabulated form attached to this report. Mr. J. H. Adams succeeded in winning the University scholarship, and did exceedingly well, gaining 75 per cent, or over in fourteen subjects. He also gained the President's medal for the best all-round student, and Mr. B. W. Powell's medal for mathematics. As a result of the January, 1902, Government examination of candidates for mine-managers' and battery-superintendents' certificates several students were successful. I have pleasure in acknowledging the generous support and co-operation that the Council and the secretary, Mr. Albert Bruce, have accorded me. Towards the end of the year I recommended the purchase of an optical lantern, camera, lantern-slide maker, screen, and accessories, to be used for illustrating the lectures, so that the system of instruction might be brought quite up to date. The Hon. James McGowan, Minister of Mines, generously agreed to subsidise the Council's funds at the rate of £3 to £1 up to a total expenditure of about £40, to provide the money with which to purchase the instruments. I have no doubt that the use of the optical lantern for lecture purposes will tend to increase the attendance, and to improve the results at the annual examinations. At the annual meeting of subscribers, held at the school on the 10th February, 1903, the following officers were elected: President, Mr. Mathew Paul; vice-president, Mr. W. Baker; treasurer, Mr. J. Hague Smith; Council, Captain T. C. Bayldon, Messrs. E. F. Adams, E. Murphy, J. McLaren, and E. W. Powell. The experimental plant treated nine parcels during the year. There were 177 assays made for the public, also fifty-one assays and analyses for the Mines Department. Besides these there were a number of assays made in connection with the work in the battery. In trie latter part of 1901 the Council of the Thames School of Mines thought it advisable, in view of the importance of electricity to the mining industry, to start a class in that subject. The Minister of Mines was approached, and a Government grant obtained towards the expense of the class. The services of Mr. E. G. Wright, a pupil of Dr. Henderson, of the London Polytechnic, were secured, and the lectures commenced early in February, 1902. A dynamo and motor were obtained temporarily for the use of the class till the permanent machines and instruments could be obtained from England. These arrived in June, and were installed in a workshop which had been erected. The equipment is very complete, and contains all that is necessary to give the student intending to make electrical engineering his profession a good grounding in this science. The dynamo, driven by a 5-horse-power Pelton wheel, is capable of giving 20 amperes at 100 volts, and may be driven for experimental purposes either as a shunt or compound wound machine. The mam switchboard is of marble, and contains double-pole switch, double pole, safety fuses, volt, and ampere-meters. The whole of the connections are easy of access, so that they may be varied for experimental work. A six-way distributing-board controls the lighting arrangements and the currents supplied to bench terminals, the latter having a pressure of 100 volts between them. A small experimental machine has also been provided. This may be run in a number of different ways—viz., as an alternating dynamo or motor, a continuous dynamo or motor, or as a motor dynamo or rotary converter. There are a number of instruments, including mirror, galvanometer, post-office Wheatstone bridge, tangent galvanometers, and magnetic pendulum; also model armature, showing the winding on a modern drum-wound dynamo. The school is lighted up throughout by electricity, all the work of wiring and fitting having been done by the students under the supervision of the lecturer; and it speaks well for the thoroughness of this work that it was able to pass the severe test made by the Inspector of the Underwriters'

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Association with a considerable 'margin to spare. The course is intended to follow the syllabus set for the examination of the City and Guilds Institute in electro-technology, and there are at present twenty candidates for the examination to be held in May, 1903. The classes aire well attended, and this, the first effort in this district at technical work in this branch, should lead to the establishment of considerable interest in electric science.

Table of Attendances for the Year ending 31st December, 1902.

Results of Annual Examinations, 1902. The following table shows the results of the late annual examinations: —

Name of Subject. First Term. Second Term. Third Term. legistered students ... iaturday science class 53 60 47 66 38 55 Total number of students 113 113 88 1-

Subject of Examination. First Second Third Class. Class. Class. Failed. Total. 'radical chemistry (senior) 'ractical chemistry (junior) 'heoretical chemistry (senior) 'heoretical chemistry (junior) 'heoretical chemistry (elementary) 'ractical assaying (senior) 'ractical assaying (junior) 'ractical assaying, wet (senior) ... 'ractical assaying, wet (junior) ... Mineralogy Metallurgy of gold and silver lining r entilation 'umping and winding ... reneral and mining geology jand and mine surveying lathematics ... lechanical drawing Explosives 1 l" 1 2 3 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 10 1 1 '2 l l l l 14 4 4 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 i "i

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COROMANDEL SCHOOL OF MINES. The Director, Mr. D. V. Allen, A.O.S.M. (who is also manager of the battery connected with the school), reports as under : — School. I have to report as follows on the work and progress of the school for the year ending the 31st January, 1903 :— Notwithstanding the rather depressed state of our local mining industry, I am pleased to state that the school has passed through a fairly successful year. The attendance steadily increased during the year, as seen by the following table : — Number of Students. Average Attendance. First term ... ... ... ... ... 16 33 Second term ... ... ... ... ... 19 39 Third term ... ... ... ... ... 23 47 There is every reason to believe that the numbers will be maintained during the coming year; in fact, sixteen students have already joined. The Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers has this year offered two prizes of £10 and £5 respectively for the best essays on any scientific topic, competition to be confined to school of mines students. Our course of instruction included theoretical and practical chemistry, metallurgy, wet and dry assaying, mining, &c, land and mine surveying, mathematics, and mechanical drawing. A good deal of useful field-work was done in connection with the survey class. Good work was also done in the laboratory, including analysis of minerals and cyanide extraction tests on gold-ores. Thirty-two assays for the public were done by myself during the year, chiefly bullion and goldore assays. My thanks are due to Mr. R. E. Jamieson, who for some time acted as instructor in mathematics. The annual school of mines examinations took place last December. Eleven of our students presented themselves, and the certificates obtained were five first, seven second, and four third class. Last year one student sat for the first-class mine-managers' examination, and was successful in passing therein. For this year's examination we have four candidates for first-class minemanager and two for battery-superintendent. The results, however, will not be known for some time. Numerous donations of rocks and minerals have been received, including a large collection from the Waihi School of Mines. Our school was well represented in the Gold Jubilee Exhibition, and obtained first award for its collection of minerals. A 2 in. water-pipe has been laid on to the school, and it is intended to erect a small Pelton wheel to drive a rock-section grinder for the geological class. Batteey. During the year twenty-two parcels of ore were treated at the battery. These comprised 79 tons of general ore, 6-| tons of tailings, 301b. of concentrates, and 6951b. of picked stone. The total yield of retorted gold was 1,048 oz. lOdwt., valued approximately at £3,050. A much-needed want has been supplied by the construction of a new water-race, which carries ample water for all purposes. The race delivers into a wooden tank, from which independent pipes supply the tables, berdans, and engine. The oil-engine gave less trouble than formerly. Past experience has proved that it is better not to attempt to run both the stamps and berdans together, as the work is too heavy on the engine. Great credit is due to Mr. Hugh McDonald, the amalgamator, for the zealous manner he has carried out his duties. Report of Council. In presenting a general report of proceedings during the past year, and in reviewing the work accomplished in comparison with previous periods, the Council—fully considering the decreased population of the district—have great pleasure in reporting to the members and general public of Coromandel as to its efficient state, and upon the favourable results both in the school and the Government examinations. During the year, with the assistance of the Mines Department in allowing us a special grant, we were enabled to replenish our stock of chemicals and other requisites ; so that the several branches of instruction have been carried on without inconvenience to the Director or students. To further extend the scope of instruction, the Council purpose erecting a grinding and facing plant, which will be very advantageous in geological classification and research. A portion of the plant is already in hand, the same having been procured by the school in connection with its exhibits at the late Auckland Exhibition. As motive power it is proposed to erect a small Pelton wheel, to be connected with the county main water-supply, the particulars and cost of which have been satisfactorily arranged. It will be again necessary to materially add to our general stock of school materials and apparatus, so that during the coming year we may be enabled to successfully carry out the full course of instruction. In furtherance of these matters the Council purpose again approaching the Mines Department for assistance. The visiting committee's monthly report remarks very favourably upon the general working of the school, and upon the attention and deportment of the students ; and the Council are of opinion, 9—C. 3.

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judging from the increased interest displayed and additional students who have already enrolled, that the year now entered on will be even more successful than the past. The public battery treated for the last twelve months twenty-two parcels of quartz. The particulars re returns of same are duly reported by the battery-manager. To increase the efficiency of this plant it is proposed to alter somewhat the pulley-wheels and belt connections, and other minor matters, as found expedient. The cost of crushings has been somewhat reduced, and the Council trust, on the proposed alterations being completed, to be enabled to still make further concessions under this head. WAIHI SCHOOL OF MINES. Mr. Percy G. Morgan, M.A., Director, supplies the following report:— During the past year the school has been well attended, the average number of registered students being fifty-one. This is an increase of four over the attendance in 1901, the average for that year being forty-seven. The great majority of these students entered the school for the first time, most of the previous year's students having either completed their studies or left the district. On referring to the subjoined table of attendances for the year it will be seen that most of the classes were fairly well attended, the more popular subjects being mineralogy and blowpipe, mathematics, mining, assaying, and surveying, whilst geology, metallurgy, and (to a less extent) the two chemistry classes attracted but little attention.

Table of Attendances for the Year ending 31st December, 1902.

Much the same course of instruction has been followed as in former years, but a slightly higher standard has been aimed at, and I believe attained, though not without the expenditure of much painstaking labour by the staff, who are handicapped here, as in other schools of mines on this goldfield, by inadequate apparatus and teaching accessories, by the backward state of many pupils on their entrance, by the irregular attendance of some, and, above all, as it seems to me, by the want of suitable text-books in a majority of the subjects. Owing to this latter disadvantage much time is occupied in dictating notes, which means a great loss of teaching-power. This matter of text-books is one which I should like to see taken up by the Government, for there can be no doubt that the class of students attending the schools of mines on this goldfield requires special text-books, concisely written but full, up to date, and adapted to the needs of a practical man who has little book knowledge but is anxious to learn. The following is a summary of the work done in the various classes : — (1.) Mining (Lecturer, the Director). —This was one of the best-attended classes in the school, the average attendance being eighteen. The instruction given embraced the subjects of shaftsinking, opening out and exploitation of mines, use of timber, iron, and masonry as supports for mine-workings, pumping, hauling and winding, mine-ventilation, tapping water, dams, blasting, explosives, strength of materials, and mining geology. In this class it is endeavoured to cover the ground required by the Government examiners in the mining subjects of the coal- and quartz-mine managers' examinations. A few years ago it was not impossible to do this in one year, but now, owing to the higher standard that seems to be required (and rightly, in my opinion), an elaborate course of instruction has to be given in order to prepare candidates sufficiently. Owing to the uncertainty of work in most mining districts, and a spirit of restlessness which is fostered by the fluctuating nature of his employment, the average miner, especially if young or unmairied, seldom stays more than a year or two in one place. Partly for this reason the courses of instruction in the Waihi School of Mines are confined to twelve months, thus giving the wandering miner an opportunity of obtaining a fair knowledge of any one subject in that time. Last year, however, notwithstanding extra hours of instruction, the syllabus of the mining course was not quite overtaken. (2.) Mathematics (Instructor, Mr. F. T. Seelye).—During 1902 this was the best-attended class in the school, the attendance being 237. The instruction given was individual, and adapted as far as possible to each student's needs. The work done comprised the whole subject of

Name of Subject. First Term. Second Term. Third Term. lining lathematics 'heoretical surveying 'ractical surveying i-eology lineralogy and blowpipe 'heoretical chemistry 'ractical chemistry Vet and dry assaying letallurgy ... ... )rawing 16 23 17 13 4 20 21 16 17 18 23 11 7 8 7 15 5 8 11 10 22 5 11 26 6 9 18 6 1.1 Totals 116 139 135 Individual registered students ... 46 54 53

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arithmetic, together with special exercises in mining calculations and problems, use of logarithms, formulas, and a little algebra. (3.) Theoretical Surveying (Lecturer and instructor, the Director). —The average attendance in this class was 147. The work done comprised elementary trigonometry, including solution of triangles, filling up traverse sheets, calculating areas, calculating closing lines, mine-survey-ing problems, elementary levelling, &c. (4.) Practical Surveying (Instructor, the Director). —The average attendance in this class was 123. The members were taught chaining both of horizontal and of sloping lines ; uses and adjustment of the theodolite, miners' dial, dumpy level, &c. A considerable amount of field-work was done by the members of this class, including the checking of the local meridian by daylight observations of a star. (5.) Geology (Lecturer, the Director). —During the first term instruction was given to four students in general geology, but their interest soon fell off, and the class was discontinued at the end of the term. The small attendance in this class is to be attributed principally to the fact that it is not often taken up by first-year students such as comprised the majority of those attending last year. A number of students, however, have stated their intention of taking up this important subject during the coming year, and I anticipate a good class. It may not be out of place for me to say that great advances in the study of mining geology have been made during recent years, and a very wide field is now opening up for the trained mining geologist. The subject of geology is therefore becoming more and more important in connection with the working of all classes of oredeposits, and is one that must not be neglected by modern mine-managers. (6.) Mineralogy and Blowpipe (Lecturer, the Director). —During the last term a course of lectures of a popular character was given in this subject, and was largely attended. The subjectmatter of these lectures included physical characters of minerals, blowpipe tests, the six crystallographic systems, &c. The lectures were illustrated by numerous experiments, and by the handinground of some hundreds of specimens. (7.) Theoretical Chemistry (Lecturer, Mr. F. T. Seelye).—The average attendance in this class was 8-3. The course of instruction comprised the chemistry of the non-metallic elements and of the alkali metals, together with the atomic theory, physico-chemical laws, chemical arithmetic, &c. It is to be regretted that more students did not avail themselves of instruction in a subject which is not only interesting in itself, but also of the greatest value to all assayers and battery-superintendents, and is a science of which every mine-manager also ought to acquire at least the rudiments. (8.) Practical Chemistry (Lecturer and instructor, Mr. F. T. Seelye).—The average attendance was 8-7. The instruction given in this class comprised methods of preparing oxygen, hydrogen, chlorine, and carbon-dioxide; tests for metals and acids; separation of the metals ; manipulation of chemical apparatus ; and quantitative analysis of simple substances. (9.) Dry and Wet Assaying (Lecturers and instructors, the Director and Mr. F. T. Seelye).— The average attendance was 18-3, which is not quite up to last year's average. The work done in this class comprised the whole of Park's " Assaying and Practical Chemistry," with the exception of two or three analyses, which seem out of place in a school of mines course. Some good work was done by the students in dry assaying, but those who took up wet assaying made but very moderate progress. The results of their practical work were in many cases far more inaccurate than they ought to have been. The fact is that one and all lack an adequate knowledge of theoretical and practical chemistry. Despite all advice, our students will neglect these subjects, and devote their main efforts to learning how to "do" the copper assay, the iron assay, &c. Their usual method of preparing for an examination is to learn the text-book description off by heart. From the point of view of a worried school of mines teacher, it would be a good thing if the term " assaying " (which in its very derivation savours of the empirical) were tabooed, and some such name as "economic quantitative analysis" substituted. (10.) Metallurgy of Gold and Silver (Lecturer, the Director). —The average attendance in this class was 53. Last year's course of instruction included crushing and concentrating machinery, amalgamating processes and machines, cyanide process, chlorination process, bromination process, lixiviation processes for silver-ores, roasting and smelting furnaces. The members of this class were specially prepared for the Government examination for battery-super-intendent's certificate. Partly on this account, perhaps, this was one of the subjects in which the want of a suitable text-book was much felt. (11.) Drawing (Instructor, Mr. R. H. Mitchell). —This class was fairly well attended during the year, the average number of pupils being eleven. The instruction given was of a valuable character, and comprised elementary geometrical drawing ; machine-drawing, both from copies and from actual examples ; some architectural drawing, and the plotting and drawing of surveyplans. Changes in Staff. —I have again to record a change in the teaching staff, Mr. A. H. V. Morgan, M.A., who had ably acted as assistant lecturer for twelve months, having left in March to take up the duties of first assistant at the Thames School of Mines. Mr. F. T. Seelye, A.0.5.M., who was selected to fill the vacancy, arrived in April, and has since then been of great assistance in carrying on the work of the school. During the month preceding Mr. Seelye's arrival, Mr. Leslie Jolly, A.0.5.M., acted capably as temporary assistant. Examinations. —At the annual Government examinations for schools of mines, held during December, twenty-two of our students presented themselves, a greater number than in any former year. Altogether forty-three papers, representing every subject on the list except mathematics, were given in. The detailed results which are just to hand, show that six first-class, twenty-two second-class, and thirteen third-class certificates were obtained, whilst the remaining two papers failed to reach the standard required for a certificate.

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In one group of subjects—namely, theoretical chemistry, practical chemistry, and wet assaying (which is really a branch of practical chemistry) —the results here, as in other schools of mines, are poor, and reveal the presence of a weak spot. The reason for this weakness is referred to elsewhere in a paragraph written before the examination results had come to hand. The remedy is not so obvious; but this may be said that the cure rests not so much with the teaching staff, or even with the pupils, as with a higher authority. The examination results as a whole, however, represent much hard work on the part of our students, and if one makes allowance for the various disadvantages under which many labour they may be considered to have done very well; but the attainment of a still higher standard is much to be desired. In order to facilitate this end, further aids to teaching in the way of apparatus, models, and accommodation are very necessary, especially if the attendance should increase, as seems likely, beyond last year's average (fifty-one). Last year the school sent up ten candidates for mine-managers' and battery-superintendents' certificates, with the result that three obtained first-class mine-managers' certificates, one a firstclass coal-mine manager's certificate, one passed as a battery-superintendent, and two obtained partial passes as mine-managers equivalent to second-class certificates. Several students also were successful in obtaining winding engineers' certificates. Laboratory. —During the year a cupel-machine was added to the laboratory equipment, and new benches of a substantial character constructed. Forty public assays for gold and silver were made, besides three for gold alone, one bullion assay, one amalgamation assay, six copper assays, one zinc assay, three iron assays, and an analysis of a mineral supposed by the sender to be scheelite, but which turned out to be barytes or heavyspar—in all, ninety-four determinations. In addition, a number of mineral specimens were examined and named for various inquirers free of charge. As in former years, a good deal of special work was done in the laboratory by the more advanced students and by the staff. I quote the following results, which are of more or less outside interest :— (1.) Fibrous white mineral from the Waihi Extended shaft (depth, about 430 ft.) : Hardness equals 2-5 to 3; specific gravity equals 2-17 ; 8.8. swells up and fuses at about 2-5 ; gelatinizes with HCI. Analysis gave (excluding 302 per cent, of moisture) : Loss on ignition (combined with water), 14-35 per cent.; silica, 53-43 per cent. ; alumina, 21 per cent. ; calcic oxide, 10-41 per cent. : total, 99-20 per cent. The mineral is therefore a zeolite, and is near laumontite in composition and most physical characteristics. The specimen analysed appeared to be somewhat decomposed, which explains the low hardness and rather high percentage of silica. (2.) Rock-analyses (partial) : —

No. 1 was a dark andesite from the Waihi West C shaft; depth about 300 ft. No. 2 was a dark-grey andesite, with reddish decomposed feldspar crystals, from the Waihi Company's No. 1 shaft; depth about 500 ft. The rock contained a carbonate (no doubt CaCO s ) and a little ironpyrites. No. 3 was spherulitic rhyolite from Katikati Heads. No. 4 was a coarsely crystallized rhyolite from the hills east of Waihi. No. 5 was a rhyolite with interrupted flow structure (wilsonite) from a quarry about two miles west of Waihi. No. 6 was a light-coloured, closegrained rhyolite from quarry near Silverton Road, Waihi. (3.) Clarendon phosphate rock : Moisture lost at 100° C, 1-05 per cent.; silica, 0-68 per cent. ; carbonate of lime, 5 per cent.; calcium-phosphate (with some aluminium-phosphate and traces of iron-phosphate), 88-91 per cent.; undetermined, 4-41 per cent. The percentage of phosphoric oxide, as determined by careful assay of the calcuim-phosphate precipitate, was 35-745, corresponding to 78-04 per cent, of Ca 3 (P0 4 ) 2 , so that the percentage given above is too high. (4 ) Analysis of barytes, forwarded from Nelson (Denniston) : Barium-sulphate, 98-33 per cent. ; strontium-sulphate, doubtful trace; calcium-sulphate, traces; magnesia, trace; alumina and ferric oxide, 1-69 per cent.; moisture lost at 100° C, 0-04 per cent.; loss on ignition, 0-19 per cent. : total, 100-25 per cent. Mineral Collection. —As in former years, a considerable number of rock and mineral specimens have been obtained locally for the school collection, which is still, for the want of suitable accommodation, in great part packed away in boxes or on high shelves. Various friends have presented the school with a number of interesting specimens, chiefly of gold-ores. Among these donors may be mentioned the Hon. the Minister of Mines, who forwarded several good specimens of the phosphate rock recently discovered at Clarendon, Otago. The analysis of a portion, quoted above, shows that it was of very good quality. It need hardly be said that mineral specimens, &c, are always acceptable at institutions like ours, and it is to be hoped that Inspectors of Mines, whose constant visits to mines give them exceptional facilities for collecting, will not fail to take the hint, and forward as many specimens as possible to the various schools of mines throughout the colony.

H 2 0 lost at 100° C. Loss on Ignition. Si0 2 . A1 2 0 3 . FeO. CaO. MgO. MnO. 1 2* 3 4 5 6 1-12 2-34 1-65 3-68 59-65 59-38 72-25 70-34 70-37 73-08 17-06 16-06 13-71 15-75 15-82 13-50 6-58 6-26 1-84 1-86 2-17 2-73 6-14 4-30 2-52 2-94 1-70 1-07 4-30 2-61 1-91 Traces Traces 015 Very strong traces. Strong traces. Strong traces. Strong traces. Strong traces. Traces. * Note , —The analyi lis of No. 2 ■as made on , sample drii >d at 100° C.

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Theodolite. —Our old theodolite having through constant use got into a very bad state of repair, application for a new one was made to the Mines Department, which kindly forwarded a 5 in. Watts theodolite about the end of September. Our thanks are due for the gift, though its value was somewhat discounted by a request for the return of the old instrument, which, though almost useless for accurate work, would still have been useful for placing in the hands of raw beginners. Library. —During the year the library has been much used and appreciated by the students. Thanks must be given to the Mines Department for the following pulications : Neiv Zealand Mines Becord; Mines Report; Coal-mines Commission Report; Park's "Geology of Mines and Minerals " (twelve copies); Government Geologist's " Report on Seismic Disturbances at Cheviot," and Report on Deep-level Mining at the Thames. A few books have been procured during the year, making altogether about a hundred volumes, besides Government publications ; but many more are needed in order to bring the library up to date and increase its sphere of usefulness. In conclusion, I have to thank the Council for the efficient manner in which they have conducted the business of the school and attended to its various requirements. Thanks are due also to Messrs. A. H. V. Morgan, M.A., and F. T. Seelye, A.0.5.M., who have successively filled the post of assistant lecturer; to Mr. Leslie Jolly, A.0.5.M., temporary assistant; to Mr. R. H. Mitchell, who has conducted the drawing class with marked ability during the year ; and to Clarence King and Stafford Clark, laboratory assistants. KARANGAHAKE SCHOOL OF MINES. Mr. R. B. McDuff is the Director of this school. The following is the annual report of the Council: — It affords the Council great pleasure to present the fourth annual report on the work done and the results obtained during the year ending the 31st December, 1902. Attendance. —During the year the attendance was a slight increase on that maintained for the previous twelve months, being for the three terms 32-3 students, taking an average number of 104 classes. With the improvement in mining matters at present obtaining in this district, even larger attendance can be looked for during the present year. Equipment. —As stated at the last annual meeting, the equipment of the school for the advantageous study of the subjects embraced in the curriculum was fairly complete, and during the year a few additions —notably a set of bullion rolls for the assay class and some additional text-books— have been added, and the Council have lately received an offer from the Very Rev. Dean Hackett of some further technical works, which will greatly enhance the value of our library. The Council take this opportunity of reminding all members of the institute, whether students or not, that they are entitled to the use of the books of the library at any time, provided the book is not taken away from the building, and, as these works comprise most of the best authorities on any of the mining branches practised in this district, members may gain great help by taking advantage of their privileges in this respect. Examinations. —At the examination for mine- and battery-managers' certificates held last year six candidates were provided by the school. They sat at Waihi, and the results showed four to have gained first-class certificates, one a partial pass, and one to have failed. Owing to the inconvenience journeying so far in order to sit, the Council forwarded a recommendation to the Board of Examiners that Karangahake be appointed an examination centre in future, and the Board has been pleased to grant this. At the annual Government examinations in connection with the schools of mines throughout the colony, held in December last, thirteen students presented themselves, and the results to hand show the Karangahake School to have headed the honour list for New Zealand, in spite of the fact that several other schools boast a larger attendance and presented a greater number of candidates, and, further, that this school is the youngest in the colony. This must be most gratifying to the members and students, and especially to the Director (Mr. McDuff), whose painstaking efforts have been a continual source of pleasure to the Council. The gold medal offered by our President (A. H. Curtis, Esq.) to the student gaining the highest aggregate in any five subjects was won by Mr. R. D. Jones with an aggregate of 376, Mr. F. Cordes being next with 348. Beceipts and Expenditure. —The treasurer's statement shows the total receipts from all sources to have been £322 16s. 6d., while the expenditure totalled £232 12s. Bd., leaving a credit balance at bank and in hand of £90 3s. lOd. Becommendations. —The Council before retiring from office wish to recommend to the new Council that immediate steps be taken to enlarge the school building, the present assay department especially being totally inadequate to accommodate the large class taking this course, the Director having had, perforce, to split the class, thus doubling his work in this particular subject, in order to overcome the difficulty of accommodation. The Council therefore recommends that the Government be approached with the request for a special grant to carry out these additions. Election of Officers and Councillors. —During the year our President, vice-president, and one Councillor left the district, the Council under by-law 11 appointing Mr. T. G. Vinson to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. Travers. REEFTON SCHOOL OF MINES. Mr. T. O. Bishop, A.0.5.M., the Director, submits the following report : — On my arrival here late in June I found that no effort had been made either by the students or the committee to carry on the work of the classes between the time of Mr. Lee's resignation and

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my own appointment. I therefore visited the various mines and mills within reach, and succeeded in enrolling in all sixty-five students, and these formed three separate classes—viz., one in Reefton, one in Crushington, and one at Progress Mine. The subjects taken up were practical and theoretical chemistry, assaying, surveying, mining, metallurgy, and mathematics, and the following table shows the average attendance in each :— Subject. M Tot al Average ' Number. Attendance. Mining ... ... ... ... ... ... 16 9 Surveying ... ... ... ... ... ... 16 9 Chemistry ... ... ... ... ... ... 18 11 Assaying ... ... ... ... ... ... 13 6 Mathematics ... ... ... ... ... ... 23 10 Metallurgy ... ... ... ... ... ... 8 5 These figures include the three classes already mentioned. Only eleven of our students sat for the annual examination, and, though the actual results were somewhat low, there were reasons why this was only to be expected —that is, that some of our students had not had quite six months' tuition, and the whole ground covered by the examination papers had not been gone through. The results were as follows : —

The work in the practical classes—chemistry, assaying, and surveying—was greatly hampered by our want ol material and equipment, and in all classes by the very scattered nature of the district and the long distances students have to travel to attend. For the surveying class we have now received from the Mines Department a new level, staff, and 5-chain tape, so that we are now well equipped in this respect, and I anticipate good work during the present year. For the assaying class we have received a new balance and flatting-mill, which will fill a long-felt want, but we are still in need of many things for this and also for the chemical classes. The only sources of income for the school are the grant from the Mines Department and the students' fees, but I am of opinion that at least £50 a year might be raised locally by an energetic committee, and am in hopes that this will be done in the present year. Then, if the Department would also subsidise this amount, or even subsidise the full amount of our fees, instead of only up to £50, as at present, we should be able to conduct the school with much more success. In regard to assays for the public, there appears to be very little prospecting going on in the district, and the established mines, with one exception, employ their own assayers. I have put through thirty-seven samples in all since I have been in charge. In conclusion, I have to express my thanks to Mr. Ashby, our secretary, and to the other members of the committee for their assistance in the work of the school, and hope that we shall be able at the end of this year to show a marked improvement in our practical results. WESTPORT SCHOOL OP MINES. The hon. secretary, Mr. E. Young, reports as follows for the year ended 31st March, 1903 :— In the absence of a regular Instructor, practical teaching has been carried on by the President (Mr. Bradley) and Mr. Sydney Fry. There has been an average attendance of five students. Mr. Fry has now kindly offered to act as Instructor, and a fresh start will shortly be made under his tuition. The work done in the school during the year has included seventy-six chemical and fire assays of gold-bearing and other minerals, besides twenty-two coal-analyses, and a large number of miscellaneous tests. Some volumetric analysis was also done. A special feature of the work during the past six months has been the analysis of samples of local, colonial, and foreign coal. This work has been performed by Mr. Percy Bingham, Admiralty Coal Inspector, and Mr. J. Bradley, manager of the Corporation gasworks and President of the school. In view of the great utility of thorough coal-testing appliances in a district like this, the school has ordered from Messrs. Fletcher, Russell, and Co., Warrington, England, a complete plant for coal-analysis, towards the cost of which the Westport Coal Company has generously donated the sum of £10. This plant will include apparatus for the analysis of the gases derived from coal.

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The specimens of coal lately tested included samples from all parts of the local mines, and the results showed the Westport article to be one of the purest in the world. They also revealed the important fact that dip coal contains very little sulphur as compared with other kinds. The school aims at acquiring the fullest possible information on this subject, and will prove as useful in connection with the coal industry as with other branches of mining. The laboratory is well supplied with apparatus and chemicals, and there is a good collection of mineral specimens, which is being constantly added to. A second-hand theodolite for teaching surveying is still a desideratum. The want of a building of our own is a great drawback, as the rent of the present premises is a heavy tax on the resources of the school. A site was granted to our institution for this purpose, but we have since been informed that the Justice Department intend to use it for the extension of the Court buildings, and the committee are anxiously awaiting definite information on this point. The text-books used in the school and the fees charged to students and members are the same as stated in last annual report. NELSON SCHOOL OP MINES. Mr. W. F. Worley, the Instructor, reports as follows :— Blowpipe Analysis Classes. Two classes, an upper and a lower, were in session from 18th February to 25th November. With the exception of one or two unavoidable breaks, each class met weekly. The total number of boys belonging to these classes during the year was nineteen ; two left during the year, leaving seventeen on the roll at the end of the year. The average attendance was rather more than twelve. The curriculum of study was similar to that of past years, and included the testing for gold by panning off in the dish, and when necessary the treating of the heavy residues with nitric acid ; amalgamating the free gold with mercury, and thus recovering the gold in one piece after the mercury had been distilled off. Each boy was also taught how to use the blowpipe for the identification of ores of lead, tin, bismuth, arsenic, zinc, copper, manganese, chrome, antimony, iron, nickel, and cobalt. The boys in the upper class were also instructed how to take the specific gravity of a piece of metal, an ore, or a rock. Assaying. Only three assays were made for the public during the year, and not one of these calls for special mention. Assaying Class. I have long wished to hold a class for instruction in assaying, but the smallness of my laboratory has made it impossible. This year, however, a former pupil of my blowpipe analysis class was so anxious to learn assaying that I undertook to give him a course of lessons. By the end of the year he was about half-way through the intended course, and had been taught how to sample ores ready for assaying, and the usual fire assay of gold-bearing ores. If my laboratory were larger there would be no difficulty in getting several young men to take up this work. Lectuees. Two lectures on agricultural science were delivered before members of the Farmers' Union. The first lecture was given at Wakefield, and the other at Waimea West. In each of these lectures special stress was laid on the law of " minimum supply " of plant-food, or, in other words, it was clearly demonstrated that a satisfactory crop could not be produced if only one element of plant-food was missing in the soil. The importance of chemistry to agriculture was emphasized, and farmers were advised to find out what elements of plant-food were needed by each crop, and to see that the soil contained or got those elements in sufficient quantities. As an outcome of these lectures, one Wakefield farmer was induced to manure his hop-field with all the chemicals needed to produce a good crop of hops. As a result he had a good crop, and his hops have been declared by an expert to be the best in the district for this year. OTAGO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MINES. Professor James Park, F.G.S., Director, reports as follows : — The mining school for the session ending the 31st October, 1902, showed the satisfactory attendance of thirty-two registered students, and one casual student for one subject only —namely, practical assaying. The registered students attended with the intention of going through one or more of the courses prescribed in the calendar for the several divisions of the school. Of these, seven entered for their first year, leaving twenty-five in their second or third year. Of students who entered for their final year, four completed their studies with success, and, having presented satisfactory certificates of time spent in practical mining or metallurgical operations, as required by Regulation 9, were awarded the diplomas and certificates to which they were entitled, as follows: John McKinlay, certificate of Metallurgical Chemist and Assayer ; George Edward D. Cotton, diploma of Associate in Mining and certificate of Metallurgical Chemist and Assayer; John Porteus, diploma of Associate in Mining and certificate of Metallurgical Chemist and Assayer ; John Henderson, B.Sc, diploma in Mining and certificate of Metallurgical Chemist and Assayer. Diplomas and certificates were issued during the year to eight students who had previously passed their class examinations, on the production of the necessary certificates relating to practical work, as follows : Norman R. Fisher, diploma of Associate in Mining ; George H. Royse, diploma of Associate in Metallurgy ; William Shand Watt, diploma of Associate in Metallurgy ; Adam Hay, diploma of Associate in Metallurgy; William E. Barron, diploma of Associate in Metallurgy ;

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Basil R. Lusk, diploma of Associate in Metallurgy ; Ormsby Gore Adams, diploma of Associate in Metallurgy; George Scott Orbell, diploma of Associate in Mining, diploma of Associate in Metallurgy, certificate of Metallurgical Chemist and Assayer, and certificate of Land and Mine Surveyor. Annual Examinations. The attendance in the different classes and the results of the annual examinations in the subjects of instruction in the mining school prescribed by the regulations for the different courses are shown in the following tabulated statement : —

The teachers of the subjects enumerated in the above table were as follows : Dr. Marshall— geology, mineralogy, petrography; the Director —applied mechanics, mining, surveying, mining geology; Mr. Waters —metallurgy, assaying, blowpipe analysis. Students in their first or second year, according to their standing, attended the University classes in mathematics, theoretical mechanics, theoretical physics, practical physics, theoretical and practical chemistry ; and three students qualifying for the diploma of Associate in Geology, for the natural-science requirements of Bachelor of Science degree, and for honours in geology attended the class in palaeontology. The results of the examination in these subjects are as follows : —

The teachers in the different subjects were as follows : Professor Gibbons—mathematics; Professor Shand—theoretical mechanics, theoretical physics, practical physics; Professor Black— theoretical chemistry, practical chemistry ; Professor Benham—palaeontology. Students- in the different divisions, according to their standing, had to attend the drawing classes at the School of Arts. Mr. Hutton reports satisfactory progress in every case. The results of his examinations are given below : —

Subject of Examination. Results. Attendance. First Glass. ! Second Class. Third Class. Failed. Results. General geology (senior) General geology (junior)" Mining geology Mineralogy Petrography ... ... Applied mechanics Land and mine surveying (senior/ Land and mine surveying (junior) Mining (senior) Mining (junior) Metallurgy—first course Metallurgy—second course ... Blowpipe analysis ... Assaying —first course Assaying—second course 5 7 3 13 8 18 8 10 4 8 10 5 9 9 5 1 2 1 4 1 5 4 1 1 3 2 2 1 5 8 6 2 6 3 2 5 7 4 2 2 2 5 2 7 3 1 1 2 3 1 1 1 2 2 2 I 2 3 1 1

Subject of Examination. Attendance. First Glass. Results. Second Class. Third Class. Failed. lathematics heoretical mechanics 'heoretical physics 'ractical physics ... 'heoretical chemistry 'ractical chemistry 'alaaontology 8 9 10 12 6 5 4 3 1 1 1 2 2 3 2 3 1 8 4 6 7 1 1 1 4 3 2 2 1

Results. Subject of Examination. Attendance. First Glass. Second Class. lachine construction and drawing Solid geometry 'ractical geometry lodel-drawing 4 2 4 4 2 2 3 2 2 1 2

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Ulrich Medal. —This medal is appropriately awarded in each year to the best student in mineralogy and petrography. It was open for competition for the first time in 1902, and was secured by James Allan Thomson with a first class in each subject. New Zealand University Examinations. —Five students presented themselves for examination in different sections of the B.Sc. degree in mining and metallurgical engineering, one student for honours in science, two for senior scholarships, and three for final examination in B.Sc. The results were eminently satisfactory, and in several directions established records, which rendered the year 1902 memorable in the history of the mining school. Of the five in the B.Sc. division, Norman R. Fisher succeeded in passing the third and final examination, thereby securing the first B.Sc. degree in mining engineering granted by the New Zealand University. He passed the classsubjects at the mining school some years ago, having been a student of the late Director in mining, of Dr. Don in geology, and of Mr. Begg in surveying. Mr. Fisher subsequently pursued his studies with unremitting diligence, and must be congratulated on the successful attainment of his object. David M. Tomlinson, following the footsteps of Mr. Fisher, passed the second examination for B.Sc. in metallurgical engineering; William Gibson and H. Roy Macdonald, part of the first examination in mining engineering; and John Henderson, B.Sc, certain subjects in metallurgical engineerThe highest distinction aimed at by mining students in previous years was the diploma of Associateship, but in the past three years there has been a growing desire on the part of a few to qualify for the higher degree of B.Sc. in mining or metallurgical engineering, and it is not improbable that in coming years many will elect to follow this course. It is needless to say that the New Zealand University requires a higher standard of attainment for its B.Sc. degree than the mining school for its diploma of Associateship. John Henderson, B.Sc, also sat for honours in science, and was successful in gaining firstclass honours in geology. This is the second occasion on which this distinction has fallen to the University of Otago, and the first time it has been secured by a student of the mining school. Arthur R. Andrew, in the University Senior Scholarship examination, secured the scholarship in physics, and J. Allan Thomson the scholarship in geology. The senior scholarship in physical science has now fallen to the Otago University on six different occasions, but this is the first time it has been gained by a mining student. It is equally worthy of mention that the scholarship in geology won by Mr. Thomson is the only one that has so far been secured by a student of Otago University. Thus, of four senior scholarships won by Otago University in 1902, two were secured by students of the mining school. Our geological students have especially distinguished themselves in the University examinations, and Dr. Marshall, lecturer in geology, deserves much commendation for his enthusiasm and careful instruction. With the .good fortune to obtain students equally devoted to their work, the same satisfactory results may be looked for again in future years. The economic value of geological science in connection with mining has long been recognised in Germany and the United States of America, where the highest posts in the State departments of mining are filled by accomplished geologists. It is certain that if a mining engineer would rise to the higher branches of his profession he must needs distinguish himself in the domain of geology. It may not be out of place to mention here that, in addition to the results mentioned above, three mining students —namely, Arthur R. Andrew, J. Allan Thomson, and A. Gadsby Johnson — passed the final examination for the ordinary degree of B.Sc. of the New Zealand University. Government Examinations under Mining Acts. — Mr. T. Otto Bishop, a late graduate of the school, passed the examination for a first-class mine-manager's certificate, which will be granted on completion of necessary practical work in a mine. The following old students also passed the examination for battery-superintendents' certificates: George S. Orbell, W. Ernest Barron, John Mackay, G. A. C. Ulrich, and G. A. Gow. Laboratory.—Mr. Waters reported on fifty-one samples of ore — mostly gold determinations— and treated two parcels of ore in the experimental plant. The gold-ores of Otago are mostly clean and free milling, with the result that the experimental plant is seldom used by the public. On the other hand, a small leaching plant is urgently required for the practical demonstration of certain metallurgical processes, and by modifying the present battery on the lines indicated by Mr. Waters such a plant could be constructed at a cost not exceeding £50. Donations. —The geological collections in the school have been supplemented by a large number of rocks and fossils presented by Dr. Marshall, Mr. Hamilton, and the Director; and during the year Messrs. Smith and Co. (Limited), of Sheffield, forwarded useful exhibits of steel and steelwire ropes. At present Dr. Marshall is greatly hampered by the want of suitable space in which to set out and exhibit his collections. What is much needed is a room in which the characteristic rocks and fossils of the different rock formations of New Zealand could be exhibited in their chronological order for purposes of class demonstration. Old Students of Mining School. —Among the more important positions secured by old students of the mining school during 1902 were those of Mr. A. Montgomery, M.A., appointed State Mining Engineer for Western Australia ; Mr. F. B. Allen, M.A., B.Sc, Director ot Western Australia School of Mines; Mr. O. G. Adams, A.0.5.M., Director of Thames School of Mines; Mr. T. O. Bishop, A.0.5.M., Director of Reefton School of Mines ; Mr. W. S. Watt, A.0.5.M., Director of Zeehan School of Mines ; Mr. James Maclaren, B.Sc, Special Mining Geologist to Indian Government ; Mr. Adam Hay, A.0.5.M., Assistant Engineer to Abyssinia Prospecting Syndicate ; and Mr. Norman R. Fisher, B.Sc, M.E., Assistant Surveyor, Dunedin Drainage Board. Besides these, many of our past students have obtained appointments during the year in mining and metallurgical works in New Zealand and Australia. Conclusion, —I wish, in conclusion, to record my appreciation of the zeal and ability displayed by Mr. Waters and Dr. Marshall m conducting the work of their several departments during the past year. 10—C. 3.

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EXPENDITURE ON SCHOOLS OF MINES. The following table shows the expenditure by the Government on schools of mines since their inauguration, exclusive of subsidies paid to the University of Otago towards the School of Mines in connection with that institution :—

The above statement shows the amount expended on the different schools of mines throughout the colony; but, in addition to this, the sum of £10,053 6s. 2d. has to be added, as that has been paid to the School of Mines attached to the University of Otago, £750 being paid last year towards maintaining the school, which makes the total expenditure up to the 31st March last to be £36,114 lis. sd. This expenditure has extended over a period of eighteen years.

GOLD-SAVING ON DREDGES. By J. P. Smith, M.A.Inst.M.E., Dunedin. In a paper on the above subject, published in the annual report for 1900,1 stated that " among the first improvements that will be made in the gold-saving appliances in use on dredges will be the addition to every dredge of a distributer. The width of the tables will also be increased, especially when the dredge is designed to treat gravels known to contain very fine or scaly gold." It is interesting to note what improvements have actually been made in gold-saving appliances during the three years that have passed since the above was written. On the Otago goldfields there has been little practical improvement.* The old-fashioned method of making the screen perforations discharge directly upon the head of a set of inclined tables or strakes covered with matting, on each of which is laid a sheet of expanded metal, still prevails. With few exceptions, no attempt has been made to regulate the quantity of pulp passing over the different divisions in the tables, nor does the quantity of water lifted and utilised for washing the gravels bear any proportional relation to the normal quantity of sand passing through the perforations of the screen. So limited is the power available in many dredges that when lifting the maximum quantity of gravels the speed of the engine is decreased to such an extent as to reduce the efficiency of the centrifugal pump, and a smaller quantity of water is available at the time when it is most needed. During the three years' practice under review the creek and river flats of southern Nelson and Westland have been opened up as dredging fields. About two-thirds of the dredging ground on the West Coast consists of creek and valley deposits, and the balance of littoral.deposits. The gold found in the littoral deposits, both recent and alluvial, is in a fine state of division, and, as it occurs with large quantities of magnetite, ilmenite, garnet, and other minerals of high specific gravity, has long exercised the ingenuity of miners and others to obtain a fair extraction when dealt with in quantities. The effect has been a tendency not only to extend the spread of tables, but also to provide distributers and mixing-boxes, so that the pulps passing over each foot in width of the tables shall consist approximately of definite proportions of mineral matter and water. When it was proposed to furnish the first West Coast dredges with the primitive gold-saving appliances in use on the Otago rivers, the Coast miners and those acquainted with the difficulties attending the saving of scaly and fine gold at once condemned the tables as unfit.

* Lee's tables have been adopted on some of the dredges in Southland with most satisfactory results.—J. Hayes.

Chemicals Subsidies towards and Apparatus, Financial the Erection of also Mineralogical ScholarYears. I Schools of Mines, and Specimens ships. Maintenance. supplied to Schools of Mines. 1 Total Sum paid Salaries of Teachers, by the Departand Travelling- ment towards the expenses, &c. Schools of Mines. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ 1885-86 ... ... 36 19 9 1886-87 ... 257 16 6 409 1 4 1887-88 ... 253 15 9 253 14 1 1888-89 ... 42 10 0 6 12 9 1889-90 ... 142 2 0 181 14 10 1890-91 ... 217 6 6 54 8 0 1891-92 ... 181 14 0 1892-93 ... 312 3 4 1893-94 ... 197 0 5 j 1894-95 . . 390 0 0 45 10 10 1895-96 ... 820 0 0 ... 50 1896-97 ... 352 14 11 58 18 6 100 1897-98 ... 1,089 18 6 29 19 9 100 1898-99 ..." 740 15 2 32 19 7 50 1899-1900 ... 990 3 4 24 3 8 50 1900-1901 ... 866 10 11 56 3 4 98 1901-1902 ... 1,155 12 3 63 5 1 49 1902-1903 ... 1,379 15 6 134 18 8 158 ' I £ s. d. 1,223 9 10 2,716 9 3 1,714 9 6 1,139 4 1 716 3 10 620 9 9 689 5 9 670 1 0 858 19 4 773 17 8 849 3 0 834 12 8 780 19 0 729 10 11 52 16 3 77 7 10 69 16 4 111 0 0 £ ' s. d. 1,260 9 7 3,383 7 1 2,221 19 4 1,188 6 10 1,040 0 8 892 4 3 870 19 9 982 4 4 1,055 19 9 1,209 8 6 1,719 3 0 1,346 6 1 2,000 17 3 1,553 5 8 1,117 3 3 1,098 2 1 1,337 13 8 1,783 14 2 Totals... 9,389 19 1 1,388 10 2 655 ! 9,389 19 1 1,388 10 2 655 ! 14,627 16 0 26,061 5 3 ' I

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As soon as it was realised that gold-dredging on the Coast would become an established industry, the ingenuity of inventors was exercised to design efficient tables that could be erected on the limited space available on the deck of a dredge. The first step in the evolution of the modern table was the introduction of what was known as Jones's patent on the Waipuna, Grey River, and other machines. This was an improvement on the Otago appliances, and consisted of the addition to the ordinary tables of distributers and mixing-wells, the latter being generally known as "boil-boxes." It is only fair to state that at a sluicing claim at Barrytown, where a littoral deposit containing large quantities of black sand and very fine gold was being successfully dealt with, the mixing of the pulp in quantity and its even distribution over the tables had been accomplished long before. To deal with sands in quantity on dryland, where space is of no consequence and the quantity of water available only limited by the means of the operator, is very different from treating large quantities successfully in the available space on the pontoons of a dredge, where the supply of water depends upon the size of the pump or the power of the engine. But when once the principles governing the mixing and distribution of the sands had been learned the evolution of the present tables was rapid. The latest improvements suggested by experience are embodied in Cowan's Pactolus tables and Phillips's black-sand tables, diagrams of which accompany this paper. The former are in use on the Pactolus, Garibaldi, and other dredges, where only a limited deck-space is available, and give every satisfaction. As will be seen in the drawings, the tables are superimposed one over the other, thus making a given area provide space for double the spread. The upper spread of tables is fed from one side of the distributing-box, and the lower from the other side. The method of distributing by fixed partitions in the distributing-box is not so good as with Phillips's doors, which are provided with quadrants and thumb-screws, and are adjustable. As the deck of a dredge and, consequently, the bottom of the distributing-box is seldom absolutely level in cross-section for any length of time when the dredge is working, there must always be a slight variation between the quantity of pulp discharged from one side of the box and the other. Phillips's tables are working on the North Beach dredge, a machine dealing with a littoral deposit of sand and shingle. The gold is very finely divided, and associated with large quantities of black ironsand (magnetite and iimenite). The sand is saved with the gold, and afterwards separated by amalgamation. If any loss of gold occurs over either Cowan's or Phillips's tables it is not due to any want of efficiency of the tables, but from the failure of the pump to lift the quantity of water required to keep the strakes free from gravel, and this will always be liable to occur so long as a separate engine is not provided to drive the pump alone. As the quantity of sand passed over the tables is governed by the size of the perforations in the screen, and there are no other means by which it can be regulated, there will always be a varying quantity of solid matter in the pulp. No two cubic yards of gravel in a working-face can be relied upon to contain equal quantities of fine material of less than 1 in. in diameter, the size of the largest perforations in many screens. Where the ground consists of alternate layers of sand and shingle, the quantity of fine material varies with nearly every bucket discharged. In creek beds and flats there are occasional deposits of fine drift resting directly on the auriferous wash and lifted with it, which for a time largely increases the quantity of solid matter passing over the tables. When dredging through ground of this loose nature the tendency is for the face to fall in freely to the buckets, with the result that the whole of the buckets come up full and sometimes piled up. Now, material of this description packs closer in the buckets, and consequently the weight of the ladder is largely increased. On a machine where the engine under normal conditions is working at its maximum efficiency, which is often the case, the additional load at once reduces the speed. The lifting-capacity of a centrifugal pump varies with the number of revolutions it makes within certain limits, so that the effect of the reduced speed is a diminished supply of water just at the moment when the largest quantity of solid matter is passing over the tables. If gold is lost over the Pactolus or Phillips tables, it is under these abnormal but frequently occurring conditions, and no tables will ever be designed to prevent this loss until the pump is driven by a separate engine instead of by a belt from the main engine. With the few Otago dredges on which any attempt has been made to improve the gold-saving appliances it has been by the adoption of West Coast methods and tables. A serious difficulty in the way of improvement is the reluctance of the dredgemasters to admit that gold is being lost, believing that such admission would be a reflection on their own efficiency rather than that of the appliances with which they are supplied. Mr. E. Roberts, who designed many of the Otago and West Coast dredges, having recently satisfied himself that the old-fashioned tables do not save the gold, has designed a set of tables for Roberts's Naumai dredge which are a modification of both the Phillips and Pactolus tables. Sufficient space being available, the tables are not doubled, but spread on both sides of the distributing-box; the distributing is effected with adjustable doors, as on the Phillips tables; whilst the mixing and spreading wells, or "boil-boxes," are after the Pactolus pattern. As the difference in first cost between the old style of table and those fitted with distributers is merely nominal, the question of expense can never be pleaded as an excuse for shortsighted conservatism.

HIGH-LIFT CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS FOR MINING PURPOSES. The problem of raising large quantities of water against a considerable head is one which has occupied the attention of hydraulic and mining engineers for many years, and which has demanded all their available skill and energy in order to arrive at a practical solution. The difficulty with mine-pumps lies in the intermittent acceleration of heavy columns of water, when the shock due to the reversal of even slowly moving plungers tells most severely on the

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whole pumping system, and causes continual wear-and-tear even where the best material and workmanship have been available for the construction. Where the head is low—say, not exceeding 50 ft.—the ordinary type of centrifugal pump has met with great success, but it is handicapped by. its very low efficiency, such pumps seldom realising much over 50 per cent. In quite recent years several fast-running plunger pumps, of what may be called the " express " type, have been put on the market, and have certainly achieved remarkable results when compared with the older forms of either direct-acting or geared pumps. Their principal feature is the use of mechanically controlled valves of special construction, permitting a high plunger-velocity; but even they are subject to the usual wear-and-tear of internal parts, such as rams, valves, seatings, and controlling levers, and of the external rod ends and gearing, which is, of course, aggravated when muddy or gritty water has to be dealt with. In order to avoid the drawbacks to which all plunger pumps are liable, and also to get over the disability of the rotary pump for high lifts, the multiple chamber centrifugal pump —known as the "Mather-Reynolds Patent High-lift Pump" —was introduced some years ago. This was able to discharge water against heads with which the ordinary centrifugal pump could not deal. The feature of this pump is that it consists of one or more sets of vanes, or impellers, each set running in its own chamber, but upon a common shaft, the delivery-pressure of the liquid varying directly as the number of chambers used. Thus, if an ordinary single pump can deliver water against a head of 30 ft., the addition of another chamber will give a final delivery-head of 60 ft., while four chambers will enable the pump to discharge the same amount of water against a head of 120 ft. With this multiple pump it was found possible to deliver large quantities of water to a height of as much as 150 ft., a result never before attained by a centrifugal pump. The centrifugal pump has been further developed by Messrs. Sulzer Bros., with whom Messrs. Mather and Piatt (Limited) have made arrangements for the adoption of their latest improvements. With these improved pumps water can be delivered against as great a head as 200 ft. with a single chamber, and at a high efficiency, some of the larger sizes of pumps giving out the equivalent of as much as 76 per cent, of the power put into them. In this improved patented type of circulating pump the water enters the revolving wheel axially, and in the case of single pumps symmetrically on each side of the wheel, so that axial thrust is eliminated ; the water then traverses the curved internal passages between the vanes, and is discharged tangentially at the periphery into a station _ry guide ring of special construction ; this conveys it to the annular chamber in the body of the pump, where the velocity-head imparted to the water by the wheel is converted into pressure-head. From this chamber the water is finally discharged into the pipe-lines, or, if the pump be a multiple one, into the second and subsequent chambers. A special feature of this pump is the provision of the stationary guide ring mentioned above : this is fixed concentric with the revolving vanes, and, owing to its design, enables the conversion of velocity into pressure head to be carried out in a much more perfect manner than is possible in the case of any other centrifugal pump; thus hot only is the possible height of lift very greatly increased, but also the efficiency of the pump is materially improved. Another point of interest is that in these pumps the water is nowhere forced to undergo a sudden change of direction, or to meet with a sudden difference of cross-section in the passages. The v, hole internal design is carried out in suitable curves and channels of gradually increasing area, so that the liquid dealt with is never restricted or opposed in its course through the pump. It is claimed that this is an advantage of no little value. As to other advantages, when compared with a plunger pump for high lifts, a glance at the two types will make these manifest, as follows : (1.) The centrifugal pump has no moving parts in contact, except the steel spindle revolving in its ample and well-lubricated bearings ; wear-and-tear must therefore of necessity be a minimum. (2.) The pump has no need of air-vessels, and since it runs at a high speed of rotation it can be designed so as to occupy a small space. (3.) Heavy foundations are entirely unnecessary ; large pumps have been run at full load on wooden balks without any fixing whatever. (4.) Owing to the speed of rotation the pump can be coupled direct to the spindle of an electric motor or steam or water turbine, thus obviating the necessity for the introduction of gearing. The pumps may, of course, be driven from steam or gas engines or existing shafting by means of belt or ropes ; but the ideal source of power is the direct-coupled electric motor. To convey an idea of the value of this class of pump for mining purposes, the experiences of the owners of a silver-mine in Spain may be briefly recapitulated. The original plant consisted of a Cornish pumping-engine with single-acting plungers 10 in. in diameter by a stroke of 6 ft. 6 in. There were seven plunger-sets and one draw-lift, the total height of the column being 1,200 ft. Owing to the cost of fuel for steaming this pump something more economical was decided on, and a new compound engine for driving and a set of differential pumps, having plungers 15f in. and 22 in. diameter by 5 ft. stroke, were ordered. Pending the construction and erection of this plant a steam-pump i was placed underground. The results obtained from this, and also from the differential pumps (when installed), were so unsatisfactory, by reason of expensive working and frequent breakages, that both were abandoned and replaced by hydraulic-ram-pumps, the rams at the surface being coupled direct to the tail-rods of new horizontal engines. This plant fufilled its purpose for a year or two, but, owing to the enormous shock due to the movement of the columns of water at each reversal of the stroke, serious trouble was experienced by the breakage of the hydraulic mains, and the necessity for the adoption of a more satisfactory method of pumping became manifest. After careful investigation the high-lift centrifugal pump was decided upon. The engines which formerly worked the hydraulic rams now drive dynamos for the generation of electric

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current, and the pumps, with electric motors combined, are placed in chambers down the shaft as shown in the sectional sketch. The lowest pump draws its water out of the sump and discharges directly into its delivery-pipe, which is connected with the suction end of a second (or middle) pump 500 ft. higher up the shaft, no lodgment for the water being necessary. The middle pump in like manner delivers directly into the third or top pump. By this means the column of water is entirely unbroken and constantly flowing steadily onward. These pumps have been working for nearly five years, delivering about 1,000 gallons per minute against a total head of nearly 1,500 ft. To those whose experience is chiefly confined to the single-acting bucket and plunger pumps it may be pointed out that the quantity named is approximately that which would be raised by a 22 in. set, having a stroke of 10 ft. and working six strokes per minute.

Sectional Sketch of High-lift Centrifugal Pumps in series.

The results given by the plant just named are said to be highly satisfactory not only as regards immunity from frequent breakdowns and their consequent stoppages, with the resultant heavy bills for repairs, &c, but also in coal-consumption, a saving of from 15 to 20 per cent, being effected as compared with the consumption required for the best of the former installations. The cost of maintenance appears to be very light; the pumps are opened out and cleaned about three times a year, the work occupying about four hours on. each occasion. The engineer in charge reports that " there is, happily, no sign at all of wear from unclean water in any working-part of the pumps where one was quite prepared to find it. Their durability makes them compare most favourably with plunger pumps, the valves of which constantly require repair and renewal. The consumption of lubricating-oil is negligible, the machines are small, and their installation underground as simple as possible." As a recent example, reference may be made to the installation of a combined pump and motor at a coal-mine in Scotland. This pump was constructed to deliver 400 gallons per minute against a total head of 250 ft. when running at a velocity of 850 revolutions per minute. The volume named is equal to the capacity of an ordinary single-acting mine-pump of 15 in. diameter, with a stroke of 7-J ft. and making seven strokes per minute. Such a pump and motor as that just described would occupy a ground-space of 10 ft. 3 in. by 3 ft. 6 in., the height being under 4 ft., the weight tons, and the cost in England about £400." This is, of course, exclusive of engine, dynamo, and connections ; but the small space occupied, absence of pump-rods, suitability for raising dirty water, and the simplicity as well as the very moderate cost of these pumps are features which cannot fail to command attention. I have to thank Messrs. Palmer and Co., engineers, Wellington, for the information which has enabled me to give the forgoing description.

♦ The cost of a belt-driven pump of the same capacity is about £120 less.

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SHAFT-LININGS.* The subject of shaft-linings is one which has received little attention from the authors of papers, &c, the only references to it being, with a few exceptions, short paragraphs incorporated in papers dealing with the sinking of shafts, which are scattered throughout many volumes, and cannot be referred to without enormous labour. For this reason it is hoped that the following article, in which an attempt has been made to collect together some account of the different types of lining which have been employed, may be of use to those interested in the subject. Shafts may be lined with timber, masonry, iron, or concrete, and, in addition to these used alone, combinations of timber and iron, masonry and iron, and iron and concrete have been employed. The selection of the material with which to line a shaft depends to a great extent on its cost, but in considering this it must be remembered that a small initial outlay does not necessarily result in saving, for the questions of repairs, safety, &c, affect the subject, and must be carefully considered before making a final decision. Timber is perhaps the cheapest material as regards first cost, but it has the serious disadvantage that maintenance charges are liable to be high owing to the wood decaying, and it is further subject to grave danger from fire, while it is not altogether satisfactory in water-bearing ground. For a shaft which constitutes the main highway to a mine—which therefore by its failure would not only stop the whole work of the mine, but might also cause great loss of life —timber should not be employed unless its use is absolutely unavoidable, for the greater safety and permanency of other materials will justify considerable additional first cost. Up to the present time—in this country, at any rate —masonry has been most often employed under ordinary circumstances, its safety and the small cost of maintenance, combined with the fact that it is much cheaper than iron, having led to its use even where considerable quantities of water have been encountered. Where, however, water is met with in excessive quantities, cast-iron tubbing is almost the only form of lining which it has so far been possible to use with advantage. Concrete lining has not hitherto been employed to any great extent, but the recent introduction of several fresh methods of applying it may be expected to lead to a wider utilisation of this material. Timber shafts are generally rectangular in plan, and the commonest form of timbering consists of a number of rectangular frames of square timber spaced at equal distances apart vertically by means of distance-pieces, the earth being held up by close planking placed behind these frames. The frames or " sets " are formed of four beams, the two longer ones known as wall-plates and the shorter ones as end-pieces, and are joined either by halving the timber at each end or by some more complex joint. The distance-pieces, known as studdles, are placed perpendicularly between the different frames. The end-pieces are some of them made long enough to project beyond the wallplates, the ends being imbedded in the ground and serving to support the lining, or the same effect is sometimes obtained by putting in bearers considerably longer than the end-pieces at regular intervals, the end-pieces being supported by these bearers. The distance between the frames must be regulated by the nature of the ground—in fact, if the ground is very bad they are placed quite close together, the studdles being done away with, while in good ground they may be 4 ft. or 5 ft. apart. During excavation the bottom unsupported frames are held in position by strong iron clamps until a length of 10 ft. or 12 ft. is completed, when vertical planks, which stretch over several frames and so bind them firmly together, are nailed on the inside. Partitions for separating the hoisting, pumping, and other compartments of the shaft are formed by putting timbers across the shaft parallel to the end-pieces. These timbers also serve the useful purpose of strengthening the framing considerably. Some of the shafts of the Comstock lode provide good examples of this form of timber lining. In some districts round timber is used for shaft-lining, the general method being very similar to that described above, but the end-pieces and wall-plates are not halved together. In order to resist heavy pressure some additional timbering is put in within the frames. This consists of frameworks of round timber placed at the ends and in the centre of the shaft, each frame being formed of two vertical pieces about 20 ft. long, held apart by diagonal struts. Timber lining may take various other forms according as the shafts vary in shape ; thus circular shafts are sometimes ined with timber, and at Clausthal there is an instance of a decagonal timbered shaft; but, whatever the shape of the shaft, the principle of lining is always the same under ordinary circumstances —that is to say, the lining always consists of planking to support the earth, the planking being held in place by strong frames placed at intervals in the shaft. In watery strata it becomes necessary to make the shaft-lining as nearly watertight as possible

Timber Tubbing.

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Shaft supported by Steel Framework.

in order to avoid the necessity of pumping. Timber tubbing for this purpose may be either plank tubbing or solid wood tubbing. Plank tubbing does not differ essentially from ordinary timber lining, except that shafts so treated are generally made circular. Watertightness is secured by bevelling the edges of the planks so as to insure a good joint, and nailing them around the circular frame like the staves of a barrel. Solid timber tubbing consists of carefully shaped blocks of wood fitted together as shown in Fig. 1. Stauchness is secured by placing thin sheets of deal between the joints, which are wedged up as tightly as possible. For some shafts a combination of iron or steel frames with timber planks has been employed ; thus at Boryslaw is a circular shaft lined with timber in which each frame consists of two semicircular rings of channel iron which are connected together by channel fishplates and bolts to form a complete circle. In this case the studdles are of timber. The Oliver Iron-mining Company, in lining B shaft of their Pioneer Mine at Ely, Minnesota, have recently made use of the steel framework for a rectangular shaft. This lining is arranged in just the same way as ordinary timbering, only the frames are built up of steel rails, and the studdles are also of steel. A plan and elevation of these frames is shown in Fig. 2. The wall-plates CD, EF are of 30 lb. rail, the end-pieces and the dividing-piece GH are of 25 lb. rail, and the dividing-piece XI is of 3 in. 7-J- lb. I beam, this form being chosen on account of its convenient shape for that position. Beams could, of course, be used instead of rails for all the members of the frame, but it is stated that rails are more economical under conditions requiring a weight of less than 50 lb. per yard. As will be seen from the drawing, the different members are connected together by means of 3-J-in. by 3£in. by £in. angle cleats fastened with rivets. The studdles are pieces of rail 4 ft. long, slotted at each end to fit on the flanges of the rails forming the frame. Sixteen-pound rails are used for studdles if bought for the purpose, but short lengths of old rails of almost any section can be employed. In this particular shaft, which, it should be stated, was an inclined shaft, the ground was so good that little lagging was needed in the upper portions; but to prevent large portions of rock falling old wire ropes were stretched longitudinally behind the frames at 5 in. centres. Where the ground became worse ordinary 2 in. planking was employed. This planking, of course, destroyed to some extent the advantage of steel framing with regard to immunity from fire, but in order to minimise this disadvantage it has been proposed to put one 16 ft. length of metal lagging in every 100 ft. of depth. Corrugated-steel and buckled plates have been suggested as most suitable for this purpose. The weight of the lining is taken by bearers consisting of 301b. rails placed at intervals beneath the end-pieces and dividing-pieces. In order to give these bearers a good footing in the ground their ends are carried in cast-iron bearing-pieces. The frames are given a firm support on the bearers by means of cast-iron chairs of special form. A complete account of the lining of this shaft and of the proposed similar lining of a larger vertical shaft was given in a paper read before the Minnesota meeting of the Lake Superior Mining Institute, August, 1902.

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Circular shafts in ground which does not contain an excessive amount of water are generally lined with brickwork or masonry, which may be dry or set in mortar, according to circumstances, and is made of sufficient thickness to withstand any pressure likely to be brought on it. Shafts lined in this way are generally timbered temporarily until a suitable place is reached for a foundation. When this point is reached a bed is prepared for the foundation, and a curb of timber or cast iron is laid on this bed to form a level seating for the brickwork, which is built upon it to the top of the shaft. Excavation is then continued, leaving a bench of rock to support the lining until another suitable foundation is reached, when a fresh curb is put in, and brickwork is carried up on it until the previous length is reached, the bench of rock being removed in small sections and replaced by brickwork. If small quantities of water are likely to find their way into the shaft, garland curbs are used —that is to say, curbs which project from the brickwork and form annular gutters which intercept water running down the sides of the shaft, the water being taken away from the curb by a pipe leading to a tank or lodgment. If the ground is not sufficiently strong to support the different sections of brickwork or benches, the lining may be suspended by iron rods from a strong frame on the surface until a firm foundation is reached. If large quantities of water are met with a brickwork lining takes the form of " coffering"—that is to say, a brick and cement walling backed with puddled clay. In a shaft at the Plas Power Colliery, near Wrexham, North Wales, the pit was lined with a 9 in. dry-brick wall on wooden curbs as excavation was proceeded with until a suitable foundation for the coffering was reached. At this point a cast-iron wedging-curb was put in on which to carry up the coffering. This wedgingcurb consists of a flat hollow cast-iron ring formed of two plates connected together by vertical webs, and made in segments of a convenient size. Thin sheets of wood are put in between the segments, and wedges are driven in between the back of the curb and the ground until there is no room for any more. Then holes are made in this wood packing by means of iron spikes, and as many hard-wood wedges as possible are put in. Sometimes two or three of these wedging-curbs are used, one on top of another. At the Plas Power Colliery, when the wedging-curb was put in, three courses of brickwork set in Roman cement were built up on the curb and the wedges behind it, wooden plugs with holes through them being put in at intervals to let out the water from behind, and vertical wooden pipes, perforated every 3 in. down their length, were put in against the dry-brick wall to lead the water to these plug-blocks. The coffering, a section through which is shown in Fig. 3, consisted of three rings of brickwork, and was laid in hydraulic lime. At every three courses bricklaying was stopped while puddled clay was put in between the

Section of "Coffering."

coffering and the dry-brick walling, the holes in the wooden pipes being plugged as the clay rose. The two outer rings of bricks were first laid, leaving a space between them of s|in. The third ring was placed centrally in this space, and hydraulic-lime grout was run into the spaces, so that the central ring of bricks had a continuous sheet of hydraulic lime on each side of it. When the coffering had risen so high that water ceased to accumulate behind it, the wooden pipes were filled in with stones, and hydraulic lime was run in. The coffering was then completed, and the holes in the plug-blocks were filled in with wedges. In the coffering of No. 2 pit at Llanbradach, South Wales, there was no outer wall of dry brick, the coffering consisting of eight rings of brick, all breaking joint vertically, except the two inner ones. The whole was set in cement mortar, and was backed with cement instead of puddled clay. Coffering has this advantage as compared with cast-iron tubbing, that it is much cheaper; but at the same time it is subject to the disadvantages that it requires much greater care in construction, and cannot be easily repaired. Cast-iron tubbing consists of rings of cast-iron segments, smooth inside, but with external flanges and stiffening ribs, as shown in Pig. 4. The segments are usually Ift. to 3 ft. high and about 4 ft. long, and are provided with a hole in the centre to permit the escape of water until the lining is complete. The foundation consists of one or more cast-iron wedging-curbs, and the tubbing is built up on these ring by ring, thin pieces of deal being placed between the joints. Such tubbing is frequently built up in short lengths with wedging-curbs between them, and as soon as a length is completed the joints are all tightly wedged and the central hole plugged, thus—

Concrete Tubbing.

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Cast-iron Tubbing.

making an absolutely watertight lining. If it is necessary to take special precautions to insure staunchness the rings may be built up on the surface and faced in a lathe before erecting them in the shaft. In some parts of France the segments of tubbing are made as much as 5 ft. in height, and the joints are packed with sheets of lead instead of wood. For some special processes of shaft-sinking it would not be possible to make use of tubbing with external flanges, so that in these cases internal flanges must be employed, and the different rings are bolted together. Spaces behind the tubbing should always be filled in with either concrete or clay. An interesting system of lining due to Mr. Pattberg was made use of at the Ehein-Preussen Colliery. This method, known as compound lining, consists of cast-iron tubbing, about 2 in. thick, having its joints packed with, asbestos, and lined inside with brickwork. At intervals down the shaft, at distances apart varying with the height of the column, annular iron rings of width equal to the thickness of the brickwork were bolted on to the inside of the tubbing, and served to divide up the masonry into lengths. These rings were tied together by longitudinal iron rods extending throughout the depth of the shaft, with the object of giving the lining great rigidity in spite of the small thickness of the tubbing, an object which the brickwork also tends to gain. This shaft was sunk by the Pattsberg process, and it was hoped that the great weight of the lining would make it possible to sink to a greater depth without reducing the diameter of the shaft than would be the case with ordinary tubbing, but this end was not realised. Coming now to concrete, we may divide linings of this material into three classes—concrete tubbing, monolithic concrete, and armoured or reinforced concrete. Concrete tubbing-blocks have been employed to some extent in Germany, where they take the form of segmental blocks of concrete fluted or grooved at the top and sides, and provided underneath with a projection to fit in the top groove of the blocks below. Sections showing two methods of applying these blocks are given in Fig. 5. In all cases the blocks are set in cement, and in the double wall shown in the figure the space between the two rings is also filled with cement. As these blocks are rather heavy, means are provided for lifting them by forming a vertical hole through them and a horizontal hole to intersect the vertical one. A ring bolt is inserted in the vertical hole, and is held in by a cotter inserted through the horizontal hole. When the block is in place the holes are filled up with cement. The Foxdale Lead-mine, in the Isle of Man, presents an example of a monolithic concrete lining, this particular shaft being rectangular ; and another example, a circular shaft, is at Ougree, in Belgium, the lining in this case being much thinner than would have been necessary if brickwork had been employed. Lining of this kind may be put in by means of ordinary timber shuttering, but a more convenient method would seem to be M. Badiou's " cintre mobile," which was employed at the Conte - Grandchamps shaft at the Chapelle - sous - Dun Colliery. This apparatus consists of a shallow cylinder carrying a working platform, the whole being suspended by chains from the surface. The external diameter of the cylinder is made equal to the inside diameter of the shaft, so that its sides act as shuttering ; the concrete is put in in lengths, and the cintre mobile is raised as required by winding up the suspending chains, a special device being employed to release the apparatus from the grip of the finished length. The level of the platform is adjusted from the surface by means of the chains, and the apparatus is centred in the shaft by means of four adjustable arms which are inserted in

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holes left in the finished length of concrete, these holes being afterwards filled up. The depth of the cylinder was 3 ft. 6 in., and the concrete was put in in lengths of 3 ft. 3 in. The apparatus is provided with openings through the platform, so that excavating can be continued below while the upper lengths are being lined. The levelling of the apparatus was rather troublesome, but at the Saint-Etienne Colliery of the Societe de l'lndustrie Minerale this was made easier by an arrangement which permitted the men on the platform to adjust its level themselves. Concrete linings of this type are strong and fairly watertight, while they are said to cost on the average only about half as much as a brickwork lining. As an example of what may be done with concrete, which by some is not considered a very promising material, it may be mentioned that at the Charbonnage de Bonne Esperance a shaft was sunk in watery strata with a descending cylinder of concrete, shod with cast iron, and, contrary to the expectations of the engineers, this cylinder showed no signs of failure or cracking. This shaft was timbered temporarily, and finished with a monolithic lining of concrete. Armoured concrete does not appear to have been used for any important shafts, but a number of small square shafts of diameters from 6 ft. to 14 ft., and depths ranging from 22 ft. to 31 ft., were sunk for the foundations of the Berne Municipal Theatre, and lined in this manner. A diagrammatic plan and section of the lining of these shafts is shown in Fig. 6, in which the armouring is represented by broken lines, and consisted, as will be seen, of horizontal round iron wires, 12 mm.

Armoured Concrete Shaft-lining.

diameter, spaced a small distance apart. The concrete was put in in lengths of 90 cm. (35 in. J, and adjacent lengths were tied together by vertical wires 35 cm. (14 in.) long, and hooked at their ends. While the concrete of one length was setting the next length below was excavated. The thickness of this lining was only 15 cm. (6in.), and it was so light that the friction of the earth against its sides was sufficient to support it while the lower lengths were being excavated. It may perhaps be remarked here that from its extended and successful application on the Continent as a material of construction for a large variety of purposes, armoured or reinforced concrete would seem to merit greater attention than it has hitherto received at the hands of English engineers.

In the appendix which follows will be found— (a) the annual reports of the Inspectors of Mines, Wardens, Managers of Government water-races, and that of the Engineer for Water-conservation ; (b) the questions used at the last examinations of candidates for certificates of competency as mine-managers and battery-superintendents ; (c) a list of persons to whom certificates as minemanagers, battery - superintendents, and dredgemasters have been issued; and (d) the usual statistical returns. I have, &c, John Hayes, The Hon. the Minister of Mines, Wellington. Inspecting Engineer.

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General View of Waihi Gold-mining Company's 90-stamp Mill and Cyanide Plant, Waihi

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APPENDIX.

REPORTS OF INSPECTORS OF MINES. Mr. James Coutts, Inspector of Mines, Thames, to the Undeb-Secbetaey, Mines Department, Wellington. Sib, — Inspector of Mines' Office, Thames, 21st March, 1903. I have the honour to furnish herewith the returns and report on the gold-mining industry in the Hauraki district for the year ended 31st December, 1902. No new or important discoveries have been made, but the gold returns show a considerable increase compared with the previous year, not only at Upper Thames, but also at Thames and Coromandel. Should no unforeseen drawbacks occur, the output of bullion from the Waihi Company's mine will be considerably increased during the next twelve months, as this company has now 330 stamps employed, all the dry crushing with stamps having been converted to the wetcrushing process, and with exceedingly satisfactory results. The dry crushing, which had a very injurious effect on the men employed in the mills where it was carried on, has now been completely done away with in this district. Waihi Distbict. Waihi Gold-mining Company (Limited). —No. 6 Level.—Crosscuts : No. 2 shaft crosscut has advanced 300 ft., making a total of 604 ft. from No. 2 shaft. From 273 ft. to 353 ft. is in quartz, the north section of the Martha lode. The country-rock near the Martha lode is a medium-hard, partly decomposed andesite. At the face it is a hard undecomposed andesite. No. 2 shaft, south-east crosscut, has been extended 292 ft., making a total of 473 ft. from No. 2 shaft, and the following leaders and lodes were intersected: At 204 ft., a 6 in. leader ; at 232 ft., 12 in. leader; at 267 ft., 6 in. leader ; at 283 ft., lode 2 ft. wide ; at 329 ft., 9 in. leader ; at 360 ft., lode 2 ft. 6 in. wide ; and at 366 ft., a lode 2 ft. wide. These last two lodes junction on the west side of crosscut, and correspond to I lode. At 409 ft. in, quartz with country-rock mixed, 9 in. wide, corresponds to J lode ; at 455 ft. in, leader 21 in. wide ; and at 472 ft. in, leader 9 in. wide. No. 2 shaft, west crosscut: This has been extended 42 ft. 6 in., making a total of 107 ft. 6 in. from shaft. At 91£ ft. in, the north section of the Welcome lode is met, and is 16 ft. wide. No. 1 shaft, north-west crosscut : This has been driven this year a total length of 139 ft. At 37 ft. in, quartz was met, and is .81 ft. wide. This comprises for the first 10 ft. the Magazine lode, then for 19ft. Regina lode, and the remainder the Martha lode. No. 4 shaft, south-east crosscut, was driven a total distance of 71 ft. from No. 4 shaft. At 20 ft. from No. 4 shaft the division-line between the recent andesite country and the older reef-bearing andesite country is clearly seen. At 28 ft. in, there is quartz about 3 ft. wide ; and at 41 ft. in, the Empire lode is met, and is 15 ft. wide. Martha lode, south section : At 252 ft. in No. 2 shaft, north-west crosscut, a level was started and driven east to No. 1 shaft, a length of 495 ft., and 393 ft. east of No. 1 shaft, making a total length of 888 ft. Crosscuts through Martha lode : West of No. 2 shaft 130 ft., full width not proved ; north of No. 2 shaft, north-west crosscut, full width 157 ft. ; east of No. 2 shaft, north-west crosscut, 70 ft., full width 62 ft.; east of 131 ft., not all crosscut; east of 172 ft., full width 62 ft.; east of 222 ft., full width 62 ft. ; east of 287 ft., full width 70 ft.; west of No. 1 shaft 100 ft., full width 58 ft.; at No. 1 shaft, north-west crosscut, full width 52 ft.; 119 ft. east of No. 1 shaft crosscut, full width 76 ft.; 248 ft. east of crosscut, full width 88 ft.; 389 ft. east of crosscut, full width 50 ft. North section : There were three drives opened on this section from the No. 2 shaft, north-west crosscut — the first at 278 ft. in from No. 2 shaft, the second and main one at 321 ft. in, and the third one at 345 ft. On the first one 76 ft. was driven east and 5 ft. west of No. 2 shaft, north-west crosscut. On the second one 138 ft. has been driven west of No. 2 shaft, 502 ft. between the Nos. 1 and 2 shafts, and 515 ft. east of No. 1 shaft, making a total length of 1,155 ft. This level has been driven mostly in sulphide ore in the north wall. At west end a crosscut was run in 12 ft. north-west and 61ft. south. On the third one 83 ft. of driving has been done west and 43 ft. east where the drive follows a small lode that branches off northwards. Welcome lode, south section : The level west of No. 2 shaft, west crosscut, has advanced 329f ft., making a total west of 344-J-ft. ; the average width of lode is 11 ft. Distance west 51ft. ; full width, 10 ft.; distance west 105 ft., full width 9 ft.; distance west 171 ft.; full width ll|ft.; distance west 229 ft., full width 12 ft.; distance west 290 ft.; full width 15ft.; distance west 340 ft., full width lift. At 120 ft. west the Empire lode joins into the Welcome lode, east of No. 2 shaft. North-west crosscut has been driven on for a total length of 118 ft., width not known, up to 78 ft. east, where lode is ft. wide at face, and the north wall is only seen. Regina lode : A total of 383 ft. has been driven on this lode— i.e., 204 ft. west of No. 1 shaft, north-west crosscut, and 119 ft. east of same. This lode junctions with Martha lode between No. 1 shaft crosscut and a point 100 ft. west of same. The sulphide ore associated with this lode runs along the hanging-wall side of Martha lode to 119 ft. east of No. 1 shaft. Magazine lode: The level was advanced for 409 ft., making a total length of 590 ft. from No. 2 shaft, north-west crosscut. This lode strikes Regina lode 120 ft. west of No. 1 shaft, north-west crosscut, and then runs eastward parallel with it. The general character of the lode is loose and open, the cavities containing much manganese-dioxide, and carries much of the mine-water. The lode varies from 6 in. to 10 ft. Empire lode: 926 ft. have been driven on this lode during the year, making a total length opened up on the reef of

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I,ollft. The west end of lode joins Welcome lode, south section, at 174 ft. west of No. 2 shaft, south-east crosscut. From No. 2 shaft, south-east crosscut, to No. 4 shaft, south-east crosscut, there is 5 ft. of the lode exposed, with no walls seen. The average width of the lode is 17f ft. No. 5 Level. —Crosscuts : No. 2 shaft, north-west crosscut, has been extended 73f ft., making a total of 352 ft. from No. 2 shaft. From 278|ft. to 311| ft. from No. 2 shaft is quartz (of which the last 9 ft. is sulphide ore); from ft. to 316 ft. is blue country ; and from 316 ft. to 335 ft. is sulphide ore with country-rock mixed. At 338|ft. a 9 in. leader, and at 342J- ft. another 9m. leader. These two leaders join the main lode on east side of drive. From 342fft. to 352 ft. is partly decomposed andesite rock. No. 6 shaft, north-west crosscut, was started from Martha lode, 20 ft. east of Manning's Pass, and was driven north-west for 92f ft.; at 41 ft. in, sulphide ore 5-Jft. wide. This is now called " No. 2 reef." Martha lode, south section : Sloping and sinking winzes have been the chief work in this part of the lode. North section of Martha lode : The level is driven on this section a total length of 1,376 ft., of which 1,172 ft. has been done this year. Welcome lode, west end : Driving was started at 585 ft. west of No. 2 shaft, and followed centre section of lode to 707 ft. west, making 122 ft. driven. Empire lode: Stoping has been done extensively on this level since February last. I lode : 75 ft. was driven west of No. 2 shaft, south-east crosscut, on this lode to its junction with J lode, making the total length of this lode to east junction with Empire lode 120 ft. The lode is about 8 ft. wide. L lode : 241 ft. was driven east on the lode from No. 2 shaft, south-east crosscut, and 40 ft. west of same, making a total length of 281 ft. The east end junctions with the Empire lode at Paul's Pass. The lode is 3 ft. wide here, 3| ft. at the west end ; but the general width is ft. North section of Royal lode : This lode was cut at 90 ft. in No. 5 shaft, south-east crosscut, and has been followed on its south-south-west course for 167 ft. No. 2 reef •: At 41ft. in No. 6 shaft, north-west crosscut, from Martha lode this reef was cut, and is s^-ft. wide. It has been driven on its course 52 ft. west. The average width is 4 ft., and looks promising going west. Eastward 96 ft. was driven, to its junction with Martha lode. The lode was very irregular in width, varying from 1 ft. to 5-J-ft. No. 4 Level.—Crosscuts: No. 2 shaft, north-west crosscut, has been driven 83^ft., making a total of 418 ft. from No. 2 shaft. No. 2 shaft, new south-east crosscut, was extended 115 ft., making a total distance of 502 ft. from No. 2 shaft. At 500 ft. reef Lis met, 3 ft. wide. North-west crosscut from Martha lode, near Trembath's Pass, was driven a total distance of 186 ft. At 167 ft. quartz was again cut containing sulphide ore and country-rock mixed ; width, 9 ft. This is now called " No. 1 reef." No. 6 shaft, north-west crosscut, has been driven a total distance of 60ft. from Martha lode. South crosscut at west end of south section of Welcome lode was put in 122 ft. from Welcome lode. Martha lode, north section : 441 ft. has been driven during the year, making a total length of 541 ft. This level was driven on north wall of lode. The east face is now 77 ft. east of No. 1 shaft, north-west crosscut, in sulphide ore. No. 1 reef: At 176 ft. in north-west crosscut, near Trembath's Pass, driving east has been done on the lode formation for 81 ft., and also 9.1 ft. west. Albert lode : Driving north has been done on this lode for 107 ft. from No. 2 shaft, old south-east crosscut. The average width is 9-J- ft. This lode has opened up fresh interest in this part of the mine, as it is getting larger and giving better values going north. I lode : "95 ft. has been driven on this lode east of No. 2 shaft. New south-east crosscut intersected the lode, which is about 7 ft. wide. L lode : 141 ft. has been driven on this lode, which is the total length of quartz opened up at this level. At east end it joins Empire lode near Muir's Pass, and at 30 ft. west of No. 2 shaft, new south-east crosscut, comes up against soft blue disturbed country. The general width of lode is ft. No. 3 Level. —No 2 shaft, north-west crosscut, has been extended 55 ft., making a total of 390f ft. from No. 2 shaft. No. 6 shaft, north-west crosscut, from Martha lode has been driven 61 ft. At 26 ft. in, lode formation 2 ft. wide. Albert lode :In the first stope west of Muir's Pass it was found that quartz ran into the north wall. The level was opened on this and followed in a northerly direction for 130 ft. It corresponds to the Albert lode. Royal lode: 105 ft. east has been driven on this lode from No. 2 shaft, south-east crosscut. The average width of the lode is 6 ft. No. 2 Level.—No. 4 shaft: The crosscut to east end of Empire lode was completed, 78 ft. having been driven in the hard rhyolite rock. Empire lode : The level has been widened and timbered for stoping from Muir's Pass to east end. Albert lode : Prospecting for this lode has been done north of the J and Empire lode junction, and quartz 5 ft. wide was met with and followed for 32 ft. Regina lode : Stoping has been done up to No. 1 level, and will be continued up to within 5 ft. of floor of adit level —a height of 145 ft.—and four rises have been put up to adit level for filling-in purposes. Adit Level. —Regina lode : 147 ft. was driven on this lode, making a total length of 363 ft. east of No. 2 shaft, north-west crosscut. The lode here is about lift. wide. Surface.—Open-cut at intermediate level on Martha lode has been taken along 266 ft. west of Bull's Pass. The lode here averages 23 ft. wide. From the hanging-wall of Martha lode and from the top of intermediate level 29,350 tons of mullock have been removed for filling-in purposes. Surface-cut at Emily level on Welcome lode is now 20 ft. east of Harvey's Pass. Lode is 3 ft. wide. Shafts. —No. 1 shaft was sunk ft. during the year, making a total of 572Jft. from surface. Sinking was stopped in May last. No. 2 shaft was sunk 85 ft. during the year, making a total depth of 728 ft. from surface. Sinking was started on the 23rd September, and continued up to date. The country-rock is undecomposed rock, somewhat brecciated. No. 3 shaft: No sinking has been done. No. 4 shaft was sunk during the year 111-J-ft., making a total depth of 561£ ft. from surface. The bottom of shaft is still in the recent andesite country, and should penetrate the older andesite rock in another 50 ft. or so. It was started on the 12th June, and finished on the 19th July. 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General View of Waihi Gold mining Company's 90-stamp Mill and Cyanide Plant at Waihi: Battery-water Reservoir, Settlers, Press Buildings, Agitators, and Solution Tanks in the foreground.

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face. No. 6 shaft : This shaft was started on the 4th August, and is now down 166 ft. from surface. At 151 ft. down the decomposed older andesite rock is met; from surface to a depth of 59 ft. is soil and sedimentary material; from 59 ft. to 134 ft. is hard rhyolite rock ; from 134 ft. to 146 ft. is pumiceous tuff; from 146 ft. to 151 ft. is an old surface containing boulders of rock and loose quartz. This shaft is used for sending down filling material in cages. Surface Works. —Two Elephant boilers have been built in at No. 5 shaft, and an air-compressor capable of working six rock-drills. A large coal-bin was made in front of boilers at No. 5 shaft, and also at No. 2 shaft, with a short tram and a steam-winch attached. A large blacksmith's shop has been erected at No. 2 shaft. Mine-development and Dead-work Footage.—Crosscuts through country, 3,115 ft. ; driven on course of lode, 7,852^-ft. ; crosscuts in lode, 1,277-J- ft.; winzes, 5,173 ft.; shafts, 736f ft. : total, 3-438 miles, or 18,154f ft. It was found advisable to considerably extend the storage-capacity of the hoppers at the several mine-shafts. This has now been done, and a new style of hopper-doors put in, which have been found to be a great improvement. Product.—A total of 179,485 tons (dry weight) lias been treated during the year, being 20,160 tons in excess of the total of 159,325 tons which was treated during the year 1901. Of this total, 65,498 tons has been dealt with by the dry-crushing and 113,987 tons by the wet-crushing processes. The product was 605,997-7 oz. of bullion, exclusive of concentrates and slag tailings shipped to Australia. In addition to a small quantity of concentrates which was dealt with at the Victoria mill, regular shipments of concentrates to Australia have been made monthly. A total of 84,722 tons has been shipped, the value of which, according to assay, was £48,632 12s. 2d. The value of the total product, computed on the usual basis of gold valued at £4 4s. and silver at 2s. per ounce respectively, was as follows: 605,9977 oz. of bullion (excluding concentrates and slag tailings), £470,286 7s. 7d. ; 847-22 tons of concentrates (assay-value), £48,632 12s. 2d.; net outturn of slag tailings, £1,219 15s. 3d. : total, £520,138 15s. The weight (avoirdupois) of bullion produced was as follows : Bullion (excluding concentrates), 18 tons 11 cwt. Oqr. 2 lb. The value of bullion per ounce —namely, 15s. 6d.—is lower. This is owing to the higher value of silver in the ore per ton, and the better extraction of silver obtained owing to extension of the wet-crushing process. During 1901 the average value per ounce was 17s. lOd. Reduction-works.—The respective tonnages crushed at the mills were as follows : Waihi mill (dry crushing), 45,175 tons ; Victoria mill (dry crushing), 20,323 tons ; Victoria mill (wet crushing), 107,833 tons; Union mill (wet crushing), 6,154 tons : total, 179,485 tons. The total average number of stamps running during the year, exclusive of Sundays and the Christmas holidays, during which the mills were stopped, was 3071. Waihi Mill (90 stamps).—An incline (self-acting) train was constructed and brought into use towards the end of the year to facilitate the despatch of fuel to the boilers, and of stores, machinery, &c, required at the mill. The old smithy, which was in a dilapidated condition, and also in a position which interfered with the alteration of the mill from dry to wet crushing, was pulled down, and a new one of larger capacity erected early in the year. The two steel solutionsumps used in the dry-crushing process were also in the way of the extensions, and were removed and re-erected ; a third steel sump of larger capacity was also erected. One of the dust-houses, which was also in the way of the rearrangement of the stone-breakers, was dismantled after the dust was removed and treated. A circular saw and travelling sawbench were also erected to facilitate the conversion-work. During the last six months of the year the alterations and additions to the plant necessary for conversion to the wet-crushing process were kept steadily going wherever this was possible without interfering with the running of the mill. The final alterations could not be made while the mill was running. It was consequently stopped at midnight on the 24th December, and with the exception of Christinas Day work was kept steadily going. On the 12th January a trial run of shafting, &c, was made, and on the 13th thirty stamps were dropped and ran intermittently. Ou the 14th January an additional thirty stamps were started, and have since run continuously with but slight stoppages. On the 21st January the last thirty stamps were started. The adoption of the wet-crushing process has necessitated very considerable alterations and additions to the plant. The shed over the kilns has been removed, and the old roofing, framing, &c, utilised where possible. The kilns are now used simply as storage-hoppers for a reserve of ore. The arrangement and position of the stone-breakers have been changed. A new No. 3 Gates crusher was procured, and has been erected on a large concrete foundation, the ore being tipped direct into it from the tramway-trucks. A revolving trommel and a second Gates crusher (No. 3. size) have also been erected, the ore passing through each in succession. Water-pipes have been connected to each of the mortar-boxes, and the pulp flows to the first two elevating-wheels, from which it flows over the Muntz-metal plates, and thence to the vanners. After being discharged from the last elevator-wheel the pulp passes into the separating-boxes, whence the sands pass to the thirtytwo wooden vats (which were used in the dry-crushing process), being fed into them by means of automatic distributers, and the treatment is completed in these vats. The slimes flow to a nest of V boxes, where the clear water is drawn off for refuse in the mortar-boxes, and the slimes pass to two steel collecting-vats 32 ft. in diameter and 14 ft. deep, the treatment being completed by agitation and double filter-pressing, six filter-presses haviug been erected. A large steel vat has been erected for making up the necessary cyanide-solutions, and a cyanide store erected immediately by this vat. Union Mill (40 stamps).—This mill ran for eighty-nine days during the year. A total of 6,154 tons was crushed. The mill was started (wet crushing) on the 15th September. Auxiliary steam-power to enable the whole mill to be kept continuously at work had to be provided. The mill had also to be connected by railway with the Martha Mine. Victoria Mill, Waikino (200 stamps). —At the commencement of the year 100 stamps at this mill were dry crushing and 100 stamps wet crushing. On the sth April fifty of the dry-crushing

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stamps were stopped, and restarted on the wet-crushing system five days later. On the 31st July the remaining fifty dry-crushing stamps were stopped, and started again on the sth August, on which date the whole of the 200 stamps were wet crushing. By the dry-crushing process a total of 20,323 tons was treated, and by the wet-crushing process a total of 107,833 tons was crushed. The smaller of the two turbines was removed early in the year, and replaced by a 200-horse-power Gilkes turbine which was in stock. The hydraulic elevator formerly in use for raising the quartz after it passes the stone-breakers to the mill ore-bins was replaced by a new bucket-chain elevator. For raising the pulp from the 100 head of stamps which were converted four sand-pumps were erected, with separate rising mains to the trestle launder. A slimes-elevator wheel was constructed at Waikino and has been erected, and the number of steel agitator-vats was increased to ten, collecting-vats to six, and solution-vats to three. Two more Martin presses were added, making a total of five Martin and two Johnson presses besides a small Define press. A Green economizer was erected and brought into use in connection with the mill-boilers towards the end of the year. A coal-bin of a capacity of 300 tons has been constructed, into which the wagons conveying the coal from Paeroa can readily discharge. The company has had 1,141 men employed on an average during the year. The amount paid in dividends for the year was £208,644 18s. ild.; since commencing work, £1,005,934 6s. 2d. Waihi Grand Junction Gold-mining Company. —At the beginning of the year operations were chiefly confined to developing the Martha lode at the 500 ft. level. The drive westward on the lode was extended a distance of 161 ft. from the crosscut, and a rise put up on it to a height of 41 ft. As it was risen on the lode got gradually thinner, and, as the assays taken from the stone from time to time were not encouraging, this work was discontinued. The eastern drive on the lode was driven for a distance of 184 ft. At a distance of 113 ft. east of the crosscut a winze was sunk to a depth of 25 ft. Where the winze was commenced on the level the reef was only 3 ft. 6 in. in thickness, but as it was sunk upon it opened out to a width of 13 ft., and the stone assayed from here gave highly encouraging results. The water was too heavy to contend with, and in consequence this was stopped ; but the manager is of opinion that there is every indication of the lode improving as it is sunk upon, and a valuable block of ground will be opened up when the next level is put in. Six months' protection was granted by the Warden for this section of the property, but in the month of November last work was again resumed, the eastern drive being extended with a view to getting a connection with No. 2 shaft to ventilate this eastern section of the mine. In the west section a crosscut drive was driven at the 500 ft. level of the C shaft for a distance of 890 ft., where a rise was put up and a connection made with No. 2 level of the B shaft, which has given excellent ventilation to this part of the mine. A little work has been done in what is termed the Martha lode in this section near the B shaft, but so far as it has been proven it is low-grade ore. The company has gone to considerable expense in erecting engineers', carpenters', and blacksmiths' shops all under one roof, and also put up new poppetlegs preparatory to sinking and opening out from the main shaft, which shows that they have every confidence in the lode improving in depth, and that at no distant date the mine will become productive. Waihi Extended Gold-mining Company. —At the end of the previous year the sinking of the shaft was in progress, and was continued until a depth of 520 ft. was attained, when a chamber was opened out, and driving was commenced in southerly and northerly directions. The south drive was put in a distance of 206 ft.; but, although the country-rock to all appearance was all that could be desired, yet nothing of importance was discovered, and this drive was stopped for the time being. The north drive is in a distance of 470 ft. from the shaft, and is still passing through a good channel of country, in which quartz stringers of a promising appearance have been cut through, and it is fully expected one of the Waihi Company's lodes may be met with in this drive at any time. The theory that gold is more likely to be found at a depth to the east of the Waihi Mine will be tested by this north drive, as it is going in under the rising ground, and will soon be a considerable depth below the surface; but if something is not discovered in this drive the company intend to sink the shaft to a further depth, and develop the mine at a deeper level. Waihi Gladstone. —This mine, which is owned by a syndicate, has been steadily worked, the operations being principally confined to opening up the reef from the main shaft (where it has been driven on for a considerable distance), and varies from 2 ft. to 6 ft. in width. All the ore broken out is being saved for treatment at a small battery of five stamps which is in course of erection near the shaft, and is for the purpose of testing the value of the lode and ascertaining the best method of saving the bullion. A small engine for winding has been placed in position, which will enable the ore and material to be raised and lowered in the shaft more expeditiously than has been previously done by means of a horse-whim. An average of eight men has been employed, but no crushings have taken place during the year. Waihi South. —This mine was under protection in the early part of the year, one of the reasons for this being that the pump and plant in use were not of sufficient power to contend with the water met with in the crosscuts driven from the shaft. At the expiration of the protection arrangements were made with the Grand Junction Company whereby the Waihi South Company were allowed to put in a drive to prospect their ground adjacent to the Waihi Company's property from the 500 ft. level of the C shaft of the Grand Junction west. There being a considerable distance to drive before the Waihi South boundary was reached, and the work being beneficial to both companies, the work was done conjointly. After driving a distance of about 90 ft. a large lode formation was intersected, and the course defined. Then it was considered advisable to start a crosscut from the main level at a point 100 ft. further south. This has been driven a distance of 60 ft., and it is expected the lode will be intersected in about another 50 ft. of driving. When the lode is met with it is intended to drive on it to the Waihi South boundary, a distance of 400 ft.

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Operations will then be carried on in this company's ground should the prospects warrant it. An average of six men is employed. Waihi Consols. —Boring operations were carried on in this property up to the month of August with the diamond drill, the object being to locate the Waihi reefs, which are supposed to be on the strike of this company's mine ; but, after reaching a depth of 330 ft. with one hole, by some means a piece of metal got into the hole and did considerable damage to the crownhead and diamonds. After several unsuccessful attempts being made to extract the metal the hole was abandoned, and the drill removed. Protection was then applied for and granted by the Warden, to enable the company (who went into liquidation to reconstruct and raise further capital) to prospect the property. lam informed the concern will be registered as a limited company, and it is fully expected vigorous prospecting-work will be undertaken to prove the value of the mine. An average of three men was employed. Waihi Consolidated. —An option is held by Mr. J. Ziman over this property, which is at present under protection. A little prospecting was carried on during the year, but no work of a permanent nature has been undertaken. The most of the ground adjacent to the Waihi Company's mine is difficult and expensive to prospect, as it is low-lying land and contains a great amount of water, which requires pumping machinery and capital to work it. Two men have been employed. Pride of Waihi. —There has been very little work done on this ground during the year, the company up to the present not having provided any pumping machinery for their shaft, in which a greater inflow of water was met with than could be dealt with by hand-labour. As the ground could not be prospected otherwise than by sinking, operations were stopped, and the men employed in the erection of a manager's cottage, &c, on the property, pending the shareholders' decision as to the erection of machinery or otherwise giving up the ground. Ohinemuri Biver Claims. —Mr. Rich and party have taken up several river claims in the Ohinemuri River with the object of treating the tailings that have been allowed to run away from the Waihi and Waihi-Silverton batteries. They have carefully sampled the tailings, and the results obtained have been of such an encouraging nature that an up-to-date plant for treating the tailings has been designed, and is in course of erection between Waikino and Waihi. This should be completed early in the year. Waitekaubi Disteict. Waitekauri Gold-mining Company. —Operations in this company's mine during the latter part of the year have not turned out as successful as could be desired. A considerable amount of pro-specting-work has been carried out in various parts of the property with the object of trying to locate payable ore. Unfortunately the management has been unable to do so up to the present. A large body of calcite came in at No. 7 level and cut the gold-bearing quartz out, and was the cause of the company being compelled to close down the battery pending the development of payable blocks. In the Golden Cross section, No. 1 shaft and No. 1 level, the main drive north has been extended 321 ft., making a total of 531 ft. from the shaft. This drive is being continued with a view to proving the continuation of the ore-chute northward at this depth. A connection with No. 5 level has been made in 216 ft. of rising; crosscuts have also been projected at various points. At 80 ft. below No. 5 level an intermediate level has been opened, and drives on the lode both northward and southward have been commenced. No. 5 level : Operations have been chiefly centred in stoping the blocks of payable ore on the Southern Cross reef and the main reef at this level. 7,200 tons of payable ore, totalling in value £12,900, has been obtained from these blocks. At Nos. 2, 3, and 4 levels comparatively little work has been done. At No. 1 level the main drive north has been driven 721 ft. through large bodies of low-grade ore. Several rises have connected with Corbett's level, and a large quantity of ore has been contributed by the various blocks opened. The main crosscut west from the shaft has been further extended 320 ft. with the object of locating the Realm reef, which had previously been encountered at Corbett's level. This work has not been sufficiently advanced to prove its object. Corbett's level: The main drive north in the foot-wall of the lode has been driven 262 ft., some fair-grade ore being obtained. Empire section : A prospect-ing-drive has been extended eastward 443 ft. : the lodes were intersected in the course of this work, and these await further development. Old Waitekauri section :In the Horn level the drive south has been extended 165 ft. on the reef. A connection with the intermediate level was made by a rise. Intermediate level (90 ft. below the Queen level) : About 800 tons of ore, averaging in value £3 10s. per ton, was crushed from this block. Summary of work—Golden Cross section : No. 7 level—driving 321 ft., crosscutting 157 ft., and rising 216 ft.; No. 5 level —driving 23 ft., crosscutting 50ft., sinking 13 ft., and rising 34 ft.; No. 4 level —driving 73 ft. ; No. 3 level—crosscutting 25 ft.; No. 2 level —driving 118 ft.; No. 1 level —driving 770 ft., crosscutting 420 ft., and rising 192 ft.; Corbett's level—driving 262 ft. Empire section: Crosscutting 443 ft. Old Waitekauri: Driving 165 ft., crosscutting 95 ft., rising 106 ft. Total, 3,483 ft. Quartz won from stopes : Golden Cross section, 13,497 tons; Old Waitekauri section, 800 tons: total, 14,297 tons. Milling and treatment: 14,297 tons of ore has been crushed and cyanided from the various.places in the mine, from which 25,131 oz. of bullion was obtained, worth £24,007 7s. 2d. Milling has been suspended pending the development of further payable blocks in the mine. This company has had an average of 122 men employed. New Zealand Jubilee Gold-mining Company. —This mine has been continuously worked during the year, the operations being confined to extending the low level and prospecting. The low level has been extended a distance of 950 ft., making the total distance from the mouth of the drive 3,760 ft. The greater part of the driving done last year was on the course of the lode, which varied from a few inches to 6 ft. 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level, and a rise put up 254 ft. to connect with the Horn level. This work has given an outlet, and has greatly improved the ventilation. The Horn level has been extended a further distance of 300 ft., which now enables the company to work the different reefs that traverse the property on the south end of the Old Waitekauri Mine. The development-work of the mine has reached a point which should enable the owners to determine a course to be pursued with their property in the near future. An average of twenty-eight men has been employed. Alpha Gold-mining Company. —This mine was under protection in the early part of the year, on the expiration of which operations were again resumed, the work being chiefly confined to driving and rising on the No. 4 reef at various points with the hope of opening up a payable chute of ore. This has proved unsuccessful, as no payable quartz was met with, and the company now contemplates surrendering the ground after having expended a large sum of money on prospecting and in the erection of a twenty-stamp battery and cyanide plant. It is to be regretted that the enterprise of the company has not been attended with better results. An average of four men was employed. Burbank. —Operations in this mine have been directed to extending the low-level crosscut, which is now m a distance of about 1,100 ft., but up to the present nothing payable has been met with. It was fully expected the Te Ao Marama reef would have been intersected before this if they kept the same course as in the section named in the Komata Company's mine, and in consequence is a great disappointment, especially as the shareholders worked the ground in a systematic manner, and had every faith in something important being found. Six men were employed. Waitekauri King. —This mine has been worked by J. Broadbent and party, who have directed their attention to driving and stoping on No. 1 reef at No. 2 level. The reef has varied from 6 in. to 2 ft. in thickness. 17f tons of quartz was broken out and crushed for a return of 41 oz. 1 dwt. of gold, valued at £58 4s. 4d. An average of three men was employed. A limited amount of prospecting-work has also been carried on in the Young New Zealand, Hunua, Eclipse, and Starlight Claims, but nothing of importance discovered. Ohinemuri Syndicate Claims, Owharoa. — No work has been done on this property during the year. Bising Sun. —Prospecting and development work have been carried on in this property with a limited number of men. The reef operated on varied from 6in. to 6 ft., some of it being of a very kindly description, and in places it is said to contain bullion in payable quantities. A test parcel of half a ton was treated at the Thames School of Mines by the cyanide process for a return of 3 oz. 1 dwt. of bullion, valued at £1 18s. sd. An average of two men was employed. Harvey Claim. —Prospecting-work has been carried on by two men, who are at present putting in a surface level with the expectation of finding the run of gold which was worked successfully some years ago. Very encouraging prospects have been obtained, but nothing of a defined or permanent nature has yet been intersected. Kabangahake. Woodstock Gold-mining Company. — During the first three months of the year operations at the mine and mill were suspended, pending reconstruction of the company. This having been accomplished, another start was made in April to push on the development-work by driving the No. 6 level southwards from the shaft, and by sinking the No. 1 winze from No. 5 level to connect with this level. The No. 6 level at the end of the year had been advanced 730 ft., and the winze from No. 5 level connected therewith at a point about 700 ft. south of the shaft, after sinking and rising 250 ft. Stoping has been in progress since June, ore being broken from over Nos. 2, 3, 4, and 5 levels. About 8,000 tons of ore had been broken at the end of the year. Crushing operations were resumed at the end of August, and have been continued without a break since then. At the end of the year 7,814 tons had been treated, yielding bullion to the value of £12,434 7s. The mode of treatment has been the same as heretofore— L viz., crushing through breakers and stamps, amalgamation with Muntz-metal tables, concentration over vanners, and cyanidation of the sands, concentrates, and slimes, the former by percolation, the two latter by agitation. A new steam plant has been installed as an auxiliary to the water-power during the dry season of the year. This plant consists of two 150-horse-power Elephant boilers and a 250----horse-power Corliss engine. These have been set up at the mill, and are so arranged that either the mill or compressors, or both, may be driven by either steam or water, or, if need be, both steam and water power can be coupled together. The plant has had a fortnight's run, and everything works admirably. An average of ninety-one men has been employed. Talisman Consolidated. —Operations in this mine have been vigorously pushed ahead during the year in opening up and developing the property at various points, the principal work being the intersection and exploring of the Talisman main lode at the No. 8 level. This has proved to be a large body of payable quartz varying from 4 ft. to 16 ft. in width, and has been driven on in a southerly direction for a distance of about 500 ft. Stoping operations are proceeding over the back of this level on a block of ground 200 ft. in height between 7 and 8 levels. No. 10 level: On the 26th April negotiations were entered into with the Woodstock Company for the use of that company's No. 3 level, situated at a depth of 200 ft. below No. 8 level, and were brought to a successful arrangement being made, when the company immediately commenced work at this level. The reef here is a large body of ore at least 10 ft. in width. During the period under review crosscuts were put in at intervals to ascertain values, and for nearly 100 ft. assay returns of £2 per ton were obtained, while some isolated patches of very rich ore were met with. The very divergent strike of the reef at this level compared with that in the workings above tends to show that this is either a separate reef or a branch of the main ore-body, but this will be proved as soon as time will permit by crosscutting, &c. A chamber has been cut out and an incline shaft is being sunk on the reef from No. 8 level to connect with

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View of Separating-boxes and Slimes-thickening Boxes at the Waihi Gold-mining Company's 90-stamp Mill at Waihi.

