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I find from the gold return that each miner earns 35 ounces, or £132 2s. 6d. for the year, or about 15 ounces, or £57 12s. 6d. for every man, woman and child. I think that this return will show that this is a tolerably flourishing community, and that no poverty exists. And I am certain that there is yet work for years to come for a large mining population in the Totara district. I have, &c, The Under-Secretary for Gold Fields. J. Aylmeh, Warden.

DISTRIBUTION of POPULATION of WAIMEA DISTRICT, Westland Gold Fields, on 31st March, 1872.

No. 14 Mr. Warden Tizaed to Undee-Secretary for Gold Fields. General Bepoet to 31st March, 1872. Warden's Office, Sir,— Okarita, 28th May, 1872. With reference to your circular letter dated 27th March last, I have the honor to report as follows :—■ The gold mining in this district is generally confined to the sea beaches, nearly all the miners being distributed on the coast between the Saltwater Beach and Bruce Bay, a distance of about seventy miles, consisting of beaches and bluffs, and here and there divided by rivers and running streams. There are a few men to the south of Bruce Bay, mostly at the Haast. On some beaches there is a considerable population, on others but one or two men are working. The best of the beaches have only held the men through water races having been brought in, and then generally the miners have not been so successful as was anticipated, through the insufficient supply of water and the high price

Locality. Estimated Population. Remarks. Stafford Township Piper's Flat BallaratHill Scandinavian Hill ... Auckland Lead Back Lead Sea Beach Waimea Track ... .... Chapel Terrace Arohura Arohura, working on new road Chesterfield and Lamplough Teremakau Pretty Woman's Gully Fourth Terrace Liverpool Bill's Hatter's Gully GOLDSBOEOUGH TOWNSHIP Gullies in vicinity ... Left Hand Branch, Waimea Stewart's Terrace ... Shamrock Terrace ... Italian Gully Maori Gully German Gully Natives' Terrace Bight Hand Branch and Big Dam Tokero Terrace and Bed Jacks ... Greeks, No. 2 Greeks, No. 1 Duffer's Gully Callaghan's Gully ... Fox's Creek Hatter's Gully New line of road from Greenstone road to Christchurch road 180 100 58 40 24 12 43 28 40 12 10 100 34 70 63 56 30 250 150 20 15 40 50 30 60 20 100 30 35 30 20 85 100 35 30 3 o o O a g s p K a © 3 O C3 © o T3 © © 03 S S _o m E-i Total population 2000 Exclusive of Chinese, of whom there are working at Piper's Flat ... 18