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The following statement of the quantity and value of gold entered for exportation for the year ended 31st March, 1899, shows by the material increase in the quantity exported that this industry continues to be of very great importance: —

The hopeful anticipations of a substantial increase in value of the yield of gold for this year are in a great measure realised, especially in quartz-mining and dredging.

QUAETZ-MINING. The developments in quartz-mining have been of a very satisfactory character for the past year, and many of the operations conducted have met with marked success. This industry continues to attract great attention from mining investors, and capital is constantly forthcoming in the development of mines, and in the erection of necessary machinery. The majority of claims taken up about three years ago have been surrendered, and operations are now chiefly conducted in the older claims, and in the mines that recently have been the best gold-producers. There are, however, a number of places where newer mines are being opened, aud on which the necessary machinery is being erected, that give favourable promise of future gold-production. It may be said that the pursuit of this class of mining is now carried on on a more stable footing, and the great increase in the yield of gold from this source gives proof that a legitimate conduct of operations has been productive of such a successful issue. The following list of companies outside the colony connected with New Zealand mining shows that the interest taken in this industry is still maintained : —

Name of District. Year ei 31st Man ided. ;h, 1898. Year Slst Ma: ended ■ch, 1890. Increase for 1899. Auckland Marlborough Nelson Wesf.Ooast .. Otago Canterbury .. Oz. 108,490 619 758 66,121 75,504 £ 401,602 2,400 2,853 264,481 304,862 Oz. 148,183 621 1,720 74,700 78,289 12 £ Oz. 545,463 ; 39,693 2,406 I 2 6,882 962 298,824 8,579 315,306 : 2,785 49 : , 12 1,168,930 i 52,033 Totals 251,492 976,198 303,525

Name. Locality in which Nominal Operations Share are being carried on. Capital. London Office. Achilles Gold-mines Anglo-Continental Gold Syndicate (Limited) Anglo-New Zealand Mines Investment Apakura Syndicate .. .. Aroha Gold-mines Australasian Gold Trust Blagrove's Freehold Gold-mining Company Blue Spur and Gabriel's Gully Consolidated Goldmining Company Britannia (Hauraki) Gold-mining Company C.N.Z. Syndicate Collingwood Goldfields Otago General Aroha Taitapu, Nelson .. Coromandel Otago £ 92,000 100,000 100,000 1,800 100,000 500,000 62,500 130,000 6, Queen Street Place. Austinfriars, London. 54 and 55, London Wall. 10, Bloomfield Street. 30 and 31, St. Swithin's Lane. 9, St. Mildred's Court, E.C. 97, Dashwood House, E.C. 6, Great St. Helen's, E.C. Coromandel General Collingwood, Golden Bay Coromandel Reefton General 100,000 10,000 150,000 34 and 36, Gresham Street, E.C. 46, Queen Victoria Street, E.C. Colville Company Consolidated Goldfields of New Zealand Coromandel Exploration Syndicate Cromwell Proprietary Dolcoath Gold-mining Company (Hauraki Peninsula, New Zealand) Dual Syndicate East Hauraki Gold-mining Ethel Reef Gold-mining Company Fame and Fortune Finance, Mines, Industries Association Fortuna (Hauraki) Goldmines Glenrock Consolidated (Limited) Gloucester Gold-mining Company Golden Blocks Golden Eclipse Mine (Hauraki) Golden Lead of Hauraki Golden Pah (Hauraki) Goldfields of Hauraki Prospecting Syndioate Goldfields of New Zealand Gold Trust of New Zealand Good Luck Gold-mines of New Zealand Grey Consolidated Hauraki Associated Gold Reefs Hauraki (Auckland) Goldfields Syndicate Hauraki Development Syndioate .. ... Hauraki East Hauraki Golden Age Mines Hauraki Golden Bay Mines ., ., ., Coromandel General Coromandel Te Aroha Thames Thames General Thames Taitapu, Nelson .. Thames Coromandel 7,500 225,000 2,000 100,000 150,000 10,000 100,000 200,000 50,000 5,000 50,000 225,003 120,000 100,000 75,000 100,000 62,500 3,000 100,000 100 75,000 200,000 100,000 10,000 25,000 150,000 7, Drapers' Gardens, E.C. 11 and 12, Cornhill, E.C. 6, Great St. Helen's. 54, Old Broad Street, E.C. 142 and 143, Palmerston Buildings, E.C. 3, Clement's Lane, E.C. Finsbury House. Dashwood House, E.C. 110, Cannon Street. 3, Laurence Pountney Hill, E.C. 35, Queen Street, E.C. Throgmorton House, E.C. 11, Old Broad Street, E.C. General Moorgata Court, E.C. 97, Dashwood House, E.C. 53, New Broad'Street, E.C. 13, St. Helen's Place, E.C. 4, Great Winchester Street, E.C. Grey Coromandel General Thames General Thames General .. 15 and 16, George Street, S.W. Winchester House. 36, Basinghall Street, E.C. 6 and 7, Grocers' Hall Court, E.G. 13'and 14, Abchurch Lane, E.C, 8, 01d;Jewry, E.C. 150,000