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a level to be called the No. 9 level, and also No. 10 level, and when completed will be the outlet for all the ore below the No. 8 level. The No. 9 level is being pushed ahead from the Woodstock stopes with all possible speed, and, as there is a distance of 500 ft. to drive on the course of the lode to the incline shaft, this will open up a large block of ore containing probably something like 50,000 tons. This is merely an approximate estimate, as absolutely nothing is known of widths and values of the whole 200 ft. of vertical extent between Nos. 8 and 10 levels. A crosscut east from No. 8 level has been commenced in order to ascertain whether the rich vein struck in the crosscut at No. 7 level continues down. Should this vein (which has given such favourable results) prove to be something more than an isolated patch, the discovery will be a most important factor in the matter of returns from the mill. The return sent in from this mine up to the end of the year was 13,396 tons for 50,409 oz. of bullion, valued at £20,163 135.; and an average of 120 men was employed. New Zealand Crown Mines (Limited). —It is pleasing to note that operations in this mine have again proved remunerative, whereby, after working-expenses, &c, were all paid, a substantial surplus was left, enabling the directors to disburse in dividends to the shareholders during the year the sum of £15,000, which must be highly satisfactory, more especially as the prospects of the mine are well maintained at the deep levels, thus giving every reason to expect that payable returns will be forthcoming for an indefinite period. The main incline shaft has now reached a depth of 430 ft., and sinking is still proceeding. The No. 2 level from the main incline shaft has been extended 315 ft., making a total distance from the shaft of 2,309 ft. The average width of the reef has been 4 ft. lin., which yielded for a distance of 31 fathoms 10 tons 6 cwt. of quartz per fathom, worth about £1 Bs. Bd. per ton; the remaining 128 ft. 6in. has been driven on the course of a small leader which is supposed to be the reef (as there are no indications of the reef being heaved out of its course), but this will be proved by crosscutting into the walls when time will permit. No. 3 level : This level has been extended a total distance of 378 ft. from the shaft. The reef at this point was pinched up to about a foot in thickness owing to the hard nature of the country, and it is sometimes difficult to know whether it is the reef or not, as there are no indications whatever showing in which direction (if any) it has been heaved out of its course. This level was also extended a distance of 125 ft. south of the shaft, and connected with a drive that had been driven north from the winze. The drives north and south of the winze and south of the shaft now constitute the No. 3 level. This level south of the winze was extended 284 ft., and in this extension 428 tons of quartz was broken out, which gave a return of £1,115 ; the average width of the reef was 3 ft. 7 in. The total length of the level from the shaft is 1,741 ft. No, 4 level: This level has been driven south of the shaft a distance of 169 ft. alongside the reef, which is hard and small, but of good value for some considerable distance. 14J tons of quartz was broken, which was worth £39. The reef has now opened out in width, and the value of the quartz improved considerably. In some of the samples a little free gold could be seen. In the No. 1 level, south of the main incline shaft, and south of the Great Fault, 94 fathoms of the reef was stoped out over the back of the level, which yielded 1,169J- tons of quartz, worth £2,699. At No. 2 level, south of the main shaft, the stopes have produced very good ore during the year; 672 fathoms of ground yielded 5,988J tons, worth £19,287. No. 3 level, south of the main shaft: On the back of this level 774 fathoms were stoped out, which yielded 9,456 tons of quartz, worth £29,098. There has also been a large amount of driving, stoping, and rising done at and above the Waitawheta Tunnel. A total of 33,523 tons was crushed from the various places in mine for bullion worth £74,764 4s. 2d.; and 245 men were employed. Comstock United. —Operations in this mine have been confined to driving the low-level crosscut, which has been extended 500 ft. during the year, making a total distance of 1,700 ft. from the mouth of the level. Although the point has been reached where it was expected the reef would be intersected, nothing of importance has yet been met with, thus showing that the lode has taken a different underlie to that shown on the surface, or otherwise it does not continue down. An average of six men has been employed. A little prospecting has been done around the mines mentioned in the Karangahake district, but no important discovery has been made. Te Aeoha Disteict. Premier and Mammoth Beef Claims, Waiorongomai. —In the early part of the year the operations in the mine were confined to development-work, the results being most satisfactory, as a payable chute of ore has been opened up which will keep the battery working for some time to come. The portion of the lode that is being operated on averages 4 ft. in width, and is the continuance southwards of that worked during the past three years. The gold and silver is evenly distributed, making selections of the richer portions of the lodes (I am informed) impossible. Since Mr. Hardy took over this property he has crushed 3,545 tons of ore for a return of £8,222 10s., being an average of £2 6s. sd. per ton; and from August to the end of the year the ore has proved to be much richer than formerly, as 388 tons has yielded £1,467 os. lid., an average of £3 15s. Bd. per ton. The system of battery treatment has been wet crushing and concentrating by vanners. The tailings assay 10s. per ton, representing an 88-37-per-cent. saving on present ore value. An improved automatic arrangement will shortly be installed by which it is expected the loss will be reduced to ss. or 6s. per ton. It is intended to develop energetically the Premier, Colonist, and Mammoth Claims, to add electric light, and enlarge the battery by a further ten head of stamps now on the ground. An average of twelve men was employed on this mine. Cadman Mine. — Operations in this mine were principally confined to driving and stoping on the main reef from the road level, from which 114 tons of quartz was broken out and treated for a return of 70 oz. of gold, valued at £202 Bs. Two men were employed. 12—C. 3.

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A little prospecting was done in this locality, but no discovery of any importance made. Tui Mine, Te Aroha. —Edwards and party have had men employed on this property, and have broken out several parcels, and have shipped some to New South Wales and other places for treatment. The ore contains 60 per cent, of lead, besides silver, copper, zinc, and other minerals, and on the whole gives a high value, the owners being confident that if they had facilities for treating the ore at a reasonable cost it would pay handsomely. This mine has been tried before, but I understand the ore was treated principally for the gold and silver. Lead, &c, at that time was not considered to be of much importance, whereas it is now contended that if the other metals were saved it would be the means of making it a payable concern. This, like a number of other mines in this district, requires capital to make it a success. Paeeoa Disteict. Komata Beefs. —In the Komata reefs section stoping operations have been carried on during the year from the following levels —viz., No. 4 level, A level, and B level—resulting in an output of 6,685 tons of quartz, which yielded approximately £15,800. This quartz was all obtained from Wilson's lode, the average width being 3 ft. Very little development-w r ork was done during the year in this section of the property, the chief energy having been directed to the opening-up of the Te Ao Marama section, which was acquired by the company early in the year. Te Ao Marama section : A connection was made from the Komata reefs section to this piece of ground by extending the Komata reefs No. 2 level to the Te Ao Marama shaft, a distance of 497 ft. The connection is at the Te Ao Marama No. 4 level, which corresponds to the Komata reefs No. 2 level, or 376 ft. below the collar of the shaft. A considerable amount of development-work has been done on Nos. 2, 3, and 4 levels, resulting in large reserves of ore having been made available for stoping. Stoping operations were carried on for about nine months, resulting in 5,715 tons of quartz having bsen sent to the battery, which yielded £13,800 approximately. This ore was chiefly obtained from the No. 1 reef, the width of which averaged about 5 ft. Battery : During the year the cyanide department has been considerably enlarged, the object being to give the ore longer treatment. This has resulted in a higher percentage of extraction. A great many minor improvements have been made to the plant, the principal being the addition of a second stone-crusher, the erection of a quartz-hopper, and the installation of a small plant for the treatment of slimes. A steam plant has also been put up, so as to insure steady crushing during the summer months. The capacity of the plant is now being increased by the addition of a 5 ft. Huntington mill. The cyanide department will be further enlarged; the slimes plant will also be enlarged, and should be completed early in March. The tonnage treated during the year was 12,190 tons, and the value of the bullion recovered was £27,140 Is. sd. Just in Time Special Quartz Claim. —This claim adjoins the Komata Reefs; the area is 50 acres. About 120 ft. of crosscutting has been done and No. 1 reef driven on. About 10 tons has been broken out and assays made of the ore, which gives a very high value. lam informed that £5 per ton has been offered for the quartz stacked on the surface. Byron Bay. —From two to four men have been employed in this mine during the greater part of the year. The operations were chiefly confined to extending the No. 2 level to prove the value of the reef, which has been opened up on the surface, and from which good dish-prospects could be obtained; but up to the present there has not been sufficient work done on it to estimate the value of the discovery. The No. 2 level will require to be extended a further distance of 112 ft. to intersect the reef. Hikutaia Gold Syndicate. —Operations in this mine were steadily carried on during the year, the work being confined to stoping on the main reef over the Nos. 2 and 3 levels, where the lode was previously opened up to a considerable extent. The syndicate has done a large amount of systematic work, and treated no less than 5,231 tons of ore, but as it was too low grade to pay the working-expenses it was found necessary to stop work in the mine for the present. This is to be regretted, as the shareholders were confident that after getting the small crushing plant on the mine it would have paid and left a small margin of profit. Maratoto Mine. —ln the Maratoto section the No. 5 level crosscut was extended to a distance of 545 ft., where the Maratoto reef was intersected. The reef, where cut through, was 10 ft. wide, and composed of solid white quartz intermixed with bunches of sulphides, these proving to be of good value. Arise has been commenced at this point and is now up a distance of 19ft., and, judging from assays made from time to time, the ore appears to be improving as it is risen upon. The lode has been exposed at six different places along the outcrop, extending about 6 chains north of No. 4 level, and will average 8 ft. in width. In the Pay Rock section the No. 1 level has been cleaned out and put in working-order, and the intermediate level driven 164 ft. south of the rise and 96 ft. north, making a total length of 270 ft. These two drives are still being extended for the purpose of proving the value of the reef. An average of six men has been employed. Khartoum Mine. —This mine has been continuously worked during the year. A small block of ore has been stoped out above No. 1 level to the surface, where the reef varied from 1 ft. to 2 ft. in width ; the quartz obtained is said to be worth £5 per ton. At the No. 2 level about 35 ft. of crosscutting both east and west has been done with a view to testing some of the companion reefs. On the hanging-wall side a reef 12 in. thick was met with, which carries a fair percentage of gold. A crosscut has been driven at No. 3 level for a distance of 90 ft., and three distinct reefs, ranging from Ift. to 4 ft. in thickness, have been intersected. The largest reef is supposed to be the northern continuation of the Melbourne reef, which has been exploited in the upper levels. The starting-point of the No. 4 level is about 30 ft. above the Maratoto Creek, which is on the northern boundary of the mine. It is 1,700 ft. north of and 700 ft. below the No. 3 level. Here driving has been done to the extent of 350 ft. along the course of the Melbourne reef,

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which varies in width from 4 ft. to 5 ft., and carries more or less gold and silver. Several other reefs have been discovered on the property, but no work of a permanent nature has been done on any of them. An average of four men has been employed. Golden Cross. —This mine has been stopped, and the electric plant and other machinery is being removed, as the company does not intend to spend any more money on the property. Prospecting operations have also been carried on in the Samoa and Incognito Claims with two men each. The prospects met with in both claims are said to be of an encouraging nature, but up to the present no crushmgs have taken place. East Coast Disteict. Mananu Mine, Whangamata. —Crushing operations were carried on up to the month of September with fair results, but, as the payable ore that was opened up on the higher levels became exhausted, all work was stopped for a time to enable the company to raise capital and decide on a scheme of development on the various reefs and at deeper levels than have been operated on hitherto. There are also several reefs outcropping on the surface of the property on which little or nothing has been done. The company intends testing these as soon as money is available for the purpose. Up to the time of closing down the battery the operations were chiefly confined to the Studholme (No. 1 reef), which trends in a northerly direction with an easterly underlie, and varies from 1 ft. to 3 ft. in width. Some of the ore contained a very high percentage of silver and gold. 3,508 tons of ore was treated for £7,595 Bs. 10d., and an average of forty men was employed. Whangamata Proprietary. —This property, on which a large amount of work was done, and payable ore obtained at the upper levels, was sold by auction in the early part of the year, and purchased on behalf of a syndicate by Messrs. Mitchell and Bonwick, who have been negotiating with a view to forming a company to raise capital to enable them to prospect the deep levels, which they consider have not been tested to any extent, and in which they are confident something of importance will yet be discovered. lam informed they have been so far successful in raising capital, and that work will be resumed in about two months' time. The property has been under protection during the year and in charge of a caretaker. Chelmsford. —For the past year the company crushed and treated 2,169 tons of ore for a yield of 1,363 oz. 14 dwt. of bullion, valued at £2,531 2s. Bd., and employed an average of twenty-five men. Considerable development-work has been done during the year. A low level has been driven a distance of 600 ft., leaving 130 ft. yet to drive before the reef is intersected. This will give 214 ft. of " backs "to the level above. A winze is being sunk on the main reef from No. 2 level, and to which communication will be made with the low level. The reef is 2 ft. 6 in. in width, and for the 30 ft. sunk shows it to be of payable quartz. Other development-works have also been done in the way of driving main levels ahead and crosscutting at different points. In some cases good results have been met with. The company contemplates in the early part of the incoming year to close down the battery and to direct all their energies in pushing ahead the low level, the No. 2 level, and the sinking of the winze for the purpose of thoroughly testing the value of the mine preparatory to conducting operations on a larger scale. Taniwha. —During the year this company have spent a good deal of money in the direction of erecting a heavy two-stamper battery and two berdans, which are driven by a 15-horse-power Tangye oil-engine ; also in laying a tramway to connect the mine with the battery and different mine-works. The mine constitutes a small hill interlaced by a mass of quartz stringers, all carrying a little gold. Crushing was commenced in April last, when 328 tons was treated for 121 oz. 10 dwt. of gold, valued at £287 os. sd. ; but, this not being payable, the company suspended operations, and have let the mine on tribute to a good party of men, who are sanguine of meeting with stone that will give payable results. Broken Hills, Tairua. —This property, which is now established as one of the principal goldproducers in the district, has been vigorously worked during the year, with very satisfactory results. 4,328 tons of ore was broken out of the Blucher reef and treated for 9,921 oz. of bullion, valued at £19,097 18s. 6d., which enabled the directors to disburse in dividends the handsome sum of £8,947 lis. lid. This must have been very gratifying to the shareholders. As the prospects of the mine generally indicate that payable returns will be maintained from the various reefs operated on for an indefinite period, there is every reason to conclude the company possesses a valuable property. The distance driven on the reef at the low level was something like 600 ft. The reef varies in width, contracting and opening out suddenly, and at the end of the year it was small in the south end and about 2 ft. wide in the northern face. The average height of the blocks from the low level is something like 500 ft. The Night reef has been driven upon at the low level for a distance of 160 ft., yielding highly payable ore, and the reef still looks well going south. A leading stope is being carried along on this reef on the back of the low level, and a rise is proceeding upwards on it, and in both places good payable ore is being produced. This reef was first cut in the No. 2 level, which is 400 ft. above the low level. Seaver's leader was driven on from the east crosscut, where the Night reef was again cut and driven on for a distance of 35 ft. upon payable ore. The management is sanguine it will prove to be quite as good as the Blucher lode. The Purrow reef was met with in the stopes being worked upon in the Blucher reef about 80 ft. above the low level. It was driven on for 32 ft., with encouraging results. The Wellington reef was first cut in No. 4 level, on the north side of the hill; it is about 4 ft. wide. Assay tests of the stone give payable results, and when this reef is opened up it will no doubt enhance the value of the property. There is also the New Year reef, on which comparatively little work has been done; and although this reef does not give as good results by assay tests, yet there is every reason to believe it will turn out all right when opened up. An average of fifty men has been employed.

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A little prospecting-work has been done on the following mines : viz., the Gem, Myosotis, and Golden Hill Claims, from which fair dish-prospects have been obtained, but no work of a permanent nature has been undertaken up to the present. Golden Belt Mine, Neavesville. —In the early part of the year work was confined to prospecting, sampling, and assaying the various reefs which were opened up, to a large extent, by companies and other owners previous to the present holders, with a view of ascertaining the general value of the ore before erecting an up-to-date plant and adopting a scheme for the development of the property. The operations have been carried out under the supervision of Mr. H. H. Adams, and the results obtained are, lam informed, considered satisfactory. The company having decided to erect a thirty-stamp battery, the timber necessary for the building, &c, has been cut by hand-sawyers on the ground. In the mine a considerable amount of .preliminary work has been done in repairing and cleaning out old levels, and since this was accomplished the low level has been extended to a point where a connection will be made with the upper levels, and the quartz broken out at those levels will be conveyed down through passes, &c, to the low level, and from thence by an aerial tramway to the battery. An average of six men has been employed in the mine. Eliza Claim, Katikati. —A local syndicate is again trying this piece of ground. Two men have been employed on it for a time, and a test ton of quartz has been sent to the Thames School of Mines for treatment, but the result has not yet been made known. Te Puke Beefs, Te Puke. —Prospecting operations in this mine have been carried on with three men during the year ; but a company has now been formed, and work is to be resumed at once, with a view of proving the value of the property by opening out a low level and otherwise prospecting the property before commencing to erect a crushing plant. Waihi Beach Claims, near Waihi. —This ground was under option for some considerable time, and a few men were occasionally employed ; but the work was simply a little scratching here and there, and of little or no value. The company are advised that to prove the value of the property it will be necessary to sink a shaft some distance back from the beach, on which a pumpingengine could be put on should the water be troublesome, but there is nothing to indicate that much water will be met with. This matter is under consideration. Thames District. Miner's Bight Claim, Puriri. —Operations in this mine have been steadily carried on during the year. The work has been chiefly confined to driving and stoping on various small leaders near the surface, and from which 171 tons of ore was broken out and treated at the owner's small battery for a return of 95 oz. 9 dwt. of gold, valued at £266 9s. 6d. An average of five men was employed. Puriri Gold Estates. —Only a very limited amount of work has been done on this property, as it was under protection the first half of the year. Since then four men were employed in prospecting on the different sections of the ground, but up to the present no important discovery has been reported. Klondike. —In the beginning of the year this mine was taken over by an Auckland company, who proceeded to erect a five-stamper battery to test the property, and before doing this a sideling track over a mile long, and costing about £150, had to be formed to enable the machinery to be conveyed to the site for the mill. In the battery building provision has been made for ten stamps should future prospects warrant it. The five heads are now erected, and crushing operations will be commenced as soon as the mine and battery are connected by an aerial wire tramway which is under way. The motive power for the mill is water, and the waterrace (which is completed) is 10 chains in length, and connected with the battery by 400 ft. of galvanised-steel pipes 8 in. in diameter. The vertical height of the water-race above the battery is 264 ft., which gives a pressure of 1141b. to the square inch. The machinery is driven by a 3 ft. Pelton wheel, manufactured by A. and G. Price, Thames. Very little driving has been done in the mine during the year—about 30 ft. altogether. The formation which carries the gold consists of hard country-rock, with oxide-of-iron veins running through it, from which good dishprospects can be obtained. Regarding the future working of the mine, driving will be carried along the auriferous formation, and sinking will be resorted to before trying to prove the mine by long crosscuts. An average of six men was employed. Sheet Anchor, Omahu. —Operations in the mine during the year have been exclusively confined to prospecting. The low level was extended a considerable distance past the point where it was expected the reef would be intersected ; but, it not being met with, this work was stopped and attention directed to driving on a reef formation which had been previously cut through in the level some distance back from the face. The reef averages 2 ft. in width, and has been driven on a distance of 200 ft., and a rise has also been put up on the reef 35 ft. to prove its value. Although carrying a little gold, it has not been proved to be good enough to treat in any large quantity. A prospecting crosscut was also put in from the surface at a point some distance westward of the main workings, where a large reef formation has been intersected. This carries a little gold, but requires further development to prove the value of the discovery. No quartz was crushed in any quantity. An average of four men was employed. Fortuna, Hauraki. —Operations in this mine during the year have been principally carried on by tributers on the various leaders that traverse the property. At the end of the year the Hague Smith level was being cleaned out and retimbered by Mr. Rabe for the purpose of opening up new ground at this level. 55 tons of ore was broken out and treated by the owners for a return of 32 oz. 7 dwt. of gold, valued at £87 Is. Id. An average of six men was employed. Ethel Beefs. —This property was surrendered by the Ethel Reefs Company in the early part of the year, and since then a portion of the ground has again been taken up, but only a limited

Erecting one of the large Elevating Wheels at the Waihi Gold-mining Company's 90-stamp Mill, Waihi.

Erection of Elevating Wheels, Settlers, and Solution Tanks at the Waihi Gold-mining Company's 90-stamp Mill, Waihi.

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amount of work has been done by the present party. Two men were employed, who treated 4 tons of quartz for a return of 3 oz. 11 dwt. of gold, valued at £8 17s. 6d. Prospecting-work has also been carried on in the Summer Hill and Victory Claims, Hape Creek, but no payable returns obtained. Thames Special. —This claim was forfeited and taken up by another party, who applied for protection to enable them to raise money to work the ground. Little or no work has been done on this ground for some time past. May Queen Extended, Karaka Greek. —During the past twelve months the work in this mine was chiefly confined to the extension of the south crosscut to intersect the reef. After driving 32 ft. the reef was met with, and in cutting through it strong dabs of gold were frequently seen through the quartz. This encouraged the company to drive east and west on the lode (which averages 10 in. in width) to prove its value. After driving 125 ft. east and 57 ft. west, and not meeting with as good ore as that obtained at the end of the crosscut, they decided to stope out some of the reef over the back of the level; and 103 tons was broken out and treated for 53 oz. 14 dwt., valued at £150 Bs. Bd. As this did not prove payable, or anything like as good as anticipated, all work on this reef was suspended for the time being, and the crosscut extended for the purpose of intersecting the Odd Fellows lode. This is in a distance of 96 ft., and the lode is expected to be met with at any time. An average of four men has been employed at this mine. Thames Talisman. —Operations in this mine have been of a prospecting nature, the principal work being the extension of the low level to intersect the reef worked in the early days by the Grand Trunk Company from a shaft. Up to the present they have failed to pick up the reef. A total of 411 ft. has been driven; 143 ft. was driven on a reef 18in. in thickness, in which a colour of gold could be occasionally seen in breaking out the quartz, but the reef was heaved by a break to one side. The drive was then directed to a point immediately underneath the old shaft a distance of 175 ft., but, as the Grand Trunk reef was not met with where expected, crosscutting into the walls is proceeding with a view to finding it before rising is commenced to connect with the shaft. Four men have been employed. Gloucester. —This property is at present under option to a Glasgow syndicate, who have done a fair amount of work in prospecting and testing on the various reefs, more especially in the Gloucester Extended section, where encouraging prospects are said to have been met with. Further development is required before the value of the property can be ascertained. In the Gloucester section a party of tributers are engaged in driving and stoping on Cowling's leader, from which good payable ore had previously been obtained, 10 tons of quartz being broken out and treated for a return of 17 oz. 18 dwt. of gold, valued at £43 15s. An average of six men was employed on this property. Claremont. —This claim of one man's ground is still owned by George Bryant, who consistently obtains highly remunerative returns of gold from a very small quantity of ore treated and a limited amount of work done. During the year 3 cwt. 2 qr. 8 lb. of specimen stone was treated for a return of 259 oz. 19 dwt. of gold, valued at £701 17s. 6d.; and only one man is employed. Babydim. —This mine has been worked with two men, whose attention has been directed to driving and stoping on a leader which varies from 4 in. to 10 in. in width, and from which 20 tons of ore was broken out and treated for a return of 36 oz. 13 dwt. of gold, valued at £91 12s. 6d. There has been little or no work done on the Thames-Hauraki, Deep Sinker, or Deep Level Consolidated Mines during the year. May Queen-Hauraki. —Operations in this mine during the year have been solely carried on by tributers, their attention being directed to driving and stoping on the various reefs above No. 6 level in the Saxon, Cardigan, and May Queen sections, but no permanent work of any kind has been undertaken by the company. The tributers' returns show that 1,446 tons 10 cwt. of quartz was treated for 2,564 oz. 3 dwt. of gold, valued at £7,017 15s. 7d. An average of forty-six men was employed. Victoria. —This company has done no work on their own account during the year. Seven men have been employed in working blocks of ground on tribute on various leaders from the No. 3 level to the surface in the Victoria section, and from the 70 ft. level of the Tookey section upwards, the work as a whole not having been of a remunerative character. Boring operations have been suspended for some time past on the foreshore, pending the arrival of tubing from England. When this arrives the company intends to select a new site for a borehole. 327 tons of ore was treated for the tributers for 134 oz. 17 dwt. of gold, valued at £365 lis. 7d. Waiotahi. —This mine still continues to produce ore of a payable quality from the various leaders from the No. 3 level upwards. 1,210 tons of ore was treated during the year for 1,601 oz. of gold, valued at £4,343 19s. Id., from which £900 was paid to the shareholders in dividends, making a total paid in dividends of £39,300. An average of fourteen men is employed. Nonpariel. —The work in this mine for the last twelve months has been entirely carried on by tributers, who have directed their attention to operating on the Liverpool Boys' reef and the Wade leader, which is composed of reef formation, the stringers varying from J in. to 1 ft. in thickness. 208 tons 10 cwt. was treated, which yielded 200 oz. 3 dwt. of gold, valued at £559 14s. 6d. An average of six men was employed. Fame and Fortune. —This mine has been principally worked by tributers during the year. The work has been mostly confined to the Balmoral section, where the hanging-wall portion of the Golden Age reef has been operated upon with a fair amount of success. The ore obtained from here is mostly composed of what is termed " general dirt." Work is also proceeding in the higher levels on Fox's and other leaders, from which at times a little picked stone is obtained, but nothing that may be termed a rich chute of ore has been met with. The company's battery has been fully employed in crushing for the public. 381 tons of ore was treated for the tributers for a return of 527 oz. of gold, valued at £1,505 16s. 2d. An average of twenty-five men has been employed.

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West Coast. —This claim is still worked by the owner, Mr. John Northey, who directs his attention to driving and stoping on small leaders in the surface levels, and from which he has broken out and treated 14 tons of quartz for a return of 96 oz. 16 dwt. of gold, valued at £242. Two men have been employed. Ballarat Claim. —Operations were carried on in this mine by the owner, Mr. J. Britt. The work consisted of driving and sinking on a small leader, from which he obtained 9 tons of quartz, yielding 36 oz. 14 dwt. of gold, valued at £108 Is. 4d. Prospecting operations have been carried on to a small extent in the Little Mabel, We Two, and Little Maggie Claims, but so far nothing of importance has been met with. Kuranui-Caledonian. —This company had five men constantly employed in prospecting on the Duke's reef at the Hazelbank level. There is a considerable amount of untried ground in this portion of the mine. A distance of 163 ft. was driven on the reef; the prospects for the first 60 ft. were of an encouraging nature, as colours and dabs of gold were freely seen in the quartz in breaking it out. Three stopes were carried along the back of the level, but, unfortunately, although the reef maintained its size and appearance, no gold could be seen. Fourteen loads of quartz broken out of the reef yielded 14 oz. 11 dwt. of gold, valued at £41 6s. lOd. In addition to this, a considerable amount of work has been done on a lead adjoining at the same level, and known as Smith's lead. Eight loads of quartz treated yielded 6oz. melted gold, valued at £16 19s. As this was not payable, the men have been removed to try a leader at No. 1 level, in the vicinity of where the " big patch " was obtained in the Caledonian section in 1870. This lead will average 2 in. in width, and as far as can be seen the country-rock is the same as where the rich gold was obtained, consequently there is every reason to believe rich stone will be found here. There has also been a large number of tributers engaged in working on various leaders in the different sections of the mine, from the No. 3 level up to the surface. The tributers crushed 58,5 loads for a return of 1,317 oz. 7 dwt., valued at £3,581 3s. 3d.; and the company twenty-two loads for 20 oz. 11 dwt., valued at £58 ss. lOd. An average of seven wages-men and fifty tributers was employed. Moanataiari. —With the exception of keeping the main levels in repair, the mine has been entirely worked by tributers from the tunnel level to the surface. 1,311-J tons of ore from the various leaders was treated for a yield of 2,453 oz. 10 dwt., valued at £6,744 ss. Bd. Fifty-four tributers and three wages-men were employed. Kuranui. —This company has done a considerable amount of work in repairing levels and opening up new ground, and have been driving for some time past on promising lodes between the Eureka and Moanataiari slides, adjacent to where very rich gold was obtained in the early days of the goldfield. The manager is very sanguine that an important discovery will be made in the locality they are at present working. 35 tons of ore was treated for 57 oz. 2 dwt. of gold, valued at £98 Bs. 6d. An average of twelve men was employed. New Whau. —This mine was under protection during the first part of the year, and since then the amount of work done has been very limited, and nothing payable was found. 6 tons of quartz was crushed for 4 oz. 1 dwt. of gold, valued at £8 16s. lid. New Alburnia. —Only a limited amount of work has been done on this mine during the year, and the company is in liquidation. An average of four men was employed tributing on various leaders, from which 19-J tons of quartz was treated for a return of 26 oz. 11 dwt. of gold, valued at £73 10s. Id. Golden Drop. —Two men have been employed on this ground, their attention being directed to driving on some small leaders in the surface levels, and from which they crushed 7 tons for 28 oz. 11 dwt. of gold, valued at £70 Is. sd. Tararu Gold-mine (formerly Tararit Greek). —The principal work carried on underground has been the extension of the Day Dawn crosscut at the battery level a further distance of 570 ft., making the total length 752 ft. This crosscut is 8 ft. by 8 ft., and is being driven with a view to opening up the eastern portion of the mine at the deep level, practically 700 ft. below the surface. The south drive on the Dunedin reef at the Dunedin level has been driven 185 ft. south of the fault, and the old level timbered for 200 ft. The Sunbeam workings from the battery level have been reopened to a height of 300 ft. and a connection made with the old Sunbeam workings. A new six-drill air-compressor has been installed and connections made, and an additional boiler has been purchased and placed in position. For some time past no work has been done in the mine, pending arrangements being made to raise more capital to carry out the projected works that were in progress when the mine was closed down. 200 tons of ore was treated, which yielded 35 oz. 11 dwt. of gold, valued at £83 7s. An average of twenty men was employed whilst the mine was at work. Eclipse. —Operations in this mine during the year were principally confined to driving and stoping at and above Nos. 1 and 2 levels on the No. 1 and cross reefs. These reefs varied from 3 ft. to 8 ft. in width, and produced good payable ore for the greater part of the year ; but as the payable ore became exhausted it was found necessary to stop all work in this section of the mine, and drive a low level to open up the mine at a greater depth. This should have been undertaken earlier, when the upper levels were being worked on good ore. 3,857 tons of quartz was treated at the company's battery for a return of 1,418 oz. 9 dwt. of gold, valued at £3,917 12s. 6d. An average of sixteen men was employed. Prospecting-work has been intermittently carried on in this locality in the Argosy, Temple Bar, and Iron Cap Claims, from which small returns have been obtained, but no permanent work has been undertaken. Puru Consolidated, Puru.- —This mine was worked on tribute during the greater part of the year by Mr. G. 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their attention to extending the No. 2 level and rising on the reef at different points over the No. 1 level. These works are meeting with a fair amount of success. 455 tons of ore was treated for 127 oz. 7 dwt. of gold, valued at £317 17s. 6d. An average of four men was employed. Monowai Mine, Waiomo. —This mine has been steadily worked during the year, the operations being chiefly confined to driving and stoping on the reef from the No. 3 B level upwards. The reef in places is over 30 ft. wide, and has been driven on for a considerable distance at different levels, where it has been cut through to ascertain its value. Up to the present only one payable chute of ore, from 80 ft. to 150 ft. in length, has been discovered, and will be soon exhausted if some development-work is not proceeded with. The ore being of a very refractory nature, most of the values were obtained from the concentrates, which were shipped to Sydney for treatment, the balance of the bullion being obtained by the cyanide process. 4,044 tons of ore was treated for a return in value of £4,575 2s. 2d. An average of thirty-five men has been employed. Broken Hill Mine. —Prospecting operations were carried on in this mine with from two to four men, the work being chiefly confined to driving the low level for the purpose of intersecting the Monowai reef. In the No. 1 level the No. 1 reef varies from 18 in. to 4 ft. in width, and has been driven on for a distance of 80 ft. ; although the quartz is of a kindly description, and carrying a little gold, yet it is not considered payable. A limited amount of prospecting-work has been done on the Victory and Hector McDonald Claims, situated in the Waiomo Creek, but no returns of gold from these mines have been reported during the year. Bullion Mine, Tapu. —This mine has been worked by tributers, who have done a large amount of prospecting on various portions of the property, but the ore that was treated was obtained from the Sheridan section. 20 tons was crushed for 72 oz. 7 dwt. of gold, valued at £218. An average of eight men was employed. Mahara Boyal, Tapu. —This property (which was owned by an English company) was under protection during the first part of the year; the only work carried on was conducted by the caretaker, who treated some tailings at the battery. At the expiration of the protection no capital was forthcoming to further develop the mine, and the company decided to sell the whole of the property, which was purchased at auction by the Broken Hills Gold-mining Company, Tairua, who intended to increase their crushing plant, but before removing the twenty-stamp battery, &c, from the Mahara Royal they decided to drive a low level to develop and prove that mine at a deeper level. This is estimated to cost £500. A contract was at once let, and the work is now proceeding. The Mahara Royal Company treated 143 tons of tailings for 43 oz. 1 dwt. of gold, valued at £120 19s. A little prospecting-work has also been carried on in the Golden Horn and other claims in this creek, but nothing of importance was discovered. Coeomandel Disteict. Hauraki Mine, Coromandel. —Owing to the falling-off of the gold returns during the year 1901 this mine gradually came to a standstill early in the year, and in March everything was closed down for a time. At the same time negotiations were being carried on by the London board to acquire another gold-mining property in Australia. These were finally concluded, and instructions were sent out from London with the object of transferring the winding and pumping plant from the Union Beach section of the Hauraki property over to the company's new Australian lease. Owing to some misunderstanding, only the boilers and air-compressor were taken away from the Union Beach section, while the pumping and winding engines from the Main Hauraki shaft were also dismantled and shipped away, thus entirely crippling the original property. By the time Mr. Woolmer (who was to take over the management of this and other mines in Coromandel) had arrived the whole of what may be termed the injury had been done; but, owing to a rich run of gold having been found by a party of tributers in the Bunker's Hill Mine on this company's boundary, a fresh impetus was given to mining in this part of the district, and an arrangement was arrived at whereby the Hauraki Company permitted the Bunker's Hill Company to use their main shaft for the purpose of putting in another large Cornish pump to drain the two mines. The mine above the 100 ft. level was thrown open for tributers, and a number of men took the opportunity of working under this arrangement. It is gratifying to notice that several were successful in unearthing some very rich ore, in some cases paying them handsomely for their labour. 789 tons of ore was treated for 1,340 oz. 6 dwt. of gold, valued at £4,037 3s. lid. An average of twenty-five men was employed. Bunker's Hill. —On the 15th August, 1902, a tribute was let to Messrs. Jamieson and Fraser, who commenced operations from the Hauraki Company's workings at the 100 ft. level on what is known as the lona reef, specimen stone being obtained immediately work was begun. The Hauraki Company have, it appears, worked this reef on the rich chute of gold right into the Bunker's Hill ground, and which has since been found to carry through the Bunker's Hill into the Hauraki Freeholds property, a distance horizontally of 118 ft. The tribute was only let for a term of two months, but during this time the tributers won and treated 70J tons of ore for a return of bullion of the value of £3,305 10s. Id. Since their term expired the company has treated 13 tons of ore of the value of £1,909 os. lOd. Operations have been confined to driving, sinking, and stoping on this lode, which will average 12 in. in thickness. Owing to the cessation of mining in this and the adjacent mines with the removal of the machinery, the mines were flooded, and operations have been considerably impeded owing to the water difficulty ; but in order to cope with this the Bunker's Hill Company have purchased the pumping plant from the Blagrove's Company, and a contract has been let for the removal and erection of it on the site of the Hauraki Company's shaft, where pumping operations will be conducted. The total quantity of quartz treated from this company's mine was 83 tons for 1,693 oz. 18 dwt. of gold, valued at £5,214 10s. lOd. An average of ten men has been employed.

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Kapanga. —Work in this mine during the year has been carried on by a party of five tributers, who have directed their attention to work in the old surface levels and selecting portions of the mullock-tips, treating the ore at Scotty's battery, of which they obtained a lease. During the period under review 595 tons of dirt was treated for 213 oz. 3 dwt. of gold, valued at £571 16s. lOd. The old pumping and winding plant which has been in use on this company's shaft for a number of years is being dismantled, as it is considered that, in the event of work being again resumed to prospect the deep levels, a more up-to-date plant will be required. Hauraki Freehold. —During the year only a limited amount of work has been done on this property (which adjoins the Bunker's Hill Mine), the operations being solely confined to prospect-ing-work at the surface levels ; but now that gold has been obtained close up to the boundary in the Bunker's Hill ground, it is contemplated to make another effort to raise capital to unwater the mine, with a view to finding the run of gold where it runs into this property, and also to further develop the deep levels. No crushings have taken place. An average of four men has been employed. Hauraki No. 2. —This mine has been steadily prospected with two men during the year, the work being confined to driving and rising on what is termed the " No. 2 lead," which varies from 2 in. to 8 in. in thickness. As this ground adjoins the famous Hauraki, the shareholders are hopeful that something important will yet be found. 15 tons of quartz was broken out of the leader named and treated for 4 oz. 6 dwt. of gold, valued at £12 18s. South Kapanga. —This mine is owned by Angus McNeil, who has steadily worked the mine, an average of five men being employed. Unfortunately no payable quartz has yet been discovered, but the owner has every confidence of something rich being obtained. Two tributes have now been let at 10 per cent., on conditions that should a company be formed to work the mine the tributers will give up the ground. 5 tons of quartz was treated for 11 oz. 5 dwt. of gold, valued at £31 Is. Kathleen Crown. —Operations were carried on in this mine on leaders at the surface levels in the early part of the year, but not being successful in finding payable ore the mine was closed down. Mermaid Claim. —This claim, situated on the foreshore, was a portion of the Hauraki Main Lodes Mine. It was worked by Messrs. Hornibrook and Wild the greater portion of the year, their attention being directed to working the silt rubble and tailings that had collected on the beach, and which contained a fair percentage of the precious metal. The material treated is said to have paid them for their labour, but, as the payable dirt was covered over by a considerable thickness of debris which contained little or no gold, and was too expensive to remove, the claim was eventually given up. Boyal Oak Mine, Tokatea. —The operations in this mine for the last twelve months have been chiefly confined to the Tribute and Tokatea reefs, on which a considerable amount of work has been done. The greater part consisted in driving 1,000 ft., stoping 3,000 ft., sinking and rising, besides repairing 1,300 ft. of old levels and unwatering and renovating 160 ft. of the main shaft, which was sunk some five years ago, and has not been used for some time. This is essentially a " specimen " mine, and without hauls of specimens are frequently obtained the average quartz will not pay for winning. The present run of gold on the Tribute reef has been almost worked out, and energetic development-work is now being carried on to open up and prove the value of the large blocks of ground that are intact on both the Tribute and Tokatea reefs. Work is also now on hand for the purpose of thoroughly testing the property. This includes opening up levels, and prospecting from the surface on the top of the hill to the No. 7 level, a vertical height of 1,000 ft., but the principal work will be the opening-up of the Tokatea reef from the main shaft at the 160 ft. level. The intention is to extend this level on the reef a further distance of 500 ft. or 600 ft. in order to get under the old Bismarck Company's workings. The battery has been overhauled and improved, thereby increasing the output over 25 per cent. It is intended to crush a large quantity of lowgrade ore during the winter, when water is plentiful. The water-driven air-compressing plant is of great assistance, as the battery, four rock-drills, hoist, and pump are all worked by it except in the very driest period of summer, when steam has to be used. The company's crushings consisted of 1,134 tons 1 cwt. 3 qr. 20 lb. of ore being treated for 3,761 oz. 2 dwt. of gold, valued at £9,538 os. 6d. ; and the average number of men was sixty. Hauraki Mines (Limited). —Operations in this mine have been carried on with very indifferent success. Work has been confined to the Foot-wall leader, on which driving and stoping have been in progress. A total of 23J tons of ore has been treated from the above-named leader for bullion, valued at £132 2s. 6d. Six men have been employed. Harbour View. —This mine was taken up by a syndicate, who commenced operations in July last with four men, the object being to pick up and retimber the old No. 5 level and further develop what is known as the Mullocky reef, which was worked with good results in the upper levels and was driven on for a distance of 300 ft. some twenty-five years ago. After retimbering the old level 240 ft., and deviating from it in a more northerly direction for a distance of 220 ft. to cut off a sharp bend, the old level (which had been driven on the course of the reef) was again picked up and found in a state of good repair. In driving through the corner of solid ground six different leaders were cut through, all carrying a little gold. The shareholders of this venture are now sanguine that they will soon have a good payable mine opened up. Five men are employed. West Tokatea. —Operations in this mine were confined to driving and prospecting on some small leaders in the Nos. 1 and 2 levels, which at times have produced stone of fair quality, but as the leaders are very small only a limited amount of quartz was obtained; consequently the concern did not pay and the mine was closed down, protection being granted for a term of six months. During the year 4-| tons of ore was treated for 41 oz. 10 dwt. of gold, valued at £115 15s. 5d An average of four men was employed.

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Queen of the North. —During the greater part of the year this mine was worked on tribute by A. McLean and party, their attention being directed to working on some of the small veins known to contain gold. 5 cwt. of crusbing-dirt was obtained and treated for a return of 24 oz. 15 dwt. gold, valued at £66 9s. 4d. Two men were employed. New Four-in-hand, Tokatea. —This property shows a considerable decrease in the output as compared with the previous year, the results- obtained not being sufficient to enable any dividends being declared. The operations were chiefly confined to driving and stoping on the reef at the intermediate and No. 2 levels ; some prospecting-work has also been carried on over other portions of the property, but up to the present nothing payable has been discovered outside the Pour-in-hand reef, which varies from 1 ft. to 3 ft. in width, and from which 340 tons was broken out and treated at the company's battery for a return of 400 oz. 7 dwt. of gold, valued at £1,165 14s. 3d. Ten men have been employed. New Tandem. —This property, which adjoins the Four-in-hand, was taken up by a syndicate. The work comprises the opening-up and prospecting of the Tandem reef, which is a strong and compact body of stone, varying from 6 in. to 18 in. in width. 3 tons of quartz and 131b. of picked stone were obtained from this reef, which when treated at the Four-in-hand battery gave a return of 22 oz. 2 dwt. of gold, valued at £64 2s. Two men are employed. Sea View (late Success). —This property is at present worked on tribute by Daldy and party. The work is confined to driving and stoping on the No. 1 Success reef at the No. 2 level, which varies from 8 in. to 2 ft. in width where work is in progress, and from which 67 tons of quartz has been broken out and treated for 132 oz. of gold, valued at £382 16s. Four men have been employed. A little prospecting-work has also been done on the New Tokatea, Forest Queen, and Lillis Claims, but nothing of importance is reported to have been discovered. Progress-Castle Bock, Tiki. —A limited amount of work was done in this company's mine in the early part of the year, but, as the returns obtained for some time were not sufficient to pay the working-expenses, the company decided to dispose of the property. The battery of three heads of stamps, &c, was sold to the Big Beetle Company and the claims to Danby and party, who are now working the ground. 74 tons of ore was obtained and treated for 123 oz. 5 dwt. of gold, valued at £295 16s. Four men have been employed. Prospecting-work has also been carried on in this locality in the Pukewhau, Prospero, Ternian's, and Sovereign Claims with from one to three men on each. White Star, Cabbage Bay. —This ground has again been taken up after being unworked for several years, and a company formed for the purpose of thoroughly testing the property. Some of the shareholders who know the ground are confident it can be made to pay, and energetic operations are to be commenced immediately. Cabbage Bay Extended. —Only one man is working on this ground. He crushed 1_ tons for l-|oz. of gold, valued at £4 ss. 6d. Macoronic Mine. —This company has had five men constantly employed in opening up the mine preparatory to the completion of a five-stamp battery that is in course of erection on the mine. The reefs and leaders vary in width from 2 in. to 3 ft., and are striking in a north-north-easterly direction through what appears to be a good channel of country. There has been a large amount of work done for the number of men employed on the different reefs, and a low level has been driven and connections made with the upper levels whereby the quartz will be trucked direct into the battery. The water-race and battery should be completed within the next three months, when crushing will be commenced. This will prove the value of ore in bulk, and it is to be hoped it will turn out as well as anticipated, as the shareholders deserve every success for the persistent manner in which they have carried on the work. Kauri Freehold Gold Estates, Opitonui. —This property, on which a large amount of capital has been expended in the mine, battery, and railway, &c, has unfortunately not turned out as well as the shareholders were led to believe it would do. Operations in the mine were carried on up nearly to the end of the year, when the funds became exhausted, and, the returns obtained from the quartz crushed not being sufficient to meet the working-expenses, the whole of the work was stopped. lam informed an effort is being made to dispose of the property. The necessity for such action is not only unfortunate for the shareholders, but for the people living in this part of the district, as a large number of men have been thrown out of employment through the property turning out a failure. 16,121 tons of ore was treated at the company's mill for a return of 8,351 oz. 11 dwt. of gold, valued at £15,653 6s. 6d. This does not include the final clean-up, which will be included in the incoming year's returns. An average of 120 men was employed by this company. Kuaotunu Disteict. Kuaotunu Syndicate (late Mariposa). —Operations were carried on by the owners till May last, but, as the ore obtained from the different workings was not of sufficient value to meet current expenses, and no available money being forthcoming to carry on prospecting-work to discover other payable chutes of ore, all work on behalf of the owners was stopped. Protection was then applied for and granted for six months. At the expiration of that time the mine was let on tribute to White and party (five men), who are selecting and working portions of the reef at the main adit level, which they are confident will pay. During the time the operations were carried on by the syndicate 1,565 tons of ore was broken out and treated for 680 oz. 5 dwt. of bullion, valued at £1,498 15s. 9d. An average of eight men was employed. 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In the mine the work was confined to stoping on the Waitaia reef in the Nos. 3, 4, and 5 levels, where the reef varies from 1 ft. to 4 ft. in thickness, and is composed of good clean quartz of a payable quality. There are also a number of other leaders opened up in this company's ground at the different levels, all of which are carrying gold. Now that the company has acquired the Irene battery, those leaders will no doubt be operated on, as the manager will have a better opportunity of testing their value than he has hitherto had. 989 tons of quartz was broken out and treated for a total value of £4,094 9s. sd. An average of twenty men was employed. Irene. —This mine was worked by a party of tributers during the greater part of the year, their attention being directed to driving and stoping on the Irene lode, from which they obtained a total of 240 tons for a return of 299 oz. 15 dwt. of gold, valued at £649 18s. 2d. lam informed negotiations are at present proceeding between the Waitaia Company and the Irene Company with a view to the Waitaia Company purchasing and taking over the mine. It could, no doubt, be worked in conjunction with the Waitaia Mine to greater advantage than by any other party, as the battery is in close proximity to the workings of the Irene Mine. Great Mercury. —This mine has been worked during the year by Carroll and party on tribute. The tributers have done a large amount of prospecting-work on the western side of the hill, with rather poor results. 325 tons was treated for a return of 332 oz. 3 dwt. of gold, valued at £786 2s. 6d. The proprietors intend putting in a low level on the eastern side of the Try Fluke lode. This is of very great importance to this part of the goldfield, as such a level would open up a large block of ground in this mine, and would also afford an easy means of developing the Irene and adjacent mines. Handsworth. —This mine still continues to be worked by the owner, Louis Woodcock, who employs one wages-man. The operations are directed to stoping on the different leaders, and the quartz is treated at his small battery, which is driven by an overshot water-wheel when water is available. 88 tons 6 cwt. 3qr. 201b. of ore was treated for a value of £309 4s. 9d. Juno. —This mine has been worked on tribute by Neugent and party, the work being confined to driving and stoping on small leaders on and over the back of the main level. The quality of the ore was good enough, but, as quantity could not be obtained within a reasonable time, the money received for the work done is not sufficient for the labour entailed, and does not pay. 6 tons 5 cwt. of quartz was treated for 31 oz. 6 dwt. of gold, valued at £78 ss. Invicta. —A portion of this ground (which was abandoned for a considerable time) was recently taken up by S. Gribble and party, who started working on a reef which had been previously cut in the No. 2 level, and from which they broke out and treated 15 tons of ore for a return of 10 oz. 4 dwt. of gold, valued at £25 9s. A little prospecting-work has been done on the Aorere Claim, but nothing payable discovered. Meecuey Bay Disteict. Welcome Jack, Gumtown. —The new low level has been driven a total distance of 488 ft. The leaders, where intersected at this level, did not prove to be as good as anticipated. A rise was put up on the principal leader from the low level, and was expected to open up a payable block of ground. A winze was also sunk on the leader from the upper level. 208 tons of ore was treated from this mine, which yielded 489 oz. 13 dwt. of gold, valued at £1,164 3s. lOd. An average of ten men was employed. Big Beetle. —Only a limited number of men have been employed in this mine during the year. The low level was extended a distance of 100 ft. to intersect the No. 2 leader underneath the point where a winze was being sunk from the upper level for the purpose of connection. The drive was then put in on the course of the leader for another 100 ft., and as there are 80 ft. of backs over this level a fair amount of crushing-dirt will be obtained when stoping is commenced. 100 ft. has been driven on the new leader cut in the crosscut, and a rise put up on it 20 ft. Two prospecting-levels have also been driven; one is in a distance of 150 ft., and the other 50 ft. The latter is on No. 1 leader, and was cut 200 ft. to the east of any previous work that had been done on this leader. Here it is from Ift. to 3 ft. in thickness, and gives very good prospects. A parcel of 2 tons treated from here at the Coromandel School of Mines gave a yield of 51 oz. 14 dwt. of gold, valued at £155 2s. This result being highly satisfactory, the directors decided to erect a small battery, and purchased one from the Progress-Castle Rock Mine (three stamps, &c), which is to be removed and re-erected adjacent to the mine. Three men have been employed. Kapowai. —Operations in this mine have been directed to putting in the No. 3 low level, which has been driven on the reef for a distance of 100 ft., 50 ft. being on the reef, which at this level is considered payable where stoping is proceeding; A little prospecting has also been done, but nothing important met with. 29 tons 10 cwt. was treated for a return of 47 oz. 16 dwt. of gold, valued at £113 Bs. lid. Four men were employed. Golden Beefs. —During a portion of the year two men were employed in prospecting a lode formation, from which good dish-prospects of loose gold could be obtained. A test parcel of 1 ton was treated at the Kapowai battery for a yield of 13 oz. 15 dwt. of gold, valued at £32 19s. Id. Nil Desperandum, Mahakirau. —This was a claim held by Prescott and party, who did some work on it in the early part of the year. The leaders are small, and, the claim being situated some considerable distance from a battery, it did not pay to continue working. 301b. of picked stone was treated at the public battery, Coromandel, for 6 oz. of gold, valued at £15 15s. The party obtained six months' protection for the ground, but I was informed they intended to surrender it when the protection term expired. Mahakirau Battery. —There has been no stuff treated in this battery during the year.

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Geeat Babeieb Island. Barrier Beefs. —There has only been a little prospecting-work done in this mine during the year. A surface drive was put in on the course of a disordered lode for a distance of 54 ft., on which a few feet of rising has been done, and about 40 ft. of crosscutting at and above the same surface level. Not meeting with any success, the work above stated was stopped. A crosscut drive was also put in on a claim situated about a mile and a half west of the Barrier Reefs for a distance of 260 ft. in order to prove the value of a new reef which outcrops higher up on the side of the hill. The development-work at this place was likewise stopped, as the prospects met with would not warrant further expenditure. The average number of men employed was four. The ground, water-races, &c, have been protected part of the year. Sunbeam. —This ground has been lately taken up by Mr. Hugh McLiver, who is sanguine this mine can be made to pay. A large amount of development-work has been done in the mine, and lodes intersected and driven on, varying from 1 ft. to 3 ft. in width. It is reported that some portions of the reefs give highly payable results. 1 ton of ore was treated at the Thames School of Mines or 21 oz. of bullion, valued at £2 14s. 10d., but I am informed only a saving of 26 per cent, of the alue was obtained.

Fatal Accidents.

Sixteen other accidents were reported to this office, six being of a serious nature. The causes were duly inquired into and reported on in the usual way to the Hon. the Minister of Mines. The other ten were only of a slight character, and such as are incidental to and connected with mining-work. I have, &c, James Coutts, The Under-Secretary, Mines Department, Wellington. Inspector of Mines.

Mr. R. Tennent, Inspector of Mines, Westport, to the Undeb-Seceetaey for Mines, Wellington. Sic,— Inspector of Mines' Office, Westport, 31st March, 1903. I have the honour to report as follows on the gold-mines in the Marlborough, Nelson, and West Coast districts for the year ended 31st December, 1902 : — QUARTZ-MINING. Blenheim. Wellington Mine. —With the exception of rising to connect Nos. 2 and 1 levels, further operations have been at a standstill. However, some prospecting was recently resumed on McCleod's leases. Jubilee Mine. —Mining operations have been continuous during the year, and the values recently developed in the further extension of No. 2 or low level have stimulated the management to push forward other important work, notably water-pcwer installation in place of steam for milling and berdan treatment, in order to gain increased economy in crushing and gold-saving. Water-races in connection with these works are nearing completion, and the advisability of adopting the cyanide process is under consideration. Duke of Cornwall Syndicate. —The development so far carried out on this property comprises four surface drives through the cap of the reef, and a winze sunk on a 4 ft. average thickness of stone to a depth of 53 ft., when sinking was intercepted by a strong inflow of water. Neville's Claim. —This claim, situated to the west of the Cornwall, is now being prospected by Tyrell and party, who have obtained favourable ore-prospects on the surface. Baden-Powell Syndicate. —This company has abandoned the property as the result of a recent unfavourable crushing. Just-for-Luck. — Disappointment having been the result of a recent crushing of 10 tons of stone, the property is now under twelve months' protection. Havelock. Golden Bar. —These works are shut down and the engine removed from the Gorge Company's plant. The Havelock Prospectors' Association, having presently suspended prospecting on the ranges, are taking advantage of the dry season to strengthen their monetary position by working the creek-bed. Meantime, however, the party are hopeful of picking up the main reef, and promise to resume their search for the coveted lode from which the rock-specimens found are supposed to have originated. Other mining in the Wakamarina Valley is confined to twelve fossickers, who make a varied living.

Name. Name of Mine. Cause. Date. ames Bright ... Mananu Company's Killed whilst working in a stope by a 26th May,1902. mine, Whangamata piece of rock falling on him William Griffiths New Zealand Crown Killed by falling down a quartz pass 26th June, 1902. Mines, Karangahake in preparing to clean it out

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Collingwood. Golden Bidge (Taitapu Gold Estates), (James Carrol, mine-manager). —The various developments recently extended on the Ridge and Ant-hill sections of the property are now assuming important dimensions, while the gold-value raised shows a very creditable result. The property is nicely kept in all details and well ventilated. There are forty men employed. Golden Blocks (Taitapu). —The principal developments recently carried out on this property have been confined to sinking and driving on the southern outcrops, conjointly with the ore-body now being worked on No. 2 level. Stone for milling purposes is taken from the stopes on Nos. 2 and 3 levels, rising and driving being kept in progressive order to insure output of stone, while timbering and ventilation are strictly attended to. Milling and other plant are working satisfactorily. There are twenty-seven men employed. Westpobt. Bed Queen, Mokihinui. —This mine, situated at an altitude of 1,600 ft., is working a leader varying in width from 6in. to 9in., located in hard ground. A two-stamp battery driven by water-power constitutes the milling plant. Lady Agnes. —Peter Carlson is further prospecting this claim. Britannia. —Attention has been lately directed to further developing the reefs on No. 2 and creek levels. Stone on the creek level is small, but a nice body 2 ft. 6 in. in width was recently cut in No. 2. Scarcity of water for motive power has been a continued source of trouble, but efforts to remedy the defect are now being made. Stony Creek. —This company, after carrying out considerable development in prospecting and overhauling the milling plant and water-races, shut down all operations quite unexpectedly. Lyell. Alpine Extended. —The varied operations in connection with the ordinary working and future development of the mine have, during the past year, been carried on continuously. The milled tonnage, 2,369 tons, yielding a gold-value of £5,218, was chiefly stoped from No. 11 south, but unfortunately these stopes are now practically exhausted. No. 10 south has been further extended 91 ft. without meeting any values of importance other than a 6 in. vein of quartz near to the roof of drive; also, so far as prospecting has proved the ground in No. 7, values on that level are likewise practically nil. Probably the most important development on which the future prosperity of the mine depends is the values which deeper sinking will disclose below the main adit. Sinking is now proceeding satisfactorily to a further depth of 100 ft., but an additional 50 ft. will be completed before chambers are constructed, and crosscutting commenced therefrom. The results of this sinking will be anxiously awaited, it being the first deep sinking in the Lyell district. The workings are in good order, securely timbered, and well ventilated. Reports to date. Tyrconnel (Kelly and party; four men). —The workings are now confined to the Italy section of the property, whilst the No. 1 and low-level tunnels have recently undergone a thorough overhaul, and have been retimbered where required. Ventilation is maintained by an effective water-blast placed in the low level. Boatman's. Kirwan's Beward. —The ore won for milling purposes on this property is quarried from openface cuttings, varying in thickness from 30 ft. to 40 ft. Preparatory to milling, this peculiarly intermixed formation is carefully sorted and picked, but, notwithstanding the vigilant care taken in the removal of foreign and earthy impurities, the large percentages of useless matter unnecessarily crushed tends very materially to reduce the average gold-yield as compared with the tonnage milled. Recently the mill was augmented by the installation of five additional stamps. With this additional milling-power (now fifteen stamps), coupled with the proportionately increased carrying-capacity of the aerial tramway, there should be no difficulty experienced in maintaining increased dividends, compared with the former earnings of the ten stamps, from which a goldvalue of £10,267 was won from 3,423 tons of crushed stone during the year. In the commencement of the working season serious delays were experienced owing to several faces being covered up by numerous slides of debris brought down by the continuous heavy rain and snow-falls. The opening-out of these faces retarded operations, and work was not resumed until the 14th October, Lady of the Lake. —A. McKenzie, having secured a prospecting right over this area, is now driving a tunnel with the object of picking up some quartz supposed to have been left many years ago. The tunnel is securely timbered. Welcome. —Crushing was resumed on the 12th February, and has since been steadily continuous, milling the quartz as mined. By covering a lot of ground in the mine 1,781 tons of quartz was stoped, the average stoping-width being absurdly small. However, the stone produced was of good value, as the 1,776 tons crushed yielded bullion to the value of £3,492 19s. Bd., and the 1,324 tons of sands cyanided yielded bullion to the value of £1,109 17s. At the end of the year the stopes were looking very indifferent, and a continued yield of mill rock cannot be relied on. Reefton. Wealth of Nations. —Owing to the impossibility of extending the workings to greater depth with the present unsatisfactory system of hoisting by water-wheel power, there is practically no change to note at the bottom of the mine as compared with the corresponding period of last year, with the exception that a winze, now being sunk from the bottom (800 ft.) level, has attained a depth of 50 ft. 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of ore, which, when crushed, yielded bullion to the value of £17,568 Is. 4d. by amalgamation, and concentrates to the value of £926 7s. Id. Of the tonnage milled, 66-799 per cent. (7,726 tons) represented cyanide treatment, and yielded a bullion-value of £4,667 lis. 2d., or 12s. 0-993 d. per ton treated. Of this amount, 3s. 1788 d. per ton was absorbed in working-costs, leaving a profit per ton treated of Bs. 1T205d. No additions of importance have been made to this plant during the year. Energetic shaft: Commencing the work of stripping, enlarging, and retimbering the shaft from the uprise which connected with the Wealth of Nations battery level, a distance of 70 ft. was completed at the beginning of 1902, while the remaining section (362 ft.) was completed satisfactorily to the surface early in March last. Previous to sinking operations being commenced, the brace of the shaft was raised 12 ft. to facilitate the engine, boiler, and head-gear installation, connection being then effected between the rock crosscut extension of the battery level and shaft on day-wages. Sinking was afterwards continued on contract, and a total depth of 837 ft. from the surface was attained at the end of the year. The shaft will probably reach the bottom level of the Wealth of Nations Mine about the middle of June. New hoisting machinery is now on order from London. Golden Fleece. —Operations have been continuous in this mine, and a considerable amount of development-work has been done, principally on Nos. 11 and 12 levels, besides sinking the hoistingshaft between these two levels and making the necessary connections. Generally, stoping has been carried on from the Royal tunnel down to No. 11 level, in which area a large amount of ground has been exhausted to provide the tonnage crushed, the reef formation being very irregular throughout the mine, thus making it necessary to stope a considerable area of non-productive ground in order to mine the isolated patches of quartz. The gross tonnage crushed (13,614 tons) yielded bullion to the value of £23,403 13s. lid., besides the sulphides produced, which were sold for £1,741 18s. lOd. At the cyanide-works 9,550 tons of coarse sands, representing 70 per cent, of the total crushed, together with 880 tons of tailings from the old Venus Mine, were cyanided, yielding bullion to the value of £4,744 12s. 7d. Of this amount, 2s. 3'716d. was absorbed in workingcosts, leaving a profit of 6s. 9'460d. per ton. No alterations of importance have been made in the equipment during the year, and the machinery has worked satisfactorily. Progress Mines. —Extensive developments have been made during the year, comprising 3,283 ft. of driving and crosscutting and 795 ft. of rising and sinking, with the result that the ore-reserves of mill rock are practically the same as at the corresponding period of last year, although 56,000 tons has been mined and milled. Large bodies of low-grade rock have also been developed, which under present conditions will not pay for extraction. The principal developments have been carried on at Nos. 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 10 levels, whilst stoping has been extended in a general manner throughout the mine from No. 2 level downwards. With regard to deeper sinking, the shaft remains as at last report, No. 10 being the lowest level open. Probably the most interesting part of the mine-workings was confined to No. 6 level east, where a very fine ore-body was recently cut through, measuring 34 ft. from foot-wall to hanging-wall, and dipping at an angle of 30 degrees. This was being vigorously opened up by means of rock-drills driving both ways, besides uprising on stone to connect with a winze previously sunk from No. 5 level. Development on No. 9 level east has also been interesting in proving a large tonnage of high-grade stone similar in structural position to a comparatively flat coal-seam. Alterations of importance have not been made in the surface equipment, except that a new concrete foundation is built awaiting the transference of the old shaft hoisting-engine on to it. The output of quartz mined and transported by the aerial tram for reduction at the battery was 55,976 tons, yielding 21,123 oz. 8 dwt. 13 gr. of bullion by amalgamation, valued at £87,887 15s. Bd.; while 990 tons of concentrates, produced and treated by chlorination, yielded 3,269 oz. 6 dwt. 13 gr. of bullion, to the value of £13,367 os. 2d. Treatment at the cyanide plant comprised 16,422 tons of sands exclusively taken from the battery, with the exception that some of the accumulated tailings were treated during the first five months. The gross yield from cyaniding is valued at £5,745 os. 4d. The extraction was equal to 6s. 11-961 d. per ton, of which only 2s. 8'844d. per ton was absorbed in treatment charges, leaving a profit of 4s. 3'117d. per ton. Another treatment-tank is shortly to be added to the ten that now compose the cyanide plant. The total working-cost (excluding capital and development expenditure and cyanide-works account) amounts to : Working-cost, £46,838 18s. 2d., at 16s. 8-824 d. per ton; profit, £54,415 17s. Bd., at 19s. 5-311 d. per ton. Cyanide-works : Working-cost, £2,247 7s. 4d., at 2s. 8-844 d. per ton ; profit, £3,497 135., at 4s. 3Tl7d. per ton ; making total cost (excluding capital expenditure) £49,086 ss. 6d., the total value yield £106,999 16s. 2d., and the total profit £57,913 10s. Bd., which may be considered as a very satisfactory balance-sheet. The efficiency of the plant has been well maintained, the only items added being an 18 ft, diameter tailings-elevator wheel, and classifying arrangements to separate the sands from the slimes. In the battery-house a strong-room has been built into the solid for the reception of amalgam, &c, while the canvas plant has been further extended by twelve new tables 10 ft. by 15 ft. long, all housed in, and a large increase is noticeable in the amount of slimes made. Seeing the mill ran the full theoretical time, minus 10-98 days, the milling-time may be considered exceptionally good. The total loss of time as stated includes the monthly clean-ups, daily scrapes, and incidental stoppages. A successful and prosperous year is confidently looked forward to for 1903. Keep-it-Dark. —The mining and development operations so far carried out on this property have been continuous and successful. The output gave an ore-production of 11,405 tons for milling and cyanide extraction, the stone being stoped chiefly from Nos. 2 and 3 levels. These stopes are practically exhausted, with the exception of a parcel of low-grade ore located near the western extremity of No. 3. In extending deeper-level development in the main shaft, sinking has been successfully completed from Nos. 3 to 5 levels to a further depth of 300 ft., and suitable chambers

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constructed at both levels. Commencing crosscutting from No. 4 chamber, the reef was intersected at 295 ft. and driven on for a distance of 150 ft., the lode varying in width from 4 ft. to 18 ft., with promise of favourable results. Connection being effected with the winze previously sunk from No. 3, natural ventilation is maintained, and driving northward is now proceeding on line of reef. A strongly defined ore-body has since been intersected in No. sat 323 ft. from the shaft The stone milled (11,405 tons) yielded 2,392 oz. of melted gold, valued at £9,607, which shows an average yield of 4 dwt. 4-5 gr. per ton, while the cost of milling shows a fraction over 2s. sd. per ton. Cyanide plant: The alterations effected in elevating and conveying the tailings directly to the newly erected settling-tanks prior to leaching provide a more successful process of percolation, the coarser and finer sands being more uniformly mixed. Comparing the tonnage milled, extraction of cyanide yielded 1,408 oz. 19 dwt. 3 gr. of bullion, valued at £4,210 9s. lOd. ; while the extraction computed on the tonnage treated is equal to 7s. 4-sd. per ton, and, allowing 3s. 9d. per ton for labour, chemicals, and other perishable materials, a profit of 3s. sd. per ton is shown. New Inkerman. —The operations by the present company have so far (for a period of some five years or thereabouts) consisted of crosscutting, driving, sinking, and rising, with the object of thoroughly proving the existence or otherwise, as well as the extent, of payable reefs over a considerable area of ground before erecting a large new battery plant. The work for the year consisted of 1,938 ft. of driving, &c, and this has opened up a continuous reef, which is found to vary from 3 ft. to 2>l\ ft. in width, with variable values, and estimated to have exposed (approximately) 20,000 tons of milling-stone. To meet the present requirements and test the values of the stone developed in the mine, fifteen stamps of the old thirty-stamp mill are being thoroughly overhauled and put in order, while Frue vanners and cyanide plant are being installed. Crushing is expected to commence early in June. Industry Mine. —This property was opened east of the Big River Road, Merrijigs, in view of picking up a reef the outcrop of which was partially exposed in the bed of a small hillside creek. Prior to values or position of reef being actually determined, a crosscut, intersecting a thin coalseam, pierced the track of reef about 300 ft. from day. Extending the drive northward, the line of main reef was positively cut off by an abrupt displacement. Rising was then effected to the surface to maintain ventilation, when further prospecting was continued without promise of definite results. The stone mined and milled from the various developments was 182 tons, yielding a goldvalue of £82 16s. As a result of this crushing, operations were suspended for several months, but two miners have since resumed prospecting. New Scotia. —Regarding the development of the Scotia and Gallant properties, the various drivings, risings, and sinkings—confined exclusively to determining the position and extent of the Gallant block —have so far not met with the success at first anticipated. The working-conditions are satisfactory, and the plant is in good order. Victoria and Inglewood. —After a lapse of several years, Mr. P. N. Kingswell, of Reefton, recently acquired all mining rights and privileges to mine and further extend the development of the property. It would appear from past working that the old company confined operations chiefly to the upper reaches of the reef, which yielded exceedingly rich values. The general contour of the country and the original working being practically known to Mr. Kingswell, he is making energetic efforts to prove the continuation of the lode on lower levels ; but, according to the prospects so far available, promise of success is not encouraging. Big Biver. — This company, after a period of unsuccessful prospecting on the upper levels during the year 1901, ultimately decided to sink the shaft a further depth of 100 ft., making the total depth from the cap of the hill 1,090 ft. Crosscutting has been extended for considerable distances in the bottom levels, but so far as prospects go there is nothing encouraging yet met with. Last Chance. —Morris and Fleming are working very successfully in a newly opened section of the claim. The leader shows gold freely, and, although a crushing of the new ground has not yet been made, the party is hopeful of satisfactory results. This ground is securely timbered. Golden Lead, —There is nothing of importance to note. Two men are taking a leading stope on No. 3 level. Great care is taken to secure the ground thoroughly as stoping proceeds. Papaeoa Ranges. Garden Gully. —The No. 3 or low-level tunnel has been driven on a uniform grade for a distance of 532 ft., intersecting a reef 12 ft. in thickness, from which a large body of water is given off freely. After the reef is opened out sufficiently rise communication will be made with Nos. 2 and 1 levels, comprising a vertical height of 240 ft. to the surface. A suitable battery-site and all water (available for motive power) in the district have been acquired. Mount Paparoa. —This company (formerly Crcesus, Paparoa) have carried out extensive works exclusively in developing the lower levels of the lode. A strong ore-body was intersected recently, and driven on for a considerable distance, but battery values have not yet been determined. Taffy. —Owing to the unpayble results won from this property on day-wages, work has been suspended for several months, but satisfactory earnings are now being made on tribute. Geneeal Remaeks. Compared with the previous year, the statistical returns from quartz-mining for 1902 show an increase of £5,199 2s. Id., while the gross earnings of the Progress Mines and Consolidated Goldfields of New Zealand for the same period increased by £7,613 3s. 6d. Concerning the prospects of the Reefton and Lyell districts, the principal item of mining interest, and one likely to affect the local community generally, is probably the deeper-level sinkings. These sinkings, so far as

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development has proved the deeper strata, give very encouraging promise in respect to values and dimensions of lodes. Regarding the New Inkerman Mines, much interest is taken in the tests of actual values on a commercial scale, and it is to be sincerely hoped that these will prove satisfactory in every respect, and not only reward the company for the great enterprise shown, but prove a source of steady employment to a considerable number of men for several years to come. There have been no fatal accidents during the year. HYDRAULIC AND ALLUVIAL MINING. Mahakipawa. King Solomon Gold Syndicate. —Since reconstruction of the syndicate the water-power and other important surface arrangements have undergone extensive alteration and improvement, the object being to unwater the Golden Gate shaft after a stand of several years. Notice, however, was recently received by telegraph that drainage and ventilation had been satisfactorily effected, and the work of clearing out the main level was steadily proceeding. Should the syndicate be successful in picking up the old lead formerly worked a nice parcel of gold is likely to be unearthed. Wakamarina Gorge Claim. —Charles Dimante is acting as caretaker. The prospects of further operation on this claim are practically nil. Ericon Hydraulic Sluicing Company. —Nothing further has been done on this property during the year. The terraces and river-beds contribute a living to twelve local miners. Takaka. Takaka Hydraulic Sluicing Company (Charles Campbell, manager).—Operations in connection with the progressive working of this claim continue to show satisfactory results, and the various important works connected therewith in the extension of fluming and pipe-line construction are kept steadily advancing. There are fourteen men employed. Upper Anatoki. —The few prospectors along this valley are very anxious to have a road made, as under the present conditions provisions and mining materials have to be carried four miles and a half. The returns are considered sufficient to warrant better facilities. Bartlett's Creek. —Quite a revival in mining centres has recently sprung up in this once-noted goldfield, and a party of eight have decided to prove the deeper level auriferous deposits. A shaft is sunk with promise of satisfactory results, but, on account of excessive water, mining is presently suspended pending the erection of steam-pumps. Local interest seems to be hopeful of the venture, and several shepherding parties have taken up claims awaiting further prospecting. In the Onamalutu district Mr. Chaffe is boring on behalf of an Australian syndicate; also, on the tributaries of the Mahakipawa there are nine men working with varied results. Collingwood. Parapara Hydraulic Sluicing Company (James Barrett, mining manager).—Hydraulic sluicing has been continuously and energetically pushed on at the faces opened recently in the Glengoyle and Glenmutchkin districts, but the much-felt scarcity of water during the dry season has tended to seriously impede the progress of operations. As a matter of fact, in the Parapara, as in other similar properties, scarcity of water and of gold are synonymous terms. The difficulty is greatly accentuated by the peculiar geological structure of the country, which has been much disturbed and broken up by natural movement. Hence, water in quantity is an essential requirement in order to remove in volume the excessive overburden in which the auriferous deposits are found imbedded in pockets and crevices underlying the crushed formations. Notwithstanding the difficulties contended against, the returns for the past year are considered very favourable. Quartz Banges. —This property is now under the supervision of two caretakers. Bocky Biver. —There has been no further effort made to reopen any of the mining properties in this district. Slate Biver Sluicing Company (Charles Matthews, manager).—The progressive development of sluicing operations continues to be much hampered owing to the inefficient water-supply, notwithstanding the heavy expenditure recently incurred in building large conservation-works. Further steps are now proceeding to improve this defect. To effectually drain the working-face a low-level tail-race tunnel 200 ft. in length is under construction. Karamea district was not visited. Westpoet. Old Diggings. —Further reference to this property is needless, as operations have been abandoned over two years. German Creek and its tributaries continue to afford employment to twenty-two miners. Systems of working and results are variable, however. Greenhill Sluicing Company, Fairdown. —This property has been shut down during the year. Waimangaroa Biver. —There are five parties tunnelling the banks of the river with varied success. Shildon and party's claim was under protection for six months. Golden Basin Prospecting Association. —This subsidised prospecting-tunnel has been driven a total distance of 1,442 ft., but in consequence of excessive water in the face the association has meantime suspended driving pending an increase of subsidy. Braishaw's Terrace. —E. Gillow has three men working on an extended claim, and three on a licensed holding.

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Halligan and Party. —Outside the ordinary sluicing and elevating operations, which have been continuous, there is little subject-matter of interest to report. Shamrock Claim. —This property continues to be shut down. Addison's Flat.- —Messrs. Gould, Moran, and Carmody and parties continue to win very satisfactory results. Virgin Flat Gold-mining Company. —This company has been liquidated, and a private party has taken over the property. Golden Sand. —Another effort was made in the beginning of the year to further proceed with operations, but, values failing to meet expectations, utter collapse followed. Chableston. Powell's Sluicing and Elevating Claim. —In connection with the treatment of these black-sand deposits, a party of eight men are constantly employed, whilst a pipe-line 30 chains in length is under construction to extend operations further northward. Muechison. In the Glenroy, Horse Terrace, and Matakitaki districts there are thirty-four Europeans and an equal number of Chinese working in small parties, who make average earnings. Six-mile Terrace. —In connection with the development of this property there are twelve men presently employed in tail-race and water-race construction. Neville and Perkins's Newton Flat Sluicing and Elevating Company. —These works are now effectually completed on a large scale, and sluicing is being actively carried on. Boatman's. Alluvial mining is practically confined to a few old fossickers. The Al and Reeves's Proprietary dredges are the chief sources of employment in the district. Geey Valley. Blackwater. —ln accordance with the active developments under operation, a tone of activity is noticeable both among the Europeans and Chinese. The mining population averages sixty-three Europeans and sixty Chinese. In the Ahaura River, Orwell Creek, and Callaghan's Creek, alluvial mining is practically confined to the Chinese. Red Jack's and Kangaroo Creeks afford employment to twelve Europeans and thirty-six Chinese. Upper Blackball Creek. —There are two parties of two men each hydraulic sluicing on the terraces, and when the water is low six parties of two men each find employment ground-sluicing in the bed of the creek. Grey Valley Sluicing Company. —This energetic company push on their operations effectively and successfully. Water-races and plant are well maintained. Great Public Company (C. Morgan, manager).—This company employ ten men on the various works. The water-race works are in good order. The Montgomery Terrace Company are actively pushing on the development of their property. In the Upper Blackball there are eleven men sluicing on various claims. No Town Creek and tributaries furnish employment to seventy Europeans and thirty Chinese. Barrytown district was not visited. Kumaea. The sludge-channels and deep levels connected with the various mining properties were duly inspected, and the maintenance of same found efficient and in good working condition. Kelly's Terrace drainage-tunnel and ladder-ways were recently overhauled, and, where required, timbering was effectively replaced. The race is now in an effective state of drainage, but development of the areas drained cannot be said to be urgently pushed. Waimea Hydraulic Sluicing and Elevating Company. — The newly erected sluicing and elevating installation is working satisfactorily, and the returns so far obtained are considered favourable. There are seven men employed. Wheel of Fortune. —Recently the various important works connected with the development of this property have undergone extensive improvements and alterations, both in mechanical appliances and increased water-supply. The auriferous gravels are raised by two bucket-elevators, 95 ft. in length, with a lifting-capacity equal to 50 cubic yards per hour, while the water-race from Lake Mudgie is capable of supplying thirty-six sluice-heads at a head-pressure of 60 lb. Hokitika. Humphrey's Gully. —The extensive water scheme from the upper reaches of the Arahura River and its tributaries being now completed on very extensive lines, three nozzles have been operating continuously night and day, on faces 300 ft. in depth, during the greater part of the year. Light is efficiently furnished from electric installation, while each face is provided with powerful hydraulic winches for the removal of roots and other heavy debris. Craig's Freehold. —This property is opened and worked by three responsible parties of tributers, employing four, five, and six men respectively. The consecutive workings are securely timbered and well ventilated throughout. University Reserve. —James Perry and party are clearing out an old creek-bed.

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Argyle Syndicate. —The continuation of operations on this lead —formerly worked on Maori Reserve—was suspended on account of some local difference, but the syndicate having made fresh arrangements with the Native agent the arrangements for the new tenure are nearing completion, and regular washings are anticipated to commence about the beginning of the year. Ross. Mont d'Or. —Other than the ordinary routine of continuous sluicing and carrying forward the various pipe-lines and other essentials on the face there is nothing to report. Recent devices in gold-saving have not yet been seriously considered. South Bank, Mikonui Biver. —Messrs. Salmon and Nelson having acquired mining rights to prospect the black-sand leads of the south bank, Mikonui River, are now erecting machinery calculated to test the values and depths of the deposits. If successful in the venture, machinery will be erected to treat the deposits exhaustively. Okabito. Omarua District. —During the wet season there are three parties of six men making fair wages in the terraces, water being available only in heavy rainfalls. Five-mile and Waikukupu beaches have been exceptionally favourable for the beach-combers during the latter end of the year, as the increased quantity of sands exposed by the heavy action of the sea has been somewhat phenomenal. Similar conditions are also experienced in Bruce Bay. Duffer's Creek. —Bamford's, Carther's, and Gladon's are the only parties working—six men in all; whilst George McArthur is prospecting in the back ranges on Government subsidy. Wataroa Biver. —There are only six miners working on this creek, earning a weekly average wage of £2. Waiho River furnishes employment to six parties of two and three men, who earn fair wages during spells of dry weather. Taylor, Watson, and party are driving a drainage-tunnel to unwater their shaft. DREDGING. Although the dredging industry may be rightly said to be only comparatively emerging from the past wild speculative depression to the position of a more promising legitimate industry, yet even under present conditions there is a tendency in which further indulgence in speculation may effect still greater disaster. But if dredging is to enjoy a season of progressive prosperity judicious management combined with largely increased efficiency in dredge-construction and gold-saving appliances must be regarded as essential factors in building up industrial development. If the auriferous deposits peculiar to the West Coast river-beds and flats are to be properly treated as repositories of submerged wealth, the applied skill of the mining and of the mechanical engineer must act conjointly so as to effect one common and coveted object. Unhappily, for past results shareholders are largely to blame, for, notwithstanding the payable and uniform returns recently maintained by some of our best regulated dredges there are other monetary conditions worthy of consideration before dredging may be regarded as a lucrative and safe commercial investment. Regarding the ruinous stoppages caused by breakage of machinery, &c, it is a fact that not a few of these accidents are easily traceable to careless and unsystematic inspection of the working parts either by the dredgemaster or other person responsible. Now that legislation has enacted that every dredgemaster on deep and swift-flowing rivers shall be the holder of a certificate of competency, it is desirable that a closer inspection of working parts and safety appliances should be compulsory and reported upon daily, such report being recorded in a book to be kept on the dredge for that purpose and signed by the person reporting. It is to be regretted that seven accidents, four of them fatal, reported from this district were clearly due to rashness and carelessness on the part of each of the persons injured.

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Name and Situation of Dredge. Owners. Dredgemaster. Remarks. Marlborough. Golden Point .. Aorere River and Tributaries. Golden Bay Kaituna River Aorere River Buller River and Tributaries. Waimangaroa Old Diggings Rocklands Premier Welcome Buller Junction Mokoia Feddersen's Fern Flat Amikitia Kohikohi Al dredge Grey River and Tributaries. Blackwater Lagoon Watterson's Ahaura .. Erickson's Reward Daylight Victory Trafalgar Nelson Creek Pactolus Nos. 1 and 2 Aldinga Garibaldi Moonlight Callaghan's Creek Red Jack's No Town North Beach Mosquito Westland Rivers and Tributaries. Maori King Cornwall Leviathan Freehold .. Leviathan Stony and Mosquito Greenstone Junction.. Greenstone-Three-mile Reeves's Proprietary Greenstone Creek New Greenstone Stafiord-Waimea Woodstock Commissioners' Flat Day Dawn Prince of Wales Kohinoor Wanganui-Wataroa Shellback .. Golden Point Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Golden Bay Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Kaituna River Gold-dredging Go. (Ltd.) Aorere River Gold-dredging Go. (Ltd.) Waimangaroa River Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Old Diggings Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Rocklands Beach Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Premier Buller Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Welcome Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Buller Junction Golddredging Co. (Ltd.) Mokoia Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Feddersen Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Fern Flat Proprietary (Ltd.) Amikitia Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Kohikohi Golddredging Co. (Ltd.) Al Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Blackwater Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Greymouth Lagoons Gold-dredging Co. (No Liability) Watterson's-Ahaura Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Eriokson's Reward Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Daylight Golddredging Co. (Ltd.) Victory Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Trafalgar Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Nelson Creek Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. Pactolus Gold-dredging Oo. (Ltd.) Aldinga Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Garibaldi Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Moonlight Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Callaghan's Creek Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Red Jack's Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) No Town Creek Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) North Beach Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Mosquito Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) W. D. Turnbull W. H. Kitto .. George Lee Not yet appointed W. McKenzie.. A. G. Skilton .. W. J. Inwood .. Alfred Smith .. C. G. Morel .. Smith Smeaton W. L. Crookston Peter MoVicar R. Liddicoat .. T. Warne A. Thomson .. M. C. Crifi .. A. Crumpton .. Louis Morel .. W. Clayton .. G. Cunningham Andrew Dalziel A. R. Edmonds James Cowan .. N. K. Sligo .. Strict compliance with the rules is observed on this dredge. A boat is wanted owing to the other being crushed a few days prior to inspection. Dredge fairly well equipped. Machinery and other works nearing completion when visited. Fencing of driving-belts required. Not visited, owing to dredge standing greater part of the year. Regulations are strictly carried out on this dredge. Not visited. Handrail on gangway over well-hole and bow fenoing required. This dredge is fully equipped. Regulation requirements are strictly attended to. Machinery and other equipments nearing completion when visited. Rules posted 9/9/02. Rules posted 9/9/02. Dredge not then completed. This dredge is undergoing a thorough overhaul. Gangway over well-hole, also light line and boat-hook in boat, required. Shafting of elevators require covering, and fencing at bows. Regulations fully complied with, exoept some minor details. Watterson's : Machinery still lying on bank. Ahaura : Regulations fairly well complied with. Gangway across well, railing around hatchway and sleeve on engine-shaft wanted. Pontoons afloat ready for machinery. Fenoing machinery and movable gangway to bank required. Requirements fairly complied with. The requirements of the Act are striotly carried out on this dredge. Not visited, owing to flooded state of river. Regulations well complied with, except fencing at well-hole. Boat and safety appliances not yet on the ground. Pontoons not yet completed. Well-hole and gangway over same require fencing. Boat hooks and light lines required. Life-buoy, light line, and boat-hook required near bow, and gangway over well-hole. Life-buoys require renewing, and small life-boat wanted. Gangway over well-hole and life-saving appliances wanted. David Clark .. J. 0. Nicholson A. Cowan James Gilroy .. A. E. Morel .. Maori King Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Cornwall Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. .. | Leviathan Freehold Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Leviathan Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Stony and Mosquito Leads Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Greenstone Junction Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Greenstone-Three-mile Gold dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. Reeves's Proprietary Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Greenstone Greek Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) New Greenstone Gold-dredging Go. (Ltd.) Stafiord-Waimea Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Woodstock Gold-dredgmg Co. (Ltd.) Commissioners' Flat Goid dredging Co. (Ltd.) Ross-Day Dawn Gold-dredging Oo. (Ltd.) Prince of Wales Gold dredging Go. (Ltd.) Kohmror Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Fergus McLeod Shellback Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) „ A. Cowie George Wilson H. C. Greene .. D. Sutherland G. G. McAlpine James Bennet J. G. Donaldson Robert Scott .. J. F. Cornish .. A. Harris F. D. Sutherland J. W. Oox W. G. Mouat .. A light boat is required previous to commencing work. Sleeve on engine-shaft and railing on gangway wanted. Was being thoroughly overhauled when visited. Was undergoing extensive repairs when visited. Light boat required, also other safety appliances. Conditions satisfactory, except handrail on elevator. Boat-hooks and light lines required. Boat-hooks and light line required, and movable gangway. This dredge was in a very dilapidated condition. Regulations fairly well complied with, except boat, which is promised. Dredge undergoing extensive repairs. Fencing the man-hole leading to pump required; standing at time of a later visit. Standing when last visited. Pontoons floated, and machinery arriving from Greymouth. Everything in good working condition. 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ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. QUARTZ-MINES. New Inkerman Mine. —(ls/2/1902): James Woodward sustained fracture of shinbone by fall of mullock. Progress Mines. —(4/7/1902) : Sydney Kirby sustained two broken ribs and amputation of two toes by piece of timber falling down shaft. Wealth of Nations Cyanide-works. —(2B/8/1902) : Eric Castles sustained fracture of thighbone and double fracture of right arm by being caught and carried round shafting. Hydraulic and Alluvial Mines. Quartz Banges. —(24/7/1902) : James Fisher, caretaker, sustained fracture of the skull. Dredges. Kohinoor. —(17/4/1902) : Thomas Christian, engine-driver, was drowned while boating firewood. Verdict, " Accidentally drowned." Shellback. —(ls/5/1902) : John Martin Olsen, cadet, was drowned while boating firewood. Verdict, " Accidentally drowned." Welcome. —(3/6/1902) : George Jones, engine-driver, missed his footing while stepping off the pontoons into the coaling-boat, and was drowned. Verdict, " Accidentally drowned." Buller Junction. —(27/6/1902) : Harry Findlayson, engine-driver, was drowned while boating coal. Body not yet recovered. Pride of Marlborough. —(l2/9/1902) : One of the employees lost a finger. Premier. —(2o/9/1902) : Thomas Powick, engine-driver, lost two fingers whilst oiling the engines in motion. There was another minor accident during the construction of the Feddersen dredge. I have, &c, E. Tennent, The Under-Secretary, Mines Department, Wellington. Inspector of Mines.

Mr. E. R. Green, Inspector of Mines, Dunedin, to the Under-Secretary, Mines Department, Wellington. Sir — I have the honour to transmit the accompanying reports on the quartz-mines, hydraulic sluicing and alluvial mines, and gold-dredges in the Otago and Southland Districts for the year ending the 31st December, 1902 : — QUARTZ-MINING. Shotover. Achilles Gold-mines, Bullendale. —(19/5/1902): Nothing doing here since last May. The plant had been left in position, but no pumping done, and the water must have risen well up in the workings. Mr. Wesley Turton, the local attorney, informed me that he was hopeful that a new company would be formed to take the mine over and resume work. Shotover Gold-mining Company, Skipper's (J. E. Davis, manager).—(l 9/5/1902) : Operations had been suspended pending the erection of a new ten-head battery and a cyanide plant. The new plant is not yet. to hand, and as the roads are locked up by frost nothing can be done until spring. A small experimental cyanide plant is being used to test tailings, but results are not yet known. Latterly work in the mine has proved that the lode lives to a greater depth than was expected, and there is also an improvement in the value of the quartz recently produced. Mr. Davis informed me that the ventilation was too bad to allow an examination of the mine being made, as, owing to the water being frozen up, the ventilating-fan could not be worked. The low-level face is at 1,350 ft. from daylight. Considerable interest in reefing is presently being displayed in the Skipper's district. Mr. Ring has taken up the reef behind the store at Packer's Point. The reef outcropping on the eastern bank of the Shotover River opposite the Nugget and Cornish reef has been taken up by Mr. Cleave. Davis and party are driving for the reef in Sawyer's Gully, and the reef known as the Crystal has also been applied for in the Warden's Court. Beef ion United Quartz-mining Company, Skipper's Point (H. Duncker, manager).—(2o/5/1902) : Work has been resumed by a Reefton syndicate on the old Chorazin or Jennmg's reef, near Skipper's Township. The original prospectors had driven high on the reef for a distance of 40 ft. The drive proved the reef having two good walls with a width of 5 ft. of quartz in the face, carrying at the rate of 1 oz. of gold to the ton. The new party are driving on the lowest water-level obtainable, and expect to strike the reef at 100 ft., when there will be fully 100 ft. of backs to the rise. Expectations have since been realised, and the reef has been struck with 5 ft. of stone in the face, carrying payable gold. A good battery-site has been chosen on Skipper's Creek about 500 yards from the-mine. Macetown. Premier-Sunrise (New Zealand) Gold-mining Company (Limited), late the New Indian Glenrock (Wynaad) Company (Limited), Macetown (W. Patton, manager). —(23/5/1902) : Since last visit the main dip drive has been extended 60 ft. through hard country. Four new stopes have been opened up, and more will be opened as the dip advances. The advance work in the dip and

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stoping are carried on in conjunction, only sufficient ground being opened up ahead to enable stopes being opened up as present stopes are worked out. Payable stone runs from 1 ft. 6 in. to 3 in. in width, and depth of chute 30 ft. to 40 ft. The reef is looking more kindly in the stopes, but the dip face is hard. Air good throughout the mine, but the main return-airway through the old stoped ground is narrow and troublesome to keep open. The ventilation has been recently improved by the adoption of a new water-blast. Water under a pressure of about 50 ft. vertical is discharged through a jet having a drop of 23 ft. into the barrel in the intake level. The air is forced through 3,100 ft. length of 14 in. galvanised-iron piping. The explosives magazine is in good order. Eules posted. The main-dip timber is necessarily heavy, and averages 14 in. diameter. Lining-sets are being constantly used. Operations are now being carried on in the dip drive at a depth of 3,100 ft. measuring along the dip, or over 2,000 ft. vertical from the outcrop, and, considering that the quartz is making in body and quality, there are indications of permanency to still greater depths. Eighteen men are employed underground, and three men in the battery, which is worked eight hours per diem. The manager, Mr. William Patton, submits the following report of work accomplished in the mine during the twelve months ending the 31st December, 1902 : — Incline : The work here has been carried out almost continuously during the year, one shift of two men being employed. During the year 135 ft. has been driven at a cost per foot of £2 6s. 2d., including all expenses. The nature of the country driven through during the greater part of the year has been favourable as compared with that driven through during the previous twelve months. There is no appearance, however, of the reef making in the face, the formation between the walls being a mixture of slate and pug. The tunnel has been continued on the same grade — lin 4—throughout, which is well under the gold-bearing chute of stone. In addition to this 135 ft., a sump has been sunk to a depth of 12 ft., and secured with timber. During the time this work was being carried out the incline face was unavoidably stopped. The water in the mine continues to increase as a greater depth is reached. This tunnel requires constant attention to keep in working-order, as the timber does not appear to stand any time. Stoping has been carried on continuously during the year between passes Nos. 27 and 33. Three of these stopes are now almost completely worked out. The average width of the reef is about 2 ft., and varies very much in quality, but the average is fair. The country in places is much broken and expensive to work. We have carried out a considerable amount of prospecting-work during the year in the way of crosscutting into the hanging and foot walls in different places along the stopes, but were not successful in striking anything, although a distance of 20 ft. was reached in some crosscuts. The country in all cases became hard towards the end of the crosscut, so that, in my opinion, the chances of striking pay ore beyond that point is very remote. There are, however, other parts of the mine where prospecting could be carried on with a reasonable chance of success, and will be attended to as soon as possible. The general appearance of the reef from No. 28 pass down to pass No. 33 is, I think, more uniform in size than we have had it for some time, and the quality has been very fair. The ventilation passage has given us a great deal of trouble during the year to keep open. The country through which it passes is all of a swelling nature, and requires attention for a distance of 3,000 ft. A large amount of timber has been used, especially in the high level, which is part of the ventilation passage. This part of the mine will always be expensive to keep open. We found in the early part of last year that the return airway was not sufficient to ventilate the present workings properly. We were therefore compelled to construct a water-blast at the entrance of the main adit, the air being carried into the mine by iron pipes for a distance of 3,100 ft. When this work was completed there was a marked improvement in the ventilation. Ido not think that we could have reached a much greater depth without it. The work of disconnecting the hauling-power from the mill is now being proceeded with. Our reason for this disconnection is that during the summer, and also in the winter when the water-supply is small, we are unable to carry on the hauling and crushing at the same time. We therefore decided to erect a new electric-power house, a small building about 30 ft. by 10 ft., where we will place one of our dynamos. We are also constructing a pressure-pipe line from the power-house to a reservoir, which will soon be built. The pipe-line will be about 600 ft. in length, with a vertical pressure of 200 ft. This work will, no doubt, be delayed, owing to the cables and other appliances not being procurable in the colonies. Our agents were therefore compelled to cable to London for the necessary material for carrying out the work, which is expected to arrive in February. The mill has been kept going continuously during the year, one shift of eight hours per day being employed. The gold returns on the whole have been fully satisfactory, as the financial result for the year will show. 2,178 tons of ore was crushed for a yield of 1,752 oz. 1 dwt. 23 gr., valued at £6,744 approximately. The returns from the concentrates treated during the year were not quite so good as we expected, although a profitable return was obtained—namely, from 27 tons treated we obtained 88 oz. 1 dwt. 18 gr., valued at £281 4s. 9d. The mine has paid its way from start to finish, and remitted a sum of £1,200 to the head office. In addition to this we have spent £311 15s. 4d. on Mine-development Account, or the driving of the incline ; £246 4s. 3d. on New Plant Account, and £19 on Property and Plant Account, all of which works are chargeable to capital. On Mining Account—that is, rising, crosscutting ,and stoping—the sum of £2,339 11s. has been spent to obtain 2,288 tons of ore, or an average of £1 os. sd. per ton mined. 2,178 tons was milled at a cost of £534 4s. 4d., or an average of 4s. 10d. per ton milled. 27 tons of concentrates was treated by cyanide at a total cost of £28 15s. 2d., or an average of £1 Is. 3d. per ton. This 27 tons treated is somewhat misleading, as the concentrates collected since the April treatment— some 30 tons —were not treated before the end of the year. It has cost £309 4s. 4d. for mine maintenance —that is, keeping the ventilation passage open and in repair, and also the main low-level adit and incline. A great part of the high-level adit forms a portion of the ventilation passage. The total expenditure on revenue accounts for the year —all charges —amounts to £4,821 9s. 9d., or an average of £2 3s. 2d. per ton mined and milled.

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The Farrell group of mines at Macetown continue to be closed down. Mr. Farrell is at present in London, with the object of making arrangements for restarting the mines at an early date. Cromwell. Cromwell Proprietary Gold-mining Company (Limited), Bendigo (C. S: Reeves, legal manager ; R. H. Blair, mine-manager).—(l 2/7/1902) : The mine at present is let on a five-years tribute to the Bendigo Gold-mining Company (Limited). The London directors have now under consideration the tenders received for driving the low-level tunnel at Bendigo Gully, and the New Zealand board expects to receive instructions at an early date. The tributers have nine men at work— six underground and three on the surface. The whim-shaft, 190 ft. in depth, on the south lode was pumped out and put in fair order, but the underground workings had collapsed, and the timbers rotted. No. 1 shaft was then sunk 32 ft. deep on the north lode, and a drive put in a short distance at the 24 ft. level. At the 32 ft. level a drive is now being put in to test the stone, which averages in the faces 9 in. in width, with an average assay-value of 1 oz. 3 dwt. per ton. Also, on the north lode, an old shaft 65 ft. 8 in. deep has been cleaned out and put in order, and it is now proposed to drive on a leader of stone 6 in. in thickness. An adit has also been driven on a line known as the Bee line of reef a distance of 68 ft. to meet the main lode at the Hit-or-Miss Junction. In this adit there is a strong chute of quartz from 20 in. to 24 in. wide underfoot, which looks very promising. Before starting to sink on this the water is being allowed to drain off. A shaft had been sunk on a lead of stone 2 ft. wide on the main lode, but its assay-value proved low. Up to date about 20 tons has been crushed, but there has been no final clean up. Five heads of stamps have been in use, but another ten are being put in repair for crushing. A large body of broken ore on the surface, which is said to assay 12 dwt., but which is slightly refractory, is to be crushed and cyanided. Preparations are being made to prospect the reef in other places, and for the present the whole of the work is being carried on on prospecting lines. The Bendigo Tailings Syndicate holds a tribute for working the old tailings. A cyanide plant has been erected, on which four men have been engaged since the beginning of the present year. To the 12th July 477 tons of tailings had been treated, with a yield of 58 oz. 15 dwt. Bgr. gold, valued at £156 Bs. 7d. Work is at present suspended on account of the frost. (17/10/1902) : The mine has been sublet on tribute to M. B. Edwards and party, several of the party having previous knowledge of the Bendigo reefs. A shaft 152 ft. deep on the main lode was repaired and ladders hung. Good stone had been taken from this point previously, but the payable chute had cut out. About seven weeks' prospecting-work was done in this shaft, and 80 tons crushed, from which the return was low. The tributers are now doubtful of finding payable stone in the high levels of the mine, and capital will be required to mine the stone at depth. Several of the tributers did some further prospecting, with unsatisfactory results. Tenders are now being invited for the purchase of the property of the Cromwell Proprietary Gold-mining Company (Limited), Bendigo, consisting of mining licenses, water-races, winding and crushing plant. Bendigo Tailings Syndicate, Bendigo (S. E. Brent, secretary ; P. H. Grummitt, manager). — (12/7/1902) : Operations had been carried on up to recently, but prevailing frosts have caused work to be temporarily suspended. There is still a large quantity of tailings in the dam to be treated. The plant is comparatively small, and hence the process is longer than is desirable. (17/10/1902), (C. L. Gregg, manager): As the tailings will soon be exhausted in the dam, arrangements are being made to erect a plant on the flat at the foot of Bendigo Gully. There is a large deposit of tailings from several batteries lying on this area. They are covered by an overburden of material brought down by the creek. Two men were engaged erecting a vat, and one in throwing a wing dam across the bed of the creek. Three men are engaged on the cyanide plant. Alta Mine, Bendigo (H. Holmes, manager).—(l 7/10/1902) : This mine, which had been idle for many years, has been taken up by another party, who intend to give it a thorough test. The Eureka battery from the Rise and Shine has been carted to the Alta Claim for re-erection. Five heads only will be erected, and motive power will be supplied by a 7-horse power oil-engine. Water for the tables and ultimately for motive power is being brought in from Clear Creek and the higher branches of Bendigo Creek, a distance of four miles. A shaft has been sunk 35 ft. on a reef averaging 3 ft. in width. A parcel of stone from this reef assayed 27 dwt. of gold to the ton at the School of Mines. A level is to be driven in from the battery level, whereby 100 ft. of backs will be available. This should test the value of the reef. The reef strikes east and west, and has a slight underlay to the north. Bannockburn. Holliday's Mine, Carrick Ranges (J. B. Holliday, owner). —(17/7/1902): Mr. Holliday has for the last five years been prospecting on the Carrick Ranges to pick up the reefs at a lower level than had hitherto been attempted. Drives totalling 600 ft. in length, together with various crosscuts, have been driven. The country is broken in the drives, and no body of quartz has yet been met with. 170 ft. of backs would be obtainable, but no stone having been found to rise on, the work done so far proves nothing of the value or permanency of the reefs in depth. The holding consists of 52 acres, embracing the Heart of Oak, Duke of Cumberland, and Nil Desperandum Claims, from each of which highly payable stone was taken at shallow depths by former companies. Messrs. Lawrence Bros. —(l 7/7/1902) : Operations intermittent; two men occasionally at work. The work, however, is not of a progressive nature, but is confined to taking out blocks of stone in sight. Quite recently attention has been redirected to the Carrick Ranges by several prospecting syndicates. Nothing of a very progressive nature has been done yet in connection with any of the reefs. There is a wide field here for reefing, but the stone is refractory, and will require special treatment.

