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Abstract of Licenses for Special Claims and Licensed Holdings issued from the Wardens' Offices— continued.

Maelboeough. Mahakipawa District. King Solomon Mine. —The shaft, which is 120 ft. in depth, is well lined, and fitted with an efficient ladder. Power is obtained from a3O ft. overshot water-wheel. The level at the bottom of the winding-shaft is on the run of washdirt towards the south-east some 300 ft. Small parties of miners continue working on the upper parts of the stream, and generally earn fair wages. Wakamarina Gorge Claim. —Operations are now being actively carried on from the upper end of the gorge. The stuff is filled into trucks and taken on the incline tramway to the top of the dam, where it is emptied into sluice-boxes. Two sets of pumps, 3 ft. to 5 ft. stroke, raise the water to the surface. There are fourteen men employed, and considerable improvements have recently been made. The works are now in such forward progress that it will be possible to obtain the washdirt from the main bottom for a considerable portion of the full length of the gorge. In taking up the gravel a bar of rock was found lying across the old channel. This was cut through to a depth of about 10 ft. The length of the basin immediately above the bar is about 100 ft., and, saving accident by floods, this part will soon be worked out. On the north of the Wairau River gold is occasionally worked in all the tributaries from Onamulutu up to and for some distance past Top Valley Stream. The returns are, on the whole, of a very moderate value. Individual miners throughout the district appear in most instances to be doing very well, and several nice parcels of gold won by these men during the past few months, have been shown. Hydraulic sluicing on the scale in vogue in the southern districts is not practised here, though the country bears favourable indication that this form of mining would, if carried out in a systematic manner, be productive of profitable results. A very primitive form of mining is much practised during the summer months in the beds of the rivers and creeks, and is known as " blind stabbing." The miner, with a rod, on the end of which is placed some adhesive material, stirs up the auriferous wash, and, the water having cleared, secures the specs of gold on the adhesive substance, usually tallow, on the rod. By this extremely primitive method miners sometimes obtain gold that gives small wages on the Wakamarina, Quartz, Arm Chair, and Tipperary Creeks. A number of dredging claims have been applied for recently, and though only one—the Wakamarina Dredging Com-

Date of License. Area. Locality. Block. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Registered Owner. Stafford. 23/5/90 1/2/97 1/2/97 A. R. P. 8 0 0 30 0 0 27 1 3 XV. V. II. Waimea Otira Waimea Callaghan's Taipo Sluicing Co... Lamplough Cement Gold Co. Goldsborough Taipo Wheel of Fortune .. Stafford Taipo J. Doyle and party. H. P. Hill. James D. Gillies. 2/9/97 1/9/97 1/12/85 28/8/89 14/5/97 14/5/97 7 1 39 17 0 0 28 0 0 4 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 XV. V. XIV. Otira Waimea J. McWhirter and party. H. P. Hill. G. F. Batchelor. Benjamin Lyons. Michael Mclnerney. T. Stafford and another. viii. Turiwhate .. Ahaura. New Bendigo Goldmining Co. (Ltd.) Larkin and Party .. Donnellan and Sons Nelson Creek Gold-mining Co. 10/9/92 45 0 0 VIII. Mawheranui 24/4/93 24/4/93 25/9/93 5 15 11 1 0 19 1 36 VII. VIII. Nelson Creek Richard Larkin. Patrick, John, Peter, and William Donnellan. Clement Parfitt, Michael Ward, Henry Brunetti, Patrick Gilligan, John Collins, and Edward Comerford. Bell Hill Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.). Clement Parfitt. 30/3/94 18/5/96 49 2 23 48 2 34 I. X. Kopara Mawheranui Bell Hill No Town Gold-min-ing Co. Bell Hill Surprise Gold-mining Co. 22/6/96 27/7/96 26/4/97 50 0 0 42 3 30 49 3 19 V. II. III. Kopara Ahaura Mawheranui Henry Burger, James Malloy, David McConnor, James McConnor, Richard Clough, James Holmes. George Erickson and two others. Thomas Jones. 11/11/95 30 0 0 Perseverance Montgornerie Terrace Republic Hydraulic Sluicing Co. Thomas Baxter, James Baxter, Thomas Jones, William Baxter, Alfred Ford, John Walsh, Henry > Bignell, John Fitzgerald, and six others. Nelson Creek Gold - mining Co. (Ltd.). Lemon W. Garrod and eleven others. Richard Larkins and five others. David Flannery. Arthur Brooks and Arthur Dunn. 28 3 3 VIII. Nelson Creek 11/11/95 !7/7/96 20 0 0 II. Ahaura Young Napoleon Gold-mining Co. Larkins and Party German Gully The Arthur Lease .. 18/9/96 26/4/97 14/1/98 10 0 3 30 0 0 5 3 28 VIII. i. Mawheranui Ahaura

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