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Name of Prospecting Party. Number of Prospectors. Locality of Operations. Amount of Subsidy granted. ' Amount of j Distance Subsidy i driven expended. ! or sunk. I Nature of Claim. Character of Operations. Remarks. Northern Inspection District. New Sylvia Gold-mining Company Rising Sun Gold-mining Company Ohinemuri Gold and Silver Mines 6 6 9 Thames Owharoa Maratoto £ s. d. 200 0 0 1,000 0 0 108 0 8 £ s. d. 185 18 0 1,000 0 0 108 6 8 Ft. 429 Quartz Rising Driving Work temporarily suspended. Results up to date proved most disappointing. Driving on large lode, but so far nothing payable has been found. Testing the reef-system on the eastern side of the main fault, but so far nothing of a payable character has been discovered. No work done. Failed to locate any gold-bearing lodes. Promising dish prospects, but failed to trace the source of the gold. Results met with not payable. Work in progress. 250 Caledonia - Kuranui - Moanataiari Goldmining Company 6 Thames.. 2,000 0 0 2,000 0 0 Four-in-Hand F. MeGuiness and M. Breen Home and McKenzie 8 2 2 Waiokoromiko Coromandel 86 13 4 50 14 0 50 14 0 Nil 50 14 0 50 14 0 Nil Prospecting T. A. Black Muir's Gold-reefs Limited o Whansarei Te Puke 113 2 0 5,000 0 0 113 2 0 5,000 0 0 Cinnabar Quartz Trenching Shaft sinking and equipment Thomas Paruer Hardy's Mines 2 Waitekauri Te Aroha 23 8 0 130 0 0 Nil Nil Prospecting No work done. No work done. West Coast Inspection District. Blackwater Miners' Association Avery and party Payne and Danks Holmes and Barnett Honey and Cook Kearns and party Lewis and party Osmers and party Wealth of Nations Mines Limited Wise and O'Donnell H. Watson and partv H. F. Chaff ey 6 2 2 2 9 2 2 2 Alexander River .. Waimangaroa Alfred River Stevenson's Oollingwood .. Ross Reefton.. Wangapeka Waimangaroa L r pper Takaka 199 15 4 43 6 S 35 2 0 31 4 0 56 5 0 35 2 0 30 0 0 33 7 4 2.625 0 0 29 5 0 7 17 6 35 2 0 177 4 8 43 6 8 11 14 0 15 12 0 Nil 10 S 0 24 1 9 20 160 2,625 0 0 18 4 0 5 5 0 Nil 409 100 Quartz Prospecting Gold-bearing reef of promising appearance located. Gold bearing reef opened up. Nothing of any value located. Work in progress. No work reported yet.' Work in progress. Assistance towards erecting plant. Reef located, but too small to work. Main shaft sunk 150 ft. ; No. 13 level extended 404 ft. Nothing of value reported. Shaft sunk ; payable alluvial reported. 48 554 Quartz Sinking and driving Prospecting 2 22 Alluvial Southern Inspection Di-trkt. P. and W. H. Thomas A. F. Wilson and party F. and H. Soper Hayward and party Coal Creek Prospecting Association 2 2 2 2 2 Hamilton's Longwood Range Nevis Mount Pisa Old Man Range .. 118 19 8 113 2 0 50 14 0 50 14 0 50 14 0 118 19 S 113 2 0 50 14 0 Nil Nil 420 Alluvial Alluvial Driving Prospecting No payable ground opened up. No discovery of importance reported. Run of payable wash found. Work in progress. 75 12,308 8 6 11,743 2 5 ..