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Bald Hill Flat. White's Beef, Bald Hill Flat (R. T. Symes).—(l3/11/1902) : The level is now in 650 ft. along the hanging-wall of the reef. Quartz leaders carrying gold are met with, but no main body of stone. Three men usually employed. Being a prospecting-drive, it is of small dimensions, but close-timbered. Rises are put up at intervals to connect with an upper level for ventilation. The present face is 40 ft. ahead of the last uprise, and preparations are being made to rise again 70 ft. to the upper level. Solid country has now come in at the face, and regular stone may shortly be met with. In the event of payable stone being struck, the drive will be improved in height and width. In the upper workings the best stone in the mine was obtained from the foot-wall. All the quartz met with in the prospecting-drive is put through the battery, and the stone, being partially decomposed, is very free-milling. Excelsior Mine, Bald Hill Flat (F. W. Gray).—(l 3/11/1902) : A cross-drive to the reef has been driven 300 ft. through the country to the foot-wall. The drive is strong and well timbered, while the timbering throughout the mine is exceptionally well done. Good stone has been obtained from this mine. Four men employed. Rough Ridge. Rough Ridge Quartz Reef, Rough Bidge (F. H. Perry).—(lo/12/1902) : The owner has lately done some prospecting-work on the Great Eastern lode. A cross-drive was put in 45 ft. to prove a high-level block of stone left by the old company. A cross-drive has now been driven 95 ft. into the same block. This will give 50 ft. of backs. The lode runs about 1 ft. in width, and averages 15 dwt. of gold to the ton. Mr. Perry is also engaged cutting out a new machine-site in solid rock, the present site being over worked ground. Waipori. O.P.Q. (Waipori) Gold-mining Company (Limited), (A. E. Inder, manager). — During the past year quartz-mining in Waipori district has been at a standstill. For some months after closing down the O.P.Q. Mine was kept unwatered, and the levels kept open in readiness to resume operations should instructions to that effect be received from the London board of directors. No arrangements having been made to resume work, the pumps were stopped and a caretaker placed in charge of the mine. Bella Beef, Lammerlaw Bange, Waipori (R. McKeitch and party).—A sample of concentrates sent to Victoria for treatment appears to have gone astray, and since the death of Mr. McKeitch, one of the partners, nothing further has been done in connection with the mine. Cox's Beef, Lammerlaio Bange, Waipori (F. W. Knight).—Not working for a considerable time. A decided opinion as to the value of this reef is held locally, and the near future may see it receiving a further trial. Waitahuna. In this district quartz-mining has been almost at a standstill. No work has been done on the Table Hill Quartz-mine for some considerable time. Sutherland and party have been out prospecting on the Burnt Creek line of reef, and have taken out about 20 tons of stone for a trial crushing in Sturm's battery. Milton. Canada Quartz Beef. —Since the death of Mr. Lawson this property has changed hands, but no further developments have taken place. Macrae's. Quartz-mining at Macrae's. —Quartz-mining in this district is progressing steadily. Consequent upon the success attendant on several of the mines more attention in the way of prospecting is being paid to the possibilities of the district as a reefing-field. Improved machinery is also being brought on to several mines, which fact alone speaks for the value of the several properties. Much of the earlier quartz mined in the district had been surface stone, quarried opencast, but as these deposits were worked back recourse was had to underground mining, as in the case of the Ounce, Golden Bar, and Golden Point reefs. The permanency and value of the reefs have been thus proved to a limited depth only, but the mines are being further developed. Bonanza Mine, Macrae's (L. O. Beal, jun., owner; T. Kinvig, manager).—(l 4/8/1902) : The low level is 1,550 ft. in length, is in good order, and the timber fairly well preserved, but the road is very soft underfoot. Timber in the top level is being repaired, and the level in good order. Since my previous visit this top level has been extended 200 ft. on the foot-wall reef, and two uprises of 50 ft. each were put up to the surface. One block of quartz has been stoped out for a length of 50 ft., and stoping is being carried on in the next block. Some good stone has been recently taken out on the foot-wall reef, and in the rise to the surface a good block of stone has been met with. Stone has been stoped out on the foot-wall reef between the 60 ft. level and the top level, and this completes the work done below the top level. Four men are employed in the mine. The aerial tramway for conveying stone to the battery continues to work well. There is plenty of water available this season for crushing purposes. The 3 ft. Huntingdon mill and pyrites-grinding pan continue to give satisfaction. Rules posted, and care taken with explosives. 11. A. Mills and Sons, Macrae's. —(ls/8/1902) : For some considerable time the United battery has been supplied with surface quartz from the neighbourhood of Golden Point. At the time of my visit there were none of the party about, but I was informed that lately they have not been so successful and were prospecting another property. Mr. Mills has since informed me that the battery has been idle for the past twelve months. During the three years it was in active operation

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a considerable quantity of surface stone was put through with favourable results. It is understood that the battery is now for sale. Mr. Mills has done a good deal of prospecting in the locality, the results of which are not announced. There is plenty of good stone on private property adjacent to the battery. Donaldson's Golden Point Mine (W. H. Lidston, manager).—(l 3/8/1902) : After the surface stone had been obtained a drive was commenced, and this is in a distance of 300 ft. The sloping was carried out to the open face, and mining is now being carried on in more solid country. At the time of my visit two men were in the face, and expected to break through for air in about 10 ft. The main drive was in good order, but required constant attention owing to the crush from the stoped-out area. I found gelignite and detonators lying in the mouth of the drive, and drew the manager's attention to this, writing to him on the 25th instant to provide proper storage. A tunnel, 6 ft. by 4 ft., is being driven to meet the main workings—in about 90 ft. Air in the mine was heavy after shot-firing, owing to there not being a free vent through the stoped-out ground. Messrs. Donaldson Bros, intend to put their stampers in crushing repair and discard the Huntingdon mill. Four men employed in the mine. On a later visit four men under Mr. J. Pascoe were laying bare the reef at a point on the line preparatory to mining it from that point. The reef is here very wide and carries a considerable amount of scheelite. The work is being conducted in a safe and workmanlike manner. In anticipation of a large body of payable stone being opened up, a new ten-head stamper-battery has recently been erected. This is to replace the Huntingdon mill so long in use and from which good results have been obtained. The 15-horse-power oil-engine, which has supplied the motive power for the mill, has been superseded by a Marshall 10-horse-power engine and 14-horse-power boiler, lately belonging to the Inchhohne Golddredging Company. Mr. W. Donaldson recently visited England in connection with the scheelite industry, and brought back with him a new Wqodbury shaking-table, which has been installed in place of the Frue vanner formerly in use. The sample of scheelite which comes off this table is of very fair quality, and with slight improvements Messrs. Donaldson expect to obtain good results from it. One advantage is that a larger quantity of material can be treated. The value of the concentrates is also very fair. Having plenty of power available, an additional ten head of stampers may be erected in the near future. Ounce Beef, Macrae's (Spiers and Ross, owners). —(13/8/1902) : As a flood had carried away the storage-dam for the battery, water operations have been discontinued at the mine, and Mr. Boss, a shareholder, gave me to understand that the mine will be let on tribute, as the restoration of the dam will be too large an undertaking for present shareholders. The mine has since been let on tribute for several months. Before starting in the mine the tributers continued the race some distance on to strike the creek higher up. (This was dead-work for them.) From 60 to 70 tons of stone was then taken out of the mine and crushed, but the returns were not encouraging after the outlay previously incurred. The stone had to be carted a distance of a mile to the battery, and this added considerably to the cost of getting the quartz. Lidstone and Sinclair are prospecting along the line of reef, taking out stone at various points. Golden Bar Gold-mining Company, Macrae's (D. Eeddie, manager). —(13/8/1902) : This property is held by a syndicate of working shareholders. All the surface stone having been mined, a level is driven 105 ft., and a rise put up 40 ft. on the reef, which averages 5 ft. wide. A further 40 ft. was driven from the rise for air, and completed. Before stoping the level will be driven on further to test the continuance of the reef. The walls are well defined, the country hard, and no timber has been required in the drive. A good deal of surface prospecting has proved the reef on the surface to be regular, although the value of the stone is not uniform. Seven men were in the mine. The battery is working sixteen hours a day, and four men are employed. A box for explosives was lying on the surface, and I informed the manager that safer storage should be provided, and wrote to him on the 22nd instant to the same effect. There is plenty of water available for crushing purposes at present. More recent information is to the effect that in the adit, which is driven for over 180 ft., a splendid block of stone has been opened on for the last 70 ft. Uprises for 50 ft. are through a strong body of quartz 4 ft. to 5 ft. in width, between strong walls. The average value of the stone is satisfactory, although blocks of barren stone are frequently met with. Unlike the Golden Point Mine (where the scheelite has gold and silver associated with it), in this mine where scheelite occurs the quartz becomes poor. Stoping is carried on vigorously, and the battery is kept running full time. Five men are employed in the mine, which, under the management of Mr. D. Peddie, is in good order. Filling for the worked-out stopes is sent in from the surface, and where it is not put in a plentiful supply of timber is used. Ventilation good throughout the mine. The quartz is carted by contract about half a mile to the battery. Crushing plant until lately consisted of a ten-head battery. The portable engine and boiler formerly in use has been discarded, and an 8-horse-power portable Marshall engine and boiler, working up to 801b. pressure, had been recently pat in. The power was not sufficient for ten head of stampers, and five were cut off. From 60 to 70 tons of quartz is now put through per week. The efficiency of the crushing plant is increased by the addition of a Challenge ore-feeder. The gold-saving appliances are the ordinary silvered plates. The explosives are kept in a secure magazine, and only sufficient for the day's requirements is taken into the mine. Alfred G. Davies, Dunback Hill, Stoneburn. —(ls/8/1902): Davies has lately acquired some freehold property, and is now prospecting an outcrop of quartz thereon. The width is about 3 ft., and is dipping slowly. A flood carried away both his storage-dams, and he now intends to procure an oil or steam engine to provide power for his five-head battery, which was formerly driven by an overshot water-wheel. 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boiler to drive the battery, and has only sufficient water for boiler-feed and battery-tables. Goldsaving appliances consist of the ordinary silvered plates. Being surface stone it is fairly free-mill-ing, but assays of the tailings show that a considerable percentage of the gold was escaping over the tables. The tailings are being saved for future treatment. Maritana Reef, Macrae's (M. C. McGill).—(l3/8/1902): Erecting a six-head battery on the Maritana reef. This is to be driven by an overshot water-wheel, 16 ft. in diameter. The battery will be completed in a month, and will then be started. The reef has an average width of 3 ft., and shows up on the surface close to the creek-bed in an open-cut. A few tons will be easily obtained, but the dip of the stone will carry it below the level of the creek. Only a small quantity of scheelite is present in the stone. The battery has since been completed, and several trial crushings have been made. The battery works well, but owing to the scarcity of water in the creek continuous operations were impossible. During the coming winter a plentiful supply of water will be obtainable, but as a safeguard against future dry seasons a suitable oil-engine will be procured. The crushings have proved the quartz payably auriferous but highly refractory. Assays of the concentrates have proved them to be very valuable. The crushed material will require closer treatment than that afforded by a spread of quicksilver tables. Mr. McGill has had considerable reefing experience in South Africa and elsewhere, and anticipates that he will have no difficulty in making the mine pay well. Barewood. Barewood Gold-mining Company, Barewood (W. C. Hitchcock, manager).—(26/3/1902): Work in this mine is confined to extending the 125 ft. level and stoping out the reef above. The mine is in good working-order ; the level, passes, and travel ling-ways are secure and well timbered. Air is plentifully distributed throughout the working-faces. Work is carried on in two shifts, each shift having two men in the stopes and two in the level. Eight miners, two truckers, and two enginedrivers are employed. A chute of quartz, averaging 10 in. in thickness and (as picked stone) giving 1 oz. to the ton, has been opened up for 300 ft. in length. In the stopes there are 80 ft. of backs over 50 ft. length of stope, and over the level there are 110 ft. of backs for 60 ft. of length. In conjunction with this stone there are other ends, so that there is evidently stone in sight for two years' work. On account of the barren quartz broken down with it, the good stone is reduced to about 12 dwt. in the crushing. Rules posted and report-book to date. A secure magazine for explosives has been built a short distance from the mine. The battery, under' the charge of Mr. Wolters, has been working full time this year. Battery staff consists of manager, driver, and two feeders. Scarcity of water and smallness of crushing plant are drawbacks to this mine A trial is being made of the concentrates, but the result is not available as yet. Machine-register book not at the battery. (3/12/1902): During the past year stoping has gone on continuously in the mine. The 125 ft. level was also extended until the stone gave out in the face. The mine is in good order, and there is a good supply of timber on hand. Below the intermediate level the shaft is standing full of water. Should operations be carried on from the low level, a heavierwinding and pumping plant will be required. Eleven men are employed. All passes, ladderways, and travelling-roads are in good order, as are all surface arrangements, magazine, &c. The battery works full time when the water-supply is adequate. Report-book up to date. As a result of the treatment of the tailings the company expects to pay wages and expenses out of the treatment of tailings and concentrates. Oswald Mosley, miner, met with an accident on the 22nd October. He was at the windlass over the sump winding a bucket of dirt, when his hand slipped, and the windlass-handle reversing struck him on the face, causing subsequent loss of left eye. Sutton. The Sutton Quartz-mine, Matarae (James Hunter). —(26/9/1902): Tunnel 350 ft. to face. Driving west on what is known as " the little reef," which is expected to junction with the " big " reef a short distance ahead. Walls 3 ft. to 4 ft. apart, lying at angle of 45°. Slippery backs or headers had latterly been coming in at the face, and on the 22nd instant Samuel Stevens, who worked alone, had been caught by a stone and pinned to the floor, where he remained for some four hours ere being released by Mr. D. Ross, manager of the adjoining sluicing claim. Preservation Inlet. Venus (late Mavourneen), Crawfish Island, (F. G. Cray, Dunedin). —(17/5/1902): 29 acres. An outcrop of quartz above high-water mark on the north side of the island on the beach where Messrs. Cullen and Clark, in the year 1890, obtained rich specimen pieces of stone and gold intermixed. Line of reef, north-west and south-east; underlay, west. A new shaft 6 ft. by 4 ft. (centred) has been sunk 73 ft. on the underlay, but being filled with water at this date I was unable to go down. Mr. J. Hawkins, who sank the shaft, informs me that the stone was 4 ft. in width near the top, but bunchy, and at 35 ft. ran into stringers of quartz only, which gave out entirely at 48 ft., from which point to the bottom of the shaft no stone was struck. A few tons of stone is stacked at the mouth of the shaft, but apparently no work has been done for several months. A small shaft had been sunk near-by from which 3 tons of stone was taken, and crushed at the Morning Star battery in December, 1900, the yield from which is said to have been at the rate of 16 dwt. of gold per ton. New Venus (late Monte Christo), Crawfish Island (McQueen and party, Dunedin). —(17/5/1902): 22 acres. What is termed the main reef crops out on the north-west side of the island on McKenzie's Beach, and at about 150 ft. west a leader which carried rich specimen gold on the surface was worked on the beach in the years 1894-95. Attempts were then and since made to sink and drive on the leader, as evidenced by indications of three old shafts on the beach and a drive into the hillside. The shafts are wrecked, and the entrance to the drive is fallen in, and they afford little information at

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the present time. The workers are said to have been unsuccessful in obtaining payable gold at depth below the surface. On the north-east side of the island an old adit level which had been driven to crosscut the main reef is being extended 25 ft., is now 231 ft. to the face, and still in hard country. A line through the bush from the main-reef outcrop crosses the adit, so that the main reef should have been cut ere now. Rich alluvial gold associated with quartz had been found on McKenzie's Beach in the vicinity of the outcrops of main reef and leader. Sunrise Gold-mine Company, Te Oneroa. —(19/5/1902) : Considerable prospecting and driving was done by this company in 1897-98. A level was driven 800 ft. on the eastern boundary of the Morning Star Claim, and a crosscut 300 ft. east, all in slate. No quartz met with. The New Star (late Morning Star) .Gold-mining Company, Te Oneroa (W. Lovell Davis, manager). —(19/3/1902) : The mine had been standing about a year when, on the Ist March last, it was let on tribute for twelve months to a party of six miners, who have sunk a winze 6 ft. by 3 ft. by 46 ft. in a block of stone left underfoot by the old company in No. 2 level. A small block of surface stone in the creek-bed between No. 1 level and No. 1a level has been stripped, and is being taken out. The tributers got their first cake of 32 oz. from 30 tons of stone on the 30th April last. When the mine was in work the stopes were filled in as stone was taken out, and during the period the mine was standing two men were kept on. Levels and passes have been maintained, and timber renewed where necessary. Air good ; rules posted ; plan to date. The mine is in excellent order and well conducted. The general trend of the reef is north-west and south-east, dipping to the west about lin 6 from the vertical. The reef outcrops on a steep hillside immediately behind the township, and has been driven on from five levels, the low level (No. 3) being considerably above sea-level. Paystone got from the mine has all been found on the hanging-wall, the stone ranging from 2 ft. to 6 in. in width. The main chute of stone was found to pinch out and become poorer going down, and No. 3 level was mainly driven in deadwork; going south the stone gave out at 1,056 ft. in No. 1 level, and Nos. 1 and Ia levels were extended 260 ft. and 200 ft. respectively in "dig" (mullock) and buck-reef, with occasional bands of barren quartz ; water making freely. Since the mine was started in 1895 up to 31st December, 1900, 13,590 tons of stone, yielding 12,525 oz. of gold, value £50,908, was obtained from the chute of stone worked. The efforts to find a new chute of stone being resultless, prospecting had been discontinued when the funds of the company became exhausted. Several cuddys (crosscuts) put in off No. 2 level proved the lode formation to be 40 ft. in width between the walls, patches of barren stone in mullock only being found ; an intrusive dyke of decomposed granite 20 ft. in thickness, running east and west, was crossed in all the levels, stone being cut out near the dyke, but rapidly made again. Tramways : Timber, &c, for the mine is conveyed uphill from the wharf by a carriage on an aerial ropeway (stationary). A 3 in. steel rope is mounted on trestles and securely anchored at the upper end with tension at beach, a l}in. steel endless rope being used for haulage; drum, 3 ft. diameter, driven by a Pelton wheel 2 ft. 6 in. diameter; water-pressure, 90 ft. vertical head. Battery material, coal, &c, are hauled to the battery-house from the wharf on an ordinary tramway by a steel flexible rope, the pulley on a counter-shaft being belt-driven from the main drivingshaft. Trucks of stone from the mine are lowered to the mill by a self-acting drum 4 ft. diameter tramway, three rails with meeting-place in centre. The compact little battery is in good order. Ten head of stamps (five heads 9001b. each and five heads 8001b. each) are driven by a 4 ft. 6 in. Pelton wheel under a vertical pressure of 250 ft. head. Pressure-pipes are reduced from 13 in. to 9 in. and 7 in. diameter. When water is scarce steam-power is substituted, being supplied by an under-type combined engine and boiler by Robey and Co. ; engine, 12-horse power ; steam-pressure used, 551b. per square inch, Westport coal being used. The tables are 21ft. in length by 12 ft. in width, the first drop being 6 in. to 7 ft., and the second drop 8 in. to 14 ft. length. Four berdans are used for treating blanketings, and ten berdans for tailings, which are conveyed by shoots direct to the berdans from the tables. Numerous assays of the tailings from the berdans gave an average loss of 1 dwt. of gold per ton of quartz crushed. The stamps were constructed by Thompson, of Castlemaine ; the berdans by Price, of Thames. New Alpha (late Alpha) Gold-mining Company, near Head of Sealers' Creek No. 1, Te Oneroa (Frank Junker). —(21/5/1902) : The shaft had been sunk on a blow of quartz near the junction of the slate and sandstone formations. Rich stone was got on the surface, and alluvial workings in the vicinity were highly payable, heavy alluvial gold intermixed with specimen quartz being obtained. Sinking and underground operations have proved most disappointing. The lodes to the south of the shaft contained very little non-payable stone; the lodes pinch out north, and underfoot the stone makes, but is almost barren. The shaft is 141 ft. in depth, 10ft. by 4 ft., divided into three compartments, the first being furnished with a cage for winding trucks of stone, the second for winding water, and the third as a ladder-way. The shaft is sunk on the No. 1 or eastern lode, which alone has proved payable. Nos. 1 and 2 lodes are 68 ft. apart at the shaft-bottom, but are rapidly coming together, going north. No. 1, north level, is driven 250 ft., the stone being pinched out at the face. All payable stone on this level has been stoped out. No work has been done on this level south, the shaft being sunk through a slide. At 84 ft. from the surface intermediate levels have been driven south 60 ft. on No. 1 lode and 100 ft. on No. 2 lode. No. 1 bottoms on the floor of the slide ; no stone. In No. 2, following up on the slide, stone is broken up and poor. The mine was let on tribute for twelve months as from the Ist February last. The tributers have sunk a winze 45 ft. on the hanging-wall of the No. 1 lode, north level, at 180 ft. from the shaft on a block of stone, which, when being driven, crushed 5 dwt. of gold to the ton. Going down the stone widened to 20 ft., and proved to be almost barren. A crosscut was driven 16 ft. from the hanging-wall, and a drive north 30 ft. half-way down the winze drove south 16 ft., all stone tested being unpayable. The country being hard, levels are standing in good order, mostly without timber. Heavy timber 15—C. 3.

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has been put in where used. Air good. The mine makes very little water, which is easily kept under by a barrel. Winding plant: Drum, 3ft. diameter; geared; reversing by fast and loose pulleys; belt-driven; winding-ropes, 2-Jin. galvanised-steel wire; Pelton wheel, 5 ft. 6 in. diameter; pipe column, 600 ft. in length; pipes reduced from 13 in. to 11 in. to 9 in. ; pressure, 200 ft. vertical head. Battery : Ten-head stamps, each 600 lb., driven by Pelton wheel, similar to windingpower ; tables, copper plates 6ft. in length by 11 ft. in width; blanket-strakes, 9ft. in length; blanketings passed through two berdans driven from intermediate shaft. Cuttle Cove Gold-mining Company, Cuttle Gove. —(24/5/1902) : An adit level was driven 100 ft. about the year 1900, the leader cut being only 6 in. in thickness, laminated in the country-rock— slate. Dip, lin 2-J from horizontal; stone highly pyritiferous. In June, 1901, the mine was leton tribute to two miners, who laid a tramway from the beach and took out a trial crushing tons) of stone, which on being crushed at the Morning Star battery returned 11 oz. 13 dwt. of retorted gold. The mine has been recently taken up, and the proprietors propose to do some further prospecting. Tarawera Mining Company, Isthmus Sound. —(3l/5/1902): The reef is seen outcropping on the beach ; strike, east and west; underlay, south, 1 in 7 ; reef, all quartz, 2 ft. 6 in. in width in hard country (granite). No work has been done here recently. A shaft 8 ft. by 4 ft. had been sunk 80 ft. and a level driven to the reef. The quartz carries several minerals, galena, &c. (see Geological Report, 1896 ; McKay), but the returns are said to have been non-payable. Golden Site Extended Gold-mining Company, Wilson's Biver. —(27/5/1902) : Underground work was suspended on the 30th April, 1901. The water was kept under for a time, but pumping subsequently discontinued. Extensive prospecting had been conducted, but stone was all too poor to pay expenses. It was hoped that the Hesperides reef would turn out to be payable, and the reef was opened up, but here again the results were practically nil. The mine stands full of water to the river level ; rails have been left in ; ten-head battery and plant recently sold. The bush tramway from Cromarty is in a state of disrepair, being overgrown with scrub, and the wooden rails are rotting away. Fifteen men are employed in the locality at quartz-mining. Some few years ago prospectingwork was regularly carried on, but is now intermittent. The country, generally speaking, is highly mineralised, and the work, though arduous in the extreme, is said to have been very fascinating, the principal drawbacks having been roughness of the country and the difficulty of obtaining necessary supplies and maintaining communication with the inhabited world. Old miners, having spent years on the south-west coast, are quite satisfied that " something good will be found there yet," and are only now constrained to reluctantly abandon their search owing to advancing years and diminished purses. HYDRAULIC AND ALLUVIAL MINING. Deep Stream. Deep Stream Amalgamated Hydraulic Sluicing Company, Deep Stream (A. C. Bucklaud, manager). —The ground is shallow, and consists of a material of a fine nature, and sluicing operations are advancing rapidly up the flat, being now two miles above the point where work was begun. Two elevators are at work lifting dirt to a height of 35 ft. under a pressure of 300 ft. vertical. The windings of the stream hamper proceedings, as the work cannot be carried forward in a proper face. Intake races being frozen up, work is usually suspended in winter for a period of about six weeks. Gold-saving appliances consist of angle-iron ripples in the boxes with perforated plates and cocoanut-matting. Eleven men employed. Sutton. Hibernia Sliiicing Company, Matarae. —Water being in plentiful supply all season, work has been steady. The face is 45 ft. in depth, and there is 3 ft. of wash resting on a very soft bottom of fine sand. This bottom being easily-cut, great care is required in handling the nozzle when cleaning up bottom. Edges of face kept nicely trimmed to prevent falls occurring. The tail-race tailings-tunnel continues working satisfactorily and has never given any trouble. No work has yet been done to test the false bottom. Manuka Creek. Stewart's Sluicing Claim, Manuka Creek. —There is very little work now done in this groundsluicing claim. The friction between the farmers and the claimholder on account of dirty water continues to hamper sluicing operations very much. The tailings are discharged into a gully, and held there by a series of dams, allowing only comparatively clear water to flow away. Waitahuna. German Flat Hydraulic Sluicing and Elevating Company, Waitahuna. —This private party have not been so successful as was expected. The average depth of the ground is 10 ft., the top layer of clay being hard and troublesome, but there are a few large stones in the wash. With a water-pressure of 120 ft. the material is elevated 20 ft. As the work is being pushed on up the flat pressure is being lost, and if a more payable class of ground is met with the pipe-line will be shifted to bring the pressure more directly on to the claim. Four men employed. Upper German Flat Hydraulic Sluicing Claim, Waitahuna (S. Johnston and M. Girvan, owners). —The flat operated on is very even on the bottom, the average depth of the face being 8 ft. The top layer consists of a hard clay, which is somewhat troublesome to work. Pressure, 160 ft. ; height of lift, 15 ft. The ground is little better than payable. Three men employed. 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then to tunnel into the cement and break it down by blasting. After being broken up and reduced it is sluiced down several hundred yards of tail-race, fitted with cocoanut-matting and ripples in one section and cobblestone in the other. There was no one in the claim on the date of my last visit. Four men employed. Quitter and Sons, Waitahuna Gully. —Since my previous visit very little material had been shifted, chiefly on account of the water-supply being poor and unreliable. Two heads are brought into a storage-dam, allowing about four heads to be available on the claim for a short day's work. The plant consists of 500 ft. of pressure-pipes; pressure, 75ft. The material is elevated 20 ft., and then passes over a short run of boxes fitted with riffles and cocoanut-matting. Two men employed. Thompson and Party (Norwegian Company), Waitahuna Gully (C. Thomson, manager).— This party have still a small area of unworked ground up the middle of the flat. Until quite recently a second elevator was in position, working out a piece of ground at the head of the claim. The ground is shallow, varying from 10 ft. to 12 ft. in depth, and the material is elevated 26 ft. The splendid pressure available—fully 300 ft.—has enabled a large quantity of material to be elevated. The gold-saving appliances are angle-iron ripples, perforated plates, and cocoanutmatting. Sailors' Gully Hydraulic Sluicing Company, Waitahuna Gully (A. Barr, manager). —The main body of tailings in the gully having been worked, the adjoining terrace is receiving attention. The recent deposit overlying the cement is being elevated, the water-power not being adequate to attack the body of cement. The water-supply is also unreliable, as the country through which the race is cut is very broken. The face of the claim is 10 ft. high, consisting of clays and gravels. This is sluiced down to the elevator and elevated 24 ft., and then passes over 120 ft. of boxes fitted with ripples and matting. Sluicing is only carried on during the day. Wetherstone's. Golden Crescent Hydraulic Elevating Company, Wetherstone's (W. Smythe, manager).— During the past year a large area of shallow ground and the adjoining spurs had been worked with highly payable results. The winter having been a fairly open one for sluicing, there has not been much time lost, but some trouble was experienced in keeping the races clear from snow. Present operations are confined to the foot of Post-office Gully. Some years ago several shafts were sunk in this gully into the conglomerate. At the last inspection the company intended to cut their race on to Ballarat Hill. A pressure of 260 ft. will then be available, and this will serve for the life of the claim. With the present available 200 ft. of pressure the material was being elevated 15 ft. The clay boulders require to be broken up, and the stones are picked out by hand. The terraces comprised in this claim were the scene of great mining activity in the early days, and had all been worked, the wash being driven out. Eight men employed. Golden Bise Hydraulic Elevating Company, Wetherstone's (F. Whelan, manager). — During the year operations have been mostly confined to ground skirting the foot of the hill. An additional 500 ft. of pressure-pipes have been added to the plant to enable the lower end of the claim to be worked. The material is fairly easy to shift, and good paddocks are taken out, the work being carried on under careful management. The bottom consists of a sandy pipeclay overlying the conglomerate. The back face of the present paddock is 26 ft. in depth. The material is lifted 26 ft. and passed over a run of boxes 60ft. in length, provided with angle-iron ripples and perforated plates. Four men are employed in the claim and one raceman. Operations have been highly successful this year. Tuapeka. Blue Spur and Gabriel's Gully Consolidated Gold-mining Company (J. H. Jackson, general manager; J. Uren, mine-manager). —During the past year sluicing has been fairly steady. At the time of my visit there were three elevators in position, lifting 69 ft. 5 in., 75 ft., and 45 ft. respectively. Twenty-eight men are generally employed in the claim, and four as caretakers of the various races. The upper seams, which have been worked continuously for many years, are fast working back to the boundaries. An attempt is now to be made to take up the deeper ground to a depth of 30 ft., whereby the life of the claim will be considerably lengthened. Excerpt from the report of the manager (Mr J. Howard Jackson) furnished to his London board, dated the 23rd March, 1903 : " The output of the mine is, I regret to say, smaller than during any year in the history of the company. The quality of the cement shows a serious falling-off all round. The total gold won in 1902-3 was 1,5360z. 7 dwt., at £3 19s. = £6,070 os. Id. The total expenditure was £5,218 2s. 4d.; and the total wages paid £3,521 14s. 7d., an increase of £282 2s. Bd. over last year. The explosives used amounted .to £318 os. 6d., a decrease of £309 16s. Id. as compared with last year. Owing to the poverty of the cement worked during the year the cost of production has increased from 63 per cent, in 1901-2 to 85-9 per ceut. this year of the value of the gold won, leaving an infinitesimal margin of profit. Put in other words, it has cost £3 7s. lid. to win each ounce of gold, worth (approximately) £3 19s. 6d. The head-races and dams are in good repair, and have provided water for sluicing 9378 eight-hour days. Statement of work and values for the year 1902-3 : No. 1 division—Hours sluicing, 3,075-5 ; cement, 71,658 cubic yards ; gold, 385-86 oz. ; value per cubic yard, 2-584 gr. =5'095d. No. 1b division—Hours sluicing, 554-5 ; cement, 13,862-55 cubic yards; gold, 154-92 oz.; value per cubic yard, 5-356 gr. = 10-773 d. No. 2 division—Hours sluicing, 1,1975; cement, 39,876-75 cubic yards; gold, 281-14 oz.; value per cubic yard, 3-408 gr. =6734 d. No. 2b division—Hours sluicing, 2,676; cement, 80,200 cubic yards ; gold, 714-79 oz. ; value per cubic yard, 4-273 gr. = 8'433d. Total hours sluicing, 7,503-5; cement, 205,325-25 cubic yards; gold, 1,536-74 oz. Mean value, 3-59gr., or 709 d. per cubic yard.

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Local Industry Gold-mining Company, Gabriel's Gully (W. Dawson, manager).—When the area in Gabriel's Gully was worked out the plant was removed to the head of Wetherstone's Flat. Since starting there operations have been successful. Kitto and Party's Hydraulic Sluicing and Elevating Company, Munro's Gully. — This claim is held and worked by a party of private shareholders. The bed of Munro's Gully, containing a mass of tailings from the cement workings, had been worked right up to the cement, on which a start has now been made. Mills and Party's Hydraulic Sluicing and Elevating Company, Munro's Gully. ■ — This plant is still operating on tailings in Tuapeka Creek at the foot of Munro's Gully. Waipori. Golden Key Hydiaulic Elevating Claim, Mitchell's Flat Waipori (J. Gare, manager). — This claim gives employment to three working shareholders, who are sluicing shallow gullies on Mitchell's Fiat and adjoining spurs. There is deeper ground ahead. Farrell's Deep Lead, Waipori. —The last operations conducted by Mr. Farrell in the deep ground near the river were not successful. Each successive rise in the river flooded the paddocks and delayed the work. The water rights and plant have now been let on tribute to Mr. Robert Cotton, who is sluicing and elevating on his private land. The last paddock taken out was on a rapidly rising reef, with about 10 ft. of gravel stripping. This claim includes part of the Old Jutland Flat dredge-tailings ; but the successful working of this class of ground would appear to depend on the quantity of material sent through the elevator. On the occasion of my last visit to the district I found that this plant had been shifted to the Lammerlaw side of the Waipori River, where it is operating on shallow ground. Pressure, 380 ft.; lift, 20 ft. Pressure-pipes vary from 20 in. to 7 in. diameter. Lammerlaw Creek Hydraulic Gold-mining Company. Waipori (W. Caudwell, manager).—This claim is worked very systematically. As one side of the flat is worked up a channel is kept open into which the creek is diverted, while operations are transferred to the other side. In this manner the whole flat is being turned over, and no solid ground left untouched. A feature in the goldsaving appliances is thedouble spread of boxes in themiddleof the " run." The gold-saving appliances are Venetian riffles, perforated plates, and cocoanut-matting. Pressure, 250 ft.; height of lift, 26 ft. Main-pressure pipes vary from 13 in. diameter to 9 in. diameter. Cleaning bottom in this claim entails considerable care. All parts of the bottom are carefully picked and swept up. Four men suffice for the ordinary working of the claim, but six to eight extra men are employed when cleaning bottom. Sew Kew and Party, Lammerlaw Creek, Waipori. —This claim is held and worked by a party of Chinese. During the year a higher race has been brought in, whereby additional pressure has been gained. This party holds ground adjacent to and similar to that of the Lammerlaw Creek Company. Pressure, 200 ft.; height of lift, 20 ft. Gold-saving appliances consist of a run of boxes 46 ft. in length, fitted with angle-iron ripples, perforated plates, and cocoanut-matting. Bakery Flat Sluicing Company, Upper Waipori (J. T. Johnston, manager).—Sluicing operations were carried on for the greater part of the year. The elevating plant has now been taken down, and the claim and water are under tribute to J. T. Johnston, who intends utilising the water to work his patent hydraulic dredge. Golden Point Sluicing Company, Upper Waipori (J. Claffey, manager).—The pipe-line of this company has lately been increased by the addition of 800 ft. of 11 in. pipes. The plant has been shifted from the foot of Frenchman's Gully further up the same gully, where operations are carried on working to the false bottom. The dirt is elevated 15 ft., and consists mainly of tailings from old alluvial workings. When this gully is worked out the adjoining terrace will be worked, and this should provide employment for some considerable time. The stripping consists of 10 ft. of clay, and the average depth of wash is 3 ft. The pressure available at this point is 160 ft. Five men employed. Post Office Creek Gold-mining Company, Verterburn, Waipori (J. R. Parker, manager).—This plant is still operating on terrace ground on the Verterburn, down to a false bottom. Four to five men usually employed. Pressure-pipe line consists of 1,200 ft. of pipes, varying from 15 in. to 9 in. Pressure, 130 ft. Pearsall and Munro, Verterburn, Waipori. —This is a private hydraulic-sluicing plant. The ground consists of 30 ft. of gravel with 5 ft. of overlying clay. Height of lift, 23 ft. Four men employed. Sutherland and Party's Sluicing Claim, Bung town Flat, Waipori. —Several parties of Chinese turned over nearly the whole of this flat by hand-labour. Some deep ground was left at the lower end of the flat, and this is the site, of present operations. There are blocks of good ground throughout the flat, and considering that the material is from 8 ft. to 12ft. deep and of a free nature this should prove an ideal sluicing claim, with a good water-supply. A race has been cut in about four miles, and a dam-site is being prepared. Beaumont. Champion Hydraulic Sluicing and Dredging Company, Beaumont (J. Fahey, manager).—Until quite recently operations had been carried on right up the flat, skirting the road-line. Work was here considerably hampered by boulders and buried timber. The plant has now been shifted to the foot of the claim, and a start made to elevate deep ground near the river frontage. The first paddock was being taken out at the time of inspection. Drainage-water from the river should prove heavy. During the year this company acquired and placed a dredge on the river portion of the claim. There is a considerable percentage of fine gold in this claim, which was only saved in the sluicing claim by the employment of a special run of boxes and a modification of Lee's tables, as used at the Round Hill Sluicing Claim.

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Island Block. Island Block Sluicing and Elevating Company (James Nicholsen, manager).—Owing to the great length of pipe-line and consequent loss of pressure through friction the elevating plant is incapable of treating sufficient material to make the work remunerative. The gravel requires to be elevated 60 ft. in order to get fall for tailings. The top 40 ft. contains little gold, the wash being in or upon the bottom, which is a hard schist and full of crevices. This company has bought the Metallic dredge, and will re-erect it to work portion of this claim. When the dredge gets to work it is probable that the pipes (sluicing area) will be let on tribute to a party of working miners. At a subsequent visit I found that the plant and water had been let on tribute to D. Jones and party. The tributers will confine their operations to the east side of the channel, and have re-erected the elevating plant. The company's dredge is working a cut extending over the greater width of the flat. Edie and Kirkpatrick's Claim, Tallaburn. —Currie's Flat is still the scene of extensive sluicing operations, carried on by this party. A large area of shallow ground is sluiced off through a tailrace into the fiver. The back run of deep ground is then elevated through a small elevator and discharged over a run of boxes provided with gold-saving appliances, finally passing through the tail-race to the river. At the lower end of the tail-race there is a considerable spread of goldsaving tables, which save a large percentage of the gold lost in the claim. With a pressure of 340 ft. available on the flat a large amount of dirt is quickly shifted. Perforated plates and cocoanut-matting form the principal gold-saving appliances. Seven men employed. Curtin and Whelan s Sluicing Claim, Curries Flat. —Three men find employment in this claim. The ground is shallow and the water-supply poor. The gold is coarse. Miller's Flat. Golden Bun Hydraulic - sluicing Company, Miller's Flat (P. McLoughlin, manager).— Operations are rapidly advancing up the flat, and consequently loss of pressure is becoming very apparent. The ground varies from 40 ft. to 45 ft. in depth. The material has to be elevated over 60ft. from bedrock, so that the available pressure of 225 ft. is far from adequate in a claim in which successful working depends on the quantity of material elevated. The tailings from this claim have all been discharged into the river. The company's dredge is beginning at the lower end of the flat to work up behind the hydraulic plant. From twelve to fourteen men are employed in and about the sluicing claim. When this claim was last inspected it was found that the sluicing plant had been permanently closed down. Successful and economical work could not be carried on under existing pressure, and the company decided to discontinue sluicing operations in favour of dredging. The company has a powerful dredge fully capable of dealing with the ground ahead of it. Roxburgh. Boxburgh Amalgamated Mining and Sluicing Company, Boxburgh (J. H. Waigth, manager).— Under careful and economical management, this claim has been working almost continuously throughout the year with satisfactory results. Forty-five heads of water are brought in from Teviot Creek. Vertical pressure, 550 ft. The working-pressure of the claim is 2001b. to the square inch. Gold to theamount of 1,168 oz. 9 dwt. 11 gr. was won during the year, equalling in value £4,582 lis. 3d. The amount disbursed in dividends amounted to £2,184 Bs. The average number of men employed was twenty-two. Hercules Sluicing Claim, Boxburgh. —This plant and claim have been idle during the whole of the year. Ladysmith Sluicing Claim, Boxburgh (W. Donnelley, manager). —This claim is situated on the east bank of the river. The present water-supply brings fourteen heads of water into a dam on Cemetery Hill. This allows twenty-six heads to be brought on to the claim during working-hours under a vertical pressure of 80 ft. Height of lift, 23 ft. ; size of elevator-jet, 6 in.; size of throat, lOin. ; dirt-pipes, 18 in. diameter. The run consists of 230 ft. of boxes 2 ft. 6in. wide, fitted with flat-iron ripples, and has 3 in. fall in 12 ft. The pressure-pipes vary from 22 in. diameter to 11 in. This plant does good work. Four men are employed. A new race (which is to be brought in three miles from Teviot Creek) will carry thirty heads of water on to Cemetery Hill. The available vertical head will be 150 ft., or about 651b. to the square inch at the claim. Twenty heads of water will be used by this company, and ten heads will be dropped into Coulter and party's race. Coulter and Party's Sluicing Claim, Commissioners' Flat. —This is a privately owned hydraulicsluicing plant. Height of lift, 17 ft.; size of jet, 5f in. ; size of throat, 10 in. ; dirt-pipes, 15 in. diameter. The run consists of 600 ft. of boxes 2Jft. wide, and has 4 in. fall in 12 ft. The vertical head is 75 ft., and the working-pressure at the claim is about 281b. to the square inch. The face is 40 ft. high, and consists of a layer of heavy, stony material overlying a body of fine gravel, all more or less auriferous. At present the Ladysmith water is being used on this claim. Four heads of water are brought from Teviot Creek into a dam, which holds sufficient sluicing-water for eight hours. Three men employed. Manuel Bros. Sluicing Claim, Goal Creek Flat. —Four heads of water are brought on under a pressure of 65 ft. vertical head, enabling the material to be lifted 12 ft. The ground is over 60 ft. deep, and consists of rough river-wash. Pleasant Valley Gold-mining Company, Goal Creek Flat (R. George, manager).—The material is being lifted 20 ft. through an elevator having a 2 in. jet. The mass of stones and boulders in the claim is enormous, and a crane is used to lift the stones out of the working-paddock. Tailings are discharged down a tail-race 1,000 ft. long, paved with stones and having 4 in. fall to the 12 ft. Five men are employed. The ground is becoming too deep and heavy for the water-supply. When this claim was last inspected it was found that the old working had been abandoned, and a new open-

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ing was being made into the top end of the gorge. The ground here is a mass of boulders with very little wash, and the undertaking is extremely laborious. Unless the ground proves more payable this claim will shut down in the near future. Bald Hill Flat. Carroll and Lynch's Sluicing Claim, Bald Hill Flat. —This is a privately owned hydraulicsluicing plant. Five men are usually employed in the claim. Six heads of water are brought on to the claim under a pressure of 180 ft. vertical. The top material is swept off into the worked ground, and the bottom layers are elevated. Mitchell Bros., Bald Hill Flat. —Two men find employment in this claim. The water is dropped over the face, which it cuts down. The material runs through a tail-race, from which the heavier stones are forked and thrown aside. Ewing and D-wdall's Sluicing Claim, Bald Hill Flat (W. McNeish, manager).' —When operations were discontinued in Ewing's claim at the head of the flat the water was diverted to command ground previously held by the Bald Hill Flat Freehold Dredging Company.. The dredge was in operation for a few weeks, but failed to prove the claim payable for dredging. The result of the first paddock taken out by the sluicing plant was highly satisfactory. Six heads of water are brought in from Coal Creek and Butcher's Gully. Pressure, 200 ft. ; lift, 24 ft. ; size of jet, 2^-in.; size of throat, 6 in.; dirt-pipes, 13 in. diameter. The depth of the ground is 20 ft., and the material operated on consists of flat schistose wash. The bottom is a hard, fairly even schist rock. Since starting work the gold returns have been extremely satisfactory. Seven men are usually employed. Last Chance Hydraulic Sluicing and Elevating Company, Bald Hid Flat (J. McNeish, manager). —This company's plant has been shifted further up the flat, and a paddock taken out behind the schoolhouse. This necessitated shifting the pressure-line also. The bottom is shallow for the greater part, with deep rifts in it. Seven heads of water are brought in twenty miles from Shingle Creek. Pressure, 300 ft.; height of lift, 26 ft.; size of jet, 2-J-in.; dirt-pipes, 13 in. diameter. The paddock plant consists of 9 in. and 7 in. pipes. Nine men are employed. Stringer and Party, Fourteen-mile Beach, below Bald Hill Flat. —This party is sinking a shaft on the bank of the Clutha River to test what is supposed to be a deep run of good wash. At this date 32 ft. had been sunk without reaching bottom. Livingstone. F. Christian, Hydraulic Claim, Livingstone. —There are two claims working. In No. 1 there was one man at work. Four heads are obtained from a storage-dam for day-shift only. Plant consists of 600 ft. of 15 in., 13in., and 9in. pipes. In No. 2 one man at work. 2,000 ft. of 18in. to 7 in. pipes in use. The only alteration of note in this district is the extension of the Mosquito Race a distance of two miles to command a claim on Cemetery Hill. This extension included the construction of one siphon 16 chains in length, and another 33 chains, having pipes varying from 22 in. to 11 in. A dam having an area of 3J acres has been built. The wall is 45 ft. in the bottom, 7 ft. at the top, and 15 ft. high. The claim had been previously worked, but with an inadequate watersupply the ground was found to be too rough, although auriferous. Mr. Christian proposes to have a good water-supply and deal with, the stones by means of a 5-ton crane. In the sluicing season this claim should employ ten to twelve men. The Pipe Company, Livingstone. —Several parties banded together to put a siphon over the head of Golden.Gully. Two heads of water are obtained from the Mosquito Race. There are several small claims comprised in the company, principally using canvas hose. Other parties with small heads of water are Lauri Bros, and Yeoman, H. H. Roberts, and W. McQualli. These are supplied with water from the Mosquito Race by F. Christian. All parties in this district are now ground-sluicing in the terraces back to a point at which the fall is lost. There are a few parties sluicing on the Maerewhenua side of the river. Among these are M. Frater and Frater Bros., sluicing with water from Ben Lomond and Howe's Creek. This district will depend in future on the Mountain Hut Water-race, which is being brought in from the Upper Maerewhenua River. J. Brayshaw has a pressure-line of 11 in. pipes, 13 chains long, laid on to his claim in Tunnel Gully in readiness for the water-supply when available. The ground is about 27 ft. deep, 12 ft. of which is auriferous. Naseby. John Hore and Sons, Lower Main Gully, Hogburn Creek. —No. 1 Claim : Special claim of 40 acres; depth of ground, 10 ft. to 15 ft.; wash, 6 ft. Four heads of water are brought in from the Government water-race. I,Booft. of pipes, reduced from 19 in. in stages to 11 in., are in use, and a pressure of 200 ft. vertical is obtained. Three men employed. No. 2 Claim : Elevating, 22 ft.; face, 7 ft. to 10 ft. ; average depth of wash, 3 ft. This ground is being worked for the first time. Four heads of water are brought in from the Government water-race; pipe-line, 750 ft. ; pipes, 19 in. to 11 in. ; pressure, 120 ft. Three men. No. 3 Claim : Elevating claim (formerly the " dead level "). Six heads of water are brought in by private race from the Little Kyeburn Stream ; pipe-line, 750 ft.; pipes, 19 in. to 11 in. ; pressure, 165 ft. ; face, from 10 ft. to. 25 ft., mainly through old tailings from Surface Hill, with from 2 ft. to 3 ft. of wash on the bottom ; elevator, 30 ft. ; area, 14 acres. Three men. No. 4 Claim, Milkman's Gully : Face, from 15 ft. to 20 ft. in depth ; wash, 2 ft.; elevating, 22 ft. Plant consists of 2,700 ft. of pipes, reduced from 19in. to 11 in. in diameter. Four heads of water obtained from the Government water-race. Three men.

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W. Guffie, Main Gully. —The ground is from 10 ft. to 13 ft. in depth; wash, 6 ft. Four heads of water are brought in from the Government water-race. 1,600 ft. of pipe-line, reduced from 19 in. to 13in. diameter; pressure, 125 ft. Three men. Naseby Gold-dredging Company (H. Ravenwood, manager).—Four heads of water are brought in from the Government water-race. The claim is worked by hydraulic sluicing and elevating ; pipe-line, 3,000 ft. in length. Pipes reduced from 19 in. to 11 in. diameter; pressure, 130 ft. Face is 18 ft. deep, and elevator is lifting 29 ft. Boxes are 48 ft. long by 3 ft. wide, with angle-iron ripples and matting. Ten men are employed. Beed Bros. (J. W. Reed, manager).—Elevating claim; maiden ground. Face, 7ft. to 10ft.; wash, 3 ft. ; elevator lifting 16 ft. Four heads of water are brought in from the Government waterrace ; pipe-line, 600 ft. long; pipes, 19 in. to 11 in. diameter; pressure, 160 ft. Three men employed. Ah Fong and Party. —Elevating claim of 13 acres. Four heads of water are brought in from the Government water-race; lift, 20ft. Three men employed. Tuck You, Main Gully. —Two men ground-sluicing with one head and a half obtained from Government water-race. Lock Lung and Party, Hogburn Creek. —Elevating claim in old tailings from Surface Hill. One head and a half purchased from Hewitt's private water-race comprises the water-supply. Eight or nine parties of Chinese are sluicing into Main Gully. W. Hendrickson, Spec Gully. —Ground-sluicing with one head of water obtained from the Government water-race. William Bertram, Spec Gully. —Ground-sluicing with two heads of water from the Government water-race. Spec Gully. —About thirty Chinese miners are employed ground-sluicing and fossicking at the head of Spec Gully. They are supplied with water from the Hit or Miss Race. Also about fifteen fossickers buying water from the Government water-race. Inder and Party, Spec Gully. —Elevating claim of 9 acres ; water obtained from the Hit or Miss Race. L. Hore, Enterprise Gully. —This claim has been converted into an elevating claim. Three heads of water are purchased from the Government water-race and stored in a dam; pressure, 80 ft.; pipe-line, 800 ft. Matthew Young, Enterprise Terrace. —Face, 38 ft. ; wash, 5 ft. Water brought in six miles from the East Eweburn Creek. Claim, 6 acres. Three men. A. and J. Brown, Enterprise Terrace. —Ground-sluicing with two and a quarter heads of water obtained from the Government water-race. Two men employed. Enterprise Mining Company, Enterprise Gully (W. Newman, manager). —This company has one claim above the Government water-race; and is working in the '' Maori bottom.'' The auriferous wash is 6 ft. to 8 ft. in depth, lying on a clay bottom, and having above it a 6 ft. band of clay and 20ft. of "Maori bottom." The water is obtained from a private race from the West Eweburn. There is one man in the " Maori bottom " Claim. The No. 2 Claim is an elevating claim in Enterprise Gully below Inder and party's claim. Two men are employed at the claim in Enterprise Gully. Elevator lifting 18 ft. ; 900 ft. of piping in use ; 120 ft. of boxes. F. Beed, Main Gully. —Elevating claim. Four heads of water from Government water-race ; lift, 18 ft. ; pressure, 140 ft. Two men. Henry Moore, Enterprise Gully. —Special claim of 8 acres. Supplied with four Government heads of water. Elevator pipe-line is 500 ft. in length, reduced from 19 in. to 11 in. diameter ; nozzle pipe-line, 400 ft., reduced from 11 in. to 7 in.; face, 13 ft.; wash, 2 ft. Two men employed. B. Moore, Enterprise Gully Spur. —Ground-sluicing in shallow ground. Inder and Brown, Enterprise Gully (J. Marslin, manager).—Claim, 21 acres; face, 17ft.; wash, 5 ft. to 6 ft. Four heads of water obtained from the Government water-race; pipe-line, 900 ft. in length, reduced from .19 in. to 11 in. diameter ; pressure, 120 ft.; elevating, 23 ft.; working " red wash." Three men employed. M. Lennane, Coal Pit Gully Spur. —Ground-sluicing. Water brought in six miles from Butcher's Gully ; 500 ft. of 7 in. pipes used. One man. M. Young, jun., and J. Beck, Coal Pit Gully. —Ground-sluicing. Two men employed. Hewitt and Beck, Goal Pit Gully. —Ground-sluicing with water from Band of Hope Water-rase. Isaac Parfitt, Little Kyeburn. —Special claim of 10 acres, elevating; water-supply obtained from a small private water-right ; ground shallow. One man employed. " Maori Bottom." W. Dowdall, Main Gully. —Ground-sluicing on the west side with one head and a half from the Government water-race. B. Moore, Main Gully. —Ground-sluicing on west side with one head and a half from the Government race. George Currie, Main Gully. —Ground-sluicing on west side with one head from Government race. Lee Gin, Main Gully. —Ground-sluicing on west side with one head from Government race. Barrat and- Lennane, Main Gully. —Ground-sluicing above the Government water-race with water from the Enterprise Company. East Side of Main Gully. P. Botting. —Ground-sluicing ; two heads from Government race. L. Botting. —Ground-sluicing; two heads from Government race. Kong Sing. —Ground-sluicing; one head from Government race.

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Joe Leys and Party, Main Gully. —This party have taken up a claim to work ground partly " Maori bottom " and partly blocks of original surface. These claims in the " Maori bottom " are now just about paying wages. There is about 26 ft. of overburden to shift before the auriferous seam is reached, and this combined with a poor watersupply and little fall for discharge of tailings reduce the value very considerably. /. Brown, Upper Kyeburn. —Claim at the head of School Flat. Ground-sluicing. Phillip Beer and Party, Upper Kyeburn. —Claim situated in Red Gully. Four heads of water are brought in five miles from Timber Creek, and four heads from Main Creek. Elevating claim. Three men. William McLelland, Bip and Tear Terrace, Upper Kyeburn. —Ground-sluicing. Water from Main Gully. Three men. Stewart and So?is, Upper Kyeburn. —-Ground-sluicing with water from German Creek. Sun Tye and Party. —No. 1 Claim: Ground-sluicing at Dinah's Creek. No. 2 Claim: Ground-sluicing at Monk's Terrace. Four men employed. Hamilton's. These diggings are now practically deserted. About seven heads of water from the Pigburn Creek are available on this field. The water is used for ground-sluicing by Roberts and Son, and also by Roberts and party. Patearoa. Patearoa Hydraulic-sluicing Claim, Patearoa. —This is a privately owned hydraulic-sluicing claim. There is deep ground in the claim, and at the time of inspection some terrace-ground was being sluiced away. Seven heads of water are brought in from the Sowburn Creek. Height of lift, 20 ft. Lusher and Party. —This party are working on the Sowburn, and Hambly Bros, on the Taieri River above Patearoa Station. Upper Taieri River. Fortification Hydraulic-sluicing Company, Bed Swamp, Lammerlaw Banges. —The prospecting paddock was sunk to a total depth of 52 ft. in the middle of the flat. Rough stony material was met with to a depth of 30 ft., carrying a little gold. A further 22 ft. was sunk through. This consisted of a compact schistose grit, but non-auriferous. At this depth the limit of the power was reached, and the flat was not bottomed. While awaiting the arrival and erection of the elevating plant, Swede's Gully and other shallow ground is being sluiced out. The race is four and a half miles long, and is to be recut 4 ft. wide to enable it to carry thirty heads of water. A pressure of 700 ft. is available, and with plenty of power the elevator will have a 10 in. throat-piece and 15 in. dirt-pipes. The above information was furnished by Mr. J. T. Johnston, manager of the Bakery Flat Sluicing Claim. Canadian Flat Hydraulic Sluicing and Elevating Company, Upper Taieri. —This company was formed to work a claim on Canadian Flat by hydraulic sluicing, and, in addition, to generate electricity at the Taieri Falls and transmit the power to wherever required. A considerable amount of money was expended in the partial construction of a race to bring water on to the claim. Before the race was completed the company went into liquidation. At the time of inspection the plant was not on the claim, but was lying at the Outram Railway-station. Idaburn. Wheeler and Party's Sluicing Claim, Idaburn. —Ground-sluicing. Two men. Blackstone Hill. William Wade and Son, Blackstone Hill. —Ground-sluicing. McLennan and Mate, Blackstone Hill. —Still ground-sluicing at Sam-the-German's Gully. Bobert Johnson, Hill's Creek. —Ground-sluicing with a poor supply of water. Two men generally at work. C. Bose, Hill's Creek. —Still ground-sluicing at Pennyweight Flat. This piece of ground is becoming more difficult to work owing to increasing depth. William Hickey. —Doing a little sluicing at Hill's Creek. Turnbull and Hayes. — Ground-sluicing on a face of the Rough Ridge. McAdie Bros. —Ground-sluicing on German Hill, in Ida Valley. D. Nicoll. —Fossicking at Garibaldi. J. Wilkinson and F. Cavendower. —Fossicking on the Gimmerburn Creek. St. Bathan's. Shamrock Gold-mining Company, Hawkdon Station, St. Bathan's (J. Mooney, manager).— Twelve heads of water are brought in from the Manuherikia River. The ground averages 12 ft. in depth, and is very rough. The bottom is so disjointed and broken that it is difficult to clean up. Eight men are usually employed. Garty and Gallagher's Claim, Surface Hill, St. Bathan's. —Early in the year the party was working as steadily as an insufficient water-supply would allow. The water was being bought from the Scandinavian Gold-mining Company, and at the end of the year this company had acquired possession of the claim. Scandinavian Gold-mining Company, St. Bathan's (Neil Nicholsen, manager). — The Otago Race having broken away, only one elevator was at work at the date of inspection. The water

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which was lately in use near the St. Bathan's Township has been transferred to shallow terraceground lower down Muddy Creek. When the claim was last visited work was progressing satisfactorily. No. 1 elevator, capable of lifting 83 ft., was being shifted, and a temporary elevator, to lift 65 ft., was in position to keep the water down in the paddock. No. 2 elevator is used to strip the ground ahead of No. 1, but it will shortly be disconnected, and shifted on to the claim previously known as Garty and Gallagher's, but which is now the property of the Scandinavian Gold-mining Company. Good returns had been obtained from this claim with an inadequate watersupply, and it should prove a valuable property to the company. A good supply of water can be brought on to it under a pressure of 330 ft. A large area is being ground-sluiced near the Hill's Creek Road, but more satisfactory results will be obtained when a better supply of water, with increased pressure, is brought to bear upon the ground. Twenty-six men are usually employed. United M. and E. Company, St. Bathan's (P. T. O'Regan, manager). — The present elevator, lifting 82 ft., has been in position over eighteen months. Renewals chiefly take the form of new throat-pieces. These are 5 in., inside diameter, when new, but wear away to 7 in. in a few weeks, and are then discarded. Elevator-jet, 3 in. diameter. Dirt-pipes, 14 in. diameter. In the bottom of the paddock there is a second lift, elevating 22 ft. Work is progressing favourably, and the claim is in good working-order. Two surface nozzles are used to blow away the top material, which is mainly non-auriferous, in advance of the elevator. The bottom of the present work-ing-paddock is over 200 ft. from the original surface of the hill. Seven men are usually employed. Hanrahan's Sluicing Claim, St. Bathan's. —P. Hanrahan has a small elevating plant, discharging tailings into Muddy Creek Tail-race. He is supplied with three heads of water from the Scandinavian Company's race. Cambrian's. Shepherd's Flat Claim, Cambrian's. —After lying idle for some time this claim and plant have been let on tribute to P. McCarthy and Gilbert O'Hara, who are hydraulic sluicing and elevating. Ten heads of water are brought in from Dunstan Creek. Pressure, 100 ft. Height of lift, 10 ft. Two men employed in the claim. Vinegar Hill Hydraulic-sluicing Company, Cambrian's (Thomas Morgan, manager). — This company have acquired Mr. Ewing's races from Shepherd's Creek and Brown's Creek, bringing about twenty heads of water on to the claim. The ground is very rough, and the claim is blocked with falls from the sides. The stones are hand-trucked out of the claim. Nine men are usually employed. During opening-out operations the position was rather cramped. Most of the difficulties have been surmounted, and a good face has been opened out. The heavy stones which form the. surface layer are now swept off in advance of the working-face. By this means the working-paddock is kept comparatively free. The heavy stones in the paddock are not now trucked out of the claim, but a body of water under a pressure of 350 ft. is brought to bear on them, blowing them aside. When the top 40 ft. is swept off, a face fully 100 ft. high is left to be broken down. The wash is swept along a run of boxes 90 ft. in length and having 24 ft. of undercurrent, and finally passes along a ground-sluice fitted with cocoanut-matting and angle-iron ripples. During steady sluicing operations six men are employed. Fordham and Gay's Hydraulic-sluicing Claim, Cambrian's. — When water is available two men find steady employment in this claim. Owing to insufficient pressure the material cannot be lifted high enough, and the tailings require to be blown away from the end of the boxes owing to insufficient fall in. the dump. The most payable ground in the flat is now almost worked out. Since the previous inspection of this claim the plant has been shifted into an adjoining gully, where sluicing and elevating have been commenced on the site of old workings. Pressure, 127 ft. Height of lift, 12 ft. Matakanui. Ewing and McConnochie's Sluicing Claim, Tinker's (J. Naylor, manager).—This company is still carrying on on the usual lines. Amalgamation with the Sugar-pot Company, which was very desirable during shortage of water, is not now so much desired, as the latter part of the season has seen all the claims provided with a plentiful water-supply. Undaunted Gold-mining Company (Limited), (T. C. Donnelly, manager). —Operations have lately been carried on in ground purchased from the Sugar-pot Company with good results. Six men employed. Recent operations having carried the lower boundary of the claim up to the adjacent properties, the plant has been shifted to the upper end of the claim. A deep face lying on a high bottom is being sluiced off, and ground 50 ft. deep will soon be elevated. The present face is 40 ft. high, but falls well back under the nozzle. Twelve heads of water are brought in by four races, the longest being that from Chatto Creek, twenty miles in length. A pressure of 400 ft. is used on the elevator and 370 ft. on the breaking-down line. Sugar-pot Elevating and Sluicing Company (C. Huddlestone, manager).—This party had their water on for the first time since the holidays, so that at the time of the inspection the drainagewater was not yet out of the paddock. Tinker's Gold-mining Company, Tinker's (J. Naylor, manager).—This company is the outcome of an amalgamation of Ewing and McConnochie's and the Sugar-pot properties at Tinker's. By this means in seasons when there is a shortage of water the working-supply can be directed on to one claim. The present water-supply consists of seven heads, which is all brought on to deep ground at present in Ewing and McConnochie's claim. The ground is 20ft. deep and very stony. Lift, 28 ft.; dirt-pipes, 15 in. : pressure, 500 ft. From five to seven men are employed. The main pressure pipes here have been extended over a mile to command some shallow sluicing-ground when the water is too low for elevating. Later on, when all available easily worked ground has been worked out, the water will be brought on to the Sugar-pot property, which will then be subjected to extensive developments. 16—C. 3.

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/. Symes and Son's Sluicing Claim. —This party has acquired the ground lately prospected and abandoned by the Klondyke Gold-dredging Company, and are now engaged bringing their water on to it. The ground averages 12 ft. in depth, and according to prospects should pay well for sluicing, especially since the overlying clay can be. run off before the bottom is touched. The line of pressure-pipes has now been laid on to the Klondyke Claim, and sluicing operations are in full swing. The flat averages 12 ft. in depth, but sluicing is confined to some shallow ground at present. Three men are employed. Matakanui Gold-mining Company (H. Norman, manager).—The ground being worked at time of last report proved too difficult for the water-supply, and a start has now been made in ground adjoining the Undaunted Company. The top stuff was sluiced off preparatory to putting in a lift. Ground 60 ft. deep is now being elevated. The bulk of the overburden is auriferous, the best gold lying on the bottom. Pressure-pipes, a double line of 15 in., tapering off to 9 in. and 7 in. Under a pressure of 200 ft. the material is elevated 38 ft., and discharged over 18 ft. of boxes. Eight men are generally employed. Dry bread Diggings. H. Glassford and G. Johnston. —Ground-sluicing, with small water-rights. C. Wilson. —Ground-sluicing. B. Jones and Morgan. —Ground-sluicing on the Lauder. G. Jones and Son. —Ground-sluicing at Cambrian's. Devonshire Diggings. Nothing doing at present. Springvale. Springvale Sluicing Claim, Springvale, near Alexandra South (J. Gartley, manager).—When the claim at Springvale was worked out the plant was shifted to Long Gully, where groundsluicing operations are now being carried on. Three men employed. Alexandra. Alexandra Bonanza Gold-dredging and Sluicing Company, Galloway Flat (H. Martin, manager). —The race, eighteen miles in length, brought in from Manorburn Creek, Greenland Swamp, is 8 ft. wide in the bottom, and has from 12 ft. to 16 ft. fall to the mile. The race is carrying sixteen heads of water, but will carry thirty-five heads in the springtime. A full supply of water was not available at time of inspection, much of it being locked up by frost. The dam also was unfinished. Three shifts of two men each are employed, and three extra men are required on the race for maintenance. The material operated on stands in the back face to a height of 60 ft., and is of a very free nature, having few large stones and overlying a soft sandy bottom. Groundsluicing is the method adopted, and the material is sluiced away through a run of boxes 3 ft. wide and 450 ft. in length. The run has a fall of 5 in. to the 12 ft. Owing to the little fall in the bottom of the claim the material does not travel freely, but requires to be driven. At present there is a good dump for the tailings. From the penstock the water is brought on to the claim by a pipe-line 1,500 ft. in length, the pipes ranging in diameter from 24 in. to 9 in. Pipes of a larger diameter would be more serviceable as a paddock plant in this claim, the sluicing-nozzle having only a3f in. tip. The pressure available on the claim is 90 ft. vertical. The boxes are fitted with angle-iron ripples, flat-bar ripples, and cocoanut-matting. A small spread of side tables receives the fine material from a short undercurrent. The sample of gold obtained is of a very fine nature, but weighs well. At a subsequent inspection the newly appointed manager, W. Hansen, was widening the boxes and endeavouring to gain more fall by cutting the tail-race deeper. A small elevator, capable of lifting about 12 ft., may be put in. This is rendered necessary by the flatness of the reef in the bottom of the claim. Tucker Hill Sluicing Company, Alexandra (Rivers and Gartley, owners). —Operations are still confined to sluicing shallow alluvial deposits lying on hard rock bottom on the foothill slopes of the Raggedy Ridges. With a fair water-supply and a good dump for tailings into the Manuherikia River gorge, a large area can be quickly gone over. The dam is being enlarged and the breastwork heightened. Five men usually employed. Coolgardie Diggings, Tucker Hill. —Some parties driving out the wash struck small patches of payable alluvial, which were soon worked. This field gave employment to about ten men for a short time. Galloway Diggings, Galloway. —A number of claims were pegged out at the Galloway rush. The ground was of a payable nature, but the area is restricted, and the total absence of sluicingwater prevented the field from being tested. Appleton and party and Thomson and party are driving out the wash and carting it to water. Kane and Son, Blackman's Creek. —Ground-sluicing. Two men employed. F. McCarthy, Blackman's Creek. —Two men employed ground-sluicing in Field's old claim. Doctor's Point Sluicing Claim, Alexandra Gorge. —This was the claim formerly held and worked by Nicholas Andersen and party, and from which a large amount of gold was taken. Work is to be resumed this summer by G. Baker and party. A small water-supply is brought in from Shanty Creek and stored in a dam. The claim will be a difficult one to work successfully with the totally inadequate water-supply. Clyde. Anderson and Keleher, Sluicing Claim, Clyde. —Ground-sluicing at the head of the Waikerikeri Creek, with water from Leaning Rock Creek. Buckley and Joe. —Ground-sluicing on the terrace above Shepherd's Flat, Fraser River. Hookey and McGonnell. —Working the bed of the Fraser River below Shepherd's Flat.

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Cromwell. Quartz Beef Point. —Several small parties engaged prospecting and otherwise in this locality. Bannockburn. Thomas Booney's Claim, Bannockburn. —This claim is situated near the Bannockburn Bridge. Two tunnel tail-races had been driven in at different levels in the hope of striking the main bottom of the old river-bed on the terrace, but the ground has turned out to be deeper than was expected. The tunnel at present in use is 308 ft. long, with an open race-outlet to the river 300 ft. in length. A paddock has been sluiced out to a depth of fully 110 ft. without reaching bottom. Three heads of water are used. Four men generally employed. On the 22nd January, while pricking a block in the head of the tunnel to put in a charge of dynamite, the material broke away, and Rooney and Jones were swept out of the tunnel; fortunately the men escaped with a few bruises. On a recent visit I learned that, owing to the depth of the ground and the supply of water being inadequate, the claim has been abandoned without the bottom having been reached. Kawarau Gorge. J. Bobertson's Claim, Bobertson's Terrace. —J. Robertson has been prospecting a high terrace for some two years. Sluicing was carried on for some time until payable gold was found on the bottom. The water being inadequate, the wash was then driven out. The seam of wash runs from 3 ft. to 9 ft. in thickness, and lies on a very uneven bottom, from which some very rich pockets had been taken. The terrace is over 200 ft. higher than the present level of the Kawarau River, but the wash contains " Maori," black sand, and very coarse gold. The owner informed me that drives at each end of his area have proved a total length of 32 chains to be auriferous over an average width of 60 ft. Three men are employed. Very little timber is required, as the wash is very compact. Gordon and Bowe. —Sluicing at the other end of the terrace with water from Walker's Gully. Mr. W. Foreman. —Two men engaged sinking and driving on the same terrace. McElligot's race from Mount Pisa, if amalgamated with a race from Deep Creek, would bring a good body of water across the river on to the terrace, from which there is a splendid fall for ground-sluicing. Further up the Kawarau Gorge, W. Ritchie and party, a Cromwell syndicate, are bringing in Kennedy's water-race on to a terrace of about 60 acres in area. This is a similar terrace to Robertson's, lying on a high point opposite the Roaring Meg Stream, and 230 ft. above the present level of the Kawarau River. Cardrona. Little's Claim, Cardrona. —Alluvial mining in this locality has been in a backward state for some time. The whole valley had been pegged off as dredging areas, but through the failure of a few the greater number of the areas were thrown up. On one of these Walter Little is erecting a hydraulic plant formerly in use at the King Edward Claim, Arrowtown. The race is now under construction, and when the plant is in full swing it is expected that the ground will prove payable for the method employed. Later information from this claim is that the work done has proved the ground remunerative for hydraulic sluicing. Loft and Party. —This party have been driving out the wash above the township for some time. A dip drive lin 3 and 140 ft. in length is the haulage and travelling road. The ground is 50 ft. deep, and very rough. Very little timber is used, as the material is compact. The ground being worked is drained by an underground tail-race brought up through the worked ground as the work progresses. Enterprise Terrace. —Patrick Fahey is ground-sluicing with water from Rhodes Gully. There are also several others prospecting at various points. Criffel Face. —There are now only two parties sluicing. The slippery nature of the face renders it difficult to keep paddocks or tail-races open. Water is brought on to the face from the head of the Roaring Meg, a distance of four miles. Macetown. Several parties are engaged ground-sluicing in this locality. Arrowtown. King Edward Hydraulic Sluicing and Elevating Company. —■ This company has gone into liquidation, and the plant is being removed to Mr. Walter Little's claim, Cardrona. Arrow River. Arrow Big Beach Hydraulic Sluicing Company. —This company has gone into liquidation. Arrow Falls Sluicing Company (J. A. Millar, manager).—The centre wall (18ft. by 12 ft.) has been lengthened 14 chains. The work is heavy and the ground very rough. The two tail-races are now well advanced, and the claim is assuming an appearance of order ; some ground ahead is expected to be worked to advantage without interruption from floods. The 3-ton steam-crane used for stacking stones is working well. A suitable bridge for a travelling-way has been placed over the channel. Five men are employed. Messrs. Hay Bros. —A new plant has been procured to work a claim on the Arrow River, one mile below Arrowtown. This is new ground, which has been proved as being highly auriferous. Arthur's Point. Arthur's Point Hydraulic Sluicing and Elevating Company, Arthur's Point, Shotover Biver (H. Angelo, manager).—This claim is still being worked by a party of tributers.

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Moonlight. Moonlight No, 1 Sluicing Claim, Moonlight, Queenstown. —Sanders and another have taken this claim on tribute, and are taking a deep cut into the back of the terrace with the object of proving its value. The ground is deep for the water-supply available. Three men are employed. Moonlight No. 2 Sluicing Claim, Moonlight, Queenstown. —This claim was shut down when visited. After considerable expenditure in bringing in water and getting plant on to the claim, the results from the first paddock were discouraging. The claim was then run for a short time by the mortgagee, but with unsatisfactory results. It was then finally closed down and the plant offered for sale. Shotover. Stevenson and Aspinall's Sluicing Claim, Skipper's Point. —The water-right of this party is not a very permanent one. Water is brought in from Brown's Creek and stored in two dams, which hold only three hours' supply. The back face of this claim is 200 ft. high, but there is now a fair amount of comparatively shallow stripped ground to sluice away. An open tail-race discharges into Skipper's Creek, while the other fall is towards the Shotover River through a tail-race tunnel. This tunnel has a fall of lin 10 for part of its length and lin 9 for the lower part. When a large block occurs in the tunnel tail-race it is cleared by running a service-pipe line up from the lower end of the tunnel; the water is turned on after the men have left the tunnel, and the block is sluiced away without risk to life. The bottom layers of wash in this claim carry very large and heavy stones. Two men working in the claim. Skipper's Sluicing Company, Londonderry Terrace, Skipper's Point (J. Corbett, manager).— This claim is situated on Burkes Terrace. The face is very high, but has been sloped back for a depth of 70 ft. from the top. Owing to the irregularity and extreme hardness of the rock bottom the manager has put in a " shooting gallery," lifting about 8 ft. perpendicular, in order to clean up the present piece of bottom. About eight heads of water are brought on to the claim under a pressure of 100 ft. ; there is about 10 ft. of gold-bearing wash in the face. The wash contains a large quantity of black sand. The tail-race tunnel is working satisfactorily now; as the work is being carried on some distance away, the amount of material discharged through the tunnel can be regulated. A box having a middle hinged door for signalling purposes is placed in the tunnel where a block is most likely to take place —that is, where the fall is lin 12. A rise of 6 in. of the material in the box swings the door, which is connected with a wire, and raises a flag in the claim. By turning away the nozzle the flow of material is lessened and the obstruction is cleared by the force of water alone. Bobert Johnston, Pleasant Greek Terrace, Skipper's. —This claim comprises the terrace ground between Stony Creek and Pleasant Creek, the water being brought in from the latter creek; water is dropped over the face to sluice off the top layers, and the bottom layers are blown down with hose and discharged into Stony Creek at its junction with the Shotover River. The water was off at the date of inspection, and there was no one in the claim, which is not being worked in a vigorous manner. Davis's Sluicing Claim, Skipper's. —This claim is situated on Stony Creek Terrace, Skipper's. A race six miles long brings in twelve heads of water from the right- and left-hand branches of Stony Creek. The face is about 300 ft. perpendicular, and carries gold in several layers. The top material is broken down for some distance by water running over the face, then a nozzle is played upon the face about midway. When the face is well sloped back a paddock plant is put in position, and work can then be carried on without any risk from large falls from the face." The total length of open tail-races in present use is 1,800 ft., and the whole distance is paved with about 40 tons of steel rails. These rails are laid lengthwise, and, as the tail-races have a fall of 8 ft. in 100 ft., no trouble is experienced in getting rid of the tailings. The gold varies in quality from very coarse to fine, the saving of the latter being hindered greatly by large quantities of black sand. There are over 2,000 ft. of pipe-lines on the claim. Upper Shotover. Davis Bros.' Claim, Skipper's Point. — Four men are employed cutting in a race three miles long to work the ground on Bill Guy's Terrace. Owing to the rough nature of the country this work has already occupied a year and a half. (Information obtained from Mr. Davis, Shotover Quartz Reef, Skipper's.) Muddy Creek Terrace Sluicing Company (Limited), Skipper's Point (J. Collins, manager). Water is being brought in about a mile and a half from Stockyard Creek to work deep terrace ground above the sandhills. Good progress is being made with the construction of the race, and a start should be made sluicing this season. Divan, Gummings, and Costello. —Sluicing terrace ground high up the Shotover River. Peat and Helm's Sluicing Claim, Skipper's. —The owners are working with Smith's hydraulicsuction system. Half a head of water is brought in from the Sandhills Creek and stored in. the dam. The plant consists of 4,000 ft. of 8 in. piping. 21 ft. of suction-pipe is used with aIJ in. jet. About two heads of water are brought on to the claim under about 200 ft. of pressure. Bogers and Johnston, Skipper's. —This party are using water brought in from Ballarat Creek to work the shallow river-bed by the hydraulic-suction system. The plant consists of 11 in. and 8 in. pipes. The top stuff was being sluiced off before putting on the plant. Lynch and Hamilton. —This party have acquired Messrs. Lister Bros.' plant at Sawpit Gully, near Arrowtown, and are shifting it on to their claim near the Sandhills. This forms part of the claim formerly worked by the Riley Electric Gold-dredging Company. William Palmer, Shotover. —Ground-sluicing. One man.

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Monk's Terrace Sluicing Claim, Skipper's Point (P. Lynch, manager). —This claim is situated on a high point above the Shotover River. The ground is about 60 ft. deep in the back face, with layers of rough wash carrying fine gold, the bottom carrying the roughest gold; pieces ranging up to 28 dwt. have been found. A race three-quarters of a mile long brings about four heads of water into a siphon across the river. This is stored in dams giving a pressure of 100 ft. on the claim. The plant consists of 1,800 ft. of piping ranging from 15 in. in the siphon to 9 in. and 7 in. in the service-pipes. The material is discharged down an open tail-race paved with about 300 ft. of light iron rails. Smith and Son's Claim, Shotover. —This party was busy wing-damming the river below the Shotover Quartz Company's mine, where good gold is expected to be found. As the river was approaching a low winter level, the erection of the wall was being satisfactorily proceeded with. The plant was not in position. Nevis. Our Mutual Friend Hydraulic Sluicing and Elevatiny Company, Nevis (Masters and Adie Bros.). —Several races carry six heads of water to the claim for sluicing and elevating. Ground, 30ft. deep; height of lift, 30ft. Flushing-water for the tailings is brought in from Schoolhouse Creek. Dirt-pipes, 11 in. diameter; size of jet, in. diameter; size of throat, 6 in. diameter. The boxes are 2 ft. wide and paved with stones. There is 5 ft. of gold-bearing wash in the claim, most of which was driven out in the early days of mining on the Nevis. Four men are employed. Bobertson and Party, Nevis. —A race five miles long from Deep Creek brings water into the Commissioner's Creek race, which carries ten or twelve heads of water on to the claim in a full season. Depth of ground, 20 ft.; pressure, 400 ft.; height of lift, 42 ft.; dirt-pipes, 12 in. diameter ; size of elevator-jet, 2f in. diameter. Four men are employed. Keep-it-Dark Gold-mining Company, Galvin's Terrace, Nevis (J. H. Robertson, manager). —This claim has been lying idle for some considerable time. From information received it appears probable that operations will be resumed shortly. The shaft and ladder-ways were in good order so far as could be seen above the water. A prospecting-drive is to be started from the shaftbottom to search for a lead of gold. If this is found the ground will be blocked out. Shortly after this visit a start was made to drive for the wash. An adit has also been started from the fall of the terrace to reach the shaft, in order to lessen the height to which the water requires to be pumped. Upper Nevis. Upper Nevis Sluicing Claim, Cinnabar Flat. —A small water-supply was brought in and a hydraulic plant laid down to test the ground. There is a good area of ground here upon which a large amount of prospecting has been done. In this instance the trouble lay in the fact that sufficient water could not be brought on to the ground. Stony Creek carries a good volume of water some seasons, but, on the whole, this is an uncertain supply. The claim has been shut down all this season. Plant still standing. Joe Park's Hydraulic-sluicing Claim, Upper Nevis. —Area of claim, 56 acres. Six heads of water are brought in a distance of two miles from German Gully. The pressure-pipes range from 18 in. to 7 in. diameter; pressure, 220 ft.; height of lift, 18 ft.; dirt-pipes, 11 in. diameter; size of jet, 3 in. and less, according to the water-supply. The ground is 10 ft. deep, and is worked down to the false bottom. The gold is very fine, and has cinnabar associated with it in the wash. Gold-saving appliances are ripples and snow-tussocks. There is also an undercurrent at the tail fitted with a quicksilver plate. Four Chinese employed. McMillan's Sluicing Claim, Upper Nevis. —This plant has been shifted from the terrace on to the flat, and an elevator put in. There are 3,500 ft. of pressure-pipes, ranging from 11 in. to 9 in. diameter; vertical pressure, 120 ft.; height of lift, 12 ft. Six heads of water are brought in by seven miles of race from Wright's Creek, and two heads from Drummond's Creek. The ground is shallow and the dirt favourable for elevating. Four men employed. McDonald's Hydraulic Sluicing and Elevating Company, Upper Nevis. —This claim is held by an Invercargill company. At the time of inspection the manager was getting the plant in order again to resume work after the frost was away. Seven heads and a half of water are brought in four miles. A new race, to give a pressure of 375 ft. vertical on the claim, is to be constructed this season. Height of lift, 28ft.; vertical pressure, 200 ft.; dirt-pipes, 12in. diameter; size of jet, 2f in. The gold is shotty in character, the material treated being fine quartz drift. Six men employed. O'Connell and Graham, Hydraulic-sluicing Claim, Upper Nevis. —This claim was not in full working-order, as the resumption of operations has been delayed owing to the lateness of the season. The water was not all in, but with what was available the top material was being sluiced off before the elevator was put in. The ground is about 20 ft. deep. O'Connell stated that the gold-bearing wash does not extend into the flat, but, in common with all the claims on the Upper Nevis, the gold in this claim follows the lay of the terraces skirting the foot of the Remarkables range of mountains. Vertical pressure, 400 ft. ; length of pressure-pipes, 1,200 ft. ; dirt-pipes, 12 in. diameter ; elevator-jet, 2-f in. tip ; size of throat-piece, 6 in. to 8 in. diameter. As is now well known, this sluicing plant secured good returns from ground abandoned as unpayable by a dredging company. The success of this party has induced a company to take up a flat claim above the sluicing claim for dredging purposes, and a dredge is being erected there. Undaunted Sluicing Claim, Upper Nevis (R. Williamson, manager).—This company was formed for the purpose of turning portions of the river in the gorge, near Scotchman's Creek, and working the river-bed. A large flume capable of carrying the water in the river during low seasons has been constructed, and a substantial wing-dam thrown across the river to divert the water into the flume. The dimensions of the flume are: Length, 6 chains, having a total fall

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of Bft. 3 in.; breadth, 24ft. for the first half-chain of length, drawing in to 12ft. thereafter; the sides of the flume are 4 ft. high, and are constructed of 4 in. by 3 in. framing with 12 in. by 1 in. planking, the whole structure being well stayed, and a suitable gangway with hand-rails provided. The wing-dam is 120 ft. in length. The piles are lift; long, sunk 7 ft. into the ground, and the wall is well breasted with large stones. Heavy swinging doors are let into the wall of the dam to allow extra water to escape during a rise in the river, but in spite of this precaution one section at the head of the flume had carried away in flood-time. The area of the claim is 100 acres, but a greater part of this is a narrow gorge, and an exceptionally low river will be required before this portion can be worked. The ground is about 14 ft. deep, and very rough. The gold is coarse. An undershot water-wheel drives a Californian pump to keep the working-paddock dry. Eight to ten men will be employed when the claim is in full swing. Waikaia. Argyle Sluicing Company's Claim, Waikaia (J. Stewart, manager). —This season has been a good one for sluicing, and the claim had not as usual been closed down during winter on account of frost. There has been little alteration to the plant since last report, but under capable management and favourable circumstances sluicing operations have been steadily conducted. The depth of the ground is 35 ft., the bottom layers consisting of heavy wash. The surface deposit consists of an accumulation of tailings from former sluicing claims on the surrounding terraces. Pressure, 330 ft. vertical head; height of lift, 32ft. The run of gold-saving boxes is about 120 ft. long, and provided with Venetian riffles and perforated plates on top of cocoanut-matting. Nine men are usually employed. Winding Creek Hydraulic-sluicing Claim, Waikaia. —This company made a trial of the deep ground, but found that the water-supply was totally inadequate to work the claim with success. The property is now let on tribute to a party of working-miners, who are ground-sluicing. This party has had a steady season's work. Gow's Creek Gold-mining Company, Waikaia (K. McLean, manager).—This claim is situated about six miles up Gow's Creek. A race has been brought in a distance of five miles from the upper reaches of the creek to command an alluvial flat, supposed to contain good gold. The race proved to be a costly undertaking, as the country was entirely unsuitable for race-cutting. The company holds first rights to thirty heads of water, and if the first plant meets with success an additional plant will be put on. At present the manager is engaged opening out a paddock, and has sunk 18 ft. through water-worn schist and quartz gravels. From appearances the ground will prove very rough. About six men are employed. Vertical pressure, 200 ft.; height of lift, 35 ft. The run of gold-saving boxes is 84 ft. long, and is provided with angle-iron ripples, perforated plates, and cocoanut-matting. The race has 13 ft. 4 in. fall to the mile. Later information regarding this claim is to the effect that operations did not meet with success. A further trial of the flat was made under new management, but the gold returns did not improve and the plant was finally closed down. Piano Flat Gold-mining Company, Upper Waikaia (F. Hamer, manager).—This is a claim of 26 acres, comprising flat and terrace ground on the Upper Waikaia River. The company has large water-rights from Cameron's and Welshman's Creeks, and a race has been cut in a distance of nine miles to a point from which it is siphoned across the river to the claim. An attempt was made to bottom the flat, but at 26 ft. the limit of the power was reached without the bottom being struck. The adjoining terrace was then attacked ; material operated on, being cemented, required extensive undermining before a fall would take place, and, having a weak pressure of water, this necestitated the nozzle being close up to the face. The attention of the manager was drawn to the danger to the men arising from large falls. Operations, however, did not meet with success, and the works have been finally closed down. Nokomai. Lion Hydraulic Sluicing and Elevating Company, Nokomai (D. McGregor, manager).—Last season a paddock was taken out to a depth of 85 ft. before bottom was reached, but owing to the advancing winter further developments did not take place. The material was elevated in one lift to a height of 112 ft. There is from 6 ft. to 8 ft. of gold-bearing wash on the bottom, but the great overburden is barren. This season an attempt was being made to pump the paddock out, preparatory to resuming sluicing operations. A large slip fell from the face, carrying away the dirtpipes, the run of boxes and trestlework being canted forward. Without making any attempt to stay or stiffen the structure, the manager and six men began to clear the gold-saving appliances out of the boxes. While they were thus engaged the structure collapsed, and the manager and three men fell with it. The manager had a small bone broken in one leg, but the other men escaped serious injury. I have since been informed that the intention is to drain the paddock and then drive out the wash, keeping the paddock dry with the hydraulic pump. This will do away with the necessity for removing the overburden. Victory Hydraulic Sluicing and Elevating Company, Nokomai (W. Franz, manager).—This claim is situated in Victoria Gully. Last season a dam was built to improve the water-supply and enable more constant work to be carried on. Franz and two men are now working this claim under tribute. Nokomai Gold-mining Company (Limited), (W. Robinson, manager).—No. 1 Claim: This claim is being worked systematically, and with highly payable results. The run of boxes is well put up and strongly stayed ; the ground averages 45 ft. in depth, and when opened out the faces stand well. Fifteen men are employed in and about this claim. The electric light is being used for night-work. No. 2 Claim: A dam having an area of 17f acres has been made on Nokomai Creek. The breastwork is 40 ft. high. The ground in the claim is very rough, and requires abetter water-

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supply than had been in use. The wash had been driven out in early times. Depth of ground, 15 ft. ; height of elevator, 26 ft. About fifteen Europeans and Chinese are employed in and about this claim. Copland's Sluicing Claim, Nokomai. —This is a ground-sluicing claim above the Nokomai No. 2 Claim. The water-supply is obtained from the by-wash from the Nokomai Race. One man employed. Round Hill. Bound Hill Gold-mining Company (J. Ramsay, manager).—Working to the reef on the township side of the gully, where good results had been obtained from old ground driven out by Chinese. At next shift of plant the intention is to turn the Ourawera Creek and work across to the Pahia side, in which direction the main alluvial field of the future may be expected to be found. A log and stone hauling and stumping plant on lines derived from bush-logging engines has been erected in the claim. Pelton-wheel drive being used saves an enormous amount of heavy hand-labour formerly necessary to clear timber and boulders in the stripping, 40 ft. to 80 ft. overlying the pay-wash, which is found resting immediately on the andesites, which here form the country-rock. Smith Gold-mining Com,pany. —Work continued steadily up the creek. Ourawera Gold-mining Company (J. Coulling, manager). —Opening out a new paddock, which is turning out very rough with timber and stones. Harrison's. —A small ground-sluicing and elevating plant, taking up the bottom and sides of Jewitt's Gully. Orepuki. As the frontage becomes worked out mining claims are gradually being extended back in the bush in the direction of Pahia and Round Hill. Two sawmill tramways having recently opened up the bush for some three miles, and access having become easier, areas of new ground payably auriferous are being discovered, and await the application of water, which is meanwhile in use on other parts of the field. Unfortunately the pressure obtainable is somewhat low and ill-adapted to clear bush and heavy stripping off the auriferous wash, which is known to be of a richer nature than is usually found in other localities. Owing to the density of the forest undergrowth on the Longwood Range surface prospecting is a matter of extreme difficulty, and to this cause perhaps, combined with an inefficient supply of water, is due the fact that this goldfield has not received the attention which its importance appears to have warranted. The usual number of mining claims continue working, and available water brought in is in full demand. The beach-combing claims on the sea-beach at the mouth of the main sludge-channel continue to be regularly worked in accord with the amount of tailings discharged from the various claims. Preservation Inlet. Goal Island. —Several parties of miners, ten men in all, are engaged ground-sluicing, all on Nos. 1 and 2 creeks. Messrs. Cullen and Clark have been working on Moonlight, but are now removing to Davey's Beach, below No. 1. Mr. Ramsay is clearing bush and sluicing down the creek at No. 1. Claims are being worked at No. 2 by Hodge and Cooper, Peterson and Garrick, and by Johnston and Crerar. In each of these claims, the creek-beds having previously been worked, attention is now being paid to the sloping sides of the banks above the creeks; bush is cleared away and water brought in along the sidelings. The ground, though shallow, is very heavy, many glacial granite boulders ranging up to 100 tons in weight being distributed over the claims. The gold obtained is all water-worn, and rough or coarse and shotty in character; numerous small nuggets have been found, one nugget recently obtained—which I saw —weighing 9oz. 11 dwt. At the head of No. 2 creek Mr. Campbell is ground-sluicing, but the work is too heavy for one man. The comparatively narrow creek gully here opens out to a bush-covered flat, some 200 acres in extent, which, as the creeks become worked out, will no doubt receive attention from the miners. The flat is said to be commanded by water obtainable from a lake on an adjacent part of the island. Capital would be required to erect a dam at the lake-outlet, and the water would have to be conveyed to the claim in pipes. The strata comprising the flat is, where exposed, seen to consist of fine sands and gravels resting on sandstone bottom, but whether gold occurs in runs through the flat or is evenly distributed remains yet to be proved. Glenny's Creek, The Neck. —McLennan and Riddell are ground-sluicing at the mouth of the creek. The wash in appearance resembles the glacial drifts on Coal Island, and the gold is similar in character. McNamara's, Sealer's No. I. —Treseder and Goodger are prospecting the terraces on the creekbanks. Sealer's Creek, Puysegur. —A hydraulic-elevating plant is lying in a state of disuse; the ground not having come up to expectations, the company became defunct. Fourteen men employed in the district in alluvial mining. Milford Sound. Messrs. Watson and McQueen have taken up a sluicing claim at Madagascar Beach. Waterrace to be brought in a mile and a half from the Wolf River. Wash, 9 ft. of quartz gravel covered by light bush. Prospecting. —At least two parties are known to have traversed country lying to the eastward of Milford, the Government tracks having proved of great advantage in opening up country and affording means of ingress and egress to the parties; but unfortunately the weather had been unpropitious, and less useful work was done than had been expected.

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Name of Dredge. Owners. Dredgemaster. Remarks. Dates of Visits. Clutha River. jioness, Rankleburn.. Lioness Gold-dredging Company I. Templeton Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order .. .. .. .. .. 27/1/02 Two boat-hooks and 100 ft. of heaving-line required; winoh-engine pinions to be guarded, 24/6/02. and rowlocks provided for the boats Dredge standing .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 29/9/02. Dredge and life-saving appliances in fair order.. .. .. .. .. .. 28/1/02. Dredge standing .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 24/6/02. Dredge and life-saving appliances in fair order.. .. .. .. .. .. 29/9/02. 'aul's Beach, below Beaumont Paul's Beach Golddredging Company J. Herbert G. Slater .. J. Anderson Jew Paul's Beach, below Beaumont Jolden Reward, below Beaumont 3-olden Gravel, below Beaumont Jew Golden Gravel, below Beaumont jhampion, Beaumont New Paul's Beach Gold-dredging Company Golden Reward Gold-dredging Co. .. Golden Gravel Golddredging Co. New Golden Gravel Gold-dredging Company Champion Gold-dredging Company .. J. Cummings T. Barnes Elevator driving-gear to be guarded; one buoy missing .. .. .. .. .. 29/1/02. Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order .. .. .. .. .. 29/1/02. .... .. .. .. 23/6/02. .. 29/9/02. Dredge repairing ; second boat lost .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 12/3/02. Dredge provided with second boat .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1/4/02. Visited dredge in connection with fatal accident to William Bishop, engineer, on 20th June, 22/6/02. 1902. Clothes caught in elevator driving-gear, and arm torn off Heaving-lines required ; otherwise dredge and life-saving appliances in good order .. 29/9/02. Getting ready for work; rules not posted, and coal-boat not at the dredge .. .. 29/1/02. Two life-belts required ; otherwise dredge and life-saving appliances in good order.. .. 12/3/02. Fencing down at the bows ; otherwise dredge and life-saving appliances in good order .. 25/6/02. Screen and elevator driving-gear to be guarded and stern fenced .. .. .. .. 1/10/02. Visited the dredge in connection with the fatal accident on the 30th October, 1902. Peter 1/11/02. Muller, winchman, was caught by coil of ladder-line, one leg being out off and other fractured. Muller died same night Dredge almost ready for work; rules not posted; coal-boat not on the claim ; three life-belts 29/1/02. required Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order .. .. .. .. .. 12/3/02. .. 1/10/02. New dredge starting work ; not yet equipped with life-saving appliances; machinery efii- 25/6/02. ciently guarded Dredge repairing .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... 1/10/02. Dredge and life-saving appliances in fair order ; second boat moored in the river, ahead of 30/1/02. the dredge, and used as a ferry-boat. I wrote to the company's secretary on the 7th February, 1902, to provide a second boat for use at the dredge Stern and well-hole fencing down ; to guard screen bevel gear ; new second boat provided .. 26/6/02. Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order .. .. .. .. .. 30/1/02. .. 25/6/02. .. 2/9/02. J. Herbert Jolden Glen, below Island Block Golden Glen Gold-dredging Company Not appointed J. J. Adair A. Gibson J. Wallace 3ritannia, Island Block Britannia Golddredging Company .. Not appointed Jew Britannia, Island Blook .. New Britannia Gold-dredging Company D. R. Jones A. Gibson W. Milne.. Island Block, Island Block Island Blook Gold - dredging Company Jolden Run, Miller's Flat Golden Run Gold-dredging Company H. Coutts Mde of the Clutha No. 1, Miller's Flat 3 ride of Clutha No. 2, Miller's Flat Jolden Gate, Miller's Flat Pringle and party Pringle and party J. Pringle J. Tough .. Golden Gate Gold-dredging Company D. Ballantyne .. 3/2/02. .. 2/10/02. To erect well-hole fencing and guard screen bevel gear .. .. .. .. .. 3/2/02. Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order .. .. .. .. .. 25/6/02. .. 26/6/02. * „ .. 2/10/02. )tago No. 1, Miller's Flat Otago Gold-dredging Company R. Williamson Jolden Treasure, Miller's Flat Golden Treasure Gold-dredging ComT. Cornish pany I

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Name of Dredge. Owners. Dredgemaster. Remarks. Dates of Visits. Clutha River— continued. Majestic, above Miller's Flat .. Majestic Gold-dredging Company W. Williamson Two boat-hooks required; two buoys to be repaired; guard-rail required on main engine and main driving belt Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order Driving belts and ropes to be guarded; well-hole fencing to be erected; heaving-lines required Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order 3/2/02. Golden Bed, Ettrick i Golden Bed Gold-dredging Company A. Maitland 26/6/02. 26/6/02 Ettrick, Ettrick Ettrick Gold-dredging Company T. Thompson Bar required across coal-door; also intermediate winch-pinion to be guarded Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order .. '.. 3/10/02. 4/2/02. 5/5/02. 27/6/02. 2/10/02. 5/5/02. Excelsior,. Ettrick Excelsior Gold-dredging Company .. J. Wallace Visited dredge in connection with fatal accident on 2nd May, 1902. James Cummings, winchman, was killed through winch driving-pinion bursting, and flying piece striking him on the head Fly-wheel to be guarded, and bar placed across the coal-door; screen and|elevator drivinggear should be more seourely guarded Fly-wheel not yet guarded, nor elevator driving-gear properly guarded Two life-buoys, measuring 15 in. inside diameter, are too small; otherwise life-saving appliances in good order Dredge and life-saviDg appliances in good order Gold Queen, Dumbarton Rook A. King 27/6/02. Gold Queen Gold-dredging Company 2/10/02. 4/2/02. Lady Roxburgh, Dumbarton Rock Gold King, Dumbarton Rock .. Lady Roxburgh Gold-dredging Company Gold King Golddredging Company .. A. Bremner O. Magnus Well-hole fencing pulled down ; well-hole gangway and bar across the coal-door out of position ; heaving-lines required; main belt-guard shaky and unsafe; fly-wheel to be guarded. The bows and stem require to be railed in ; otherwise the dredge and life-saving applianoes are in good order Stern and well-hole fencing down ; two boat-hooks required Second boat not kept at the dredge; platform to be taken out of coal-boat; bar required across the coal-door Well-hole fencing down ; 100 ft. of heaving-line required Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order New dredge almost ready to start work Soreen-pinions to be guarded; one life-buoy, 15in. inside diameter, too small; otherwise appliances in good order Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order Forward railing not in position; main fly-wheel, screen-belt, and bevel-gear guards to be erected Dredge undergoing extensive overhaul Dredge being shifted from Gibbs's Beach ; life-saving appliances in good order Well-hole gangway broken up; well-hole fencing down, and stern fenoing weak; screen driving-gear and main rope-drive require to be guarded ; bar required across ooal-door Dredge and life-saving appliances now in good order Dredge and life-saving appliances in fair order, but all life-buoys too small 3/10/02. 4/2/02. 27/6/02. Main Lead Hercules, Dumbarton Rook Main Lead Hercules Gold-dredging Company Joseph Sparrow Endeavour Gold-dredging Company .. E. Butler 5/2/02. Endeavour, Dumbarton Rook .. 0. Olsen A. Rennie 3/10/02. 5/2/02. Roxburgh Jubilee, Roxburgh .. Roxburgh Jubilee Gold-dredging Company J. Tough F. J. C. McClure .. E. Butler 27/6/02. 3/10/02. 28/6/02. 3/10/02. Teviot, Roxburgh Teviot Gold-dredging Company P. McVioar 5/2/02. 26/6/02. New Teviot, Roxburgh Molyneux Kohinoor, Coal Creek Flat New Teviot Gold-dredging Company Molyneux Kohinoor Gold - dredging Company D. Mitohell J. Guyton 14/11/02. 5/2/02. 28/6/02. Coal Oreek Flat, Coal Creek Flat Coal Creek Flat Gold-dredging Company S. Coard .. 1/10/02. 1/3/02. 2/4/02. 28/6/02. 4/10/02. 5/2/02. 4/10/02. Gold Deposit, Coal Creek Flat Golden Elbow, Coal Creek Flat Gold Deposit Gold-dredging Company Golden Elbow Golddredging Company W. Murray M. Harlewich Stern fencing down; heaving-lines required; well-hole gangway not provided Guards off screen-pinions one boat-hook and 150 ft. of heaving-line required Dredge standing; suitable second boat not yet provided Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order

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Name of Dredge. Owners. Dredgemaster. Remarks. Dates of v isits. Clutha River— continued. Coal Creek-Alexandra Gorge (Clutha River). Long Valley 30/6/02. Fourteen-mile Beach Golden River Long Valley Gold-dredging Company Fourteen-mile Beaoh Gold-dredging Co. Golden River Gold-dredging Company W. Woodhouse G. P. Blue P. Reader Stern and well-hole fencing down ; well-hole gangway not in position; elevator driving-gear and main fly-wheel to be fenced ; heaving-lines required Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order Forward platform too weak ; bows and stern to be fenced Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order 7/10/02. 1/7/02. 6/2/02. 1/7/02. 8/10/02. Molyneux Falls J. Taylor Two boat-hooks and 100 ft. of heaving-line required; otherwise dredge and life-saving appliances in good order Second boat required; large boat to be equipped with life-saving appliances Dredge standing ; visited in connection with accident on 9th September, 1902. Thomas Wilson, dredgemaster, received blow on the head from the handle of the water-brake on current-wheels Dredge provided with only one boat; main and screen driving-belts to be guarded Dredge and appliances in fair order ; coal-boat not at the dredge ; dredge standing Light-lines, buoys, and boat-hooks not in position ; well-hole fenoing down; boats not equipped with life-saving appliances ; main fly-wheel not guarded ; efficient well-hole gangway not provided Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order Hyde and party J. McKersey T. Wilson 6/2/02. 8/10/02. River Molyneux New River Molyneux Bendigo River Molyneux Gold-dredging Co. .. New River Molyneux Gold-dredgingCo. Bendigo Gold-dredging Company T. Sanders Caretaker T. McMath 30/5/02. 10/10/02. 39/5/02. First Chanoe New First Chanoe Sailor's Bend First Chance Gold-dredging Company New First Chance Gold-dredging Co. Sailor's Bend Gold-dredging Company S. Hoy .. J. Dewar .. 10/10/02. 30/5/02. 10/10/02. 30/5/02. 10/10/02. 31/5/02. 9/11/02. 10/11/02. 3/7/02. Manuherikia Manuherikia Gold-dredging Company L. Anderson Moa No. 2 Moa No. 1 Clyde Gold-dredging Company Clyde Gold-dredging Company W. Nioholson Well-hole fencing down ; life-buoy, boat-hook, and heaving-line not in position on bows; rope-drive and main fly wheel to be guarded Dredge standing ; examined the pontoons internally, and found the red-pine framing and bottom planking much deteriorated. Communicated with the secretary of the company, and had the dredge removed from her position on the river Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order; well-hole to be fenced Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order; well-hole not yet fenced; to guard flywheel and main belts To guard screen driving-gear more effectively ; well-hole fencing down ; well-hole gangway not in place ; fence bows ; guard fly-wheel; two buoys missing Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order Condemned the use of raised platform in the coal-boat; otherwise dredge and life-saving applianoes in good order Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order 9/11/02. Alexandra. Alexandra Lead Alexandra Lead Gold-dredging Company R. Ross .. 13/2/02. 28/2/02 ; 3/7/02. 3/7/02. Molyneux Hydraulio Molyneux Hydraulio Gold-dredging Company C. Simonsen Alexandra Eureka Alexandra Eureka Gold-dredging ComN. Bradley 11/10/02. 13/2/02. pany 3/7/02. 13/2/02. 8/7/02. 3/7/02. Golden Beach Golden Beach Gold-dredging Company J. Scott .. Ngapara No. 1 Ngapara Gold-dredging Company M. Soott .. Elevator driving-gear to be guarded; one boat-hook and 100ft. of heaving-line required; stern and bows to be fenced ; bar required across coal-door Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order Ngapara Extended Ngapara Gold dredging Company G. McDonald 9/7/Q2. 6/12/02.

