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The following statement shows the areas of ground held in mining claims in the Thames district, with the number of wages-men, owners, and tributers, also the quantity of quartz crushed and tailings treated, with the yield of gold therefrom, for the year ending the 31st March, 1895:—

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Average Number of Men employed. For Owners. For Tributers. Tailings. Locality ana Name of Mine. Area. II CO > O 09 hi CD Quartz crushed. o . Gold obtained. o l> o ce 3O Amalga- . Cyag mation. 1 uide. Quartz crushed. ■ Gold obtained by Amalgamation. 55 Gold obtained. Amalga- s« mation. Thames County. Mata— Kelly's Sluicing Claim A. B. P. Tons. cwt. lb. Tons. Oz. dwt. Oz. Tons cwt. lb. Oz. dwt. Tons. Oz. dwt. Oz. 10 0 0 18 15 3 Tapu— Sheridan's Fluke Young Colonial Prospecting Sundries 20 3 4 20 2 16 16 0 0 47 1 20 2 6 "{ 78 0 0 0 5 15 0 0 11 5 0 0 43 13 5-13 10 15 25 0 7 15 83 5 26 85 1 Waiomo — Monowai Golden Gem Broken Hill Sundries .... 37 3 39 20 0 0 28 0 15 18 2 1 2 4 5 0 37 110 0 10 0 '4 10 3 0 4 86 0 14 23 6 15 0 7 10 41 Puru —Eimu 10 0 0 3 12 Tararu— Norfolk City of Dunedin Day Dawn Scandinavian. Chicago Highland Chief Sundries 30 0 0 26 2 0 5 0 0 12 3 6 5 0 0 10 0 S 0 0 6 "3 5 1 Q q 73 0 0 64 0 0 175 0 0 59 0 0 2 0 0 70 13 47 8 128 5 23 13 19 18 52 5 73~ 0 0 16 19 100 16 4 10 85 1 6 21 g 373 0 0 342 2 73 0 0 16 19 100 16 4 Shellback —Sundries .. 10 10 0 0 o 126 0 0 85 17 Kuranui — Hansen's Comer's Hazelbank Sundries 14 3 10 13 1 37 16 1 23 29 6 10 15 J? 721 0 0 55 0 0 789 7 205 0 1,615 0 0 550 0 0 1,944 0 0 372 15 697 16 211 6 450 44 2 30 35 30 776 0 0 450 994 7 4,109 0 o! !l,281 17 Moanataiari — Moanataiari . Junction Alfred Freedom Orlando Calliope New Whau New Alburnia Caliban Fisher's Sundries 94 3 26 15 0 0 10 0 5 6 1 10 15 0 0 10 3 0 3 2 8 15 1 0 7 0 27 5 0 0 20 0 0 52 4 1 46 1 o 3 6 3,407 0 0 22 0 0 36 0 27 10,038 ! I 2,738 9 5 3 42 1 2,775 0 0 60 10 0 22 10 0 93 0 38 270 10 0 71 0 0 52 10 0 1,441 0 0 1,152 8 18 9 17 19 84 9 100 13 51 2 67 0 328 5 16 2 2 6 1,100 0 0 12 0 0 31 9 11 85 0 0 657 0 5 18 86 0 205 8 550 202 3 36 83 Grahamstown — Victoria Peel, Old Copper, &o. Sundries 68 4,693 9 38 10,588 3,739 19 4,786 0 38 1,820 5 34 1 30 10 11 45 0 0 0 2 72 55 8 52 1 90 0 568 0 709 19 '20 350 10[455 1,918 9 34 1 30 30 11 45 2 72 350 197 9 568 0 0 709 19 10,455 1,918 9 Waiotahi— Waiotahi Cambria Fame and Fortune.. West Coast New Fearnought Welcome Little Maggie Waiotahi — carried forward 23 0 10 15 2 17 55 0 11 6 10 11 1 13 9 3 28 3 0 0 32 21 20 2 2 1 1 Q 6 2,611 0 0 490 0 0 570 0 0 54 0 0 53 0 0 2,673 19 788 6 239 3 77 9 69 17 822 0 0 67 10 0 144 13 109 2 1 2 0 0 2 5 90 0 3 47 13 124 0 39 79 3,868 0 3 3,896 7 891 10 256 0