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Abstract of Licenses for Special Claims and Licensed Holdings issued from the Warden's Office at Thames — continued.

Mata District. In this district, with the exception of desultory prospecting, very little work has been done in the claims taken up during the past two years. Tapu District. Sheridan Mine (Area, 100 acres; owners, Sheridan Gold-mining Company).—The chief work carried on during the year was in extending the low-level adit and driving a cross-cut to the reef. A drive was put in to the northward 75 ft. on the reef, which averages 2 ft. 6 in. in width, and it is'intended to drive to the southward a distance of 120 ft. at this point. A rise will be put up to connect with a winze sunk on the reef from No. 3 level for 50 ft. This work will open up the mine, givin" backs of 152 ft. between the No. 3 and the low level. Prospecting is also carried on at No. 2 level° A parcel of 443 tons of quartz taken from various parts of the mine was crushed,'for a moderate yield of 40 oz. 1 dwt., valued at £118 ss. 3d. Jessie'!— This claim, which is situated on the northern side of Tapu Creek, was worked for a short time, and 15 cwt, of quartz was crushed, for 4oz. 2 dwt. of gold.

Date of License. Area. Locality. Block. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner. 23/7/96 3/2/97 13/1/97 23/12/96 4/6/97 4/10/95 22/9/96 18/5/96 10/5/97 19/6/95 8/11/97 24/7/97 2/11/97 27/2/96 6/4/96 23/7/96 A. E. P. 100 0 0 51 1 31 40 2 0 58 3 0 24 0 0 75 0 0 100 0 0 90 0 11 100 0 0 90 0 12 88 2 0 70 1 20 2 2 18 65 0 5,% 51 0 0 56 2 0 Ohui " Tairua Tararu Thames Waiomo Whangamata Tararu Thames Tararu XV. XIV. VI. I. IV. I. XV. Whitianga Tairua Tararu Thames .. Tairua Thames .. Thames .. Standard Stars and Stripes Star of Tairua Star of Tararu St. Gregory Extended St. Hippo Sunlight Sybil Straight Tip Tararu Tararu Big Reefs .. Tararu Extended .. Temple Temple Bar Thames Thames Hauraki Extended Thames Reefs Treasury Arthur W. Smith. John Kneebone. Benjamin Anderson. Frederick Bennett, sen. Percy Adolphus Vaile. The May Queen Hauraki (Ltd.). Sunlight Gold-mining Co. (N.L.). Sybil Gold-mining Co. (N.L.). Thomas Scanlon and Thomas Dunbar. Tararu Creek Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.). Arthur Wright and James B. Blaikie. Tararu Extended Gold-mining Co. Temple Bar Gold-mining Co. IV. Waiomo Thames i. I IV. Samuel S. Maokay. Queen of Beauty Gold-mining Co. 28/9/97 18/2/98 93 2 0 21 3 20 100 0 0 Tararu Tairua Whangamata IV. VI. ( XV. I III. XIV. Tairua Ohinemuri} Hastings .. Three Star James Joseph Macky. Charles McLean. Three Star Gold-mining Co. (N.L.). 19/8/96 29/5/96 2/11/96 24/4/96 18/5/96 4/3/96 3/2/97 26/2/96 10/5/97 25/6/96 13/11/95 3/3/96 5/2/95 24/7/97 19/9/95 29/1/98 23/3/96 27/2/96 14/9/97 100 0 0 84 0 0 12 0 30 94 0 0 68 2 27 100 0 0 48 2 20 49 1 5 56 2 36 74 2 0 100 0 0 7 0 0 100 0 0 41 3 10 33 3 1 96 3 0 100 0 0 34 0 30 Waiomo Toulouse Toulouse Extended.. Triangle Trojan True Ring Trump Ulysses No. 3 Ext. Unicorn Union Uranus Uranus Extended .. Venus Vernon Victoria Thomas Francis Oahill. Whangamata Waiomo Tairua Whangamata Waiomo Whangamata Waiomo x"v. IX., X. XIV., XV. XV. XIV. XV. II. Tairua Hastings .. Tairua Hastings .. Tairua Hastings .. Thames .. Tairua Thames .. Frederick W. Abbott. James Mays. George Symons Budge. William Benjamin Jackson. Percy Spencer. Frederick Ernest Shera. Wairoa Gold-mining Go. (N.L.). Puru Consolidated Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.). James Mackay, jun. Richard Leary. The Victoria Gold-mining Co. Herbert Gordon. J. P. P. Seaver. Henry Lomas Smith. John Thomas Julian. Tairua Puriri Thames Tairua The Wires .. Tararu IX. XIII. IV. VI. Tairua Ohinemuri Thames .. Volunteer Vulcan Extended .. Vulcan Cheers . II. 6/2/96 20/3/96 2/11/96 10/5/97 5/9/95 27/8/96 19/8/96 21/11/95 15/2/97 5/8/97 2/11/96 19/9/96 6/12/88 8/6/97 19/9/96 100 0 0 17 1 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 22 3 30 27 2 29 100 0 0 30 0 0 96 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 6 10 .7 3 15 92 2 28 Waiomo Thames Waiomo Whangamata Thames Puriri Tararu Whangamata Waiomo Thames j x"v. 1 II. j XV. I IIXIV. XIV., XII. IV. XIV. XV. IV. XIII. IV, V. III. II. IV. VII., XI. XII. Hastings ) Thames } Hastings 1 Thames j Hastings .. Thames .. Hastings .. Tairua Thames .. Waimea Waimea Extended .. Waingohia Waiomo Extended .. Waiotahi Waipuru Extended Wairoa Waitangi Wandoline Waratah Waterwitch Wenona West Coast Weymouth Extended Whangamata Peninsula Wharekawa Why Not .. Winder Winder Extended .. Windsor Castle Windsor Castle No. 3 Wires Thomas Morrin. John Hague Smith. John Murphy and J. B. Fairs. William Read Bloomfield. The Waiotahi Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.). James Kernick. Wairoa Gold-mining Co. (N.L.). Arthur Pittar. Edmond T Dufaur and James Russell. Chas. Kingswell and John Thomas Baker. George Dunnett. Wenona Gold-mining Co. (N.L.). John Northey. Hugh Thomas Torrens. Claude Lorraine Kerry. Ohinemuri Thames .. Hastings .. Tairua Whangamata 6/4/96 29/10/96 29/5/96 23/12/96 8/6/96 27/8/96 19/8/96 94 0 17 9 0 15 100 0 0 50 1 28 100 0 0 16 2 30 60 3 1 Puriri Tairua XV. XIII. II. Frederick W. Abbott. Robert Worth. Andrew M. McMahon. Albert Gold-mining Co. (N.L.). T. Millitt and E. J. G. F. Greville. Ernest C. Beale. M. J. Gannon and J Barber. Waiomo xi'v. Hastings .. The" Wires .. III. Ohinemuri