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Name of Dredge. Owners. Dredgemaster. Remarks. Dates of Visits. Clutha River— continued. Alexandra —continued. Enterprise No. 1 .. Elevator-pinions to be guarded; stern and well-hole to be fenced; two boat-hooks required Well-hole fencing down ; guard soreen and elevator driving-gear, also main fly-wheel; second boat condemned as unfit for running on a line Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order Enterprise Gold-dredging Company .. T. Sawyer 3/7/02. Enterprise No. 2 .. Enterprise Gold-dredging Company .. G. MaoGregor 3/7/02. Earnscleugh No. 1 .. Earnscleugh No. 2 .. Earnscleugh No. 3 .. Chicago Earnscleugh Gold-dredging Company Earnscleugh Gold-dredging Company Earnscleugh No. 3 Gold-dredging Company Chicago Golddredging Company J. Fouhy .. C. Weaver W. Hansen W. Poppelwell C. Russell S. Crow .. S. Cameron Two buoys falling to pieces ; otherwise life-saving appliances in good order .. New dredge to be worked by electrio power; getting ready to start .. .. Guard screen driving-gear, and fence in the well-hole and sides of pontoons Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order Dredge repairing Dredge standing Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order 9/7/02. 8/7/02. 13/10/02. 8/7/02. 13/10/02. 8/7/02. 13/10/02. 3/7/02. 13/10/02. 8/7/02. 13/10/02. 13/2/02. 9/3/02. 13/10/02. Glasgow Sandy Point Golddredging Company Perseverance No. 1 .. Perseverance Gold-dredging Company Perseverance No. 2 .. Perseverance Gold-dredging Company i „ One buoy to be re-covered; elevator-pinions to be guarded; new set of regulations required Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order Dunstan Lead Dunstan Lead Gold-dredging Company D. Bringans Stern fencing and housing carried away on the port pontoon ; fencing down on bows and well-hole; one buoy, heaving-lines, and boat-hooks required; fly-wheel to be fenced; well-hole gangway to be provided Fly-wheel guard insecure ; stern fencing not erected ; well-hole gangway not provided Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order 13/2/02. 13/10/02. 27/2/02. 7/7/02. Matau Gold-dredging Company H. P. Sanders 9/7/02. 14/10/02. Below Clyde. Matau Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order 28/2/02. 8/7/02. 28/2/02. 8/7/02. Unity Unity Gold-dredging Company T. Barry .. Guard fly-wheel, air-pump, and screen bevel gear ; heaving-lines required Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order At Clyde. New Vinoent New Vincent Golddredging Company J. Kane .. Guard fly-wheel; fence bows, well-hole, and coal-door; one buoy, 14in. inside diameter, too small New set of life-belts to be provided ; otherwise dredge and life-saving appliances in good order Guard fly-wheel and winch-engine pinions; fence stern and well-hole Well-hole fencing insecure ; screen driving-gear unprotected Dredge and life-saving appliances in fair order Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order j 8/7/02. Old Dunstan Clyde-Cromwell Gorge. Davis Bend Leaning Rock New Leaning Rock .. Monte Christo Old Dunstan Gold-dredging Company Davis Bend Gold-dredging Company Leaning Rock Gold-dredging Company New Leaning Rock Gold-dredging Co. Monte Christo Gold-dredging Company J. Hewitt J. Blair Mason D. Murray J. Louden ; T. Kean .. i Three buoys, 14 in. inside diameter, are too small Dredge and life-saving appliances in fair order Guard fly-wheel and main pump Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order Dredge standing Dredge undergoing alterations Dredge and life-saving appliances in fair order 13/10/02. 14/10/02. 24/10/02. 7/11/02. 9/7/02. 14/10/02. 10/3/02. 23/10/02. 10/7/02. 23/10/02. 14/2/02. 5/4/02. 10/7/02. 24/10/02. Boundary Creek ., Boundary Creek Gold-dredging Company Half-way House Gold-dredging Co. .. New Half-wav House Gold-dredging Co. Caretaker I G. S. Morris | D. Murray ! Caretaker Half-way House New Half-way House

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Name of Dredge. Owners. Dredgemaster. Remarks. Dates of Visits. Clutha River— continued. Clyde-Cromwell Gorge— oontd. Kelly and Casey H. Brioe .. Caretaker G. Goodger T.Hogg .. J. Watt .. A. Johnston G. McLay R. Ross .. Dredge undergoing alterations to improve the freeboard of the pontoons Dredge and life-saving appliances in fair order .. j Dredge standing; recommended that the head-lines should be raised from the rooks on which they have been lying a considerable time .. I Well-bole fencing and gangway out of place ; coal-boat not equipped ; screen driving-gear, main belts, and fly-wheel to be guarded; heaving-lines required Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order .. Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order; winch-engine to be guarded .. Dredge and life-saving applianoes in good order .. Guard screen bevel gear and set-screws on tension-pulley ; rail required on sand-chute ; flywheel and rope-drive to be guarded Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order .. Fence stern and guard main belts; otherwise dredge and appliances in good order Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order Dredge and life-saving appliances in fair order; examined the pontoons and found them sound, but with an insufficient amount of freeboard 10/3/02. 5/4/02. 10/7/02>. 24/10/02. Kelly and Casey Gold-dredging Company Great Central Great Central Gold-dredging Company Alpine Consols Alpine Consols Gold-dredging Company 10/7/02. Riley's Beach Riley's Beach Gold-dredging Company 15/10/02. 4/4/02. 7/11/02. 10/7/02. Alpine No. 2 Alpine No. 2 Gold-dredging Company Hartley and Riley Hartley and Riley Gold-dredging Company Junetion-Electrio Gold-dredging Company 7/11/02. 11/7/02. 24/10/02. 24/10/02. Junction-Eleotrio No. 2 Above Cromwell. Royal Maori New Royal Maori Point d'Or Royal Maori Gold-dredging Company New Royal Maori Gold-dredging Co. Point d'Or Gold-dredging Company .. F. Kitto .. D. Murray M. Murray D. MoGormack J. Ray .. G. Pettigrew .. j Rail required on sand-chute ; main belts to be fenced .. .. Heaving-lines required; dredge and life-saving appliances in fair order .. .. Dredge and life-saving appliances in fair order; one life-buoy, 14in. inside measurement, is too small Fencing on bows, stern, and sand-chute down ; heaving-lines too light; boats to be efficiently equipped Dredge and life-saving applianoes in good order .. Elevator driving-gear to be guarded, and approaches made to the elevator; bar required across coal-door; and three life-beits required .. Door to be made in housing for convenient access behind the fly-wheel .. Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order .. New dredge not yet equipped with life-saving apparatus, nor machinery efficiently guarded 11/7/02. 16/10/02. 15/2/02. 11/7/02. Rise and Shine Rise and Shine Gold-dredging Company 16/10/02. 15/2/02. Luggate. Golden Chain Below Albertown. Upper Clutha Golden Chain Gold-dredging Company 11/7/02. 16/10/02. 18/10/02. Upper Clutha Gold-dredging Company Adam Gibson J. Percy .. .. Three life-belts required, also a bar across the coal-door; the well-hole gangway is too light; guard main belts and fly-wheel; coal-boat requires an overhaul .. Light-lines and boat-hooks required ; screen driving-gear not guarded 17/2/02. 22/10/02. Kawarau River. Above Cromwell. Central Electric Central Eleotric Gold-dredging Company J. Saunders .. | Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order 15/2/02. 5/4/02. 11/7/02. 5/4/02. 5/4/02. 14/7/02. 21/2/02. 14/7/02. 6/11/02. 21/2/02. Electrio Extended Junetion-Electrio No. 1. Cromwell Lady Ranfurly Electrio Extended Gold-dredging Co. Junction-Electric Gold-dredging Co... Cromwell Gold-dredging Company Electric Gold-dredging Company J. Scoles .. A. Hedley N. P. Kloogh A. Steel .. J.Troy .. W. Kitto.. Guard screen driving-gear; well hole gangway too weak .. Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order .. Dredge-ladders silted up ; life-saving applianoes in good order .. Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order .. Well-hole fencing down ; guard screen driving-gear Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order Magnetic Magnetic Gold-dredging Company ..

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Name of Dredge. Owners. Dredgemaster. Remarks. Dates of Vis ts. Kawarau River — continued. Kawarau Gorge. EleotricNo. 2 Voltaic Electrio Gold-dredging Company Voltaio Gold-dredging Company A. Hedley W. Stevens Guard fly-wheel and screen driving-gear ; one buoy required Well-hole gangway not in position, and well-hole fencing down; boat-hooks and heavinglines required; screen-pinions and fly-wheel to be guarded; bar required across ooal-door Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order 200 ft. of heaving-line and two boat-hooks required Gangway required across the well-hole, and screen driving-gear to be guarded; bows of seoond boat require caulking Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order New dredge ready to start work Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order Fence screen driving-gear ; well-hole and forward fencing down ; well-hole gangway not in position ; heaving-lines required ; two buoys, 14 in. inside measurement, too small Dredge and life-saving appliance's in good order 6/11/02. 27/5/02. Upper Magnetic Annie Queen Golddredging Co. J. Ritchie 19/7/02. 25/2/02. 22/7/02. Gentle Annie Gentle Annie Gold-dredging Company D. McLean 25/10/02. 25/2/02. 7/4/02. 19/7/02. Meg and Annie Meg and Annie Gold-dredging Company E. MoDonnell Guard screen driving-gear; fence main belts and rope-drive ; well-hole gangway not in position ; heaving-lines and one boat-hook required ; one buoy, 14 in. inside measurement, too small Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order .. .. .. Guard fly-wheel and main belt; provide stern fenoing and approach to elevator Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order 25/7/02. 25/2/02. 22/7/02. Grand Junction Grand Junction Gold-dredging Company A. Young 25/10/02. 25/10/02. 28/10/02. Gibbston. Caretaker T. Spain .. J. Richmond Merrimac Golden Molyneux Galvanic Merrimac Gold-dredging Company .. Golden Molyneux Gold-dredging Go. Galvanic Gold-dredging Company Dredge standing Dredge being dismantled This dredge, which was recently sunk, is unprovided with boats and life-saving applianoes .. Guard screen driving-gear and winch-engine; three buoys, 14 in. inside measurement, too small Regulations not posted; dredge stopped for alteration ; the second boat, which had been a ship's boat, is unsuitable for river-work, and has been condemned Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order ; the cork jackets in use are rather heavy for convenience in working Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order Dredge moored in safe position 22/2/02. 29/10/02. 22/2/02. 22/7/02. Gibbston Gibbston Gold-dredging Company .. A. Steel .. 29/10/02. Eolipse Eclipse Gold-dredging Company R. Woods 22/2/02. Above Kawarau Bridge. Kawarau Bridge Kawarau Bridge Gold-dredging Company Arrow Junction Gold-dredging Co. .. Reid and party Kia Ora Gold-dredging Company W. Jones Caretaker 22/7/02. 24/2/02. 22/7/02. 24/2/02. 21/7/02. 24/2/02. Arrow Junction Kia Ora S. Hoy .. P. Reid .. G. S. Morris Gangway required across well-hole; two more life-belts required Guard main fly-wheel, and use the well-hole gangway Reg. 83, Rule 1, disregarded; elevator driving-gear to be guarded ; port bow-line fair lead to be shifted ; the seoond boat, 12 ft. in length by 5 ft. beam by 2 ft. 6 in. in depth, has been condemned as unfit for river-work Dredge standing; dredge and life-saving applianoes in good order and repair Kia Ora Golden Vein Gold-dredging Company A. Bremner 24/5/02. Shotover River. Prince Arthur Prince Arthur Gold-dredging Company J. Kitto .. New dredge getting ready for work 19/5/02. 16/6/02. 21/7/02. Maori Point Maori Point Gold-dredging Company J. Hoskins Well-hole fenoing not erected; main belts and fly-wheel to be guarded ; the second boat is too light and narrow for river-work, and has been oondemned Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order ; suitable seoond boat not yet provided .. i Dredge and life-saving applianoes in good order; the large boat was lying on the beach Large boat now at the dredge 27/10/02. 17/5/02 21/5/02.

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Owners. Dredgemaster. Remarks. Dates of Visits. Name ot Dredge. Cardrona Valley. Lone Star, below Branch Creek La Franohi's Lone Star Gold-dredging Company .. La Franchi's Gold-dredging Company G. Melton A. La Franohi Heaving-lines required; well-hole fencing down ; forward and well-hole gangways not in 14/7/02. position ; main belts not fenced ; boat not in paddook Dredge and life-saving appliances in fair order.. .. .. .. .. ,, 20/10/02. Boat-hooks and heaving-lines required; guard screen, driving-gear, and all set-screws ; for- 14/7/02. ward and well-hole gangways required Dredge and life-saving appliances in fair order ; heaving-lines required .. .. .. 20/10/02. Nevis River. Nevis. Crewe Gold-dredging Company J. A. Cheshire Crewe Carrick New Nevis Carrick Gold-dredging Company New Nevis Gold-dredging Company ! J. Thompson Fencing required on stern and bows ; main belts and screen driving-gear not guarded ; 31/10/02. regulations not posted Contractors removing dredge to Upper Nevis .. .. .. .. .. .. 31/10/02 Guard winch bevel gear and main and elevator driving-belts; boat-hooks and heaving-lines 31/10/02' required ; new copy of regulations to be posted up Heaving-lines and boat-hooks required ; otherwise life-saving appliances in good order .. 31/10/02. Fence bows ; guard rope-drive and pump-belt; bar required across the coal-door .. .. 31/10/02'. Contractors removing Remarkables dredge to the Nevis Crossing .. .. .. 31/10/02* Ngapara No. 2 Ngapara No. 3 Nevis Crossing Ngapara Gold-dredging Company Ngapara Gold-dredging Company Nevis Crossing Gold-dredging ComA. McLean " Bannockburn. Shepherd's Creek pany Shepherd's Creek Gold-dredging Company Position vacant Dredge standing for some considerable time .. .. .. .. .. .. 14/7/02 Manuherikia River. Golden Link, Alexandra Golden Link Gold-dredging Company W. Poulter Well-hole fencing; to be erected; heaving-lines and boat-hooks required; this dredge 8/2/02. requires to be provided with a second boat Forward gangway not in position; two buoys, 150ft. of heaving-line, and two boat-hcoks 11/2/02. required Boat-hooks and heaving-lines required; new copy of regulations to be posted up .. .. 11/10/02. Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order .. .. .. ..' 8/11/02 Elevator driving-gear to be guarded ; forward railing to be erected .. .. .. 11/2/02. Boat not in paddock ; otherwise dredge and life-saving appliances in good order .. 19/2/02'. Morning Star, above Alexandra Morning Star Golddredging Company W. Mason J. Timmings Olrig, Springvale Olrig Gold-dredging Company E. A. Johnston Ida Valley. Cairntrodlie Poolburn Cairntrodlie Gold-dredging Company H. Mercer Heaving-lines required ; boat not in paddock .. .. .. .. .. ... 5/12/02 Naseby. Roberts's Naumai, Upper Kyeburn E. Roberts C. McQueen Dredge and life-saving appliances in fair order .. .. .. .. ... 12/12/02. Tuapeka. Evans Flat, Evans Flat Evans Flat Gold-dredging Company T. Gillespie Light-lines and boat-hooks required; main belts and fly-wheel to be guarded; regulations 19/6/02. not posted Boat not equipped ; life-buoys to be re-covered; boat-hooks and light-lines to be provided .. 19/6/02. Two boat-hooks and 150ft. of heaving-line required; forward gangway not in position; 19/6/02. bevel gear and fly-wheel to be guarded One boat-hook missing ; boat not equipped ; stern railing down.. .. .. .. 19/6/02. One boat-hook required ; boat not equipped .. .. .. .. .. _ _ 19/6/02! Guard fly-wheel, set-screws on winch-shaft, also main and pump driving-belts ; well-hole 21/8/02! and forward gangways not in use Dredge and life-saving appliances in fair order.. .. .. .. .. __ 21/8/02. Lawrence, Tuapeka Flat Reliance, Tuapeka Flat Lawrence Gold-dredging Company .. Reliance Gold-dredging Company Tuapeka Gold-dredging Company Gabriel Golddredging Company Happy Valley Gold-dredging Company S. McStay J. Hughes R. Montgomery J. P. Uren A. N. Wakefield Tuapeka, Tuapeka Gabriel, Tuapeka Flat Happy Valley, Wetherstone's Golden Rise, Wetherstone's .. Adams, Smythe, and party ■ ■ .. J. Buchanan

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Name of Dredge. Owners. Dredgemaster. Remarks. Dates of Visits. Tuapeka— continued. Imperial, Waitahuna Imperial Gold-dredging Company .. W. Noble Havelock Gold-dredging Company .. W. Rowe .. Gordon Gold-dredging Company .. H. Crozier A. C. Broad .. .. ... J. Baker .. Waitahuna Gold-dredging Company.. J. Donaldson .. Outside guard required on the top gearing; beaving-lines and boat-hooks required ; new copy of regulations required ; fly-wheel to be guarded P ziii'i Boat-hooks and heaving-lines required ; set-screws on winch-shaft to be guarded ; new set of regulations required .. Well-hole gangway required : outside guard required on the top gear ; boat to be equipped with life-saving apparatus .. Forward and well-hole gangways not in use; boat-hooks and heaving-lines required; regulations not posted .. Fly-wheel and main belts to be fenced; set-screws on winoh-shaft to be guarded; boathooks required ; boat not equipped with life-saving apparatus ; regulations not posted 22/8/02. Havelock, Waitahuna 22/8/02. Gordon, Waitahuna .. 22/8/02. Manuka, Waitahuna 22/8/02.' Waitahuna Gully, Waitahuna 22/8/02. Glenore. Gold Bank, Glenore Stirling, Glenore Gold Bank Golddredging Company .. W. Thomas Stirling Gold-dredging Company .. J. Nelson .. Dredge standing ; new pontoons to be built Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order 22/8/02. 22/8/02. Waipori. New Jutland Flat, Waipori .. New Jutland Flat Gold-dredging Com- Not appointed pany T. Jefferson Quilter and partv .. .. .. W. Quilter W. Carr .. I This dredge is being fitted with O'Brien's system of hydraulic power .. Guard required on top gear ; set-screws to be guarded ; well-hole gangway required Dredge and life-saving applianoes in good order .. Re-erecting the dredge at Waipori Township .. .. Visited in connection with the accident on the 13th August, 1902. W. Quilter, winchman, while oiling machinery in motion, had his arm torn ofi Dredge and life-saving appliances in fair order.. 19/4/02. 18/8/02. 27/11/02. 6/3/02. 16/8/02. G'Brien's Patent, Waipori Upper Waipori, Waipori 27/11/02. 18/4/02. 27/11/02. 6/3/02. 18/4/02. 31/1/02. Waipori Consolidated, Waipori Success, Waipori Perseverance (McNeil's), Waipori Empire No. 1, Waipori Upper Waipori Gold-dredging Com- C. Haggitt pany Waipori Consolidated Gold-dredging T. Jefferson Company Success Gold-dredging Company .. j W. Hanley Perseverance Gold-dredging Company D. Aitken Empire Gold-dredging Company .. G. Larkins Golden Shore Gold-dredging Company R. Allen .. Forward gangway to be repaired Two buoys to be re-covered Dredge visited in connection with drowning fatality on 30th January, 1902. J. J. MoClusky was drowned through swamping of the boat while under-running a line Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order .. , One buoy to be re-covered ; 150 ft. of heaving-lines and two boat-hooks required; sleeve to be put on main engine-shaft .. i Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order .. .. .. .. .. j 18/4/02. 18/4/02. 18/4/02. Golden Shore, Waipori 18/4/02. 28/11/02. Empire No. 2, Waipori Empire Gold-dredging Company .. G. Larkins Lower Enfield Gold-dredging Company C. Potts .. Enfield Gold-dredging Company .. C. Adamson Big Flat Gold-dredging Company .. Caretaker Broad Greek Gold-dredging Companv D. Mitchell One boat-hook missing; sleeve required on main engine-shaft; forward gangway out of repair Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order .. This dredge is being fitted with O'Brien's system of hydraulic power New dredge not yet equipped with life-saving appliances, nor machinery efficiently guarded Fence the bows and guard winch bevel gear; forward gangway required Screen driving-gear and winch-pinions to be guarded ; bows to be fenced in .. Dredge standing .. New dredge not yet equipped with life-saving appliances, nor machinery efficiently guarded 17/4/02 Lower Enfield, Waipori Enfield, Waipori Big Fiat, Verterburn Broad Creek, Welch's Flat 28/11/02. 17/4/02. 17/8/02. 28/11/02. 17/4/02. 17/4/02. 17/4/02.

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Name of Dredge. Owners. Dredgemaster. Remarks. Dates of Visits. Shao River. Incholme, Inch Valley Inohdale, Inch "Valley Incholme Gold-dredging Company .. Inchdale Gold-dredging Company .. P. Brennan Dredge standing Screen driving-gear and main fly-wheel to be guarded ; well-hole gangway not in use ; heaving-lines and boat-hooks required ; main pump to be guarded Well-hole gangway to be provided ; boot-hooks required Dredge standing 12/8/02. Inch Valley, Inch Valley Dunback, Dunback Inch Valley Gold-dredging Company.. Dunback Gold-dredging Company .. J. Black .. 12/8/02. 12/8/02. Pomahaka River. Greenvale, Scrubby Flat Ardmore, Kelso Greenvale Gold-dredging Company .. Private syndicate Caretaker G. Reid .. Life-saving appliances not provided ; dredge standing Forward gangway required ; fly-wheel and shaft of main engine to be guarded ; boat not in the paddock 7/5/02. 7/5/02. Mataura River. Mataura Consolidated, Mataura Island Central Mataura No. 2 Private syndicate P. Busbridge Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order 22/4/02. Central Mataura Gold-dredging Company W. Shore.. 1/9/02. Edendale. Two Creeks, Edendale Two Creeks Gold-dredging Company F. W. Jones Life-saving applianoes not provided ; the coal-punt has too little freeboard Two buoys, three boat-hooks, and 150 ft. of heaving-line required 21/1/02. 22/4/02. Waikaka River. Sheddon's Freehold, Waikaka Valley Waikaka Syndicate, Waikaka Valley Lilliesleaf, Waikaka Valley .. Waikaka, Waikaka Valley Gleniti, Waikaka Patterson's Freehold, Waikaka Sheddon's Freehold Gold - dredging Company Waikaka Gold-dredging Syndicate W. Patterson Not appointed Forward gangway required ; otherwise dredge and appliances in good order Pontoons launched .. Dredge repairing ; life-saving applianoes in good order Main and pump belting to be guarded Dredge standing Light-lines required ; otherwise dredge and life-saving appliances in good order Dredge and life-saving applianoes in good order Forward gangway required 29/4/02. 27/8/02. Lilliesleaf Gold-dredging Co. (private) Waikaka Gold-dredging Company Gleniti Gold-dredging Company Patterson's Freehold Gold - dredging Company Record Golddredging Syndicate Celtic Gold-dredging Company J. R. Perry R. F. White J. Watt .. Position vacant J. Patterson 29/4/02. 29/4/02. 29/4/02. 4/3/02. 28/8/02. 29/4/02. 29/4/02. 4/3/02. 28/8/02. Record, Waikaka Celtic, Waikaka Perry's Pioneer, Waikaka H.May .. P. Brandt H. Parsons Dredge and life-saving appliances in fair order Little Waikaka River. Little Waikaka, Waikaka Little Waikaka Gold-dredging Company (private) Ibbotson and party .. Globe Gold-dredging Company J. Brownlie 30/4/02. Ibbotson's, Waikaka Globe, Waikaka T. Maslin G.Lee .. : Dredge and life-saving aplianoes in fair order 30/4/02. 4/3/02. 28/8/02. 30/4/02. 28/8/02. 30/4/02. Waikaka United No. 1, Waikaka Waikaka United No. 2, Waikaka Waikaka Queen, Waikaka Waikaka United Gold-dredging Co. .. Waikaka United Gold-dredging Co. .. Waikaka Queen Gold-dredging ComW.Wilson.. T. A. Graham J. Wallace Forward gangway required New dredge starting work ; regulations not posted ; forward gangway required Forward gangway not in position ; 150 ft. of heaving-line required ; well-hole fencing down and side rails on the boxes shaken Three boat-hooks and 150 ft. of heaving-line required ; forward gangway too weak ; fly-wheel to be guarded Re-ereoting Lower Shotover dredge Regulations not posted ; one buoy and three boat-hooks required; well-hole, gangway, and fencing required Dredge and equipment in good order Re-erecting the Premier No. 1 dredge from Maerewhenua Regulations not posted; new dredge not yet fully equipped with life-saving apparatus Forward gangway required; also 150 ft. of heaving-line and two boat-hooks Waikaka Forks, Waikaka pany Irvine and party (private) J. Henderson 30/4/02. Lee's Steel Dredge, Waikaka .. Robert Lee W. Wilson 1/5/02. 28/8/02. Chatton. Ibbotson's, Chatton Reserve .. Ibbotson and party (private) T. J. Ibbotson 25/10/02. 2/5/02. 29/8/02. 1/5/02. Gold Creek, Chatton Gold Creek Dredging Company (private) W. Robins

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Name of Dredge. Owners. Dredgemaster. Remarks. Dates of Visits. Qrj Waimumu Stream, Waimumu. I Viotoria, Waimumu .. Waimumu Victoria Waimumu Gold-dredging Company Private H. Quertier Dredge ready to start work Dredge being dismantled for removal to Waikaka Dredge standing This dredge has not yet been efficiently provided with life-saving applianoes, nor the machinery properly guarded Forward gangway required; dredge repairing Dredge undergoing extensive overhaul Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order Well-hole gangway to be provided ; pulley on main engine to be guarded One buoy missing ; dredge repairing Dredge and life-saving appliances in fair order ; recommended a passage-way to be made under the tables New dredge not provided with life-saving appliances, nor maohinery efficiently guarded Rules not posted ; forward gangway not in position ; guard set-sorew and coupling on winoh driving-shaft Well-hole and forward gangways not provided ; 150 ft. of heaving-line required Well-hole gangway required; otherwise dredge and life-saving appliances in good order Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order 22/1/02. 26/8/02. 22/1/02. 26/8/03. F. Browne W. F. Thompson .. CO Waimumu Queen Waimumu Queen Gold-dredging Company Waimumu Extended Gold-dredging Company Waimumu Gold-dredging Company .. Ed. Reid .. J. Murray G. Pettigrew H. Leicester J. F. T. Berendsen 22/1/02. 26/8/02. 22/1/02. 26/8/02. 22/1/02. 26/8/02. Waimumu Extended Waimumu Royal Waimumu Royal Waimumu Golddredging Company W. Wilson 22/1/02. 26/8/02. Waimumu Central Waimumu Central Gold-dredging Company Burrel's Freehold Gold-dredging Company McLean's Freehold Gold - dredging Company D. Caithness 22/1/02. 26/8/02. 22/1/02. 26/8/02. 22/1/02. 26/8/02. Burrell's Freehold G. Bennett MoLean's Freehold D. MoKenzie Re-erecting Milestone dredge Well-hole gangway required; hatch to be cut for easy access behind the pump; bevel gear to be guarded ; boat not yet provided New dredge not yet equipped with life-saviug applianoes Fly-wheel of main engine and pump-belt to be fenced ; forward gangway not in position Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order Charlton Creek, Charlton. MacCharlton MacCharlton Gold-dredging Company P. Brandt 27/8/02. 1/9/02. 23/1/02. 27/8/02. 23/1/02. 27/8/02. 23/1/02. 27/8/02. Charlton Creek Charlton Creek Gold-dredging Company Central Charlton Gold-dredging Company Charlton Valley Gold-dredging Company C. Bennett Central Charlton J. McCorkindale .. Boat not in paddock ; one buoy not on bows ; boat-hook and light-line required aft Dredge and applianoes in fair order Well-hole gangway not in position ; bar required across coal-door; fly-wheel to be guarded ; one boat-hook and 50 ft. of heaving-line required Dredge and life-saving appliances in good order Dredge standing Charlton Valley W. G. Mouat W. McCorkindale .. Lady Charlton Lady Charlton Gold-dredging Company J. Murray W. Gibb 24/1/02. 27/8/02. Waikaia River. Mystery Flat, Waikaia Nugget, Upper Waikaia Muddy Creek (Limited), Muddy Creek Waiau River. Belmont, Clifton Mystery Flat Gold-dredging Company Private syndicate Muddy Creek Gold-dredging Company (Limited). E. Lawson J. Taylor F. Browne Forward gangway required Dredge and life-saving appliances in fair order 10/5/02. 11/5/02. 12/5/02. F. Jack .. D. O'Leary Second boat not at the dredge ; railing torn off bows Visited dredge in connection with the fatal accident on 28th July, 1902. While boating wood Charles Prince was drowned through boat swamping 24/4/02. 30/7/02.

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Summary of Dredges in Southern Mining District. Working At 31st -December, 190 Si. In Otago ... ... ... .... ... ... ... 122 In Southland ... ... ... ... ... ... 29 151 Building— —— In Otago ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 2 In Southland ... ... ... ... ... ... 6 8 Standing— — In Otago ... ... ... . ... ... - ... ... 27 In Southland ... ... ... ... ... ... 9 36 Eemoving— — In Otago ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 12 In Southland ... ... ... ... ... ... 2 14 Wrecked— * ■ — In Otago ... ... ... ... ... . . ... 2 2 Totalfor Otago and Southland ... ... ... 211 Increase of working dredges — Otago ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 7 Decrease of working dredges— — Southland... ... ... ... ... ... • ... 3 At the end of December, 1901, the total number of dredges in Otago and Southland was 228. At the end of December, 1902, this number dropped to 211. During the year there was an increase of seven working dredges in Otago, and a decrease of three in Southland. Eighteen new dredges were completed and started work, while two were in the building stage at the end of the year. A large number of companies liquidated during the year. Some of these companies were reconstructed, and the dredges resumed work on the original claims ; while other dredges were sold for removal, in most cases to registered companies having no machines. The Junction-Electric Company sustained a heavy loss through the sinking of their No. 1 dredge. The buckets had got off the bottom tumbler, and had torn a hole in a plank in the flooring of one of the pontoons. Another serious event was the total destruction by fire of the Bendigo Gold-dredging Company's dredge. Perforated revolving screens are principally used on dredges working clean river-gravel claims, the finer material being assorted by the screen, and distributed over tables of various types, usually having liberal spread, expanded metal with cocoanut-matting being principally used for gold-saving. The stones and coarse wash are discharged from the screens overboard, while in deep ground an elevator is provided. Should an undue proportion of fine silt in the wash prove troublesome, by reason of its filling up the paddock, an accessory silt-elevator is used, by means of which the silt is conducted to the elevator-trays and deposited on the tailings-heap. On land claims having surface deposits of clay and swamp mud overlying auriferous gravels screens have been found unsuitable, and material is discharged from the buckets into sluice-boxes, cocoanutmatting under angle-iron ripples being used for gold-saving. Payne and Peck's centrifugal elevator having been tried and found suitable, several dredges are now being furnished with this appliance. Five dredges are working with O'Brien's application of hydraulic power, which is found to be more economical than steam-power in districts where water is available, and especially where coal is dear. Four heads of water, under pressure of from 40 ft. vertical head and upwards, are required to provide necessary power. The matter of freeboard has been receiving constant attention throughout the year, especially in connection with several gorge dredges. After starting work it was found that as originally designed the ladders of a considerable number of dredges working in river gorges were not sufficiently long to enable the bottom to be reached during the somewhat lengthy periods when the rivers were high, and in a number of cases ladders have been extended by from 5 ft. to 10 ft. This havfng had the effect of altering the trim of the pontoons, additional or false bows became necessary on the pontoons to provide sufficient freeboard. Owing to several dredges having sunk from various causes, watertight bulkheads are being introduced, by means of which it is hoped risks may be minimised. For the better preservation of timber in the pontoons, ventilators are fitted into the decks of many dredges. This is important where such parts of the machinery as the superheater, condenser, or steam-pipes are placed beneath the deck.

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At Alexandra, pending the construction of a suitable road, coal is being boated down river for the supply of four dredges in the gorge, distances ranging from two to four miles. This is not only costly, but a perilous undertaking, and several boat-accidents have been narrowly averted. Dredging operations in the Cromwell Gorge were seriously hampered by the effects of two heavy thunderstorms which occurred early in the year, whereby enormous quantities of material were carried into the river, causing its bed to be raised several feet in many places. It has recently been noticed that the bars thus formed on the river are gradually but slowly wearing down toward former levels. OTHER MINERALS. Cinnabar. Waitahuna Cinnabar Company, Waitahuna Heights. —(lB/4/1902): At the end of July, 1901, a cross-drive had been driven 231 ft. to cut the lode, and a further contract for a drive of 300 ft. along the lode was let to Gibb and Eoberts. On the date of my visit a total length of 200 ft. had been completed, and latterly the character of the lode material had improved, although no cinnabar had yet been struck. The foot-wall is well defined, and carries a band of pug, while the lode material is becoming softer. Should ore be struck soon there will be fully 125 ft. of backs to rise on. Expectations are, however, centred on the junctions of two small lodes with the main lode, one of these being 95 ft. ahead of the present face, and the other 155 ft. ahead. From the latter junction 200 ft. of backs will be available. The drives are 6 ft. high by 4 ft. 6in. wide, and are well timbered where necessary, the main crosscut being through good standing country-rock. Present operations are purely prospective, but the company's engineer, Mr. L. O. Beal, jun., thinks that present appearances on the surface and in the drive justify further efforts and the necessary expenditure on the part of the company. Proceedings at the mine are often hampered by bad weather and the difficulty of access to the mine. A new surface lode has lately been discovered. It has a well-defined foot-wall running behind and parallel to the foot-wall of the main lode. Later information from the engineer is to the effect that a new contract had been entered into in December, 1902, with Messrs. Eoberts Bros. A crosscut was driven from the main lode on to the back lode. This was found to be coming in to junction with the main lode, and as the cost of driving was cheaper on the main lode this is being pushed ahead for 90 ft. further. The lode is running north-west and south-east, and more cinnabar is appearing in the stone as the drive is continued to the north-west. The main drive is timbered, and side laths put in. Scheelite. Of this mineral 41 tons is returned as having been produced during the year, principally from the Macrae's district. Inquiries are being made in reference to the scheelite-mine at Glenorchy, and present indications are that the mine may soon be in work again. Antimony. The lode at Alexandra had been opened up and trial shipments sent to Melbourne, but it is understood that the cost of production and heavy freights in conveying the mineral to a seaport town had absorbed the profits, and the claim is now abandoned. Iron Lode. Attention having been drawn to an alleged discovery at Moke Creek, a visit was paid to the locality, but unfortunately the deposit was then covered with snow, and the person who made the discovery regretted that he was unable to produce a specimen of the lode formation. Galena. The Tarawera lode at Preservation Inlet had been tested in a small way, but work is now discontinued. Copper. Nothing doing on the Moke Creek or Waitahuna lodes. Several applications have been made for licenses to prospect for copper on the Malvern Hills, Canterbury. Phosphate Bock. A discovery of importance had been made on the Horse-shoe Bush Estate, Clarendon, Otago, where from 50 to 80 per cent, phosphate (boulder formation) is found in quantity immediately overlying the Milburn limestone-deposit. Some 2,000 tons had been produced to the end of the year.

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Quartz-mines. Non-fatal. 22/9/1902. —Samuel Stevens, working alone in a quartz-prospecting drive at Matarae, was pinned to the floor by a slab of stone weighing about 5 cwt., which fell from the side at the face. Stevens sustained a large scalp-wound on the right side of his head. 22/10/1902. —Oswald Mosley, miner, was winding up a bucket of dirt, a total distance of 7 ft. from the sump, with a hand-windlass, when his hand slipped, and the handle suddenly reversing struck Mosley on the face, the left eye being subsequently removed.

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Hydraulic and Alluvial Mines. Fatal. 4/4/1902. —John Murray, miner, Main Gully, Naseby, while working in his claim, was fatally injured by a fall of clay from the face. 18/4/1902.—A Chinese named Wong Choy was killed by a fall from the face in his claim at Bald Hill Flat. 5/6/1902. —Michael Mungovan, Black's No. 3, fell from the bucket in prospecting-shaft, a distance of 100 ft., death being instantaneous. Non-fatal. 23/9/1902. —While cleaning up the boxes at the Lion Gold-mining Company, at Nokomai, they collapsed. D. McKenzie, manager, sustained fracture of small bone in leg, and two other men received slight bruises. Gold-dredges. Fatal. 30/1/1902. —James Joseph McCluskey, casual hand, Success dredge, Waipori: Drowned through boat swamping while under-running a line. 2/5/1902. —James Cummings, winchman, Excelsior dredge, Miller's Flat: Killed. While working the winches an intermediate winch-pinion broke, a flying piece of metal striking him on the head. 20/6/1902. —William F. Bishop, engineer, Champion dredge, Beaumont, was fatally injured while oiling machinery in motion. The sleeve of his jumper was caught by the set-screw on screendriving shaft, the right arm being torn off at the shoulder and right breast lacerated. 28/7/1902. —Charles Prince, dredge-hand, Belmont dredge, Waiau : Drowned, having jumped out of the boat, which was partially swamped owing to the boat-line fouling on a hidden snag. 30/10/1902. —Peter Miiller, winchman, Golden Glen dredge, Island Block: Fatally injured, being caught in a coil of the ladder-line and crushed against the gantry. In each case the dredge has been visited and inquest attended, and I subsequently reported to you on the several fatalities. In every instance the Coroner's jury brought in a verdict of " Accidental death." Non-fatal. 4/3/1902. —Perseverance No. 1 dredge, Alexandra: Mrs. McElroy (a visitor) fractured ankle ; dress caught by revolving shaft. 13/3/1902. —Charles Booth, fireman, Long Valley dredge, Coal Creek Flat: Two fingers cutoff in a bight on the head-line. 4/4/1902. —N. P. Kloogh, dredgemaster, Cromwell dredge, Cromwell: Blow on forehead by handle of crab-winch reversing suddenly. 12/4/1902. —J. Eeeves, boxman, Waipori Consolidated dredge, Waipori, slipped when stepping across the well-hole and fell on a corner of the deck, fracturing three ribs. 22/4/1902. —F. Green, winchman, United No. 1 dredge, Waikaka : Toes crushed between winch-barrel and frame. 8/7/1902. —Harold Williams, winchman, Island Block dredge, Island Block : Foot slightly crushed between two winch-pinions. 14/7/1902. —G. P. Blue, dredgemaster, Fourteen-mile Beach, Electric dredge, Bald Hill Flat: Fingers and thumb of left hand burnt by contact with uninsulated cable. 13/8/1902. —T. F. Quilter, winchman, Quilter and party's hydraulic dredge, Waipori: Eight arm crushed while oiling spur-wheel bearing, machinery being in motion. The arm was subsequently amputated above the elbow. 25/7/1902. —Thomas Gourley, engineer, Gold King dredge, Eoxburgh : Fractured leg by lever lashed to fly-wheel for reversing engines. 8/9/1902. —Thomas Wilson, dredgemaster, Molyneux Falls dredge, Bald Hill Flat: Severe blow on crown of head, struck by handle of water-brake, which reversed suddenly. I duly forwarded reports of the several accidents to you subsequent to respective dates hereof. I have, &c, E. E. Green, The Under-Secretary, Mines Department, Wellington; Inspector of Mines.

EEPOETS OF WAEDENS. Mr. Warden Hutchison to the Under-Secretary for Mines, Wellington. Sir, — Warden's Office, Auckland, 18th February, 1903. I forward herewith the annual returns for the Puhipuhi Gold-mining District. As there has been no business transacted during the past twelve months I have nothing to report. I have, &c, T. Hutchison, The Under-Secretary, Mines Department, Wellington. Warden,

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Mr. Warden Bush to the Under-Secretary for Mines, Wellington. Sir,— Warden's Office, Thames, 18th May, 1903. I have the honour to forward the annual report on mining matters for the year ending the 31st December, 1902, within the Hauraki Mining District. The areas held under license on record at the different offices throughout the district approximately are as follows : Thames, 7,213 acres ; Paeroa, 3,211 acres ; Waihi, 4,233 acres; and Coromandel, 4,350 acres : making a total of 18,988 acres. In the Waihi Borough there are 1,141 men ;in the County of Ohinemuri, 672 men ; in the Thames County and Borough, 478 men ; in the Coromandel County, 314 men; and on the Barrier Island, three men, employed. Although one hears so much about the dullness in mining, yet it is satisfactory to report a steady increase in the output of gold, which for the whole field amounts to £701,256 16s. lid. The increase for the first quarter of 1903 as compared with the first quarter of 1902 is £32,561. Should the present output continue there should be a very substantial increase in the gold-production for the current year. The most consistent of gold-producing mines for the past year have been the Waihi and New Zealand Crown Mines. The monthly returns of the former mine have now exceeded £53,000, and those of the latter, with a fifth of the battery-power of the former, range between £6,000 and £7,000 per month. The Komata and Talisman Mines are again crushing, and making fair returns. The Waitekauri Company's mine, however, has not added much to the gold-product during the past year, nor has the Woodstock Mine, though the latter has made a few returns. The Tairua Broken Hills has been a regular producer of gold for the last year. The monthly returns have been good and fairly uniform, the ore value being slightly over £3 per ton. The total yield from this mine to date is £31,478. The Thames-Hauraki, May Queen, and Moanataiari Companys' properties have all changed hands recently. The freehold portion of the former company's property is advertised for sale by the Sheriff under writ from Supreme Court. The prospectus has been issued with the object of forming the May Queen and Moanataiari properties into one company, but so far no news of a successful flotation has been received. The Mahara Eoyal Company's property at Tapu was sold recently, and purchased by an Auckland syndicate, who are at present working the same. The Golden Belt, at Neavesville, is another property which has recently changed hands, the purchasers being the owners of the Tairua Broken Hills Mine, and it is anticipated that this mine under the new management will turn out a gold-producer. There are many parties of tributers working in some of the Thames, Coromandel, and Kuaotunu mines, who have secured more or less gold. The Bunker's Hill Mine, at Coromandel, has yielded some six or seven thousand pounds' worth of gold during the last four or five months. A West Australian statistican places New Zealand as the fourth greatest gold-producing colony in Australasia during the past decade. There has been considerable discussion locally of late as to devising some scheme for testing the lower levels of the Thames portion of the field. The general opinion is that a process of boring operations should be undertaken on different portions of the field, but so far no such operations have been commenced. Some of the up-country mines have tried boring, notably the Woodstock, at Karangahake. It is rumoured that both the Waitekauri and Grand Junction Companies propose to make boring tests on their properties. The time appears to have arrived for an alteration in the method of assessing the mines for drainage purposes. The present system of asking mine-owners how deep they desire to work before making the assessment is oppressive on the mine-owners who wish to avail themselves of the drainage facilities by working as deep as the pumps will enable them to, as they are saddled with the burden of contributing largely to the assessment, while those who intimate a desire to only work near the surface escape with light assessment, although the same pumping drains their mines to the same depth as that of the mine-owners who are carrying on vigorous works at a depth of 500 ft. or more. The present system is providing a species of continuous protection to those mine-owners who do little or no work on their properties, or who may be waiting for those bearing the burden and working as deep as the pumps permit to make some discovery to enhance the values of their mines. The present method seems to assist the non-working owners, whereas it should help those who are endeavouring to get down as deep as they can so as to test what is hidden there. At present the drainage system does not appear to be of very great assistance in enabling the deeper levels to be reached. The arrangements are on too small a scale for our present requirements. Some method is necessary which would cause all mine-owners to prosecute their operations systematically with one object in view—viz., to reach a depth of 1,000 ft. or more. In this way if one mine only was fortunate in unearthing something others would have reason to persevere with their sinking, but when perhaps one mine only is sinking, while the others are virtually looking on, the chances of success are very much reduced, which has a tendency to engender a feeling of despondency. The work is a large one, and success can only be attained by every mine-owner pushing on his workings to 1,000 ft. or more. The problem is a serious one to the Thames portion of the district, and is one to which a solution will have to be found at no distant date, some solution other than that the cost of pumping should be borne by the State. . The Hon. the Minister of Mines has taken steps to utilise the surface area of the goldfields by providing for pastoral leases ranging from 100 to 1,000 acres at cheap rental, thus while in noway interfering with the mining industry, yet affording an opportunity to those engaged in mining or

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to others to take up areas under these leases instead of the lands remaining idle as heretofore. I feel sure when the position with regard to these leases is understood many persons will feel grateful to the Hon. the Minister for his forethought. Many complaints are made by mining companies as to the shortness of water for their machinery. The water-supply in the Ohinemuri, Waitawheta, and other streams seems to have dimished greatly during the last few years. So much so has this been the case that all the mining companies who are working their mines to any extent have been compelled to supplement their water-power, which a few years ago was ample, with steam. Probably greater water-power is now required to what was necessary some years ago, owing to the increase of the plants of the various mines. The shortness of water is greatly attributed to the fact of the destruction of the forests. Some system is required to replace this removal of the native bush, something similar to what is in vogue in Norway and, I believe, in other countries, where no one is allowed to cut down a tree without being compelled to plant another within so many feet of it. By this means the normal quantity of water in the streams is not interfered with, and a fresh bush is growing up to take the place of the timber felled. Thames. The Thames-Hauraki Goldfields (Limited) properties are all in much the same position as when I last reported. The company was forced to go into liquidation through want of capital, and consequently all work was discontinued on the Queen of Beauty Extended, Deep Sinker, and Deep Levels Special Claims, and the pumping machinery at the Queen of Beauty shaft shut down, much to the disappointment of the inhabitants of this particular part of the district. It is the opinion of many local authorities that if the shaft was sunk to, say, 1,000 ft. good gold-bearing country would be found, and new life given to the industry at Thames. The May Queen-Hauraki Mine has been in the hands of tributers, who have been working on the reef and leaders about the No. 6 level. Some parties have done well, while others have not earned wages. It is, I understand, the intention of the company at an early date to put the mine and all machinery up for sale at public auction, to be sold to the highest bidder. This is a property which might become payable if the lower levels were opened up, but this cannot be done until the field is drained to 1,000 ft. The Victoria Company has done very little work. Tributers have been engaged in taking out small leaders, but have hardly been able to make wages. The company commenced a borehole and carried it down a considerable depth on the seaward side of what is called the Seaward Slide, but had to discontinue for want of pipes. New pipes arrived, but were found to be in such a damaged condition that they could not be used without being repaired, a work which is now being carried out. When finished, work will be resumed. This work is of considerable importance, as it may prove that the gold-bearing rocks continue out under the Hauraki Gulf. The Waiotahi Mine still continues to pay dividends, and has a large number of men employed. The Moanataiari Gold-mining Company's mine has been worked mostly by tributers, three wages-men only being employed in keeping the main level in repair. This company also intends to sell the whole of its property at auction at an early date and wind up its business in New Zealand. The battery has already been purchased by Messrs. A. and G. Price and Co. for considerably less than it cost. The Kuranui-Caledonian Company's mine has been worked mostly by tributers. The company did some prospecting on Duke's leader in the Hazelbank section, where there is a considerable area of unprospected ground. For the first 60 ft. or so gold was frequently seen, but later on (although the reef maintained its size) the gold disappeared. A leader, known as the Smithfield, at the same level was worked on but found not payable, and the men taken off and put on to open up some leaders near where the rich patch in the old Caledonian Mine was found in the early days. It is quite possible some rich stone may be found here. The Kuranui Company have been working steadily with twelve men opening up new and repairing old levels. They have been driving for some time past on a promising lode between the slide and the old Eureka ground, which is now their property, adjacent to which a rich patch was found some years ago. The manager is hopeful that payable ore will soon be found. The New Whau and New Alburnia have done practically nothing during the past year. Both companies exhausted all their capital, and were for the most part of the time under protection, endeavouring to raise more capital, but could not succeed. The New Whau has been forfeited, and I understand the Alburnia Company intends to sell to the highest bidder and wind up its business. The Tararu Creek Company has been employed in extending the Day Dawn crosscut from the battery level with a view to opening up the eastward portion of the mine at a depth of 700 ft. The old Sunbeam workings have been opened up and a connection made with the battery level. A new six-drill air-compressor and new boiler have been purchased and placed in position. For some time no work has been carried on, and the mine shut down pending the raising of more capital. Mr. Powell, the manager, has gone to England for the purpose of consulting with his principals as to future operations. He favours the continuations of the Day Dawn crosscut before mentioned, which will open up new country at 700 ft. from the surface. This drive is of great importance, as it is held that the Tararu Creek district is at the head of what is called the "• second gold-bearing floor " of the Thames Goldfield and that such a drive would tend to prove the assertion. The Eclipse Company has taken out 3,800-odd tons of payable ore, but in the latter part of the year the payable ore in No. 1 and No. 2 levels became exhausted and work had to be stopped. A new low level is now being put in. Prospecting has been going on in a few other small properties in this locality, but without anything very encouraging being found.

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The Nonpareil Mine, the property of Mr. William McCullough, has been worked entirely by tributers, who have been working on the Liverpool Boys' reef and the various leaders. The ore crushed, 208 tons, gave a return of £559. The Fame and Fortune has also been worked by tributers. Work was mostly confined to the Balmoral section, where the Golden Age reef has been operated on and good general dirt obtained. A little picked stone has been obtained from the leaders in the upper levels. The West Coast is still worked by its owner, Mr. John Northey. The various small leaders have been worked on, and 14 tons of ore crushed for a return of £242. The Puru Consolidated Company's mine has been let on tribute to G. Tetley and party, who put through 455 tons for a return of 127 oz., of the value of £317. The tribute has now been given up, and the company are employing four men in extending the No. 2, and rising on the reef at different points. The Monowai Company has had thirty-five men employed in opening up the mine generally and in driving and stoping on the reef at No. 3b level upwards. The reef is 30 ft. wide in some places, and has been cut through at various places to test its value. The payable ore so far found extends from 80 ft. to 100 ft. along the reef, and is very refractory. The ore is concentrated and the concentrates shipped to Sydney for treatment, and the balance treated by cyanide at the company's plant at Waiomo. The Broken Hill, Victory, Hector McDonald, and a few more small areas are being prospected, but no returns of gold have been sent in. The Bullion Mine has been worked by tributers, who did a large amount of prospecting. The ore crushed was obtained from the Sheridan section, and gave a return of 72 oz. from 20 tons. The Mahara Eoyal Company, an English company under the wing of the Standard Corporation of England, was wound up in consequence of the failure of the latter, and the mine and property sold to Mr. H. H. Adams, on behalf of the Tairua Broken Hills Company. It is the intention of the purchasers to put in a low level and test the ground thoroughly at a depth before removing the machinery. A contract has been let and work commenced. The Claremont Claim, owned by Mr. George Bryant and worked solely by himself, still continues to yield payable quartz. During the year 3 cwt. 2 qr. of specimens have been crushed for a return of £701 17s. 6d. This is a really wonderful little piece of ground ; year after year large returns are obtained almost wholly from specimen leaders. The Gloucester, Gloucester Extended, and Thames Talisman have been prospected, but nothing of a permanent nature obtained. The May Queen Extended property has been consistently worked by the company. The south crosscut was extended and the reef met with after 30 ft. of driving. In cutting through dabs of gold were seen, and it was deemed advisable to drive east and west on the reef. The eastern drive was taken along for 125 ft., but the ore did not improve, and stoping was resorted to, and 107 tons broken out and crushed for a return of 53 oz. 14 dwt., valued at £150. This return not being as good as the first prospects led the company to expect, work in this direction was stopped and the men put on to extend the crosscut with the object of cutting the Odd Fellows reef. The Mananu Gold-mining Company carried on operations with fair results until September, when the block of payable ore gave out. All work was stopped pending the reconstruction of the company. More capital having been raised, the company decided to test the ground at a greater depth, and have commenced a low level. They also decided to work the reefs which outcrop at the surface, but on which no work had been previously done. The Whangamata Proprietary Mine has been under protection for the greater part of the year. Lately the property was sold to a syndicate, who are now trying to raise capital for the purpose of testing the lower levels. Mr. Mitchell, an American mine-manager, is of opinion that the low levels have not had a fair test, and that there is every prospect of payable ore being found. The Tairua Broken Hills Company have had a very successful year. The mine is now one of our principal gold-producers, 9,921 oz. of bullion, valued at £19,097, having been won during the year. The prospects are as good as ever, and it is confidently expected that payable returns will be obtained as regularly this year as last. The mine is now well opened up, and large bodies of payable ore in view. An average of fifty men has been employed. Several other small claims in the vicinity have been prospected, but the Taniwha is the only one in which any favourable prospects have been discovered. The Golden Belt has been purchased by Mr. H. H. Adams, who is prospecting and sampling the various reefs. The results obtained are sufficiently encouraging to warrant the erection of a battery, and timber is now being cut for the purpose. A considerable amount of work has been done repairing and opening up old tunnels. The Klondyke Gold-mining Company have erected a five-stamp mill, connected with the mine by an aerial tramway. A water-race 10 chains long has been constructed to provide the motive power. Very little other work has been done during the year. The Sheet Anchor and a few more small holdings have been prospected. The Sheet Anchor is under offer to an Auckland syndicate, who put in a low level for a considerable distance; but, not meeting with the reef which was cut in the upper level, it was decided to drive on the reef at the higher level. This reef has been driven on for 200 ft., and a rise put up to prove its value. Although it carries gold it is not valuable enough to warrant the erection of a crushing plant. Coromandel. Mining during the past year has not been very prosperous. Many of the leading mines have been compelled to close down, but during the last six months there has been renewed activity, evidenced by the number of claims taken up.

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Kauri Block. In the Hauraki Mine operations were entirely suspended, the machinery dismantled, and the mine let on tribute. The tributers have been very successful. The mine in their hands has already produced many thousand pounds, and shows no signs of falling off. An Auckland company has bought the property, and they have erected pumping machinery, which is now rapidly unwatering this and the adjacent Bunker's Hill Mine. Much may yet be expected from this old gold-producer. The Bunker's Hill Company in the earlier part of the year suspended operations and let their mine on tribute, with the result that in two months over three thousand pounds' worth of gold was obtained; and the company are now working steadily with encouraging results, and excellent prospects. The Hauraki Freeholds property has not been very successful, but the payable reefs found in the Bunker's Hill have been proved right up to the Freeholds boundary, so that there is every reason for believing that this mine will shortly be in a way to produce largely. In the Golden Pah tributing has been carried on with fair success. Driving Creek. The Kapanga Mine has been entirely abandoned and dismantled, much of the machinery having been removed. Tokatea. The Eoyal Oak Company have continued operations, partly in proving the lower levels, with the result that bullion to the value of about £8,000 has been won. In the New Four-in-hand Company's properties operations were suspended, the claims surrendered, and one new claim, comprising only a portion of the old ground, taken up. This is now under protection. In the New Tandem, which is close to the New Four-in-hand, good returns have lately been obtained. The Harbour View Syndicate (the old Harbour View Claim) is undergoing vigorous operations by a syndicate (chiefly local), and good prospects have been obtained. The West Tokatea Mines are now under protection, after a good year's work prospecting and developing. The Hauraki Mines (Limited) have worked during the year, but with very little encouragement. Kennedy Bay. Towards the ranges above Kennedy Bay and towards Cabbage Bay there has lately been some vigorous prospecting. Many claims have been granted up the Omoho Stream, and over the ridge towards Cabbage Bay good loose stone has been obtainad, but as yet no defined reefs. Cabbage Bay. Operations have been recommenced in this district by the White Star Company. In the White Star claims prospecting and developing has been carried on successfully for several months with encouraging results, gold showing freely in the stone. Mahakirau. Prospecting and developing on the Macaronic claims have been encouraging, with the result that the owners have decided to instal a small battery, which is now in course of erection. Kuaotunu. The Waitaia mines have had payable crushings throughout the year, and have lately taken over the Juno battery. The Handsworth has also produced good returns during the year. Tributers in the Irene (Hauraki) property have had very fair returns. The Kuaotunu and Great Mercury properties are also being worked by tributers, returns being very fair. Kapowai Block. Much development-work has been done in the Kapowai claims. Good ore has been secured, and lately several payable crushings have been obtained. Other prospecting has been carried on in this district with fair results. Opitonui. Mining here is practically at a standstill owing to the Kauri Freeholds properties having been closed down. Tiki. The Progress-Castle Eock and Vaughan Claims have been relinquished by the company, and taken over by private individuals, who are now prospecting with fair success. Karaka Block. Prospecting has been carried on in this locality and good stone obtained. The public battery has continued good work during the year in treating small parcels of ore for prospectors and others. The School of Mines has also continued its course of instruction with excellent results.

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Te Aroha. The mining in this district is what may be termed dead. There are only one to two small holdings doing a little work, principally carried on by the owners. A small syndicate has taken up a portion of the old Tui Company's property, and is at present taking out lead and silver ore with a view to sending the same to New South Wales for treatment. It is said the ore can be treated there so as to remunerate those engaged in mining the same. Should this prove correct this should turn out a good speculation, as it is stated there is an abundance of such ore in the ground. The only real mining at present is that being carried on by Mr. Hardy at Waiorongoniai on a property which he has held for some time, and which formerly was owned by the New Zealand Exploration Company. He has reduced the area. During the time he has had the property he has put through his battery ore resulting in £8,250, this extraction being about £2 Bs. per ton. The process of treatment is wet crushing and concentration. The concentrates are sent to the Dapto Works, New South Wales, for treatment. Present indications show an abundant supply of ore. Ohinemuri County. Komata. The Komata Eeefs Company's mine, having resumed crushing, has during the past year succeeded in making returns every month to the value of about £2,500, which I trust will be permanent and gradually increase. This is the only mine in this locality which is paying its way. The total amount of gold produced since it commenced crushing is about £80,000. There are a few other claims in existence at the Komata. The Komata Bonanza is spoken of as being a likely piece of ground to be heard more of later on. The others are in a languishing state for want of means to carry on development-work. The Hikutaia Syndicate properties, which have been extensively prospected (a great deal of useful development-work having been done), have so far not proved remunerative, although small returns have been from time to time obtained at its five-stamper mill, but not sufficiently valuable to warrant a larger plant being erected. The ore is of poor grade, and so far none of a richer quality has been unearthed. A considerable amount of capital has been spent on this property, which so far has yielded nothing to the owners. The Maratoto Gold-mining Company has carried out a considerable amount of developmentwork, and possess a small crushing plant, but up to the present their efforts have not resulted in anything to warrant a large outlay of capital. The owners, however, are very persevering, and it is to be hoped they will meet with better fortune in the no-distant future. There are a few other claims iv this neighbourhood, which have not so far succeeded in unearthing anything payable. Waitekauri. The Waitekauri Gold-mining Company have been extremely unfortunate during the past year. They appear to have worked out the payable ore at hand, and have been devoting their time in developing and opening up their properties. I trust when next reporting to be in a position to chronicle some good returns from this company's mine. The Waitekauri Extended Company's properties have been taken over by the Waitekauri Company, as also those formerly owned by the Grace Darling Company. The Waitekauri Company possess plenty of crushing-power, if it could only drop upon some good-quality ore. The Waitekauri Cross Company have abandoned their property, and removed the machinery, which has been shipped away. The company spent some thousands of pounds in endeavouring to pick up the Waitekauri Company's chute of ore, without success. The New Zealand Jubilee Company's property has been further developed, but for the last few months it has been protected, to enable the general manager to proceed Home to interview the owners as to the course to be adopted for the future. It is reported that the development-works under the change of management have disclosed better prospects, which will probably lead to a further expenditure of capital. It is anticipated that with the return of the general manager mining operations will be continued in this mine, I trust with favourable results. Karangahake. Mining has been fairly active in this portion of the district, and the New Zealand Crown Mine continues to merit its name as a consistent gold-producer. The other mines, however, I regret to say, at times are not able to put out returns continuously. The New Zealand Crown Mine so far has proved itself to be the premier mine in this locality. The owners have spent a very large sum in development and machinery. Every year large sums are spent on improvements to the property and plant. During the last twelve months an engine and boiler have been added, besides more powerful pumps, and further air-compressing machinery is being erected. The decrease of water in the Ohinemuri Eiver has made it necessary to supplement the water-power with steam. I trust in the course of the next year or two, as the develop-ment-works extend, to be in a position to report this mine as being one of the best in the district. Should the developments realise present anticipations this mine has a great future before it, and I look to it to become one of the main supports of the field. It is now the second largest employer of labour on the peninsula. The Talisman Extended Company's properties were making no returns for some months, but during the past four or five months fairly good returns have been made, which is very encouraging, especially if they continue monthly. 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crushing, owing to the ore not being at hand rapidly enough to keep the whole going continuously. The company also has erected an engine. The Woodstock Company appear to be remarkably unfortunate. A great amount of capital has been sunk in this mine without returning anything to the proprietors. The battery runs for a few months, when it ceases to crush. Fair returns are made for the time, but the supply of ore is not sufficient to keep it working. The quartz here is very hard, and evidently so far of low grade. Eecently boring operations have commenced, which it is hoped may result in finding something more workable and payable. A syndicate have taken up a greater part of the Ohinemuri from its junction with the Waihou as river claims, some eight or ten of which these gentlemen now hold. A treatment plant has been erected near Waihi. It is proposed to treat the river deposit by raising it with a suction pump, and after treatment return it to the river again. It is anticipated that 10s. per ton will be the amount recovered, which it is said will leave a small margin of profit after paying expenses. Conditions have been imposed so as to guard against injury to the banks of the river, or to the riparian landowners, or to the public interests, the Warden reserving to himself the right from time to ime to impose such conditions on the licensees as he may deem fit in the public interests. It is a new undertaking, which, if successful, will find employment for several men Owharoa. The Ohinemuri Syndicate's property here may almost be looked upon as abandoned. Very little work has been done upon the tunnels this year. The gold in these properties seems to have disappeared, and great difficulty is experienced in making a fresh discovery. Some good gold was obtained here in the early days of the field, and I presume will be again some day. The only other property in this locality upon which work is being carried on is the Eising Sun, the owners of which have very pluckily striven to make a mine of this claim, but so far their perseverance has resulted in nothing remunerative. A considerable quantity of useful developmentwork has been carried on for some years. Nothing is done except what is permanent and useful. Assay-tests have been made of the ore, some of which have proved satisfactory, but not sufficiently so to warrant any large expenditure upon the property. Any day, however, better prospects may develop, in which case this claim would be the means of reviving mining in this locality. There is an assay plant on the ground, and the owners only require the smallest encouragement in the grade of the ore to cause them to extend their workings. I believe this property will turn out a goldproducer shortly. Waihi. The Waihi Company's mine still maintains its character as one of the largest mines in the world; indeed, its output of gold per month for this year seems to rival that of any other mine I know of, the returns having averaged £53,000 monthly. It still continues to find employment for over a thousand men, and were it not for it the Town of Waihi would be deserted, as the other mines, unfortunately, are unable to employ more than a very limited number of men. So long as this mine continues to prosper there will always be hopes of some of the others securing payable reefs, which will encourage them to persevere with their uphill search for them. With the exception of the Waihi Company, none of the other mines have obtained any gold during the year. Waihi Grand Junction Gold-mining Company.- —Grand Junction Special Quartz Claim : At the beginning of the year this company were driving on the lode at the 500 ft. level of No. 1 shaft, and drove west another 92 ft., making a total of 161 ft. in that direction. A rise on the lode was put up 88 ft. from the main crosscut. The lode was driven on easterly 87 ft., making a total distance of 187 ft., and at a distance of 113 ft. a winze was put down 27 ft. To communicate with No. 2 shaft a crosscut was driven 86 ft. Waihi West Special Quartz Claim : The drive at the 500 ft. level on this property was continued north for another 465 ft., when a rise was put up 113 ft. to connect with the B shaft and to afford ventilation. A winze was also commenced at the B shaft and put down 93 ft., and connection made. By arrangement, the Waihi South Gold-mining Company commenced a drive at the 500 ft. level of the C shaft and drove 132 ft. During the year the company have therefore driven 880 ft., sunk 107 ft., and risen 143 ft. ; total, 1,130 ft. The Grand Junction Claim was under protection for six months, but during that time a building to contain a fitters', carpenters', and blacksmiths' shop was erected. Waihi South Gold-mining Company (Waihi South Special Quartz Claim). —Work was commenced again on this property about July. In August, arrangements having been made with the Waihi Grand Junction Company to use their C shaft in the Waihi West Claim, a drive was put in at the 500 ft. level in a south-easterly direction, and the reef was found and proved for 90ft. The drive was then continued in a southerly direction towards the Waihi South boundary, and work is still being carried on in that direction. Waihi Consols Gold-mining Company (Waihi Consols Special Quartz Claim). —Practically the only work done by this company was to test their property by boring operations, but through several unforeseen causes this was not successful. The company has since reconstructed and formed into a limited-liability concern. Waihi Extended Gold-mining Company (Waihi Extended Special Quartz Claim). —The shaft on this claim has been sunk another 136 ft., making a total depth of 520 ft. A drive was put in in a south-easterly direction and continued for 206 ft., and another in a north-westerly direction for 470 ft. from the shaft, but no reef was intersected. Work is being continued, and it is hoped before long that payable ore will be found. Waihi-Gladstone Gold-mining Company (Waihi-Gladstone Special Quartz Claim). —A considerable amount of work has been done on this claim, including the erection of a five-stamper

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battery, which was completed in December. The company have driven 150 ft. in their No. 3 level, and lsoft. in No. 4 level. A shaft has been sunk 100 ft., and connected with Nos. 3 and 4 levels. A rise of 123 ft. was put up in No. 3, and a crosscut of 120 ft. connecting with No. 4. About 500 tons of ore are on hand ready for crushing, and-the battery will start work as soon as sufficient water is available. A dam has been constructed, and it is hoped will be sufficient to hold all the water required. An average of eleven men has been employed during the year. Ohinemuri Biver Syndicate. —This company has pegged out several claims in the bed of the Ohinemuri Eiver, and intend to work the tailings known to exist there. For this purpose they are erecting a plant by the Waihi Company's dam, which is expected to be ready for working about the end of March. This is a private enterprise, and the promoters have spent between £3,000 and £4,000 on the plant alone. It is estimated that ten men will be sufficient for the work. About 20,000 tons of tailings are supposed to have accumulated in the dam alone, so that if they are payable the syndicate should be successful in their enterprise. About 50 tons will be treated daily. Waihi Beach (Limited) Gold-mining Company. —The properties of this company have been under option to a London syndicate, who have failed to raise capital to work the ground, so the company have decided to start operations themselves, and work will be commenced immediately. Boyal Standard Special Quartz Claim. —This claim is situated at Wharekiraupunga, between twenty and thirty miles from Waihi. A parcel of ore was sent to the Thames School of Mines and assayed £3 per ton, consequently about 60 tons was broken out, and the owner of the claim is now trying to raise capital to erect a small battery so that he can treat the ore on the ground. Waihi Consolidated (Limited). —Boring operations were continued without much success on this claim. The company intend to further prospect the ground by the same methods. There are a number of other claims in the district, but practically only prospecting-work has been done on them, and that not with any great success. I have, &c. The Under-Secretary, Mines Department, Wellington. E. S. Bush, Warden.

Mr. Warden Eoberts to the Under-Secretary for Mines, Wellington. Sir, — Warden's Office, Tauranga, 10th March, 1903. I have the honour to report for the information of the Hon. the Minister of Mines that very little progress has been made during the past year in developing the mining industry in this district. Work on the field has been confined to prospecting on Te Puke gold reefs and other properties. The prospects of Te Puke Mine are reported to be most encouraging, and the new owners are very sanguine that the development-works to be put in hand immediately will thoroughly warrant a fair expenditure of capital, as the lode is an extensive one, and though the ore is of low grade it is considered payable. Prospecting has been carried on at Clarke's Freehold, Fahey's Freehold, the Ben Lomond, and the Sisters' Claims, but the whole future of the field depends on the successful development and exploitation of the Te Puke Gold Eeefs Company. I have, &c, J. M. Eoberts; Warden. The Under-Secretary, Mines Department, Wellington.

Mr. Warden Smith to the Under-Secretary for Mines, Wellington. Sir,— Warden's Office, Blenheim, 14th May, 1903. I have the honour to forward herewith statistical returns for the Marlborough Mining District covering the year ended the 31st December, 1902, and beg to report as follows on the district: — It may at once be said that no very important developments, viewed from a mining standpoint, have occurred during the year under review. In the Upper Wairau dredges were placed on two claims —the Pride of Marlborough and Omdurman —but were not successful, and operations were in consequence discontinued. Both dredges have since been sold, and it is, I understand, intended to try some of the other claims with them. In the Jubilee Quartz-mine operations have been directed towards developing the mine, the total extent of driving, sinking, and rising amounting to 492 ft. During the year 645 tons of ore was crushed, yielding 151 oz., the average number of men employed being twelve. Some work has been done on a few of the other quartz claims, but nothing has occurred calling for special mention. In the Havelock portion of the district sixty-nine miners' rights were issued during the last twelve months, there being about that number of men engaged in mining pursuits. The only claim calling for special mention is the Golden Point Dredging Company of Wakamarina, whose operations have been fairly successful, a well-equipped dredge being kept constantly at work, the returns from which have reached as much as 30 oz. for a hundred hours' work. Other dredging claims have been granted, but dredging machinery has not yet been placed on them. I have, &c, T. Scott Smith, Warden. The Under-Secretary, Mines Department, Wellington.

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Mr. Warden Heaps to the Under-Secretary for Mines, Wellington. Sir,— Warden's Office, Nelson, 27th May, 1903. . I regret that through delay, in the first place in being furnished with returns, and subsequently owing to extreme pressure of manifold official duties, I have not been able to sooner comply with the request contained in your circular of the 29th January last for a general report on the mining industry in my district for the year 1902. While the past year has been unsatisfactory in many ways from a mining point of view, some of our largest and at one time most hopeful enterprises having proved disappointing, there has, however, been compensating developments, as I think I shall be able to show. Dredging. Four or five dredges have been completed and got to work on their respective areas, but the results so far have been most disappointing, and dredging has received a severe check, so severe that only great perseverance and the occurrence of some encouraging development can stimulate it into activity. Hydraulic Sluicing. I regret to have to report that one of our most enterprising and largest companies engaged in sluicing has had to suspend work after spending many thousands of pounds and finding employment for a large number of men. Its valuable water-rights and other privileges, together with the plant, have been sold for a comparatively small sum. On the other hand, two other large companies have met with such an amount of success as has induced them to continue their operations with vigour. Quartz-mining. This class of mining has been confined to the Taitapu Estates, where most encouraging results have been obtained at the two mines at work. Alluvial Mining. Comparatively little of this class of mining has been carried on during the year. Prospecting. To judge by the number of applications for prospecting licenses—namely, 13 —prospecting is being actively pursued in the Collingwood part of the district, and I hear of finds of coal and plumbago, but of no marked finds of gold. Coal. The management of the Puponga Mine has changed hands, and the new management appears to be laying itself out for working the mine on a large, vigorous, and businesslike scale. The coal is already in the market in small quantities, and is much appreciated, and as soOn as the new and greatly improved wharf and tramway are completed considerable shipments will at once be made. I am informed that this now enterprising company have obtained an option over the adjoining leases, the property of the Cape Coal Company, with a view to purchasing them and working the two areas as one concern. Over fifty men are employed in or about the mine. In addition to the discovery of coal on the Taitapu Estate mentioned later on, coal of good quality, judging from the samples I have seen and the reports of experts, has been discovered in a new locality on Crown land at West Wanganui, and, as it is near to deep water and easy of access and shipment, the discoverers are sanguine of having it in the market at an early date. They are now applying for a lease of 500 acres. Discoveries have also been made at Wangapeka and Belgrove, and I hear that a prospecting company has been formed to further prospect these localities and the Waimeas. Iron. At length there appears to be every prospect of the well-known and much discussed irondeposits at the Parapara being worked by a strong and competent company. I am informed that a specially selected expert is on his way out to advise the management as to starting operations. It is not too much to expect that the current year will see the commencement of a great iron industry in this district. Following the practice of previous years, I report more in detail what has been done in the various localities of my district, commencing with— Collingwood. During the year thirteen prospecting licenses, five special, three extended, and two ordinary claims have been taken up. There are five dredges in this locality. Three only have done work, and these three cannot be said to have been fortunate so far. Accidents have happened to machinery or plant, and a quantity. of barren ground has been met with. There are indications that much patience and discrimination as well as capital will be needed if the dredging industry here is to become the success which old and experienced miners have pronounced it should be. The Kaituna dredge was kept at work pretty constantly at first, and I am informed the returns have more than paid working-expenses. The yield of gold for the period the dredge was working was 190 oz. 18 dwt. The returns from the dredge at Parapara have been disappointing, and the directors have decided to close down, pending the decision of the shareholders. Since the end of the-year I hear the dredge has sunk.

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The Parapara Hydraulic Sluicing and Mining Company (Limited) has opened up new ground during the year, and, according to information courteously supplied by the secretary, secured 783 oz. 6 dwt. 14 gr. for the year's work. The Slate Biver Sluicing Company (Limited) have done much work during the year, and have won 295 oz. 17 dwt. 6 gr. of gold. Owing to the non-completion of the dam as originally designed, the company's works have at times been hampered by the slackness of the water-supply. The gold is undoubtedly there, and no doubt this enterprising company will take vigorous steps to extract it to the best advantage. An unfortunate lawsuit with their contractor for the erection of the dam has doubtless had the effect of checking development, and it is to be regretted that the matter is not yet settled. Golden Blocks (Taitapu), Limited, is a dividend-paying quartz-mine, which has been very successfully worked by its very competent manager, Mr. Frank H. Johnson, from whom I learn that £2,105 3s. 6d. has been paid in dividends during the year. The quantity of quartz crushed was 2,402 tons, yielding 2,119 oz. of gold. The Taitapu Gold Estates (Limited) has had a successful year, 3,442 tons of quartz crushed from the Golden Eidge and Anthill Mines having yielded 2,223 oz. ; and, in addition to this, the estate has been recently systematically prospected for coal by an expert, who has discovered valuable seams of a superior quality and conveniently situated for working and shipping in deep water. A report has been sent to the Home directors, and it is confidently expected that~instructions to commence work on the seams at once will be shortly received. This may possibly lead also to the opening-up of some very fine forest lands which heretofore have been little explored, owing to the wetness of the country and the denseness of the undergrowth, combined with the distance from settlement and the wretched condition of the road. Takaka. During the year only four mining privileges were applied for. Three were granted and one withdrawn. The Takaka Sluicing Company, at the Pupu, is keeping up its reputation as a dividend-paying claim, having declared dividends amounting to £1,368 during the year. During the same period calls were made amounting to £404 13s. 6d. The claim produced 984 oz. of gold during the year. It is worked by three shifts of five men each. The men are paid Bs. per shift. Malone and Anderson have given over their shares in the Extended Claim at the Pupu to their third mate, Eoach, who is fossicking in the shallow ground. At the Anatoki, Jackson's Extended Claim has been taken over by Gibbs and James, who are bringing up the tail-race to prove the ground ; as yet they have got nothing to pay them for their trouble. At Sheepy Flat, Morrison and others are employed by the shareholders in bringing up a tailrace from the Anatoki Eiver, but from the rough nature of the ground and the enormous stones they have had to contend with, the work is progressing very slowly. The prospects found when the claim was taken up make the shareholders sanguine that they have a good venture. Motueka, including Mount Aethue Tableland. The Courthouse at Motueka, being on the eastern side of the river, is outside the mining district; also I may mention that, the Postmaster being the Clerk of the Warden's Court, the Warden's office is at the post-office instead of at the Courthouse, which is some distance away. If it were at the Courthouse, as it no doubt should be, it would take the Postmaster too much away from his postal duties. The present arrangement works very well as far as the public are concerned, but causes the carrying backwards and forwards of statutes, books, and papers on Court days. As far as I have information, the only part of this district where mining is being carried on is the Tableland, where only about seven miners are working for a bare living. There is a prospect, I believe, of some enterprising Aucklanders working ground on a larger scale than has heretofore been attempted, with water brought in from Lake Peel. There are seven waterraces, five tail-races, and three dams in existence in the locality. Nothing whatever appears to have been done by the holder of the prospecting license for asbestos. Nelson, including Wangapeka, Sherry, Tadmor, and the Baton. Here again the Warden's Court held at Nelson is outside the mining district, and is distant some twenty-five miles from the nearest part of it, entailing much loss of time and money when applications are objected to and witnesses have to be brought long distances, as has recently been the case. The only nearer Courthouse is at Brightwater, which would save twelve miles, but I should lose the services of Mr. C. H. Webb-Bowen as Warden's clerk, services I value highly, as he has had a long experience of Warden's Court work on the West Coast, and is a very capable officer. Moreover, he is always willing to assist and give the benefit of his experience to the less experienced clerks in the district. Wangapeka. —After much delay the Wangapeka Company's dredge was completed and taken across the Wangapeka Eiver to its claim situated above Blue Eocks. After working for a short time it was found that the ground was deeper than was anticipated, the elevator was too short to keep the tailings clear of the dredge, and the gold-saving appliances appear to have been defective. The; dredge has now been dismantled with the intention of lengthening the ladder and fixing up an up-to-date elevator and gold-saving tables at a considerable cost. 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At the Sherry, Mr. Gardiner is still working with his hydraulic plant on private property, and it is reported that he is getting fair results. On the Baton and Boiling Eivers only two or three men are working. Work on the railway extension to Tadmor and roadwork generally has induced several old hands to leave their claims for the more certain results of weekly wages, showing that alluvial mining in this locality is only followed when steady employment is not to be had. In addition to the usual returns from each centre, I append a comparative return showing the quantity and value of gold exported from this Port of Nelson during the calendar years 1901 and 1902. It will be understood, however, that this return does not necessarily represent the whole of the gold won in the district, as no doubt some finds its way out of the district in other ways than through the Nelson banks. Total Quantity and Value of Gold exported from Port of Nelson during Calendar Years 1901 and 1902. 1901. ,-. , Quantity. Value. £ ua » rtel '' O-Z awt.gr. £ 2nd March ... ... ... ... 3,787 914 14,084 2nd June... ... ... ... ... 556 7 0 2,225 2nd September ... ... ... ... 1,136 18 0 4,548 2nd December ... ... ... ... 1,94112 0 8,052 Totals ... ... ... 7,422 614 £28,909 1902. 2nd March ... ... ... ... 822 6 0 3,288 2nd June ... ... ... ... 2,470 8 0 9,858 2nd September ... ... ... ... 2,801 7 6 11,041 2nd December ... ... ... ... 619 3 0 2,447 Totals .. ... ... 6,713 4 6 £26,634 Decrease in 1902, 709 oz. 2 dwt. Bgr.; value, £2,275. I have, &c, Wilson Heaps, Warden. The Under-Secretary, Mines Department, Wellington.

Mr. Warden Hawkins to the Under-Secretary for Mines, Wellington. Sir, — Warden's Office, Greymouth, 12th May, 1903. I have the honour to forward herewith statistical returns for the year ended 31st December, 1902, together with detailed reports on the several subdivisions of the mining district under my charge. Beefton-Inangahua District. Keep-it-Dark Quartz-mining Company (Limited). —The following report was submitted to the shareholders at the annual meeting held on 27th December last : —-Mine department : Stoping out quartz from Nos. 2 and 3 levels has been carried on, and, with the exception of a block of rather low-grade quartz in the west end of No. 3, these two levels, so far as is at present known, are practically worked out. Early in the year the best and thickest part of the reef, which was being stoped in No. 3 level, pinched down to very small dimensions. This break in the largest part of the reef, which was quite unexpected and impossible to foresee, has very much reduced the average yield per ton of the year's crushing, and at the same time increased the cost of production, the shareholders in consequence not receiving anything like a fair profit on the year's work. But according to present appearances the reef opened up in No. 4 level will make good for any deficiencies in No. 3 level, the stone so far being altogether of a better quality than anything which has been worked in Nos. 2 and 3 levels, and up to the present time the No. 4 level has been driven on the reef 150 ft., the reef being from 4 ft. to 18 ft. thick, the face of the level being now under the winze sunk from No. 3 level. A rise has been put up 40 ft. and connected with bottom of winze, and completed a few days. The level will now be further extended on the reef. 11,405 tons of quartz has been raised from the mine and sent to the battery, the total cost being £6,925 ss. This amount includes all development-work, driving crosscuts and levels, sinking winzes and putting up rises, all prospecting-drives, and keeping old levels in repair, also upkeep of windingengine and renewal of wire ropes, and everything which has been done in the mine (except the sinking of the main shaft and construction of two chambers), the cost per ton being 12s. lfd. The contract for sinking main shaft 250 ft., which was commenced about two months before the last annual meeting, has been completed. The contract was extended to sink 300 ft., and two chambers had also to be constructed —one at No. 4 and one at No. 5 level. The crosscut from No 4 chamber intersected the reef at 295 ft. from shaft, and the crosscut from No. 5 chamber, which is now being driven by contract, is already in 120 ft.; and it is expected that the lode will be met with about 325 ft. from the mainshaft. The total cost of sinking main shaft 300 ft. and cutting two chambers was £1,857 4s. 6d., being £5 17s. per foot for the shaft and £51 each for the chambers. Battery department: 11,405 tons of quartz has been crushed for the year, yielding 2,3920z. of melted gold, valued at £9,607 os. 2d., the yield being 4 dwt. 4-Jgr. per ton. The expenses for the year, including the upkeep of the head-race and tail-race, all alterations and renewals of

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plant, and river-protection, amount to £1,383 13s. 3d., being a small fraction over 2s. sd. per ton. The battery is in good order. Early in the year the cam-shaft, which has been so long in use, showed signs of giving way ; a new one has been procured should the old one break down. Cyanide department : The alteration which has been made in the manner of conveying the tailings into the leaching-vats is a decided improvement. Settling-tanks have been erected, into which the tailings are run from the elevating-wheel, and afterwards, when well filtered, are trucked into the leaching-vats in a dry state ; this method mixes the fine slimes and the coarser sands well together, so that there is now no trouble whatever with the percolation. For several months during the year antimony has been troublesome, causing the extraction to be not quite so successful as it otherwise would have been. The most of the ore which contained antimony came from No. 2 level, and, as that level is for the present done with, it is hoped that in future the mine will be free of antimony, as there is no trace so far in No. 4 level. The amount of 1,408 oz. 19 dwt. 3 gr. of bullion has been obtained during the year, valued at £4,210 9s. lOd. The extraction, computed on the total tonnage crushed, is equal to 7s. 4£d. per ton. The workingexpenses for the year, including cyanide, zinc, and all material consumed, has been £2,135 19s. 7d., being very nearly 3s. 9d. per ton on the gross tonnage. The expenditure of £337 6s. 9d. on alterations and additions is not included in the above sum, the profit for the year being £1,737 3s. 6d., equal to 3s. o£d. per ton. The following reports on the Consolidated Goldfields of New Zealand (Limited), the Progress Mines of New Zealand (Limited), and the Welcome Gold-mining Company (Limited) have been supplied by Mr. E. W. Spencer, general manager for the respective companies:— Consolidated Goldfields of New Zealand (Limited). —(1.) Wealth of Nations. —Owing to the impossibility of working at any greater depth with the present water-wheel, which is used to hoist with, the bottom of the mine remains the same as at the corresponding period last year, with the exception of a winze which is being sunk from the bottom (800 ft.) level. This at the end of the year had reached a depth of 50 ft. A crosscut from this level had also been run out towards the site of the new shaft. This constitutes the total amount of development for the year. Stoping was carried on in a general manner between the 350 ft. level and the 800 ft. or bottom level, producing 11,566 tons of ore, which, when crushed, yielded bullion to the value of £17,568 Is. 4d. by amalgamation, and concentrates to the value of £926 7s. Id. At the cyanide-works 7,726 tons, representing 66-799 per cent, of the tonnage milled, were cyanided, yielding bullion to the value of £4,667 lis. 2d, or 12s. 0-993 d. per ton treated. Of this amount, 3s. l'7Bßd. per ton was absorbed in working-costs, leaving a profit per ton treated of Bs. 1T205d. No additions of importance have been made to this plant during the year. (2.) Energetic Shaft. —At the commencement of the period under review this shaft had been retimbered for a distance of 70 ft. The work of stripping, enlarging, and retimbering was carried on steadily up to surface, 362 ft., which was reached early in March last. The brace of the shaft was then raised 12 ft., an engine and boiler was installed, and head-gear erected for the purpose of sinking the shaft, which was done on wages until the connection with the Wealth of Nations battery level was made. The shaft was then let on contract, and at the end of the year had reached a depth of 415 ft. below the battery level, or 831 ft. in all from the surface. The shaft will probably reach the bottom level of the Wealth of Nations Mine about the middle of June. The new hoist is'now on order from London. (3.) Golden Fleece. —A considerable amount of development-work has been done in this mine during the year, principally on Nos. 11 and 12 levels, besides sinking the shaft between these two levels and making the necessary connections. Stoping has been carried on from the Boyal tunnel down to No. 11 level, and a large amount of ground has been gone over to provide the tonnage crushed, the reef being very irregular throughout the mine, making it necessary to stope a considerable amount of blank ground to get at isolated patches of quartz. During the year 13,614 tons of quartz was crushed, yielding bullion to the value of £23,403 13s. lid., besides producing sulphurets which were sold for £1,741 18s. lOd. At the cyanide-works 9,550 tons of coarse sands, representing 70 per cent, of the total crushed, together with 880 tons of tailings from the old Venus Mine, was cyanided, yielding bullion to the value of £4,744 12s. 7d. Of this amount, 2s. 3'716d. was absorbed in working-costs, leaving a profit of 6s. 9-460 d. per ton. No alterations of importance have been made in the equipment during the period under review, and the machinery has done good work. Progress Mines of New Zealand (Limited). —Very extensive developments have been made during the year, comprising 3,283 ft. of driving and crosscutting, and 795 ft. of rising and sinking, with the result that the ore-reserves of mill rock are practically the same as at the corresponding period last year, although 56,000 tons has been mined and milled. An enormous tonnage of lowgrade rock has also been opened up, which, under present conditions, will not pay to extract. The principal developments have been carried on in Nos. 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 10 levels, whilst stoping has been conducted in a general manner throughout the mine from No. 2 level downwards. The shaft remains as before, the lowest level open being No. 10. At the end of the year the most interesting part of the mine was No. 6 level east, where a very fine ore-body 34 ft. from foot to hanging-wall, dipping at an angle of 30°, was recently cut through. This was being vigorously opened up by means of rock-drills, going both ways on it, besides putting up a rise to connect with a winze sunk from No. 5 level. On No. 9 level east developments have also been of great interest in proving a large tonnage of high-grade stone lying in a position closely resembling a coalmeasure. No alterations of importance have been made in the equipment on surface at the mine, with the exception of the engine at the old shaft, which is in readiness to be transferred on to a new concrete foundation prepared for it. The output of the mine for the year amounted to 55,976 tons of quartz. This quartz was transported by the aerial tram, and reduced at the battery, yielding 21,123 oz. 8 dwt. 13 gr. of bullion by amalgamation, valued at £87,887 15s. Bd. 990 tons of concentrates was produced and treated, yielding 3,269 oz. 6 dwt. 13 gr. of bullion, of the value of £13,367 os. 3d. At the cyanide plant 16,422 tons of sand has been treated during the year. For

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the first five months some of the accumulated tailings were treated, but during the latter seven months the sands treated have been exclusively from the battery. The yield from the cyanideworks is valued at £5,745 os. 4d. The extraction at these works was equal to 6s. 1T961d. per ton ; of this amount only 2s. 8844 d. per ton was absorbed in treatment charges, leaving a profit of 4s. 3Tl7d. per ton. The cyanide plant now consists of ten treatment-tanks, 25 ft. in diameter, and another is shortly to be built. The total working-cost (excluding capital and development expenditure and cyanide-works account) amounts to—working-costs, £46,838 18s. 2d., at 16s. 8824 d. per ton ; profit, £54,415 17s. Bd., at 19s. 5'311d. per ton. Cyanide-works—working-costs, £2,247 7s 4d., at 2s. 8844 d. per ton ; profit, £3,497 135., at 4s, 3'117d. per ton : making total cost (excluding capital expenditure), £49,086 ss. 6d. ; total value yield, £106,999 16s. 2d. ; total profit, £57,913 10s. Bd. : which must be considered as a very satisfactory balance-sheet. The whole of the plant has been maintained in a thorough state of efficiency, the only new plant added during the year being an 18 ft. diameter tailings-wheel, and classifying arrangements to separate the sands from the slimes. A strong-room has been built into the solid rock in the battery-house for the reception of amalgam, &c. The canvas plant has been extended by the addition of twelve new tables, 10 ft. by 15 ft. long, all housed in. Since these tables started (last October) a large increase in the amount of slimes made is noticeable. The milling-time during the year 1902 was exceptionally good, seeing that the mill ran for the full theoretical time, with the exception of 10-98 days. This loss of time represents the total delays caused by the monthly clean-ups, daily scrapes, and incidental stoppages. We confidently look forward to a successful and prosperous year for 1903. Welcome Gold-mining Company (Limited). —Early in the year a small cyanide plant, consisting of two 20 ft. diameter treatment-tanks 5 ft. deep, and one sump of the same dimensions, were erected to treat the tailings as they came from the battery. The battery started crushing again on the 12th February, and has continued to run steadily since, consuming the quartz as mined. By covering a lot of ground in the mine 1,781 tons of quartz was stoped, the average stoping-width being absurdly small. However, the stone produced was of good value, as the 1,776 tons crushed yielded bullion to the value of £3,492 19s. Bd., and the 1,324 tons of sands which was cyanided yielded bullion to the value of £1,109 17s. At the end of the year the stopes were looking very mean, and cannot be relied on to yield much more mill rock. The following figures show the costs incurred and profit won : Cost of working, £2,688 6s. 4d., at £1 10s. 3 - 29 d. per ton milled; profit, £1,914 10s. 4d., at £1 Is. 6-71 d. per ton milled. New Inkerman Mines (Limited). —Mr. Norman Dudgeon, manager of the New Inkerman Mines, reports as follows : The following work has been carried out on this company's property for the twelve months ending the 31st December last: Driving on lode, 888 ft.; sinking on lode, 100 ft. ; uprising on lode, 497 ft.; crosscutting, 541 ft. : the total footage being 2,026 ft. The reef driven on has varied in width from 3 ft. to 27 ft. 6 in. The tonnage of ore blocked out by this work approximates 20,000 tons, the value of which is very variable. Fifteen head of stamps in the old thirty-stamp mill are being put in order. Frue vanners are being installed, and a cyanide plant is being erected. Crushing will commence in April next. The average number of men employed during the period was twenty-four. The total expenditure on this property in development up to the end of 1902 was £57,044 16s. Last Chance. —This private company has during the year 1902 been principally engaged in prospecting. 300 ft. of driving and 50 ft. of rising has been done, but very moderate success attained. 3 tons of ore, to the value of £24, was the extent of the yield for the year.-

Statement showing the Returns from the Quartz Mines in the Reefton District from the 1st April, 1880, to the 31st March, 1901, and for the Years ending 31st December, 1901, and 31st December, 1902.

Year ending 31st March. Calls made. Dividends Quartz declared, crushed. Yield of Gold. Value of Yield. 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 Year ending 31st Dec, 1901 1902 £ s. 10,218 17 25,504 3 64,345 0 49,456 0 29,333 0 24,565 0 21,596 0 30,432 0 38,919 0 27,531 0 20,404 0 25,956 0 18,800 0 14,350 0 10,153 0 8,418 0 9,033 6 7,859 3 5,920 6 10,747 8 5,826 9 6,233 6 6,900 0 d. 6 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 4 8 9 7 8 0 £ 19,650 37,643 32,600 16,500 34,100 14,500 33,450 17,550 16,688 18,250 27,325 30,743 16,900 18,832 11,012 25, 925 4,900 50 900 17,050 35,300 58,199 63,974 Tons. 25,926 14,894 18,928 23,433 34,349 27,198 23,930 24,403 28,564 32,394 39,643 35,062 37,693 34,518 26,602 29,816 13,270 9,751 42,305 58,277 82,618 97,870 98,485 Oz, dwt. gr. 17,597 14 10 20,154 0 0 19,194 0 0 16,547 0 0 23,997 0 0 14,591 0 0 21,143 0 0 16,775 0 0 18,663 0 0 17,780 0 0 23,347 0 0 23,390 0 0 20,171 0 0 18,113 0 0 13,426 10 0 22,025 0 0 8,365 4 20 4,266 7 1 21,487 18 15 26,693 3 18 33,979 5 5 46,066 16 12 46,561 9 9 £ s. d. 68,630 13 10 78,600 12 0 74,856 12 0 64,533 6 0 93,588 6 0 56,904 18 0 83,171 15 5 66,030 11 5 72,720 18 0 69,676 12 1 91,998 8 10 95,885 5 1 80,894 5 1 73,752 14 11 53,509 5 1 87,935 18 4 33,824 7 1 18,253 7 3 87,587 1 0 108,455 17 8 134,557 7 11 186,719 6 7 188,655 2 5 Totals ... 472,501 2 6 |582,041 860,429 494,634 9 18 1,970,742 12 0

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Dredging Claims. Al Gold-dredging Company (Limited). —This dredge worked with varied success during the year, and is now working towards the lower end of the claim, which has proved to be the richest part. The dredge has treated a large quantity of wash, but whilst working to the upper part the bottom rose so rapidly that it had to be turned and worked downwards again. The depth of the ground in the lower part is 25 ft., and in the upper 12 ft. There is good reason to believe that good returns will be obtained from the whole of the ground the dredge is now on, which should take three years to work out. Beeves's Proprietary Gold-dredging Company (Limited). — Since starting in 1901 the dredge has worked about 10 acres of the claim (which is a freehold, and not an ordinary lease) of 600 acres. The past year showed an increase of over £1,000 in returns, and if the directors are successful in putting on another dredge shortly the returns will be increased materially. Boatman's Creek Gold-dredging Company (Limited). —This claim is situate on Boatman's Creek, and between the Al and the Eeeves's Proprietary dredging claims. No actual mining operations were conducted during the past year, but a dredge is being built on the ground. The pontoons are not yet floated, but the planking is nearly completed and the machinery in course of delivery. The dredge is expected to be at work some time in May, 1903. Lyell and Murchison. For the year ended 31st December a fair amount of interest has been displayed in dredging, and on the whole the results obtained may be said to be satisfactory. During the year five dredges have been working on the Buller Biver between Lyell and Westport, and with perhaps one exception, they have all obtained highly payable returns, one of them (the Buller Junction) having obtained as much as 234 oz. for a week's work. A very considerable amount of time has been lost during the year from various causes, the too frequent breakages and consequent stoppage for repairs occasioning a serious loss of time. The Feddersen Company's dredge, near Lyell, commenced operations at Christmas, and is already on gold. On the Upper Buller the Fern Flat Proprietary, (Limited) have been working for some months with the old Buller dredge, which has been thoroughly overhauled and repaired, but the returns obtained have been rather disappointing. On the Matakitaki there are two dredges working—viz., the Kohikohi and the Amikitea—but the returns obtained by both of these dredges have been very disappointing, being far below what was anticipated from the prospects obtained when the ground was taken up. In view of the poor returns from these two dredges a number of special claims and prospecting licenses have been surrendered. Nearer Murchison, however, Mr. George Walker, on behalf of a syndicate, has taken up a special claim of 68 acres, and has purchased a dredge to work the ground, which is said to be very good. Alluvial. Not much attention has been paid to sluicing during the past year. In the Murchison and Upper Matakitaki districts a few miners manage to make a living, but the number of men depending solely on mining for a livelihood is becoming gradually less. On the Buller the individual miner has almost entirely disappeared, only a few Chinese being left. At Newton Flat the Neville and Perkins Hydraulic Sluicing Company (Limited) have spent a large amount of money in bringing the Newton Biver on to their property, but the results obtained did not warrant the very large outlay, and the company is now in course of reconstruction. Quartz. Quartz-mining has been rather dull during the year. The Alpine Extended Company have about thirty men working in their mine at Lyell, and are at present engaged sinking the main shaft, and when this work is completed a fresh lease of life for this mine is confidently looked forward to, as the company have proved the existence of a body of rich stone in the lowest level—a winze having been sunk on the stone for over 70 ft. The only other mine that is being worked is the Tyrconnell, where a party of four men are working a leader close to the Alpine Company's ground, and have been doing very well during the year. Westport District. Addison's. This is still the chief gold-producing field in the Westport district. The yield is gradually diminishing, however, as the richer leads are worked out. Want of water and of fall for tailings hamper operations considerably, and prevent small parties of men with limited capital from taking up claims. Venture Cement Claim. — This company has been crushing steadily since the holders secured an increased supply of water, and they are now able to work the full strength of their tenhead battery. Willikin and Party. —Sluicing operations have been vigorously carried on by this party, but latterly the wash has become so hard that they have been compelled to put it through their crush-ing-battery. Mouat and Party. —The surface-stripping of this claim became so heavy that the party had to change their mode of work and resort to driving. They are bringing out and crushing cement of fair average quality. 20—0. 3.

