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tions under which they were held; whilst some of those claims in which prospecting operations were carried on in a practical manner continue to afford hopes of ultimate success. In other mines continued development work has been the means of discovering gold-bearing quartz, in the production of which the mining operations and after treatment furnished profitable employment for a large number of men. The subjoined list of claims will show that the area of ground occupied is much less than formerly, although a considerable number have been taken up during the past year:—

Abstract of Licenses for Special Claims and Licensed Holdings issued from the Warden's Office at Coromandel, in the Hauraki Mining District, and registered on or before the 31st March, 1898, in the Books of the Mining Registrar at Coromandel.

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Date of License. Area. Locality. Block. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner. 8/11/97 18/5/96 A. B. P. 95 2 32 32 0 22 Waikanae .. Matamataharakeke Kennedy Bay V., VI. VI. Harataunga Ackbar Ada Ackbar Gold-mining Co. (N.L.). Enoch Richards. 18/5/96 10/7/97 25/6/96 5/11/96 20/11/95 29/10/95 10/7/97 10/7/97 10/7/97 18/5/96 24/4/96 8/11/97 23/12/96 100 0 0 100 0 0 86 0 0 20 0 0 78 3 37 30 0 0 100 0 0 95 3 27 94 0 5 99 3 20 98 3 24 83 2 0 63 2 0 Coromandel Tiki Waikawau .. IX. II. VI. V. VI. IV Coromandel Moehau .. A.J.C. Akarana Alameda Albion Albion Extended Alert Antipodes Antipodes No. 2 Antipodes No. 3 Arawa Ballarat Bay View A.J.C. Gold-mining Go. Golden Butterfly Gold-mining Co. (N.L.). F. Swindley and H. C. Bell Hauraki Main Lodes (Ltd.). Hauraki Main Lodes (Ltd.). Alert Gold-mining Go. (N.L.). Adolph Kohn Tokatea Manaia Kennedy Bay Matamataharakeke Coromandel Tokatea II. XIV. IV. VI. Coromandel Harataunga S. W.'Bedlington. James Edwards. Bay View Gold-mining Co. (N.L.). 18/2/96 2/7/95 21/8/95 21/7/97 5/8/97 100 0 0 18 0 30 38 1 3 99 0 0 98 0 0 Manaia Kikowhakarere it. XIII. I. Coromandel Beatrice Bismark Extended .. Britannia British Fleet British Kapanga Freehold Proprietary Ditto Extended " .. Bunker's Hill Bunker's Hill Extd. Cabbage Bay Cadman's Gully No. 1 Gadman Extended ... Castle Rock Consolidated No. 1 Ditto No. 2 „ No. 3 „ No. 4 „ No. 5 „ No. 6 „ No. 7 „ No. 8 „ No. 9 Charley Beresford .. Chidwell Hall City of Lucknow Sur plus Colleen Bawn Colorado Condor Conquering Hero .. Coronet .. Coromandel Queen .. Cornubia .. Cousin Jack Crown's Hill Cuirassier .. Cuirassier Surplus .. Cuvier Light Hauraki Golden Bay Mine (Ltd.). J. H. Witherford. Britannia Hauraki Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.). George Houghton and Robert McShane. James Halley. 5/8/97 27/8/95 27/8/95 24/4/96 30/11/90 11/10/97 21/2/98 60 0 0 2 0 12 1 0 0 96 0 0 85 0 0 40 2 0 90 0 0 Coromandel v. Bunker's Hill Gold-mining Go. (Ltd.). Kennedy Bay Coromandel Kennedy Bay IX. VI. IX. VII. Harataunga Coromandel Harataunga Coromandel Queen Victoria of Hauraki Gold-mining Co. W. H. Cooper. William McFarlane. Kauri Freehold Gold Estates (Ltd.). 21/2/98 21/2/98 21/2/98 21/2/98 21/2/98 21/2/98 21/2/98 21/2/98 10/7/97 6/2/97 23/3/97 90 0 0 90 0 0 90 0 0 90 0 0 90 0 0 90 0 0 90 0 0 90 0 0 100 0 0 74 0 0 6 1 9 xi.,"vi. VII., XI. XI. Tiki Manaia X. XIII. Hugh Arthur Bishop. John McNeil. Percy A. Vaile. 23/3/97 2/3/98 10/7/97 12/1/98 7/10/96 2/11/96 15/12/97 7/6/97 25/5/97 14/4/96 1/9/96 11/8/96 12 0 0 28 3 3 52 2 16 14 3 22 36 0 0 63 2 24 63 3 2 73 0 0 70 0 24 30 0 0 14 3 21 52 2 9 Tiki Tiki Tokatea Coromandel VI. XII. X. II. VI. II. HI. V. II. John Fitzgerald. William Whitaker. Jackson Palmer. Conquering Hero Gold-mining Co. (N.L.), Coronet Gold-mining Go. (N.L.). Coromandel Queen Gold-mining Co. William Brentnall. Ernest Brothers Dufaur. Ackbar Gold-mining Co. (N.L.). Cuirassier Gold-mining Co. (N.L.). Waikawau .. Waikanao .. Tokatea Harataunga Coromandel Matamataharakeke Port Charles Waikawau .. Gape Colville Tokatea VI. Harataunga Cuvier Light Gold mining Go. (N.L.). 13/7/96 10/5/97 29/4/97 23/12/96 100 0 0 41 3 20 98 2 16 57 1 16 I. VI. II. I. Cape Colville Coromandel Defender Darwin Donald McKinnon .. Duke of Wellington No. 1 Echo Edinburgh Hauraki Evening Star William Bourke. William Oliver Lamb. Port Jackson Gold-mining Go. (N.L.). William H. Davies. 25/5/97 21/2/98 27/2/96 95 0 11 100 0 0 69 2 8 Waikawau .. IV. IT. VI. Moehau .. Coromandel Harataunga Francis Charles Stubbs. Edwin H. Hardy. Evening Star Gold-mining Go. (N.L.). 100 0 0 34 3 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 30 0 0 30 0 0 Matamataharakeke Coromandel Exchequer Exchequer Extended Fabulous .. Forest Queen Four-in-Hand Gay City of Auckland Gisborne F. Swindley and H. C. Bell. 25/6/96 23/7/96 22/10/96 21/7/97 10/3/96 27/8/95 Coromandel Tokatea Coromandel Tokatea II. Fabulous Gold-mining Co. (N.L.). Frederick Charles Bing Home. Four-in-Hand Gold-mining Co. (N.L.). Napier Gold-mining Co. (N.L.). 17/2/96 100 0 0 Matamataharakeke VI. Harataunga City of Gisborne Gold-mining Co. (N.L.).