C—4a.

No. 11. Number of Machines employed in Alluvial and Quartz-mining for the Year ending 31st March, 1886.

Summary.

45

? :ac: tinory imp! oyed ii Alii iviii' Mi: lini Mai ;hin< >ry em; iloyi id in Qu; :tz-j Lining. Mining District. to © 5 I 13 <l> (S kJ o 03 .& a £■? fc-t o y Ss .253 EC at f "c3 en O M o W So is o m a; m CD g 1 q g 3 Steamengines employed winding, crushing, <D o I 60 la s 5 I o 02 o o I CO !>> 0 "8 CO s c c3 o « H O CO Approximate Value of ajl Mining Plant included in this Keturn. a 2 2 be s o o ft AggroNo, gate h.pTO a 3 I I q .UCKLAND —■ South Hauraki .. North Hauraki .. Te Arolia 25 8 1 600 210 20 22 7 2 458 65 50 23 :s 4 !08 76 105,001 30,001 18,001 [ablboeough— Kavenscliff and Queon Charlotte Sound Pelorus & Wairau 12 1,541 130 rELSON— Wangapeka Collingwood West Wanganui.. Inangahua Charleston Lyell Murchison Wostport Ahaura 47 80 23 45 40 500 27 6 '2 1 "70 3 50 13 12 228 1 1 18 i 5 '285 1 1 15 2 3 55 2^501 124,581 3,001 11,001 l,20i 7,001 6,801 1 4 "45 3 "27 350 1 3 2 20 '2 VE STL AND — Waimea and Stafford Totara Hokitika and Kanieri Greymouth Arnold Kumara G oldsborough .. Greenstone Okarito .. 2 8 ■10 1,000 40 70 1,800 882 70 3 1 6 2 230 40 30 356 118 55 6 25 40 8 5 220 "33 4,001 14,001 2,501 5,001 2,591 5,001 8 20 1 3 1,000 50 "34 i i',801 8 '3 Itago— Hindon Tuapeka Clyde, Alexandra, Cromwell, Eoxburgh, Black's Orepuki and Longwood Waikaia(Switzer's) Arrow (Wakatipu Goldfleld) , Naseby .. Kyeburn and Clarke's Hamilton's and Sowburn Hyde and Fullerton's Macrae's, StrathTaieri, and Shag Valley Maerewhenua .. Serpentine St. Bathan's, Ida Valley, and other localities Queenstown Clyde, Roxburgh, Alexandra, and Black's 9 500 410 200 180 70 40 15 5 6 1 10 150 60 70 90 18 25 30 l '3 4 125 1 3 20 24 2 3 5 45j 20 20 40 -5 1 4 2 1 2 2 1 io 4,001 12,001 20,001 4,481 .. 15,001 1,701 481 401 15 10 201 50 12 151 30 20 60 14 5 40 1 "ie i i 5 10 1 301 601 2,501 4 8 300 396 ];'s 50 4,000 10 7 30 4 1 "l2 6 2 90 8 1 24,001 21,701 Totals 8,063 5,870 9 1,395 1,170 GG 452,73! 14 72 110 I 78 15 12S 7 138 61 77 7 3 1 349

Auckland .. Marlborough Nelson Westland .. Otago .. 10 09 2 4 3 2 14 72 130 741 4,912 2,280 2 52 17 39 4 .. 448 2 863 35 4,555 41 .. 53 1 40 14 30 3 13 9 1 12 8 6 12 .. 228 26 253 .. 72 20 359 t)U 22 2 3 284 153,000 1,546 55 156,080 34,596 10 107,520 349 452,732 4 125 '238 14 'a '.'. 1 Totals 8,063 110 5,870 78 15123 7 138 9 61 1,395 77 1,170 66 7 3 1