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Carmody and Party. —After a long and uninterrupted period of successful sluicing the party had to take steps to secure more fall. They have been put to considerable expense through having to lower their washing-site, construct new tables and water-balance, and drive tunnels for tailrace, &c. Virgin Flat Company. — This company has been reorganized, and has resumed operations after a spell of idleness. A water-balance has been erected during the year, and some prospectingtunnels have also been driven. Gould and Party. —A good deal of dead-work has been done at this claim during the past year. A new branch tail-race has been completed, and a paddock for washing tables, 66 ft. by 46 ft., has been cut out to a depth of 30 ft.; new water-balance and tables have been constructed, and a tunnel driven to connect the washing-site with the water-balance. They have now resumed sluicing, and results so far have been satisfactory. Neil and Party. —In this claim also a large amount of preparatory work had to be done. For some time past sluicing has been resumed, and the party are supposed to be doing very well. In all probability they will now be able to sluice away the ground right to the end of their claim without being put to any serious expense for dead-work. McCann and Party. —This party has now secured ample fall, and, having a good supply of water, they are putting through an enormous quantity of wash which, it is generally believed, carries good gold. They should therefore soon recoup themselves for the heavy outlay incurred in dead-work for some time past. Addison's Long Tunnel Gold-mining Company. — The greater part of the past year has been taken up in moving and re-erecting the water-balance for lifting hopperings and in extending and boxing the tunnel tail-race, in order that the southern end of the claim can be worked. The south face, where previously worked, yielded substantial dividends, and shareholders therefore naturally look forward to having a good time again in the early future. Mokihinui. Bed Queen Gold-mining Company (Limited). — This mine is again in operation. It was taken up early last year, and a company formed locally to resume work. The mine is now fully equipped for working in a small way. A two-head Hendy battery (8501b. stamps), with a 6 ft. Pelton wheel, has been erected. Two level tramways and a wire-rope incline connect the battery with the upper workings, where a rich outcrop is exposed. Driving on the stone has proved rather disappointing so far, the gold being in patches and not in defined shoots. The reef is small, and should therefore be fairly rich to be profitably worked. The stone crushed last year yielded returns averaging 27 dwt. per ton. Waimangaroa. Britannia Gold-mining Company (Limited). —The principal operations at this mine consisted in prospecting. Another block of stone has been found between Nos. 3 and 4 levels, and the necessary connection for conveying stone to the battery is now being put in hand. Stony Greek Gold-mining Company (Limited). — Quartz-crushing was carried on for about six months at this claim, and then unfortunately the reef pinched out. The returns were disappointing, and the directors decided to stop active operations. Monthly calls are now being made to meet liabilities incurred, and the directors intend shortly to do further prospecting-work, and hope to have the battery running again during the present year. Island Creek Gold-dredging Company (Limited). —This company has gone into liquidation. The dredge and plant were sold to the Stony Creek Gold-mining Company, and removed to Ngakawau. The latter company were unsuccessful at Ngakawau, and recently sold the dredge and plant, evidently with the intention of discontinuing all further dredging operations. Wareatea Gold-dredging Company (Limited). — This company, having been unsuccessful in their dredging operations, sold their plant to the Waimangaroa Eiver Gold-dredging Company, and went into liquidation. The latter company nad not commenced dredging at the end of last year. Fairdown Gold-dredging Company (Limited). —This company, owing to want of success in adjoining claims, discontinued operations before completing the dredge, sold the plant, and went into liquidation. Old Diggings. Several small parties of miners are working on this field, but, so far as I can learn, few are doing more than making wages. The Wellington Company's claim is being worked on tribute. Hill and party are taking in a new tail-race, and expect to get better returns when it is finished. Bradshaw's Terrace and Creek. Several payable claims are being worked in this locality. Great difficulty is experienced at most of them in disposing of tailings owing to want of fall. The creek and lagoon are being gradually filled, and in the course of time there is no doubt sluicing will have to be abandoned for want of fall unless a large sludge-channel is constructed or some other method adopted for removing the tailings in a wholesale manner. Ahaura District. Beginning with the Moonlight Creek field, there is very little difference since last year. The population is about the same, and as no new ground has been opened there is no material difference in the number or class of claims. The completion of the Shetland Terrace Hydraulic Sluicing Company's water-race about April next will, it is expected, provide employment for a number of extra men. The water-race is being constructed from Fenton's Creek, and not, as at first intended,

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from Moonlight Creek. This will, however, enable the company to commence sluicing at Stewart's Terrace. The race, having been constructed along a steep side of a spur of the Paparoa Eanges and a considerable portion having to be tunnelled, has proved a very costly one, averaging about £15 per chain. With regard to Blackball, the same general report as to population and claims as that ofMoonlight will apply. About the same number of men are at work on Lingrew's Terrace, Lower Blackball, while Upper Blackball is much the same as last year. The large race at Montgomery Terrace has now been completed and sluicing commenced. The cost of bringing in this race, owing to the roughness of the ground traversed, has been much greater than was anticipated. At No Town the population is slowly decreasing, and very few claims have been taken up during the year. However, the Atlas Gold-mining Company purpose constructing a water-race from Lake Hochstetter to the terrace above No Town, and should this be accomplished there should be a considerable increase in mining and a general revival in the district, as the difficulty up to the present has been the shortage of water to work the terraces. The No Town Creek dredge has proved a great success, and should lead to the construction of dredges for Bignell's No Town Gold-dredging Company and No. 2 Gold-dredging Company. At Nelson Creek the population remains about the same, and the six dredges in the vicinity are all working with fair results. There are several parties carrying on sluicing operations, but the only new feature in this respect is the working of No. 3 Creek by water-balance by Donnellan and Sons. At Ahaura also the population remains stationary. Active sluicing operations continue along the north bank of the Ahaura Biver, and fair results are obtained. The want of a constant supply of water is seriously felt. Orwell Creek is the only source of supply, and after three or four days the supply falls off, and one by one the sluicing parties have to close down until the next fall of rain. There is one dredge working on the river, and the work done goes to prove the river a good field for dredging with anything like a powerful dredge. The same report as to population will also apply to Orwell Creek. The ordinary miners still continue sluicing when water is available, and a few are still engaged tunnelling on Napoleon Hill. There were two dredges on this creek, Erickson's Beward and Orwell Creek. The former is still working and getting payable returns, but the latter, which was built as an experiment to work 70 ft. or 80 ft. in depth, did not prove a success, and has closed down. At Totara Flat, Half-ounce, Noble's, and Waipuna things are much the same as last year. The dredges at work then are, however, closed down. The Grey Biver Consolidated has been sold, but there is every likelihood of the Totara Flat starting again. The Great Lead-Kapai dredge at Waipuna is still lying idle. On Mosquito Creek the one dredge working is getting rich returns, and it is expected that the No. 2 will soon be completed and starting work. Another dredge nearing completion is the Sullivan's Lead, on a tributary of Duffer's Creek. The Golden United Gold-dredging Company have purchased a dredge in Otago, which is to be shifted and re-erected on Duffer's Creek itself, and is expected to get rich returns. At Blackwater the prospects are very bright. The population is much the same, but the two dredges on the creek are getting payable returns. The ground at Snowy Biver is being systematically prospected, and gives promise of a fair return. With regard to quartz-mining on the Paparoa Eanges, the outlook is very promising. The Garden Gully Company have struck a reef, from which payable gold has been obtained, and they are now pushing on the development of their property. Should this prove the reef continuous and payable it should cause a large area of land to be prospected and worked. "The Taffy Gold-mining Company let their property on tribute to Falconer and party, so that little information can be obtained. The party have, however, been continuously at work, and are apparently satisfied, as they have taken out licenses over the adjoining areas. The Croesus Company have also kept men at work on their holding, and have driven a low-level tunnel of about 1,000 ft. This is reported to have been successful, as the reef was struck, but has not up to the present been tested. It is, however, clean and solid, and gives every promise of turning out well. The very thorough working of these three claims should be the means of clearly proving whether payable ore can be got on these ranges. Should it prove successful in establishing this fact a large and important field would probably be opened up. Greymouth District. The companies which were engaged in dredging operations on the Grey Eiver, near Brunnerton, have both gone into liquidation. The Grey Biver Company's dredge, which cost upwards of £7,000, has been sold by auction for £675, and the purchasers are arranging to alter the dredge and set it to work on Jones's Flat, which adjoins the company's river claim, and is immediately alongside the place where the company's dredge obtained about two thousand pounds' worth of gold in a few weeks some two years back. There is a possibility that this gold was part of a lead which is supposed to run through the flat, and the new owners of the dredge regard their enterprise as a reasonable mining venture, which will only incur a moderate outlay, and may possibly yield large profits on the small capital involved. The Grey Biver Extended Company's dredge, which was working 'west of Brunnerton, was acquired by a private syndicate for £750, and the new owners are continuing to work the ground which proved unprofitable to the company, but which may possibly pay well enough on the small capital of the syndicate. On the New Biver the Cornwall Company's dredge is working with sufficient profit to cover working-cost and leave a small margin ; but both Marsden No. 1 and the New Biver Companies have gone into liquidation, and a proposal is now about to be accepted under which the New Eiver

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Company's dredge is to be removed to a beach claim known as the " Golconda," near Cameron's, and suitable portions of the Marsden No. 1 dredge will be used to replace defective and worn-out parts of the New Eiver dredge. The Golconda Claim has been well prospected, and there is a reasonable probability that this venture will redeem at least a considerable portion of the capital which the companies mentioned have lost. At Dunganville, Maori Creek, a dredge is being worked by the Maori King Company, and there is now some promise that this company's operations will be attended with a measure of success. Eecent returns have been as high as 40 oz. a week, and taken over a considerable period the average has shown a profit. Having regard for the richness of this locality, it is quite probable that the dredge will obtain very high returns if the lead, which runs across Maori Creek, can be picked up by this dredge. It is to be regretted that the machine is too weak and defective for the heavy ground on which it is employed. Constant breakages are occurring, and the profits which would otherwise accrue are largely disturbed through such mishaps. This dredge was formerly the property of a Wanganui company known as the " Maori Queen," but the company was involved in financial difficulties when it started dredging, and the defective nature of the plant added to the company's troubles and caused its failure. The dredge was bought at auction by the Maori King Company for £1,200, and, after making a few additions to the machine and strengthening the weak parts, this company continued to dredge where the old company left off, and, as stated above, there is evidence that the Maori Queen Company might have survived its financial troubles if it had persevered with its work. The Marsden No. 3 Company partially constructed its dredge to work a claim on the New Biver, near the Marsden Township, but the company has gone into liquidation and the machinery has been sold for removal. Dealing with the four companies which are engaged in dredging the marine deposits along the fringe of the Tasman Sea, the only company that has been successful in its operations is the North Beach Company. The company's dredge has been winning profitable returns consistently throughout the year, and the weekly average has been approximately 40 oz. The debt with which the company was encumbered has been cleared, and substantial and useful alterations have been effected on the dredge by substituting cast steel for iron in parts which were found to wear badly through the grinding of the sand; besides this the company has paid 4s. in dividends, equal to 20 per cent, of its capital. The Leviathan Company, which is engaged in dredging a beach claim a few miles south of Greymouth and some six miles away from the North Beach, has had an unprofitable career, and the outlook is not good. The company raised £3,000 by the issue of preference shares to enable it to tide over financial difficulties, and half this amount was speedily refunded in preference dividends ; but poor ground was then encountered, and lately the dredge has barely covered its working-cost. The Leviathan Freehold Company placed a useful and powerful dredge on a claim comprising about 200 acres of ground south of the Leviathan Company's claim, but the results have been unprofitable, and it is fairly certain that the company will be forced to liquidate and sell the dredge. The Stony and Mosquito Lead Company are operating on a beach claim on the north side of the Leviathan Company's ground, and occasional returns have been secured which suggest that the average yield would be satisfactory if the machine was capable of dealing with the ground in an efficient manner. Frequent breakages have, however, disturbed continuous work, and the dredge is not sufficiently strong to cope with the lower wash, which is very tight and does not yield readily to the buckets. The No Town Creek Company's claim is registered as being in this district, though it really forms part of the Ahaura division. This dredge has been working to profitable advantage from the time the machine was started, and during the year the company has cleared a substantial debt and has paid ss. per share in dividends, equal to 25 per cent, of the total capital. The machinery has occasioned a good deal of trouble through wearing badly, but gradually the defects have been overcome, and it is likely that the company will now work to better advantage than formerly, and afford profitable returns to the shareholders for several years. Anyhow, the immediate prospects are very satisfactory. The general want of success of the river-dredging may be attributed to various causes. A valued correspondent favours me with the following remarks: The frequent stoppage of work caused by the flooding of the river has to some extent been conducive to the failure, for it is evident that a dredge working in an intermittent manner requires richer returns when working than a dredge which is not interrupted so frequently; but, apart from the disturbance of work, the fact remains that the auriferous dirt in the rivers is more patchy than it is in the tributary creeks and on the ocean-beaches, and though the persons who have bought the companies' dredges at low prices may make good profits on the small capital now involved, it is clear that the original outlay was ill-advised. Auriferous Marine Deposits. Whether any substantial success can be achieved by dredging these deposits remains to be proven. The operations of the North Beach Company's dredge serve to show that, given reasonable advantage in locality and general conditions, the work can be undertaken with considerable profit on a capital of about £9,000, but against this success it has to be remembered that three other companies have either failed or partially failed up to the present. These gold-deposits consequent upon marine action occur in places stretching over some hundreds of miles along the coastline, and I have little doubt that considerable attention will be directed to the possibilities of dredging the best of these patches in the near future. In some places the locality is against the

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chance of machinery being landed at reasonable cost even where rich ground can be proved to exist, and this is a factor which will hamper the progress of the industry to a considerable extent; but it has been made manifest that black sand when mixed with a reasonable proportion of beach shingle can be dealt with in bulk by a bucket dredge of the ordinary type in a successful manner, and I am of opinion that where sufficient area is available to afford a dredge, say, ten years' work, and it is proven that there is a'reasonable proportion of gold existing, the beach claims will prove more profitable on the whole than the claims situated in creeks and watercourses, where work is liable to more frequent disturbance, and where the gold-deposits appear to be more patchy. Dredging. Table A (appended) gives the same information as Table A given in my report for last year, and enables a comparison to be drawn of the grants and expiry of prospecting licenses, and the grants and surrenders of special claims, whether reefing, dredging, or sluicing areas. The prospecting licenses which were reduced in number in 1901-2 by 441, and the areas granted by 31,996 acres, were in the year 1902-3 further reduced in number by ninety-four, and in area by 6,883 acres. The special dredging claims, which showed a balance in 1901-2 in numbers of grants over surrenders of sixty-one, and of areas of 4,920 acres, in 1902-3 showed an excess of surrenders over grants in number of fifty-two, and in area of 4,758 acres. The sluicing and dredging surrenders and new grants do not show so marked a difference, but both show a decline in number and area. I think it is clearly shown by the tables of this and last year that the industry has now entirely lost the impetus of the " boom," and is almost reduced to normal conditions. Table B (appended) is also in the same form as Table Bof my report of 1901-2. From this table it will be seen that there are thirty-four companies in esse, and seven in course of liquidation. The total capital in shares is £408,120, of which £338,120 is the share capital of companies in esse, and £70,000 of the companies in liquidation. Besides the £338,120 share capital, the thirty-four companies in esse have a debenture debt of £24,094 18s. 7d. Of all the thirty-four dredges in esse, only ten have paid dividends; and in these ten there is a large inequality of returns. The Nelson Creek dredge stands at the head of the dividend-payers, the percentage of dividends to capital being 115 per cent. No Town Creek stands next with 25 per cent., and North Beach with 20 per cent. The remaining eight dividend-paying dredges taken together paid 6-42 per cent. It must be observed that the directors of the Pactolus, instead of paying dividends, invested the profits in equipping a second dredge, a course which up to the 31st December last does not appear to have been profitable. But I have no figures as to the net earnings so invested. The total amount of gold got during the year was 23,579 oz., which, taken at £3 19s. per ounce, gives £93,137, which would show a percentage of gold won to the total share capital of all the dredges in esse and being wound up of slightly over 22 per cent. Turning to the non-dividend-paying dredges, we find that the percentage of gold won equals a little over 21 per cent, on their total share capital, and that the whole of that gold won has gone in expenses of some kind or another. This result is curious proof of the reasonableness of the estimate given in my report last year—that it would take £80,600 to pay the working and general expenses of thirty-one dredges. The twenty-four non-dividend-paying dredges alone expended £69,000, and if we take the expenses of the ten dividend-paying dredges at £2,600 each—as estimated in my last report —then the thirty-four dredges must have expended in working and maintenance £95,000, or an average of £2,500 per dredge—a difference of only £100 a year per dredge between the estimate and working result. It cannot be said that the results given by these tables are satisfactory, or that there is much ground for encouragement. There are so many elements of uncertainty involved in the problem of profitable dredging that it is most difficult to regard the enterprise otherwise than as speculative in a very high degree—at least, as worked under present conditions. No doubt the money spent has benefited a large number of persons—manufacturers, carriers, storekeepers, artisans, and labouringmen ; but the shareholders do not intentionally invest their money on altruistic principles, and the result to them cannot be anything but disastrous. The Alleged Oil-deposits at Kotuku. Messrs. Ormond, Cooper, and McLean hold 600 to 700 acres of the supposed oil lands at Kotuku on prospecting licenses, and have applied for mineral licenses covering 626 acres. They have also a right to bore on the Education Endowment Eeserve 131, containing 1,000 acres, and over two freehold sections containing 197 acres. They have had an experienced man engaged with labour in boring for several months, and found oil, but, as far as is at present known, not in quantities to justify any expectations of a payable field. Messrs. Wickes, Mortensen, and Dentella have taken up 539 acres on prospecting license, and have provided plant, but as yet have not actually done any boring. Mr. Eoberts has a prospecting license over 900 acres. The total of all these areas taken up is 3,939 acres. When the Harbour Board were boring for coal at Dobson they came across small quantities of oil. But the last bore went down 2,000 ft., and there was no sign of such an oilfield as those in the United States, in Baku, and in Burmah, which furnish the world with petroleum. Nor, having regard to the New Plymouth experiences and the general broken character of New Zealand strata, would it be wise to indulge in any sanguine expectations with regard to Kotuku. The Timber Industry. The exports of timber and railway-sleepers from the Port of Greymouth are as follows: — Timber : 16,154,556 ft.; value, £56,540 19s. Sleepers : Number of pieces, 127,873, equal to 2,983,703 ft.; value, £20,779 7s. 3d. Total, 19,138,259 ft.; value, £77,320 6s. 3d.

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Coal. The export of coal for the year from Greymouth was as follows : Blackball Mine, 99,597 tons 6 cwt. ; Brunner Mine, 116,714 tons : total, 216,311 tons 6 cwt. The working of coal at Eeefton is confined almost entirely to local demand for household purposes and for the mines and dredges. An attempt was made by agents at Greymouth to obtain this coal, but the supply was so intermittent and the carriage charges so heavy that they have, I think, all. abandoned it. It is said that there is coal at Coal Creek of equal value for household purposes with that of Eeefton; and, if so, the Eeefton coal will not be able to compete for the market. Geneual. The number of suits disposed of in the Warden's Court, Greymouth, for the year ending the 31st December, 1902, was thirty-four. The revenue for the year amounted to £5,566 12s. Id., the particulars of which are as follows : Miners' rights, £160 ss. ; rents, £2,563 95.; water licenses, £2 ss. ; miscellaneous, £2,775 Bs. 7d. ; fees and fines, £65 4s. 6d: total, £5,566 12s. Id. Comparison between the Band (South Africa) and New Zealand: It is not, I think, out of place or without interest in this report to compare the expenses o* working a Eeefton mine, where none but well-paid white labour is employed, with the expenses o* working mines on the Band, where all the common labour-work of the mine is done by African natives on a low scale of pay. The possibility of substituting white labour for native labour is one of the highest importance to the Empire, including this colony. It has been repeatedly asserted that the ore on the Band is of too low a grade to allow of the employment of white labour except in the upper departments, such as those of foreman, supervisors, and " bosses" of native labour, and the performance of work requiring skill, intelligence, and experience. There is some information as to grades of ore and dividends paid by the Band mines given in a report made by the engineers of those mines to the Bight Hon. Mr. Chamberlain, and from which copious extracts appear in the London Times of the 9th February last. The information is, it is true, insufficient for an exact or comprehensive comparison. There are only two items where we are able to touch, but these are crucial. One is the average yield per ton of the groups of Band mines, and the other is the dividends declared at per ton of ore raised. I give the two items of the Band, and the corresponding items of the Progress Mines of New Zealand, taken from the report of 1901, the only one that I have at my disposal. Band Mines. —Thirteen companies ; yield per ton, £1 ss. ; only one of the thirteen paid any dividend. Thirteen companies ; yield per ton, £1 10s.; dividend, 9Td. Twelve companies; yield per ton, £1 15s. and over; dividend, 7s. Eleven companies; yield per ton, over £2 ; dividend, 7s. 6-ld. Nineteen companies; yield per ton, over £2 55.; dividend, lis. 2-sd. Twelve companies; yield per ton, over £2 10s.; dividend, £1 7s. lOd. Progress Mines. —The report of the Progress mines for 1901 gives the following figures : Total value of gold won, £93,474 ; total working-cost, 16s. 6T57d. per ton ; profit, 17s. 4-201 d. per ton : total, £1 13s. 10'358d. per ton. Dividends paid, 9s. lid. per ton. For the year 1902 the figures for the Progress mines were as follows : 55,976 tons milled ; value, £101,254 15s. lOd. Value of yield per ton, £1 16s. 2-135 d. Dividend per ton, 12s. 3-385 d. 16,422 tons cyanided; value, £5,745 os. 4d.; value of yield per ton, 6s. lT96d. per ton. It is necessary to give the milling account separate from the cyanide, because the tailings cyanided were not the proceeds of the year's milling, but included an accumulation of tailings from a long date back. The following are the figures for the year 1902 of the Consolidated mines—the Wealth of Nations and Golden Fleece. The dividend paid in this case would be no guide, since the company derive the greater part of their income from sources outside the mines. I therefore give workingexpenses and profit, the working-expenses covering every outgoing in the colony, leaving only " London expenses " and " writing-off " to be deducted. Consolidated. —2s,lBo tons milled; value, £40,971 15s. 3d. Value of yield per ton, £1 12s. 6-517 d. from actual milling. Total value of yield of 25,180 tons (including yield of concentrates and cyanide), £53,052 4s. lid. Working-cost per ton, £1 2s. 4'766d.; profit, 19s. 8-894 d.: total value, £2 2s. l-66d. I have confined the comparison to these mines in Eeefton because, from the extent of the capital and completeness of plant and organization, they stand the most nearly to the Band mines. From the mining report of 1901 I take the following as to the largest mine in the Auckland Province:— Waihi Mine.- -159,325 tons treated; value, £431,601 os. Bd. Value per ton, £2 14s. 2-144 d. £165,000 paid in dividends, equal to £1 os. 8-547 d. per ton. To compare the Band tables with the New Zealand mines given above, we have the following results :■ — Band. —Yield of twelve companies, £1 15s. per ton and over; dividend, 7s. lOd. per ton. Yield of eleven companies, £2 per ton and over ; dividend, 7s. 6d. per ton. Yield of twelve companies, over £2 10s. per ton ; dividend, £1 7s. lOd. per ton. Progress. —l9ol : Yield per ton, £1 13s lOd.; dividend, 9s. lid. per ton. 1902 : Yield per ton, £1 16s. 2d.; dividend, 12s. 3d. per ton. Consolidated. —l9o2: Value of yield per ton, £2 2s. Id.; profit, as stated above, 19s. Bd. per ton. Waihi. —l9ol: Value of yield per ton, £2 14s. 2d. ; dividend, £1 os. Bd. per ton.

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Though the profit per ton only is shown on the Consolidated mines, it must be clear that, since only " London expenses " and " writing-off" have to come off, the actual amount available for dividends can hardly be less than 12s. It would furnish a better basis of comparison if working-expenses and profits were given in all cases instead of dividends, since dividends are arbitrary, depending not solely on net profits of working, but on the decision of the directors, based on prudential or other reasons and on the amount of capital on which the dividend has to be paid. The Waihi Mine, it will be observed, which is in the same grade of ore as the highest-paying group of the Band Mines, pays a less dividend by 7s. 2d. than that group. The difference may be largely, if not wholly, accounted for by the facts that the gold in the Waihi is mixed not only with silver, but with other matter, which makes it necessary to put the entire stuff through the cyanide process. Out of 112,012 tons treated in 1901, 95,829 tons were dry-crushed. Timber and coal are expensive, having to be brought from long distances. There are two other points which have been alleged as grounds of difference between the Band and the American and Australasian mines—one, that the width of ore-bodies is very great in the latter, ranging from 400 ft. to 20 ft., whereas the average width of the Band reefs is only 4 ft. The second is that the latter mines are worked at less depth—the Band mines ranging from 500 ft. to 2,500 ft. in the shafts. Neither of these objections apply to the Progress and Consolidated mines. In these the shafts go 1,000 ft. and 1,250 ft., and in the Progress the normal width is 5 ft. with occasional bulges to 30 ft., while the Consolidated mines do not average 5 ft., in one mine being only 26 in. The irregular nature of the reefs in these mines and their broken character, so characteristic of the country, make the working of them unusually expensive. On the other hand, timber is obtained close to the Eeefton mines. In the case of the Progress Mine it costs 10'81d. per ton milled. As all timber for the Band mines is imported from abroad, it must stand those mines at a much higher figure. The magnitude and importance of the difference in cost of labour—viz., native labour on the Band 2s. per day, and white labour in New Zealand, miners 9s. 6d., truckers Bs., shaft and winze sinking 10s. per shift—is shown by the following extract from the progress report of 1901. The wages in the Progress Mine work out as follows: Mining, 9s. 4-333 d. per ton milled; transportation, 3983 d. per ton milled; milling and concentration, Is. 6-649 d. per ton milled; chlorination, 4-774 d. per ton milled; assay, T3o3d. per ton milled: total, lis. 9042 d. per ton milled: leaving only 4s. 9Tl5d. for timber, fuel, explosives, maintenance, and all other outgoings whatever. Is it possible that over-capitalisation and the difference in value of work done by the individual native and the individual white labourer are responsible for the difference of result ? There may be other factors as to which the Times' extracts from the Band Mines Engineer's report are silent. But it is fair to assume that the most important features are given, and certainly the grades of ore and the rates of wages must be almost crucial. There is a reference in the Band Engineer's report to trades-unions which suggests the idea that the employment of white labour will inevitably induce the formation of unions. From other remarks it appears that the writers of the report do not so much dread the regulation by the unions of rates of pay as their interference with the actual work of the labourers, with the management and control, and with the employment and dismissal of men, and the constant intervention of the officers of the union between the employer and the employed. It is important, therefore, to note that the Progress and other Eeefton mines are worked under trades-union rules, and that they have been so worked for some years without any serious trouble. It is, of course, necessary to remember that under present conditions Bs., and even 10s., a day would be insufficient wages for a white man on the Band. The engineers of the Band in their report put the cost of housing and living of a white man, his wife and three children, at £24 10s. a month. But that is purely a temporary difficulty. The admirable administration of all departments by Lord Milner in the Transvaal and Sir Hamilton Goold Adams in the Orange Colony is already becoming felt. The railway conferences, held not only as to rates with Natal, Delagoa Bay, and the Cape, but as to construction of new lines in the two new colonies, must lead to a very large reduction of expense of transport. The sum of £5,000,000 is at once to be spent on grain railways and coal railways, connecting the Band with the rich agricultural districts of the Orange Colony, and the coal and mineral districts of the Transvaal and Natal. The resources of the almost boundless areas of fine cultivable lands in the two colonies will rapidly be developed under the settlement laws. Johannesburg, unlike our mining districts, has within easy distance lands of the richest quality which are being settled in small areas of 20 acres to 40 acres, with a view to supply all those market necessaries in the way of fruit and vegetables and fodder necessary to a larger city. Access by electric trams to wide and unlimited residential areas in proximity to the city will soon be effected, and with taxation based only on necessities of providing for the cost of government, as against the heavy protective taxation of the Australasian Colonies, it is conceivable that in a few years the white labourer will find himself in a position of the greatest ease and comfort on such wages as are now paid in these colonies. It is manifest that the working of South African mines with black labour cannot be a matter settled for the future. All present arrangements must be temporary In view of the constantly increasing facilities for labour to transport itself to the best market, it may be fairly held that the above review of the question is one which deserves the attention of both capital and labour.

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A.—Number of Prospecting Licenses and Special Claims granted and expired or surrendered during 1902.

B. —List of Companies having Dredges actually at Work on their Claims on the 31st December, 1902.

I have, &c, E. 8. Hawkins, Warden. The Under-Secretary, Mines Department, Wellington.

Prospecting Pros Areas expired Areai during Year duri: ended ei 31st Decern-. 31st ber, 1902. bei ipeoting 3 gran e gp ec j a i Claims surrendered duringi Special Claims granted during ng year Year ended Year ended Q 2, ed 31st December, 1902. 31st December, 1902. Decem- -, 1902. No. Area. No. Dn idging. SI licing. I Reefing. Dredging. I Sluioing. Reefing. 1 Area. Area. No, No. Area. No., Aria. No. Area. No. Area. , No. Area. Greymouth ... Ahaura Reefton Westport Lyell 1 Murchison ) Charleston ... Acres. 53 4,050 4£ 109 7,929 3S 25 1,972 24 10 815 t 25 1,528 It 1 53 109 25 10 48 32 24 5 Acres. 4,143 1,962 1,403 191 29 32 o 10 Acres. 2,064 2,512 190 508 9 14 Acres.i Acres 266j 203! 1 96 1 8 4 Acres. 96 346 157 2 6 li 3 Acres. 82 347 83 81 10 2 6 Acres. 202 16 392 4 4 Acres. "87 148 '.7 8 34c 416 4 151 25 lo 1,205 14 804 2| 104 1 It 1 16 261 727. 20 3 42 1 50 1 11 1 14 ... 1 I i 222 16,294; 125 8,954 90 6,078 32 989 14 61t II 615 38' 1.320 1 20 641 12 291

Nama of Gold-dredging Company. J a? S,°.£ 3 s ai ti fe, <d& a a *Cr o a Ph S t. g° ng §S . r> CD rafT to £°'S Location of Dredge. Date of Completion of Dredge. ■a °S CD^ tn % - fe S o * asi 01 c3 r tn-. a °-s X MSh 33 ~Cr O o co 6Z51 No. of Ounces of Gold won from 1st January to 31st December, 1902. Amount paid or declared in Dividends to Shareholders. £ 9,900 3,000 8,500 9,255 9,000 9,000 9,375 10,000 9,000 9,000 9,475 12,000 7,500 £ Oz. dwt. gr. 1,051 15 2 116 3 6 184 15 0 945 6 17 853 5 7 390 14 21 2,386 10 12 1,381 8 10 309 10 10 342 14 5 £ s. d. Welcome Ahaura-Watterson's Garibaldi* Erickson's Reward Red Jack's Trafalgar Pactolusf Mosquito Aldinga Victory Blackwater River No Town Creek Callaghan's Creek 3^000 440 1,500 1,750 Buller River Ahaura River Moonlight Oreek Orwell Creek Red Jack's Creek Nelson Creek Dec, 1901 476 1,910 3,850 Mosquito Creek Nelson Greek 2,962 6,907 4,140 2,375 3,169 2,000 1,250 1,875 12201 J334JBlackwater River .. No Town Creek Callaghan's Creek .. Grey River.. 4,038 l,97l"6 14 764 15 12 2,400 0 0 312 10 0 Great Lead} 7,500 Nelson Creek Greymouth Lagoons (No Liability) Cornwall Maori King Stony and Mosquito Leads 8,500 17,740 1J235 Nelson Creek Blackwater River .. 5,333 1,741 4,130 4 8 90 14 11 9,775 0 0 10,925 5,785 11,375 1,500 200| New River, Marsden Maori Creek South Beaoh, Greymouth Paroa ... Redman's Creek, Reefton Boatman's Creek Buller River Jan. 24,1902 May 22, „ Sept. 4, „ 4,642 234 2,000 661 13 7 46 15 12 160 0 0 Leviathan Freeholds Al 15,000 8,500 1,500 Aug. 6, „ June 1, 1901 1,920 4,921 158 11 4 968 8 0 850 0 0 Reeves's Proprietary Buller Junction Fedderson's Mokoia Maori Gully Grey River Premier (Buller) Leviathan North Beach 12,200 9,375 11,000 9,000 8,900 8,500 10,375 15,000 8,325 Nov., Jan. 28, Dec. 28, 1902 Oct. 13, 1900 Deo. 7, 1901 Sept. 1, 1900 Dec. 4, 1901 4,765 4,985 931 1 6 1,205 16 12 610 0 0 625 0 0 1J875 235 Stillwater Greek Grey River Buller River Paroa North Beach, Greymouth Shellback Oreek Near Westport Matakitaki River 500 2,800 700 2,953 139 16 0 189 7 3 82 3 0 843 0 0 1,293 0 21 1,486 7 17 262 9 10 1,500 0 0§ 416 15 0 Shellback Waimangaroa River Kohikohi Amikitea In liquidation— Grey River Consolidated Ruby Creek Ford's Creek Stony Creek Orwell Creek.. Totara Flat Kangaroo Creek 8,615 12,000 12,000 12,500 547 2,034 2,599 April, 1902 Oct. 17, „ Sept. 3, 1901 Nov. 20, 1902 3,259 140 180 223 414 19 2 4 5 0 34 6 0 30 5 0 10,000 10,000 6,500 12,000 12,000 10,000 9,500 Grey River.. Ford's Creek Near Westport Orwell Creek Totara Flat Kangaroo Creek i ■■ 408,120 24,094 76,121 23,569 0 3 16,751 14 10 * New company formed. I T on for want of funds. § 2s. 6d. on r o dredges working, (reference shares. t Dredge closed down for last twelve mouths. Unable to carry

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Mr. Warden Macfahlane to the Under-Secretary for Mines, Wellington. Sir,— Westland Mining District, Hokitika, 18th April, 1903. I have the honour to forward herewith the mining statistical returns, together with my annual report on mining matters generally in the district under my charge. In reviewing the year's mining-work in my district a short synopsis of the more salient points of improvement will, when taken in connection with my last year's report, suffice to give a fairly clear idea of the progress made and the position attained, without recapitulating much that is set out in my last year's report. Alluvial Mining. Throughout this district alluvial mining maintains about the same number of men, and the output of gold is practically the same, but, with the exception of the Mont dOr, none of the larger companies have reached the dividend-paying stage. I furnish herewith a report on Humphrey's Hydraulic Sluicing Company (Limited), kindly supplied by Mr. Spencer, the company's manager : "I herewith submit my report on the work conducted by this company during the year 1902. Water-race :On the whole, the water-race has stood well, supplying the regular water with which to work the claim. There have been several breaks during the year, but this is not surprising when it is remembered that the race is about seventeen miles long, passing through some very rough country. The supply of water has enabled sluicing to be carried on steadily, with a delay of approximately three days per month on the average. Sluicing: On the No. 1 face (on the eastern side of Humphrey's Gully) a very large quantity of gravel has been removed during the year, amounting to 442,700 cubic yards. Most of this was sluiced from the far end and middle of the face, where the wash was of more promising appearance. The yield of gold from this face was 614 oz. 13 dwt., equal to 0-666 gr. per yard. Of this amount, 108 oz. 8 dwt. 6 gr. of gold, representing 17-635 per cent., was caught on the tables. The decreased percentage obtained from the tables is due, presumably, to the greater length of boxes above the tables (amounting to about 10 chains), affording a better opportunity for the gold to settle. On the No. 2 face (on the western side of Humphrey's Gully) a very large amount of work has been done towards opening up the gravel, and, at the end of 1902,111,700 cubic yards had been removed. Of this quantity, however, a large amount had to be sluiced through a very short length of boxes, as it was only possible to put on a box at the head or tail as room was made for it; hence the gold-yield so far obtained from this face cannot be taken as a guide to the actual gold-contents of the gravel. As soon as a sufficient area was opened up to receive the gold-saving tables the construction was put in hand, and the tables started to work at the end of August. Since then, of the 78 oz. 19 dwt. 23 gr. so far obtained from the face 33 oz. 19 dwt., representing 42-97 per cent, of the total yield, was retained on the tables. The equipment at this face is very similar to that erected on the No. 1 face during the year 1901, but a greater spread of tables has been provided on the No. 2 face, the gold-saving area amounting to 2,048 square feet. A hoist has also been installed for the removal of trees, stumps, &c, without which it would be impossible to work the ground. This face is supplied with light by Jardus arc lamps, the current for which is generated by the dynamo on No. 1 face. Output : The total gold obtained from the claim during the period under review amounts to 693 oz. 12 dwt. 23 gr., valued at £2,705 4s. Expenditure : The total expenditure during the year amounts to £4,439 19s. 9d. Of this amount, £2,395 18s. lid. represents the actual revenue expenditure for wages and stores on claim and water-race. Bents, taxes, travelling-expenses, and accident insurance amount to £581 Bs. 4d. ; whilst on capital account £1,439 17s. 6d. was expended in plant and vvages, and on stores on race and claim." A large expenditure had to be incurred to bring water on to this company's claim, and up to date working-expenses have been very heavy. An important feature in the working of this claim is that of extensive gold-saving tables for saving the fine gold. The wisdom of such departure from old-fashioned methods should be an object-lesson to similar companies; but diggers are a very conservative race, and, with the exception of this company, they still adhere to their old methods, thus throwing into the tailing-dump gold that might pay the working-expenses of the claim. I regret to say that there has been no new development of material value during the year, and if the same number of men are to be maintained it is absolutely necessary that more systematic prospecting in the back country take the place of the abortive attempts being made under the auspices of the Mining Association. Quartz-mining is a negative quantity, although many miners hold the opinion that in the fastnesses of the Southern Alps rich deposits will yet be found. Sea-beaches. All black-sand beaches are at present commanding considerable attention. From the Montezuma beaches, north of Hokitika, to Bruce Bay claims are being applied for, and dredges ordered to work same. The prospects obtained warrant the erecting of dredges specially designed to deal with black sand, and should be in full working-order under three months. The prospects, lam informed, that are now being obtained on the Mikonui Beach are of a most encouraging character, and if such continue in the next paddock taken out capital will be forthcoming for the erection of a most up-to-date dredging plant especially adapted for dealing with the black-sand beach-deposits. The same favourable reports reach me from beaches at Saltwater, where an up-to-date dredge is now being built, and should be ready to commence dredging operations in two months, all things being favourable. Negotiations are in an advanced stage for the construction of dredges at the Five-mile, Okarito, and Gillespie's Beaches. As a further mark of the line of progress in the matter in question, our almost isolated miners at Bruce Bay keep their ever-watchful eyes on the beaches for the combings, and as a result of 21—C. 3.

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their labours our gold-returns this year have increased. All available water has been taken up and utilised for washing purposes. The time is not far distant when greater attention will be paid to the utilisation of our mountain-streams as a motive power for many of our industries, and care must be exercised in not dealing too freely with our natural power without due consideration as to its future possibilities for elevating and hydraulic mining. Our experience of dredging has not been very satisfactory, a number of the companies having gone into liquidation, mainly owing to light and defective machinery and the depth and tightness of the material dealt with. In this respect our sea-beaches are more likely to pay for working. Prospecting-tracks. The utility of the above-mentioned tracks is becoming more apparent in this district every year —especially I might mention the tracks up the Callery and the Great South Boad. At Omarua there are extensive terraces that will require some very careful investigation by the prospectors of the district, and with careful investment of capital and labour I predict a great increase of population following up this industry. Further extension of these tracks, I deem, would be very safe expenditure on behalf of the public bodies. Before any expenditure is undertaken I would suggest that proper investigation of the ground should be made as to the suitability of the route for tracks. Those made up to the Whitcombe Pass may lead to prosperous results, as there are many different parties there investigating the resources of that part of the district. Prospectors are also exploring the upper reaches of the Taipo Biver. If any find of importance takes place there it may be very extensive, as there is a large extent of almost unprospected ground in that locality, and there is ample water in the district to carry out extensive sluicing operations, and ample timber for all mining purposes. The works most urgently required in connection with mining on the Coast are an adequate water-supply for Back Creek and Seddon's Terrace, and prospecting-tracks to the back country. A plentiful supply of water would give direct returns to the investors. Tracks are more the duties of the authorities, as the returns are more indirect. Timber, etc. The timber trade is being largely developed, the output being limited by the want of facilities for getting it away. Flax-milling is now being successfully carried on, and a very superior article placed on the market. The railway to Boss is now under construction, employing a large number of men. The bridge over the Hokitika Biver is under construction. This combined with the railway to Boss will give an impetus to the southern trade that will largely benefit Hokitika. Summary of Business. The following is a summary of business and a statement of revenue collected in the Warden's Court during the year ending the 31st December, 1902 : — Hokitika. —Fees on applications, £17 6s. ; miners' rights, £67 10s.; registrations, £8 lis. ; licenses, £14 ss. : searches, £1 165.; fees and fines, £6 65.; rents, £455 4s. lOd. ; miscellaneous, 155.: total, £571 13s. lOd. Kumara. —Mining applications received 119, value £11 18s.; miners' rights issued 292, value £73 ; licenses issued, 50 ; rents received, £557 lis. 2d.; fees and fines received, £52 125.; search fees, £3 55.; miscellaneous receipts, £335 16s. lOd.: total, £1,034 3s. Boss. —Special claims granted 8, area 610 acres ; extended claims granted 3, area 9 acres ; ordinary claims granted 1, area 1 acre; prospecting licenses granted 10, area 760 acres; residencesites licenses granted 2, area 2 acres; water-race licenses granted 7, length 9 miles 22 chains ; dam licenses granted, 2 ; tramway licenses granted 1, length 60 chains ; sawmill licenses and certificates of reservation 2, area 400 acres ; hand-sawing and timber-cutting warrants 2, area 40 acres ; applications received 205, value £20 10s. ; miners' rights issued 115, value £28 155.; licenses issued 13, value £3 ss. ; rent received, £501 19s. Bd.; fees and fines, £3 75.; searches, Is.; registrations, £8 13s. ; miscellaneous, £1 lis. 6d.: total, £568 2s. 2d. Stafford and Goldsborough. —Mining applications 85, value £8 10s.; miners' rights issued 150, value £27 10s.; licenses issued 28, value £7 ; fees and fines received 8, value £3 10s.; searches made 3, value 3s. ; miscellaneous (royalties, &c.) 4, value £121 14s. 7d.; registrations and transfers 233, value £11 135.: total, £180 os. 7d. Okarito. —Applications received 49, value £4 18s.; miners' rights issued 61, value £15 ss. ; licenses issued, 48 ; rents received, £283 9s. lOd. ; miscellaneous receipts, £22 18s. 9d. ; search fees, 25.; fees and fines, Okarito Court, £2 18s. : total, £329 17s. 7d.

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License No. Nature of Privilege. To whom granted. Locality. Area. 840 Prospecting area Hokitika. Lucy Jane Harcourt Block I., Kanieri Survey District Kanieri Forks A. r. p. 100 0 0 841 Hand-sawing and timber-splitting warrant Certificate of protection Henry Morris 20 0 0 842 843 849 850 860 864 876 883 884 885 887 u • . Residence-site Extended olaim Tail-raoe Amalgamated claim Certificate of easement Sawmill license Reservation of timber area Certificate of proteotion Tunnel Commissioners' Flat Gold-dredg-ing Company Perry's Reward Gold - dredging Company John Forsyth Richard Lemain and others Robert Knight and others O'Neil and party Hauhau Creek Dredging Company William Hegan Blue Spur Kanieri Forks Baok Creek Seddon's Terraoe 10 0 5 0 0 9 0 0 Mahinapua 20o"o 0 200 0 0 Hugh MoKinnon John Beroz Mitchell's Terrace, South Hokitika Ditto Mitchell's Gully, South Hokitika Mitohell's Flat, South Hokitika Mitohell's Terrace, South Hokitika Mitchell's Gully, South Hokitika Brighton Terraoe, South Hokitika Ditto .. Kanieri Forks 888 889 Dam 890 Extended olaim 5 0 0 891 Special site 5 0 0 892 Water-raoe 893 Special claim Brown and Howat 10 0 © 894 895 896 899 901 902 903 907 909 910 912 914 916 918 923 924 Tunnel Extended olaim Certificate of proteotion Water-raoe Extended claim Residence-site Water-race Dam George Pfahlert Charles Davey George Noble Patrick McQuilkin and others .. Thomas Martyn and others Ann Young Nicholas Davis Lark's Terraoe Blue Spur Arthurstown Humphrey's Gully 4 - 0 0 3 3 0 4 0 0 0 2 0 Jane Feeney Blue Spur 925 926 927 928 931 Water-raoe Residence-site Sawmill license Hand-sawing and timber-cutting warrant Ordinary olaim Water-race Extended claim Tail-race Hand sawing and timber-cutting warrant Tramway Certificate of protection Ordinary claim Water-raoe Tail-race Certificate of protection Prospecting area Tail-race Certificate of reduction Henry Martin Clausen William Hegan Riohard John O'Brien.. John Anderson James H. Spence and others .. William A. Cooper and others .. William Stephens Hokitika-Ross Road Shallow Rush Road Frosty Creek Kanieri Forks Back Creek Frosty Creek 0 2 0 200 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 2 0 0 20 0 0 932 933 934 935 936 937 938 939 942 William A. Cooper and others .. McQuilkin and party Choo Gee and others Baok Creek Kanieri Forks 10 0 943 944 945 946 948 949 950 951 Amalgamated olaim Residence-site Speoial olaim Amalgamated claim Ordinary olaim Ann Young Augustus Boys George Noble Humphrey's Hydraulio Sluicing Company Commissioners' Flat Gold-dredg-ing Company Margaret Mills Peter Hansen and party Kirwan and party George Hagen John Hagen Peebles and Noble Western Water-supply, Electrio Power, and Golddredging Co. Caroline Cullen David John Hutchison and another John Anderson Lucy Jane Harcourt Patrick Douglas Duncan Edward Clerk John McKay Arahura Flat Lark's Terraoe Blocks I. and V., Kanieri Survey District Rimu Back Creek Woodstook Tuoker Flat Four-mile Creek 100 'o 0 88 3 2 0 2 0 6 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 10 0 32 0 0 Prospecting area Certificate of protection 952 956 Prospeoting area Dam Arahura Kanieri 6 0 0 957 958 959 960 961 Ordinary olaim Special claim Water-race Kanieri Forks Arahura Flat Woodstock Kanieri Lake Blook V., Kanieri Survey Distriot 10 0 19 0 0 Prospecting area ioo'o 0

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license No. Nature of Privilege. To whom granted. Locality. Area. 962 963 964 967 Special claim Water-race Amalgamated claim Hand-sawing and timber-cutting warrant Special claim.. Hokitika— continued. John Stewart and party Kanieri River A. R. P. 10 0 0 Arthur Clifton and party George Mears Seddon's Terrace Rimu 12 "o 20 0 0 968 969 970 971 972 973 974 Henry Gilfillan David Abbott Duncan Edward Clerk Wilfred Ewing Bruce John Anderson David Stuart.. Carl Johannes Edward Linnemann Maloney and party Brown and Green Park and Boyes Caldwell and Cropper McLachlan and Black Seddon's Terrace 92 3 16 95 2 21 90 0 31 97 0 24 6 0 0 10 0 100 0 0 Residenoe-site Prospecting area (Native land) .. Brighton Terrace Back Creek Seddon's Terrace Fisherman's Creek 975 976 978 979 980 981 982 983 984 Amalgamated claim .. Water-race Special claim Back Creek Rimu Flat North Hokitika Arahura Beach Arthurstown 7 0 0 37 0 0 96 0 0 Dam Water-raoe Special claim Extended claim Brown and Green Hartke and Thomson Augustus Boys Brighton Terraoe Back Creek Block II., Kanieri Survey District Tucker Flat Woodstock Back Creek Rimu 6 0 0 4 0 0 3 0 0 985 986 988 996 997 998 999 1000 1001 1002 1004 1005 1006 1008 Residence-site Extended claim .. Residence-site Certificate of protection Special claim Ordinary olaim Extended claim Certificate of protection Bauoke and Donoghue Ferdinand Vroblfski Duske and party Thomas Spence Augustus Boys Arthur John Knowles and others Riohard Boucher Hyndman and Wells John Stewart and party Arthur Clifton and party Ann Young Robert Parker and party Albert Everett John Druce and party 2 0 0 0 2 0 4 0 0 10 0 Back Creek Tucker Flat Baok Creek 6 2 0 10 0 4 0 0 Extended claim Special claim Extended claim Brighton Terraoe Wataroa River Block V., Kanieri Survey District Ditto .. Blue Spur Tucker Flat 5 0 0 100 0 0 4 0 0 1009 1011 1012 1013 1014 Special claim .. Residence-site Tailings-site Tunnel Special claim Surginor and Willoughby William Griffiths George Hagen 6 0 0 10 0 0 2 0 1015 1017 1018 1022 1026 1027 1028 1029 Tunnel Extended claim Certificate of protection Prospecting area Dam Harvey and McDonald Block I., Kanieri Survey District Kanieri Tucker Flat 6 0 0 3 0 0 Riohard Beck and others William J. Burke Peter Melican and others William McKay and others 60 0 0 Back Creek Rimu Drainage area Water-race Montezuma Gold-dredging Company Humphery's Hydraulic Sluicing Company William O'Connor and others .. James Lincoln Section 1012, Arahura Survey District 54"o 0 1030 Certificate of reduction 1032 1033 1034 1035 1036 Amalgamated olaim Sawmill lioense Reservation timber area Tramway Reservation timber area Jules Ceesar Malfroy Seddon's Terraoe Mahinapua Arahura Fiat .. 12 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 200 "o 0 Prospecting license Extended claim Water-race Tail-race Sawmill license Timber reservation Kumara. 8 0 0 2 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Residenoe-site Sawmill license Timber reservation S. H. Harris P. Callwell J. Sousal W. J. Mollroy Otto Petersen Charles Cox A. Modier John W. Callwell 196 0 0 179 0 0 173 0 0 190 0 0 0 10 0 2 0 195 0 0 200 0 0 195 1 0 193 3 0 199 2 0 155 0 0 100 0 0 6 0 0 3 0 0 0 2 0 J. D. Gillies and another Sawmill license Speoial claim Extended claim Residence-site Water-race J. W. Burrell !'. '.'. Thomas Madden Conrad Werner Three-mile Greenstone Company S. Dixon

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I have, &c, D. Macparlane, Warden. The Under-Secretary, Mines Department, Wellington.

Mr. Warden Keddell to the Under-Secretary for Mines, Wellington. Bi R) — Warden's Office, Oamaru, 6th June, 1903. I have the honour to report, for the information of the Hon. the Minister of Mines, that during the past year nothing worthy of comment or remark has occurred within the Livingstone and Maerewhenua Districts, save the completion of the Mountain Hut Water-race. This work, the object of great expectations from the miners, has been in hand for the past ten years, and would not have been finished yet were it not for the assistance of the Government. I am afraid the water-supply from this source will not come up to the anticipations of the projectors of the race. From some cause or other the quantity of water at the point of supply is out of proportion smaller than the amount obtained from its sources, a large amount being lost in some manner in transit. In all other respects this sub-district remains as before as to population and earnings. I have, &c, Jackson Keddell, Warden. The Under-Secretary, Mines Department, Wellington.

Mr. Warden Carew to the Under-Secretary for Mines, Wellington. Sir,— Warden's Office, Dunedin, 27th March, 1903. I have the honour to forward herewith statistical returns for the Hindon district for the year ending on 31st December, 1902.

license No. Nature of Privilege. To whom granted. Locality. Area. 520 525 526 527 528 529 530 531 532 533 534 535 536 537 538 539 543 544 545 546 547 Staffi Residenoe-site Extended sluioing olaim Tail-race Dam drd and Goldsborough— continu, M. Bernson Ah Joe and Ah Buck id. Callaghan's German Gully a. r. p. 10 0 2 0 0 Extended claim Tail-race Extended alluvial claim Speoial sluicing olaim Tail-race Extended sluicing olaim Tailings-site Extended sluioing claim Tail-race Tailings-site Indorsement sawmill lioense, 415 Special sluioing olaim Dam Tail-raoe Extension of water-raoe Protection certificate sluicing olaim, 487 G. Pimpernell Scandanavian Terrace .. German Gully Middle Branoh Flat 5 "o 0 T. Dunne and party F. Carmini and party G. and H. Linklater 2 "o 0 7 0 0 German Gully 4 0 0 3 0 0 5 0 0 H. Linklater Scandanavian Terrace .. J. Olsen and party S. Perry Arahura Tunnel Terraoe 5 0 0 200 0 0 12 0 0 George Taylor and party Higg's Gully Kelly's Terraoe 7 0 0 No. Description. Remarks. 217 219 220 221 225 227 229 to 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 to 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 269 270 Special claim Prospeoting lioense IKARITO. Fergus MoLeod ; 100 aores ; Saltwater. W. Patrick ; 100 acres ; Omeroa River. George Park ; 18 aores ; Waiho. Edward Gibb; 100 acres ; Waikukupa. Henry Butland ; 90 acres ; Saltwater. W. Liddell; 100 acres ; Five-mile. Special olaim I Prospeoting license G. Carter ; 100 acres ; Okarito Lagoon. Westland Company ; 100 aores ; Waibo. Dam Water-raoe L Prospeoting lioense Special claim Prospeoting lioense Dam Water-raoe Prospecting license G. Park ; 4 acres 3 roods; Waiho. M. Guinane ; Waiho Creek ; 15 ft. by 3 ft. W. Liddell; Alpine Race ; Five-mile. Peter Bell; 80 acres; Waiho. Westland Company ; Exchange of Title. T. Olliver ; 100 acres ; Waikukupa. John Ritchie ; Mahatahi. W. McCullaugh T. Olliver; 100 acres ; Waikukupa. J. Grimond ; 100 aores ; Sandfly. J. Taylor ; 40 acres ; Haast. Water-race

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There are now only forty-three miners employed in the district, and nothing has occurred during the year to require special mention. I have, &c, E. H. Carew, Warden. The Under-Secretary, Mines Department, Wellington.

Mr. Warden McEnnis to the Under-Secretary for Mines, Wellington. Sir— Warden's Office, Naseby, 25th May, 1903. In forwarding the mining statistics for Mount Ida district for the year ended the 31st December, 1902, I have the honour to supplement same with the few following general remarks :— At Naseby there are six small claims being worked on the " Maori bottom," with fair results ; but, as I anticipated in my last report, only a small area has been taken up as claims. There is not a good fall for the discharge of tailings, and this of course militates against the working of a large area. The rest of the mining around Naseby is carried on by means of hydraulic elevating, with the exception of a few small claims and some fossicking, and I believe all are satisfied with their earnings. At Patearoa and Serpentine nothing new has occurred during the year. Those mining around there seem to be doing fairly well. At Hyde mining matters are very quiet, about the same number of miners working as last year. At Mount Highlay there are some men employed at quartz-mining, but nothing good has been struck as yet. At Kyeburn the same state of matters exist as formerly reported. The miners seem satisfied with their earnings. The Naumai dredge has ceased operations for the present at least. This is not a healthy sign. At St. Bathan's those claims working have had a good year. The Scandinavian Company have won a good deal of gold. It has two claims—one called the Kildare lead and the other the Lagoon—worked by means of elevating plant. The former is worked by an elevator of one straight lift of 105 ft. (one of the highest, if not the highest, in New Zealand), having a pressure of 405 ft. The Lagoon Claim's elevator is 35 ft. high, having a pressure of 308 ft. The company employ about twenty men, and have a supply of thirty heads of water from the Manuherikia River. The Shamrock Company's claim is also worked by an elevator 25 ft. high, with a pressure of 300 ft. This company has also had a good year's yield of gold. The Kildare Hill and the Vinegar Hill Claims, owned by Mr. John Ewing, are not now working. At Cambrian's, Fordham and Gay's claim is worked by an elevator, with good results. There are in this locality a few fossickers, all evidently making a living. At Matakanui the Mount Morgan and the Matakanui Company's claims still maintain their reputations of being very good claims. Besides these there are some small claims which are said to be paying fairly well. The Cairntrodlie dredge, erected towards the end of the year at Poolburn, Ida Valley, so far is giving satisfactory yields. At Middlemarch there are only a few miners at work ground-sluicing, making small wages. At Macrae's Flat there have been no fresh developments of any importance, and, except in quartz, mining has gone back. None of the sluicing-claims are on anything but a very small scale owing to the inadequate water-supply, and there is (except with an expenditure far beyond what the prospects warrant), no chance of increasing it. What little sluicing there is is mostly done by Chinese. The second dredge which was started on Macrae's Flat was, like its predecessor, a failure, largely due to the amount of stiff clay in the wash making it difficult to treat, and taking the gold away with it. This dredge was shifted in July last to Poolburn. In Shag Valley the Dunback dredge has been shifted to Southland. The Inchdale and the Inch Valley dredges which remain have averaged 12 oz. to 20 oz. each per week during the year. In quartz-mining the results as a whole have been better, and the returns, though small, have been regular. The Golden Bar Mine, which is worked by a private party, has had some very good returns, yielding, I believe, from £10 to £14 a man per week above expenses ; and they have a large body of stone, with good prospects ahead. This mine has for the past three years been a consistent gold-producer, and, as the permanence of the reef is practically assured, the future prospects of the fortunate owners are exceedingly bright. The mine is worked by tunnelling and stoping, and the machinery consists of a ten-head battery, a feeder, and rock-breaker driven by an 8-horse-power steam-engine. Eight men are employed, including the shareholders. Ounce Mine, Macrae's, owned by Messrs. Spiers and. Ross, has been let on tribute to Messrs. Lidston and Sinclair, and the yield of gold during the year has been satisfactory. The Bonanza Mine, owned by Mr. L. O. Beal, has not done much working during the year, but the returns, I believe, have been satisfactory. Six men are employed at this mine. The Maritana Mine, owned by Mr. C. McGill, and situate alongside the Golden Point Mine (but not same reef), has been started during the year; but little crushing has been done, owing to shortage of water, although, I believe, the returns were satisfactory. This mine is worked by a six-head battery of stamps, driven by an overshot water-wheel. The Golden Point Mine, owned by Messrs. W. and G. Donaldson, has been continuously at work during the year, and employs ten to twelve men. A new ten-head battery has been put in; also a new concentrating-table, known as " the Woodbury," which has a larger capacity than the Vanner. The concentrates consist of scheelite, which is shipped direct to Germany. This is

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the only mine in the colony that dresses seheelite for the market. The scheelite is found mixed with the quartz, sometimes pure enough to be shipped after hand-picking ; but the bulk is got from the concentrating-tables after the gold has been taken from the quartz with the ordinary battery treatment. The owners lately purchased the Incholme dredge at Shag Valley, which they dismantled, and brought the engine and boiler to the battery, to take the place of the 15-horse-power oil-engine they used when short of water. Considerably over £1,000 has lately been spent on improvements at the battery and mine, and it is to be hoped that the enterprising owners will be amply rewarded by future good results from the mine. Gold to the value of £60,286 ss. lOd. has been purchased by the banks in the district during year, being an increase of £12,264 10s. 4d. over the amount purchased for the year ended 31st December, 1901. Statements showing total revenue under the various heads are also forwarded. Courts at the appointed places have been regularly held during the year. I have, &c, The Under-Secretary, Mines Department, Wellington. J. McEnnis, Warden.

Mr. Warden Cruickshank to the Under-Secretary for Mines, Wellington. Sir, — Warden's Office, Lawrence, 28th March, 1903. I have the honour to forward to you herewith the statistical returns for the year ended the 31st December, 1902, and to submit the following report on the several mining districts under my charge for the same period : — Wetherstone's, Blue Spur, and Tuapeka Flat. At Wetherstone's the Golden Crescent Sluicing Company, the Local Industry Gold-mining Company, and Messrs. Smyth, Adams, and Donlan have been working throughout the year, with fairly good results. At the Blue Spur things are not so bright, a slip having occurred in the Consolidated Company's claim, causing part of the mine to be flooded, and considerable loss of time must take place and expense be incurred before the mine can be put into proper working-order again. Messrs. Kitto and party are now working the cement portion of their claim in Munro's Gully, but with what result I have not ascertained. At the Tuapeka Flat three dredges have been working, and the returns have been fairly satisfactory. Clutha River at the Beaumont. Three dredges are working in this vicinity, but the returns are small in each case. The only other dredge working on the Clutha River below the Tallaburn Creek is the Otago No. 2, formerly the Golden Glen dredge, which, together with the claim, was bought by the Otago Dredging Company last spring, and has been yielding fairly satisfactory returns ever since. Waipori. No new ventures or claims have been started in this locality since my last report, but I am credibly informed that nearly all the dredging and sluicing claims have yielded good average returns throughout the most part of the year. I regret to have to report that operations have not as yet been recommenced in the O.P.Q. Quartz-mine. Waitahuna. There is nothing new to report on in this locality. Five dredges are still at work, but as they are owned by private syndicates the returns are not made public. Tapanui. Mining in this locality during the twelve months has been pretty well at a standstill. One dredge working on freehold property, and scarcely any other kind of mining has been carried on. Gore (Including Waimumu, Charlton Creek, and Waikaka.) I have to report that the mining industry in these localities appears to be in a prosperous condition, and there are no indications at present that it will go back in the near future, as was indicated some time ago. It is certainly very difficult to ascertain how many of the dredges round about here are doing, on account of their being owned by private companies, which do not publish their returns, and decline to give any information respecting them ; but the general belief is that they are paying well. As I have stated in my previous reports, dredging is the only method of mining pursued here, and it gives employment to about 230 men. There are sixteen dredges at Waikaka, one on the Mataura River, five at Charlton Creek, and seven at Waimumu, making a total of twenty-nine, all of which are actually at work. The revenue for the year amounted to £665 17s. 4d., but a good deal of the mining is being carried on on freehold property, and consequently produces no revenue. Waikaia. Mining in this locality has maintained a fairly even tenor throughout the year, The dredges at work—viz., the Mystery Flat and the Muddy Creek—have yielded very consistent payable returns for some time past, and in consequence of these returns a lot of prospecting has been done, and

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the results having proved satisfactory four new dredges are being built, one for each of the following companies : The Fairdown Dredging Company, the Garry Owen Company, the Nugent Wood Company, and the Hessey Dredging Company. I have ascertained, on reliable authority, that about 2,600 oz. of gold has been won in this district for the year. Two of the hydraulic elevating companies—viz., the Gow's Creek and the Winding Creek Companies —have gone into voluntary liquidation, the former on account, apparently, of the ground not being payable, which was a great pity, after spending about £3,000 in bringing in a fine water-race, and the reason for the latter was on account of the water-supply not being regular. The total revenue collected for the year at Waikaia amounted to £366. I have, &c, G. Cbuickshank, Warden. The Under-Secretary, Mines Department, Wellington.

Mr. Warden Burgess to the Under-Secretary for Mines, Wellington. Sir, — Warden's Office, Queenstown, 15th May, 1903. I have the honour to forward herewith statistical returns for the Dunstan portion of the Otago Mining District, together with report on same : — Queenstown and Arrowtown Sub-district. Dredging in this portion of the district has on the whole proved very unsuccessful, though the few dredges which are still at work are getting payable returns. The Maori Point dredge on the Shotover River has been completed, and has been working through the year with satisfactory results. Encouraged by the success already met with, the company is putting on a new dredge to work the upper part of the claim. Further down the river the Prince Arthur Company, which started operations during the year, has obtained some good returns, though work has been considerably interfered with by the heavy drift occasioned by the frequent rains which fell during a portion of the year. On that part of the Kawarau River situated in this sub-district no dredges are now actually at work, but the Gibbstown Company is ready to commence. The Kawarau Bridge dredge has been lying idle for some time. At Cardrona the Lone Star and La Franchi's Freehold dredges are getting payable though not large returns. The latter, being worked by water-power (O'Brien's patent), is worked at comparatively small expense. Alluvial mining is still the most important branch of the industry in this sub-district, and of the various parties engaged the majority are doing well. The most valuable claims are on the Shotover River; and about Skipper's Messrs. Rogers, Stevenson, Johnson, Smith, and Lee are still carrying on profitable operations in their respective claims, which have been yielding remunerative returns for some years. Several new claims are being opened out, Davis Bros., Hamilton and party, and the Muddy Creek Sluicing Company holding the most promising. At the Shotover Big Beach, the Arthur's Point Sluicing Claim (Tyrrell and party) is still getting good returns. At Moke Creek the Moonlight Sluicing Company is at work, and the Moonlight No. 2 Company's claim is being worked by tributers. The operations of a small party working the terraces on the Kawarau River below the Shotover Junction promise to result very satisfactorily to the shareholders. The only work of any importance on the Arrow River is being carried on by the Arrow Falls Company, which for some years past has been prosecuting works of considerable magnitude in developing this claim. These works have been well designed and systematically carried out, and the claim is now in admirable condition for profitable working. At Macetown, Anderson and party hold a claim which is paying well. Though almost all the Cardrona dredges had to suspend operations, and have been removed out of the district, the existence of payable gold in that locality is evidenced by the success which is attending the efforts of alluvial miners, and especially of Mr. Little, who has erected a very efficient plant on his own ground, to which he is now adding. So far his operations have been attended with great success. Attention has latterly been once more directed to the quartz reefs existing in the district. A Reefton party who have been prospecting about the Skipper's reefs have found encouraging prospects, and are contemplating the erection of quartz-crushing machinery. A number of local miners and some Dunedin syndicates have taken up quartz claims in the same locality, and are actively engaged in prospecting. The Shotover Mining Company has gone to considerable expense in improving their machinery and erecting a cyanide plant, in order to more profitably treat larger quantities of stone than they have previously been able to do. The Achilles Mine, which has been shut down for the greater part of the year, is, it is understood, under offer to some London capitalists. The Invincible reef, at the head of Lake Wakatipu, has been taken up again by a Dunedin syndicate. The Premier Mine at Macetown is still working vigorously. Operations have been maintained all through the year, and the returns have averaged about 150 oz. per month. The flotation of a London company to work other reefs near Macetown at present held by Mr. W. J. Farrell is almost completed. 22-C. 3.

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A small party is working in a scheelite-mine a few miles above Glenorchy, but their operations have not yet assumed any magnitude. The iron-lode at Moke Creek continues to attract some attention, though very little is known regarding it, and comparatively nothing has yet been done on it. Cromwell Sub-district. Operations in this sub-district have been on the whole profitably carried on during the past twelve months. There are no changes of importance to notice. Dredging is gradually assuming the condition which it is likely to maintain for several years to come. The merely speculative and unprofitable claims are being surrendered, leaving only such holdings as may be considered to fairly justify continued work and development. As against the number of claims which have been given up, seventeen new claims have been granted during the year. As the experience gained during past years has shown what localities are likely to prove payable, most of these claims should be worked with profit. That portion of the Upper Clutha lying between Lowburn and Cromwell is being thoroughly prospected. The Rise and Shine dredge has been completed since my last report, and has commenced operations. The result of her work has been most gratifying as establishing the payable nature of this portion of the river. Several large dredges are now in course of construction for work in this locality. Of these, the Rising Sun dredge will, when completed, be one of the largest dredges in Otago, and will, it is confidently expected, prove quite capable of working the deep wash known to exist on this claim. A number of dredges on the Kawarau River, principally below the Kawarau Gorge, and two or three at the Nevis, continue to return good dividends to the shareholders. Thirty-eight alluvial claims were granted in 1902, comprising areas ranging from 1 to 19 acres. Of these, twelve are situated in the Lowburn, Mount Pisa, and Luggate districts, four at Nevis, fourteen at Gee's Flat, Kawarau Gorge, seven in Bannockburn and the Carrick Range, and one at Bendigo. Out of this number a few have already been surrendered as not payable, but the remainder are being steadily and profitably worked. At Gee's Flat, where there is not an adequate supply of water, the method of working mainly pursued is driving and sinking, while at Luggate, Bannockburn, Carrick Range, and Nevis most of the gold is obtained by sluicing. At the Nevis two claims are being successfully worked by means of hydraulic sluicing. Owing to the very favourable results of operations in this locality there seems every reason to expect a considerable expansion of the industry in this quarter during the coming year. A revival of interest is in this, as in the Queenstown Sub-district, taking place in quartzmining. On the Carrick Range near Bannockburn mining has quite recently been resumed on ground formerly worked but now abandoned for some years. It is believed that the application of the cyanide process to the treatment of the ore will again render the working of quartz claims in this district payable. Up to the present, however, no experiments have yet been made. On the Mount Pisa Range several quartz claims have been granted, and steps are being taken to properly test this ground. At Bendigo a party of miners who have erected a small battery (which is driven by an oilengine) are engaged in opening up a reef of fairly rich but somewhat patchy stone. The Bendigo Mine, which some years ago yielded such splendid returns, has been reworked to some extent during the past year, but the necessary capital not being available for thoroughly opening our, the mine and driving the low-level tunnel, now regarded as the only effective method of working the mine, operations have been suspended and are not likely to be resumed.' A cyanide plant was erected for the purpose of treating the large quantity of battery-tailings accumulated during many years past. The work was at first attended with very promising results, but the yield of gold on the whole proved a disappointment, and work has been discontinued. Clyde and Alexandra. Dredging still retains its paramount position throughout this portion of the mining district, and although the river and banks between Clyde and Alexandra have been subjected to many years of successful operations there seems to be no diminution in the yearly returns. Mining by way of sluicing, however, shows a decided falling-off. With few exceptions the parties who for many years utilised the water from the Fraser River, on the banks of the Clutha, have retired from the industry. The Alexandra Bonanza Company has succeeded in bringing in the water from the Manorburn, and has commenced sluicing operations on the Galloway Flat. A few fairly payable returns have been obtained, but it is doubtful whether the ground is good enough to remunerate a company of such a large capital as has been invested in this undertaking. Several attempts have been made to prospect new ground, especially on the Galloway Terraces. A rush to this ground took place twelve months ago, and about twenty or thirty small claims were pegged off, but after being worked for a few months these claims were thrown up. The ground proved to be " patchy," and as the supply of water was limited it could not be worked profitably.

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About 75 acres of this land has since been applied for in one olaim by Appleton and party, who propose to form a company to bring water in and work the ground by hydraulic sluicing, but this will be an expensive matter. As regards dredging, that part of the river above Clyde and below the Half-way House has with one exception proved a failure. The Monte Christo dredge is still working, but her returns are only moderate. During the year, owing to the many fluctuations in the level of the river, this dredge worked only twenty weeks, averaging 36 oz. per week. Further down the river from this claim to the Vincent Company's claim, a distance of about five miles, is not now being worked, the companies which held the ground having gone into liquidation. 1 have reason to believe, however, that some of the river will soon be worked again. Around Alexandra dredging has been exceptionally prosperous, as a reference to the statement attached of companies working will show. The dredges in this sub-district alone have paid during the year 1902 the sum of £50,997 in dividends, and this does not include the profits of some private companies which I am led to believe are very satisfactory. Four dredges are at work again in the Manuherikia River with moderate success. The amount of drift travelling in this river always tends to silt the paddock, and greatly increases the difficulties of working. The one exception is the Olrig, which has paid back 35 per cent, of her capital in dividends. There is a large area of splendid dredging-ground in this valley which would pay about 12 oz. or 15 oz. per week, and if worked on the O'Brien patent system would be certainly payable, but the scarcity of water is the chief drawback to this system being attempted. The dredges in the gorge below Alexandra have met with fair success during the year, and many have been altered to cope with the different conditions found in gorge dredging. The result should be a very successful year to follow. One difficulty, though by no means insuperable, appears in dredging this portion of the river, and that is coaling. The present system is costly, as the coal has to be carted to a certain point, sledged to the river, and then boated down to the dredges. Lately, however, the various companies interested have joined in discussing the construction of a road along the river-bank. The Earnscleugh No. 3 dredge has commenced operations during the past twelve months. This dredge is worked by electricity, which is conveyed to the dredge from the Fraser Gorge, four miles distant. Antimony Mine. —Messrs. Blair and Stewart obtained a license to prospect for antimony over some 40 acres opposite Alexandra, and after opening a shaft they sent to England about 40 tons of ore, which realised £4 10s. per ton. The ore when assayed in Dunedin yielded 50 per cent, of antimony, but ore from the same parcel gave only 31 per cent, in England ; and it also assayed gold to the value of Bs. 6d. per ton. The party after expending over £600 had to cease operations owing to lack of funds, but it is believed that with capital the mine could be opened up and made to pay. Bald Hill Flat. Quartz-mining is being still carried on at the Excelsior and White's reefs on the Old-man Range, apparently paying satisfactorily. Sluicing is being vigorously prosecuted at Bald Hill Flat, and the Last Chance Company has reached thg dividend-paying stage. A claim worthy of note is that of Dowdall and party, who are sluicing the freehold on which the Bald Hill Flat dredge was working some time previously, and although the dredge could not pay, the sluicing operations have been very successful. Roxburgh. Referring to the attached statement of dredges working in this sub-district, it will be seen that out of the sixteen working only four have paid dividends. But compared with last year the result must be considered favourable, for all the dredges have averaged well in their returns. At Miller's Flat dredging has been very prosperous, and most of the companies and parties at work there have paid large dividends. At Ettrick also the Ettrick Company is meeting with good success. Alluvial. —The Roxburgh Amalgamated Company at Roxburgh East still heads the list as a successful sluicing claim, and during the year paid £2,250 in dividends. The Ladysmith Company is also working, and obtaining good returns. The number of smaller claims shows no sign of decreasing, and most of them I believe are paying well. I append a return showing the quantity of gold produced by sixty-two dredges during the year ended the 31st December, 1902, an approximate amount of capital involved, the average return per working-week, and the amount of dividends paid. It will be seen that thirty, or nearly half the number engaged, returned to the shareholders £107,506 6s.

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Returns of Sixty-two Dredges, showing the Average for each Working-week and the Dividends paid, for the Year ended 31st December, 1902.

I have, &c, F. J. Burgess, Warden. The Under-Secretary, Mines Department, Wellington. Mr. Warden McCarthy to the Under-Secretary for Mines, Wellington. Sir, — Invercargill, 31st March, 1903. I have the honour to report that in my district during the past twelve months mining has not been in a very prosperous condition. Reports from Preservation Inlet have been anything but satisfactory. A certain amount of prospecting has been done at the inlet by a party of miners, and mining privileges have been applied for, which may yet turn out a rich yield. However, a large number of miners have left there, seeking fresh fields for employment.

Name of Company. Capital. Amount of Gold sSm won. 3r.o r^ Average dividends paid. Interest on Capital invested. Matau Dunstan Lead .. Davis Bend Monte Christo .. Unity Alexandra Eureka Chicago Enterprise I. .. Enterprise II. .. Earnscleugh I. .. Earnscleugh II. Manuherikia Clyde Molyneux Hydraulic Olrig Perseveranoe I. Perseveranoe II. Alexandra Lead Fourteen-mile Beaoh Golden River .. Sailor's Bend .. First Chanoe .. Bendigo New Teviot Endeavour Golden Gate Golden Treasure Golden Run Ettrick Otago Otago II. Majestio Coal Creek Flat Golden Bed Molyneux Kohinoor Long Vailey Island Block New Roxburgh Jubilee Lady Roxburgh New Royal Maori Point d'Or Electrio Meg and Annie.. Junction Electrio I. Junotion Electrio II. Kelly and Casey New Alpine Consols Alpine II. Grand Junotion Rise and Shine.. Upper Magnetic Gentle Annie .. New Half-way House Hartley and Riley Riley's Beaoh .. Cromwell Ngapara III. .. New Nevis Prinoe Arthur .. La Franohi £ 7,000 17,487 9,800 10,000 10,500 12,000 5,000 Oz. dwt. gr. 1,046 10 0 1,345 4 0 768 5 0 735 0 0 2,124 3 0 791 11 0 954 7 7 j 1,723 9 1 \ 1,474 13 20 ] 1,386 1 9 1 2,929 19 1 1,847 11 13 1,426 15 0 1,612 18 12 1,604 10 19 j 2,009 2 19 { 1,892 4 20 4,925 2 0 305 18 0 606 17 0 1,208 16 0 1,191 2 4 675 0 0 1,062 10 5 846 19 2 1,786 3 0 593 4 0 2,092 10 20 950 11 0 j 782 5 0 \ 87 0 0 1,088 7 0 704 7 18 1,095 5 0 619 17 11 286 13 0 297 15 12 1,450 13 17 43 16 0 607 8 8 502 11 0 5,129 8 0 1,829 4 0 37 42 28 20 32 29 43 46 44 42 35 30 25 47 46 44 40 39 7 16 16 13 13 34 33 50 41 43 37 43 3 40 40 39 26 16 18 19 3 32 30 40 86 Oz. dwt. gr. 28 5 16 32 0 13 27 8 18 36 15 0 66 7 14 27 5 21 22 3 21 37 9 7 33 10 7 33 0 0 83 14 6 61 11 17 57 1 9 34 6 8 34 17 15 45 13 5 47 6 2 126 5 16 43 14 0 37 18 13 75 11 0 91 12 11 51 18 11 31 5 0 25 13 7 35 14 11 14 9 8 48 13 6 25 13 19 18 3 20 29 0 0 27 4 4 17 12 4 28 1 16 23 16 19 17 18 7 16 10 20 76 7 0 14 12 0 18 19 15 16 15 0 128 4 16 50 16 5 £ a. d. 1,225 0 0 Per Cent.. 1-i 480 0 0 4,725 0 0 1,500 0 0 1,375 0 0 5 45 134 27J 80 } 7,000 | 11,000 l 5,600 0 0 l 2,700 0 0 4,800 0 0 3,000 0 0 1,722 10 0 2,443 1 0 24J 40 75 28 35 12,000 4,000 6,000 7,000 l 14,000 17,521 22,000 10,000 8 000 7 000 11,000 3,500 10,000 2,500 2,876 11,000 10,150 | 8,050 0 0 13,156 10 0 57J 75 1,000 0 0 2,400 0 0 3,150 0 0 10 30 45 4,825* 0 0 193 | 4,000 6,500 10,000 12,706 10,500 9,000 24,130 7,500 11,000 1,556 10,625 26,000 7,500 1,687 10 0 26 481' 5 0 'k 1,125' 0 0 15 15,600' 0 0 3,600 0 0 60 48 I 26,000 3,183 14 0 41 77 13 0 5,200 0 0 20 11,000 7,500 6,500 7,710 12,000 10,800 8,500 8,000 6,500 8,650 7,000 7,000 4,000 9,600 12,000 193 2 9 499 8 2 1,075 13 7 174 12 0 1,933 1 15 898 12 0 633 16 22 193 7 6 2,086 2 0 1,834 9 0 2,816 1 3 574 12 0 205 19 0 324 13 0 356 0 10 12 18 16 6 88 18 22 18 26 27 29 33 20 8 23 16 1 20 38 8 7 67 3 22 29 2 0 50 17 9 49 18 10 28 16 5 14 17 13 80 4 6 67 18 20 97 2 2 17 8 5 10 5 22 40 11 15 15 9 14 925 10 O 1,625 0 0 30o' 0 0 4,875 0 0 3,460 0 0 6,125 0 0 350 0 0 12 25 "H 75 40 87J 5 442,111 73,427 16 4 107,506 6 0

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At Orepuki the closing down of the shale-works has caused a slump in business generally. A number of the late employees have done some prospecting for gold and taken up claims, some of whom it is reported are doing fairly well. I regret to have to note that the Belmont dredge, owned by Mr. Francis Jack, has come to grief within a few chains of the scene intended for operations. When being removed to the lagoon at the mouth of the Waiau River, during the temporary absence of the dredgemaster, the dredge became partially lodged on a sandspit, with the result that when the water receded her back was broken. Attempts have been made to float her, but without success. She is now being unlimbered, with a view to the machinery being removed. Mr. Jack deserves credit for the perseverance and enterprise that he has displayed, and sympathy is felt for the loss he has sustained. At West Waiau a number of miners are still at work, and, I believe, doing fairly well. Although there is nothing very startling to report from Round Hill, still the respective companies have not had much cause to complain. Water has been plentiful all through the summer months. I have, &c, S. E. McCarthy, Warden. The Under-Secretary, Mines Department, Wellington.

WATER-RACES. Mr. Alex. Aitken, Manager, Kumara District Water-races, to the Under-Secretary for Mines, Wellington. Sir,— Kumara, 15th May, 1903. I have the honour to forward the following report on the working of the Waimea-Kumara water-races for the financial year ended the 31st March, 1903. Waimea Race. The total sales of water from this race for the year ended the 31st March, 1903, amounted to £814 17s. 2d., and the expenditure for gauging, maintenance, and repairs for the same period was £787 16s. 7d., showing a credit balance of £27 os. 7d. on the transactions for the year. The average number of miners supplied with water from the race for sluicing purposes was 28-91, and the approximate quantity of gold obtained by them was 2,4360z., having a value of £9,500 Bs. The sales of water are £85 10s. lid. greater than during the preceding year, and the quantity of gold obtained was greater by 286 oz., having a value of £1,115 Bs. The number of miners employed in sluicing with water from the race was about the same as during the previous year. The expenditure for gauging, maintenance, and repairs during the year was less by £51 2s. lOd. than during the preceding year, and the headworks at Kawhaka, the siphon, and all the races and branch races have been kept and are now in a thorough state of repair. For many years the result of the working of the Waimea Race has always been a balance on the debit side, but during the past year a considerable improvement has taken place, and there is a credit balance of £27 Is. sd. on the year's transactions, while during the preceding year there was a debit balance of £109 12s. 4d. The results would have been even better had the claims at the Stafford end of the race been of a more payable character. The most of the water sold there for some years past has been used by parties of Chinamen, and although in former years they were fairly successful and paid with great regularity, such has not been the case during the past year, which has been a bad one for them, and the receipts for water have in consequence been very considerably reduced. None of the claims, however, have been abandoned, and the holders are making fresh efforts to effect a change, in the hope of doing better in the future than in the past. One of the parties at Tunnel Terrace, on the Goldsborough section of the race, has not been using water for a considerable portion of the year, as the old tail-race used by them had run out of fall, owing to its extreme length. A new, more straight, and consequently shorter, tail-race has been driven, boxed, and blocked, which will serve the party better than the old one for many years to come. Water has been plentiful during the year, and no stoppages in the supply occurred, so that throughout the year the work of the miners was continuous so far as the supply of water was concerned. The miners using water from the Goldsborough section of the race seem much better satisfied with the results of their washings than in former years, and they have promptly and regularly paid for the water supplied, which is a sure sign of improved earnings. There are still large areas of unworked ground in the neighbourhood of Tunnel Terrace, which, although not rich, will all be worked in the future, and give fairly profitable employment to a large number of miners who, on account of improved appliances, a cheap and plentiful supply of water, and a better and more efficient use of the water, will be enabled to work ground with profit that in the earlier days of gold-mining on the West Coast was considered absolutely worthless. A claim 12 acres in extent has been taken up by Perry and party just above Tunnel Terrace. The ground was abandoned many years ago as being non-payable, and contains a large area of unworked ground with faces of auriferous wash of considerable thickness, but no sluicing on a large scale has hitherto been attempted there. The party has constructed a substantial new tailrace, properly boxed, and blocked with a gradient of 5-J-in. to the box of 12 ft., and intend to sluice with twenty to twenty-four sluice-heads of water, and have also repaired and enlarged three

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dams owned by the party, in which it is intended to store night-water for use in the daytime. The party owns a very good water-race and water-right, but as their own race will not supply a sufficient quantity of water for working the claim it is intended to use a considerable quantity of water from the Waimea Race. A new claim has also been opened up near Fox's by Burroughs and party, and they intend to use water from the Waimea Race for a jet-pump and for sluicing purposes. The Waimea Hydraulic Sluicing Company was not a financial success although the plant and machinery was all that could be desired. The hydraulic elevator used by the company did its work in a very satisfactory manner, the piping and plant was thoroughly up to date, and the management was exceedingly good and efficient, but the yield of gold from the material put through was thoroughly disappointing. The company was entirely misled respecting the prospects and the area of ground suitable for elevating. The prospects were much misrepresented, and a very large portion of the ground that was said to be solid was found to be worked ground, out of which all the available gold had been washed many years before. The pressure of water available for the hydraulic nozzle and elevator was about 250 ft. of head, with an allowance of 30 ft. of head for friction of water in pipes, bends, and valves, which would give an effective or hydraulic head of 220 ft. The quantity of water used for sluicing-nozzle and elevator was about twelve sluice-heads, of which about four and a half heads were used through the sluicing nozzle to break down the material and carry it to the elevator, and seven and a half heads were used through the nozzle of the elevator. The average quantity of material raised to a height of 35 ft. was about 25 cubic yards per hour. The company intends making a further trial of their claim, by sluicing the gravels of the high terrace above the flat, but as there is plenty of fall to a good tailing site on the flat the hydraulic elevator will not be used, but ordinary hydraulic sluicing will be adopted. The following tabulated statement shows the receipts and cost of the maintenance of the Waimea Race for the year ended the 31st March, 1903, together with the approximate quantity and value of gold obtained by parties using water from the race : —

Branch Bace to Callaghan's and Middle Branch of Waimea Creek. The total sales of water from this race for the year ended the 31st March, 1903, amounted to £492 lis. Id., and the expenditure for gauging, maintenance, and repairs for the same period was £351 14s. 7d., showing a credit balance of £140 16s. 6d. on the transactions for the year. The average number of miners supplied with water for sluicing from the race during the year was 13-5, and the approximate quantity of gold obtained by them was 1,225 oz., having a value of £4,777 10s. The sales of water were £288 18s. 7d. greater than during the preceding year, and the approximate quantity of gold obtained was greater by 715 oz., having a value of £2,788 10s. The average number of miners using water for sluicing from the race increased from 8 to 13-5, comparing 1901-2 with 1902-3. The expenditure for gauging, maintenance, and repairs during the year was greater by £206 Is. sd. than during the preceding year, and the dam in the middle branch of the Waimea Creek has been enlarged so as to store more water, and all the races and branch races have been kept and are now in a thorough state of repair. The increased expenditure on gauging, maintenance, and repairs is accounted for by the items just referred to, by the increased demand for water, and the cost of laying on water to the several parties opening up their claims, but steps have been taken to reduce this expenditure in the future by a rearrangement of the men employed on the races. The whole of the miners sluicing during the year with water from this race were Europeans, while during the previous year a large proportion of those using the water from the race were Chinamen who have now left the district. In Callaghan's little or no prospecting has been done during the year, although there are large areas of ground in the locality well worth prospecting. A large area of ground has been taken up by Honey and party, and surveys have been made for the purpose of ascertaining the best method of testing and working the ground. The party intends using water from the race, but no definite scheme of working has yet been decided on.

Month. Sales of Water. Cash received Outstanding Number A M£?. X fo?Sales of Excenditure Mone y s at the of Value of Gold w *Jl expenditure. End of each M obtained. Wat6r - M ° ntb ' P'°y ea - obtained. 1902. £ s. d. 100 16 3 69 9 4 78 9 2 89 1 10 72 4 4 72 14 9 67 1 5 79 7 8 49 9 11 £ s. d. 98 14 0 62 19 7 85 15 8 80 16 6 79 4 0 78 8 8 61 12 4 82 8 4 57 5 5 £ s. d. 57 16 10 78 9 2 59 4 2 86 4 9 69 11 8 66 7 5 68 11 8 58 15 2 71 16 8 £ s. d. 40 15 4 46 2 2 48 13 8 46 19 6 41 18 6 39 18 6 39 0 11 36 2 2 28 14 2 Oz. 303 207 234 267 216 216 201 237 150 £ s. d. 1,181 14 0 807 6 0 912 12 0 1,041 6 0 842 8 0 842 8 0 783 18 0 924 6 0 585 0 0 ipril day une .. .. ruly Lugust September )ctober November December 32 21) 26 80 31 81 30 28 26 1903. 42 2 6 54 13 9 39 6 3 53 14 7 39 2 11 37 3 9 66 6 8 52 8 8 52 2 11 28 0 5 32 4 9 33 12 3 29 27 28 126 162 117 491 8 0 631 16 0 456 6 0 r anuary February tf arch Totals 814 17 2 817 5 9 787 16 7 28-91 (average) 2,436 9,500 8 0

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A large amount of work has been done during the year on the flat in the middle branch of the Waimea Creek. There are now six claims in full work, and another has completed a tail-race and will open out and start sluicing immediately. The returns from the claims now at work have been exceedingly good, and the work already done has proved beyond doubt that the whole of the flat is highly payable sluicing-ground. The depth of the ground on the flat is from 25 ft. to 30 ft., but as it approaches the hill on the south side of the flat the depth will be greater. The bottom is comparatively soft blue reef, and is very uneven, with high ridges and deep runs. In some places the runs are so deep that the present tail-races hardly bottom them. In most of the deep runs the gold is poor, and the gold-bearing wash is on a false bottom on a higher level, but in some of the deepest runs good gold at a lower level than the tail-races has been proved, and this will have to be lifted by hand-labour into the tail-races, but so far as at present known only a very small proportion of the ground will have to be dealt with in this way. The sales of water from this race will increase considerably, and there is a fair probability that during the incoming year the sales will be nearly double that of the year !just past. The dam in the middle branch will be raised to its full height during the present year, and the men on the race will be employed in so doing during their spare time. It has been tested byfloods, and a good and sufficient bye-wash has been provided which will carry off the surplus water during heavy rains. The following tabulated statement shows the receipts and cost of maintenance of the Callaghan's and middle branch race for the year ended the 31st March, 1903, together with the approximate quantity and value of gold obtained by parties using water from the race :—

Waimea Main Tail-race. The Waimea Main Tail-race has been extended during the year a further distance of 358 lineal feet, and its total length is now 3,030 lineal feet, exclusive of the extensions on the tailings-site. Six private tail-races are now working into the main tail-race, and another has just been completed and will be working shortly. Eight rights have now been granted by the Warden to connect with the main tail-race, and two more parties intend to apply at once for similar rights. The Waimea Main Tail-race has a gradient of 3 in. to the box (12 ft.), and all the private races should have gradients of 4 in. to the box, but this has not yet been properly regulated, and blockages sometimes occur from this cause, and also from the carelessness of parties sluicing. Everything, however, works well, and the blockages are not more frequent than in other main tail-races. Kumara Race. The total sales of water from the Kumara Race for the year ended the 31st March, 1903. amounted to £1,528 14s. 4d., and the expenditure for gauging, maintenance, and repairs for the same period was £1,684 16s. 6d., showing a debit balance of £156 2s. 2d. on the transactions for the year. The average number of miners supplied with water for sluicing from the race was forty, and the approximate quantity of gold obtained by them was 3,056 oz., having a value of £11,918 Bs. The sales of water are £721 17s. lOd. less than during the preceding year, and the approximate quantity of gold obtained was less by 1,448 oz., having a value of £5,647 4s. The average number of miners using water for sluicing from the race decreased from 46-08 to 40, comparing 1901-2 with 1902-3. The expenditure on gauging, maintenance, and repairs during the year was less by £21 13s. 4d. than during the preceding year, and the whole of the races, branch races, and siphons have been kept and are now in a thorough state of repair. A rearrangement of the men employed on the races will reduce this expenditure in the future. The falling-off in the sales of water is largely accounted for by the fact that several of the claims using large quantities of water were not sluicing anything like full time, as the holders were constructing new branch tail-races. Only a few of the claims worked full time, and the reduction in the sales of water will be only temporary, as most of the claims are now sluicing regularly

Month. Sales of Water. Cash received for Sales of Expenditure. Water. Outstanding Moneys at the End of each Month. Number of Men employed. Approximate Quantity of Gold obtained. Value of Gold obtained. April May June July August .. September October .. November December 1902. £ s. d. 18 0 0 27 7 6 19 0 0 52 17 6 35 2 6 50 0 0 41 18 9 59 7 9 35 4 7 £ a. d. 5 5 0 34 10 0 26 0 0 24 16 0 42 0 0 59 9 0 12 7 6 83 0 0 18 1 3 £ a. d. 44 6 3 41 12 6 18 0 7 ! 29 16 6 13 0 0 24 2 6 31 8 9 21 15 0 27 0 0 £ a: d. 11 2 6 4 0 0 0 10 0 26 5 0 20 5 0 10 3 2 38 6 3 28 2 6 36 17 4 12 7 6 12 13 15 15 15 15 Oz. 33 67 48 130 87 125 105 147 88 £ s. d. 128 14 0 261 6 0 187 4 0 507 0 0 339 6 0 487 10 0 409 10 0 573 6 0 343 4 0 1903. 35 15 0 38 15 0 84 2 6 22 10 0 58 17 6 85 15 0 27 0 0 41 8 9 32 3 9 50 2 4 29 19 10 28 7 4 15 19 18 88 97 210 343 4 0 378 6 0 819 0 0 January .. February March '.. Totals i 492 11 1 467 11 3 351 14 7 13-5 (average) 1,225 4,777 10 0

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Except in one instance, the ground sluiced away during the year was poor, and several claims were abandoned ; but others were taken up, so that the total number of claims held is not materially reduced. The supply of water during the year has been more than sufficient for all requirements, and no time has been lost by the miners from insufficient supply of water. During the year water was running to waste over the dams on eighty-six separate days, and during that time 123J days' water for the whole field went to waste. Twenty holidays were observed by the miners during the year. The attached table shows the number of days in each month on which water was running over the dams, and the total quantity lost, and also the number of holidays on which no water was used for sluicing:—

Besides the sales of water referred to below, free water was supplied to claims as assistance for constructing new branch tail-races, &c, under authority from the Department, and also to claims having a succession of poor washings, after due inquiry was made in each case. The total value of free water so supplied was £271 os. lOd. Flushing-water was supplied to each of the main tail-races without charge, in accordance with authority from the Department, to the following extent: No. 2 channel, ten sluice-heads; No. 3 channel, twenty-three sluice-heads; No. 4 channel, ten sluice-heads; No. 5 channel, twenty sluice-heads. As water was plentiful quantities much in excess of the above were supplied, as it would otherwise go to waste and benefit no one, and in no case was less than the above quantities supplied. The Borough of Kumara was supplied with water for fire-brigade purposes, and water was supplied to the miners for washing up free of charge. The following tabulated statement shows the receipts and cost of maintenance of the Kumara Race for the year ended the 31st March, 1903, together with the approximate quantity and value of gold obtained by parties using water from the race: —

Waimea-Kumara Water-races. The following tabulated statement shows the revenue, cost of maintenance, approximate quantity of gold obtained, and the number of men employed in sluicing on claims using water from

Month. Water running over Dam. Quantity of Water lost. Holidays. No Water for Channel. Dams empty. 1902. Days. Days. Days. 8 Days. Days. April ... May ... June ... July ... August... September October November December 1908. 7 6 2 3 3 8 10 16 5 17* * 1 3* Hi 11 20 "7 January February March ... 13 9 9 22* 11 20 5 Totals 86 123* 20

Month. Sales of Water. Cash received for Sales of Water. Outstanding Number ExnBTidituv*. Moneys at the of expenditure. End of each , M en emMonth, ployed. Approximate Quantity of Gold obtained. Value of Gold obtained. 1902. £ a. d. Ill 16 1 161 7 4 103 12 10 120 2 10 142 19 3 135 11 8 101 9 10 133 2 9 131 17 1 £ a. d. 48 17 6 126 10 0 97 16 0 163 10 0 105 10 0 144 0 0 135 11 0 235 13 0 17 0 0 £ a. d. 149 17 1 126 9 6 126 14 6 140 2 10 140 7 7 135 2 10 121 17 0 158 16 3 164 3 0 £ a. d. 884 19 5 925 14 8 925 13 7 882 6 5 919 15 8 911 7 4 877 6 2 780 10 11 889 13 0 Oz. 224 322 208 240 286 270 204 266 264 £ a. d. 873 12 0 1,255 16 0 811 4 0 936 0 0 1,115 8 0 1,053 0 0 795 12 0 1,037 8 0 1,029 12 0 Lpril itay une ■uly Lugust ieptember )otober November December 33 36 36 30 36 40 •10 43 50 1903. 94 8 9 145 0 8 147 5 3 37 10 6 120 10 0 145 15 0 124 13 3 144 13 11 151 18 9 946 11 3 971 1 11 972 14 8 44 44 42 188 290 294 anuary Pebruary itarch 733 4 0 1,131 0 0 1,146 12 0 Totals 1,528 14 4 1,378 3 0 1,684 16 6 40 (average) 3,056 11,918 8 0

0.—3. '6a • :-race for Twenty Years, from 1st April, 1883, to 31st March, 1903. SUMM. .RY sho ing the Eesi ILT Of WOBKING the KuMABA WATE Bate per Sluicehead per Week. April. May. June. July. August. September, j October. • November. December. January. | February. March. Totnl v«liio Total Value Total Value „ To * al £ ° r ofWatosold Freefor FreefOT Construction M Water sold. Assistance. Deviations. ° No - 8 . Channel. Total Value Water supplied; Average Number of Sluice-heads Expenditure, supplied Daily. Water supplied. Year. | 1883-84 1883-84 £ s. d. £ s. d. 3 0 0 371 16 5 ah o ft £ s. d. 371 16 5 46 2 6 £ s. d. 465 2 1 44 5 0 £ s. d. 700 2 6 183 11 8 £ s. d. 583 9 7 108 19 2 £ s. d. 702 7 6 108 0 0 £ s. d. I 626 16 3 I 85 7 6 : £ s. d. 808 10 5 244 7 0 £ s. d. 777 3 9 172 18 9 £ s. d. 774 17 11 63 12 6 £ s. d. 698 2 6 103 9 2 £ s. d. 1,064 0 0 86 5 0 £ s. d. 774 6 0 139 3 4 £ s. d. £ s. d. ' £ s. d. £ s. d. £ b. d. 8,346 14 11 1,386 2 1: £ s. d. Water sold Free 46 2 6 417 18 11 417 18 11 509 7 1 883 14 2 692 8 9 810 7 6 712 3 9 1,052 17 11 950 2 6 838 10 5 801 11 8 1,150 5 0 913 9 4 9,732 17 0 46-35 2,153 5 5 Water sold 1884-85 1884-85 417 IB 11 3 0 0 580 4 4 no K f\ 906 16 10 55 13 9 882 6 10 149 0 10 997 1 5 18 11 3 919 12 3 145 13 4 1,126 11 10 69 3 9 819 17 3 39 15 0 289 4 2 26 12 6 756 9 2 45 3 9 821 0 10 2 16 8 9,704 8 2 780 14 2 580 4 4 92 5 0 937 19 4 56 19 7 667 3 11 78 18 9 Free 92 5 0 672 9 4 1,015 12 8 | 1,065 5 7 I 10,485 2 4 49-92 1,656 0 1 746 2 8 962 10 7 1,031 7 8 1,195 15 7 859 12 3 315 16 8 801 12 11 823 17 6 672 9 4 994 18 11 Water sold Free 1885-86 1885-86 b72 y 4 2 10 0 665 16 0 cii iq a 773 19 10 23 15 0 943 13 5 31 3 4 953 15 6 22 1 3 997 7 8 18 11 10 697 13 5 18 7 2 686 4 0 49 1 4 708 15 8 15 0 935 19 7 13 2 6 9,788 16 8 221 3 2 665 16 0 24 13 9 796 6 9 9 2 0 893 5 3 745 19 7 24 13 9 fi90 9 9 10,009 19 10 57-20 | 1,454 19 5 690 9 9 805 8 9 893 5 3 745 19 7 797 14 10 974 16 9 975 16 9 1,015 19 6 716 0 7 735 5 4 710 0 8 949 2 1 Water sold Water sold Free 1886-87 1886-87 1886-87 byu a y 2 10 0 758 0 4 2 0 0 758 0 4 643 1 11 83 15 10 682 "8 9 74 5 0 686"7 5 45 9 2 562 6 10 32 15 0 345 12 7 46 8 9 673 "o 0 49 16 8 747 9 2 36 3 4 6,470 14 4 .. 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'.'. 1,547 18 11 19 10 8 776 0 11 488 3 9 242 0 11 315 "l 11 40 13 9 599 5 0 120 9 7 758 0 4 758 0 i 795 11 7 730 4 8 356 1 8 719 14 7 727 3 9 706 13 9 731 16 7 594 15 10 392 1 4 722 16 8 783 12 6 8,018 13 3 56-19 1,398 1(8 10 Water sold Free 1887-88 1887-88 YDS U 4 2 0 0 535 5 10 Oft 1 1 Q 694 5 0 i 4 11 8 i 591 12 1 34 16 8 710 0 0 42 10 0 535 10 10 27 10 0 519 15 5 28 6 8 670 17 6 19 11 8 734 4 5 15 17 3 7,169 10 3 347 6 5 535 5 10 26 11 8 679 7 8 40 19 2 167 10 10 15 13 9 656 4 7 23 10 0 684 16 1 47 7 11 26 11 8 Sfil 17 6 7,516 16 8 53-68 982 12 0 561 17 6 720 6 10 183 4 7 679 14 7 732 4 0 698 16 8 626 8 9 752 10 0 553 0 10 548 2 1 690 9 2 750 1 8 Water sold Free 1888-89 1888-89 Obi 17 b 2 0 0 490 6 8 1 n<7 it Q 664 1 7 13 0 0 395 12 3 34 9 2 465 2 1 58 6 8 623 18 4 90 10 10 667 8 4 74 13 4 6,716 6 10 492 0 0 227 0 0 490 6 8 107 17 3 338 7 7 90 18 0 532 1 1 87 1 4 626 19 10 75 1 10 667 8 3 32 10 0 542 8 4 | 16 9 5 702 12 6 38 1 4 107 17 3 r.98 s u 598 3 11 429 5 7 619 2 5 702 1 8 699 18 3 558 17 9 740 13 10 667 1 7 430 1 5 523 9 7 714 9 2 742 1 8 7,435 6 10 53-10 1,024 11 9 Water sold Free Free, No. 3 Channel 1889-90 1889-90 1889-90 oya a ii 2 0 0 401 13 4 A K 1 ec t~\ 237 7 11 ! 93 1 8 335 1 3 318 10 10 41 10 0 330 11 8 159 18 9 105 13 4 97 13 4 219 15 10 48 17 6 6 0 0 248 19 7 54 8 4 221 18 1 186 16 8 71 5 0 102 11 5 3,550 4 8 396 2 6 465 0 0 1,492 2 10 5,903 10 0 42-16 1,424 13: 3 401 13 4 45 15 0 495 16 4 55 3 4 256 16 8 43 0 0 377 16 3 92 15 0 353 4 2 105 15 0 122 19 1 293 8 4 103 18 4 275 8 0 45 15 0 447 8 4 447 8 4 550 19 8 299 16 8 470 11 3 581 18 3 665 10 10 690 12 6 672 14 8 363 5 5 274 13 4 525 6 0 360 13 1 Water sold Free Free, No. 3 Channel 1890-91 1890-91 1890-91 44'/ S 4 2 0 0 300 12 6 11 q r ft 578 1 8 57 5 5 546 17 11 113 6 8 691 17 11 133 2 6 689 11 8 130 5 10 6,665 12 8 409 5 5 793 0 5 913 18 4 300 12 6 113 5 0 272 11 11 355 11 11 119 14 2 247 3 6 368 3 2 70 7 11 246 17 10 423 9 0 71 17 6 115 2 11 622 17 11 82 9 7 32 ' 2 2 666 7 1 110 16 8 720 16 1 93 13 9 701 5 10 106 0 10 113 5 0 <V70 11 11 272 11 11 6Rfi 9 5 686 9 5 722 9 7 685 8 11 610 9 5 737 9 8 777 3 9 814 9 10 807 6 8 635 7 1 660 4 7 825 0 5 819 17 6 8,781 16 10 . 62-72 1,766 4 3 Water sold Free 1891-92 1891-92 bbb y 0 2 0 0 616 5 10 291 3 9 137 0 10 543 7 0 64 11 8 724 8 8 28 9 2 6,645 11 0 996 4 5 413 3 4 616 5 10 143-11 5 655 4 11 191 16 8 542 9 1 44 3 6 179 11 11 426 16 1 82 16 11 769 15 5 151 14 7 784 13 8 118 10 1 642 4 2 233 1 8 469 10 0 213 11 3 143-11 5 759 17 3 759 17 3 847 1 7 586 12 7 179 11 11 509 13 0 921 10 0 903 3 9 875 5 10 683 1 3 428 4 7 607 19 2 752 17 10 8,054 18 9 57-53 1,584 10 11 Water sold Free 1892-93 1892-93 roy 17 a 2 0 0 495 17 1 AAIQ Q 390 19 2 94 4 2 450 7 6 77 10 10 308 10 0 64 2 6 5,789 0 9 444 15 8 398 7 8 6,632 4 1 5,582 4 7 1,306 0 3 1 39 4 4 47-35 1,782 11 0 495 17 1 44 18 9 505 12 11 80 2 6 493 5 10 72 4 2 495 13 6 61 2 1 602 2 8 43 5 10 635 1 3 38 2 6 571 1 8 44 0 10 458 7 1 66 2 6 382 2 1 157 6 8 44 18 9 540 15 10 540 15 10 585 15 5 565 10 0 556 15 7 645 8 6 673 3 9 615 2 6 524 9 7 539 8 9 485 3 4 527 18 4 372 12 6 Water sold Free 1893-94 1893-94 04U 10 1U 2 0 0 451 16 5 303 0 10 112 3 10 415 5 5 132 15 10 392 1 8 70 6 10 451 16 5 101 5 2 480 13 7 119 5 7 541 11 11 99 4 6 542 9 6 110 7 1 575 10 5 92 9 10 486 9 2 147 16 2 539 8 4 112 11 0 402 11 11 164 18 5 451 5 5 82 0 4 101 5 2 553 1 7 553 1 7 599 19 2 640 16 5 652 16 7 668 0 3 634 5 4 651 19 4 567 10 4 533 5 9 415 4 8 548 1 3 462 8 6 927 9 2 49-48 1,917 8 5 Water sold Free 1894-95 1894-95 003 1 7 2 0 0 477 1 8 I7C 11 Q 198 7 1 72 17 6 308 2 11 86 12 6 4,646 19 9 1,054 12 8 40 0 0 .. 5,741 12 5 i 4101 1,976 17 7 477 1 8 76 11 8 437 17 4 98 12 8 501 3 4 103 1 3 482 1 3 92 17 11 513 7 11 83 5 0 413 0 5 122 17 6 213 19 2 96 4 2 375 7 6 105 6 8 428 8 9 81 11 8 298 2 5 74 14 2 76 11 8 553 13 4 553 13 4 535 17 11 536 10 0 604 4 7 574 19 2 596 12 11 310 3 4 480 14 2 510 0 5 372 16 7 271 4 7 394 15 5 Water sold Free Free, No. 4 Channel 1895-96 1895-96 1895-96 003 13 4 2 0 0 277 5 10 nK o A 336 3 4 90 18 11 36 1 3 406 18 4 86 16 3 34 15 10 4,106 11 3 1,129 19 4 | 332 15 0 5,569 5 7 39-78 1,943 8 7 95 3 4 277 5 10 95 3 4 379 15 0 96 1 8 349 12 1 139 19 2 322 15 10 81 16 3 345 1 8 76 19 7 5 12 6 354 1 8 77 10 10 39 14 2 351 16 8 110 9 7 62 7 6 336 5 5 114 12 1 56 9 2 331 0 0 67 3 4 65 4 7 315 15 5 92 8 4 32 10 0 orro n o 372 9 2 3,502 17 0 475 16 8 489 11 3 404 12 1 427 13 9 471 6 8 524 13 9 507 6 8 463 7 11 440 13 9 463 3 6 528 10 5 Water sold 1896-97 372 9 2 {! £ o} "^^ i nn k n 286 13 4 166 9 6 387 13 8 318 10 7 310 7 4 356 16 4 322 8 10 144 13 3 319 1 3 284 1 3 299 1 8 307 0 0 Free Free, No. 4 Channel 1896-97 1896-97 100 & u ik ri ri 100 5 0 15 0 0 99 4 10 14 16 8 22 18 2 4 0 10 31 1 10 18 0 0 12 19 4 7 0 0 22 16 10 18 0 0 13 18 4 9 0 0 12 11 3 12 0 0 12 18 9 7 0 0 51 18 9 6 0 0 58 16 2 10 0 0 39 19 9 13 0 0 479 9 0 133 17 6 4,116 3 6 40-41 1,786'15 '9 15 0 0 401 18 4 338 9 11 401 18 4 421 1 6 193 8 6 436 15 6 351 4 2 379 14 8 347 0 1 164 12 0 377 0 0 352 17 5 352 1 5 ■• Water sold Free Free, No. 4 Channel 1897-98 1897-98 1897-98 243 11 2 on 1 Q 243 11 2 29 1 3 240 5 1 39 16 3 204 19 1 18 1 10 210 11 1 29 5 0 266 15 6 29 0 0 147 4 8 51 5 0 296 9 10 49 14 4 213 1 9 52 10 0 255 19 11 38 2 6 2 10 0 208 16 2 29 1 3 14 0 0 415 13 9 17 "o 0 185 15 3 48 15 0 2,889 3 3 414 12 5 33 10 0 .. .. 3,337 5 8 1,841 0 10 272 12 5 272 12 5 280 1 4 223 0 11 239 16 1 295 15 6 198 9 8 346 4 2 265 11 9 296 12 5 251 17 5 432 13 9 234 10 3 Water sold Free Free, No. 4 Channel 1898-99 1898-99 1898-99 160 6 6 no ik r\ 160 6 6 28 15 0 258 15 4 28 8 1 196 19 9 28 2 6 320 17 10 37 10 0 270 4 2 44 1 3 2,711 14 5 i 469 15 7 3,181 10 0 2,174 3 11 194 11 5 59 1 3 171 13 0 30 7 6 226 15 6 42 3 9 224 0 6 45 13 9 251 9 1 54 7 6 202 2 11 33 15 0 233 18 5 37 10 0 28 15 0 189 1 6 189 1 6 253 12 8 202 0 6 268 19 3 269 14 3 305 16 7 235 17 11 271 8 5 287 3 5 225 2 3 358 7 10 314 5 5 Water sold Free Free No 5 Channel 11899-1900 1899-1900 1899-1900 i»y j b 1 10 0 227 5 6 A A 17 ft 196 14 3 43 7 7 2,458 15 8 549 14 0 130 6 1 3,138 15 9 2,458 15 8 43 ; 60 1,904 7 91 227 5 6 44 7 6 312 9 1 52 9 0 251 19 9 46 17 5 244 19 2 55 18 9 157 7 1 40 6 3 . 218 13 4 46 2 6 129 12 10 44 7 6 177 13 11 46 17 6 122 1 4 41 5 0 193 0 2 45 0 0 36 11 2 226 19 3 42 15 0 93 14 11 44 7 6 271 13 0 271 13 0 364 18 1 298 17 2 300 17 11 240 1 10 197 13 4 264 15 10 174 0 4 224 11 5 163 6 4 274 11 4 363 9 2 Water sold 1900-1901 271 13 u (1 SI 108 8 6 9± 7 ft 196 2 1 132 5 0 2,181 11 0 .. 435 0 11 305 16 2 2,922 8 1 2,181 11 0 45-91 2,077*16 10 108 8 6 259 2 0 167 4 3 220 5 9 265 12 4 220 6 10 235 19 2 143 2 5 ill 0 1 122 2 7 Free Free, No. 5 Channel 1900-1901 1900-1901 34 7 6 34 7 6 68 18 2 49 6 3 14 1 3 35 18 1 47 10 0 41 5 0 78 18 1 44 4 4 21 14 4 53 8 8 4 4 5 61 14 4 4 4 4 51 3 8 26 11 3 50 17 5 11 17 6 12 15 8 1 12 1 13 "& 1 12 16 8 68 18 2 0.1 1 1 A 0. 211 14 2 322 9 6 250 12 4 340 8 10 331 11 0 277 19 11 301 17 10 220 17 4 173 15 0 136 10 4 209 10 2 145 1 8 2,250 12 2 .. .. Ill 2 1 .. .. 2,361 14 3 Il01,177 9 4 13,005 9 0 2,375 15 9 3,308 15 11 119,867 10 0 I 1,528 14 4 271 0 10 .. .. 1,799 15 2 . i—. 48-0 38 : 37 .. ! 1,706 10 0 2,550 5 9 | 1,684 16 6 1 \\ ater aula Free 1901-1902 1901-1902 211 14 2 1 0 0 ' 203 18 9 8 12 6 236 8 2 15 15 0 209 17 9 7 17 6 127 11 6 19 17 6 161 15 10 10 10 0 167 5 5 199 19 2 12 15 0 174 8 7 7 12 1 172 4 10 6 5 0 215 9 6 9 7 6 213 17 1 7 3 9 167 15 7 5 6 3 1902-1903 1902-1903 212 11 3 252 3 2 212 14 2 217 15 3 182 0 8 178 9 10 224 17 0 221 0 10 173 1 10 147 9 0 172 5 10 167 5 5 Water sold Free 1 0 0 116 16 1 6 8 4 161 7 4 3 2 3 120 2 10 32 7 10 142 19 3 47 17 7 131 17 1 23 2 1 94 8 9 15 5 0 145 0 8 25 15 5 147 5 3 1 10 0 103 12 10 16 7 9 135 11 8 34 10 5 101 9 10 36 5 5 133 2 9 28 8 9 148 15 3 102,706 3 8 13,276 9 10 2,375 15 9 3,308 15 11 121,067 5 2 34,241 2 3 | 123 4 5 164 9 7 120 0 7 152 10 8 190 16 10 170 2 1 137 15 3 161 11 6 154 19 2 109 13 9 170 16 1

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the whole of the water-races in the Waimea-Kumara district for the year ended the 31st March, 1903:—

The following is a schedule of claims that have been sluicing on the Kumara goldfields during the year ended the 31st March, 1903, showing the number of men in each claim, fall and width of boxes in each tail-race, number of sluice-heads of water used in sluicing, number of cubic yards of wash sluiced away per hour, and the race from which the water was supplied : —

Kelly's Tebeace Deainage-tunnel. The only work done in Kelly's Terrace Drainage-tunnel by the trustees was the expenditure of £75 Is. 6d. on repairs to the tunnel and shafts. The tunnel and shafts are now in a fair state of repair, but a little work will have from time to time to be done to keep the tunnel in good working-order. One party has been engaged in prospecting during the year, but the results have not been satisfactory, although a large amount of work has been done ; and another party sunk a new shaft and connected with the tunnel. The prospects obtained by them were so poor that they have since ceased work. Kumara Deep Level. No work of any kind has been done in connection with the Kumara Deep-level Tunnel during the year, but prospecting the deep levels has been carried on by Ryan and party from the face of the terrace near the mouth of No. 2 channel. Ryan has been getting a little gold all through the year, but he has not yet struck any wash that would pay current wages. Wainihinihi Race. The Wainihinihi Race has been maintained and kept in good order throughout the year, and no breaks or accidents of any kind occurred. No water was required from this race for Kumara, as there was an abundant supply without it, but it was of great service to the Waimea district, where it kept up a full supply during the period referred to. I have, &c, Alex. Aitken, The Under-Secretary, Mines Department, Wellington. Manager, Water-races. 23—C. 3.

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Month. Sales of Water. Cash received for Sales of Water. Expenditure. Outstanding Number Moneys at the of End of Men emeach Month, ployed. ApproxiQuantity Va o 1^I* 0ld of Gold obtained. obtained. 1902. April MayJune July August September October.. November December £ s. d. £ a. d. .. 225 12 4 152 16 6 258 4 2 223 19 7 .. 201 2 0 209 11 8 .. j 262 2 2 269 2 6 .. I 250 6 1 226 14 0 258 6 5 281 17 8 210 10 0 209 10 10 271 18 2 401 1 4 216 11 7 87 6 8 £ a. d. 252 0 2 1 246 11 2 '' 203 19 3 j 256 4 1 ! 222 19 3 225 12 9 221 17 5 j 239 6 5 262 19 8 £ s. d. 936 17 3 975 16 10 974 17 3 955 10 11 981 19 2 961 9 0 954 13 4 844 15 7 955 4 6 77 72 08 78 80 80 85 80 91 Oz. 560 596 490 637 589 611 510 650 502 £ a. d. 2,184 0 0 2,324 8 0 1,911 0 0 2,484 6 0 2,297 2 0 2,382 18 0 1,989 0 0 2,535 0 0 1,957 16 0 1903. 217 19 11 238 11 4 236 5 5 1,024 14 0 1.033 6 6 1.034 14 3 88 90 88 402 549 621 January February March 172 6 3 113 15 1 233 9 5 218 10 5 270 14 0 268 13 9 1,567 16 0 2,141 2 0 2,421 18 0 Totals .. 2,836 2 7 2,663 0 0 2,824 7 8 82 41 (average) 6,717 26,196 6 0

Name of Party. a a ' CD -r. ir3 . «s O d o -3 u —5 = 0) <D Yh a rH O O u — '3 00 H o . CQ ® o j-, 3. o ' ■ -33 * rj S « — rj szin JS IH i-H & CD c3 S»r ,.2a •«r p O S3 cn CD '— S 0) SiS-i "*-l "&l Pr Remarks. No. 2 channel— Hood and party No. 3 channel— Light and party Brandt and party 4 4 3 In. 7 6 6 In. 24 22 22 12 10 9 Cub. yd. 84 60 45 Kumara f/ (Late Dillon) sluiced four months. Sluiced twelve months. (Late Neame) sluiced twelve months. Sluiced twelve months. Sluiced three months. (Late Neame No. 2) sluiced twelve months. Sluiced seven months. Sluiced ten months. It Bochford and party ... Williams and party ... Neville and party No. 4 channel— Cullen and party Long Tunnel Company No. 5 channel— Burger and party Thomson and party ... Morgan and party Thorn and party Giffney and party Private races— Pascoe and party Marks and party 4 8 2 5 8 5 4 3 4 5 8 6 5 7 7 8 8 8 8 7 22 22 22 24 26 24 24 21 24 26 10 10 10 11 22 10 10 10 1.0 11 80 60 50 77 154 80 80 80 80 77 It it Private Kumara Sluiced eight months. Sluiced twelve months. Sluiced six months. Sluiced nine months. Sluiced twelve months. u a 5 3 7 8 20 24 16 10 112 80 a it Sluiced twelve months. (Late Bowden) sluiced three months. Sluiced twelve months. Arnerich and party ... 3 8 24 15 120 a

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Mr. R. Murray, Manager, Mount Ida Races, to the Under-Secretary for Mines, Wellington. Sir.— Naseby, 20th May, 1903. I have the honour to submit the following report on the Mount Ida and Blackstone Hill Water-rnces for the year ending the 31st March. 1903 : — Mount Ida Water-race. The total sales of water from this race during the year amounted to £1,521 16s. 7d., an increase of £311 Is. 7d. over that of last year. The expenditure on maintenance and repairs for the same period was £1.405 9s. 10d., an increase on that of last year of £8 14s. Id. The total cash received was £1.525 os. 9d. On account of payment in advance, free water to the value of £45 ss. was supplied. Free water to the value of £8 12s. Id. was supplied to assist in opening up new claims, and free water for washing up was also supplied to the value of £136 ss. Id. The total value of water supplied from this race during the year amounted to £1,711 18s. 9d. If the water distributed this year had been on the former charge of £1 10s. per head it would have been a record one since the construction of the race. The average number of miners supplied with water was 5116, a decrease of 7-24 on that of last year. The approximate quantity of gold obtained by parties using water from this race was 2,501 oz., valued at £9,628 17s. From the Ist April to the end of January the weather was extraordinarily boisterous and wintry; so much so that in every month there were several falls of snow on the range supplying the race—at Hill's Creek, on the morning of the 28th January, one of 6 in. On this account the season has been a very good one for water. The miners were able to work on until the 12th July, the winter being a short one, starting again on the 27th August—forty-one days off, as compared with fifty-four the previous winter. A thaw set in on the 27th July, and I started the cleaning-out of the race on the 30th, but hard frost setting in again I was compelled to suspend the work on the 4th August. This continued until the 19th, when it started thawing, and by the 22nd I was able to make a start again, reaching the reservoir on the afternoon of tbe 2fith. There being 54 ft. of water in the reservoir, the sluicevalves were opened, and the miners were at work on the 27th August. The thawing and freezing, with the heavy falls of snow between, made the cleaning-out very heavy and more expensive, especially on the high clayey gravel sidelings. By the time Ten-chain Creek was reached, in the middle of September, the -weather became so rough (2 ft. of snow on the ground) that the men had to be knocked off. The upper-section man (Favquhar) was brought back on to the next section to assist Mr. Gordon in looking after it, as a lot of small slips or slides kept coming in, and in case of floods while there was such a large depth of snow along it. There has not been so much snow on the range since 1895. During the winter the siphon in the main race across Wet Gully was replaced by new pipes, the old ones being so corroded that they could no longer stand the pressure; also several short flumes were repaired. Four small breaks occurred in the race during the year, the outside of the race being very weak. Where one break occurred a short deviation was made, thus straightening the race. It was also necessary to extend the cleaning and widening of a short length of the Spec Gully branch race, to give Mr. F. Hore a suitable position for the head of his hydraulic-elevating pipes. The number of days on which no water was supplied to the miners was winter forty-one, Christmas one, New Year one, Good Friday one—a total of forty-four, as compared with sixty-four last year. Nineteen elevating claims have been at work in the district during the year, thirteen constantly. Nine of these are supplied by the Government race, and all I believe are doing fairly well. Of the other six it was found, after working for some time, that the ground did not pay. These claims were therefore abandoned. Four of them were supplied from the Government race. There are six parties working in the " Maori bottom " ; all of them are, I believe, making small wages, but tbe want of pressure is very much against them, as the ground is very tight. During the year the Wedderburn siphon has been constructed, cutting off four miles and a half of very bad race and loss of water from percolation, also the dam in Home Gully, with the branch race leading from it. In the construction of the Wedderburn siphon the old telescope siphon (13 chains) near the head of the creek was utilised, a half being placed at each end of the new flanged pipes, thus relieving them of the heavy pressure, the iron in them being only 12 gauge. Blackstone Hill Water-race. The total sales of water from this race during the year amounted to £60 3s. 3d. The total cash received was £60 3s. 3d., a falling-off in sales and revenue on that of last year of £18 Is. 3d. This is accounted for by C. Rose ceasing to take water from the Ist May to the end of August, and the time the race was being cleaned out. The total cost of maintenance and repairs was £17 4s. From the cleaning it has had this year very little should require to be done to it for the next two years. There have been only two parties (the same number as last year), R. Johnston and C. Rose, using water from it. Like the Mount Ida Race, it had a plentiful supply during the year. I have, &c, R. Murray, Manager. 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WATER-CONSERVATION. Mr. T. Perham, A.M.Inst.C.E. to the Under-Secretary for Mines, Wellington. Sir,— 4th June, 1903. I have the honour to forward my report for the financial year ending the 31st March, 1903. North Island. No further action has yet been taken with the extension of the Mackaytown Golden Cross and Waikino domestic-water supplies. Mention was made in my report for 1901 of certain complaints by the Maoris residing in the neighbourhoods of Paeroa and Te Aroha, on the banks of the Ohinemuri Kiver, as to the impurity of the water by the discharge of the cyanide slime from the works at Waikino and Karangahake. It was represented at the time that the Natives had a strong claim for a water-supply, as previous to the introduction of mining the river-water was pure and in constant use by them. I then recommended that if it could be proved by analysis that the water had been fouled by the workings in connection with mining, a remedy might be obtained by drawing a supply from the Paeroa water system, and, if required, also from the Te Aroha water-works, both of which are fully equal to the demand if strict regulations can be enforced with regard to waste—a contingency likely to occur. South Island. The West Eweburn Storage-reservoir, near Naseby, was in good working-order when I inspected it in January last. The seepage referred to in my last annual report had entirely taken up, and the water risen to within 5 ft. of the by-wash—that is, a depth of 60 ft. from the datum point in the creek-bed. Mr. Murray, the manager of the Government water-races, had for some time previous been working with the outlet-vaives nearly closed, only about six to seven heads being allowed to run off His object was to store as much water as possible pending the contemplated removal of the old siphon-pipes across the head of the Wedderburn Valley. These pipes have now been connected to the new middle portion of the half-mile of 27 in. pipes lower down the valley, thus cutting off nearly five miles of ditching which was very expensive to maintain. Mr. Murray reports the completion of the siphon, and that it is working in a satisfactory manner. lam of opinion that the money expended on this work has been well spent. The country over which the race originally ran was of so rotten and unstable a character that a heavy annual expenditure in the maintenance of this length of race would certainly have to be met. This expense is now obviated. There are some other smaller sections on this race (Mount Ida) which should be treated in the same way, and thus reduce annual up-keep, but now that the race has been straightened and enlarged between the Wedderburn, West Eweburn, and Naseby any other improvements can stand over until such become necessary from sudden floods, &c. Home Gully Beservoir. The earthen dam for this was practically finished last February, and the short branch race cut through somewhat hard ground to meet the supply-race running into the siphon crossing the main road to the spur on which the race runs to serve the majority of the elevating claims down the eastern side of the Hogburn. That the value of this conservation to miners working on the eastern terraces and in the Hogburn Gully below Naseby may be clearly understood, I may explain that it has been the custom hitherto to turn the water into the small reservoir above from the branch race every Saturday night, and store it for use until the following Monday morning. The storage was, however, quite inadequate to the demand, and it was impossible to prevent a large quantity from running to waste during the thirty-six idle hours; hence the construction of the dam, which is now, together with the 6 chains of branch race, completed at a cost of £1,025. The dam has been well and cheaply constructed by co-operative labour, and will be valuable in supplying the miners on the eastern side of the Hogburn with water-power not only for carrying on the present operations, but breaking new ground which for want of a larger body of water has not been hitherto worked but actual prospecting has shown to be payable. The sludge-channels surveyed on the Charlton Creek at Gore and on the Waimumu Stream near Mataura —both discharging into the Mataura River—are now in course of construction. In addition to disposing of the dredging-tailings, these channels will be of considerable value in draining the rich agricultural land in the neighbourhood. The Idaburn Irrigation Beservoir. Instructions were issued by the late Hon. Minister of Mines, the Hon. A. J. Cadman, for an examination of the Ida Valley, with the object of irrigating the most arid portions, and an advantageous site was selected for a dam at the entrance to the Idaburn Gorge. The extension of the Central Otago Railway to the Poolburn, however, ran right across the intended bed of the reservoir, and another site was eventually decided on at the extreme end of the gorge. The storage, although not of so great extent, will be quite equal to irrigating the portion of the valley consisting of about 10,000 acres north of the Poolburn. Working-drawings of the locality and a masonry dam have been prepared, replicas of which I forward herewith. At the latter end of January I left Wellington for the West Coast to conduct the survey of the incline tramways in connection with the works of the State coal-mine at Point Elizabeth, near Greymouth. Six trial lines were run for the purpose of ascertaining the best route to adopt from the tunnels to the bins, and the one selected is now being cleared of timber for the work of construction. I have, &c, T. Perham, A.M.Inst.C.E., Engineer, Water-conservation. The Under-Secretary, Mines Department, Wellington.

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MINE-MANAGERS' AND BATTERY-SUPERINTENDENTS EXAMINATION PAPERS Questions used in Examination op Mining Managers for Certificates. Subject A.— The Laying-out and Construction of Shafts, Chambers, Main Drives or Levels' Adits, Uprises, and Stopes. 1. State your experience in mining, and give the name of the mine or mines you were employed in during the last five years. 2. If it were known that a quartz lode was payable for working to a depth of 1,200 ft., and that the lode was underlying to the westward 67 degrees from the horizon, where would you sink a shaft to work the lode ? Give your reasons fully. 3. In sinking a rectangular shaft, (a) what precautions would you take to keep it plumb ? (b) state the necessary surface-work required if it had to be sunk to a depth of 300 ft. 4. Describe how you would open up levels from a shaft. Give the dimensions of a chamber you would construct if thirty men were employed on each level. State your reasons fully. 5. Give the dimensions of passes and their distance apart to work a lode 7 ft. wide, and state reasons for same. 6. Show by sketch how you would stope a lode, and also describe how you would protect the workmen from danger in travelling up and down passes. 7. In driving a level in hard ground requiring explosives, describe how you would commence to drill holes in a vertical face so as to obtain the best effect from the explosive force, assuming the level to be 5 ft. wide and 7 ft. high. Subject B.— On the Timbering of Shafts, Adits, Main Drives or Levels, Passes, Stopes, and generally on the Systems of Timbering Mines, and also in Filling up Old Workings. 1. Show by sketch how you wrfuld fit timber for main adits, and also for a rectangular shaft, giving all dimensions. 2. Describe how you would timber a rectangular shaft through heavy swelling ground. Give dimensions of timber, state how you would fit it, and also the size of compartments. 3. If you were constructing a pumping and winding shaft where two lifts of pumps were used, the plunger being 16 in. in diameter and the draw-lift of same dimensions, state the minimum dimensions of pumping-compartments required at the change of lifts; also state how you would timber the shaft, and give your reasons for same. 4. Describe how you would proceed to open out a chamber from a shaft in heavy swelling ground, and how you would secure it witb timber; also give the dimensions of chamber you would construct if forty men had to be employed on that level in the mine. 5. If you were sinking a shaft through quicksand, and had to secure it with timber, describe fully how you would do it. 6. Show by sketch and describe fully how you would timber stopes where the lode is 5 ft. in thickness and underlying at an angle of 60 degrees from the horizon. 7. How do you ascertain the strength of timber required for any particular piece of work'? Given a round cap of kauri 14 in. in diameter with 8 ft. between its supports, show by calculation its breaking-strain and also its safe load. Subject C.— Ventilation of Mines and Composition of Gases. 1. Give the composition and specific gravity of H 2 S and CO. Describe their characteristics, the means of detecting them, and their effects on the human system. 2. What is meant by " the diffusion of gases " '? 3. Describe the various methods of producing reliable air-currents in mines. 4. A fan is circulating 100,000 cubic feet of air per minute at 15 in. W.G. Allowing 15 per cent, of the power given out by the engine for frictional resistances, and the efficiency of the fan tc be 50 per cent, of the useful H.P. of the engiue, what H.P. would have to be indicated by the engine when the fan is circulating 200,000 ft. per minute, the airways remaining unaltered. 5. Show how you would conduct the air through the underground workings of an alluvial mine shown on sketch-plan accompanying.* State what ventilating-power you would adopt, and show where you would apply it. The alluvial deposit is lying horizontal, and yields C0 2 freely. Subject D.— Tapping Water in Mines, and Mode of Constructing Dams in underground Workings to keep back the Water. 1. In driving, a borehole from abandoned and closed workings at a higher level is met with and a feeder of water (approximately equal to one-fourth of the carrying-capacity of the bore) liberated. Depth of borehole, 400 ft. For 20 ft. above the heading the ground is of a soft nature with a covering of hard rock. How would you proceed to keep back the flow of water? 2. Describe the construction of (a) wood, (b) brick, and (c) concrete dams in underground workings, and compare their relative merits. 3. What general precautions would you adopt in approaching old workings full of water, and what provision would you make to prevent the stoppage of mining work in the event of the water from the old workings coming away in greater volume than anticipated ? 4. A dam across a roadway 5 feet wide and 7 feet high is keeping back water having a vertical height of 110 ft. above bottom of dam. What is the total pressure on the dam ?

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Subject L.— A Knowledge of the different Bocks where Gold, Silver, Tin, Copper, Zinc, Lead, and Antimony are found, and the Formation of Lodes and Leads. 1. Where and in what forms are gold and silver found in New Zealand? Describe a golddredging plant in detail. Subject X.— A Knowledge of Underground Surveying, and of making Plans of the Underground Workings, showing the Dip or Inclination and Strike of the Beefs or Lodes. 1, For the purpose of undertaking the survey of underground workings in a mine, how would you transfer the true bearing from the surface by means of a deep shaft? 2. Compute and tabulate the traverse shown upon the following diagram, giving the total distances of each station on the meridian and perpendicular referred to station (i) as zero. The distances are given in links.

3. Describe a simple and effective manner of collimating the horizontal wire in a dumpy level. 4. Describe your method of ascertaining the dip or inclination and strike of reefs or lodes. 5. Describe the different kinds of mining claims, and state generally their form, area, and how they should be marked on the ground. 6. The candidate will be required to undergo an oral examination by the examiner, including questions as to the use and adjustment of the theodolite and other instruments. Questions to be Used in Examination of Battery-superintendents for Certificates. Subject A. — The Different Modes of Beducing and Pulverising Ores. 1. State fully where you have been employed during the last two years, giving the dates, and names of your employers, and nature of such employment. 2. Describe fully how you would construct a complete crushing-plant, with twenty stamps, and everything necessary to extract the bullion from the ore and have it in bars ready for market. Also give the relative heights of the different portions of the plant above the ground-floor. 3. Show by calculation the diameter of the cylinder of a steam-engine required to drive twentystamps, ninety-five blows per minute, having a drop of 7 in., the head of each stamp and shoe being 2 ft. high and B^-in. in diameter, the stem 15 ft. long and 3 in. in diameter, tbe tappet being 1141b.; the steam entering the cylinder at 100 lb.-to-square-inch pressure, and cut off at three-eighths of the stroke. 4. Show by calculation the diameter of nozzle required to work a Pelton water-wheel so as to give forty effective horse-power ; the head of water on the nozzle being 160 ft. 5. Describe a Huntingdon and also a Krupp crushing-mill, their size and capacity, the horsepower required to work each, and also the most economical speed to work them at. 6. What mesh of grating would you use in a stamp mill if the gold was finely divided amongst the ore-gangue, and give your reason for same. Subject B.— Amaigamating-machines. 1. Show by sketch a McKay pan, also a Watson-Denny pan. Describe fully the speed each pan requires to be driven, the quantity of quicksilver required for amalgamation in those pans, the quantity of ore they will treat in twenty-four hours, and the horse-power required to work them. 2. Give the dimensions of a settler ; explain fully its use, and the method of working it. 3. Describe fully how you would construct a plant of twelve berdans—the method of feeding, the quantity of quicksilver you would use in each berdan, the quantity of ore they would treat in twenty-four hours, the speed you would work them'at, and the horse-power required to work them. 4. Give your experience with working concentrators; explain fully their use, how they are worked, their speed and capacity ; also the class of ore requiring concentration. 5. Show by sketch how you would construct amalgamating-tables, giving all dimensions of a table suitable to take the pulverised ore from five heads of stamps. Describe fully.

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Subject C— Quicksilver, and the Methods of using it in connection with the Extraction of Gold and Silver from Ores. 1. State the quantity of quicksilver you would use in each of the following amalgamatingmachines—namely, Berdan-McKay pan, Watson-Denny pan, and combination pan—and give your reasons for same. 2. State fully the process you would use for removing antimony, lead, tin, or copper from quicksilver, and the effect that these metals have on its amalgamating properties. 3. Describe how you would clean and coat copper plates with quicksilver, also how you would always keep plates coated and the quicksilver in a lively condition. 4. Describe fully how you would remove the bullion from plates and machines and make it in a marketable condition. 5. In making a final clean-up at a mill, how would you remove all bullion from the copper plates? Describe fully. Subject D.— Cyanide, Chlorination, and other Chemical Processes of recovering Gold and Silver from Ores. 1. Describe fully how you ascertain the strength of cyanide-solutions. Also, how do you ascertain the strength of solution required for the ore you have to treat ? 2. Describe fully how you proceed to make up stock solutions, and the strength of same. 3. Show by calculation how many tons of stock solution containing 19 per cent, of KCN would be required to make up 15 tons of sump solution containing 0 012 per cent, of KCN to a 025--per-cent. solution. 4. How many pounds of crude salt containing 76 per cent. KCN is required to make up 30 tons of a solution of 026 per cent. KCN ? 5. How many tons of 0 3 percent, of KCN would 4 tons of 9-per-cent. solution of KCN make, using water for dilution ? 6. How many tons of 0 25-per-cent. solution of KCN would 2-J tons of 15-per-cent. solution make, using a sump solution of 0 01 per cent. KCN ? 7. A vat is 30ft. in diameter and 6 ft. deep; it is filled with pulverised ore to a depth of 4ft. 3in. : how many tons does it contain? 8. Show by sketch a modern cyanide plant capable of treating 80 tons of ore per day, with description in full of the different parts. 9. Describe fully the remedies you would apply if any of the workmen showed signs of cyanide-poisoning. 10. Describe step by step how the ore-vats are filled, how the KCN solution is applied, and how the solution is drained off and disposed of. 11. Describe fully the difference between a chlorination and a cyanide plant, and how the bullion is recovered by each process, and how it is made into a marketable condition. Subject E.— Sampling and Testing of Ores. 1. Half a hundredweight of lode-stuff is submitted to you : describe the methods, step by step, that you would follow for its examination with the view of determining its value as an ore for gold, silver, copper, lead, or zinc. Subject F.— Knowledge of Arithmetic and Method of keeping Battery Accounts. 1. Give the value of 1,875 oz. of bullion of 0-3675 in gold, it being alloyed with silver— taking pure gold at £4 4s. per ounce and pure silver at 2s. 4d. per ounce. 2. If nine men and seven boys did a certain piece of work in seventy hours, how long would it take five men to do the same work, allowing that each boy did five-sevenths of a man's work? 3. If you had £150 to pay for four weeks' wages to seven men in a battery, five men in connection with a cyanide plant, and two men in the assay-office, and each of the seven men engaged in the crushing operation got seven-eighths of the wages that each man got in the cyanide, and each of the men in the assay-office got three-quarters as much as each man in the cyanide plant, how much did each man receive ? 4. Give the value of 119 oz. 12 dwt. 12 gr. of 0 7452 fine, taking the pure gold to be worth £4 4s. per ounce. 5. Give a specimen of how you would keep books by double entry.

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LIST OF MINE-MANAGERS AND BATTERY-SUPERINTENDENTS WHO HAVE OBTAINED CERTIFICATES UNDER THE MINING ACTS. As there have been several inquiries made as to the names of persons who hold certificates as mine-managers and battery-superintendents, the annexed is a complete list of those holding certificates at the date of this report, taken from the register:— THE MINING ACT. Fibst-class Servicf. Ceetificates. Issued under " The Mining Act, 1886," without Examination. Adams, H. H., Waiorongomai. Greenish, J., Reefton. Nasmyth, T., Reefton. Anderson, P., Thames. Greenville, W., Ohinemuri. Newman, W., Naseby. Andrews, R., Coromandel. Hall, J. P. Northey, J., Thames. Andrews, T., Thames. Hansen, P. C, Thames. O'Sullivan, D. E., Thames. Barclay, T. H., Thames. Han-is,-J., Owen's Reefs. Polton, A., Karangahake. Bennett, J., Alexandra. Harrison, R. H., Coromandel. Porter, J., Waipori. Benney, J., Coromandel. Hicks, T. 8., Thames. Purvis, G., Ross. Black, T., Waiomo. Hilton, G. P., Bendigo. Quinn, E., Te Aroha. Bollersley, N., Boatman's. Hodge, P., Coromandel. Radford, T., Thames. Bradbury, M., Reefton. Hollis, W., Thames. Ralph, J. G., Thames. Bray, John, Lyell. Hunter, R., Thames. Ranger, J., Reefton. Burch, W. H., Thames. James, P., Thames. Rasmussen, C. L., Mokihinui. Byrne, J. P., Stafford. Jamieson, A., Coromandel. Rasmussen, C. P., Mokihinui. Cameron, A., Macetown. Jenkins, M., Wakatipu. Reid, P., Coromandel. Cameron, E., Te Aroha. Johnstone, H., Bluespur. Resta, L., Macetown. Chapman, J. A., Dunedin. Julian, J., Boatman's. Roberts, E., Ross. Clarke, G. S., Thames. Kelly, J., Lyell. Rooney, P., Reefton. Comer, R., Thames. Kerr, J., Thames. Scott, T., Waiorongomai. Conradson, M., Lyell. Lawn, E., Black's Point. Searight, A., Reefton. Corin, W., Thames. Lawn, H., Boatman's. Senior, J., Thames. Comes, C. A., Karangahake. Lawn, J., Reefton. Smith, J. E., Thames. Coutts, J., Thames. Littlejohn, W., Karangahake. Stone, P., Karangahake. Crawford, T. H., Thames. Lowe, E. W., Thames. Steedman, J. 8., Thames. Crowley, C, Reefton. Malfroy, J. M. C, Ross. Sturm, A., Waipori. Cummings, W.. Reefton. Martin, W. G., Thames. Taylor, N., Thames. Davis, J. E., Queenstown. McCallum, J., Reefton. Todd, C., Heriot. Davey, C, Ross. McCullough, R., Thames. Treloer, J. S., Reefton. Donald, J., Cromwell. McGruer, G. N., Karangahake. Tripp, R. S., Arrowtown. Dryden, S. Thames. Mcllhanev, J., Thames. Vivian, J. G., Thames. Dunlop, T. A., Thames. Mcintosh. D., Bluespur. Vivian, S., Reefton. Edwards, J., Skipper's. McKay, J., Ross. Waite, C. D., Thames. Elliott, J., Macetown. McKenney, J., Reefton. Waite, E., Thames. Evans, P., Skipper's. McKenzie, W., Thames. Walker, J. W., Thames. Evans, J. H.. Skipper's. McLeod, G., Coromandel. Watson, T., Reefton. Fitzmaurice, R.. Reefton. McLiver, P., Thames. Wearne, J. E., Endeavour Inlet. Prewen, J. 8., Queenstown. McLiver, H., Thames. Wearne, T., Endeavour Inlet. Gavin, T., Te Aroha. McMaster, J., Reefton. Wilcox, J., Thames. Gilbert, J., Reefton. Moore, H. W., Thames. Williams, J., Skipper's. Gilmour, T., Thames. Moore, J. H., Thames. Wright, G., Boatman's. Giles, G. P., West Wanganui. Morgan, R., Otago. Wylie, W., Ross. Glass, W. M., Naseby. Morrisby, A. A., Glenorchy. Young, G., Skipper's. Goldsworthy, J., Waiorongomai. First-class Mine-managers' Certificates, issued after Examination, under " The Mining Act, 1886," and Amendment Acts. Adams, 8., Thames. Crawford, J. J., Thames. Hosking, G. P., Auckland. Baker, W., Thames. Cummings, W., Reefton. Kruizenza, W., Reefton. Black, G., Reefton. Donaldson, W., Otago. Lawn, T., Reefton. Caples, P. Q., Reefton. Fleming, M., Thames. Logan, H. F., Wellington. Carter, J., Thames. Gardner, W. P., Reefton. Mangan, T., Thames. Casley, G., Reefton. Harris, W., Thames. Mouat, W. G., Dunedin. Cochrane, D. L., Reefton. Horn, G. W., Thames. Trnscott, G., Thames. Colebrook, J. D., Coromandel. Home, W., Coromandel. Watkins, W. E., Reefton. Coombe, J., Reefton. Hornick, M., Thames. Wilkie, J., Reefton. First-class Mine-managers' Certificates, issued on Production of Certificate from a Recognised Authority outside the Colony, under " The Mining Act, 1886," " The Mining Act, 1891," and " The Mining Act. 1898." Argall, W. H., Coromandel. Griffiths, H. P., Auckland. Molineaux, H. S., Gore. Beckwith, L. H., Wellington. Hailey, R. C, Dunedin. Rich. F. A., Auckland. Datson, J., Manaia. McKenna, Thomas, Dunedin. Williams, W. H., Auckland. Griffiths, A. P., Auckland. First-class Mine-managers' Certificates, issued after Examination, under " The.Mining Act, 1891." Agnew, J. A., Thames. James, T., Thames. Prince, F. H., Reefton. Annear, William, Reefton. Keam, P. E., Thames. Robertson, D. 8., Stafford. Bennett, E. P., Thames. Lane, J., Reefton. Ross, Richard, Thames. Boydell, H. C, Coromandel. Lawn, C. H., Capleston. Russell, Murray, Dunedin. Bradley, R. J. H., Te Puke. Linck, F. W., Thames. Shepherd, H. F., Thames. Bray, E., Thames. Marshall, F., Reefton. Stanford, W. J., Macetown. Bruce, Malcolm, Thames. Morrison, R., Thames. Steedman, J. G., Thames. Carroll, J., Lvell. McDermott, J., Thames. Sutherland, Benjamin, Reefton Cartwright, E., Thames. McDermott, G., Thames. Tierney, R., Thames. Crabb, J., Reefton. McDermott, W., Thames. Vialoux, F., Coromandel. Dobson, J. A., Auckland. McGregor, W. T., Thames. Warne, George, Thames. Evans, H. A., Wellington, McKenzie, H. J., Coromandel. Waters, D. 8., Skipper's. Fahey, P., Reefton. McPeake, J., Thames. Watt, J., Thames. Flannigan, Francis, Reefton. O'Keeffe, M. D., Thames. White, G. H., Thames. Gilmour, J. L., Thames. Paul, Matthew, Thames. Whitley, A., Thames. Hodge, J. H., Thames. Paltridge, Henry, Thames. Williams, C, Capleston. Hughes, D., Thames.

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First-class Service Certificates as Mine-managers— continued. First-class Mint-managers' Certificates, issued after Examination, under " The Mining Act, 1898." Arsoott, R., Waihi. Ellery, John, Reefton. McMahon, J. H., Reefton. Allen, Henry, Waihi. Evered, N. J., Waihi. MoMahon, T., Reefton. Barker, 8., Thames. Fry, S., Waimangaroa. Morrison, William, Waihi. Bennie, Boyd, Waihi. Goldsworthy, C, Karangahake. Moye, Michael, Reefton. Blenkhorn, C, Coromandel. Hooker, John, Coromandel. Stewart, F., Waihi. Bolitho, Joseph, Reefton. Hitchcock, W. E., Barewood. Thomson, Thomas, Waihi. Bower, J. W., Coromandel. Irwin, Samuel, Waihi. Tucker, E. S., Coromandel. Carroll, A. M., Reefton. Jackson, G. T., Waihi. Turnbull, E. V., Coromandel. Carter, R. P., Waihi. Johnson, J. H., Coromandel. Turner, 0. E., Murchison. Clouston, R. E., Kaitangata. Langford, G. S., Waihi. Webber, J. H. A., Reefton. Cooper, J. H., Thames. Lawn, Nicholas, Reefton. Weir, Thomas, Waihi. Cooper, Thornhill, Waihi. McConachie, W., jun., Waihi. Whyte, N. McG. H., Waihi. Cordes, F. M., Karangahake. Mac Duff, R. 8., Thames. Wood, P. H., Reefton. Docherty, W. H., Coromandel. MacLaren, J. A. J., Coromandel. First-class Mine-managers' Certificates, issued wider Section 313 of " The Mining Act, 1891." Edwards, George, Westport. Rickard, John, Thames. Trelease, J. H., Thames. Hornibrooke, H. P., Coromandel. Snow, Thomas, Huntly. Williams, John, Kuaotunu. Martin, James, Reefton. Thomas, James, Thames. White, John S., Karangahake. First-class Mine-managers' Certificates of Competency granted to Holders of Provisional Warrants under Sec tion 32 of " The Mining Act Amendment Act, 1896." Alexander, Thomas, Deep Creek. Harvey, A. G., Coromandel. Moorecraft, Walter, Coromandel. Argall, A. E., Coromandel. Howard, Samuel, Karangahake. Morgan, William, Owharoa. Battens, H., Coromandel. James, Robert, Thames. Moyle, Thomas, Thames. Begley, Thomas, Reefton. Jamieson, John, Reefton. Patton, William, Macetown. Bennett, Charles Henry, Kuaotunu. Johns, Thomas, Waihi. Pearce, Francis, Reefton. Bunney, Joseph, Waihi. Kennerley, W. H., Thames. Potter, William H., Thames. Campbell, Alexander, Cullensville. Langford, James, Coromandel. Rabe, Henry, Karaka. Carlyon, Samuel, Coromandel. McCombie, John, Karangahake. Rillstone, Charles, Waipori. Comes, C. A., jun., Karangahake. Mac Donald, H., Coromandel. Somervell, John, Thames. Daldy, Edward Arthur, Coromandel. McEnteer, James, Tararu. Stackpole, Robert, jun., Karangahake. Draffin, Samuel, Waitekauri. McFarlane, Charles M., Tokatea. Thomas, Archelaus, Tapu, Thames. Farmer, C. S., Waitekauri. McLean, Benjamin J., Waitekauri. Turnbull, Thomas A., Whangamata. Goldsworthy, Thomas, Tokatea. McLean, Charles, Thames. Willets, Henry, Thames. Goldsworthy, William, Karangahake. McLean, James, Tararu, Thames. Wilson, James R. S., Kuaotunu. Govan, Joseph, Thames. Meehan, James, Westport. First-class Mine-managers' Certificates, issued to Inspectors of Mines, by virtue of Office under the Mining Actt 1886, 1891, and 1898. Binns, G. J., Dunedin. Gow, J., Dunedin. McLaren, J. M., Thames. Cochrane, N. D., Westport. Green, E. R., Dunedin. Tennent, R., Westport. Gordon, H. A., Wellington. Hayes, J., Dunedin. Wilson, G., Thames. Second-class Service Certificates as Mine-managers. Issued under " The Mining Act, 1891." Adams, W. J., Thames. Gemmings, Charles, Thames. Moorecroft, Thomas, Thames. Agnew, J. A., Coromandel. Gribble, James, Norsewood. Milne, John, Thames. Allen, Richard, Reefton. Guthrie, John, Wellington. Moyle, Thomas, Thames. Argall, A. E., Coromandel. Guy, Robert, Kuaotunu. Naysmith, James, Reefton. Bennett, C. H., Coromandel. Harvey, William, Reefton. Newdick, Alfred, Thames. Begley, Thomas, Reefton. Hardman, James Edward, Thames. Notman, Alexander, Reefton. Beard, W. T., Reefton. Harris, R., Thames. O'Keefe, M. W. D., Thames. Bone, William, Reefton. Hetherington, William, Thames, Page, John, Lyell. Bowler, John, Thames. Hicks, W,, Thames. Parkiss, Jos. W., Reefton. Blair, Thomas, Kuaotunu. Hill, Alex. Grey, Waikakaho. Potts, W. H., Thames. Bray, Edwin, Reefton. Hore, John, Wellington. Primrose, J., Kuaotunu. Brownlee, Thomas James, Thames. Hollis, Fred. J., Waihi. Pettigrew, Robert, Sydney. Brokenshire, James, Thames. Hornibrook, H. P., Kuaotunu. Peebles, Alexander, Kuaotunu. Bolitho, James, Reefton. Jamieson, John, Reefton. Phillips, W. H., Thames. Brown, John, Macrae's. Johnstone, William, Collingwood. Pollock, John, Thames. Bremner, John, Coromandel. Jobe, James, Thames. Rabe, Henry, Thames. Borlase, J. H., Capleston. Johns, Thomas, Thames. Reid, Thomas Groat, Thames. Bunny, Joseph, Thames. Kendall, Henry, Thames. Rickard, John, Thames. Byrne, John, Karangahake. Kerr, George, Kamo. Richards, A. H., Kuaotunu. Caird, Alexander McNeil, Reefton. Kirker, Thomas, Thames. Radford, Thomas, Thames. Campbell, J., Kuaotunu. Laughlin, David, Thames. Rogers, Charles Henry, Reefton. Climo, Noah, Coromandel. Law, John, Thames. Rogers, William Henry, Kumara. Comer, George, Thames. Lough, H., Thames. Ross, J., Thames. Cowan, Hugh, Kuaotunu. Loughlin, S., Thames. Rowe, James, Thames. Corbett, T., Paeroa. McLean, James, Thames. Shaw, James, Karangahake. Comer, W. W., Thames. McLean, Alex., Coromandel. Sligo, Alex., Nenthorn. Crabb, Thomas, Reefton. McLean, Charles, Thames. Thomas, James, Thames. Daniel, P. F., Greymouth. McCormick, Charles, Coromandel. Thomas, A., Thames. Dobson, John Allen, Kuaotunu. McQuillan, John, Reefton. Thomson, John, Dunedin. Edwards, George, Westport. McNeill, Daniel, Thames. Tregellas, James, Reefton. Ellery, John, Reefton. McNeill, George, Upper Kuaotunu. Tregoweth, William, Thames. Flannigan, Francis, Reefton. McCombie, John, Karangahake. Wells, Charles Lewis, Thames. Foster, Thomas, Wellington. McEwen, James, Reefton. Willets, Henry, Thames. Gale, C. W., Coromandel. McLoghry, Archibald, Karangahake. Williams, James, Thames. Gill, George, Thames. Mackay, William, Nenthorn. Williams, John, Thames. Glasgow, T. M., Thames. Martin, James, Reefton. Whisker, Charles, Thames. Goldsworthy, Henry, Thames. Meagher, John, Karangahake. White, John S., Karangahake. Govan, Joseph, Thames. Mills, George, Thames. Wilson, James R. S., Kuaotunu. Griffin, Patrick, Thames. Mayn, John, Coromandel. Wilson, J. G., Thames. Grimmond, Joseph, Ross. Martin, David, Black's Point. Woodcock, James, Thames. Goldsworthy, William, Mauku, Auok- Morgan, William, Upper Thames. Worth, Robert, Waihi, land.

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Second-class Service Certificates as Mine-managers— continued. Second-class Mine-managers' Certificates, issued after Examination, under " The Mining Act, 1891." Benney, J., jun., Paeroa. Evans, H. A., Skipper's. McNeil, A. H., Coromandel. Christie, William, Waitekauri. Gatland, V. V., Coromandel. White, F. H., Kuaotunu. Draffin, 8., Waitekauri. Mathewson, A., Hyde. White, G. H., Thames. Dunkin, T., Coromandel. Second-class Mine-managers' Certificates, issued after Examination, under " The Mining Act, 1898." Bennie, Boyd, Coromandel. Cahill, T. M., Upper Kuaotunu. Carroll, John, Upper Kuaotunu. Second-class Mine-managers' Certificates, issued under Section 313 of " The Mining Act, 1891." Oonnon, William, Thames. Edwards, E., Coromandel. MoCormick, W. J., Waitekauri. Coran, Henry, Thames. Kelso, Archibald, Coromandel. Second-class Mine-managers' Certificates of Competency granted to Holders of Provisional Warrants under Sec Hon 32 of " The Mining Act Amendment Act, 1896." Allen, W. J., Coromandel. Gardner, James, Waimangaroa. Martin, William, Tararu, Thames. Barney, Montague T., Waitekauri. Howe, Albion S., Waitekauri. Murphy, Joseph, Coromandel. Brownlee, Henry, Thames. Johnson, Frank H., Collingwood. O'Brien, John, Westport. Collins, Charles, Waitekauri. Kirwan, William, Reefton. Prescott, Arthur J., Coromandel. Curtis, Charles, Taylorville. McDonald, John, Tairua. Radford, Samuel, Waihi. Davis, James, Coromandel. Molnnes, John, Puriri. Ruffin, Richard, Manaia, Coromandel. Battery-superintendents' Certificates. Issued under " The Mining Act 1891 Amendment Act, 1894," without undergoing Examination. Adams, H. H., Waihi. Hope, John S., Waitekauri. Napier, James, Karangahake. Aitken, R. M., Reefton. Hutchison, William, Karangahake. Noble, James R., Karangahake. Banks, Edwin Gripper, Waihi. Margetts, Frederick Ernest, Kuao- Park, James, Thames. Barry, Hubert Percy, Waihi. tunu. Shepherd, Henry Franklin, Waihi. Goldsworthy, Henry, Kuaotunu. MoKenna, T. N., Tararu. Sims, C. P., Tararu. Goldsworthy, John, Kuaotunu. McLellan, William, Waitekuri. Walker, James A., Kuaotunu. Greenway, H. Howard, Auckland. Mellett, Richard Sheridan, Waite- Wilson, Arthur E., Waihi. Heard, G. St. Clair, Waihi. kauri. Wilson, James Kitchener, Auckland. Battery-superintendents' Certificates, issued after Examination, under " The Mining Act 1891 Amendment Act, 1894." Adams, A. A., Thames. Doveton, G. D., Thames. McMicken, S. D., Thames. Allen, F. 8., Thames. Fleming, G. 0. S., Thames. Morgan, P. G., Thames. Allom, H. 0., Thames. Fuller, J. P., Kuaotunu. Morrin, W. S., Thames. Ansley, Comyn, Paeroa. Gray, J. W., Waihi. Noakes, H. L., Waihi. Ansley, Walter, Thames. Hayward, F. W., Komata. Raithby, R. W., Reefton. Banks, J. H., Waihi. Horn, G. W., Kuaotunu. Robinson, J. R., Waitekauri. Bowers, W., Thames. Jackson, J. H., Paeroa. Stafford, B. H., Waihi. Brown, A. E., Thames. Jones, Achison, Waihi. Taylor, C. H., Tararu. Carter, Samuel, Thames. Kidd, F. D., Thames. Thorpe, A. H., Thames. Clarke, J. L., Thames. Laurie, D. 8., Karangahake. Vercoe, R. 8., Thames. Clarke, R., Waitekauri. Lee, J. W., Reefton. Wingate, H. M., Maratoto. Clarke, W. J., Waihi. Macdonald, W., Waihi. Winslow, G., Thames. Day, A. T., Thames. MoKenzie, H. J., Thames. Williams, A. G. R., Thames. Dixon, Clement, Waihi. Battery-superintendents' Certificates, issued after Examination, under " The Mining Act, 1898." Adams, J. H., Thames. Croucher, Herbert, Waihi. Mackay, John, Crushington. Airey, Hubert, Karangahake. Dawson, 8., Ellerslie. Maltman, A., Reefton. Allen, D. V., Thames. Donnelly, Thomas, Waihi. McEwin, J. A., Reefton. Allen, H. E., Wellington. Draffin, Eugene, Kuaotunu. Montgomery, A. E., Opitonui. Auld, J. 8., Crushington. Ellis, L. L., Waitekauri. Motherwell, Wm., Waihi. Baker, W. H., Thames. Empson, J. 8., Karangahake.. Moyle, W. T., Upper Tairua. Banks, E. J., Thames. Evans, W. 8., Reefton. Orbell, G. S., Waikouaiti. Barrett, J. J., Karangahake. Ewen, H. F., Auckland. Pond, H. C, Auckland. Barron, Wm. E., Waikinj. Fletcher, H. T., Katikati. Quick, J. N., Thames. Bidlake, A. E., Waiomo. Fraser, J. M., Reefton. Reid, J. E., Great Barrier. Bishop, T. 0., Reefton. Fuller, John P., Kuaotunu. Reynolds, E. A., Auckland. Blackadder, Wm., Crushington. Gardner, E. A., Reefton. Roberts, H. C, Waihi. Bradley, R. J. H., Karangahake. Gow, E. A., Crushington. Rodden, Wm., Lyell. Browne, E., Waitekauri. Grayden, J., Waitekauri. Rosewarne, R. H., Thames. Burns, William, Waiomo. Grayden, Peter, Thames. Royse, W. G., Reefton. Bush, E. F., Parawai. Grumitt, P. H.,Thames. Sanford, A. G., Waihi. Bush, H. R., Thames. Gwilliam, Ben., Karangahake. Stephens, H., Dunedin. Brown, F. M., Karangahake. Hargraves, E. P., Waihi. Thomson, G. W., Bendigo. Brown, J. E., Komata. Hay, Adam, Karangahake. Thurlow, J. R., Coromandel. Campbell, Colin, Thames. Hazard, T. R. 0., Waitekauri. Tomlinson, A., Karangahake. Carpenter, W. E., Karangahake. Hitchcock, W. E., Barewood. Tomlinson, W.F., Dunedin. Carter, S., Waihi. Hogg, 8., Karangahake. Turnbull, E. V., Waihi. Carroll, John, Kuaotunu. Horn, G. W., Kuaotunu. Ulrich, G. A. C, Komata. Chappell, G. A., Karangahake. Jones, R. D., Karangahake. Ulrich, Herstall, Whangapoua. Clark, John L., Waihi. Kidd, R. 8., Waitekauri. Watson, A. 8., Waitekauri. Ooote, J. M., Thames. Kingsford, A., Karangahake. Watson, A. P., Crushington. Corbett, G. L., Waitekauri. Launder, G. H., Waitekauri. Watson, J. R., Reefton. Couper, J., Thames. Lawless, L. J., Paeroa. Williams, A. C. Waihi. Oowles, R. X., Crushington. Lovelook, J. E., Crushington. White, A. S. H., Karangahake. Orompton, H., Maratoto.

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Dredgemasters' Certificates, without examination, issued under " The Mining Act, 1898," and Amendment Acts, 1901 and 1902. Allen, Chas., Alexandra S. Hewitt, James, Clyde. O'Leary, D., Waiau. Anderson, L. O, Alexandra S. Hogg, Thos., Cromwell. Olsen, Chas., Roxburgh. Andrews, Ralph, Canvastown. Hoskins, Thos., Maori Point. Parsons, J. D., jun., Clyde. Baker, J. R., Alexandra S. Hoy, Samuel, Alexandra 3. Percy, John, Clyde. Ballantyne, D., Miller's Flat. Inwood, W. J., Rocklands Beaoh. Perkins, A. C, Dunedin. Barnes, T. J., Beaumont. Johnston, E. A., Alexandra S. Pettigrew, Geo., Nelson Creek. Barry, Thos., Clyde. Johnstone, Alexander, Cromwell. Poulter, G. W., Alexandra S. Bradley, Neil, Alexandra S. Keen, Thos., Clyde. Pringle, John, Miller's Flat. Bennett, Geo., Gore. Kennedy, Angus, Alexandra S. Ray, J. O, TotaraFlat. Bennett, James, Kumara. Kitto, Ed. T., Miller's Flat. Reeder, Philip, Bald Hill Flat. Blue, G. P., Alexandra. Kitto, Francis, Lowburn. Rennie, Andrew, Roxburgh. Brand, Peter, Waikaka. Kitto, Jno. F., Miller's Flat. Ross, Alexander, Cromwell. Bremen, Philip, Palmerston S. Kitto, W. H., Cromwell. Ross, Robert, Alexandra S. Bremner, A. P., Lower Shotover. Kloogh, N. P., Lowburn Ferry. Richmond, J., Gibbston. Brice, Wm. H., Cromwell. Lawson, Ed., Dunedin. Ritchie, J. S., Waitiri. Bringans, D., Alexandra S. Ledingham, J., Bannockburn. Sanders, H. P., Clyde. Brown, T. G., Ahaura. Lee, George, Collingwood. Sanders, John, Cromwell. Bunting, James, Murchison. Lidicoat, R. H., Fern Plat. Sanders, Thos., Alexandra. Busbridge, P., Gore. Louden, Alexander, Clyde. Schaumann, H., Alexandra S. Butler, Ewen, Roxburgh. Luke, S. J., Alexandra S. Scott, M. G., Alexandra S. Butler, M. J., Kanieri. Magnus, A., Roxburgh. Scott, Robert, Capleston. Cameron, Saml., Alexandra S. Magnus, Olaf, Box 130 a, Cbristchurch. Shore, T. M., Queenstown. Clarke, Ed., Port Chalmers. Mailer, John, Stillwater. Shore, Wm., Gore. Compton, Albert, Dobson. Maitland, A. E., Miller's Flat. Simonsen, Chas., Alexandra S. Cormack, W., Greymouth. Maxwell, John, Dunedin. Skilton, A. G., Old Diggings. Cowan, James, Nelson Creek. McClure, F. C, Rongahere. Sligo, N. X., Ahaura. Cornish, J. T., Miller's Plat. McConnell, J., Cromwell. Smeaton, S. H., Inangahua Junction. Coutts, Henry, Miller's Flat. McCormack, D., Kanieri. Smith, Alfred, Inangahua Junction. Cowan, Alexander, Stillwater. McDonald, E. A., Waitiri. Steel, Archibald, Kawarua Gorge. Crookston, W. L., Three-channel Flat. McDonald, J., Sofala. Steel, Thos., Dunedin. Crowley, J. 8., Edendale. McDonald. Jno., Cromwell. Templeton, Ivie, Rongahere. Cumming, J. C, Beaumont. McGeorge, J., Dunedin. Thompson, J., Alexandra S. Cunningham, Geo., Kanieri. McGeorge, Alexander, Dunedin. Thompson, T., Miller's Flat. Curtis, Chas., Stillwater. McGregor, D., Kanieri. Toohey, J. M., Alexandra. Cutten, W. H., Dunedin. McGregor, G. R., Alexandra S. Tough, John, Miller's Fla'-. Deniston, R. A., Cromwell. Mcintosh, D. J., Lowburn Ferry. Troy, G. C, Cromwell. Dewar, John. Alexandra S. McLay, Geo. Cromwell. Turnbull, W. D., Canvastown. Donaldson, J. G. A., Greenstone. McLean, D., Waitiri. Tyson, John, Rongahere. Edmonds, A. R., Nelson Creek. McMath, D. C, Robs. Yon Haast, J. H., Clyde. Faithful, Wm., Greymouth. McMath, Thos., Alexandra S. Wallace, John A., Miller's Fiat. Gibb, Wm., Croydon Siding. McVicar, Peter, Roxburgh. Watt, John, Cromwell. Gibson, A., Island Block. Mills, Ed., Murchison. Weaver, Chas., Alexandra S. Goodger, G. W.. Waenga. Mitchell, D. A., Dunedin. Williamson, R., Millar's Flat. Graham, J. M., Gore. Morel, C. G., Inangahua Junotion. Williamson, Walter, Miller's Flat. Grogan, Wm. A., Miller's Flat. Morris, G. S., Cromwell. Wilson, S. W., Waikaka Valley. Hansen, Wm., Alexandra S. Murray, D., Clyde. Wood, R. M., Cromwell. Hay, James, Dunedin. Murray, Madget, Cromwell. Woodhouse, W. S., Roxburgh. Hedley, A., Cromwell. - Neilson, S., Miller's Flat. Young, Andrew, jun., Roxburgh. Herbert, J., Beaumont. Nicholson, W. E., Alexandra S. Dredgemasters Certificates, after examination, issued under " The Mining Act, 1898," and Amendment Acts, 1901 and 1902. Bourke, John, Clyde. McDonald, Gregor, Alexandra S. Sanders, W. J., Ahaura. Guyton, James, St. Clair, Dunedin. Nelson, Edgar, Brunnerton. Taylor, J. T., Dunedin. Kane, Wm., Clyde.. Reiderer, Ed , Cromwell. Wood, W. W., Cromwell. Mathews, A. A., Three-channel Flat.

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Number of Machines employed in Quartz-mining in the Auckland District, and the Value thereof, for the Year ended the 31st December, 1902.

Statement showing the Whole of the Quartz-crushing Machines and Appliances for treating Auriferous and Argentiferous Ores in the Hauraki Mining District for the Year ended the 31st December, 1902.

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Machinery employed in Quai ■tz-mining. Mining District. Steam-engines employed winding, crushing, &c. crushingmachines. Stampheads. X Whim,. Whips and Pulleys. Derricks. Berdans. Approximate Value of all Mining Plant included in this Return. Num- Aggregate ber. Horse-power. Waihi .. Ohinemuri North Hauraki .. South Hauraki .. Te Aroha Oreat Barrier Isl'd 25 17 27 27 1 4 3,594 1,402 986 1,252 330 325 173 462 10 20 5 10 5 53 1 18 40 50 187 2 3 £ 257,640 157,810 95,246 180,162 2,700 11,125 125 101 74 7,359 1,320 300 704,683

'OTB.— :er iciii iing " 'ower Imp. loyei ier '.. im iatei .am i, oi. ;ea . wai II pi iVVO Locality where Machine is situated. Name of Machine. Name of Owners. i, I no "S -~< 0 E y< I o I y< 3 s o 'A "a u 0) a 5 y< 'j. § I I y< I a CD "o I I y< I I u o a 3 y, A S s a 1 a y< £.2 2 O ec c It aj i> DO 5-1 I a o a o u . 1. Of %l ■a o a I 1 n^ •Si a So ft Coromandel County. Coromandel Telephone Corby .. Hauraki Associatedj Success Tokatea.. Hauraki Gold-mining Co. Scotty's Gold-mining Co. Hauraki Mines .. I Sea View .. Boyal Oak of Hauraki Gold-mining Co. West Tokatea Gold-mining I Co. Progress-Castle Rock Gold-mining Co. Four-in-hand Gold-mining Co. Cabbage Bay Extended Gold-mining Co. School of Mines Board in trust Kauri Freehold Gold Estates Gold-mining Co. Ditto .. .. .. I Kuaotunu Syndicate .. j 15 .. 9 .. 12 .. 10 .. 15 .. 8 i 4 8 2 1 1 1 2 3 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 S w s, w s s, w Tokatea 1 West Tokatea .. 3 .. 2 .. .. 1 1 s Tiki Progress - Castle Eock Pour-in-hand 1 2 .. 2 .. .. 2 1 s Waikomoriki 10 .. 2 .. .. 1 1 1 s Cabbage Bay Vizard's 4 .. 1 .. .. 1 1 1 w Coromandel Public battery .. 5 .. 2 .. .. 1 1 1 s Opitonui Opitonui 2 40 .... r> 2 2 2 2 s Knaotunu Ouera Try Fluke Kapai-Vermont .. Great Mercury 16 16 i .. ' .. 3 .. 2 1 .. 1 1 .. 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 4 2 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 s s s s 1 10 •I Irene Handsworth Mahakirau Great Mercury Gold-min-ing Co. Irene Gold-mining Co. .. Louis Woodoock New Zealand Government 10 3 3 ■2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 s w s Mahakirau Thames County. Gumtown Welcome Jack Welcome Jaok Gold-mining Co. Kapowai Gold-mining Co. Harry Adams Harry Adams and party.. Monowai Gold-mining Co. Puru Consolidated Goldmining Co. 5 1 1 s 1 Tapu Waiomo Puru Kapowai Bullion Mabara Royal Monowai Puru i 8 15 20 10 10 8 4 18 1 2 i 2 1 2 2 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 s w w s, w w Tararu Tararu New Alburnia New Alburnia Gold-min-ing Co. Charles Berry Eclipse Gold-mining Co... 30 20 6 7 3 •1 2 1 1 3 1 I 1 1 s, w w Earaka Berry's Eolipse Chicago Claremont Junction Anohor George Bryant McGregor and Taylor A 10 i! 5 4 3 8 ■2 1 1 2 i l 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 8 1 I 1 1 w w w H w s, w Hape * Otis mill.

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Statement showing the Whole of the Quartz-crushing Machines and Appliances for treating Auriferous and Argentiferous Ores in the Hauraki Mining District for the Year ended the 31st December, 1902— continued.

Locality where Machine is situated. Name of Machine. | Name of Owners. ■M o a « I „ cc O d ■" sh o " S x C03S CD S3 OS S3 as a ■-Of 3 pa CD A ca 2 5h B ffl fa o o fa 3 p Z co a s fa ffl pq <n O Jh ffl A 3 B ca 33 cd Ch O SH CD S3 s 3 r5 CO C 9 9 _G ■A-h o u ffl A a 0 to -H a 0 P. o Jh ffl rC 3 3 y. " S » — ™ tr S sS 03 .9 o oS ill o <n CO CD 3 a » M CD 3 co fa O yr X O 3 rirH i* a co g to r^ M o f I <S CD 38 I-. o I 3>\ -S CD - S3 30 S5 AH «S fa fl 9 O fl 0 \0 fl ifarS '£* 1.9 « ■a; >t o p. 3 O i= o rH Thames County —ctd Hape Kerikeri Puriri Fortuna Kerikeri Puriri Henry Rabe Fleming Puriri Gold Estates Goldmining Co. John Mclnnis and party H. Adams and party Broken Hill Gold-mining Co. Chelmsford Gold-mining Co. Taniwha Gold-mining Co. Whangamata Proprietary Gold-mining Co. Mananu Gold-mining Co. J. J. Mackay Tillsley Bros. Kuranui Gold-mining Co. New Moanataiari Goldmining Co. Charles Judd Kuranui-Caledonian Goldmining Co. May Queen-Hauraki Goldmining Co. New Moanataiari Goldmining Co. Waiotahi Gold-mining Co. Fame and Fortune Goldmining Co, School of Mines Board in trust May Queen Extended Gold-mining Co. W. Manning Bank of New Zealand .. 5 2 2 2 1 i W S w l 8 Tairua Hit or Miss Ajax Broken Hill 1 6 12 20 2 4 0 1 1 l i s, w s, w s, w Chelmsford 1 10 l l w Whangamata Taniwha Luck at Last "2 3 *2 1 6 l l l O w Ohui Omahu Thames Borough .. Mananu Ohui Sheet Anchor Kuranui Moanataiari 1 1 20 2 2 20 60 1 1 1 6 21 2 2 2 0 1 1 1 l 1 s, w w s w s, w 4 i l l Judd's Comer's 20 2 5 9 1 1 1 w w 2 May Queen 33 3 2 3 2 w Cambria 21 13 1 2 5 1 w Waiotahi Fame and Fortune 21 21 5 10 2 2 2 2 1 1 s w School of Mines .. 1 2 3 3 1 w May Queen Extended Fairmile Bank of New Zealand Bank of New South Wales 23 14 2 4 1 w 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 i w H Bank of New South Wales 2 2 1 l H Ohinemuri County. Paeroa Bank of New Zealand Crown Bank of New Zealand .. H 1 2 1 1 1 Karangahake Komata Waitekauri Woodstock Talisman Komata.. Waitekauri New Zealand Crown Mines Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Woodstook Gold-mining Co. Talisman Extended Goldmining Co. Komata Reefs Gold-min-ing Co. Waitekauri Gold-mining Co. Ditto .. Jubilee Gold-mining Co. Alpha Gold-mining Co... Waitekauri Extended Gold-mining Co. Maratoto Gold-mining Oo. Hikuaia Gold Syndicate 2 60 2 40 4 60 2 20 2 40 i 4 2 5 4 6 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i i i i i 1 1 1 1 i i i i i s, w s, w s, w s, w s, w Golden Cross Grace Darling Jubilee Alpha Waitekauri Extended Maratoto Hikutaia Gold Syndicate Waihi I .. Union-Waihi Waikino 1 1 1 1 1 10 1 10 10 1 20 1 40 2 3 5 2 3 'a l 2 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 1 2 .1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i i i i i s, w s, w s s w Maratoto i 10 1 5 2 2 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 i s s Waihi Waihi Gold-mining Co. .. 2 90 2 40 4 200 5 2 12 3 2 :i 1 6 2 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 i i i s, w s, w s, w Waikino Piako County. Waiorongomai Waiorongomai E. H. Hardy 1 10 w City of Auckland. Auckland Fraser's Bank of New Zealand Fraser Bros. Bank of New Zealand .. s w 1 2 1 2 1 2 2 2 0 1 4 1 2 Great Barrier Island. Barrier Reefs Goldand Silver-m. Co. Barrier Reefs Gold- and Silver-mining Co. 1 20 401,321 1 s 5 1300, 20 125 I Il26 138; 67 37 28 8 * Krupp mill.

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Statement showing the Whole of the Quartz-crushing Machines and Appliances for treating Auriferous Ores in the Marlborough, Nelson, and West Coast Mining Districts for the Year ended the 31st December, 1902.

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uiSSSii7m S?n. r f. 1 Nam « »t Machine. Machine is situated. i CQ tr o co co r a 5 Name of Owner. % x O o 6 "3 o 1,2 h Sr CD3£ rj CD S3 -t S3 S3 a£ a 3 gS3 - - S3 rH r5 CO 3 s -: h CD K o h ai S3 - 3 r! 3 3 a. ■ir C Ss £ a 3 S5 g i a. « % I CO <-. o "o U U CD CD S3 S3 a a 3 3 V. r\ co -H O ffl •A IH 0 U $ D 5 y. fa fa . ;o lo ' co co I ffl ffl ffl ffl , ce 5 co i fl fl ffl ■ fa &« fa co Sir, ft \sM X 3 ' tr . CD ' CD 51 a °'3» z, \z j S. <£ s » 2 'a IN § S ccS ffl £ fl Kl S ?4 fl! o £ oIq iul im'5|, co °e °1 o a Ol'3 <D it . 31-? !3o':sO:5.S ffl 0 "H. fa 0 c - Marlborough County. Top Valley .. Wellington .. Jubilee T. W. Young and P. K. .. 10 .. Watty Jubilee Gold - mining Co. .. 10 .. (Limited) I ..j 1 .. S W Collingwood County. Taitapu .. .. Goldej Ridge .. Golden Blocks Buller County. Mokihinui .. j Red Queen Waimangaroa .. ; Britannia .. Stony Creek Lyell .. .. Alpine Extended .. Taitapu Gold Estates (Li- | 2 20 .. mited) Golden Blooks (Taitapu) .. 8 .. (Limited) Red Queen Gold-mining .. 2., Co. (Limited) Britannia Gold-mining Co. j .. 5 .. (Limited) Stony Creek Gold-mining .. 10.. Co. (Limited) Alpine Extended Gold-min- .. 20 .. ing Co. (Limited) .. 4 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 .. W S w .. 2 2 2 .. 1 .... w w w 1 1 2 .. .. 4 Inangahua County. Bourke's Creek .. Gardiner's Victoria Range .. Kirwan's Reward .. Capleston .. Welcome Reefton .. .. Golden Fleece .. Wealth of Nations.. .. Keep-it-Dark .. Progress Mines .. New Scotia .. Golden Lead .. Last Chance .. New Inkerman. .. Big River .. King George Grey County. Paparoa Ranges .. Mount Paparoa Ten-mile Creek .. Taffy W. P. Gardiner and Sons .. Kirwan's Reward Gold- • • 15 .. mining Co. (Limited) Welcome Gold-mining Co. .. 5 .. (Limited) Consolidated Goldfields of 1 20 .. New Zealand (Limited) Ditto .. .. .. j .. 20 .. Keep-it-Dark Quartz-min- • • 20 .. ing Co. (Limited) Progress Mines of New Zea- 3 65.. land (Limited) New Scoiia Gold-mining .. 10.. Oo. (Limited) Golden Lead Gold-mining I .. 10 .. Oo. (Limited) Alex. Fleming and party .. .. 5 .. New Inkerman Mines (Li- .. 30 .. mited) Big River Gold-mining Co. .. 10 .. (Limited) St. George Gold-mining Co. .. 5 .. (Limited) j Mount Paparoa Gold-min- .. 10 .. ing Co. (Limited) Taffy Gold - mining Co. .. 5 .. (Limited) 6 315 .. .. 12 ..I .. .. 1 .. l .. 4 .. 1 .. 1 l 2 1 2 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 i l 1 ..! .. 1 .. I 1 .. .. 1 .. 1 1 1 1 1 .... w w S ' s w w w s w .. a 1 1 1 1 1 1 i' '.'. i s s 2 1 1 1! .. .. w w 10 5 ..I .. .. w w 1 1 315 40 19 30 9 5 9 14 ..,4

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Quartz-crushing Machines and Appliances for treating Auriferous Ores in the Southern Mining District for the Year ended the 31st December, 1902.

223

Magnet siSed. Name of Machine. Name of Owner. i o rS ® Slo ii a- 3 !r5 cc a 1 c tr CD S3 3 3 y. co fa ffl 3 B fa 9 ffl fa o -+H o fa ffl A 3 0 -j. 3 1 •a tr CD n o N CD S3 3 3 y BB § r* 'o u 3t S3 3 Z y CO fa ffl 43 ffl :/: IH o fa ffl r^ 2 3 A co fa 3 +H u 0 p. ■HrH 0 fa ffl A 3 p Z fa ffl hH ffl ■A o fa r^ 3 fl Z fa •2 CO ffl ffl CrJ g&i s a <m CD ' fa co ■aS 'U y o CO V CD . CO CO a © rl l£ P 2 Li! & "S 3 °Ph o >> O CO ri CO 3< X o CO co a a l§ O CD H« o) a s" a>oO A 3 E a 0) 6 a o U r3 o a 3 3 1 rr •3 CD >, 0 a 3 ffl fa ffl if O Ph Tuapeka County — Waipori Otago Pioneer Quartz Otago Pioneer Quartz (Waipori) Gold-mining Oo. Bella Gold-mining Syndicate i | 10 S Bella 5 W Bruce County — Waitahuna Burnt Creek Table Hill Quartz-mining Co. Canada Reef Gold-mining Co. 10 W Canada • •j j 10 W Lake County — Queenstown Macetown.. Invincible Premier Invincible Gold-mining Co. Sunrise, late Indian Glenrock (Wynaad) Co. Wescralia and New Zealand Gold Exploration Co. Shotover Quartz - mining Co. Aohilles Gold-mines Lawrence Bros. James Lawrence Lawrence Bros. Cromwell Proprietary Gold-mining Co. Macabe and Son Bendigo Tailings Syndicate Alta Gold-mining Co. .. i 'ii 'i i 10 .| 20 7 a i 2 4! 'i 'il 'i 1 I 1 W W Tipperary 10 W Skipper's Shotover 10 W Bullendale Bannockburn Aohilles Day Dawn Carrick Star of the East .. Bendigo 1| i| l| 30 4 10 10 I 20 6 1 2 1 1 1 W W vv w s, w i Bendigo 4 1 1 1 1 ■• 2 w i i Fiord County — Te Oneroa Alta 4 1 o New Star Alpha Dawn New Star Gold-mining Co. Alpha Dawn Gold-mining Co. Golden Site 10 14 s Golden Site 10 4 w Vincent County — Bald Hill Flat Excelsior White's Reef F. W. Gray R. T. Symes 3 5 1 1 w w 1 1 1 1 1 Maniototo County — Hyde Mount Highlay .. Mount Highlay Gold-min-ing Co. F. H. Perry 12 w Rough Ridge Waihemo County— Macrae's Great Eastern 5 1 1 1 1 w Ounoe Bonanza Mills's United Golden Point Golden Bar Ounce Gold-mining Co. .. L. O. Beal, jun. H. N. Mills and Son W. and G. Donaldson .. Golden Bar Gold-mining Co. A. G. Davies l i i 8 5 5 . 10 10 i i i l i 2 l l i i i i i i 1 1 i w w s 0 s Stoneburn i 1 Taieri County - Hindon Barewood .. Gilvern 5 w Parker's.. Barewood A. Parker Barewood Gold-mining Co. 4 5 1 1 i o s 5 > 262 2 36 4 30 14 12 6 3 2 |

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Statement showing the Quantity of Quartz crushed and Gold obtained in the Hauraki Mining District for the Year ended the 31st December, 1902.

Locality and Name ot Miue. Average Number of Men employed. Goldo Quartz crushed. Amalgamation. Gold obtained. Estimated Value. Cyanide. Gbeat Babbieb Island. Sunbeam Olaim 3 Tons cwt. lb. 10 0 Oz. dwt. Oz. dwt. 21 0 1 £ s. d, 2 14 10 | . Cabbage Bay— Extended Quartz Olaim COEI imandel County. mandel County. 1 10 0 1 10 | .. I I 4 5 6 1 1 10 0 Kennedy's Bay— Macaronic 8 5 0 5 9 14 17 Waikoromiko— Four-in-Hand 10 340 0 10 400 7 1,165 14 3 Tokatea— Royal Oak Hauraki Mines (Limited) West Tokatea 60 5 4 1,134 1 104 23 7 90 4 10 0 3,761 2 52 17 41 10 9,538 0 6 132 2 6 115 15 5 Kapanga— Kapanga South Kapanga Sucoess Blagroves 5 5 4 2 09 595 0 0 5 0 0 67 0 0 2 0 0 1,161 19 82 213 3 11 5 132 0 4 10 3,855 9 9,785 18 5 571 16 10 31 1 0 382 16 0 13 3 3 16 669 0 0 360 18 Hauraki Blook — Hauraki Hauraki No. 2 Bunker's Hill Mermaid 25 2 10 2 789 0 15 0 83 0 18 5 0 0 0 0 1,340 6 4 6 1,693 18 19 8 4,037 3 11 12 18 0 5,214 10 10 58 4 0 998 17 1 Tiki— Progress-Castle Rook 39 905 5 0 3,057 18 9,322 16 9 4 74 0 0 123 5 295 16 0 Opitonui— Kauri Freehold Gold Estates 120 16,121 0 0 15,653 6 6 8,351 11 Kuaotunu — Waitaia Irene Juno Invicta Great Meroury Kuaotunu Syndicate Handsworth 20 5 2 2 5 8 2 989 0 0 240 0 0 6 5 0 15 0 0 325 0 0 1,565 0 0 88 6 104 797 17 299 15 31 6 10 4 332 3 350 0 125 7 625 19 4,094 9 5 649 18 2 78 5 0 25 9 0 786 2 6 1,498 15 9 309 4 9 330 0 Mahakirau— Nil Desperandum 44 3,228 11 104 1,946 12 955 19 7,442 4 7 0 0 30 6 0 15 15 0 Sundries 78 19 13 101 16 246 10 0 Totals 314 22,588 11 15 9,859 4 9,307 10 44,946 1 1 Tapu— Mabara-Royal Bullion 'HAMES Oi 1 3 IUNTY AND BOBO *143 0 0 20 0 0 fQH. 43 1 72 12 120 19 0 218 0 0 338 19 0 163 0 0 115 13 Waiomo— Monowai 35 4,044 0 0 14,728 0 4,575 2 2 Puru — Puru Consolidated 455 0 0 127 7 317 17 6 Tararu— Tararu Creek Eclipse 2 10 200 0 3,657 0 0 0 1,418 9 35 11 83 7 0 3,917 12 6 18 3,857 0 0 1,418 9 35 11 4,000 19 6 Kuranui— Kuranui 12 35 0 0 57 2 98 8 6 * Tailings.

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Locality aud Name of Mine. Average NU Men r °' erusl employed. Gold oota Amalgamation. Gold obtained. lined. Cyanide. Estimated Value. Tham: es County and Borough— c continued. Ioanataiari— Moanataiari Kuranui-Caledonian New Alburnia Golden Drop 57 54 4 2 Tons cwt. lb. 1,311 10 0 607 7 107 19 10 0 7 0 0 Oz. dwt. 2,453 10 1,337 18 26 11 28 11 Oz. dwt. £ s. d. 6,744 5 8 3,639 9 1 73 10 1 70 1 5 117 1,945 7 107 Vaiotahi— Waiotahi Nonpareil Fame and Fortune .. Ballarat West Coast 3,846 10 10,527 6 3 14 0 25 3 2 1,210 0 208 10 381 0 9 0 14 0 0 8 0 0 0 1,601 0 200 3 527 0 36 14 96 16 4,343 19 1 559 14 6 1,505 16 2 108 1 4 242 0 0 Irahamstown— May Queen Victoria 6,759 11 1 50 1,822 10 8 2,461 13 46 7 1,446 10 0 327 0 0 2,564 3 134 17 7,017 15 7 365 11 7 Caraka — May Queen Extended Claremont Thames Talisman .. Gloucester Babydim Morning Star 53 1,773 10 0 2,699 0 7,383 7 2 4 1 4 4 2 2 103 0 0 0 3 64 1 0 0 10 0 17 20 0 0 1 0 15 53 14 259 19 0 9 17 18 36 13 15 18 150 8 8 701 17 6 15 2 43 15 0 91 12 6 39 15 0 17 135 3 96 Jna Hill— Fortuna Weymouth Ethel Reef 6 2 2 55 0 6 0 4 0 0 0 3 384 11 32 7 4 16 3 11 1,028 13 10 87 1 1 12 0 0 8 17 6 'uriri— Miner's Right 10 65 0 S 40 14 107 18 7 171 0 0 95 9 266 9 6 Vhangamata— Mananu Broken Hills Chelmsford Taniwha 40 50 25 12 3,508 0 4,328 0 2,169 0 328 0 0 0 0 0 3,586 8 5,421 0 672 10 121 10 533 13 4,500 0 690 14 7,595 8 10 19,097 18 6 2,531 2 8 287 0 5 lumtown— Welcome Jack Kapowai .. Golden Reefs Big Beetle 127 10,333 0 0 9,801 8 5,724 7 29,511 10 5 10 4 2 3 208 0 29 10 18 0 2 0 0 0 0 o 489 13 47 16 13 15 51 14 1,164 3 10 113 8 11 32 19 1 155 2 0 19 lundries 257 10 0 602 18 1,465 13 10 unotion, Karaka 16 7 2 650 0 5,948 0 197 10 0 0 9 952 14 733 1 52 14 1,198 7 11 1,924 5 1 154 3 0 25 6,795 10 9 1,738 9 3,276 16 0 Totals .. 496 31,852 11 111 23,389 3 20,487 18 69,658 13 4 Vaihi— Waihi Waihi Bokough. 1,141 179,485 0 Finishing I up 549 0 0 Concentrates From slag ta 0 659 0 Union-Waihi 605,997 7 ilings 2,289 0 470,286 7 7 48,632 12 2 1,219 15 3 4,303 14 7 Total 1,141 180,034 0 0 659 0 608,286 7 [524,442 9 7 —i Vaitekauri— Waitekauri Company Waitekauri King Ohin: imubi County. 122 3 15,601 0 i 17 0 i 0 0 25,131 0 41 0 25,806 9 8 58 4 4 Jwharoa— Rising Sun 125 15,618 0 0 25,172 0 25,864 14 0 1 0 0 3 1 1 II

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Number of men employed on development-work in the whole district from which no returns of gold have been obtained : 150.

Battery Returns from Quartz-mines in the Marlborough, Nelson, and West Coast Mining Districts for the Year ended the 31st December, 1902.

Locality and Name of Mine. Average Number of Men employed. Gold obtai: Quartz crushed, j Amalgamation. Gold obtained. ined. Cyanide. Estimated Value of Gold or Bullion. Ohinemuei County— coutim led. Karangahake— New Zealand Crown Mines .. New Zealand Talisman Woodstock 245 120 91 245 120 91 Tons cwt. lb.i 33,523 0 0 13,396 0 0 5,967 0 0 Oz. dwt. 5,462 6 Oz. dwt. £ s. d. 39,373 14 ! 74,764 4 2 50,409 0 20,163 13 0 9,437 0 9,917 13 7 456 Komata— Komata Reefs 456 83 52,886 0 0 5,462 6 99,219 14 104,845 10 9 S3 12,190 0 0 7,587 3 31,771 11 27,140 1 5 Maratoto— Hikutaia Gold Syndicate 12 772 2 970 5 ; 4,355 17 0 12 5,231 0 0 Totals 678 678 85,926 0 0 13,821 11 157,186 11 162,208 2 1 Pi. ,ko County. Waiorongomai— Empire and Mamoth Cadman 12 2 388 0 114 0 0 i o ! 768 12 70 0 1,467 0 11 202 8 0 14 14 502 0 0 838 12 1,669 8 11 ■ Great Barrier Coromandel County Thames County and Borough .. Waihi Borough Ohinemuri County Piako County '.'. 1 3 314 496 1,141 678 14 3 314 496 .,141 678 14 QMMARY. 10 0 22,588 11 15 31,852 11 111 180,034 0 0 85,926 0 0 502 0 0 21 0 9,859 4 23,389 3 659 0 13,821 11 838 12 9,307 10 20,487 18 608,286 7 157,136 11 2 14 10 44,946 1 1 69,658 13 4 1524,442 9 7 |l62,208 2 1 1,669 8 11 802,927 9 10 726,012 7 11 Grand totals, 1902 1901 .. 2 .. 3 2,646 3,224 !,646 !,224 320,904 3 14 308,350 6 39 48,588 10 30,900 17 795,218 6 581,858 11 Increase Decrease 578 12,553 16 87 17,687 13 213,359 15 76,915 1 11 578

Name and Locality of Mine. Quartz crushed. Yield of Gold. .pproximate Values. larlborough Distriot— Jubilee lollingwood District — Golden Ridge Golden Blocks Vestport Distriot— Red Queen, Mokihinui .. Britannia Stony Creek .. jyell District — Alpine Extended teefton District— Welcome Kirwan's Reward Golden Fleece Wealth of Nations Keep-it-Dark Progress Mines Industry Last Chanoe Taffy Tons. 644 3,442 2,402 20 129 200 2,369 Oz. dwt. gr. 151 19 13 2,223 3 14 2,119 0 0 14 12 0 138 0 9 32 1 10 1,368 3 0 £ a. d. 533 14 9 8,680 11 1 8,171 16 3 56 18 9 538 2 9 111 8 2 5,218 12 6 1,776 3,963 13,614 11,566 11,405 55,976 182 3 180 1,194 13 23 2,547 15 21 7,001 9 22 5,544 4 15 3,800 19 3 26,436 19 5 29 7 0 6 0 0 24 5 15 4,602 16 8 10,212 8 2 29,896 5 2 23,106 14 5 13,817 10 0 106,999 16 2 82 16 0 24 6 0 97 2 6 Totals .. 107,871 52,632 15 6 212,150 14 4

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Statement of Value of Gold won from Quartz crushed for all Districts for Years ended the 31st December, 1901 and 1902.

Name and Locality of Mine. Ordinary Quartz crushed. Produce of Amalgam. Retorted Gold. Melted fiold. Value. Tailings treated. Gold from Tailings. _J Ton cwt. qr. ' 178 0 0 306 0 0 12,178 0 0 Oz. dwt. gr. 307 12 0 Oz. dwt. gr. 113 15 0 25 7 0 1,759 14 0 Oz. dwt. gr. £ s. d. 460 18 9 71 13 0 6,743 15 8 Ton 27 Oz. £ s. d. STew Star, Preservation Inlet Upha, Preservation Inlet Indian Glenrock, Wynaad (now Premier Sunrise, New Zealand) Macetown 5hotover, Skipper's >omwell Proprietary, Bendigo .. Jendigo Tailings Syndicate, Bendigo Mount Highlay, Hyde Barewood, Barewood ).P.Q. (Waipori), Waipori Sundries 184 0 0 5,659 10 0 213 19 0 106 0 6 1,752 1 23 397 13 4 877 lio 88 281 4 9* 285 17 7* 2,133 0 0 200 0 0 2,253 5 7 687 0 0 8,553 6 10 4,199 10 0 1,318 0 0 l,806"l 2 6,911 17 7 250 36 140 8 Of Total 9,178 10 0 17,499 1 0 [ 6,264 2 15 [23,826 4 9 1,154 |234 707 10 4 1,752 1 23 A return of 41 tons scheelite hi Sundries include the returns ol as alBO been n f ten mines ov iade. 'ned by privi ite parties, wh< t Tailings ti D do not desire their returns to be pub blish id. * Tailin igs treated by c; 'anide. reated by Huntingdon Mill.

Mining District. Year ended the 31st December, 1902. Year ended the 31st December, 1901. Hauraki Marlborough, Nelson, and West Coast ... Otago and Southland... Totals ... £ 802,927 212,151 24,534 1,039,612 £ 726,012 196,952 19,944 1,039,612 942,908 Gross Totals and Value of Gold purchased by Banks for Year ended th 31st December, 1902. Bank. Gold purchased. Gold purchased. Value. Hauraki Mining District. Oz. dwt. gr. Bank of New Zealand ... ... ... I 81,743 7 0 Bank of New South Wales ... ... ... 16,490 5 12 £ s. d. 119,837 7 7 30,811 10 9 , Totals ... ... ... ... 98,233 12 12 98,233 12 12 150,648 18 4 150,648 18 4 Marlborough, Nelson, and Westland Mining Dislri. '.stland Mining Districts. 34,979 15 18 9,691 0 22 29,164 1 23 1,453 0 0 36 11 0 icts. 136,528 5 11 38,382 19 5 113,684 15 3 5,693 0 0 134 6 9 Bank of New Zealand ... ... ... 34,979 15 18 Bank of New South Wales ... ... ... 9,691 0 22 National Bank of New Zealand ... ... 29,164 123 Union Bank of Australia ... ... ... 1,453 0 0 Private buyers ... ... ... ... 36 11 0 ■ [ 136,528 5 11 38,382 19 5 113,684 15 3 5,693 0 0 134 6 9 Totals ... ... ... ... 75,324 9 15 75,324 9 15 294,423 7 4 294,423 7

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SUMMARY OF WORKS CONSTRUCTED. The following statement shows the whole of the different classes of works constructed by the Department, either by direct grants or by subsidies to local bodies, during the last twenty-one years (the votes for this purpose having been under the control of the Hon. the Minister of Mines), for the purpose of opening up the mineral belts throughout the colony, and also for the development of the mining industry:—

Bank. Gold purchased. Value. Otago and Southland Districts. Bank of New Zealand Bank of New South Wales National Bank of New Zealand Bank of Australasia ... 115,755 15 11 15,560 19 19 38,663 15 5 9,579 19 8 I 444,559 7 1 60,073 6 11 149,168 14 7 38,616 10 0 Totals ... 179,560 9 19 692,417 18 7 692,417 18 7 I Grand totals 353,118 11 22 1 1,137,490 1, 137,490 4 3 4 3

Nature of Works. Total Cost of Expenditure, by Construction, or . way of Subsidy or Amouut authorised otherwise, by to be expended. Mines Department. I Amount ot Liability by Mines Department on Works in Progress. Up to Yeabs 1882-83 and 1883-84. Watei-raoes Roads on goldfields Roads and tracks undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department Works undertaken by prospecting associations, subsidised by Mines Department Construction of drainage and sludge channels, subsidised by Mines Department £ s. d. 29,252 1 11 21,437 11 2 52,841 17 0 13,216 13 4 5,750 0 0 £ s. d. 29,252 1 11 21,437 11 2 £ s. d. 14,853 9 5 13,089 16 0 £ s. d. 14,853 9 5 13,089 16 0 21,844 16 7 3,350 0 0 2,468 15 4 £ s. d. 14,398 11 6 8,347 15 2 52,841 17 0 21,844 16 7 10,207 15 9 13,216 13 4 3,350 0 0 3,400 0 0 5,750 0 0 2,468 15 4 781 4 8 1884-85. *■ 122,498 8 5 , — " " ~" ■ — 122,498 8 5 55,606 17 j^ 55,606 17 4 37,135 7 1 Water-races Roads on goldfields Roads and tracks undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department Roads to mines, other than gold, subsidised by Mines Department Works undertaken by prospecting associations, subsidised by Mines Department Construction of drainage and sludge channels, subsidised by Mines Department Diamond and other drills 4,846 1 9 13,667 10 1 4,846 1 9 13,667 10 1 13,506 14 1 4,594 1(1 0 850 0 0 4,050 0 0 3,600 0 0 14,596 2 9 9,630 9 6 14,596 2 9 9,630 9 6 0,293 10 0 111 19 0 108 (I 0 1,050 0 0 1,858 0 0 4,648 11 6 12,384 15 9 13,566 14 1 0,293 16 6 12,739 17 6 4,594 1(1 0 111 19 0 2,888 1 0 850 0 0 108 0 0 3,692 0 0 4,050 0 0 3,600 0 0 45,174 15 11 j : = , 1,050 0 0 1,858 0 0 83,648 7 9 1,931 4 8 1885-86. — 45,174 15 11 — r 33,648 _7_ 9 38,284 10 5 Water-races Roads on goldfields Roads undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department .. .. .. .. Roads to mines, other than gold, subsidised by Mines Department .. .. .. .. Works undertaken by prospecting associations, subsidised by Mines Department .. .. .. Construction of drainage and sludge channels, subsidised by Mines Department . .. .. Schools of Mines 3,660 4 9 27,548 18 8 14,773 2 3 1,551 19 10 11,860 L8 0 10,051 14 9 2,160 9 7 71,602 7 10 j 0,003 2 3 12,360 14 9 13,043 15 !l 4,327 (I 10 1.1)!)'.) 5 7 3,994 16 6 1,260 9 7 43,049 5 3 6,964 4 4 27,567 19 8 12,477 9 2 490 12 8 0,389 5 9 6,995 9 9 900 0 0 71,602 7 10 43,049 5 3 61,785 1 4 1886-87. Water-races Roads on goldfields Roads and tracks undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department Roads to mines, other than gold, subsidised by Mines Department Works undertaken by prospecting associations and companies, subsidised by Mines Department Construction of drainage and sludge channels, subsidised by Mines Department Diamond and other drills .. .. Schools of Mines .. .. .. .. .. 12,453' 8 5 12,613 4 8 15,671 19 6 5,549 14 0 422 15 6 3,183 7 1 I 1,928 14 4 22,229 16 1 7,415 19 6 306 1 0 4,521 7 3 6,207 18 0 422 15 6 3,383 7 1 3,466 0 8 17,791 7 0 10,455 1 5 110 13 1 4,618 4 7 672 6 10 700 0 0 49,894 4 8 46,415 18 9 37,813 13 7

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Nature of Works. Total Cost of Construction, or Amount authorised to be expended. Expenditure, by way of Subsidy or otherwise, by Mines Department. Amount of Liability by Mines Department on Works in Progress. 1887-88. £ B. d. 6 6 6 6,860 4 3 £ s. d. 6 6 6 17,281 11 3 £ s. d. Water-races Roads on goldfields .. .. Roads and tracks undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department Roads to mines, other than gold, subsidised by Mines Department Works undertaken by prospecting associations and companies, subsidised by Mines Department Construction of drainage and sludge channels, subsidised by Mines Department Schools of Mines Aids to treatment of ores 2,998 15 0 6,456 8 0 8,012 5 2 14 5 4 2,703 19 3 7,370 0 0 3,942 4 2 924 8 0 1,859 3 7 1,200 0 0 1,110 4 11 2,221 19 4 390 18 3 2,054 10 6 337 4 3 209 1 9 1888-89. 19,380 17 4 31,741 10 0 14,837 8 8 Roads on goldfields Roads and tracks undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department Works undertaken by prospecting associations and companies, subsidised by Mines Department Construction of drainage and sludge channels, subsidised by Mines Department Wharves, contributions by Mines Department Aids to treatment of ores, subsidised Schools of Mines 10,253 5 3 7,318 1 0 474 0 0 4,304 3 9 2,466 16 8 236 0 0 54 10 6 96 6 0 209 1 9 1,188 6 10 13,218 11 6 5,195 6 1 687 8 0 589 19 5 343 13 5 895 16 10 44'l4 3 1889-90. 19,531 2 6 8,555 5 6 19,489 13 3 Roads on goldfields Roads and tracks undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department.. Works undertaken by prospecting associations and companies, subsidised by Mines Department Water-races Wharves Schools of Mines Aids to treatment of ores Tracks to open up mineral lands Diamond drills 3,834 9 7 8,507 15 8 2,200 0 0 9,148 5 9 3,451 17 11 719 0 0 150 0 0 1,034 0 11 142 8 9 207 3 6 425 14 5 8,005 5 4 5,928 1 3 663 0 0 681 0 0 193 13 5 50 14 0 1,040 0 8 142 8 9 1,000 0 0 425 14 5 792 16 6 1890-91. 17,150 9 1 15,278 11 3 16,314 10 6 Roads on goldfields Roads and tracks undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department Works undertaken by prospecting associations and companies, subsidised by Mines Department Water-races Wharves Schools of Minos Tracks to open up mineral lands 8,811 14 4 2,703 5 0 5,542 19 8 3,847 10 0 10,815 14 8 2,252 5 5 6,234 4 6 39 9 9 3,898 4 0 78 4 7 5,201 5 0 5,027 8 4 663 0 0 419 19 5 20,905 9 0 23,318 2 11 11,311 12 9 1891-92. Roads on goldfields Roads and tracks undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department Works undertaken by prospecting associations and companies, subsidised by Mines Department Water-races Wharves Schools of Mines Tracks to open up mineral lands 14,226 5 1 3,162 0 0 1,455 5 5 2,256 13 6 8,460 0 8 1,720 18 6 336 15 9 2,256 18 6 11,767 9 10 4,937 10 2 1,663 0 0 1,370 19 9 40 0 0 1,370 19 9 41 16 0 418' 3 7 22,511 3 9 1892-93. 14,187 3 9 18,786 3 7 Roads on goldfields Roads and tracKs undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department Works undertaken by prospecting associations and companies, subsidised by Mines Department Water-races Wharves Schools of Mines Tracks to open up mineral lands Artesian-well boring, Maniototo Plains .. 15,199 2 4 550 0 0 970 4 9 3,811 1 10 17,325 10 0 1,033 0 0 865 4 3 3,811 1 10 9,628 6 10 4,831 9 10 1,768 0 6 1,232 4 4 1,232' 4 4 281 3 6 419 19 5 268 16 6 550 0 0 22,312 13 3 24,548 3 11 16,916 13 1

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Nature of Works. Total Cost of Expenditure, by Construction, or way of Subsidy or Amount authorised : otherwise. Into be expended. Mines Department. Amount ot Liability by Mines Department on Works in Progress. 1893-94. £ s. d. toads on goldfields .. .. .. .. .. 18,418 19 2 toads and tracks undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department .. .. .. 5,038 11 6 Vorks undertaken by prospecting associations and companies, subsidised by Mines Department .. .. | 2,245 19 4 Vater-races .. .. .. .. .. .. 5,271 17 1 )rainage-channels .. .. .. .. Vharves .. .. .. .. .. Ichools of Mines .. .. .. .. .. 1,555 19 9 'racks to open up mineral lands .. .. tepairing flood damages .. .. .. .. 500 0 0 ' irtesian-well boring, Maniototo Plains .. .. .. 800 0 0 £ s. d. 15,050 0 11 2. 718 17 8 1,709 18 5 5,271 17 1 1,555 19 9 500 0 0 518 16 6 £ s. d. 13,013 1.8 5 5,576 10 7 L,027 7 11 900 0 0 1,000 0 0 QQ 091 a 3 ft 0»7 OQ1 1A A 33,831 6 10 ; 33,831 6 10 27,331 10 4 27,331 10 4 21,517 16 11 "~ -■ ■ 1 1894-95. toads on goldfields .. .. .. .. .. 20,908 18 7 toads and tracks undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department .. .. .. .. I 685 18 4 Vorks undertaken by prospecting associations and companies, subsidised by Mines Department .. .. 10,805 15 4 Vater-races .. .. .. .. •■ •• 4,801 19 7 Drainage-channels ' .. .. .. .. .. 1,521 0 0 Vharves ichools of Mines .. .. .. 999 8 6 'racks to open up mineral lands tepairing flood damages .. .. .. .. I irtesian-well boring, Maniototo Plains .. .. .. 505 19 11 )iamond drills 15,160 3 5 2,295 9 2 2,378 13 2 : 2,427 10 11 673 14 10 \ 999* 8 6 505 19 11 18,752 10 7 1,934 5 7 3,006 13 0 2,151 18 8 3,647 5 2 40,228 15 3 — — \ I 24,440 19 11 1 1 29,492 13 0 1895-96. toads on goldfields .. .. .. .. •■ 14,554 0 toads and tracks undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department .. .. .. .. j 4,614 11 1 Vorks undertaken by prospecting associations and com- i panies, subsidised by Mines Department .. .. 3,477 7 0 Vater-races .. .. .. .. •■ •• 6,820 18 3 Drainage-channels .. .. .. •• • • 5,100 0 0 Vharves Schools of Mines .. .. .. .. .. 999 3 0 ?racks to open up mineral lands .. .. .. I tepairing flood damages irtesian-well boring, Maniototo Plains Diamond drills .. .. • • • ■ ■ • 216 1 6 35,782 1 5 14,554 0 19,970 6 6 : 1,607 8 6 i 1,726 4 8 5,162 9 2 2,240 5 1 999 3 0 21o' 1 6 31,921 18 5 19,970 6 6 14,086 4 8 4,614 11 1 1,607 8 6 4,290 16 11 3,477 7 0 6,820 18 3 5,100 0 0 1,726 4 8 5,162 9 2 2,240 5 1 10,093 3 0 2,515 7 9 2,657 0 1 999 3 0 999 3 0 216 1 6 210' 1 6 35,782 1 5 31,921 18 5 33,642 12 5 1896-97. toads on goldfields .. .. .. .. .. 57,685 9 6 toads and tracks undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department .. .. .. .. 11,677 0 0 Vorks undertaken by prospecting associations and companies, subsidised by Mines Department .. .. 1,570 7 3 Vater-races .. .. .. •• •• •■ 3,090 11 1 Drainage-channels .. .. .. ,. .. 1,409 0 0 Vharves ichools of Mines .. .. •• • • 1,682 19 5 ?racks to open up mineral lands tepairing flood damage artesian-well boring, Maniototo Plains .. tesumption of land .. .. ■. .. .. 300 0 0 'respecting deep levels .. .. .. 25,500 0 0 102.915 7 3 57,685 9 6 30,720 12 7 1,759 6 5 1,533 0 7 3,927 18 0 2,149 3 11 1,682 19 5 300 0 0 2,697 14 5 44.771 1 4 30,720 12 7 35,622 15 3 11,677 0 0 1,759 0 5 4,079 18 3 1,570 7 3 3,090 11 1 1,409 0 0 1,533 6 7 3,927 18 0 2,149 3 11 2,915 14 3 1,678 0 10 2,516 16 2 1,682 19 5 1,682 19 5 306' 0 0 25,500 0 0 300 0 0 2,697 14 5 22,802 5 7 iuz,bio i a 1897-98. 102,915 7 3 a, in 1 1 44,771 1 4 09,615 10 4 toads on goldfields .. .. .. .. •• 71,318 11 7 toads and tracks undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department .. .. .. 25,151 9 8 Vorks undertaken by prospecting associations and companies, subsidised by Mines Department .. .. 3,939 8 1 Vater-races .. .. .. •• ■■ ■• 3,275 8 9 Drainage-channels .. .. .. .. •. 4,481 14 0 ichools of Mines .. .. .. •• •• 1,780 17 3 'respecting deep levels .. ,. •■ •• 25,500 0 0 Vater-conservation .. .. ■ ■ . • .. 507 3 9 of telephone-lines .. .. .. 60 0 0 Jompensation proclamation of rivers .. .. .. 5,196 13 10 71,318 11 7 25,151 9 8 3,939 8 1 3,275 8 9 4,481 14 0 1,780 17 3 25,500 0 0 507 8 9 60 0 0 5,196 13 10 37,410 14 3 1 2 ,158 6 7 2,357 15 1 2,272 5 0 1,212 14 9 1,780 17 3 21,520 15 0 507 3 9 50 0 0 5,196 13 10 37,410 14 3 12,158 6 7 2,357 15 1 2,272 5 0 1,212 14 9 1,780 17 3 21,520 15 0 507 3 9 50 0 0 5,196 13 10 33,907 17 4 9,077 14 0 1,581 13 0 1,003 3 9 3,268 19 3 1,281 10 7 141,211 6 11 84,467 5 6 50,720 17 11

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Nature of Works. Total Cost of Construction, or Amount authorised to be expended. Expenditure, by way of Subsidy or otherwise, by Mines Department. Amount of Liability by Mines Department on Works in Progress. 1898-99. £ s. d. 48,201 0 2 £ s. d. 42,358 8 6 £ s. d. 39,825 9 0 Roads on goldfields Roads and tracks undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department .. .. :. Works undertaken by prospecting associations and companies, subsidised by Mines Department Water-raceB Drainage-channels Schools of Mines Prospecting deep levels Water-conservation Construction of telephone-lines Compensation proclamation of rivers 21,025 12 0 2,936 11 8 3,853 16 5 3,539 7 5 1,450 15 2 25,500 0 0 12,483 13 1. 4,1.91 7 9 2,143 14 1 2,932 12 1 2,426 13 5 1,450 15 2 1,281 10 7 7,893 19 4 5,914 7 5 1,103 13 1 1,719 6 3 3,802 16 4 676' 0 8 676 0 8 119,666 16 7 65,355 1 7 52,365 12 1 1899-1900. Roads on goldfields Roads and tracks undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department Works undertaken by prospecting associations and companies, subsidised by Mines Department Water-races Drainage-channels .. .. .. .. .. Schools of Mines Prospecting deep levels Water-conservation Resumption of land Compensation proclamation of rivers Aid towards the treatment of ores 46,442 15 10 4,625 0 0 2,549 7 2 7,909 5 11 1,090 0 0 1,866 13 3 44,258 2 6 2,865 7 4 1,400 9 6 8,430 14 0 1,435 7 5 1,866 13 3 42,010 2 4 5,011 0 11 1,784 3 0 963 11 10 2,627 14 7 6,925 10 9 2,812 7 0 811 0 0 915 1 4 6,925 10 9 2,812 7 0 811 0 0 915 1 4 1900-1. 75,947 1 3 71,720 13 1 52,396 12 8 Roads on goldfields Roads and tracks undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department Works undertaken by prospecting associations and companies, subsidised by Mines Department Wa'er-races Drainage-channels Schools of Mines Prospecting deep levels Water-conservation Resumption of land Compensation proclamation of rivers Aid towards the treatment of ores 48,835 2 1 1,495 8 2 2,353 6 10 3,954 1 6 2,058 0 0 1,598 2 1 44,757 0 1 2,882 6 2 1,266 11 7 4,251 19 8 517 0 4 1,598 2 1 46,088 4 4 3,133 4 10 1,033 7 9 50 0 0 927 7 3 2,680 19 1 3,787 17 9 6,083 18 9 778 1 0 6,083 18 9 778 1 0 - 69,836 18 6 65,922 17 5 51,232 4 1901-2. Roads on goldfields Roads and tracks undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department Works undertaken by prospeoting associations and companies, subsidised by Mines Department Water-races Drainage-channels Schools of Mines Prospecting deep levels Water-conservation Resumption of land Compensation proclamation of rivers Aid towards the treatment of ores 80,602 9 4 34,216 16 8 2,578 10 8 5,860 3 5 1,005 1 8 2,087 13 8 44,697 10 0 2,847 17 3 1,509 10 9 6,665 15 1 889 4 6 2,087 13 8 35,904 19 4 1,909 0 11 1,826 6 2 1,760 16 1 1,390 3 7 2,11412 5 942'13 10 1,17119 7 5,318' 2 9 77 17 0 5,318* 2 9 27 17 0 50 0 0 133,861 7 7 64,986 4 10 44,013 5 10 1902-3. Roads on goldfields Roads and tracks undertaken by County Councils, subsidised by Mines Department Works undertaken by prospecting associations and companies, subsidised by Miues Dopartment Water-races Drainage-channels Schools of Mines Prospecting deep levels Water-conservation Resumption of land Proclamation of rivers Aid towards the treatment of ores 62,389 0 5 2,285 0 0 1,595 17 0 6,122 11 11 2,896 14 2 2,533 14 2 50,230 12 3 1,409 0 8 1,131 0 4 5,316 10 3 1,567 13 8 2,533 14 2 48,063 7 6 1,512 1 11 1,821 17 7 2,45414 9 2,535' 0 10 2,982 0 5 725 0 0 13,21510 8 50 12 5 13,21510 8 50 12 5 93,624 1 7 78,436 14 10 54,577 1 9

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List of Works on Goldfields undertaken wholly by the Mines Department, or by Subsidies to County Councils, Local Bodies, and Prospecting Associations, in Progress on the 31st March, 1903.

Nature of Works. Total Cost of Construction, or Amount authorised to be expended. Expenditure, by way of Subsidy or otherwise, by Mines Department. Amount of Liability by Mines Department on Works in Progress. SUMMABY. Roads on goldfields Subsidised roads and tracks Subsidised roads and tracks other than on goldfields Prospecting Water-races Wharves Schools of Mines Drainage-channels Diamond drills Treatment of ores Tracks to open up mineral lands Artesian-well boring, Maniototo Plains Repairing flood damages Prospecting deep levels Resumption of land Water-conservation Construction of telephone-lines Proclamation of rivers £ s. d. 516,896 7 11 173,799 1 5 6,146 9 10 82,082 12 10 100,514 8 8 435 15 9 32,144 18 1 42,813 10 10 5,170 11 4 3,164 0 6 325 8 1 800 0 0 500 0 0 51,000 0 0 3,112 7 0 23,764 5 10 60 0 0 31,301 6 8 £ s d. 468,833 0 5 102,703 12 1 4,759 6 2 31,278 16 11 97,128 6 4 285 15 9 32,144 18 1 27,997 3 2 3,428 11 4 2,514 0 6 325 8 1 800 0 0 500 0 0 25,500 0 0 3,112 7 0 23,039 5 10 50 0 0 31,301 6 8 £ s. d. 48,063 7 6 1,512 1 11 1,82117 7 2,454 14 9 725 0 0 jl,074,031 4 9 , 855,701 18 4 54,577 1 9

Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost, or Amount authorised. Amount of Amount due by Contribution paid Mines Department by Mines on Works Department. j still in Progress NORTH ISLAND. Roads (subsidised). £ s. d. 200 0 0 Thames County. toad Taniwha to 4th Branch Tairua River £ s.- d. £ s. d. 100 0 0 Thames Borough. Hearing dibris, Waiotahi Creek 225 0 0 112 10 0 112 10 0 Ohinemuri County. jow-level tunnel, Jubilee Mine (E. Kersey Cooper) 1,500 0 0 651 0 0 99 0 0 Piako County. tepairs Waiorongomai Tramway 150 0 0 75 0 0 MIDDLE ISLAND. Roads (subsidised). Buller County. jong Tunnel-Addison's 500 0 0 250 0 0 Grey County. Protective works, Big Grey Bridge .. Tew River Bank Road Videning " Frollis " Track tepairs No Town Creek Bridge >aparoa track to Garden Gully ••. 200 0 0 300 0 0 400 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 79 8 1 20 11 11 150 0 0 200 0 0 15 0 0 100 0 0 110 0 0 1,300 0 0 189 8 1 485 11 11 Tuapeka County. i'itigerald's Bridge 1,500 0 0 410 0 0 340 0 0 Knapdale Road Board. itaitland Village to Mining Reserve 100 0 0 50 0 0

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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost, or Amount authorised. Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. Amount due by Mines Departmen on Works still in Progress. WORKS UNDEB CONSTBUCTION WHOLLY BY MINES DEPARTMENT. Opitonui Footbridge Gumtown Road (repairs) Repairs, Kaituna Bridge Repairs, Ford's Creek Bridge Approaches, Moonlight Bridge Repairs, Upper Calary Track South Road (repairs) Milltown Road Edge's Coal-pit Road Prospecting tracks, Rimu Cabbage Bay-Port Charles and Cape Colville Tairua-Whenuakite Tokatea-Kennedy Bay Coromandel-Kuaotunu, vid Matarangi Tiki-Kaimarama Tiki-Manaia Manaia-Waikawau Mercury Bay-Whenuakite and Boat Harbour Kuaotuuu-Mercury Bay .. Whitianga-Gumtown Coromandel-Whangapoua Kikowhakarere-Cabbage Bay Wharf Road-Coromandel Whitianga-Kaimarama Mahakirau Goldfield Road Tiki-Te Koumu Opitonui Road Ohuka Creek Bridge Four-in hand Road Opitonui Bridge Waiwawa River Bridge Gumtown Road Mahaki Goldfield Track Driving Creek School Bridge, Tokatea Road Waitaia Mine to Battery Kennedy Bay-Matamataharakeke McColl's Creek Bridge Karaka Greek (encroachment) Ward's Road-Cape Colville Driving Creek-Tokatea Track (east side of Range) Opitonui-Mercury Bay Thames-Waikawau Thames-Hikutaia Upper Tararu Road Tapu Creek and Extension Turua-Netherton Hikutaia-Whangamata " Wires " Track Omahu-Whangamata Neavesville-Upper Landing Upper Landing-Tairua Thames—Whangamata Whangamata-Wentworth Karaka Creek Road Hape Creek Road Waiotahi Road Waiomo Creek Road Tapu and Mercury Bay Track Moanatairi Road Kaueranga Bridge Upper Tairua Bridge Kaueranga Suspension Bridge Maratoto Road Hikutaia-Waihi Waitekauri-Golden Cross Waihi-Whangamata Paeroa-Te Aroha Paeroa-Wai toa Komata Reefs-Waitekauri Hikutaia-Waitekauri Grace Darling Road Netherton Roads Hikutaia-Maratoto Tui Mine Track Waihi-County Boundary Komata Creek Road Paeroa-Waihi Karangahake-Mountain Track Dividing Range Track to Mangakino.. Karangahake Hill Track Waitawheta Road deviation Waitekauri Hill Track Mackaytown-Rahu £ s. d. 90 0 0 100 0 0 69 0 0 40 0 0 35 0 0 50 0 0 200 0 0 220 0 0 150 0 0 75 0 0 2,499 0 0 850 0 0 1,085 0 0 1,921 0 0 985 10 0 1,548 13 0 5,095 0 0 600 0 0 1 ,422 11 0 900 0 0 1,603 0 0 1,066 0 0 1,378 12 0 953 0 0 398 19 3 400 0 0 977 0 0 470 0 0 429 18 0 400 0 0 500 0 0 824 0 0 300 0 0 400 0 0 300 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 2,573 11 7 2,292 15 5 1,618 9 11 1,606 1 11 1,635 0 0 2,161 7 6 1,845 0 0 537 0 0 450 0 0 600 0 0 450 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 350 0 0 700 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 000 0 0 250 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 3,625 0 0 2,664 0 0 1,107 0 0 905 3 2 2,135 13 4 405 0 0 1,107 0 0 50 0 0 945 0 0 394 2 6 599 14 0 1,465 0 0 460 0 0 570 0 0 136 0 0 225 0 0 200 0 0 420 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 22 8 0 2,272 0 0 700 0 0 935 0 0 1,593 0 0 785 10 0 1,483 11 8 4,545 0 0 500 0 0 1,322 11 6 609 (i 6 1,303 0 0 850 0 0 1,178 12 6 698 3 0 320 0 0 250 0 0 838 0 0 250 0 0 329 18 0 200 0 0 400 0 0 724 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 260 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 £ s. d. 65 0 0 20 0 0 £ s. d. 25 0 0 100 0 0 49 0 0 10 0 0 35 0 0 50 0 0 200 0 0 197 12 0 150 0 0 75 0 0 227 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 328 0 0 200 0 0 65 I 9 550 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 290 13 6 300 0 0 210 0 0 200 0 0 254 17 0 78 19 3 150 0 0 139 0 0 220 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 300 0 0 40 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 73 16 4 263 0 0 162 10 9 103 0 0 199 15 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 167 6 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 113 0 0 1.00 0 0 100 0 0 56 3 7 93 0 0 22 0 0 100 0 0 300 14 0 156 5 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 348 6 0 503 5 0 300 0 0 109 0 0 300 0 0 65 0 0 90 0 0 50 0 0 277 10 0 98 0 0 168 0 0 532 10 0 220 0 0 45 0 0 31 0 0 105 0 0 41 5 0 93 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 2,499 15 3 2,029 15 5 1,455 19 2 1,503 1 11 1,435 5 0 1,961 7 6 1,645 0 0 369 14 0 350 0 0 400 0 0 337 0 0 100 0 0 293 16 5 607 0 0 178 0 0 100 0 0 299 6 0 93 15 0 3,276 14 0 2,160 15 0 807 0 0 796 3 2 1,835 13 4 340 0 0 1,017 0 0 667 10 0 296 2 6 431 14 0 932 10 0 240 0 0 525 0 0 105 0 0 120 0 0 158 15 0 327 0 0

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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost, or Amount authorised. Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. Amount due by Mines Department on Works still in Progress. WOBKS UNDEB CONSTRUCTION WHOLLY BY MINES DePAETm k.nt — continued. Waitekauri-Jubilee Paeroa-Te Aroha Bridge Komata Drain.. Te Aroha-Karangahake-Waitawheta Thompson's Track Waihi-Katikati Havelock-Tuamarina Onamalutu-Wakamarina.. Cullensville Road and Track Rocky Ferry-Kaituna Bonny Doon Road Kaituna-Ferntown Ferntown-Pakawau Takaka-Collingwood •'Inland " Road Bainham-Upper Aorere Valley Road Taitapu Boundary Track .. Pakawau-Tamatea Bainham Bridge Slate River Road Aorere Bridge (repairs) West Wansanui Inlet Bridge Motueka River Protective Works Wangapeka-Baton Thorpe-Churchill Riwaka-Kaiteriteri Beach Thorpe-Ne udorf Millerton Road Lyell Bridge-Ryan's Wilson's Lead Road Granity Creek South North Beach-Karamea Westport-Mokihinui Lyell-Victoria Range Costello's Hill Road Addison's Road-Buller Road Promised Land-Ohinemuri Creek Land of Promise Road Karamea-Mud-flat Road Mokihinui end of Westport Road Fairdown to Beach Charleston-Brighton Brighton-Grey County Boundary Glass-eye Creek Track Lyell-Cedar Creek Millerton-Mine Creek Mokihinui-Ngakawau Waimangaroa-Birchfield Lyell-Denniston Hill Mountain Creek-Addison's Britannia Mine Road Granity Creek-Ngakawau Caledonian Terraoe Track Cascade Creek Road Eight-mile to Mokihinui Burnett's Face to Coalbrookdale Cedar Creek-Denniston Welshman's Flat Bridge Darkie's Hill Road and Bridge Waimangaroa-Granity Fairdown-Sergeant's Hill via Railway Seatonville-Mokihinui Mine Nile Creek Bridge Reefton-Maruia Matakitaki-Glenroy-Maruia Mangles Valley Road Blackwater-Big River Boatman's Valley Road Bridge Waitahu River Bridge Maruia Road via Caslani's Snowey Creek to Reefs Kirwan's Reward to Battery Site Inglewood-Pamkiller Reef ton-Progress Boatman's Road Blackball-Healey's Gully.. Seven-mile Creek-Nine-mile Bluff Moonlight-Blackball Kotuku-Bell Hill Teremakau Bridge to Payne's Gully Waipuna-Mosquito Maori Creek-Maori Gully (widening).. £ s. d. 100 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 4,723 19 11 1,650 0 0 679 0 0 700 0 0 50 0 0 600 0 0 1,785 17 7 300 0 0 807 0 0 3,773 19 11 200 0 0 200 0 0 373 18 0 603 10 0 200 0 0 250 0 0 300 0 0 280 5 8 750 0 0 300 0 0 204 0 0 200 0 0 1,300 0 0 1,100 0 0 1,100 0 0 1,450 0 0 150 0 0 1,900 0 0 150 0 0 1,050 0 0 1,250 0 0 300 0 0 700 0 0 850 0 0 1,050 0 0 200 0 0 400 0 0 750 0 0 200 0 0 550 0 0 545 0 0 1,050 0 0 600 0 0 300 0 0 100 0 0 400 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 450 0 0 200 0 0 300 0 0 200 0 0 300 0 0 100 0 0 300 0 0 250 0 0 300 0 0 100 0 0 3,522 8 0 1,307 15 6 1,110 0 0 600 0 0 435 0 0 100 0 0 438 0 0 750 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 300 0 0 100 0 0 1,200 0 0 1,600 0 0 350 0 0 500 0 0 200 0 0 150 0 0 250 0 0 £ s. d. 82 10 0 4,686 19 11 1,500 0 0 529 0 0 688 0 0 1,585 17 7 168 0 0 600 0 0 3,148 19 11 100 0 0 187 13 6 73 18 0 600 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 750 0 0 900 0 0 850 0 0 1,200 0 0 1,400 0 0 850 0 0 1,000 0 0 100 0 0 500 0 0 600 0 0 900 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 500 0 0 . £ s. d. 100 0 0 500 0 0 17 10 0 200 0 0 37 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 12 0 0 50 0 0 600 0 0 200 0 0 132 0 0 207 0 0 625 0 0 100 0 0 12 6 6 300 0 0 603 10 0 200 0 0 250 0 0 300 0 0 280 5 8 150 0 0 100 0 0 104 0 0 100 0 0 550 0 0 200 0 0 250 0 0 250 0 0 150 0 0 500 0 0 150 0 0 200 0 0 250 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 250 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 300 0 0 250 0 0 200 0 0 400 0 0 200 0 0 450 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 250 0 0 200 0 0 300 0 0 200 0 0 300 0 0 100 0 0 300 0 0 250 0 0 300 0 0 100 0 0 148 8 0 600 0 0 217 0 0 150 0 0 45 0 0 100 0 0 250 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 280 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 250 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 250 0 0 150 0 0 345 0 0 600 0 0 400 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 3,374 0 0 707 15 6 893 0 0 450 0 0 390 0 0 188 0 0 550 0 0 •• 20 0 0 1,150 0 0 1,550 0 0 325 0 0 250 0 0 50 0 0

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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost, or Amount authorised. Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. Amount due by Mines Departmenl on Works still in Progress. Works under construction wholly by Mines Department — continued. Grev-Dunganville Road Bridges Nelson Creek-Bell Hill Upper Moonlight-Craigieburn Paroa-Teremakau Brown's Creek Bridge-Old Marsden Road Hohonu River Bridge-Cape Terrace Saltwater Creek Bridge Wataroa Bluff Track Gillam's Gully Track Adair's Track (widening) .. Seven-mile Creek-Taipo .. .. • • ; • Browning's Pass Track Ogilvie's Beach Road Kanieri Lake Road Kanieri Forks Road Teremakau-Paroa Dillman's Road-Nos. 4 and 5 Channels Duffer's Road (widening) Wataroa Gorge Track Larrikin's Road extension Back Creek Road and Bridge Saltwater Track Whitcombe Valley Road Waipori-Berwick .. • • Outram-Waipori Clarendon-Berwick Lawrence-Waipori Lawrence-Roxburgh Waitahuna-Lawrence Waipori-Waitahuna Waipori Bush Road Lawrence-County boundary Waipori-Outram Beaumont-Rankleburn Beaumont-Miller's Flat .. Waitahuna-Round Hill Lawrence-Clyde Gentle Annie-Clyde Nevis Valley Road Cromwell Borough-Lowburn Ophir Bridge Clyde-Cromwell (repairs) .. .. Cromwell-Nevis Shotover River Track Garston-Nevis (Lake County) .. ■ .. Grown Terrace-Cardrona Queenstown-Gentle Annie Arthur's Point-Moke Creek Cardrona Coal-pit Road .. Arrow Falls Road Arthur's Point-Arrowtown Sawyer's Gully Road Road to dredging claims, Waimumu Garston-Nevis (Southland County) Nokomai Saddle Road Waikaka Valley Main Road (repairs) Central Charlton Road Waikaka to Coal-pit Orepuki to Shale-works Katikati-Waihi Top Valley Road Picton-Grove Mokihinui-Little Wanganui Burke's Creek Bridge Big Ohika Creek Bridge Blackwater Creek Bridge Inangahua Bridge Hoki tika-Jackson's Reef ton-Hokitika-Ross Donnelly's Creek Bridge .. Solberg's Hill Kanieri Bridge ■ • • • Upjobn's Hill, cutting and culvert Collingwood Bridge Waimangaroa-Fairdbwn Main Grey Bridge (repairs) Moonlight Creek Bridge Taylorville Bridge Great South Road Okarito Foaks-Waiho £ s. d. 250 0 0 500 0 0 150 0 0 1,141 0 0 250 0 0 200 0 0 250 0 0 594 4 8 800 0 0 430 0 0 1,150 0 0 491 0 0 800 0 0 300 0 0 450 0 0 100 0 0 280 0 0 300 0 0 150 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 400 0 0 2,225 0 0 600 0 0 500 0 0 550 0 0 750 0 0 725 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 4,725 0 0 625 0 0 600 0 0 200 0 0 1,000 0 0 500 0 0 250 0 0 500 0 0 400 0 0 150 0 0 425 0 0 260 0 0 250 0 0 300 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 300 0 0 150 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 550 0 0 621 5 8 3,251 13 10 4,766 14 0 200 0 0 950 0 0 200 0 0 1,512 9 9 2,232 16 1 14,978 11 11 100 0 0 50 0 0 600 0 0 175 0 0 0,148 13 6 300 0 0 2,323 1 1 729 14 3 1,420 0 0 18,588 11 3 1,837 1 8 £ s. d. 150 0 0 250 0 0 825 0 0 150 0 0 551 15 1 774 3 7 395 9 1 1,020 0 0 391 0 0 500 0 0 228 4 4 353 9 7 76 12 0 210 6 0 221 5 6 136 1 10 84 18 6 66 1 8 21 15 0 377 15 0 1,800 0 0 550 0 0 375 0 0 325 0 0 650 0 0 600 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 3,950 0 0 225 0 0 400 0 0 100 0 0 300 0 0 100 0 0 300 0 0 125 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 595 6 2 2,767 9 8 4,758 7 4 30 12 0 873 7 1 1,261 0 6 2,191 12 1 14,616 12 3 3 17 6 4,256' 6 3 2,129' 8 9 29 14 3 837 7 10 18,508 11 3 1,714 10 5 £ s. d. 100 0 0 250 0 0 150 0 0 316 0 0 250 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 42 9 7 25 16 5 34 10 11 130 0 0 100 0 0 300 0 0 71 15 8 96 10 5 23 8 0 69 14 0 78 14 6 13 18 2 200 0 0 15 1 6 83 18 4 78 5 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 22 5 0 425 0 0 50 0 0 125 0 0 225 0 0 100 0 0 125 0 0 150 0 0 50 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 775 0 0 400 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 1,000 0 0 500 0 0 250 0 0 200 0 0 300 0 0 150 0 0 300 0 0 110 0 0 250 0 0 300 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 550 0 0 25 19 6 484 4 2 8 6 8 169 8 0 76 12 11 200 0 0 251 9 3 41 4 0 361 19 8 100 0 0 50 0 0 596 2 6 175 0 0 1,892 7 3 300 0 0 193 12 4 700 0 0 582 12 2 80 0 0 122 11 3 208,415 15 10 160,352 8 4 48,003 7 0

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Locality and Nature of Workw. Tntnl (<nxt, Amount of Contribution paid Amount authorised.. Department. Amount due by Mines Departruem on Works still in Progress. Schools op Mines. £ s. d. £ s. d. Schools of Mines .. .. .. .. 22,09118 11 ; 22,0911111 School of Mines (Otago University) .. .. .. 10,053 6 2 10,053 6 2 £ s. d. QO 1 A A 3 Q 1 1 32,144 18 1 | 32,144 18 1 32,144 18 1 32,144 18 1 Prospecting Subsidies. Coromandel County .. .. .. • • 744 0 0 743 0 0 Coromandel County (J. and M. Fitzgerald) .. . ■ 53 1 0 28 1 0 Westland County (Warren and party) .. •. 60 0 0 48 6 0 Westland County (Case and party) .. .. . • 80 0 0 16 16 0 Westland County (Hoist and party) .. .. .. 28 15 0 Westland County (Smith and party).. .. .. 18 0 0 12 0 0 Westland County (Harvey and McDonald) .. .. 86 0 0 12 0 0 Westland County (Stringer and party) .. ■ • 19 10 0 Westland County (G. Macarthur) .. .. .. 6 10 0 Westland County (Wroblfoski and party) .. 150 0 0 Johnston, Bryan, and party .. .. •• 300 0 0 272 18 0 Victoria Gold mining Company (Thames foreshore) .. 1,000 0 0 113 10 8 Golden Ba>-in Prospecting Association .. .. j 435 0 0 146 6 0 Blackwater Miners' Association (Bauman Bros.) .. 81 0 0 17 13 6 Miners'Association, Charleston (Nelson and party) .. 110 0 0 58 2 3 Miners'Association, Nelson Creek (Kelly and party) .. 110 0 0 29 15 0 Miners' Association, Nelson Creek (O'Brien and party) .. 11 5 0 Inangahua County, tunnel, Victoria Range .. .. 100 0 0 Inangahua County (E. Tangey) .. .. .. 6 10 0 Collingwood County (Lewis and party) .. .. 19 10 0 McDonald and Gill, tunnel, Rock and Pillar .. .. 25 0 0 10 0 25 0 0 11 14 0 63 4 0 28 15 0 6 0 0 74 0 0 19 10 0 6 10 0 75 0 0 27 2 0 886 9 4 288 14 0 03 6 0 51 17 1) 80 5 0 11 5 0 51 5 0 6 10 0 19 10 0 25 0 0 3,444 1 0 1,498 8 5 1,821 17 7 3,444 1 0 Water-races. Waimea-Kumara Water-race • .. .. .. i 51,056 8 0 51,056 3 0 Mount Ida Water-race .. .. .. .. 11,257 9 2 11,257 9 2 Mountain Hut Water-race .. .. .. 4,83112 0 4,83112 0 67.145 4 8 67.145 4 8 51,056 3 0 11,257 9 2 4,831 12 0 51,056 3 0 11,257 9 2 4,831 12 0 1>I, 140 4 » 07,14.0 4 S Drainage- and Tailings-channels. Jones Greek Storm-ohannel .. .. .. 100 0 0 50 0 0 Waimea Main Tail-race .. .. .. •• 1,905 1 8 1,724 6 8 Waimumu Main Tail-race . .. .. .. 1,848 3 0 500 0 0 Charlton Creek Main Tail-race .. .. .. 799 12 2 236 5 5 St. Bathan's Channel .. .. .. .. 3,000 0 0 1,687 10 0. Kelly's Terrace Tunnel .. .. .. .. 2,667 10 0 2,047 0 0 No. 5 Sludge channel (extension) .. .. .. 600 0 0 148 1 0 10.920 6 10 6.393 3 7 67,145 4 8 67,14,5 4 8 100 0 0 1,905 1 8 1,848 3 0 799 12 2 3,000 0 0 2,667 10 0 600 0 0 50 0 0 1,724 6 8 500 0 0 236 5 5 1,687 10 0. 2,047 0 0 148 1 0 50 0 0 180 15 0 1,348 3 0 563 0 9 312 10 0 iu,azu ii iu o,dyo a i Water consebvation on Goldfields. Engineer's salary and expenses .. .. .. 2,423 3 5 2,423 3 5 Reports on Drainage, Ross Flat .. .. .. 284 10 8 284 10 8 Coromandel Harbiur and Kuaotunu Sludge-channels .. 80 12 0 80 12 6 Eweburn Reservoir .. .. .. .. 10,440 17 U 10,446 17 11 Mackeytown Water-supply .. .. .. 351 0 0 351 0 0 Waitekauri Water supply.. .. .. .. 445 2 5 445 2 5 Karangahake Water-supply .. .. .. 607 6 5 607 6 5 Clyde Water-supply .. .. .. .. 1,100 0 0 375 0 0 Home Gully Dam .. .. .. .. 1,025 12 0 1,025 12 6 Thames Drainage Board (contribution) .. .. 1,000 0 0 1,000 0 0 23,764 5 10 j 23,039 5 10 10,920 6 10 6,393 3 7 2,454 14 9 725 0 0 23,039 5 10 725 0 0 Roads (subsidised,- Summary of Works. . Piako County .. .. .. .. 150 0 0 Thames County .. .. .. .. 200 0 0 Thames Borough .. .. .. .. 225 0 0 112 10 0 Ohinemuri County .. .. .. .. 1,500 0 0 651 0 0 Buller County .. .. .. .. 500 0 0 Grey County .. .. .. .. 1,300 0 0 189 8 1 Knapdale Road Board . . .. .. 100 0 0 Tuapeka County .. .. .. .. 1,500 0 0 410 0 0 75 0 0 100 0 0 112 10 0 99 0 0 250 0 0 485 11 11 50 0 0 340 0 0 5,475 0 0 I 1,362 18 1 1,512 1 11 Works under construction wholly by Mines Department .. 208,415 15 10 160,352 8 4 Schools of Mines .. .. .. .. 32,144 18 1 32,144 18 1 Prospecting subsidies .. .. .. .. 3,444 1 0 1,498 8 5 Water-races .. .. .. .. 67,145 4 8 07,145 4 8 Drainage-channels .. .. .. .. 10,920 0 10 6,393 3 7 Compensation, proclamation of rivers .. .. 31,301 0 8 31,301 6 8 Water-conservation on goldfields .. .. .. 23,764 5 10 23,039 5 10 48,003 7 6 1,821 17 7 2,454 14 9 725 0 0 Total.. .. .. .. ! 382,610 18 11 323,237 13 8 54,577 1 9

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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost. Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. NORTH ISLAND. Roads (subsidised). Bay of Islands County. Tiriwhanga Gorge to Galbraith's Road, Puhipuhi Air-line Road to battery-site, Puhipuhi Tiriwhanga Gorge to Puhipuhi New Bay of Islands Coal Company Road, Taumarere Railway-station to Puhipuhi £ s. d. 237 0 0 73 0 0 800 0 0 500 0 0 482 0 0 £ s. d. 118 10 0 36 10 0 800 0 0 250 0 0 146 0 0 2,092 0 0 1,351 0 0 Coromandel County. Improving road to Iona and Just-in-Time Companies' mines Making and improving track from Tokatea towards Kennedy Bay Golden Belt Track Tokatea Road (repairs) Making and improving track from Golden Belt to Tiki Making road from Ring's Bridge to Kapanga Mine Making road to Kapanga Mine Temporary track from Tokatea Saddle to Waikoromiko Continuation of track from Success Company's mine to top of main range Completion of road from Tokatea Saddle to Tokatea Battery Widening road from Matawai to Vaughan's claim Improving track, Mercury Bay to Waitai Continuation and improving Waikoromiko Track Emily Battery to Rocky Creek Track, Bismarck Battery to Kennedy Bay Road up Manaia Extension of Vaughan's and Vizard's Tracks Vizard's towards Marebel Extending and widening Waitaia Road Makarau to Waiau Waikawau to Tiki Paul's Creek to Cabbage Bay Waikawau Creek Track McLaughlin's Road Manaia to McGregor's new find Manaia to Tiki Old sawmil 1 towards Matawai Extension of Paul's Creek Track Matarangi Track Thames-Coromandel Road, vid Manaia Harbour View extension Kapanga to Paul's Creek Mercury Bay to Kuaotunu Wainara to Kuaotunu Sea-beach to Kuaotunu Justin-Time Road, extension to Coromandel Road, Waikawau Bridge to McLaughlin's Mercury Bay Road Bridge to Dugend's store, and widening and metalling road from bridge to Log Hut.. Road from junction of Red Mercury battery up Pumpkin Flat to Waitaia To connect road from Log Hut to commencement of contract of Kuaotunu-Mercury Bay Road Road, with culverts and bridge, from Kapanga Hill to Scotty's Gold-mining Company's mine Pumpkin Flat-Just-in-Time Road Lower road from Great Mercury battery to Kapai low level and battery-site Road from main road, Kapanga to Success Mine Cemetery Road and Bridge, Kuaotunu Road from Coromandel-Kennedy Bay Main Road to Wereroa Creek Leading Wind Mine Road Fury's Bridge Carroll's Bridge Home's Bridge Road from Main Kennedy Bay Road to Monte Carlo and other claims Castle Rock Mine Road, Tiki.. .. ... Road between Bismarck Battery and Hauraki Associated Gold-reefs Bridge, Warekaho Creek Cabbage Bay to Mines Two bridges and approaches, Kuaotunu Main Road Road from Success Road to workings of Karaka Block Syndicate Widening Waitaia Battery Road Cabbage Bay-Waitete Cabbage Bay-Ward's Track Repairs, bridges, Kuaotunu Main Road .. .. .. .. • .. Coromandel-Mercury Bay 200 0 0 320 0 0 100 0 0 300 0 0 239 3 3 150 0 0 132 0 0 50 0 0 80 0 0 50 0 0 357 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 60 0 0 200 0 0 675 10 0 150 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 1,600 0 0 500 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 500 0 0 200 0 0 300 0 0 400 0 0 300 0 0 210 0 0 200 0 0 360 0 0 450 0 0 1,650 0 0 450 0 0 67 10 0 990 0 0 450 0 0 345 0 0 150 0 0 * 133 6 8 213 6 8 50 0 0 150 0 0 159 8 10 100 0 0 88 0 0 33 6 8 53 6 8 33 6 8 238 0 0 66 13 4 100 0 0 40 0 0 133 6 8 450 7 0 100 0 0 133 6 8 66 13 4 1,066 13 4 333 6 8 133 6 8 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 200 0 0 150 0 0 105 0 0 100 0 0 180 0 0 225 0 0 1,450 0 0 225 0 0 45 0 0 495 0 0 300 0 0 230 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 150 0 0 310 0 0 450 0 0 600 0 0 100 0 0 300 0 0 100 0 0 450 0 0 400 0 0 200 0 0 300 0 0 200 0 0 400 0 0 300 0 0 300 0 0 300 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 240 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 170 0 0 300 0 0 300 0 0 75 0 0 150 0 0 50 0 0 225 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 120 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 35 0 0 19,286 3 9 11,455 15 10

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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost. Amount of , Contribution j paid by Mines Department. Te Aroha Town Board. Road to connect with railway-station Lipsey's Bridge Repairing flood-damages £ s. d. 120 0 0 64 0 0 150 0 0 £ s. d 60 0 0 32 0 0 75 0 0 334 0 0 167 0 0 Thames County. Making new road from Ohinemuri River to Karangahake Quartz-mine Dray-road to connect Otanui Mines with crushing-battery at Maungawherawhera Creek Improving roads from Waitekauri Road to Katikati Road Improving road up Karaka Creek to Lucky Hit Company's mine Improving road to upper mines, Waitahi Karangahake to battery Ralph's Battery, Waitekauri Otanui Road to mines Road to Wick's Battery Rocky Point Road, Tararu Thames Borough boundary to hajmatite-mine Widening road from bridge over Hape Creek to Otanui Mines Track, Karangahake Goldfield Kauaeranga Valley to Otanui Tapu Road to mines Tauranga Road to Karangahake Bridge site Karangahake Bridge Track up Maungakerikeri Creek Thames Borough boundary to Hape Creek No. 2 Upper Karaka Road Repairing flood-damages, Waiotahi, Moanataiari, Karaka, and Collarbone Roads Sea-beach to Waiomo Te Papa Gully Road New Find to Waiomo Battery Rocky Point Road Waiotahi towards Mercury Bay Te Mata Road Waiomo Creek to Tapu Alabama Creek Track Road from Prospectors' Mine, Puriri, to battery Karaka Creek to Lucky Hit Bullion Mine, Tapu, to battery .. .. - Track to Hikutaia Goldfield Upper Tararu Road to Sylvia Mine Road to Puriri Battery Thames-Waikawau Road Track from Tararu Creek Road to McDermot's Claim Track to Try Fluke Claim, Tapu Waiomo to Puhoi Creek Waiokaraka Road, Bella Street, and Campbell Street to Moanataiari Creek Moanataiari Creek Road Tararu Creek Road and Tararu Road Hape Creek Road Omahu-Tairua Karaka Creek Road Onetai Valley Road Townsend'e Road Gumtown-Kapowai Footbridge, Pepe Creek 050 0 0 710 0 0 250 0 0 263 1 0 258 18 10 300 0 0 399 1 0 299 18 0 70 0 0 300 0 0 350 0 0 183 17 0 784 1 0 470 7 0 81 17 9 341 5 0 229 6 6 93 4 4 600 0 0 179 13 0 350 0 0 750 0 0 75 0 0 110 0 0 429 11 10 522.11 0 178 17 6 1,499 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 365 0 0 36 5 0 147 15 2 684 7 0 11 13 0 37 10 0 45 0 0 94 15 0 33 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 300 0 0 300 0 0433 6 8 473 6 8 166 13 1 175 7 4 172 12 7 200 0 0 199 10 6 199 18 8 46 13 4 200 0 0 233 6 8 122 11 4 522 14 0 313 11 4 54 11 10 227 10 0 152 17 8 62 2 11 300 0 0 119 15 4 175 0 0 375 0 0 37 10 0 55 0 0 214 15 11 261 5 6 89 8 9 749 10 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 182 10 0 18 2 6 73 17 7 342 3 6 5 16 6 18 15 0 22 10 0 47 7 6 16 10 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 75 0 0 75 0 0 42 0 0 68 4 6 12 10 0 26 12 0 196 9 0 51 18 6 13,854 15 11 7,834 6 11 Thames Borough. Repairing roads Widening and straightening Karaka Creek Metalling goldfields roads Removing dibris, Karaka Creek Half-cost damage, Hawk's stable Repairs, Moanataiari Creek Tunnel Repairs, Moanatairi and Waiotahi Aqueducts Repairs, Waiotahi Creek Bridge Removing debris, Karaka and Waiotahi Creeks Water-tables, Kirkwood Street 975 19 2 300 0 0 800 0 0 300 0 0 96 0 0 100 0 0 620 0 0 50 0 0 350 0 0 20 0 0 000 0 0 150 0 0 672 12 6 150 0 0 48 0 0 52 0 0 375 0 0 25 n 0 275 0 0 11 12 6 Ohinemuri County. 3,611 19 2 2,359 5 0 Jubilee Mine Track Track up Tui Creek .. . _. Prospecting-track, Whangamata and Waitekauri Tramway, Karangahake to Railey's reduction-works Strengthening bridges, Waihi Road Paeroa to Hikutaia Repairs, flood-damages Hikutaia River to Marototo Mine 118 0 0 306 0 0 200 0 0 400 0 0 200 0 0 400 0 0 34 13 8 180 15 0 59 0 0 153 0 0 166 13 4 200 0 0 133 6 8 200 0 0 17 6 10 90 7 6

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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost. Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. Ohinemuri County —continued. Karangahake through Gorge (bridge and culverts) Waitekauri Lower Road Metalling Karangahake Gorge Road Karangahake and Waihi Road Karangahake Hill Track Bridge over Ohinemuri River at Karangahake Hikutaia-Paeroa Road Paeroa-Te Aroha Road Tui Creek Track Waitekauri to Lowrie's and Birnie's Road, Karangahake to Waihi Lower Waitekauri Road Road, Thames Road to Netherton Punt Komata Creek Road Road, Paeroa Bridge to Kuaoti Creek Punt at south end Netherton-Paeroa Road Repairs, Waitekauri Township Road Bridge, Paeroa-Te Aroha Road Karangahake Bridge Drain along Mill Road, Paeroa Road, Te Iringa-o-Pirori Block ... Road running south on left bank Waihou River Kaimanawa Road Mangaiti and Waitoa R ad and Punt Earl of Glasgow Claim Track £ s. d. 200 0 0 360 0 0 170 0 0 237 10 0 87 4 0 12 11 0 500 0 0 200 0 0 129 18 6 200 0 0 246 12 3 347 13 4 60 0 0 600 0 0 400 0 0 275 0 0 200 0 0 60 0 0 1,032 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 400 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 400 0 0 £ s. d. 100 0 0 189 2 8 85 0 0 118 15 0 43 12 0 6 5 6 250 0 0 100 0 0 64 19 3 100 0 0 164 8 2 230 16 4 50 0 0 300 0 0 133 6 8 175 0 0 100 0 0 30 0 0 512 16 9 90 2 5 143 0 0 384 19 0 126 2 6 119 7 10 300 0 0 Waitoa Road Board. 8,757 17 9 4,937 8 5 Drain, Te Aroha West 200 0 0 130 0 0 Piako County. Extension and completion of Te Aroha Tramway Tramway to Fergusson's Battery, Waiorongomai Road, Waiorongomai Track to claims at Buck's Reef Track, Fern Spur to Butler's Spur Tracks up Stony Creek, Te Aroha Goldfield, &c. Repairs, Upper Premier Track and new track towards Waitawheta Repairs, Te Aroha-Liohfield Road Waiorongomai Tramway Gordon-Waharoa Te Aroha-Gordon Murphy's Bridge Repairs, Waiorongomai Tramway Waihou Bridge 18,000 0 0 1,500 0 0 497 17 0 55 5 6 231 17 9 54 0 0 40 0 0 302 0 0 263 2 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 24 0 0 500 0 0 580 0 0 12,000 0 0 1,000 0 0 331 18 0 36 17 0 154 11 10 36 0 0 20 0 0 125 0 0 175 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 12 0 0 285 0 0 290 0 0 Katikati Road Board. 22,348 2 3 14,616 6 10 Katikati-Karangahake Traok Bridge on branoh road to Katikati Te Aroha Track 400 0 0 68 0 0 39 19 6 200 0 0 34 0 0 19 18 9 Hutt County. Road to connect Otorongo Bay with Albion Company's battery, also to connect Terawhiti Quartz-mine with battery Road, Makara Junction to Terawhiti 507 19 6 509 16 6 450 0 0 253 18 9 210 17 0 225 0 0 959 16 6 435 17 0 SOUTH ISLAND. Roads (subsidised). Marlborough County. Track, Deep Creek to Dead Horse Creek Mouth of Gorge to Forks, Cullensville to Mahakipawa Diggings Formation of road at Cullensville, Mahakipawa Havelock-Mahakipawa Road Dead Horse Creek to Sunny side 68 0 0 450 0 0 217 4 0 905 0 0 75 0 0 45 6 8 225 0 0 108 12 0 505 0 0 50 0 0 Waimea County. Road to open up Table Diggings Punt over Motueka River Repairing Baton to Table-land Track Dove River to Baton Saddle, and from Rolling River to Wangapeka Saddle Repairs, Motueka Bridge 1,715 4 0 260 0 0 100 0 0 40 0 0 120 0 0 939 8 8 933 18 8 130 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 60 0 0 469 14 4 1,459 8 8 '29

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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost. Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. Collingwood County. £ s. d. 300 0 0 173 14 0 160 0 0 1,597 7 8 200 0 0 250 0 0 600 0 0 400 0 0 £ s. d. 200 0 0 115 16 0 80 0 0 798 13 10 100 0 0 150 0 0 400 10 0 295 9 11 Road, West Wanganui Bridge over Aorere River xtending Anatoki Bridle-track Bridge over Takaka River at Pain's Ford .. Repairs, Silverstream Bridge, and forming and metalling Bainham Road .. Kaituna-Ferntown Takaka roads Collingwood-Kaituna Buller County. Deviation of road from Candlelight Flat to Deep Creek, Charleston Road from Orowaiti Lagoon to North Terrace Prospecting track from Razorback to Paparoa Range Track from Seatonville to Larrikin's Waimangaroa to Denniston Road to connect alluvial workings with Charleston Road Track, Four-mile Creek towards Grey Valley Road to connect alluvial diggings north of Deadman's Creek Ngakawau to Mokihinui, vid beaches Road to connect Ngakawau Railway with Mokihinui Coal Company's workings Lyell Bluff to Victor Emmanuel Claim Beach, Little Wanganui to Mokihinui Cape Foulwind Road Road up Nile Valley Denniston extension Promised Land towards Motueka Road over Gentle Annie Extension, Lyell Creek to Low-level Tunnel Extension of track 50 chains south of Brighton Continuation of road, Deadman's Creek Ngakawau Railway-station to Mokihinui Addison's Flat towards ranges North Terrace to Oparara Diggings Extension of Croninville Road Waimangaroa to sea-beach Extension of track, Oparara to Fenian Creek Con's Creek to Beaconsfield Addison's Flat to Caroline Terrace Waimangaroa to sea-beach extension Addison's Flat to Gallagher's Lead Road to Swanston's Gold-mining Company Repairs to roads at Lyell Track, Fairdown from North Terrace Improving road to Four-mile Creek, Charleston Bridge, Waimangaroa River Road to Piper's Flat, Addison's Lyell Creek to Gibstown Buller River Footbridge below Lyell Virgin Flat Road Orowaiti Bridge Long Tunnel Road, Addison's Stony Creek-Waimangaroa 3,681 1 8 370 0 0 256 18 6 100 0 0 438 9 6 787 0 0 400 0 0 300 0 0 278 0 0 100 0 0 193 0 0 650 0 0 300 0 0 450 0 0 56 16 4 850 0 0 380 0 0 200 0 0 60 0 0 140 0 0 437 17 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 80 0 0 100 0 0 80 0 0 200 0 0 390 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 200 0 0 150 0 0 900 0 0 70 0 0 450 0 0 200 0 0 250 0 0 200 0 0 350 0 0 200 0 0 300 0 0 2,140 9 9 246 13 4 171 5 8 66 13 4 292 6 4 393 10 0 266 13 4 200 0 0 185 6 8 66 13 4 128 13 4 433 6 8 100 0 0 300 0 0 28 8 2 425 0 0 190 0 0 100 0 0 30 0 0 70 0 0 218 18 6 25 0 0 10 0 0 333 6 8 50 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 100 0 0 195 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 97 8 0 450 0 0 35 0 0 150 0 0 66 13 4 170 0 0 100 0 0 325 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 Inangahua County. Dray-road from Soldier's Creek to Devil's Creek Dray-road from Inangahua to Rainy Creek Battery Dray-road from Capleston up Little Boatman's Creek Dray-road from Capleston up Main Boatman's Creek Dray-road from Westport Road to Inangahua River Track from Devil's Creek to Big River Track from Waitahu River to Capleston Survey and expenses Track from Cariboo to Big River Dray-road up Murray Creek to United Inglewood Claim Road from Reefton to Big River, vid Devil's Creek Road up Big River Continuation of dray-road up Little Boatman's Creek Road from Capleston to Larry's Creek Track to connect Capleston with Lone Star Crushington to Globe Company's workings Snowy Creek Track Reefton to Big River Glenroy to Horse Terrace Devil's Creek to Globe Hill Extension of dray-road to Boatman's vid Painkiller Mangles Valley to McGregor's Station Globe Hill to Merrijigs Larry's Creek to Lyell Widening Larry's Creek Road Road up Burke's Creek, Little Boatman's .. .. • • Widening track from Scotia Tunnel, on Big River Road, to Inkermann Mine Widening track from Fiery Cross Battery to Just-in-Time Shaft 11,638 1 4 6,600 16 8 647 0 0 900 10 0 379 0 0 697 0 0 224 5 0 134 3 6 358 0 0 250 0 0 728 0 0 3,472 0 0 614 0 0 922 19 0 169 7 6 640 0 0 75 0 0 403 0 0 85 15 0 1,792 0 0 254 0 0 917 6 2 53 17 6 600 0 0 1,397 6 0 1,061 15 0 118 10 0 149 0 0 200 0 0 300 0 0 431 6 8 606 6 8 252 13 4 464 13 4 149 10 0 89 9 0 238 13 4 166 13 4 364 0 0 2,314 17 4 307 0 0 615 6 0 112 18 4 426 13 4 50 0 0 201 10 0 42 17 6 1,194 13 4 122 10 0 458 13 1 26 18 9 300 0 0 698 13 0 530 17 6 59 5 0 74 10 0 80 9 0 150 0 0 17,552 14 8 10,530 17 10

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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost. Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. Grey County. £ s. d. 1,100 0 0 1,600 0 0 2,296 6 6 1,200 0 0 700 0 0 800 0 0 601 17 6 2,240 0 0 120 0 0 400 0 0 1,000 0 0 2,400 0 0 600 0 0 250 0 0 1,331 0 0 790 0 0 20 0 0 38 0 0 36 0 0 30 0 0 50 0 0 688 0 0 100 0 0 348 0 0 80 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 500 0 0 50 0 0 150 0 0 300 0 0 £ s. d. 550 0 0 800 0 0 2,296 6 6 800 0 0 466 13 8 533 6 0 401 5 4 1,493 6 8 60 0 0 200 0 0 500 0 0 1,200 0 0 400 0 0 125 0 0 665 10 6 395 0 0 10 0 0 19 0 0 18 0 0 15 0 0 25 0 0 344 0 0 50 0 0 219 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 79 5 0 86 0 0 140 0 0 252 10 0 25 0 0 75 0 0 150 0 0 Road from No Town to Deep Creek Road from Langdon's to Moonlight Contribution from goldfields vote towards main road Track, Waipuna to Clarke's River Track, Cameron's to Cape Terraoe Road, Limestone to Maori Creek Red Jack's to Nelson Creek Barrytown to Deadman's German Gully to Arnold's Flat Baird's Terrace to Lake Brunner Hatter's Terrace Road Irishman's to Lake Brunner Hatter's Terrace Track, Baird's Terrace to Irishman's Deep Creek to Bell Hill Track to Blackball Diggings Track from Ahaura, Kopara, Reese's Flat, to new rush on banks of Ahaura River .. Renewal, bridge over Nelson Creek, Marsden-Dunganville Road Repairs (corduroying), Cobden-Seven-mile Road Repairs, Cobden-Point-Elizabeth Road Extension Ngahere-Blackball Road to Blackball Ferry Dray-bridge, Ten-mile Creek Deviation, Moonlight Track Repairs, bridges, Marsden-Dunganville Road Seventeen-mile Bluff to Barrytown Removing rocks, Nine- and Ten-mile Bluffs Croesus Battery-site, Paparoa New River Bridge wing River View Road Mosquito Road Road to Totara Flat Dredge Maori Gully Bridge Culverts, Nelson-Grey-Hokitika Road 20,419 4 0 12,484 3 2 Westland County. Improving track, Butcher's Creek to Gentle Annie Terrace Bridle-track to Kanieri Lake Bridle-track to Eel Creek Tunnel-track, Galway Beach to Gillespie's Beach Road from Duffer's Creek, Greenstone Road, to fifteen-mile peg, Christchurch Road Continuation of track, Back Creek to Eel Creek Bridle-track, Duffer's Creek, Bowen and Okarito Road, to sea-beach Ross Borough boundary to Mount Greenland Track, Kanieri Lake to Humphrey's Gully Track, Larrikin's to Loop-line Dam Rough Wainihinihi to Upper Dam Browning's Pass to Reefs Okarito Forks to Teal Creek Road, Christchurch to Baldhill Range reefs Extension of Tucker's Flat Road to New Rush Hokitika Borough boundary (Reefton) to Shotover Rush Track to New Rush, Back Creek Repairing old track round Wataroa Bluff New Rush, south side of Hokitika River Cedar Creek Road to Farmer's Creek Road to gold discovery near Blue Spur Widening Seddon's Terrace Track Branch Road at Seddon's Terraoe Track up Middle Branch, Styx River Improving road, Seven-mile-Taipo Widening Shallow Rush Track 225 10 0 719 11 0 168 9 0 437 5 0 726 9 0 249 4 0 333 18 0 1,280 15 0 279 2 0 449 11 0 450 0 0 3,311 6 0 600 0 0 500 0 0 170 19 6 120 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 37 18 6 55 7 0 75 0 0 150 0 0 38 10 6 30 0 0 150 0 0 800 0 0 163 13 4 359 5 6 84 4 6 218 12 6 480 4 6 166 3 4 222 12 0 853 16 8 186 1 4 299 14 0 300 0 0 2,207 10 8 400 0 0 250 0 0 85 9 9 60 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 18 19 3 27 13 6 37 10 0 65 10 0 19 5 3 15 0 0 73 3 6 54 17 3 Taieri County. 11,008 15 6 6,724 6 10 Mullocky Gully to Silver Peak 499 15 0 333 3 4 Lake County. Track, Skipper's to Phoenix and Scandinavian Reefs Track to connect scheelite-mine with Lake Wakatipu Arrowtown to Macetown, construction Arrowtown to Macetown, maintenance Invincible Quartz-reef Track, Rees River Rees Valley to company's workings Pack-track, Criffel Diggings Left-hand Branch Road, Skipper's Old Morven Ferry Road Road to workings above Cardrona Piers, Victoria Bridge Skipper's Road Saddle to Deep Creek Road up Dart River Cutting on Homeward-bound Hill Skipper's Bridge 292 2 8 225 0 0 225 0 0 150 0 0 300 0 0 61 7 6 50 6 6 63 9 10 289 0 0 70 0 0 725 0 0 200 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 4,244 0 0 194 14 10 150 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 30 13 9 33 11 0 31 14 11 144 10 0 35 0 0 362 10 0 100 0 0 75 0 0 75 0 0 3,244 0 0 7,145 6 1 4,920 14 6

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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost. Total Cost. Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. Tuapeka County. Making road from top of Terrace to Waipori Bush Road, Beaumont to Remarkable Bush Improving road from Waipori Township to antimony-mines, Lammerlaw Ranges Waipori Township to Waipori Bush Clutha River to Campbell's Waitahuna to copper-mine Road to open up quarry for Waitahuna Bridge Waipori Road, vid Bungtown Miller's Flat Bridge Shelter-sheds and snow-poles Waipori Bridge Metalling, Lawrence-Waipori '.'. 1 1 £ s. d. 300 0 0 300 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 76 9 0 200 0 0 160 9 10 566 8 10 11,242 0 0 100 0 0 800 0 0 550 0 0 £ s. d. 300 0 0 300 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 76 9 0 200 0 0 160 9 10 566 8 10 11,242 0 0 100 0 0 800 0 0 550 0 0 14,695 7 8 £ s. d. 200 0 0 200 0 0 133 0 8 133 6 8 50 19 4 133 6 8 106 19 11 283 4 5 6,621 0 0 50 0 0 400 0 0 341 3 6 14,695 7 8 8,653 7 2 Cromwell Borough. LS,U3d | O Removal of sand "L 500 0 0 500 0 0 250 0 0 Wallace County. Track, Colao Bay to Round Hill Pack-track to Round Hill, Colac, and Orepuki Cutting tracks, Longwood 200 0 0 1,050 0 0 59 6 0 1 QAn £! f\ 200 0 0 1,050 0 0 59 6 0 133 6 8 500 0 0 29 13 0 1,309 6 0 1,309 6 0 662 19 8 Vincent County. Renewal bridge to Bannockburn 1,532 0 0 1,532 0 0 850 0 0 Maniototo County. Road to Serpentine Diggings Pig and Whistle to Clarke's Diggings Shepherd's Hut Flat to Vinegar Hill Kyeburn Peninsula to main road 136 10 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 82 0 0 518 10 0 136 10 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 82 0 0 91 0 0 133 6 8 66 13 4 41 0 0 Fiord County. 518 10 0 332 0 0 Dusky Sound, tracks 300 0 0 300 0 0 200 0 0 Waitaki County. Road, Naseby to Livingstone 41 12 0 41 12 0 20 16 0 Southland County. Improving tracks from Mataura to Nokomai Improving road, Waikaka to Leatham Improving road from Waikaka Township to Leatham Creek Improving road from Waikaka to Waikaka railway-siding Widening and improving bush-traok to Waikawa Waikaka to Switzer's Road near Waikaka Township Waipapa to Six-mile Beach Repairing bridges, Waikaia Bush Dray-road to Ferry Terrace, Nokomai Waikaia to Whitecomb Parawa to Switzer's, vid Nokomai Track to Switzer's Freehold Gold-mining Company Nevis Road Parawa to Nokomai Waikaia to Break-'em-All Claim '.'. ' 75 0 0 150 0 0 30 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 175 0 0 38 13 4 100 0 0 511 6 8 150 0 0 175 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 2.355 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 87 10 0 13 4 0 50 0 0 280 13 4 75 0 0 175 0 0 50 0 0 75 0 0 50 0 0 Diamond and otheb Drills. Inangahua County Council (diamond) Springfield Colliery Company (diamond) Westland County Council (tiffin) Diamond-drills for prospecting purposes.. 2,355 0 0 a,ooo u u 2,000 0 0 1,250 0 0 350 0 0 1,570 11 4 5,170 11 4 1,426 7 4 2,000 0 0 1,250 0 0 350 0 0 1,570 11 4 1,000 0 0 625 0 0 233 0 0 1,570 11 4 5,170 11 4 3,428 11 4 Whabvbs. O,1IU 11 4 Repairs to wharf, Coromandel Anikiwi Jetty, Marlborough 300 0 0 135 15 9 435 15 9 300 0 0 135 15 9 150 0 0 135 15 9 435 15 9 285 15 9 Aids to Prospecting. Construction of low-level tunnel, Terawhiti Queen of Beauty Company, prospecting deep levels Caledonian Low-level Company, prospecting deep levels Red Hill Gold-mining Company, prospecting deep levels Caledonian Low-level Company, low-level tunnel Lyell Creek Extended Company, low-level tunnel New Cromwell Gold-mining Company Deep-level Association, Waipori 400 io y 750 0 0 300 0 0 300 0 0 600 0 0 2,700 0 0 300 0 0 250 0 0 450 0 0 750 0 0 300 0 0 300 0 0 600 0 0 2,700 0 0 300 0 0 250 0 0 450 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 300 0 0 300 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 300 0 0

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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost. Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. Aids to Prospecting— continued. Little Boatman's deep-level tunnel Oterongia Prospecting Association Vincent County Tapanui Prospecting Association Tuapeka County Maniototo County Pullar, Shelmerdine, and Basan Royal Oak Association Star of the East Quartz-mining Company West Coast Prospecting Association McBride and party McLean and party Deep-level tunnel, Tokatea Deep-level tunnel, Owharoa Deep-level tunnel, Tapu Deep-level tunnel, Cedar Creek Manuka Flat Prospeoting Association Red Hill Minerals Company Tuapeka Prospecting Association Cardrona Prospecting Association Cromwell Prospecting Association Coromandel County Thames County Thames Borough Buller County Inangahua County Westland County Grey County Deep-level Prospecting Association, Waipori Waipu Prospecting Association Hokianga County Vulcan Smelting-works, Onehunga Ohinemuri County Waitaki County Waihemo County William Fox and party Kirk and party Hodge and party Carey and Hyndman Don, Boyce, and party Quentin McKinnon Bullion Mine deep-level tunnel Sutherland and party Inangahua low-level tunnel Deep-level tunnel, Manaia .. .. .. ... Waimea Miners' Association, prospecting at Callaghan's Totara Miners' Association, Ross Ross, Cunningham, and another Wm. Thompson, stores from Benmore Station Totara Miners' Association, Ross Harris, Davidson, and party Boatman's Tailings Company Boys's tunnel, Bluespur Totara Miners' Association (Ross, Montina, and party) Gillam's Gully Prospecting Association Deep-level Prospecting Committee, Dillmanstown Westport Prospecting Association Te Aroha Prospecting Association Robert Richie, Kuaotunu Owharoa Tunnel (Lindsay Jackson) Coromandel County (£1 for £1) Mr. G. Rehay, Arahura Hyndman and party, Callaghan's Flat Lakes Mapourika, Waiho, and Wataroa Miners' Association Kumara Miners' Association Thames Miners' Union Star of Canterbury Miners' Association Miners' Association, Rimu Buller County (Messrs. Negri and others) Johnson and party, tunnel at Callaghan's Flat W. L. Webb, Nelson Kumara Miners' Association (Solberg, Stewart, and party) Buller County, between head of Fox's River, Brighton, and Deadman's Creek Welcome United Gold-mining Company, Greymouth Orepuki Miners' Association Totara Miners' Association (Gagliardi and party) Contingencies .. Halligan and party, tunnel at Cedar Creek Totara Miners' Association (Chamberlain and party) Miners' Association, Greenstone Westland County (T. Radonicki and party) Waimea Miners' Association (Lot, Keir, and party) Cardrona Prospecting Association Waimea Miners' Association, Stafford .. ■ • I £ s. d. 600 0 0 198 17 2 137 9 0 25 0 0 12 0 0 500 0 0 400 0 0 300 0 0 150 0 0 300 0 0 169 2 2 66 0 0 700 0 0 300 8 0 1,200 0 0 1,207 10 0 200 0 0 437 19 10 277 0 0 800 0 0 500 0 0 550 0 0 309 18 0 200 0 0 146 12 6 488 7 0 1,236 19 4 871 15 2 432 9 8 180 0 0 100 0 0 30 0 0 100 0 0 29 5 0 85 9 0 711 1 8 176 0 10 98 13 8 441 9 4 107 16 0 58 10 0 300 0 0 30 0 0 6,966 0 0 451 4 0 50 0 0 51 3 6 9 0 0 2 1 10 8 6 6 27 7 6 150 0 0 94 12 3 246 10 0 94 15 0 407 0 3 25 0 0 20 12 6 72 3 0 325 0 0 200 0 0 98 15 0 552 14 6 53 12 0 22 10 0 75 15 0 38 5 0 16 0 0 27 0 0 90 0 0 24 0 0 64 15 0 29 5 0 245 12 6 90 0 0 12 10 0 484 15 10 198 1 10 208 10 0 59 0 0 40 0 0 90 0 0 140 5 4 113 1 0 £ s. d. 300 0 0 99 8 7 68 14 6 12 10 0 6 0 0 250 0 0 200 0 0 150 0 0 75 0 0 150 0 0 84 11 1 33 0 0 350 0 0 200 5 4 600 0 0 603 15 0 100 0 0 218 19 11 138 10 0 400 0 0 250 0 0 275 0 0 154 19 0 100 0 0 73 6 3 244 3 6 618 9 8 435 17 7 216 4 10 90 0 0 50 0 0 15 0 0 50 0 6 14 12 6 42 14 0 355 10 11 88 4 10 49 6 10 220 14 0 53 18 0 29 5 0 150 0 0 15 0 0 3,000 0 0 225 12 0 50 0 0 51 3 6 9 0 0 2 1 10 8 6 6 27 7 0 150 0 0 94 12 0 246 10 0 94 15 0 407 0 3 25 0 0 20 12 6 36 1 0 162 10 0 100 0 0 49 7 6 276 7 3 26 16 0 11 5 0 37 17 6 19 2 6 8 0 0 13 10 0 45 0 0 12 0 0 32 7 6 14 12 6 122 16 3 45 0 0 6 5 0 242 7 11 99 0 11 104 5 0 29 10 0 20 0 0 45 0 0 70 2 8 56 10 6

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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. Aids to Prospecting— continued. H. Crossan, Beaumont Prospecting Association, Westport Cape Colville Prospecting Syndicate Port Charles Prospecting Association .. .. Totara Miners' Association, Ross Lake Mapourika Miners' Association Lister and Robertson, Karamea Canada Reefs Tunnel Otago Miners' Association Westland County (Goudie and party) Paparata Road Board Tauranga County (Te Puke Prospecting Association) Havelock Miners' Association Ohinemuri County Mr. Olderog, Arahura Miners' Association, Ross (J. Smith and party) Extension of low-level tunnel, Boatman's Prospecting-tunnel, south side Inangahua River .. Prospecting Association, Mokihinui Miners' Association, Kumara (John Kane) Prospecting Association, Invereargill Miners' Association, Kuaotunu Miners' Association, Ross (Waylen and party) Prospecting Association, Coromandel (Leahy and others) Adit-level, Maungatawhiri Creek (G. B. Osmond) Bay of Islands County Prospecting, Pokaka Prospecting Russell's Outcrop Fox's River Prospecting Association (A. T. Bate, secretary) Buller County (Newton and party, shaft, Ballarat Terrace) Buller County (Spence and party) Wairau Miners' Association Miners' Association, Nelson Creek (Thrower and Potts) Miners' Association, Dillmanstown (Turnbull and others) Miners' Association, Ross (Gagliardi and party) Miners' Association, Ross (Allen and Son) Miners' Association, Greenstone (Black and party) Miners' Association, Cardrona Miners' Association, Lowburn (E. Murrell) Puhipuhi Prospecting Association Thames County (F. and J. Wallis) Thames County (Sheridan Company's tunnel, Tapu) Cinnabar Mining Company, Auckland (£1 to £1 10s.) H. H. Adam's, Waiorongomai Miners' Association, Ross (Moye and Son) Westland County (J. Staines) Westland County (O'Brien and Glynn) Upper Moutere Road Board Buller County (Mohan and party) Buller County (Gardiner and McKay) Buller County (Negri and others) Buller County (Scarlett and McHarrie) Kumara Miners' Association (Scatterini and Anderson) Kumara Miners'Association (Henley and party) .. Kumara Miners' Association (M. Manton) Kumara Miners' Association (Rogers and Block) Frying-pan Tail-race Prospecting Association, Mokihinui (French and others) Prospecting Association, Westport Dyer and party, Kuaotunu Gillam's Gully Prospecting Association (Bramhall and party) .. Miners' Association, Riverton Kennedy-Waikaia Miners' Association, Invereargill Inangahua District Miners' Association New El Dorado Sluicing Company, Fat Boys, Criffel Miners' Association, Greenstone (O'Donnell and party, and J. Pope) Miners' Association, Tinkers, prospecting Matakanui Chatterbox Tunnel (G. Clapton) Port Charles Prospecting Association Miners' Association, Lake Mapourika Pitchers and Kitto, Anderson's Flat Miners' Association, Nelson Creek (Kelly and party) South British Prospecting Association, Lyell Miners' Association, Ross (A. Zala) Miners' Association, Ross (McKay and Muir) Miners' Association, Ross (McKay and Brown) Miners' Association, Ross (McEwen and McEchnie) Miners' Association, Ross (C. Porter) .. Miners' Association, Riverton Katikati Prospecting Association Cornwall, Walker, and party's tunnel, Boatman's Miners' Association, Greenstone (Crawford and party) Mararoa Mining Association Hororata Prospeoting Association Paparata Road Board (Parker and Piggott) New Bay of Islands Coal Company, prospecting Moody's outcrop Longwood Sluicing Company Red Jack's Miners' Association (Drummond and McDonough) Kapanga Gold-mining Company (Limited) Kuaotunu Prospecting Association Te Aroha Town Board Bombay Prospecting Association Charleston Miners' Association Buller County (Reaney and Rasmussen) £ s. d. 28 0 0 39 0 0 32 0 0 28 0 0 24 0 0 12 0 0 18 0 0 187 10 0 600 0 0 215 19 9 26 0 0 50 0 0 78 0 0 200 0 0 54 18 0 135 0 0 300 0 0 60 0 0 40 0 0 9 0 0 150 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 200 0 0 120 0 0 112 13 0 100 0 0 19 10 0 22 15 0 19 10 0 50 0 0 45 0 0 7 10 0 64 18 0 40 0 0 27 0 0 40 0 0 20 0 0 200 0 0 97 10 0 180 10 0 162 16 9 250 0 0 15 10 0 96 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 220 0 0 56 0 0 43 0 0 39 0 0 124 0 0 58 14 0 57 10 0 75 0 0 600 0 0 58 10 0 432 6 0 120 0 0 60 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 300 0 0 75 0 0 6 0 0 6 0 0 20 0 0 17 4 0 100 0 0 23 5 0 135 0 0 69 0 0 39 0 0 13 0 0 26 0 0 226 0 0 18 0 0 52 0 0 302 10 0 109 7 6 18 0 0 30 15 0 32 10 0 200 0 0 300 0 0 28 0 0 20,600 0 0 48 10 0 100 0 0 40 0 0 110 0 0 120 0 0 £ s. d. 14 0 0 19 10 0 16 0 0 14 0 0 12 0 0 6 0 0 18 0 0 93 15 0 291 8 2 107 19 6 13 0 0 25 0 0 39 0 0 6 0 0 16 4 0 61 7 6 137 7 11 25 0 0 15 0 0 12 6 68 13 6 13 2 6 16 13 0 100 0 0 68 17 0 112 13 0 100 0 0 19 10 0 22 15 0 19 10 0 48 4 0 45 0 0 7 10 0 04 18 0 20 0 0 27 0 0 40 0 0 13 5 0 13 15 0 35 19 2 30 5 0 108 11 2 48 3 9 6 10 6 4 10 0 36 10 6 1 16 0 71 8 6 24 0 0 29 1 3 18 0 0 6 13 6 2 8 0 3 18 9 35 6 6 161 11 3 11 5 0 197 9 8 37 16 0 12 3 0 32 0 0 9 0 0 25 17 6 94 4 9 30 4 3 3 0 0 2 17 9 11 8 0 7 13 3 20 5 11 9 18 0 6 15 0 69 0 0 39 0 0 13 0 0 26 0 0 128 0 0 18 0 0 26 0 0 154 14 0 109 7 6 18 0 0 30 15 0 32 10 0 173 4 3 150 0 0 28 0 0 1,735 3 11 26 0 0 37 17 6 16 7 9 33 8 6 30 0 0

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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost. Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. Aids to Prospecting— continued. Buller County (Samuel and party) Gold-mining League, Westport (McFarlane and others) Inangahua County (Gabriel and party) Miners' Association, Dillmanstown (Black and party) Tapanui Prospecting Association Miners' Association, Lowburn (Tilliman and party) Miners' Association, Upper Waikaia Main and party's tunnel, Kanieri Ryan and Son's tunnel, Dillmanstown .. • .. R. A. Harcourt's tunnel, Blue Spur Miners' Association, Ross (Archer and Horseby) Inangahua County (R. Lees) Westland County (Rebay and party) Red Jack's Miners' Association (Drummond and Raynqr) Westland County (McGoveran and party) Westland County (N. Johnson's tunnel, Fox's Flat) Miners' Association, Ross (Gagliardi and Son) Miners' Association, Ross (Marchesi and Scott) Miners' Association, Greenstone (Dickson and party) Westland County (Patrick and Moynihan) Westland County (Ryan and Son) Westland County, prospeoting, Kanieri (£1 for £1) Westland County (Dwyer and party, Blue Spur) Miners' Association, Waiho (Batson and Snow) Miners' Association, Nelson Creek (Coll and Moran) Miners' Association, Nelson Creek (Hurley and party) Miners' Association, Blackball (Keenan and Falconer) Miners' Association, Blackball (McKenzie and O'Brien) Miners' Association, Ross (McLeod and Dunlop) Miners' Association, Ross (Smith and Regan) Miners' Association, Greenstone (Candy, Roberts, and Evans) .. Buller County (Jeffreys and Walker) Buller County (Christmas and party) Buller County (Burkitt and party) Buller County (Stewart and party) Buller County (Robertson and Sangwell) Buller County (Ramsey and O'Connor) Buller County (Clough and McGonagle) Buller County (Negri and others) Buller County (Quinn and party) Buller County (Murray and Forsyth) Buller County (Salter and party) Inangahua County (Z. E. Curnow) Culley and Hislop, prospecting, Kawakawa Prospeoting Association (Riverton) Tuapeka County (Gabriel's Gully) Nobel, Stenhouse, and Crawford's tunnel, New Chum Greek .. Holmes and party's tunnel, Tucker's Flat Deep Levels, Kumara Miners' Association, Ross (Moye and Son) Miners' Association, Ross (Paterson and McGowan) Miners' Association, Waiho (Nelly and Murray) Miners' Association, Red Jacks (Drummond and party) Westland County (Roseveri and party) Prospecting Mokihinui Mine (Lomas and party) Towai-Hukerenui Coal Syndicate Ohinemuri County (P. Prudence) Westland County (Irwin and party) Buller County (Brand and party) '. . Westland County, prospecting, Rimu (£1 for £1) Miners' Association, Havelock (Kearns and McCusker) Westland County (Patriok and Moynihan) Greymouth Harbour Board (boriug for coal) Westland County (Beroz and Mills) Ohinemuri County (Scanlon and Eyre) Ross Borough Council (Smith and party) Contingencies £ 100 0 0 39 0 0 100 0 0 31 10 0 40 0 0 57 10 0 19 10 0 200 0 0 42 0 0 180 0 0 13 0 0 2 10 0 112 0 0 24 0 0 50 0 0 140 0 0 70 0 0 200 0 0 72 0 0 86 0 0 120 0 0 1,228 15 0 800 0 0 9 0 0 160 0 0 164 0 0 5 17 0 43 10 0 63 14 6 164 2 0 100 0 0 8 0 0 4 15 0 13 0 0 12 0 0 20 0 0 4 15 0 8 0 0 12 0 0 34 0 0 9 0 0 6 10 0 6 10 0 125 0 0 25 0 0 400 0 0 240 0 0 400 0 0 3,269 0 0 60 0 0 26 0 0 26 0 0 50 0 0 160 0 0 500 0 0 200 0 0 6 0 0 100 0 0 80 0 0 4,425 19 0 100 0 0 300 0 0 500 0 0 200 0 0 32 0 0 70 0 0 217 5 8 £ s. d 5 11 0 13 10 0 11 11 0 12 0 0 18 10 0 42 9 9 18 0 0 188 7 0 21 12 0 90 0 0 18 0 0 2 10 0 56 0 0 12 0 0 37 10 0 59 0 5 17 10 0 153 15 0 15 18 0 45 0 0 60 0 0 614 7 6 758 6 0 9 0 0 160 0 0 82 0 0 5 17 0 43 10 0 40 8 6 164 2 0 60 8 6 8 0 0 4 15 0 13 0 0 12 0 0 26 0 0 4 15 0 8 0 0 12 0 0 18 0 0 9 0 0 6 10 0 4 15 0 125 0 0 25 0 0 223 10 10 240 0 0 208 8 0 1,197 10 4 14 19 6 13 0 0 12 0 0 24 0 0 80 0 0 250 0 0 35 2 0 14 0 35 0 0 74 14 3 2,212 19 6 76 0 0 195 5 6 250 0 0 155 0 0 16 0 0 35 0 0 217 5 8 Water-eaces. 78,638 11 10 29,780 8 6 Water-main, Bull's Battery Round Hill Water-race Tomkiss's Water-race Cardrona Sludge-channel New water-mains, Thames Water-race Nelson Creek Mikonui Water-race Brown and party, Kumara Randall Creek Water-raoe Thames Water-race Contingencies Randall Creek Water-race Quinn's Creek Water-race Survey, water-race, Ninety-mile Beach Improving water-supply, Oamaru Roaring Meg Water-race (Jones, Baxter, and party) Sulky Gully Water-race Gentle Annie Creek, Mata (R. Kelly) Purchase Byrne, O'Hallahan, and Murdoch's water rights Argyle Water-raoe Bell Hill Sluioing Company Finlay and McLiver's Water-race, at Measletown 350 0 0 200 19 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 1,479 10 4 957 10 9 14,279 16 4 90 0 0 222 2 3 1,250 0 0 659 12 8 100 15 0 70 0 0 65 6 7 1,250 0 0 1,600 0 0 504 0 0 200 0 0 35 0 0 8,453 15 1 1,000 0 0 400 0 0 100 0 0 133 19 4 100 0 0 50 0 0 739 15 2 957 16 9 14,279 16 4 22 10 0 222 2 3 1,250 0 0 659 12 8 100 15 0 70 0 0 65 6 7 1,150 7 2 800 0 0 218 0 0 40 0 0 35 0 0 8,453 15 1 500 0 0 34 5 4 83,368 14 0 29,983 1 8

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Locality and Nature of Works. Amount of m . i r.„ * i Contribution Total Cost. j paidDyMines Department. Drainage- and Tailings-channels. Drainage-channel, Lawrence (total cost, approximate) Subsidy towards purchase of Messrs. Laidlaw and Crawford's freehold in Spotti's Creek, to allow tailings to be deposited (Tinker's Diggings) Damage by floods, Thames Sludge-channel, Smith's Gully, Bannockburn Round Hill Sludge-channel surveyCompensation to J. Costello, damage done by tailings Long Gully Sludge-channel New Pipeclay Gully Sludge-channel Kumara Sludge-channel No. 2 Ophir Tail-raoe Lawrence Drainage-channel Tailings-outlet, Maerewhenua Ross Sludge and Storm-water Channel Kuaotunu Sludge-channel (£1 for £1) Branch tail-race to No. 4 Channel Rimu Drainage-channel Kumara Sludge-channel No. 5 Kumara Sudge-channel No. 4 Kumara Sludge-chanel No. 3 Donnelly's Creek Tail-raoe Muddy Creek Channel Drain, Te Aroha West £ s. d. £ 8. d. 3,000 0 0 i 2,000 0 0 500 0 0 400 0 0 1,000 0 0 500 0 0 1,000 0 0 251 I 0 52 19 7 52 19 7 788 0 0 788 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 4,547 18 0 773 19 0 2,762 17 2 2,762 17 2 2,300 0 0 ' 1,150 0 0 1,150 0 0 1,092 9 0 1,595 4 0 1,595 4 0 1,675 10 0 1,675 10 6 400 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 500 0 0 191 19 6 5,255 4 9 ; 5,255 4 9 1,200 0 0 ! 1,151 10 8 58 0 0 | 58 0 0 1,657 0 0, 444 4 5 2,000 0 0 1,000 0 0 200 0 0 61 0 0 31,892 14 0 21,603 19 7 Aid towards the Treatment op Obes. Testing-plant, School of Mines, Thames Testing minerals, Dunedin Exhibition Testing-battery, Mercury Bay Public crushing-plant (Coromandel Sohool of Mines) 1,200 0 0 192 8 9 915 1 4 856 10 5 600 0 0 142 8 9 915 1 4 856 10 5 3,164 0 0 2,514 0 6 Aid towaeds Constbuction op Telephone-lines. Bannockburn to Nevis 60 0 0 50 0 0 Woeks wholly constructed by Mines Department. Construction of road, Arrowtown to Macetown Road to open up Woodstock Goldfield Ahaura to Amuri .. ... Waikaia Bush Road Waitahuna Bridge Merrivale tracks Mokihinui to Specimen Creek Wilberforce Quartz-reef Road Opening Mokau River Lyell to Mokihinui Brighton to Seventeen-mile Beach Wangapeka to Karamea Hatter's Terrace to Bell Hill Cedar Creek Road Owen Valley Road Cobden to Seventeen-mile Beaoh Cedar Creek Road Bridle-track to Upper Anatoki Whangamata Road Karangahake through Gorge Arthur's Point to Skipper's Tracks to Coal Island Grey Valley to Teremakau Rimu to New Rush Tapu to Waikawau Puhipuhi Road .. .. .. ... Jackson's Bay to Cascade and Gorge River district Improving roads and tracks, Collingwood to Takaka and Motueka Tramway from New Find to Waitekauri Havelock-Mahakipawa Dray-road Mokihinui to Wanganui Burnett's Face to Coalbrookdale Deadman's to Christmas Terrace Low-level Alpine Claim, Lyell Bowen Road to Salt-water Beach Repairing damage done by floods, Westland County Deviation of road at Kanieri Forks Road up Dart River Kuaotunu to Mercury Bay Thames to Manaia Cobden to Seventeen-mile Beach Bridge over Mahinapua Creek Track up Waiho River Haast Ferry to Glue-pot Paeroa-Waihi Road Waitekauri to New Find 9,270 6 8 1,000 0 0 2,504 19 7 1,000 0 0 750 0 0 500 0 0 1,238 7 5 1,830 17 7 552 8 0 5,098 8 6 1,789 7 2 2,000 0 0 500 0 0 3,000 0 0 2,208 9 2 3,036 1 4 1,500 0 0 722 8 0 141 10 6 1,000 0 0 12,167 4 1 54 6 3 900 0 0 829 17 9 750 10 0 1,396 17 9 5.310 10 11 10,905 8 11 100 0 0 1.311 9 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 20 0 0 80 0 0 60 0 0 100 0 0 140 0 0 200 0 0 350 0 0 500 0 0 400 0 0 503 16 10 105 0 0 126 0 0 114 0 0 250 0 0 9,270 6 8 1,000 0 0 2,504 19 7 1,000 0 0 750 0 0 500 0 0 1,238 7 5 1,830 17 7 552 8 0 5,098 8 6 1,789 7 2 2,000 0 0 500 0 0 3,000 0 0 2,208 9 2 3,036 1 4 1,500 0 0 722 8 0 141 10 6 1,000 0 0 12,167 4 1 54 6 3 900 0 0 829 17 9 750 10 0 1,396 17 9 5.310 10 11 10,905 8 11 100 0 0 1.311 9 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 20 0 0 80 0 0 60 0 0 100 0 0 140 0 0 200 0 0 350 0 0 500 0 0 400 0 0 503 16 10 105 0 0 126 0 0 114 0 0 250 0 0

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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost. Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. Works wholly constructed by Mines Department— continued. Mahakipawa to Waikakaho Oparara through gorge to gold-workingg. . Okira Bridge, at Dirty Mary's Creek Lagoon Bridge Widening Cape Terrace Road Deviation, Granville Road Tucker's Plat Road Dillman's-Larrikin's Road Track at Kanieri Lake and Mclntosh Falls, Lake Mahinapua.. Extension of road, Rimu to Shallow Rush Gillam'a Gully Track McKay's Creek, Kokatahi Track Aorere Valley to Karamea and Mokihinui Arrowtown to Macetown Nelson Creek Bridge Cascade to Barn Bay Road Repairs to decking, Tapu Wharf Waitekauri Battery from Junction-Waihi Road Deep Creek, Wakamarina, to Empire City Company's claim Track to diggings at Cape Foulwind Bridge over Fox's River at Brighton Totara Bridge Road from Mokihinui Bridge to gold-workings Clearing two miles of old track from right-hand branch of Kanieri River to Gentle Annie Terrace Extending horse-track to Blackball Creek Matawai to Kaimarama Tiki to Mahakirau Karangahake Gorge to Waihi Upper Tararu Road Red Hill Road Repairs, Nile Bridge Miller's Flat to Skipper's Cobden to Coal Creek Track to New Find, Tairua Cedar Creek Dray-road Road to Matarangi Goldh'eld Repairs, Manaia Track Upper Township School Bridge Tiki Bridge across Waiau Scott's Bridge Oteau Bridge Mercury Bay-Kaimarama Road Stoney Creek Track Road to mines, Waiomo Upper Hill Track to branch track, Waiorongomai Canadian Gully Bridge, and repairs to tunnel on horse-grade, Waiorongomai Waiorongomai Road Track from Slate River to Rocky Pack-track to Killdevil Repairs, Wangapeka Road towards Crow Diggings Repairing flood-damages, Grey County Taipo Track to Seven-mile Repairs, Totara Bridge Repairs, Kanieri Lake Road Mercury Bay to Whenuakite and Boat Harbour Tiki to Gumtown, via Kaimarama Driving Creek to Cabbage Bay, and Driving Creek to Cape Colville Tiki to Waikawau Paeroa to Te Aroha Puriri to east side of range Onamalutu to Wakamarina Forks Waimangaroa to Denniston Road to Lyell's Creek Extended Company's tunnel Jackson's Bay to Cascade Bridge over Ogilvie's Creek Gillam's Gully Track Bridge over Kanieri River at Kokatahi Road to Oparara Diggings Millerton Road Waiau to Preservation Inlet.. Hatter's Terrace to Haupiri Grey River to Moonlight Blackball Track Ahaura-Kopara Road Mackley's to Waipuna Terrace Footbridge over Blackball Creek Waipapa to Waikawa Waipapa to Six-mile Drain at Adamson's Maruia Track, between Reefton and Maruia Sledge-track to Langdon Reefs Track to Blackball Township, repairs Track, Old Man Range Road to gold discovery near Blue Spur £ s. d. 183 12 1 150 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 70 0 0 247 18 7 125 15 0 195 4 6 150 0 0 149 16 0 100 0 0 29,938 1 2 450 0 0 100 0 0 411 7 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 50 0 0 497 11 0 100 0 0 255 0 0 75 0 0 13 0 0 500 0 0 150 0 0 250 0 0 350 0 0 471 10 3 249 8 1 1,131 2 6 580 0 0 375 0 0 47 11 6 466 11 2 75 0 0 90 0 0 50 0 0 256 0 0 175 0 0 150 0 0 50 0 0 15 0 0 50 0 0 30 0 0 70 0 0 100 0 0 225 0 0 100 0 0 153 0 7 370 0 0 194 5 8 336 0 0 80 0 0 150 0 0 160 0 0 660 0 0 600 0 0 365 0 0 596 19 6 400 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 1,110 8 1 150 0 0 220 0 0 467 10 10 100 0 0 249 0 3 7,961 19 6 1,650 0 0 530 0 0 1,185 12 5 400 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 30 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 45 0 0 £ s. d. 183 12 1 150 0 o 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 70 0 0 247 18 7 125 15 0 195 4 6 150 0 0 149 16 0 100 0 0 29,938 1 2 450 0 0 100 0 0 411 7 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 50 0 0 497 11 0 100 0 0 255 0 0 75 0 0 18 0 0 500 0 0 150 0 0 250 0 0 350 0 0 471 10 8 249 8 1 1,181 2 6 580 0 0 375 0 0 47 11 6 466 11 2 75 0 0 90 0 0 50 0 0 256 0 0 175 0 0 150 0 0 50 0 0 15 0 0 50 0 0 30 0 0 70 0 0 100 0 0 225 0 0 100 0 0 153 0 7 370 0 0 194 5 8 336 0 0 80 0 0 150 0 0 160 0 0 660 0 0 600 0 0 365 0 0 596 19 6 400 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 1,110 8 1 150 0 0 220 0 0 467 10 10 100 0 0 249 0 3 7,961 19 6 1,650 0 0 530 0 0 1,185 12 5 400 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 30 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 45 0 0

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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost. Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. Woeks wholly consteucted by Mines Depabtment— continued. Bartlett's Creek Track Prospeoting-traok, Brunnerton to Paparoa Extension Seddon's Terrace Track to new claim West Tokatea Road Waitaia Battery Road .. Preeoe's Point Road Tokatea-Kennedy Bay Road.. Main Cabbage Bay Road Hooker's to Mercury Bay Opeto Road Blagrove's Road Cemetery-Cabbage Bay Road Rails for Coromandel Wharf Culverts, Tiki Road Soldier's Creek Road Road to Barrytown Tracks to western sounds Road to R. Kelly's claim, Gentle Annie Creek Waitekauri to New Find Paeroa Mill Road Owharoa to Waitawheta Deviation Road, Earl's Hill Waihi to Katikati Bridge over Slate River Pack-track to Glover's Flat, Lower Anatoki Clearing Karaka Creek of flood-damage Track up right-hand branch of Cullen's Creek Footbridge, Waimangaroa River Track up Callary Branch, Waiho River Converting Wilson's Lead Track, Addison's, into a dray-road Cabbage Bay to mines Coromandel to Kuaotunu Manaia to mines Whitianga to Mahakirau Whangapona Mill Road Kuaotunu Bridge Granity Creek to Ngakawau .. Crow Diggings Track Road to diggings, Cape Foulwind Ngahere to Blackball Fencing land, Blackball Road Prospecting-track, Greek's Gully to Kanieri Forks Repairing Jones's Creek and Donohue's Storm-channels Deviation, Pleasant Creek Track Road-works at Ohaeawai Mahakirau Creek Road Puriri to mines Katikati-Waihi Road Pack-track from Kerikeri Tiack to Waitakohe Goldfield Repairing bridges to mines, Te Puke Helena Bay to Whakapara Railway-station Gordon Settlement to Waharoa Waiorongomai Road Approach to railway-bridge, Te Aroba Upper Waitekauri Bridge Junction Waihi Road to New Find, Waitekauri Repairing bridges, Doctor's and Staunton's Creeks Four-mile Bridge Fox's Bridge Charleston-Nine-mile Beach.. Road, Promi-ed Land-Karamea Karamea Bridge and approaches Approaches, Matakitaki Bridge Snowy Creek Bridge Big River Road Footbridge across by-wash, Ngahere-Blackball Ferry Track to Healey's Gully Track, Lancashire Flat to head of Clearwater Creek Granville Road Footbridges, Blackwater and Greenstone Brown's Terrace to Arnold Protective works, main Grey Bridge Extension, Tucker's Flat Road Butcher's Creek Bridge, Kanieri Lake Road Kapitea Creek Bridge, Lamplough Track Widening Milltown Track to Humphrey's Gully Pack-track, Seddon's Terrace to Eel Creek New bridge, Kapitea Creek, Loop-line Road Stribbing's Creek Bridge Widening Seddon's Terrace Road extension Compensation, Larrikin's Road Garston to Nevis.. Nevis Valley Road .. £ a. d. 200 0 0 125 0 0 208 10 6 50 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 400 0 0 100 0 0 31 5 0 100 0 0 1.98 5 0 300 0 0 7,307 17 11 100 0 0 250 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 200 0 0 75 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 70 0 0 400 0 0 400 0 0 2,070 0 0 100 0 0 300 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 527 8 2 100 0 0 600 0 0 110 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 130 0 0 500 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 600 0 0 300 0 0 150 0 0 250 0 0 328 8 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 550 0 0 3,565 19 8 279 15 0 300 0 0 4,571 0 0 210 0 0 90 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 300 0 0 200 0 0 191 0 0 103 2 6 129 17 6 118 0 0 600 0 0 246 17 6 30 8 7 70 8 11 199 0 0 56 0 0 1,965 17 2 400 0 0 £ s. d. 200 0 0 125 0 0 208 10 6 50 0 0 150 0 0 arc ieo o o 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 400 0 0 100 0 0 31 5 0 100 0 0 198 5 0 300 0 0 7,307 17 11 100 0 0 250 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 200 0 0 75 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 70 0 0 400 0 0 400 0 0 2,070 0 0 100 0 0 300 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 527 8 2 100 0 0 600 0 0 110 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 130 0 0 500 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 600 0 0 300 0 0 150 0 0 250 0 0 328 8 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 550 0 0 3,565 19 8 279 15 0 300 0 0 4,571 0 0 210 0 0 90 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 300 0 0 200 0 0 191 0 0 103 2 6 129 17 6 118 0 0 600 0 0 246 17 6 30 8 7 70 8 11 199 0 0 56 0 0 1,965 17 2 400 0 0

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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost. Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. Works wholly constructed by Mines Department— continued. Okarito River Bridge Drainage, Stafford Township Wangapeka Track, Rolling River-Kiwi Creek Tracks, Stewart Island .. .. ,• • Widening Lake Mapourika-Waiho Road Roads, Great Barrier Riversdale-Waikaia Prospecting-track, Lyell-Larry's Track to New Find, Victoria Range Extending road into bush, Addison's Clearing rocks and easing curves, Nine- and Ten-mile Bluffs Repairs flood-damages, South Westland Hungerford's Bridge Waitangi Bluff Track Track from Cedar Creek Road to Ford and Thompson's claim Repairs Mount Greenland Track Ross Road, towards Ranges Repairs pack-track, Cedar Creek Kinsella's land, taken for Blackball Road Maratoto to mines Hatter's Terrace-Haupiri Upper Waiotahi Road Inland from Omahu Gannon's to Painkiller Netherton Road Repairs, Tapu Creek Road Repairs, Karaka Creek Road.. Gravelling road through Mr. Adams's property Gravelling Onamalutu Track Road to Fenian Creek, Karamea Westport and Mokihinui Railway-line to Jones's Creek Footbridge, No Town Creek Wood's Creek Bridge Maori Creek Bridge Main South Road to Mikonui Beach River-protection works, Te Aroha Drains, Maratoto Repairs, Mata Bridge Roads, Tauranga County Re-metalling Wakamarina Road Pakawau Bush Road Scott's Creek Bridge Riohmond-Collingwood Deadman's Creek-Christmas Terrace Denniston-Cascade Creek Big Totara River Bridge Little Totara River Bridge Twins Road Track up Four-mile and Nile Rivers Culverts, Devil's Greek M oonl igh t-Paparoa Footbridges, Gobden-Seven-mile Road Grey River-Moonlight Bridge, Brandy Jack's Creek Track up Ten-mile Creek Road, Cobden to Warren's and Ten-mile Bluff to Barrytown Cape Terrace Road continuation Lake Brunner Road to Maori Creek Hampden to Horse Terrace Track to Adamstown Brunnerton-Paparoa .. • ■ ,• • Waikupakupa Ocean Beach to Main Road Totara River to Farmer's Creek Doughboy Road Widening and repairing Lamplough Track Extension, Gillam's Gully Track Adair's Track, Mahinapua Road Mahinapua and South Terrace Track Veronica Creek Track Waipori-Berwiok Road Roxburgh-Clyde Orepuki-Block I., Longwood.. Tableland horse-track Landing Creek Bridge Walker's Creek Bridge Greenstone-Teremakau Bell Hill Road Bridge over Kanieri River Main South Road to Mikonui Beach Deviation, Larrikin's Road Pine-tree Road Wire Bridge, German Gully Track Road-formation, Waitekauri to Cross Road Bridge, Mariposa Battery Road £ s. d. 300 0 0 399 17 5 149 19 10 718 7 8 782 6 8 604 4 2 200 0 0 100 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 129 6 11 100 0 0 444 11 5 99 18 9 20 0 0 50 0 0 199 12 6 100 0 0 5 11 0 149 5 6 200 0 0 492 10 0 400 0 0 196 10 6 28 14 6 66 0 0 40 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 80 0 0 50 0 0 15 15 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 300 0 0 1,226 17 5 500 0 0 425 0 0 170 0 0 250 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 450 0 0 350 0 0 100 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 342 10 0 500 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 500 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 3,450 18 6 375 4 0 50 0 0 100 8 0 194 13 0 300 0 0 145 15 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 250 0 0 200 0 0 1,976 18 9 500 0 0 500 0 0 199 9 3 289 16 6 214 12 2 240 0 3 199 9 4 94 5 0 84 15 0 1,375 4 2 45 10 7 89 19 6 271 11 11 24 0 0 £ s. d, 300 0 0 399 17 5 149 19 10 718 7 8 782 6 8 604 4 2 200 0 0 100 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 129 6 11 100 0 0 444 11 5 99 18 9 20 0 0 50 0 0 199 12 6 100 0 0 5 11 0 149 5 6 200 0 0 492 10 0 400 0 0 196 10 6 28 14 6 66 0 0 40 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 80 0 0 50 0 0 15 15 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 300 0 6 1,226 17 0 500 0 5 425 0 0 170 0 0 250 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 450 0 0 350 0 0 100 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 342 10 0 500 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 500 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 3,450 18 0 375 4 6 50 0 0 100 8 0 194 13 0 300 0 0 145 15 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 250 0 0 200 0 0 1,976 18 0 500 0 9 500 0 0 199 9 0 289 16 3 214 12 6 240 0 2 199 9 3 94 5 4 84 15 0 1,375 4 0 45 10 2 89 19 7 271 11 11 24 0 0

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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost. Amount of Contribution paid by Minec Department. WOEKS WHOLLY CONSTBUCTED BY MINES DEPARTMENT — continued. Crosbie Settlement Road Waitaia Battery-site to Low Level Repairs, Tauranga-Te Puke Rockville-Slate River Aorere Main Road, gravelling Ferntown footbridges and gravelling Swamp Road, Ferntown Clearing slips, Seventeen-mile Bluff Clearing slips, Nelson-Grey-Ross Road Bridges over Raleigh Creek (3) Hampden Cemetery to School-house, Murchison Squaretown Bridge over Little Grey River Berwick-Waipori, repairs Beaumont-Miller's Flat Track to Police Station, Seddonville Improving track, Sealer's Creek Kiripaka to Coal-mines Waiorongomai Road Tiki-Opitonui Taumatawahine Bridge Cemetery Road, Kuaotunu Tiki-Matawai Puriri-Tairua Beach Road, Thames Puru Creek Road Tararu Creek Bridge Turua-Netherton Te Aroha Bridge Bartlett's Creek Road Mount Patriarch Road Takaka River Footbridge Karamea Track Bainham-Upper Aorere Shaggery Road Seddonville-Mokihinui Mokihinui to Reefs, widening Mokihinui to Wanganui, improving Lvell-Victoria Range Nile Saddle-Maori Creek Seddonville-Cardiff Painkiller-Murray Creek Little Grey River Bridge Improving crossings, Waitahu River and Road, up Kirwan's Creek Fagan's Creek, Barrytown, to Paparoa Nelson Creek Bridge Callaghan's Creek Bridge Mosquito-Maori Creek Deviation, Westbrook-Teremakau Bridge, Cobden-Brunner Road Moonlight Track, deviation .. Totara River to Constitution Hill Teremakau-Paroa Baok Creek Road, deviation .. Blue Spur Oreek Bridge Young Hill Creek Road Repairs to road between Sections 17 and 45, Waikaka Skippers-Bullendale Watigapeka-Wanganui Okuru River Ford Traok Gillespie's Bluff Track Maori River Road Clifden Bridge, Waiau Whangamata Harbour to Wentworth Waiorongomai-Gordon Easing grade Kahika Hill Bartlett's Creek-Cat Point Bridges, Dead Horse and Walker's Creeks Black Creek Bridge Wharton's Dam to Deep Creek Piano Flat Company's Track Waikaia-Wbitecomb (repairs) Mangles Bridge Karangarua Bridge Repairs Donnelly's Creek Bridge Waiau Bridge to Old Mill-site Donnelly's Bridge Sullivan's Oreek Bridge Rings Road Bridge Railway-stations Roads Matatoke Outfall-drain Komata Reefs-Paeroa Grace Darling Road £ s. d. £ s. d, 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 2 6 25 2 6 51 0 0 51 0 0 60 0 0 60 0 0 48 0 0 48 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 115 0 0 115 0 0 324 10 0 i 324 10 0 345 16 345 1 6 75 0 0 75 0 0 75 0 0 i 75 0 0 250 0 0 250 0 0 37 19 2 37 19 2 49 12 8 49 12 8 80 0 0 80 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 250 0 0 250 0 0 300 0 0 300 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 45 0 0 45 0 0 1,135 14 6 1,135 14 6 100 0 0 100 0 0 400 0 0 400 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 250 0 0 250 0 0 449 4 7 449 4 7 200 0 0 200 0 0 250 0 0 j 250 0 0 250 0 0 I 250 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 920 0 0 920 0 0 500 0 0 500 0 0 600 0 0 600 0 0 450 0 0 450 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 844 7 6 844 7 6 400 0 0 400 0 0 450 0 0 450 0 0 425 0 0 425 0 0 950 0 0 950 0 0 250 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 450 0 0 450 0 0 125 10 0 125 10 0 140 0 0 140 0 0 123 1 0 123 1 0 250 0 0 250 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 29 8 0 29 8 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 2,324 17 2 2,324 17 2 342 18 8 342 18 8 151 14 1 151 14 1 149 19 6 149 19 6 1,115 3 0 I 1,115 3 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 75 0 0 75 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 75 0 0 75 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 | 50 0 0 4,323 4 8 4,323 4 8 448 13 6 448 13 6 440 1 3 440 1 3 150 0 0 , 150 0 0 136 10 0 136 10 0 164 0 0 164 0 0 325 0 0 325 0 0 500 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 500 0 0 500 0 0 392 0 0 392 0 0

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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost. Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. WOEKS WHOLLY CONSTBUCTED BY MlNES DePABTMENT— Continued. Koma-.a Cre-k Rnad Waitekauri Creek Bridge Pipamoa-Te Puke Tauranga-Te Puke Slaie River Road .. Motupipi Bridge Tracks, Ws,kamarina and Mahakipawa Promise* Land-Ohinemuri Creek Fairdown to Be-ich Paparoa River Track Capleston-Larry's Blaokball-Paparoa Coal Bridge Totara Flat Road Dowling Creek Bridge Granite Creek Bridge Blackball Road (improvements) Sunny Bight Track (widening) Callery Track and Wire Bridge Mikonui River approaches McKay's Creek Bridge Haast-Blue River Road Arawata Track Turnbull and Okuru Rivers Track Waitahuna-Bruce County boundary Clyde-Ophir Nokomai Road Skipper's-Gallant Tip .. .. .. Beale's HiH Road deviation .. Gore-Waikaka Riversdale-Waikaia Charlton Road Orepuki-Shale-works Haveloek-Mahakipawa Dee Creek Bridge Cook's River Flat (widening).. Galway-Bluff Track Kokotahi Road Donoghue's deviation Orepuki-Preservation Inlet Mason's Bay Track Granity Creek Bridge Mount Hercules deviation (Great South Road) Bridles Point-Deedwater Waitaia Mine to battery Gumtown Landing to post-office Repairs, track, Thames Road to McLaughlin's Maratoto Road Thames River-Whangamata Cullensville-Waikakaho Road to Golden Bar Mine Tuamarina-Kaituna Neudorf-Ngatimoti Graham River Bridge Takaka Bridge protective works Takaka Hill Road Cobden-Barrytown (repairs) .. Brown's Terrace-Kotuku Blackball footbridge approaches Twelve-mile Bluff-Fourteen-mile Bluff .. Cobden-Point Elizabeth Nelson Creek-Bell Hill Big River-Slatey Creek Big River-St. George Kanieri River Bridge Arrow-Matatapu Bridles Point-Deepwater Blind Bay-Whangaparapara Karaka Creek Road Lower Tairua-B.roken Hill Waitekauri-Wharekiraupunga Mill Road Waitekauri-Hill Track Repairs, Kaituna Bridge Lloyd's Valley Road Dridges .. Glenr*e-Tadmor Brooklyn Valley Road Shaggery Road Oparara River Road, Karamea Bradshaw's Lead Road Fenian Creek Track Karamea River Protective Works Coalbiookdale-Cedar Creek £ s. d. 150 0 0 160 0 0 275 0 0 400 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 46 16 6 400 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 •415 0 0 1,686 10 0 538 0 0 100 0 0 175 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 400 0 0 100 0 0 270 12 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 300 0 0 200 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 400 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 191 5 1 538 3 10 396 13 6 147 15 10 451 2 5 229 18 6 3,388 9 4 150 9 6 431 12 0 1,119 4 6 250 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 199 13 10 200 0 0 55 0 0 83 3 6 184 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 1,572 0 0 100 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 249 14 0 30 15 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 844 1 5 100 0 0 150 0 0 98 8 6 200 0 0 100 0 0 81 3 6 150 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 550 0 0 200 0 0 250 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 £ s. d. 150 0 0 160 0 0 275 0 0 400 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 46 16 6 400 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 415 0 0 1,686 10 0 538 0 0 100 0 0 175 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 400 0 0 100 0 0 270 12 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 300 0 0 200 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 400 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 191 5 1 538 3 10 396 13 6 147 15 10 451 2 5 229 18 6 3,388 9 4 150 9 6 431 12 0 1,119 4 6 250 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 199 13 10 200 0 0 55 0 0 83 3 6 184 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 150 0 0 1,572 0 0 100 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 250 0 0 100 0 0 249 14 0 30 15 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 844 1 5 100 0 0 150 0 0 98 8 6 200 0 0 100 0 0 81 3 6 150 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 550 0 0 200 0 0 250 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0

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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost. Amount of Contribution paid bv Mines Department. Wobks wholly constbucted by Mines Depaetment— continued. Nile River Bridge, Charleston Deadman's Creek, Brighton .. Caroline Terrace Road Mulliky Creek-Karamea Murray Creek-Waitahu Black's Point Road (widening) Blackball Footbridge (Brunner-Moonlight Road) Barrytown-Paparoa Eight-mile Greek Bridge Granville-Grey River Middle Branch-Styx Rive* .. Kumara Beach Road-Teremakau Ross Cemetery Road Table Hill-Canada Reefs Beaumont-Rankleburn Clyde-Queenstown White's Reef-Fraser Basin Hawea-Lindis Pass Alexandra Bridge Dairy Creek-Coal-pits Waimumu Claims Road Croydon dredging claims Glenary Bridge Colao-Round Hill Ross Creek Bridge.. Wangapeka-Kiwi .. Larry's Creek Bridge (extension) Belgrove-Westport-Reefton Glenroy Bridge Warwick-Maruia Bridge Stafford-Awatuna .. .. .. .. ... Stewart Island Road to Mines Roads, Preservation Inlet Tracks, Cromarty Roads, Stewart Island Lake Hochstetter Traok Ahaura-Haupiri Ahaura-Orwell Creek Deadman's Creek Bridge Saltwater Creek Bridge Mercury Bay, Hospital Road Coromandel-Mercury Bay Omahu-Whangamata Track to Klondike Mine Rocky Point Road Waitekauri Hill Track Golden Cross Road (repairs) Protective works, Main Road, Karangahake Karangahake-Rotokohu Aorere River Bridge (repairs) Burning coal-seam, Boatman's Paroa-Teremakau .. .. .. .. Doolan's Coal-pit Road Ahaura Bridge .. .. .. .. .. ... Orwell Creek Bridge Dredging Titri Canal Whakapara-Puhipuhi Coromandel-Cabbage Bay Macaronic Mine Road Kapowai Track Owera Bridge Driving Creek School Bridge Matatoki Road Wharepoa Settlement Road Puriri-Neavesville Tapu-Gumtnwn Gumtown-Welcome Jack Crosbie Settlement Road Peel's Creek Road Karangahake Track extension Waihi-Tauranga Mangakara Creek Bridge Karangahake-Mangakara Anatoki Track Vants to Bubu Protecting Bridge, Waitapu Milnthorpe Road Pakawau-Puponga Chandler's-Wangapeka Junction Chandler's-Rolling River Tableland Track Lyell-Eight-mile (widening) Canaan Road Addison's Road Virgin Flat Road Blackwater Track.. Welshman's Terraoe Track Fairdown-Waimangaroa £ s. d. 360 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 568 16 6 1,051 3 3 520 0 0 200 0 0 442 16 10 150 0 0 400 0 0 976 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 250 0 0 1,100 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 750 0 0 88 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 400 0 0 400 0 0 84 18 11 381 0 0 627 11 1 9,393 6 11 916 19 8 7 15 6 2,329 3 11 219 8 2 442 16 8 216 6 3 113 15 1 178 19 7 1,247 18 4 668 9 3 147 7 4 105 14 4 50 0 0 165 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 5 0 0 34 14 6 94 18 8 307 10 0 100 0 0 69 10 0 200 0 0 300 0 0 3,314 14 3 185 12 2 12 0 0 585 0 0 884 0 0 200 0 0 589 0 0 350 0 0 200 0 0 467 10 0 1,059 1 5 649 10 0 400 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 105 0 0 197 3 4 150 0 0 132 7 10 250 0 o 300 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 40 0 0 750 0 0 250 18 8 100 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 350 0 0 £ s. d. 360 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 568 16 6 1,051 3 3 520 0 0 p o o 442 16 10 150 0 0 400 0 0 976 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 250 0 0 1,100 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 750 0 0 88 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 400 0 0 400 0 0 84 18 11 381 0 0 627 11 1 9,393 6 11 916 19 8 7 15 6 2,329 3 11 219 8 2 442 16 8 216 6 1 113 15 7 178 19 3 1,247 18 4 668 9 1 147 7 1 105 14 4 50 0 0 165 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 5 0 0 34 14 6 94 18 8 307 10 0 100 0 0 69 10 0 200 0 0 300 0 0 3,314 14 3 185 12 2 12 0 0 585 0 0 884 0 0 200 0 0 589 0 0 350 0 0 200 0 0 467 10 0 1,059 1 5 649 10 0 400 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 105 0 0 197 3 4 150 0 0 132 7 10 250 0 0 300 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 40 0 0 750 0 0 250 18 8 100 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 200 0 0 350 0 0

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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost. Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. Works wholly constructed by Mines Depaetment— continued. Seddonville-Mokihinui Mine.. Coal Creek Extension Warwiok-Maruia Bridge Fairdown Station-Waimangaroa (widening) Justin-Time Track Road to Matakitaki River Bridge Glenroy River Road Waipuna Road Cape Terrace Road Hatter's Terrace-Bell Hill Nelson Creek Bridge, Grey-Marsden Road Nelson Creek Bridge-Hatter's Terrace Maori Creek Bridge Eight-mile Creek Bridge Approaches Moonlight Road .. Brunner-Blackball Kokatahi Road Doughboy Road Humphrey's-One Mile .. Milltown Track Deviation Seddon's Terrace Track Lamplough Track.. Blue Spur Road Bridge Tucker Flat Road Three-mile Bluff-Okarito Metalling Awatuna Road Arrow town-Maoetown Johnston's Creek Road Extension Waimumu Road Stoney Ford Bridge-Nokomai Waikaia Goldfield Road Waikaia-Whitecomb Waikaka Township-Little Waikaka Parrawa-Nokomai Bridge Stewart Island Road to Mini s Karamea Bridge (rebuilding) Westport-Waimangaroa Denniston Hill Road Waipuna Bridge Boatman's Creek Bridge Sawyer's Creek Bridge Potts' Creek Bridge Contingencies £ s. d. 350 0 0 200 0 0 198 2 10 300 0 0 300 0 0 200 0 0 300 0 0 925 0 0 400 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 130 0 0 250 0 0 431 12 0 255 0 0 210 2 9 238 8 6 342 15 0 493 12 0 257 0 0 50 0 0 88 15 9 150 0 0 100 0 0 1,400 0 0 450 0 0 300 0 0 300 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 250 0 0 311 7 6 4.044 6 4 1.045 0 1 5,168 8 7 260 12 10 3 19 0 246 17 8 330 0 9 1,105 12 7 £ s. d. 350 0 0 200 0 0 198 2 10 300 0 0 300 0 0 200 0 0 300 0 0 925 0 0 400 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 100 0 0 130 0 0 250 0 0 431 12 0 255 0 0 210 2 9 238 8 6 342 15 0 493 12 6 257 0 0 50 0 0 88 15 9 150 0 0 100 0 0 1,400 0 0 450 0 0 300 0 0 300 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 250 0 0 311 7 6 4.044 6 4 1.045 0 1 5,168 3 7 260 12 10 3 19 0 246 17 8 330 0 9 1,105 12 7 308,480 12 1 308,480 12 1

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Locality and Nature of Works. Total Cost. Amount of Contribution paid by Mines Department. Roads to open up Mines other than Gold. Aniseed Valley to Champion Copper-mine Richmond Hill to copper-mine Track, Ohinemuri Coal-seam Road, Kanieri Coalfield .. .. .. .. ■ • • £ s. d. 4,963 10 6 315 16 0 267 3 4 600 0 0 £ s. d. 4,116 10 6 209 4 0 133 11 8 300 0 0 6,146 9 10 4,759 6 2 Tracks to open up Mineral Lands. Glory Harbour to Kopaok Port Pegasus Track Removing snags and felling timber, Mokau River Ngakawau Footbridge 50 0 0 155 7 6 40 0 0 80 0 7 50 0 0 155 7 6 40 0 0 80 0 7 325 8 1 325 8 1 Repaieing Flood-damages. Thames Borough 500 0 0 500 0 0 Artesian-well Boring. Maniototo Plains 800 0 0 800 0 0 Prospecting Deep Levels. Thames-Hauraki Goldfields (Limited), Queen of Beauty shaft Tharaes-Hauraki Goldfields (Limited), Queen of Beauty shaft, Inspector's fee 50,500 0 0 500 0 0 25,000 0 0 500 0 0 51,000 0 0 25,500 0 0 Resumption op Land por Mining. Resumption of J. Holmes's land at Kumara for a tailings-site Resumption of O'Neil and McCormaok's land at Back Creek.. Purchase Cassrell and Bennett's leaseholds, Paeroa Township 300 0 0 300 0 C 502 7 0 562 7 0 2,250 0 0 , 2,250 0 0 3,112 7 0 3,112 7 0 Summary of Works. Roads (subsidised) — Bay of Islands County Coromandel County Te Aroha Town Board Thames County Thames Borough Ohinemuri County Waitoa Road Board Piako County Katikati Road Board Hutt County Marlborough County Waimea County Collingwood County Buller County Inangahua County Grey County Westland County Taieri County Lake County Tuapeka County Cromwell Borough Wallace County Vincent County Maniototo County Fiord County Waitaki County Southland County £ s. d. £ s. d. 2,092 0 0 1,351 0 0 19,286 3 9 11,455 15 10 334 0 0 167 0 0 13,854 15 11 7,834 6 11 3,611 19 2 2,359 5 0 8,757 17 9 4,937 8 5 200 0 0 130 0 0 22,348 2 3 14,616 6 10 507 19 6 253 18 9 959 16 6 435 17 0 1,715 4 0 933 18 8 1,459 8 8 729 14 4 3,681 1 8 2,140 9 9 11,638 1 4 6,600 16 8 17,552 14 8 10,530 17 10 20,419 4 0 : 12,484 3 2 11,008 15 6 6,724 6 10 499 15 0 333 3 4 7,145 6 1 4,926 14 6 14,695 7 8 ' 8,653 7 2 500 0 0 250 0 0 1,309 6 0 662 19 8 1,532 0 0 850 0 0 518 10 0 332 0 0 300 0 0 200 0 0 41 12 0 20 16 0 2,355 0 0 1,426 7 4 Diamond and other drills Wharves Aids to prospecting Water-races Drainage- and tailings-channels Aid towards treatment of ores Roads wholly constructed by Mines Department Roads to open up mines other than gold Tracks to open up mineral lands Repairing flood-damages Artesian-well boring, Maniototo Plains Resumption of land for mining Aid towards construction of telephone-lines Prospecting deep levels 168,324 1 5 5,170 11 4 435 15 9 78,638 11 10 33,368 14 0 31,892 14 0 3,164 0 6 308,480 12 1 6,146 9 10 325 8 1 500 0 0 800 0 0 3,112 7 0 60 0 0 51,000 0 0 101,340 14 0 3,428 11 4 285 15 9 29,780 8 6 29,983 1 8 21,603 19 7 2,514 0 6 308,480 12 1 4,759 6 2 325 8 1 500 0 0 800 0 0 3,112 7 0 50 0 0 25,500 0 0 691,419 5 10 32,464 4 8

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Return showing the Value of the Sales of Water, and Expenditure on, and Collateral Advantages derived from, the Working of the Water-races constructed and maintained by Government during the Year ending 31st March, 1903.

Name of Water-race. Value of Sales of Water and Channel-fees. Expenditure on Maintenance. Profit or Loss. Cost of Construction. Total Cost of Construction Average Number of Men employed. Approximate Amount of Gold obtained. Value of Gold obtained. Average Weekly Earnings of Men after deducting Value of Sales of Water and Channel-fees. Waimea £ s. d. 814 17 2 £ s. d. 787 16 7 £ s. d. 27 0 7 £ s. d. £ s. d. Oz. £ s. d. 9,500 8 0 £ s.d. 5 18 9 Kumara 1,528 14 4 1,684 16 6 156 2 2* 147,463 7 9 |\ t\ 49,741 12 5 '1219,169 18 4 4 21,964 18 2 ) (j 28-91 40-00 2,436 3,056 11,918 8 0 4 19 10 Kumara Sludge-channel Nelson Creek • 90,722 10 8 Argyle 15,151 15 3 Mikonui 25,927 4 6 [ 73,123 14 3 73,123 14 3 ] 6,027 15 6 6,027 15 6 51-16 2-00 13-5 2,501 120 1,225 9,628 17 0 16 0 Mount Ida 1,521 16 7 1,405 9 10 116 6 9 Blackstone Hill 60 3 3 17 4 0 42 19 3 462 0 0 3 17 3 Callaghan's .. 492 11 1 351 14 7 140 16 6 4,777 10 0 6 17 Totals 4,418 2 5 4,247 1 6 171 0 11 298,321 8 1 430,122 18 6 I 9,338 36,287 3 0 * Loss on w( •king.

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WARDEN'S COURT TABLES.

No. 1. Statement showing the Revenue of the Goldfields collected in the several Districts of the Colony of New Zealand, for the Period from the 1st January to the 31st December, 1902.

strict. «*«; : I Auckland. £ s. d. Thames .. i 301 15 0 Te Aroha .. I 46 0 0 Coromandel .. ! 76 10 0 Chinemuri .. 127 10 0 Puhipuhi ,. 1 10 0 'Tauranga |-Waihi .. 55 5 0 Licenses Water- Gold-mining Machine and a ™° es ' Leases, Rents, EegistraResidence S1 ™ oes > R »L tl0n - Sites. *°- Royalties. £ s. d.l £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 10 0 1,310 12 10 31 8 0 450 18 7 6 10 0 56 8 0 7 2 0 i 127 5 6 .. 559 3 2 7 18 0 .. 1,946 15 10 10 0 .. 52 17 6 748 19 0 10 9 0 Fees and Wardens' Miscellaneous. Totals. Courts. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 17 5 0 413 11 3 2,075 12 1 2 19 0 3 19 0 573 17 1 28 17 0 : 16 0 800 19 8 98 10 0 484 10 0 2,657 11 10 14 0 0 69 7 6 19 6 0 127 18 6 96117 6 Totals .. 008 10 0 j. 579 4 1 7 10 0 4,674 16 4 56 17 0 579 4 1 7 10 0 4,674 16 4 56 17 0 — 107 3 0 167 3 0 1,045 5 3 7,139 5 8 1,045 5 3 7,139 5 8 Nelson. Collingwood .. 24 5 0 Westport .. 85 10 0 Charleston .. 33 10 0 Uiaura .. 73 15 0 Wangapeka .. 3 5 0 Reefton .. 109 5 0 Lyell and Mur- 32 10 0 chison Vlotueka .. 1 15 0 24 5 0 85 10 0 33 10 0 73 15 0 3 5 0 109 5 0 32 10 0 402 6 11 2 3 0 20 19 0 6 9 0 857 5 10 0 12 0 090150 571121140 0 17 6 1,597 15 8 21 14 0 44 2 6 1 7 0 1,852 8 5 0 2 0 .. 518 13 6 7 12 9 0 12 0 402 6 11 20 19 0 6 9 0 857 5 10 090150 57 11 2 0 17 6 1,597 15 8 44 2 6 1,852 8 5 0 2 0 .. 518 13 6 2 3 0 0 12 0 1 14 0 21 14 0 17 0 14 4 0 86 2 11 I 529 1 10 46 6 0 351 13 4 1,368 15 2 94 9 2 155 1 6 1,849 3 8 0 5 0 48 19 6 40 4 0 106 8 6 2,114 5 11 21 0 0 132 8 7 704 14 1 9 19 9 14 4 0 46 6 0 40"4 0 21 0 0 86 2 11 351 13 4 155 1 0 0 5 0 106 8 6 132 8 7 529 1 10 1,368 15 2 94 9 2 1,849 3 8 48 19 6 2,114 5 11 704 14 1 1 15 0 7 12 9 0 12 0 9 19 9 Totals .. 363 15 0 363 15 0 21 10 0 8 11 6 | 5,337 16 9 28 2 0 8 11 6 5,337 16 9 127 14 0 831 19 10 6,719 9 1 21 10 0 28 2 0 127 14 0 831 19 10 6,719 9 1 Marlborough. Havelock .. 15 5 0 Blenheim .. 7 0 0 15 5 0 7 0 0 1 10 0 .. 108 5 2 0 5 0 280 14 7 2 10 0 : ' i. 1 10 0 108 5 2 280 14 7 0 5 0 4 17 0 2 10 0 5 0 0 4 17 0 16 0 131 8 2 5 0 0 6 9 0 307 13 7 16 0 6 9 0 131 8 2 307 13 7 Totals .. 22 5 0 ' j. 1 10 0 .. 394 19 9 2 15 0 1 9 17 0 7 15 0 439 1 9 22 5 0 1 10 0 394 19 9 2 15 0 9 17 0 7 15 0 439 1 9 Westland. Sokitika and Ka- 08 0 0 nieri jreymouth .. 160 5 0 Etoss .. .. 34 0 0 Stafford .. 39 15 0 Kumara .. 73 0 0 Ckarito .. 6 10 0 68 0 0 160 5 0 34 0 0 39 15 0 73 0 0 6 10 0 3 0 0 532 6 6 14 12 0 2 0 0 2,563 9 0 0 7 0 4 5 0 701 4 0 13 18 0 9 15 0 214 7 0 3 2 0 557 11 2 20 10 0 17 3 4 0 8 0 i . ! 3 0 0 2 0 0 4 5 0 9 15 0 532 6 6 2,563 9 0 701 4 0 214 7 0 557 11 2 17 3 4 14 12 0 0 7 0 13 18 0 3 2 0 20 10 0 0 8 0 13 15 0 65 4 6 22 2 0 19 13 0 31 16 0 3 8 0 13 15 0 1 11 5 633 4 11 65 4 6 2,775 0 7 '< 5,566 12 1 22 2 0 38 12 10 i 814 1 10 19 13 0 54 11 10 341 4 4 31 16 0 335 16 10 1,019 0 0 3 8 0 .. 27 9 4 1 11 5 2,775 0 7 38 12 10 54 11 10 335 16 10 633 4 11 5,566 12 1 814 1 10 341 4 4 1,019 0 0 27 9 4 Totals .. 381 10 0 . 19 0 0 4,586 1 6 53 3 0 53 3 0 155 18 6 155 18 6 3,205 19 6 8,401 12 6 381 10 0 19 0 0 4,586 1 6 3,205 19 6 8,401 12 6 Canterbury. ishburton .. 15 0 15 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 j 2 6 0 i o u . 10 0 0 10 2 6 0 Otago and Southland. rapanui .. 2 0 0 Hindon .. 34 15 0 Sfaseby .. 61 0 0 Roxburgh \ Alexandra [ 2 8 0 0 Clyde Black's j Pembroke .. 5 0 0 Cromwell .. 67 10 0 Queenstown .. 49 10 0 irrowtown .. 18 10 0 Lawrence .. 77 10 0 Waikaia .. 2 15 0 Drepuki Riverton and 24 15 0 Longwood Wyndham .. 2 5 0 Middlemarch ..I 0 15 0 i 26 16 0 0 1 0 64 10 0 0 13 0 14 17 7; 18 17 6 412 13 10 11 15 0 19 5 0 2,119 12 11 38 4 0 I 3 0 0 0 4 0 10 13 0 7 7 6 1,010 14 3 28 18 0 0 10 0 387 12 10 5 7 0 2 0 0 .. 409 17 5 7 14 0 0 10 0 5 0 1,096 10 10 3 19 0 6 0 0 2 2 0 287 13 0 1 18 0 7 12 5 359 8 10 0 10 0 62 10 3 0 7 0 2 15 0 0 3 0 !' ' | 0 14 0 .. 29 11 0 2 0 0 3 16 0 105 14 0 41 16 0 : 65 3 9 ! 614 8 8 64 9 6 798 12 8 3,079 19 1 8 4 0 56 12 6 177 11 3 1,358 6 6 40 2 0 35 11 2 518 13 0 30 11 0 21 11 6 490 3 11 22 8 0 ; 42 13 3 1,249 7 1 8 9 0 36 14 9 345 11 9 9 13 0 15 12 0 32 17 5 10 5 0 23 0 0 417 8 10 1 11 0 1 13 6 68 16 9 3 13 0 2 0 0 34 15 0 61 0 0 1417 7 18 17 6 26 16 0 64 10 0 412 13 10 0 10 0 13 0 ... 0 14 0 2 0 0 41 16 0 3 16 0 65 3 9 29 11 0 105 14 0 614 8 8 28 0 0 11 15 0 19 5 0 ' 2,119 12 11 38 4 0 64 9 0 798 12 8 3,079 19 1 5 0 0 j 67 10 0 49 10 0 18 10 0 77 10 0 2 15 0 2415 0 2 5 0 0 15 0 4 5 0 [ 10 13 0 7 7 6 0 10 0 2 0 0 0 10 6 5 0 6 0 0 2 2 0 0 10 0 3 0 0 1,010 14 3 387 12 10 409 17 5 1,096 10 10 287 13 0 7 12 5 359 8 10 0 4 0 28 18 0 5 7 0 7 14 0 3 19 0 1 18 0 56 12 6 40 2 0 30 11 0 22 8 0 8 9 0 9 13 0 10 5 0 177 11 3 35 11 2 21 11 6 42 13 3 36 14 9 15 12 0 23 0 0 8 4 0 1,358 6 6 518 13 0 490 3 11 1,249 7 1 345 11 9 32 17 5 417 8 10 62 10 3 2 15 0 286 2 9 0 7 0 0 3 0 2 16 0 1 11 0 12' 9 0 1 13 6 9 17 7 68 16 9 3 13 0 315 10 4 3ore .. .. 4 5 0 286 2 9 2 16 0 12 9 0 9 17 7 315 10 i Totals .. 378 10 0 378 10 0 ■ 45 6 7 54 17 0 6,537 10 4 89 4 0 45 6 7 54 17 0 6,537 10 4 89 4 0 301 0 0 1,231 17 5 8,638 5 4 301 0 0 1,231 17 5 8,638 5 4 Grand totals .. 1,755 15 0 1,755 15 0 647 10 8 647 10 8 89 18 6 '21,532 4 8 230 2 0 89 18 6 '21,532 4 8 230 2 0 761 12 6 6,322 17 0 131,340 0 4 761 12 6 6,322 17 0 i31,340 0 4 * All records from 13th January to 16th November destroyed by fire. + Office opened on 27th March, 1902.

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No. 2. Statement showing the Revenue of the Goldfields collected in the several Districts of the Colony of New Zealand, for the Period from 1st January to 31st March, 1903.

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District. Miners' Rights. Business Licenses, Machine and Residence Sites. Waterraces, Sluices, &c. Gold-mining Leases, Rents, and Royalties. Registration. Fees and Fines, WardensCourts. Miscellaneous.! Totals. Auckland. Coromandel Te Aroha Ohinemuri Thames Puhipuhi Tauranga Waihi £ s. d. 27 10 0 17 10 0 20 10 0 77 10 0 10 0 0 15 0 19 10 0 £ s. d. 26 10 0 129 17 11 £ s. d. £ s. d. 94 10 9 15 16 5 483 4 10 521 15 10 2 17 6 4 16 3 637 2 10 £ s. d. 2 11 0 1 19 0 10 4 0 £ s. d. 10 19 0 17 7 0 33 10 0 £ s. d. 2 11 0 0 10 0 226 5 6 40 4 1 2 14 9 0 2 0 87 12 6 £ s. d. 164 11 9 165 13 4 747 7 4 683 3 11 6 12 3 5 13 3 759 2 4 9 10 5 16 0 Totals 164 5 0 156 7 11 1,760 4 5 23 15 0 67 12 0 359 19 10 2,532 4 2 Nelson. Motueka Collingwood Westport Charleston Ahaura Reefton.. Wangapeka Lyell and Murchison 0 5 0 4 10 0 32 5 0 10 0 0 17 5 0 13 15 0 10 0 8 0 0 1 6 0 14 0 5 17 6 133 14 4 214 5 10 10 12 9 435 5 11 785 7 9 33 5 0 92 4 6 0 9 0 0 3 0 1 16 0 5 13 0 0 2 0 6 19 0 14 5 0 1 1 0 10 2 0 81 11 10 19 2 6 30 9 5 0 7 0 22 15 3 7 5 6 155 14 4 345 0 8 22 8 9 477 6 5 844 12 8 35 8 0 132 4 9 0 6 0 15 0 6 0 10 0 9 3 0 0 2 0 Totals 87 0 0 1 8 0 14 0 1,710 13 7 8 7 0 45 19 6 165 9 0 2,020 1 1 Marlborough. Havelock Blenheim 2 15 0 15 0 0 10 0 0 7 0 0 8 0 0 17 0 0 16 11 16 13 5 80 3 3 12 4 5 76 16 4 0 17 0 Totals 4 0 0 0 10 0 89 0 9 0 15 0 0 17 0 1 13 11 96 16 8 Westland. Hokitika and Kanieri 17 0 0 0 5 0 285 11 1 4 4 0 15 0 0 6 0 308 11 1 Greymouth Ross Stafford.. Okarito Kumara 25 15 0 5 5 0 7 0 0 4 0 0 18 10 0 15 0 15 0 513 12 9 212 9 1 68 8 9 11 17 3 108 19 0 18 6 0 2 0 0 10 0 3 18 0 19 4 6 2 11 0 9 10 1 14 0 8 10 0 1,153 12 2 11 13 0 67 3 2 5 19 2 0 18 4 1,712 4 5 234 11 7 152 19 11 24 0 5 140 15 4 Totals .. 77 10 0 2 15 0 ;1,200 17 11 10 2 6 42 5 6 1,239 11 10 2,573 2. 9 Canterbury. Ashburton 0 5 0 0 5 0 Otago and Southland. Middlemarch Tapanui Hindon Naseby Black's .. I Alexandra Clyde .. Roxburgh Cromwell Queenstown Arrowtown Lawrence Orepuki Ri verton and Longwood Pembroke Waikaia Wyndham Gore 0 15 0 0 5 0 6 10 0 16 15 0 4 5 0 17 15 0 10 5 0 6 15 0 18 15 0 1 16 0 2 11 0 2 12 0 1 10 0 1 0 0 3 17 6 2 10 0 .450 10 0 17 9 6 33 12 6 164 12 9 797 9 9 248 17 4 143 12 11 130 11 6 399 14 8 1 17 6 193 19 9 0 10 0 i 0 6 9 0 6 17 0 0 15 0 11 9 0 13 11 0 11 3 0 8 6 0 4 16 0 5 3 0 3 8 0 2 5 0 19 7 0 210 13 6 77 1 10 2 14 6 7 16 0 110 3 18 0 6 18 0 1 16 0 17 14 6 40 18 6 217 17 3 1,037 9 8 368 11 2 166 8 5 151 3 6 428 16 8 9 3 6 211 2 9 0 5 0 1 0 0 3 3 0 8 0 0 10 0 15 0 0 15 0 2 0 0 6 0 0 0 6 0 0 15 0 45 11 3 16 5 0 145 17 9 0 3 0 0 8 0 3 15 0 6 4 0 1 18 0 63 9 3 17 0 0 150 1 9 0 6 0 1 13 0 o"5 0 Totals 95 0 0 15 9 0 12 3 6 2,341 7 2 17 8 0 66 4 0 335 18 10 2,883 10 6 Grand totals .. 428 0 0 173 4 11 16 12 6 7,102 3 10 60 7 6 1222 18 0 2,102 13 5 10,106 0 2

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No. 3. Comparative Return of Revenue derived from the Goldfields in the several Districts of New Zealand during the Years 1901 and 1902, showing Increase or Decrease under each Head of Revenue.

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District. Miners' Rights. i Business Licenses, &c. Waterraces, Sluices, &c. Gold-mining Leases, Rents, and Royalties. Fees and Regis- Fines, tration. WardensCourts. MiSCel- Gold Tntnlo ' laneous. Duty. 10B18 ' Auckland— £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ Year 1902 609 579 8 4,675 57 167 1,045 22,012 29,152 Year 1901 755 919 24 4,918 127 236 1,067 18,567 26,613 Increase 3,445 2,539 Decrease 146 340 16 243 70 69 22 Nelson — 364 21 5,338 832 6,719 Year 1902 8 28 128 Year 1901 530 5 4,642 39 273 1,538 7,027 Increase 21 3 696 Decrease 166 11 145 706 308 Marlborough— 22 395 10 439 Year 1902 1 3 8 Year 1901 37 1 4 432 7 49 22 552 Increase Decrease 15 4 37 4 39 14 118 Canterbury— 1 2 Year 1902 1 Year 1901 3 50 53 Increase Decrease 2 49 51 Westland — 381 19 4,586 53 156 3,206 8,401 Year 1902 Year 1901 596 10 47 3,887 58 188 3,576 8,362 Increase 699 39 Decrease 215 10 28 5 32 370 Otago— 379 6,538 301 1,232 8,639 Year 1902 45 55 89 Year 1901 816 28 45 8,658 107 293 462 10,409 Increase 17 10 8 770 Decrease 437 2,120 18 1,770 Total increase .. 3,445 336 Total decrease .. 981 811 35 1,054 108 277 342

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No. 4. Comparative Return of the Total Amounts of Goldfields Revenue (exclusive of Gold Duty) collected in the several Districts during the Years 1901 and 1902 and the Quarters ending 31st March, 1902 and 1903 respectively, showing the Increase or Decrease in respect of each District.

No. 5. Return of Gold Duty credited to Local Bodies for the Year ended 31st December, 1902, and Quarter ended 31st March, 1903.

Robert J. Collins, The Treasury, Wellington, sth June, 1903. Accountant to the Treasury.

District. 1901. Years 19 1902. Years 1901 and 1902. 901 and 1902. Increase. Decrease. Quarters ending 31st March, 1902, and 31st March, 1903. 1902. 1903. Increase. Decrease. Auckland. Coromandel Te Aroha Thames Puhipuhi Ohinemuri "Tauranga Waihi.. £ 832 1,003 1,842 £ 801 574 2,076 69 2,658 £ .. £ 31 429 £ 260 164 518 £ 165 166 683 6 747 6 759 £ £ 95 '234 69 2 165 6 4 j 330 39 1,*672 39 11 UI 5 962 962 759 Nelson. 87 397 1,614 219 2,121 1,834 72 683 10 529 1,369 94 I 1,849 ! 2,114 49 : 705 ] 132 77 5 173 277 43 517 848 2 242 7 156 345 23 477 845 35 132 2 "l7 Motueka Collingwood Westport Charleston Ahaura Reefton Wangapeka Lyell and Murchison I 280 245 125 272 ".68 20 40 3 "23 "33 "22 ilO Marlborough. Havelock Blenheim 389 163 1 131 308 145 258 56 78 17 80 39 2 Westland. 970 633 337 288 309 21 Hokitika .. 1 Kanieri .. ) Greymouth Ross Stafford and Goldsborough Okarito Kumara j 5,229 495 454 178 1,036 5,567 814 341 27 1,019 338 319 I 113 151 17 2,255 154 109 27 259 1,712 235 153 24 141 '81 44 543 3 118 Canterbury. Ashburton 53 2 51 1 1 Otago and Southland. Hindon Naseby Alexandra .. 1 Black's Clyde Roxburgh .. } Cromwell Arrowtown Queenstown Pembroke Lawrence Waikaia Tapanui Orepuki, Preservation,! Longwood, and River- \ ton J Wyndham Middlemarch Gore 162 853 2,593 1,537 859 1,299 8 1,341 345 30 106 614 3,080 1,358 490 519 8 1,249 346 30 487 56 239 179 369 780 39 206 1,078 419 261 193 1 509 88 18 41 218 1,037 369 151 166 2 429 63 18 2 12 1 41 50 110 27 ! "92 "80 25 1 906 450 456 125 220 95 164 26 286 69 4 316 95 22 15 2 129 17 2 150 2 "30 "21 Totals 34,449 31,340 3,019 6,128 10,828 10,106 1,316 2,038 Net decrease .. 3,109 3,109 722 Net increase All records, from 1st January to 16th November, 1902, destroyed by Are.

Local Body. For the Year ended 31st December, 1902. For the Quarter ended 31st March, 1903. Counties — Coromandel Ohinemuri Piako .. Tauranga Thames Boroughs— Thames Waihi .. £ s. d. 1,107 9 5 6,175 8 3 24 16 10 2 3 5 1,161 3 4 £ s. d. 3 13 0 1,104 14 4 377 18 1 460 18 3 13,079 17 8 190 7 5 3,639 10 0 ' Totals .. 22,011 17 2 5,316 2 10

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No. 6. Return of the Quantity and Value of Gold entered for Duty* for Exportation from New Zealand from 1st April, 1857, to 31st December, 1902.

No. 7. Comparative Return of the Quantity and Value of Gold entered for Duty for Exportation from New Zealand for the Years ended 31st December, 1902 and 1901.

Department of Trade and Customs, W. T. GLASGOW, Wellington, 28th January, 1903. Secretary and Inspector.

Produce op the ■oldfields in During the Quarter ended 31st December, 1902. Entered for Exportation to the 30th September, 1902. Total entebed foe Exportation feom New Zealand to the 31st Decembeb, 1902. County or Borough. District. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. Oz. 4,151 12,651 4,315 226 1,532 37,557 £ 15,218 46,316 18,079 951 6,302 131,032 Oz. Oz. £ County of Thames Ohinemuri .. Coromandel 4 Piako Borough of Thames .. Waihi I Auckland ( 11,234,843 Wellington 60,432 217,898 2,948,583 11,016,945 3,009,015 County of Marlborough 188 706 188 706 Marlborough 87,654 341,479 87,654 341,479 County of Collingwood Waimea I Nelson 619 2,447 1,691,536 6,705,561 1,692,155 6,708,008 County of Buller Inangahua.. Grey Westland .. Borough of Kumara .. Hokitika .. Ross ( 1,321 14,138 9,496 2,953 5,302 56,554 37,984 11,813 i-West Coast . 38 335 152 1,339 19,003,554 Canterbury 28,281 113,144 4,747,393 18,890,410 4,775,674 County of Taieri Tuapeka Vincent Maniototo .. Waihemo .. Waitaki Lake Wallace Waikouaiti .. Bruce Clutha Fiord Southland .. Stewart Island i 99 387 99 887 1,013 11,959 19,321 1,933 498 381 1,635 2,075 4,046 48,164 76,996 7,749 2,010 1,522 6,610 8,417 .Otago 23,821,515 17 69 33 7,001 188 28,266 45,866 183,982 5,961,649 23,637,533 6,007,515 207 824 207 824 Totals . Unknown 135,198 517,471 15,437,309 60,593,845 15,572,507 61,111,316 * Gold duty abolished iu the South Island on the 31st March, 1891, by " Th Gold Duty Abolition Act, 1890."

Pboduce of the During the Quarter ended — Totals fob Yeab 1902. Totals fob Yeab 1901. Goldfields in the District of 31st March, 30th June, 30th Septem- 31st Decem1902. 1902. ber, 1902. ber, 1902. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. lUckland 'Iarlborough.. Jelson Vest Coast .. Janterbury .. )tago .. I Oz. 44,872 200 573 27,020 2 26,060 Oz. 52,036 1 2,310 33,734 45,595 Oz. 44,243 400 2,445 29,761 Oz. 60,432 619 28,281 45|866 Oz. 201,583 601 5,947 118,796 2 : 181,116 ; £ 721,977 2,404 23,649 475,272 7 728,124 Oz. 191,968 133 7,212 113,286 22 142,940 £ 695,551 513 28,138 454,006 83 575,492 63^595 totals for 1902 98,727 133,676 140,444 135,198 508,045 1,951,433 totals for 1901 115,283 102,195 113,186 124,897 f 455,561 1,753,783

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No. 8. RETURN of the Quantity and Value of Gold entered for Duty* for Exportation from New Zealand from 1st April, 1857, to 31th March, 1903.

No. 9. Comparative Return for the Quarters ended 31st March, 1903, and 31st March, 1902.

Department of Trade and Customs, W. T. GLASGOW, Wellington, sth May, 1903. Secretary and Inspeotor.

PEODUCE OF THE GOLDFIELDS IN During the quaeteb ended 31st Maech, 1903. entebed fob expobtation to the 31st December, 1902. Total entered fob expobtation feom new Zealand to the 31st Mabch, 1903. County or Borough. District. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. County of Thames Ohinemuri .. Coromandel „ Piako Borough of Thames .. Waihi ) -Auckland ■ Oz. 1,542 11,047 37 £ 5,987 38,903 125 Oz. Oz. 213 33,608 "854 117,632 Wellington 46,447 163,501 3,009,015 11,234,843 3,055,462 11,398,344 County of Marlborough 188 706 188 706 Marlborough 87,654 341,479 87,654 341,479 County of Collingwood Waimea I Nelson 1,692,155 6,708,008 1,693,016 6,711,356 861 3,348 County of Buller Inangahua .. Grey „ Westland .. Borough of Kumara .. „ Hokitika .. Ross ■ West Coast - 4,105 13,767 9,842 5,195 16,425 55,066 39,342 20,780 39 675 "l57 2,699 33,623 134,469 4,775,674 19,003,554 4,809,297 19,138,021 County of Taieri Tuapeka „ Vincent Maniototo .. Waihemo .. Waitaki Lake Wallace Waikouaiti Bruce Clutha Fiord Southland .. Stewart Isl'd Canterbury 99 387 99 38' 854 10,580 9,922 3,597 1,382 398 2,416 1,846 3,411 42,405 39,693 14,462 5,582 1,548 9,754 7,451 Otago 60 "242 "250 5,716 i^ooo 23,131 37,021 148,679 23,821,515 6,044,536 I 23,970,194 Unknown 6,007,515 207 824 207 I 824 Totals .. 117,952 449,997 15,572,507 61,111,316 15,690,459 | 61,561,313 * Gold duty abolished in the South Island on 31st March, 1891, by " The Gold Duty Abolition Ace, 1890."

Quarter ended 31st March, 1903. Quarter ended ilst March, 1902. District of Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value. Auckland Marlborough Nelson West Coast Canterbury Otago Oz. 46,447 861 33,623 37i023 £ 163,501 134,469 Oz. 44,872 200 573 27,020 2 26,060 £ 160,586 800 2,293 108,102 7 104,911 148[679 Totals 117,954 449,997 98,727 376,699

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No. 10. Statement showing the Price of Gold per Ounce, Price charged per Ton for crushing Quartz or Cement, and Prices charged for Water per Sluice-head per Week, during the Year ending 31st December, 1902.

District. Price of Gold per Ounce. Price charged per Ton for crushing Quartz or Cement. Price charged for Water per Sluicehead per Week. Remarks. Auckland— Thames Coromandel Paeroa £ s. d. 2 16 0 £2 10s. to £3 2s. 6d. 4 4 0 £ s. d. 0 5 6 0 10 0 £ s. d. £3 to £4 Te Aroha Puhipuhi Tauranga 4 4 0 No public batteries; no water sold. No public batteries. None sold on field. No mines crushing. Mablborough—Havelock Blenheim 3 17 0 £3 12s. to £3 15s. 10 0 Nelson — Wangapeka Motueka.. Charleston Inangahua Collingwood Takaka Westport Murchison .. 1 Lyell .. .. J £3 lis. to £3 15s. 3 13 0 3 19 0 £3 18s. to £4 3 13 6 3 14 6 3 17 0 0 16 2 5 0 3 17 0 0 10 0 Westland —Hokitika, Kanieri, and! Waimea .. j Totara and Ross Stafford Greymouth Kumara 8 18 0 2 0 0 40 in. 3 18 0 3 18 0 3 18 0 3 18 0 0 12 0 1 10 0 0 10 0 1 0 0 20 in. oy 2 in. opening. Ahaura Okarito 3 18 6 8 18 0 0 10 0 10 0 Otago and Southland —Hindon Tuapeka.. Longwood Preservation and Waiau .. Orepuki and Round Hill .. Arrow (Wakatipu Goldfield) and Queenstown Mount Ida .. 1 Macrae's, Hyde .. I Hamilton, Serpentine ) Maerewhenua 3 16 6 3 17 6 3 10 6 3 15 6 3 18 6 3 17 0 0 15 0 3 0 0 0 8 0 20 in. by 2 in. 3 17 0 10 0 40 in. by 1 in. 3 17 0 10 0 20 in. by 2 in., 4 in. pressure. Cromwell Waikaia Tapanui Wyndham Roxburgh .. \ Clyde and Alexandra I Black's .. .. J Gore 3 17 0 3 17 6 3 17 6 £3 16s. to £3 18s. 0 8 0 0 4 0 1 15 0 3 17 6 J Wattjr used by I owners. 4 0 0

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No. 11. Return showing the Average Prices of Provisions and Live-stock for the Year ending 31st December, 1902.

LlVK-RTOCK. Meat. rl -C3 ffl at I « ffl 14 ri 0i U ffl rra o tr O I Cv ffl o "5 o O 6. X ai a x o a u O rH 'it Per I Per lb. I lb. be O Q 4 District. B ffl ' pq I I j j Per 1001b. Per lb. Per lb. Per qt. Per gall. Per lb. Per lb. | I Per lb. ! ! Per lb. | Per lb. Per Im. bushel. Per head. Per bead. Per head. Per head. Per head. Per lb. rT; Perlb - Per lb. Per gallon. Per. hhd. Auckland — Thames Paeroa.. Coromandel Tauranga Te Aroha Waihi Mablboeough — Blenheim Havelock Nelson — Wangapeka Collingwood Takaka Inangahua Lyell .. \ Murchison Westport Charleston Ahaura Westland — Stafford .. ) Waimea .. f Hokitika and Kanieri Ross Okarito Kumara Greymouth Otago — Hindon Tuapeka Tapanui Cromwell Clyde .. \ Alexandra Roxburgh Black's .. J Queenstown Wyndham Arrow (Wakatipu Goldfield) Mount Ida .. ) Nenthorn Waikaia Riverton and Orepuki Gore .. 90/ 80/ 90/ 90/ 80/ 95/ 27/ 27/ 25/ 30/ 27/ 27/6 d. li 2 If 2 2 /9 1/1 1/1 1/ 1/1 1/2 /6 /9 /6 /6 /8 /■4 /8 1/10 1/6 1/10 1/3-2/ 1/6 1/8-2/3 10/6 15/ 13/ 14/6 15/ 15/ 4/ 5/9 5/6 5/9 6/ £ 6 7 7 9 8 7 12/ 10/ £ 9-40 15-40 5-40 10 15-40 20-40 15/ 15/-20/ 12/6 12/ 17/6-20/ 15/ 40/ 40/-60/ 20/ 30/ ; 39/-60/ ■ 10/ d. 5 5 5 3-8 4-6 44 d. 4 44 5 3-5 4 44 d. 6 6 7 6 6 5 d. 3 4 4 3 3 4 d. 34l 24 2| 3 2J 3 d. 1 1 1 1 1 1 d. 3 24 2f 24 24 24 2/ 1/6 2/ 1/-2/10 1/6 1/-3/ 6/ 5/6 6/ 5/6-6/6 5/6 5/6 15/-20/ 18/ 17/6 18/ 18/ 40/-50/ '/9 /10 80/ 90/ 30/ 28/ 2 2£ 1/ /9 /10 /• /7 1/9 2/ 11/ 15/6 4/3 7/ 6 5-10 15 8-30 9/6 12/ 50/ 6 4i 5 6 5 3 3 3 1 1 3 3 2/ 2/ 5/3 6/ 18/ 28/ 85/ 85/ 90/ 110/ 30/ 26/ 25/ 26/ 2 2 2 2 /5-/10 /H /9 1/1 /8 /9 /8 /H /8 /8 /7 /8 1/8 1/9-2/6 1/9 2/ 17/ 15/ 14/ 15/ 5/6 5/6 5/3 4/6 5-7 4/10-5/10 3-6 7/10/0 12-30 10-50 5-45 30-70 12/-15/ 10/-12/ 10/ 20/ 30/-40/ 10/-25/ 15/-30/ 50/ 5 5-6 4 6 5 4-54 6 6 5-6 5 6 3 4 3 5 4 3 3 3 1 2 1 1 4 3 3 3 2/-3/ 1/10-2/6 1/2-2/6 2/ 2/ 1/9 1/10 2/ 8/ 6/ 6/ 6/ 16/ 14/ 15/-24 10/ 24 | I/ 2 1/ /9 I 2/ 20/ 7/6 6/10/0 7/6 25 17/6 1 45/ • • 6 6 4 • 3 6/ 20/ 80/ 81/ 112/6 26/ 26/ 25/ 2 1* 2 1/ 1/ 1/ /9 1/ /9 II /8 2/ 2/ 1/6 12/6 10/6 16/ 5/ 5/ 6/ 7/10/0 5 10-12 15/ 5/ 5/ 25 15/ 15-50 16/ 12/ 12/ 60/ 40/ 17/6 6 44 6 5 4 6 6 6 8 5 C 4 3 4 4 1 1 34 24 3 3 5/6 6/ 5/6-7/6 16/6 16/ 15/ 100/ 80/ 2 1/ 1/ /8 1/9 13/6 6/ 5/ 6/ 6/6 6/ 5/6 8 5/ 18 20/ 40/ 6 6 8 4 3 j i 3 2/ 6/ 26/ 100/ 120/ 174/ 85/ 90/ 25/ 24/6 30/ 23/6 26/ 2 2 3 2£ 2 1/ 1/3 1/6 1/3 1/2 1/ 1/ 1/3 1/ 1/1 /7 /8 /10 /8 /•l 1/6 2/ 2/ 1/6 1/9 14/ 12/6 18/ 17/6 12/ 10 10 8 8-14 3/10-9 5/' 26 20-50 18 9-30 9-45 20/ 18/6 20/ 18/ 10/-15/ 60/ 50/ 40/-100/ 21/-67/ 8 8 54 8 5-8 7 6-8 34 8 4-8 8 8 7 7 4 6 4 24 3 4 3 3 1 2 2 2 ij 3 31 31 3 21 1/9 2/ 3/ 2/ 2/ 5/6 6/6 7/-8/ 5/ 15/ 15/ 15/ 22/ 16/6 90/ 26/ 2 14 If 24 1/3 1/ /8 1/2 .10-1/ /10 1/ /9 /6 /7 /8 2/3 1/10 1/7 1/9 16/ 14/ 8/6 2/6 H 3/ 6-12 5 9 9 12-40 10-30 20-40 15-55 12/-16/ 10/ 14/ 12/6-18/6 20/-40/ 60/ 40/ 4-8 5 7 7 44 3 4 6 *6 41 4 4 3 3 4 34 3 24 3 14 1 1 14 3*1 31 24 31 I 2/3 2/ 1/9 2/ 6/ 5/6 5/2 5-7/6 18/, 100/ 27/ 18/ 120/ 28/ 1| 1/3 1/2 /8 1/9 13/ 5/ 2/10-6 7-45 5/-17/ 40/ 6 5 8 2 ii 3 2/ 57-7/ 22/ 80/ 100/ 100/ 28/ 28/ 28/ 2 If 2i 1/ 1/ 1/2 1/4 1/ /8 /10 /9 1/ /8 /6 /8 1/9 1/9 1/9 15/ 8/6 15/6 3/ 3/ 3/ 3 5 7 io'/' 25 15-50 28 10/ 12/ 13/ 40/ 60/ 50/ 6 4-9 7 6 4-7 5 8 5 7 4 4 4 3 3 3 1 1 3 3 3 2/ 1/8-2/6 1/9 6/ 5/ 5/3 5/3-6/ 28/ 22/6 20/ 102/ 90/ 90/ 100/ 27/-42/ 30/ 33/ 28/ 2 2i If 2 1/ /10 /6 /8 /9 /• /6 1/6-2/3 2/ 1/6 1/ 17/6 18/ 1*/ 8/ 6/ 5/' 2/ 8-11 6-9 12 6 25/ 12-45 10-30 20 25 16/-19/ 12/-18/ 17/ 12/ 5S/-65/ 28/-30/ 25/ 40/ 6-8* 2 I 8 7 3 5-6 I 6 5 3 7-8 6 8 5 5 4 3 34 3 4 24 2 2 2 1 1 3 4 2,} 34 1/6-2/4 1/9-3/ 2/ 2/4 6/ 5/ 5/6 18/-25/ 20/ 20/ 18/

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No. 12. Table showing the Average Rate of Wages per Week for the Year ending 31st December, 1902.

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District. General Managers. Legal Managers. Mining Managers. Engineers. Enginedrivers. Stokers. Blacksmiths. Carpenters. Miners. Labourers. Bovb. Chinese. Agricultural Labourers. Domestic Servants. Auckland — Coromandel .. Thame* Te Aroha Paeroa Tauranga Waihi £ s. d. ; £410s.to£lo! £500 to £1000 10 0 0 £150 to £1200 £ s. d. 2 5 0 £1 to £2 £l'to£2 £ s. d. 4 0 0 £3 to £5 5 0 0 £4 to £8 4 10 0 £4 to £8 £ s. d. 3 0 0 3 0 0 £4 to £6 3 10 0 £4 to £6 £ s. d. 2 15 0 2 14 0 £2/10 to £3 3 0 0 £2/10 to £3 I £ s. d. 2 8 0 2 8 0 £2/5-£2/ll 2 5 0 £2/5-£2/ll I £ s. d. 2 14 0 2 10 0 3 0 0 £2/14 to £3 2 10 0 £2/14 to £3 £ s. d. 2 14 0 2 14 0 2 18 6 £2/17 to £3 3 0 0 £2/17 to £3 £ s. d. 2 8 0 2 8 0 2 8 0 £2/8 to £3 2 14 0 £2/8 to £3 £ s. d. 2 5 0 2 2 0 2 8 0 £2/5 to £2/8 2 2 0 £2/5 to £2/8 £ s. d. 1 10 0 0 10 0 1 10 0 0 15 0 1 10 0 £ s. d. ' £ s. d. 1 16 0 1 10 0 £1 to £1/10 15 0 2 0 0 10/ 5/ to 15/ 5/ to 15/ 12/ 10/ to 15/ £150 to £1200 £1 to £2 Mablbobough — Havelock Blenheim 3 10 0 3 10 0 2 10 0 2 14 0 3 0 0 2 8 0 2 8 0 2 14 0 2 10 0 3 0 0 2 14 0 2 14 0 2 14 0 2 2 0 2 8 0 0 12 0 1 10 0 ,£1 and found 8/to 15/ 8/ to 15/ Nelson — Collingwood .. Takaka Inangahua Charleston Westport Lyell and Murchison .. Ahaura £6 to £8 5 0 0 £1 to £2 £6 to £8 £4 to £10 5 0 0 4 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 £3/10 to £4 4 0 0 5 0 0 3 0 0 2 10 0 £3/10 to £4 3 12 0 3 0 0 3 10 0 3 10 0 2 10 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 2 8 0 2 10 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 2 5 0 £3/10 to £4 3 10 0 3 0 0 3 10 0 3 12 0 2 17 0 2 14 0 £3/10 to £4 3 10 0 3 12 0 3 5 0 3 12 0 2 14 0 2 8 0 £2/17 to £3 3 0 0 2 14 0 2 15 0 3 0 0 £2/8 to £3 2 2 0 2 11 0 2 14 0 2 8 0 2 0 0 2 8 0 15/ to 20/ 15/ and found 1 10 0 15/and found 1 10 0 10 0 1 10 0 £2/5 to £3 10 0 £1 to £1/5 £1/5 & found 8/ to 15/ 8/ 5/to 20/ 10/ and foun( 12/-20/ founc 12/ 9/ 10/' to 20/ 4 0 0 4 0 0 015 0 '.'. 15 0 10 0 i io o Westland — Waimea and Stafford .. Hokitika and Kanieri .. Ross Kumara Greymouth Okarito 6 0 0 5 0 0 6 0 0 10 0 10 0 1 10 0 2 0 0 £1 to £2 5 0 0 4 0 0 6 0 0 4 0 0 £4 to £6 4 10 0 3 10 0 4 0 0 4 10 0 3 10 0 £3 to £5 4 10 0 2 15 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 3 10 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 3 12 0 3 10 0 £3 to £3/10 £3 to £3/10 3 12 0 2 15 0 3 12 0 3 10 0 £3 to £4 10/tol4/adav 3 12 0 2 10 0 2 14 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 £2/10 to £3 2 14 0 2 8 0 2 14 0 3 0 0 2 18 0 7/to 10/ a day 2 14 0 0 10 0 1 10 0 10 0 8/ to 20/ 2 0 0 15 0 10 0 10 0 12/ 10/ to 15/ 12/6 7/ to 15/ 5/ to 15/ 10/ 2 10 0 2 8 0 20/-30/' found £1 to£2 found £1/5 & found Otago and Southland — Hindon Tuapeka Tapanui Cromwell Clyde .. | Alexandra Black's Roxburgh .. J Waikaia Orepuki and Riverton .. Arrow Queenstown Mount Ida Gore.. Wyndham 5 0 0 6 0 0 1 I 4 10 0 1 11 3 2 0 0 £1 to £4 1 10 0 4 10 0 3 10 0 4 10 0 4 10 0 5 0 0 £4 to £5 3 5 0 £4 to £4/10 4 0 0 3 0 0 2 10 0 3 5 0 3 10 0 3 0 0 2 2 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 2 14 0 2 14 0 £3 to £3/10 4 0 0 3 0 0 2 14 0 3 0 0 4 0 0 2 14 0 2 2 0 2 8 0 3 0 0 £2/8 to £3 2 8 0 2 0 0 2 2 0 £2 to £2/10 2 8 0 0 10 0 10 0 0 15 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 1 16 0 £1/5 to £1/10 18/ co 30/ and found 15 0 £60 iier ann. nnd found 10/ to 12/ 10/ 6/ to 15/ 7/6 to 15/ 5 0 0 6 0 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 £40 per an n. 0 10 0 0 10 0 4 0 0 3 0 0 4 0 0 4 0 0 4 0 0 4 0 0 4 0 0 3 0 0 4 0 0 4 0 0 4 0 0 4 0 0 2 10 0 2 10 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 3 12 0 2 8 0 2 5 0 2 10 0 2 10 0 2 14 0 2 8 0 3 0 0 2 10 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 2 8 0 2 2 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 2 8 0 3 0 0 2 2 0 2 2 0 2 8 0 2 8 0 2 2 0 2 8 0 7/ a day 0 16 0 0 15 0 0 12 0 0 15 0 10/ to 15/ 10 0 10 0 1 10 0 2 5 0 1 16 0 12 6 15 0 15 0 £1 and found £1/5 & found 2 2 0 £1/5 & found 12/6 12/6 12/6 12/6 7/ to 12/ 10/ 12/ 15 0 3 0 0 0 10 0 •• •■ •■

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No. 13. Number of Machines employed in Alluvial and Quartz-mining, and the Value thereof, for the Year ending 31st December, 1902.

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ichi: tery emplo. 'ed in Alluvi ial tini: lg. Machii lery em; >loyi id i Qui irtz-i lin: ing. District. Steamengines employed winding, crushing, &c. III 9 a 3 a R3 ■a 3 j*. CD D h O B0 ft 13 a a aS OS3 H CD ft I a 3 a CD S3 * 3 9 QE2 O H o o3 H ui * £ d d cdO II la o (A 0 « a O Q 1-3 03 05 5 I 3 o 3 a 1 'A Steamengines employed winding, crushing, &c. 3 r2 o a q rS tn rH •3 ca CD S3 ir 3 ■fl $ CO I h 3 I u >. Oh u o DO a Approximate Value of all Mining Plant included in this Beturn. AggreNo. gate 3 7; a ■a o Jr 7: 1 AggreNo. gate h.p. oq I m 'fl rH a ■ a h .UCKLAND — Paeroa Coromandel Thames Te Aroha Waihi 17 20 27 25 1,402 900 1,252 65 3,594 11 7 1 4 340 30 462 10 345 10 1 53 2 9 32 187 £ 157,810 43,000 180,162 2,700 257,640 641,312 Totals 89 7,213 23 1,187 75 219 Iablboeough— Wakamarina Cullen's Creek Waikakaho Blenheim 2 16 26 2 3,000 4 2 2 21 1 2,500 Totals 2 16 30 2 2 3 2 20 1 5,500 Ielson — Wangapeka Collingwood Takaka Inangahua Charleston Lyell Murchison Westport Ahaura "2 "24 95 80 422 47 700 6 1 10 3 71 6 8 26 500 1 5 2 6 3 *3 24 1 27 5 '758 '2 22 '2 28 440 30 i 22 2 3 05 8,000 70,000 216,362 800 29,000 18,000 11,500 74,000 1 6 1 20 i 22 i 2 44 11 7 2 Totals 2 24 1,341 14 625 37 4 46 28 763 35 553 32! 65 427,662 Vestlanh — Stafford RossHokitika and Kanieri Greymouth Kumara 3 8 8,000 20 100 1,600 150 7 3 100 13 130 600 90 4 2 30 1 a 6 5 3 1 48,000 22,200 6,000 68,000 25,000 i 60 2 6 10 4 4 Totals 1 4 60 3 9,87i 12 933 36 23 6 5 31 169,200 (tago and Southland Tapanui .. :. Hindon Tuapeka Cromwell Clyde and Alexandra Roxburgh Black's Orepuki, Riverton, and Preservation Waikaia (Switzers) Arrow Queenstown Naseby Kyeburn and Clarke's Hamilton's and Sowburn Hyde and Fullerton's Macrae's, Strath Taieri, and Shag ValleySerpentine St. Bathan's, Ida Valley, &c. Gore V 2 1 •■ 12 27 5 2 2 360 1,600 275 200 150 400 "I '5 25 3 25 8 10 30 50 4 5 2 1 23 24 57 1 3 4 3 1 'i 20 1 2 a 4 3 i 1 16 16 40 32 42 8 5 3 7 2 5 31 15 34 15 20 "so 75 2! ii 1 2,000 710 80,000 171,000 375,000 6,000 26,000 20,000 46,000 42,000 34 109 3 61 18 89 29 70,000 •• Totals 34 2 I 3,096J 14 146 20 3l I 16 184 -12 1 2 838,710 44 11 212 41 309 SUMMARY. i .uckland larlborough felson Vestland Itago .. 4 6 5 .. 2 6 11 89 7,213 23 2 35 1,187 20 553 75 1 32 3 12 219 641,312 5,500 427,662 169,200 838,710 2 2 1 5 16 24 4 44 60 34 8 2 30 1,344 9,870 3,096 14 12 11 2 625 933 212 2 36 14 3 37 23 146 46 28 763 3 1 2 65 20 "s 16 'l84 41 309 'i Totals 10 94 3 10 14,340 37 1,772 52 209 66 3 133 8,160 101 123! 284 2,082,384 88 2,069|

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No. 14 Table showing approximately the Number, Description, and Value of the Water-races, Tail-races, Dams, Reservoirs, and Ground-sluices in Operation during the Year ending 31st December, 1902.

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Wm ter-races. Tail ■races. ims. Rest jrvoirs. Groui id-slaices. Approximate Total Cost. District. Approximate Cost. Approximate Cost. Approximate Cost. .No. Length in Miles. No. of Sluiceheads. Approximate Cost. No. Approximate Cosl. No. No. No. Auckland— Coiomandel Thames.. Te Aroha Paeroa 8 10 2 1.4 6 25 2 8 19 160 20 99 £ 7,300 58,000 3,000 14,550 2 7 £ 50 360 2 70 £ 340 770 2 £ 5,000 £ £ 7,690 64,130 3,000 18,550 "l i,'6oo "7 3^000 Totals 48 41 298 82,850 10 1,410 79 4,110 5,000 93,370 Mablbobough— Blenheim Havelock 23 12 17 11 110 24 3,300 674 7 2| 165! 25! 5! 2 i '25 3,465 774 "50 Totals 35 28 134 3,974 190! 50 25 4,239 Nelson — Wangapeka, Baton, and Sherry Collingwood Inangahua Charleston Westport Lyell Murchison Ahaura Motueka Takaka 2 102 498 109 243 102 230 168 7 7 3 125 399 131 153 98 172 332 11 44 3 98 3,607 484 1,289 223 842 1,435 31 45 100 129,116 162,158 32,094 17,485 9,300 4,970 142,807 1,220 2,250 1 68 544 121 190 24 69 73 5 6 50 7,995 52,395 10,487 24,577 2,425 2,200 17,344 275 100 73 618 299 403 23 57 75 3 8 10,984 23,293 8,947 17,250 2,375 3,400 2,709 80 160 1 86 30 380 180 148,095 237,846 51,908 59,312 14,100 10,570 162,860 1,575 2,510 Totals 1,468 1,468 8,057 501,500 1,101 117,848 1,559 69,198 87 410 688,956 Westland — Hokitika & Kanieri Ross Kumara Greymouth Okarito Stafford 306 143 192 481 5 207 197 115 108 429 8 302 641 550 455 1,930 56 450 151,640 59,905 3,153 15,245 4,350 30,000 128 160 192 811 3,330 1,500 6,400 19,083 312 76 68 1,021 2 306 3,140 2,050 4,650 13,766 70 5,300 11 7,000 6 30 700 600 158,110 64,155 21,803 48,094 4,420 51,400 208 10,000 io 2,000 2 4,100 Totals 1,334 1,159 1,499 40,313 1,785 28,976] 21 9,000 38 5,400 347,982 4,082 264,293 Otago and South land — Hindon .. .. Tuapeka Tapanui Clyde, Alexandra, Black's, and Roxburgh Arrow Cromwell Waikaia Riverton and Orepuki Queenstown Naseby Kyeburn & Clarke's Hamilton's and Sowburn Hyde & Pullerton's Macrae's, Strath Taieri, and Shag Valley Serpentine St. Bathan's and Ida Valley Wyndham Gore 50 325 1 642 98 564 230 128 145 50 910 2 1,599 172 1,450 440 206 233 200 1,835 4 2,751 192 2,236 900 864 824 10,000 17,700 100 95,650 13,969 103,765 40,000 38,750 61,575 10 435 393 129 308 200 53 160 140 9,500 19,200 4,693 14.64S 2,000 4,435 9,950 6 313 168 23 237 121 43 45 702 7,200 201000 1,395 11,130 2,500 1,035 1,945 2 2 7,500 10 20 62 800 10,904 34,400 100 142,350 20,057 129,543 45,300 44,220 73,470 601 1,285 2,778 36,800 653 16,470 295 13,500 66,770 4,830 3,500 15 9 17 26 92 50 4,830 950 2,'500 "3 "50 Totals .. j ,808 6,390 12,726 424,089 2,343 83,536 1,254 59,457 7,500 30 862 575,444 SUMMARY. Auckland .. Marlborough Nelson Westland .. Otago 43 41 35 28 1,4681,468 1,334 1,159 2,808 6,390 298 134 8,057 4,082 12,726 82,850 3,974 501,500 264,293! 424,089 10 9 1,101 !l,499 2,343 1,410 190 117,848 40,313 83,536 77 7 1,559 'l,785 1,254 4,110 2 50 1 69,198 .. 28,976 21 59,457, 4 5,000 25 9,000 7,500 87 38 30 410 5,400 862 93,870 4,239 688,956 347,982 575,444 Totals 5,688 9,086 25,297 1,276,706 4,962 243,297 4,682 161,791 28 21,525 155 6,672 1,709,991

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No. 15. Return of Cases in the Wardens' Courts, and Costs awarded, for the Year ending 31st December, 1902.

District. Number of Mining Disputes adjudicated on. Aggregate Ami Claimed. lunt of Value. Recovered. Amount of Costs awarded. ■S 3* 6 rirr'S 2 SJ S s si a 3: it »r?8t; Bri^ Auckland— Coromandel Thames Te Aroha Paeroa Waihi 4 48 £ s. d. 2,606 16 1 £ s. d. 905' 3 5 £ s. d. 35 0 0 9 6 0 4 16 14 7 127' 0 2 595 12 3 82 14 1 212 5 9 33 6 0 9 18 0 3 Maelboeough 13 84 15 0 51 15 0 4 13 0 1 Nelson — Inangahua Collingwood Lyell and Murchison Westport Charleston Takaka Wangapeka 5 5 18 25 2,592 10 0 1,715 1 6 446 8 7 571 7 7 2,492 10 0 7 13 6 53 8 1 167 18 0 56 19 0 81 15 6 34 2 0 23 8 6 3 5 9 17 6 9 17 6 0 10 0 Westland— Kumara Greymouth Hokitika and Kanieri Stafford Ross Ahaura Okarito 26 10 6 476 7 8 800 8 8 187 16 0 6 18 0 252 2 8 711 8 8 27 6 0 6 18 2 10 0 5 7 0 13 6 0 3 2 2 23 1 85 14 7 182 16 7 51 0 0 82 7 6 51 0 0 36 3 0 1 3 0 "i •' 3 Canteebuby— Ashburton Otago and Southland— Tapanui Hindon Tuapeka Cromwell Roxburgh .. .. 1 Black's Clyde and Alexandra . .* J Waikaia Orepuki, Longwood, and Riverton .. Arrow (Wakatipu Goldfield) Queenstown Gore Mount Ida Wyndham 18 52 18 10 14 43 33 13 21 18 11 3 1,102 16 7 410 15 4 150 0 0 is'11 3 345 16 3 322 11 0 10 0 0 2115 0 56 14 6 32 6 0 5 0 0 10 434 7 7 141 0 0 254 6 0 586 14 0 76 7 6 414 7 7 103 6 8 140 7 2 57 2 3 44 15 0 30 3 0 26 4 0 17 6 10 3 6 0 1 14 0 30 22 ' 2 1 Totals 473 13,629 14 4 6,570 9 .0 544 18 6 201

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No. 16. Return of the Number of Mining Leases or Licenses in Force on the 31st December, 1902, the Extent of Ground leased or held under License, and Rental per Annum.

aning .eases. District. No. Gross Acreage. p^J^. Auckland — Coromandel Thames Te Aroha Paeroa Tauranga Waihi .. 91 142 19 73 A. B, P. 2,117 0 0 7,213 2 3 1,070 1 14 4,450 0 20 £ s. d. 423 0 0 1,636 1 6 391 9 0 1,147 7 6 '54 4,238 3 0 1,191 10 0 Mablboeough— Havelock Blenheim 8 30 355 2 29 1,463 3 33 66 0 6 400 7 6 Nelson— Collingwood Inangahua Charleston Ahaura Lyell Murchison Westport Motueka 6 111 33 180 42 50 62 1 938 3 4 6,178 0 1 878 2 12 9,129 2 0 1,029 0 0 928 0 0 3,014 3 2 30 0 0 54 15 0 1,570 16 6 114 4 6 1,763 16 6 217 10 0 198 12 6 884 12 0 11 5 0 Westland — Hokitika and Kanieri Kumara Greymouth Ross Okarito 89 66 97 41 15 3,661 0 0 1,312 3 20 3,408 0 0 2,334 0 0 766 0 0 749 11 6 316 5 0 549 7 0 543 7 6 124 1 6 Otago and Southland — Cromwell Hindon Black's .. Clyde and Alexandra Roxburgh Naseby Arrow (Wakatipu Goldfield) Queenstown Riverton and Orepuki 19 8 | 138 436 0 0 178 0 0 7,820 0 0 105 17 0 68 5 0 1,900 15 0 131 581 555 33 1,729 0 10 2,782 2 11 3,364 2 2 2,189 0 0 506 5 0 304 2 6 400 10 0 109 9 0 Totals .. 2,675 73,017 0 1 15,749 4 0

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Name of Company, Amount v.i« on fo„rin Dateof Subscribed of Biven to Share- Number Amount Eegistra- S £™ D 7 tal Capital h f 5*" °n whfch of Sllares P aid U P tion. Capital. actually holders on which allotted per Share. paid up. no uasn paia - Number XT .. rif RharV Number Arrears of Calls. h 0 iS£"! t of Men Quantity and Value of Gold or _, Silver produced since Total Expendi- . lotal Registration. ture since A™°" nt ° f - - -, Kegistration. Dividends Quantity. Value. P aid - Amount of Debts owing by Company. Quantity. Value. Big Beetle Gold-mining Co. (No Liability) Broken Hill Gold mining Co. (Ltd ) Bunker's Hill Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Chelmsford Gold mining Co. (Ltd.) Coromandel Freehold Proprietary Gold-mining Co. (No Liability) Eclipse (Ltd.) Golden Belt Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Hauraki Freeholds (Ltd.) Hauraki No. 2 Gold-mining Co. (No Liability) .. Kapowai Gold mining Co. (No Liability) Klondyke Gold-mining Co. (No Liability) Komata Bonanza Gol''-mining Co. (Ltd.) Komata Reefs Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.).. Kuranui Gold-mining Co. (Ltd. I Maratoto Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) May Queen Extended Gold-mining Co. (ho Liability New Alpha Gold-mining Co. (No Liability) New Four-in-hand Uold-mining Co. (Ltd.) New Whau Gold-mining Co. (No Liability) Pride of Waihi Gold mining Co. (Ltd.) Puru Consolidated Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Rising Sun Gold-mining Co. (No Liability) Tairua Broken Hills Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Taniwha Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Thames Talisman Gold-mining Go. (Ltd.) Victoria Gold-mining Co. (No Liability) Waihi Beaoh United Gold - mining Co. (No Liability) Waihi Consolidated (Ltd.) Waihi Consols Gold mining Co. (No Liability) .. Waihi Extended Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Waihi South Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Waihui Gold mining Go. (No Liability) Waiotahi Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Welcome Jack Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.).. 31/7/01 16/1/95 21/6/95 28/9/99 11/11/95 £ 5,000 13,500 18,000 8,000 18,750 £ 1,285 3,469 11,000 5,715 10,313 £ 250 6,000 1,000 AUCKL 1 100,000 90,000 80,000 80,000 150,000 AND DI £ s. d. 0 0 34 5/ <fe 3/ 2/ & 1/9 0 0 04. STRICT. £ s. d. 124 12 1 36 15 3 6 12 3 409 13 2 74 108 283 105 172 5 16 31 Oz. 96 2,173 £ 289 8,663 3,972 £ 1,014 3,892 18,149 10,397 11,326 £ I i £ 26 70 375 1,203 54 19/11/98 12/8/02 25/1/99 10/7/95 19/6/00 21/10/02 1/2/02 16/10/00 12/9/95 17/11/00 12/11/95 7,500 8,080 18,300 12,000 5,000 7,500 4,150 100,000 15,000 5,000 15,000 6,750 1,080 7,151 3,528 413 755 750 4,000 1,818 250 91 150,000 80,800 366,000 80,000 100,000 30,000 41,502 400,000 56,850 100,000 95,000 0 10 1/3 & 2/ 0 2 5 0 0 11 0 3 3 108"6 8 152 14 9 11 25 332 20 31 26 144 285 69 121 92 6 12 2 4 6 5 83 7 6 6 225 15,393 42 27 524 I 22,516 977 7,323 4,218 386 827 19,800 6,004 3,832 6,596 625 I 1 135 15 Nil. 2 7 218 60 1,591 241 90 292 5,275 3,750 5,952 •• •• 0 5 0 0 1 10 0 0 9 0 1 5§ 74 7 6 66 8 2 362 10 0 50,'481 732 mm 557 4/4/01 30/6/98 30/3/95 15/1/01 17/7/97 16/10/95 12/7/99 12/9/01 28/6/00 2/9/90 12/10/98 4,745 22,500 18,750 50,000 24,563 18,000 14,500 4,100 2,900 25,600 6,375 2,537 22,500 6,559 1,250 9,634 14,500 1,737 1,415 15,590 1,060 591 1,464 1,250 7,915 1,900 94,905 90,000 125,000 100,000 65,500 89,484 145,000 41,000 58,000 128,000 127,500 0 0 10J 0 5 0 1/4J&1/5J 0 0 6 0 5 5 0 1 1^ 0 2 0 0 11 0 0 7 0 3 2J 0 0 6 172 11 5 8418 4 1,010 3 9 39 150 78 160 134 58 144 57 27 142 140 1 10 2 4 4 50 12 4 8 5,307 167 14,146 145 15,464 440 1,090 26,868 346 1,660 14,641 7,404 938 10,276 3,957 26,787 2,819 1,981 26,263 2,811 4^500 8 j 948 1,422 160 48 27 39 11 424 934 94 Nil. 4 .. 484 1 10 276 9 2 360 14 7 3,187 12!524 1 23/3/00 18/10/95 12/8/95 13/6/95 7/12/00 1/8/71 9/3/00 25,000 16,200 149,967 19,800 2,250 18,000 5,000 1,042 10,355 12,905 10,801 949 15,000 2,438 15,000 50 5,498 7,350 208 100,000 162,000 149,967 132,000 60,000 6,000 100,000 0 3 2| 0 0 0J 0 2 74 0 2 10 0 0 4 2 10 0 0 0 6J 1,279 8 1 549 3 4 157 16 1 141 431 203 52 47 73 1 14 6 2 17 8 • • • 1,369 10,529 13,240 12,252 801 150,950 5,314 65 46 175 60 7 57 12 500 66 1715 185 j858 2,059 313,065 39 j 300 - I Totals 689,030 196,711 60,672 3,774,508 5,717 6 5 3,977 332 142,301 411,249 53,378 7,964 ■■

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Name of Company. Date of Registration. Subscribed Capital. Amount of Capital actually paid up. Value of Scrip given to Shareholders on which no Cash paid. Number Amount of Shares paid up allotted, per Share. Nombef Number Arrears of Calls. g$£fc of Men present. eniPlc.ye.fl Quantity and Value of Gold or Silver produced since Registration. 1 " Amount of RegUtSn. Wjg»* Amount of Debts owing Company. Quantity. Value. Al Golddredging Co. (Ltd.) Addison's Long Tunnel Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Aldinga Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Alpine Extended Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Amikitea Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd) Aorere River Gold dredging Co. (Ltd.) Atlas Prospeoting and Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) .. Bignell'8 No Town Golddredging Co. (Ltd.) Big River Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Blackwater River Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Boatman's Creek Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Britannia Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Buller Junction Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Cillaghan's Creek Golddredging Co. (Ltd.) Claughesy's Freehold Golddredging Co. (Ltd.) .. Commissioners' Flat Golddredging Co. (Ltd.) .. Cornwall Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Craig's Freehold Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Daylight Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Erickson's Reward Gold dredging Co. (Ltd.) Feddersen Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Garden Gully Gold mining Co. (Ltd.) .. Glenroy Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Golden Lead Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Golden United Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Great Lead Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Gretnstone Creek Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd) Greenstone Junction Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd. .. Greenstone Sluioing Co. (Ltd.) Grey River Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Grey River No. 2 Gold dredging Co. (Ltd.) Grey River Consols Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Hokitika River Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Industry Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Kaituna River Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Karamea Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Keep-it-Dark Quartz mining Co. (Ltd.) Kello Sluicing Co. (Ltd.) Kirwan's Reward Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Kohikohi Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Kohinoor Gold-dredg'ng Co. (Ltd.) Leviathan Golddredging Co. (Ltd.) Major Robin Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Maori King Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Minerva Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) 13/11/99 24/9/98 23/5/00 25/8/97 20/3/01 8/3/01 4/8/02 10/4/00 11/4/91 27/4/00 28/8/02 3/3/99 8/6/99 25/5/00 26/4/00 3/4/00 18/6/00 20/8/00 15/5/00 24/10/99 5/3/01 8/8/01 4/7/02 3/5/02 7/4/00 11/9/99 10/10/99 22/9/99 22/1/89 10/3/99 9/5/00 18/1/01 31/8/99 31/5/02 10/4/01 25/7/02 2/3/74 7/4/02 8/3/98 27/5/00 15/2/00 3/10/99 25/4/00 30/3/00 24/2/90 £ 8,500 1,330 6,750 25,000 12,500 8,915 21,000 8,000 12,000 6,475 10,120 10,000 8,125 7,500 7,100 13,500 9,800 6,500 6,000 7,255 11,000 965 2,200 6,000 6,500 7,500 9,000 7,500 7,000 6,500 7,500 10,000 13,000 12,000 8,077 2,574 20,000 1,475 56,000 12,000 15,000 12,000 6,750 5,500 12 000 £ 6,700 1,125 6,750 5,417 6,677 6,424 223 3,506 7,065 5,423 3,423 1,713 8,125 5,750 2,090 8,990 9,765 3,414 4,243 7,201 8,840 894 443 284 5,182 5,390 8,976 7,500 2,703 6,500 602 428 9,927 580 5,608 1,222 6,208 1,438 3,092 9,500 12,484 12,000 1,513 4,581 6,670 NELSON -- . "83 2,250 2,000 3J0OO 3,000 4,000 1,250 1,875 1,600 3,000 1,200 2,500 2,000 2,000 2,000 8,000 850 DISTRICT (INCLUDING WEST COAST) £ s. d. £ s. d. 8,500 10 0 .. 127 1,500 Various 40 11 0 24 9,000 10 0 .. 191 50,000 0 2 2 .. 175 12,500 0 16 0 1,323 0 0 103 8,915 Various 491 6 0 166 21,000 0 0 3 39 11 8 18 11,100 10 0 4,494 1 0 175 24,000 0 6 0 435 1 0 72 9,475 Various 404 10 0 122 10,120 Various 1,167 4 3 60 20,000 0 6 11| 48 14 6 17 12,500 0 15 0 .. 126 12,500 0 11 6 .. 75 8,700 Various 2,170 0 0 116 13,500 10 0 .. 83 11,000 10 0 .. 108 9,000 0 12 0 480 12 0 116 8,000 10 0 171 10 0 66 9,255 10 0 54 2 6 191 11,000 Various 114 15 0 78 8,965 Various 71 10 0 52 3,050 0 6 0 247 10 0 18 24,000 0 0 3 16 0 0 23 6,500 10 0 1,318 4 6 97 5,500 Various 15 0 0 100 10,976 10 0 .. 160 12,000 0 15 0 .. 135 7,000 0 11 6 .. 29 8,500 10 0 .. 197 10,000 0 2 0. 148 7 0 120 10,000 0 2 0 321 15 0 60 13,000 10 0 72 11 0 252 24,000 0 0 7 95 14 7 68 8,077 Various 426 2 6 108 2,574 0 14 0 579 8 0 47 20,000 0 6 2J .. 54 2,725 10 0 37 10 0 17 56,000 0 1 1J .. 85 12,000 10 0 .. 114 15,000 10 0 16 0 0 165 24,000 20/& 5/ .. 359 6,750 0 8 0 1,187 0 0 137 6,200 10 0 80 10 0 73 17,285 0 6 3 18 3 4 18 7 9 28 9 5 3 8 1 9 7 8 8 16 8 7 2 1 2 1 1 7 9 Oz. 1,876 1,028 310 9,407 51 23 1620 1,345 2,375 765 156 901 744 1,285 £ 7,421 4,057 1,179 36,379 199 94,936 5,263 9,246 3,048 623 2,554 2,980 5|i63 £ 13,985 5,108 10,176 43,656 9,246 6,087 243 3.203 58,955 5,482 2,937 4,693 15,414 8,307 1,792 12,163 11,529 3,880 4,321 14,050 10,728 871 328 415 2,600 7,363 12,595 15,258 19,011 11,111 499 417 14,807 700 7,175 1,089 347,464 1,597 17,418 14,278 15,343 19,299 772 4,817 11,001 £ 1,275 177 46,200 2,258 938 313 £ Nil. 317 2,496 466 2,659 600 50 23 88 25 80 86 119 35 14 1,587 577 2,625 115 977 367 55 592 169 2,000 2,729 298 156 Nil. 383 Nil. 155 816 78 1,500 654 66 180 500 2,034 1,300 270 Nil. 262 77 2,000 1,500 2,300 2,000 2,500 2,500 3,000 5 885 2,076 4,036 1,357 20 3,486 8,050 15,868 5,160 i 1,925 1,063 2|000 7 2 8 1,042 29 191 4,061 83 705 1,250 2,500 2,500 3,000 51 8 30 13 8 8 83,001 6,711 844 744 2,159 319,933 26,905 2,999 2,920 8,386 123 i417 11^900 1,500 1,500 400 6 1 46 821 180 2,947

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Name of Company. T,„t„ „f Amount Value of Scrip Reeirtra- Subscribed c °J tal given to Share- *<££» Capital gX whjeh Number Amount of Shares paid up Arrears of Calls, allotted, per Share. Nnmhor Quantity and Value of Gold or nf «tV«V« Number Silver produced since present - Quantity. Value. Total Expenditure since Total Amount of Dividends paid. Amount of Debts owing by Company. Quantity. Value. NELSON DISTRICT (INCI UD1NG WEST COAST)—continued Mokoia Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Mont d'Or Gold-mining and Water-raoe Co. (Ltd.) Montgomery's Terraoe Hydraulic Sluicing Co. (Ltd.) Moonlight Gold dredging Co. (Ltd.) Mosquito Gold dredging Co. (Ltd.) Mofquito No. 2 Gold dredging Co. (Ltd.) Mount Paparoa Gold mining Co. (No Liability) Nelson Creek Gold-dredsing Co. (Ltd.) Neville and Perkins Hydraulic SluicingCo. (Ltd.) New Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) New Scotia Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Nine-mile Creek Sluicing Co. (Ltd.) North Beach Golddredging Co. (Ltd) .. No Town Creek Gold-dredgmg Co. (Ltd.) Pactolus Gold-dredgin» Co. (Ltd.) Parapara Flat Gohi-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Piano Fiat Hydraulic Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) .. Premier (Buller) Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Prince of Wales Dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. Red Jack's Gold-dr.dging Co (Ltd.) .. Red Queen Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Reeves's Proprietary Gold dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. Rocklands Beach Gold dredging Co. (Ltd.) Rocklands King Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Shetland Terrace Sluicing Co. (Ltd.) .. Slate River Sluicing Co. (Ltd.) Snowy Creek United Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Stafiord-Waimea Gold dredging Co. (Ltd.) Sullivan's Lead Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Taffy Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Takaka Sluicing Co. (Ltd.) .. Three-mile (Greenstone Creek) Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Trafalgar Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Victory Gold-dredging Co (Ltd.) Waiwhero Sluioing and Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Wanganui-Wataroa Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. Wangapeka Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. Watterson'B-Ahaura Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Welcome Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Westland Water-supply, Electrio Power, and Golddredging Co. (Ltd.) Woodstock Golddredging Co. (Ltd.) 21/4/99 25/7/82 28/9/00 £ 9,000 12,000 17,500 £ 7,750 10,800 11,382 £ 1,250 9,000 12,000 5,500 22,900 £ s. d. £ b. d. 10 0 0 18 0 10 0 337 17 6 222 28 147 8 18 1 Oz. 2,174 26,898 33 8,052 102,798 127 £ 15,410 78,219 12,686 £ 37^800 £ 311 1,500 70 7/5/00 24/4/00 24/4/01 3/2/02 1/7/99 6/2/01 12/12/01 10/4/00 27/9/01 27/2/00 9/3/00 31/8/99 26/7/01 20/12/98 9/3/00 17/10/99 26/4/00 25/4/02 19/10/99 1/9/99 — /8/00 18/6/01 26/7/00 17/12/98 14/5/00 8/5/00 27/1/99 28/1/01 15/9/99 16/2/00 14/5/00 9/2/00 22/6/01 19/9/00 18/8/02 3/5/00 8/10/00 7,750 10,000 8,000 8,414 6,000 10,000 2,953 12,000 2,755 6,225 8,500 8,125 6,205 3,725 10,585 10,000 10,500 1,786 12,200 11,672 11,000 6,125 14,680 12,000 7,000 10,000 7,000 5,395 6,500 6,750 7,050 31,000 6,925 15,000 2,924 9,900 3,838 7,083 7,800 4,000 2,103 6,000 6,250 2,970 4,786 2,425 6,225 8,500 8,125 3,911 2,641 8,122 9,882 8,729 1,149 9,200 9,872 3,135 5,658 14,522 3,178 5,460 7,301 1,466 5,392 6,500 6,750 7,050 12,627 1,250 8,823 2,200 10,000 3,000 11,000 21,587 60,000 2,500 8,500 3,750 10,000 5,906 8,906 3,000 24,000 2,000 4,755 2,100 8,325 3,500 12,000 1,250 12,500 2,000 6,205 1,000 3,725 1,500 10,585 4,000 14,000 1,700 10,500 200 10,000 2,500 12,200 1,800 11,672 3,000 11,000 2,050 6,425 1,200 13,480 6,565 48,000 2,000 9,000 2,000 12,000 28,000 3,725 9,120 1,500 8,000 2,250 9,000 1,950 9,000 17,663 31,000 6,925 6,000 21,000 2,924 2,750 9,900 12,000 15,571 20/& 10/ 353 14 3 10 0 0 10 0 0 2 6 10 0 10 0 10 0 0 5 6 313 15 0 21/ & 10/ 202 15 0 10 0 10 0 0 15 0 10 0 294 4 0 10 0 83 15 0 Various 60 1 0 10 0 118 0 0 10 0 70 15 0 Various 23 5 0 10 0 10 0 0 O 4i 11 13 7 10 0 230 0 0 Various 158 6 0 4/8 & 1/3 34 17 6 0 16 0 103 0 0 10 0 1,142 18 9 0 11 23 6 8 Various 3 0 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 710 12 9 1 0 0 1,274 0 0 0 11 0 580 5 0 0 17 6 231 11 6 10 0 0 16 0 73 14 0 117 95 11 183 86 107 78 73 105 128 144 103 23 141 89 147 32 238 125 15 64 85 25 78 138 36 47 104 179 213 79 131 220 152 121 31 9 3 9 9 8 11 4 8 9 19 1 5 8 8 9 8 8 1,381 6,086 115 14 1,124 8 1,770 1,971 3,686 4 843 367 1,008 15 1,763 913 5,363 23,858 470 55 3,533 30 6,865 7,686 14,547 15 152 3,316 1,429 3,908 57 7,026 3,584 6,623 12,912 4,350 1,783 27,863 10,771 3,824 8,510 2,637 13,501 15,049 22,849 3,927 5,248 10,953 11,772 14,014 1,200 17,475 13,649 133 3,249 12,990 2,821 7,294 7,058 3,465 7,328 11,957 9,993 9,952 19,370 4,000 8,513 2,293 13,513 3,924 - 12 [325 416 2,378 - 262 610 121 155 350 617 681 Nil. 862 323 313 303 283 852 400 2,537 543 815 202 190 Nil. 589 Nil. 112 Nil. 60 358 28 97 160 97 1,743 1,862 1,535 1,465 305 510 428 154 - 7 2 7 1 3 15 9 8 8 15 306 50 630 46 420 994 1,388 391 343 2,250 1,186 184 2,544 180 1,690 3,711 5,398 1,521 1,319 8,998 I I 1J368 7.670 2,317 9,747 2,997 3 8 8 1 12 116 1,052 ■• 45 447 4,149 - - - 22/2/00 12,000 8,958 12,000 10 0 42 10 0 95 2 65 250 9,757 1,224,928 2,152 Totals .. 825,393 487,022 220,204 1,159,508 22,564 2 4 8,932 559 206,046 799,244 246,125 50,662

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Name of Company. Date of Registration. Subscribed Capital. Amount Value of Scrip fnmtnl given to Shareactualiv >">lders on which pa'dup y °o Cash paid. Number Amount Number of Shares paid up Arrears of Calls. -°*,§ nare - allotted. per Share. holders at present. Quantity and Value of Gold or Number Silver produced since of Men Registration. employed. j Quantity. Value. Total Expendi- .„£?'*]„, ture since /^ loa , at of Registration. Dividends Amount ot Debts owing Company. Value. £ 27,000 £ 14,374 OTAGO £ 3,000 ISTRICT 21,393 (INGLUI £ s. d. 0 17 0 ing south: £ s. d. 663 16 0 AND). 141 Oz. £ 17,055 £ £ 408 Alexandra Bonanza Gold-dredging and Sluicing Oo. (Ltd.) Alexandra Eureka Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Alexandra Lead Gold-dredgng Co. (Ltd.) Alpine No. 2 Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. Arrow Falls Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Bakery Flat Sluioing Co. (Ltd.) Blue Spur and Gabriel's Gully Consolidated Gold Co. (Ltd.) Bonanza Golddredging Co. (Ltd.) Cairntrodlie Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. Central Charlton Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Central Mataura Gold-dredging Go. (Ltd.) Champion Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Charlton Creek Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Charlton Valley Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Chicago Golddredging Co. (Ltd.) Clyde Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Coal Creek Flat Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Coronation Golddredging Co (Ltd.) .. Crewe Golddredging Co (Ltd.) Cromwell Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Cromwell Proprietary Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) .. Davis Bend Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Deep Stream Amalgamated Hydraulio Sluicing Co. (Ltd.) Dunstan Lead Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Earnscleugh Gold dredging Oo. (Ltd.) Electrio Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Empire Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Endeavour Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Enfield Golddredging Co. (Ltd.) Enterprise Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. Ettrick Gold Steam-dredging Co. (Ltd.) First Chance Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Fourteen-mile Beach Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.).. Fraser River Gold-dre dging Co. (Ltd.) Gabriel Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Gibbston Golddredging Co. (Ltd.) Glen-iti Gold dredging Co. (Ltd.) Globe Gold-dredg'ng Co. (Ltd.) Golden Bed Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Golden Chain Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Golden Crescent Sluicing Co. (Ltd.) 5/9/99 14/11/99 26/7/99 1/5/99 4/4/98 10/9/96 1/2/88 20/2/00 27/3/00 8/12/99 30/6/00 30/12/98 5/5/99 7/4/00 1/11/99 17/5/95 18/9/99 7/9/02 7/9/02 10/10/98 22/12/97 1/5/00 4/2/97 12,000 17,521 6,220 30,000 2,500 91,266 6,350 4,000 5,300 27,000 10,000 4,000 5,000 2,500 6,000 9,000 2,500 2,000 5,300 100,000 11,000 8,500 14,521 6,220 2,125 1,888 37,622 786 1,579 5,300 7,774 4,360 4,000 4,125 6,750 6,000 6,987 1,953 500 5,300 2,537 3,004 8,500 12,000 3,000 825 27,750 300 60,000 2,000 1,700 7,000 1,000 1,000 2,500 150 2,000 100 3,000 1,700 12,000 17,521 6,220 30,000 2,500 91,266 6,350 6,000 7,000 27,000 10,000 5,000 6,000 5,000 6,000 9,000 2,600 5,000 7,000 100,000 11,000 12,000 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 0 17 6 10 0 Various 0 11 0 10 0 Various 10/ & 8/ 10 0 10 0 2 10 0 10 0 10 0 0 16 0 0 5 0 10 0 10 0 Various 10 0 325 1 6 630 15 0 17 10 0 13 10 0 47 0 0 11 216 132 33 28 127 61 128 225 65 79 130 78 82 181 22 15 146 24 129 57 10 8 9 8 9 35 8 9 15 7 9 7 8 7 9 7 8 3,801 4,977 1,769 742 2,287 38,950 82 1,565 1,416 1,726 3,114 425 2,700 10,322 756 257 6,472 4,828 765 4,557 673 14,674 19,270 6,839 2,870 8,647 153,007 346 6,111 5,261 6,639 12,086 1,745 10,550 39,776 2,910 991 25,045 18,445 2,916 17,546 8,406 17,570 9,418 5,918 9,666 23,372 573 2,558 12,236 18,403 11,090 15,742 7,613 7,995 18,817 15,083 1,725 952 17,439 6,203 5,119 26,718 5,700 13,158 1,861 28,721 500 3,465 19,100 13^25 49 808 20 144 200 900 4 738 806 2,807 986 219 2,682 69 112 151 187 99 839 289 192 197 2,500 3,500 7 15 5,950 31/5/99 15/7/01 2/9/99 13/7/97 29/8/99 31/10/99 24/8/91 28/8/90 23/6/02 25/10/98 6/9/01 12/6/00 19/9/99 - 28/10/99 31/1/00 5/5/99 26/9/99 26/11/98 17,500 8 26,000 5,000 10,000 5,000 7,000 9,000 3,500 22,000 150 3,350 6,400 3,939 3,225 11,000 8,000 3,500 14,489 8 5,000 8,000 5,000 3,500 8,366 3,500 16,605 8 2,315 6,249 2,411 3,225 10,744 6,897 3,500 3,000 10,992 26,000 2,000 2,000 2,000 3,500 2,600 17,500 11,000 26,000 5,000 10,000 5,000 7,000 10,500 7,000 22,000 150 4,590 8,000 5,139 3,225 12,794 10,000 3,500 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 20/ & 12/6 0 10 10 0 10 0 20/ & 10/ 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 569 0 0 209 9 271 40 205 62 154 114 168 363 7 56 200 45 46 212 146 26 9 23 19 15 2 7 14 7 8 12 1 7 1 1,521 5,762 16,952 8,688 988 1,491 11,823 5,758 1,189 802 5,878 22,414 66,210 30,565 3,813 5,756 45,723 22,160 4,589 3,089 20,576 13,515 16,517 24,016 11,962 10,388 32,410 28,457 4,086 19,700 10,728 8,784 6,320 4,117 2,472 10,227 8,559 8,258 6,325 49,400 12,260 350 15,512 3,150 3,150 840 1,315 1,371 163 250 528 470 864 100 1,148 367 828 1,065 586 823 Nil. 707 85 2,150 1,600 2,200 700 2,000 2,000 15o'il 0 71 10 0 8 7 1 9 1,482 347 1,097 1,955 9 1,950 5,713 1,335 4,497 7,628 36 7,539 50"l 3 1,103 10 0 2^712

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Name of Company. Date of Registration. Subscribed o" dumber Amount *■£*£ Number " Total Expend!- ™»1 I Amount f <**»"■ j A ™ ar8 °' C *»*' ho'lfct e£ ° p £- *™g UfSKStf paMup y no Cash paid. all ° tted ' P« Share. present employed. _ j lUfi.strat.OD. paid Companv . Quantity. I Value. OTAG07DISTRICT— continued. Golden Gate Dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. .. 13/3/95 Golden Horseshoe Dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. 16/1/00 Golden Lion Mining Co. (Ltd.) .. .. 28/10/01 Golden River Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.).. .. 7/8/99 Golden Run Dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. .. 29/6/91 Golden Treasure Dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. .. 11/7/93 Grand Junction Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. | 14/3/02 Great Central Dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. .. 24/8/99 Happy Valley Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) . . 24/2/00 Hartley and Riley Beach Dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. 14/7/97 Hessey's Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. .. 22/7/02 Inchdale Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. .. 8/2/00 Inch Valley Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. .. 15/9/98 Island Block Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.).. .. 26/2/00 Junotion Electric Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. 2/9/99 Junction Waikaka Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. 10/10/00 Jutland Hydraulic Dredging Co. (No Liability).. 28/6/01 Kawarau Consolidated Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) 20/9/99 Kelly and Casey Beach Dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. 15/9/99 Lady Charlton Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. 12/2/00 Lady Roxburgh Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. 3/3/00 Ladysmith Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. .. 19/4/00 Lafranchi's Freehold Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) 15/3/00 Last Chanoe Hydraulic Sluicing, Elevating, and 27/7/99 Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Local Industry Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) .. 21/10/91 Lone Star Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. .. j 15/3/02 Long Valley Golddredging Co. (Ltd.) .. .. 31/8/99 Lower Enfield Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. 15/3/00 MacCharlton Gold-dredging Co (Ltd) .. .. 3/12/00 Majestic Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. .. I 31/7/99 Maori Point Gold-dredging Co (Ltd.) .. .. 2/9/01 McLean's Waimumu Freehold Co. Ltd.) .. 25/9/01 Manuherikia Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.).. .. 1/8/99 Matau Dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. .. .. 16/10/97 Meg and Annie Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. 9/5/99 Molyneux Hydraulic Dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. 25/5/00 Molyneux Kohinoor Dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. 27/1/00 Monte Christo Dredging Co (Ltd.) .. .. j 7/6/99 Mount Buster Mining Co. (Ltd.) .. .. 20/4/96 Muddy Creek Golddredging Co. (Ltd.) .. 2/11/01 Muddy Creek Sluicing Co. (Ltd.) .. .. j 4/3/02 Mystery Flat Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. 16/7/00 £ £ 2,500 2,500 10,000 6,895 3,000 2,846 10,000 8,400 9,000 9,414 1,500 1,384 3,327 3,169 8,000 8,000 5,050 4,647 6,500 0,300 3,700 1,826 5,500 5,023 5,000 2,600 24,030 11,991 26,000 5,100 1,808 4,100 4,100 5,600 5,289 8,295 8,295 11,000 9,603 9,000 3,877 12,000 3,463 8,000 6,296 9,950 4,655 £ 2,000 1,600 i .coo 1,500 2J000 2,450 200 1,300 1,500 2,400 12,000 26,000 900 1,900 2,200 2,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 3.300 £ s. d £ s. d. 2,500 10 0 10,000 10 0 20 15 0 3,000 10 0 154 0 0 40,000 0 5 0 11,000 10 0 3,000 10 0 6,685 10 0 158 2 6 10,000 10 0 7,500 10 0 28 0 0 6,500 10 0 5,000 0 12 0 53 10 0 7,000 10 0 5,000 1 0 0 25,000 10 0 39 0 0 26,000 10 0 5,100 0 12 0 1,252 10 0 5,000 10 0 7,500 10 0 10,495 1 0 0 ! 13,000 0 19 6 : 665 15 0 11,000 0 13 0 813 1 0 14,500 0 10 0 534 8 0 12,000 10 0 110 0 0 9,950 0 14 0 53 118 43 337 154 46 160 175 95 344 79 104 70 82 308 42 8 131 213 275 137 106 160 103 13 15 119 111 52 102 48 89 171 124 171 93 172 181 13 25 18 112 7 16 8 9 6 8 7 9 7 7 8 8 8 1 8 7 4 7 11 4 8 7 6 8 7 7 9 8 8 7 1 8 4 9 3 7 Oz. 10,341 149 963 10,296 9,028 175 50 1,139 20,685 1*027 2,353 1,320 10,362 220 248 398 68 718 384 938 3,475 418 472 67 252 1,782 795 51 5,202 6,734 3,896 3,260 659 1,478 1,933 846 1,305 £ 39,825 517 3,718 39,638 34,758 676 190 4,282 80,036 3 1884 9,063 5,105 40,038 853 942 1,582 253 2,764 1,489 3,650 13,376 1,610 1,804 256 965 6,852 3,053 197 19,862 25,933 14,989 12,628 2,550 5,617 7,445 3,200 5,091 £ 21,162 8,148 3,383 11,057 45,240 22,707 3,708 9,390 8,720 21,223 1,301 8,846 9,948 13,391 42,378 1,048 6,697 5,749 10,433 11,055 4,395 5,592 7,864 5,087 13,345 2,182 10,894 6,496 5,830 11,334 6,092 883 16,056 17,218 14,741 10,477 6,394 11,369 2,938 4,278 1,211 8,392 £ 19,875 1,000 5,194 14,596 62,563 1,500 18,850 1,838 1,300 450 7| 200 12,950 6,375 2,506 457 1,920 4,212 827 £ 150 216 59 98 1,286 128 162 599 1,122 123 Nil. 556 196 1,603 506 702 1,495 600 853 503 556 44 1,379 Nil. 55 135 2,199 717 2,343 128 212 83 233 197 225 329 24 205 111 301 331 Nil, 1,500 1,300 720 600 7,000 7,000 6,000 5,679 6,000 2,545 6,500 5,700 3,200 3,200 7,500 3,939 6,000 6,000 6,200 6,200 7,500 6,000 5,896 5,896 8,250 4,693 8,500 8,500 6,480 1,135 1,023 1,050 960 4,512 4,512 2,000 1,500 1,000 800 1,300 3,500 6,000 800 1,500 1,805 1,100 4,320 725 1,600 1,500 0 17 4 720 0 16 8 9,000 10 0 7,500 10 0 7,000 Various 6,500 10 0 3,200 10 0 7,500 10 0 60 17 3 12,000 10 0 7,000 10 0 7,500 10 0 5,896 10 0 10,005 0 12 6 9,600 i 1 0 0 216 20 0 0 1,860 1 0 0 111 18 7 1,050 10 0 37 10 0 5,512 10 0

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Statement of Affairs of Mining Companies, as published in accordance with the Mining Companies Acts, 1891, 1894, and 1900— continued.

Name of Company. I Amount -.- , * o Dateof Subscribed of to Stare Number Amount Registra- S £a P 7 ta l Capita] of Shares P ald U P tion. capital. actuall holdtis on wmcn allotted per Share. paid up. | no casn pald - v,,,,,k<.,. Quantity and Value of Gold or m , , . . . — of Ca,,, £S "fig? employed. Registration. -» g l- | Value. £ 5,000 £ 2,288 £ 2,000 OTAGO Dl 5,000 ISTRICT- £ s. d. 0 15 3 continued. £ s. d. 6 Oz. 2,721 £ 10,520 £ 12,360 £ 2,250 £ 170 Naseby Dredging and Hydraulic Sluicing Co. (Limited) New Alpine Consols Dredging Co. (Ltd.) New Britannia Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) New Golden Gravel Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. New Half-way House Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. New Leaning Rock Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) New Nevis Golddredging Co. (Ltd.) New Paul's Beach Dredging Co. (Ltd.) New River Molyneux Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. New Roxburgh Jubilee Dredging Co. (Ltd.) New Royal Maori Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd. New Skipper's Sluicing Co. (Ltd.) New Vincent Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Ngapara No. 3 Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Nokomai Hydraulic Sluicing Co. (Ltd.) Oceanic Steam Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Old Dunstan Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Olrig Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Otago Gold-dredgmg Co. (Ltd.) Ourawera Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Paterson's Freehold Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Perseverance Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Phcenix Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Phcenix Water-raoe Co. (Registered) Pleasant Valley Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Point d'Or Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Premier Sunrise (N.Z.) Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.).. Prince Arthur Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Reliance Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Riley's Beach Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Rise and Shine Gold dredging Co. (Ltd.) Rising Sun Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Roberts' Naumai Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Round Hill Mining Co. (Ltd.) Roxburgh Amalgamated Mining and Sluioing Co. (Ltd.) Royal Waimumu Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Sailor's Bend Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Sailor's Gully (Waitahuna) Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Sheddon's Waikaka Freehold Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Shotover Quartz-mining Co. (No Liability) Smith Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Speo Gully Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. 16/10/97 3/7/02 4/8/02 6/6/02 25/11/01 11/7/02 27/11/02 14/11/02 6/8/02 22/1/02 14/7/02 16/9/02 4/3/02 13/9/99 26/3/98 5/3/00 17/10/99 13/3/99 20/5/95 23/5/95 15/7/99 19/4/99 27/9/02 12/10/67 4/3/95 26/3/00 11/4/02 13/2/00 30/10/99 22/2/01 24/2/00 16/2/01 18/8/02 30/7/92 2/3/89 3,098 1,566 1,460 4,000 1,500 1,579 900 4,530 . 2,500 1,556 3,310 3,000 5,000 23,500 5,000 8,500 7,000 4,000 3,000 8,000 14,000 1,500 1,500 700 10,575 2,500 9,370 3,600 8,650 10,000 8,000 1,200 28,225 29,153 3,098 1,013 1,400 3,980 1,000 1,579 900 1,485 1,549 1,359 559 3.000 5,000 6,500 4,214 6,500 5,960 2,000 3,000 5,702 14,000 1,500 1,500 672 2,713 2,406 6,725 3,000 7,246 9,745 3,175 201 6,753 12,737 1,579 100 3,020 5,000 "87 2,000 17,000 2,000 2,000 1,000 2,000 4J000 6,000 6,195 1,566 1,460 8,000 1,500 3,158 1,000 4,530 7,500 1,556 2,638 3,000 7,000 2,350 7,000 8,500 7,000 4,000 3,000 12,000 14,000 ! 30 , 1,000 1,000 10,575 25,000 16,000 3,600 9,000 12,000 7,500 2,212 5,649 29,152 0 10 0 0 17 6 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 0 12 6 10 0 Various 10 0 10 0 10 0 0 Various 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 0 14 6 20/and 50/ 50 0 0 1 10 0 10 0 0 8 0 0 2 0 10 0 10 0 1 15 0 10 0 0 12 6 0 10 0 5 0 0 0 18 0 357 12 6 2o"o 0 500 0 0 25 0 0 197 10 0 15 10 0 18 15 0 417 7 6 340 0 0 98 6 8 24 94 69 56 175 124 48 13 90 183 66 21 10 78 37 78 139 84 51 18 30 126 15 18 30 142 147 156 55 108 191 65 14 180 160 8 7 8 1 1 6 6 1 7 8 5 7 7 40 1 8 14 16 17 7 2 2 8 26 7 7 8 10 556 30 503 177 13 239 139 12 1,461 271 53 445 1,305 7,281 206 2,593 6,188 4,713 2,379 8,584 155 2J094 452 1,509 328 1,426 1,830 1,938 2,157 113 1,935 671 52 919 526 45 5,653 1,043 201 1,681 4,524 27,872 781 10,098 25,482 18,630 9,161 33,226 618 ■ 4,038 1,104 2,597 1,499 1,047 2,692 1,164 1,403 4,069 1,892 2,284 4,469 4,607 23,505 3,976 7,413 15,393 16,544 17,150 14,772 33,186 1,839 927 440 2,984 350 10,627 2,434 6,000 4,765 1,500 14,000 30 582 Nil. 20 333 196 76 50 Nil. 190 238 74 127 21 6 1,618 50 1,024 35 4,955 99 127 Nil. 112 133 122 1,129 130 99 1,144 15 555 Nil. Nil. 300 2,220 27 11 0 437 10 0 94 0 0 6 5 0 8,061 1,733 5,741 1,260 5,491 7,057 7,458 6,378 3,805 4,596 7,739 8,655 13,685 17,565 2,314 207 78,042 64,858 7 1038 1,750 3,000 600 4,500 2,200 2,500 1,800 21,472 15,000 83 15 0 255 7 3 181 10 0 4 12 0 900 3,460 300 7 28 22 59 15,914 18,637 226 63,333 72,398 20,769 6/10/00 1/9/99 3/6/96 26/4/00 5,500 8,000 2,000 4,318 5,045 6,500 100 4,318 1,500 1,800 2,182 5,500 8,000 2,000 6,500 Various 10 0 0 10 0 10 0 455 10 0 60 191 10 25 8 8 4 948 1,941 1,353 2,066 3,704 7,527 4,924 7,923 9,775 16,694 4,390 13,353 2,400 751 2,763 1,035 227 45 1,361 9/3/98 19/10/98 28/6/99 7,020 | 1,700 6,000 4,704 1,700 4,400 1,500 300 1,600 28,080 2,000 6,000 0 5 0 10 0 10 0 17 18 4 42 18 89 11 4 7 537 596 1,321 2,050 2,356 4,862 7,323 4,301 10,086 439 223 240

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Statement of Affairs of Mining Companies, as published in accordance with the Mining Companies Acts, 1891, 1894, and 1900— continued.

Name of Company. | Regittrl PS-jS* Capital h £S, «SSSS taTup Arre«. of Calls. £jlj£* tfon. Capital. winch p S» Bhl ». holder at J3£L1Q 11 J), Number of Men employed. Quantity and Value oi Gold or m.. , . -,„„__ nT 8ilT^[s°traS e o d n SinCe hfciJSS* *«£- ™«£ -Quantity. Va.ue. | Begistration. °~ 0 J> aay . Tuapeka Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Unity Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Upper Waipori Alluvial Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Voltaic Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Vulcan Gold dredging Co. (Ltd.) .. - Waikaka Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Waikaka Queen Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Waikaka Syndicate (Ltd.) Waikaka United Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd.) Waimumu Golddredging Co. (Ltd.) Waimumu Central Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Waimumu Extended Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Waimumu Queen Gold-dredging Co. (Ltd) Waipori Consolidated Gold Dredges (NoLiabilit); Waitahuna Cinnabar Co. (Ltd.) Waitahuna Dredging Co. (Ltd.) Zealandia Syndicate (Ltd.) 31/7/97 8/8/00 3/9/89 26/3/02 19/2/00 9/5/00 6/7/99 20/12/01 11/2/99 29/11/97 16/5/99 25/4/99 21/6/99 2-2/3/99 3/8/00 22/2/02 21/10/99 £ 2,800 4,200 4,000 2,000 6,800 4,900 5,510 3,000 4,700 6,000 4,500 6,500 5,200 2,275 1,500 1,380 4,000 £ 2,500 4,200 5,950 1,182 3,917 4,534 5,493 1,623 4,275 6,000 4,500 2,000 4,672 2,275 1,095 1,380 4,000 £ 300 5,000 1,700 1,600 1,050 4,000 6,500 1,000 2,500 4.500 1,800 225 OTAGO DISTRICT— continued. \ £ s. d. £ s. d. 2,800 1 0 0 10,500 10 0 4,800 0 8 6 2,000 Various 137 4 6 8,500 0 16 0 1,523 1 6 6,500 Various 68 5 0 5,510 Various 17 0 0 7,000 0 12 0 176 13 0 11,200 10 0 425 0 0 7,000 10 0 7,000 10 0 6,500 10 0 7,000 Various 8 10 0 2,500 1 0 0 1,500 10 0 207 0 0 1,380 1 0 0 7,000 10 0 44 94 79 56 132 58 98 16 26 84 95 51 60 7 53 23 59 7 8 9 8 8 8 7 IS 9 9 8 8 7 2 6 Oz. 2,769 3,211 13,346 128 1*139 942 2,758 3,884 2,629 2,326 1,954 2,142 £ 10,659 12,342 51,044 492 4,038 £ 11,272 6,753 43,070 2,783 3,874 8,986 10,574 3,363 14,389 17,735 11,765 9,453 12,118 10,559 1,098 2,878 3,729 £ 2,730 4,725 9,000 £ 118 141 336 6,311 604 142 814 1,809 1,405 58 174 127 99 155 Nil. 56 92 10,617 15,210 10,490 9,043 7,700 8,176 3,063 3,500 1,463 1,225 1,063 3,000 496 l!908 483 268 Totals .. 1,325,978 13,780 74,741 ,1,160,399 663,032! 442,402 13,798 6 4 1,074 387,467 1,500,227 1,566,593 465,664 Grand totals 2,674,822 1,846,765 723,278 6,259,994 42,079 15 1 26,689 1,965 2,612,536 3,292,770 765,162 735,814 133,367

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Statement of Affairs of Mining Companies, as defined by Section 2 of "The Mining Companies Acts Amendment Act, 1897," and published in accordance with "The Mining Companies Acts Amendment Act, 1897."

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Name of Company. _ . „ . Amount ! Amount v . , „ . Quantity and Value of Gold or i „ Da t e . of of Value of Scrip Number paid up . ,„„ mber Number of Silver produced since _ » , « , Tota i . Amount of Subscribed Capital given to Share- of Shares per A,Tea °'= B C , allB: M , e " Registration. Total Expeudi-: Amount of D6 bis owing Capital, actually holders on which on Colonial share: S°i?3£" "£,? employed ture since Dividends b rnionf paid up no Cash paid. Register. Colonial Agister. Colonial in Registration. pa dm Gom paiiy. Colony. tnOolony Register. Register. Colony. Quantity. Value. i Colony. AUCKI AND DISTRICT. Kauri Freehold Gold Estates (Ltd.) .. Kuranui-Caledonian Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) New Zealand Crown Mines Co. (Ltd.) .. Waihi Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) Waihi Grand Junction Gold Co. (Ltd.) Waitaia Gold-mines (Ltd.) Waitekauri Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.) .. 23/3/01 .. 13/8/96 .. 27/6/96 .. 7/12/87 .. 22/12/97 .. 16/7/96 .. 6/5/95 £ 250,000 40,385 200,000 495,907 155,000 £ 2,824 2,260 £ 109,615 100,000 53,333 112,500 20,000 30,000 £ 8,903 36,762 200,000 19,747 8,915 20,250 19,273 £ s. d. £ s. d. 10 0 100 '.'. 10 0 10 0 10 0 '.'. 21 156 220 59 80 111 647 Oz. 115 40 10,138 252 150,747 1,200 2,411,906 26 22 2,807 114 382,879 1,769 2,967,477 £ 35,560 27,630 383,381 2,502,905 8,146 365,169 3,322,791 £ 102,395 44,550 370,176 1,611,680 69,532 16,311 449,954 2,664,601 £ 5,371 36,207 5,467 47,045 £ 527 49 2,054 28,259 246 328 1,626 33,089 228,076 1,369,368 6^015 Totals 30,311 425,448 313,850 2,664,601 47,045 33,089 NELSON AND WEST COAST DISTRICTS. Greymouth Lagoons Gold-dredging Co. (No Lia- i -/7/01 bilitv) Taitapu Gold Estates (Ltd.) .. .. .. j 16/12/95 17,741 65 8,000 2,630 0 10 0 7 8 37 87 2,872 354 11,273 11,590 43,197 496 149,276 \ U Not g.ven. 496 Totals 167,017 65 8,000 2,630 0 10 0 7 45 2,959 11,027 54,787 Grand Totals .. .. .. I 47,045 ! 33.585 1,536,385 30,376 433,448 316,480 654 1.814 2.970,436 3,334,418 2,719,388

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