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W. Guffie, Main Gully. —The ground is from 10 ft. to 13 ft. in depth; wash, 6 ft. Four heads of water are brought in from the Government water-race. 1,600 ft. of pipe-line, reduced from 19 in. to 13in. diameter; pressure, 125 ft. Three men. Naseby Gold-dredging Company (H. Ravenwood, manager).—Four heads of water are brought in from the Government water-race. The claim is worked by hydraulic sluicing and elevating ; pipe-line, 3,000 ft. in length. Pipes reduced from 19 in. to 11 in. diameter; pressure, 130 ft. Face is 18 ft. deep, and elevator is lifting 29 ft. Boxes are 48 ft. long by 3 ft. wide, with angle-iron ripples and matting. Ten men are employed. Beed Bros. (J. W. Reed, manager).—Elevating claim; maiden ground. Face, 7ft. to 10ft.; wash, 3 ft. ; elevator lifting 16 ft. Four heads of water are brought in from the Government waterrace ; pipe-line, 600 ft. long; pipes, 19 in. to 11 in. diameter; pressure, 160 ft. Three men employed. Ah Fong and Party. —Elevating claim of 13 acres. Four heads of water are brought in from the Government water-race; lift, 20ft. Three men employed. Tuck You, Main Gully. —Two men ground-sluicing with one head and a half obtained from Government water-race. Lock Lung and Party, Hogburn Creek. —Elevating claim in old tailings from Surface Hill. One head and a half purchased from Hewitt's private water-race comprises the water-supply. Eight or nine parties of Chinese are sluicing into Main Gully. W. Hendrickson, Spec Gully. —Ground-sluicing with one head of water obtained from the Government water-race. William Bertram, Spec Gully. —Ground-sluicing with two heads of water from the Government water-race. Spec Gully. —About thirty Chinese miners are employed ground-sluicing and fossicking at the head of Spec Gully. They are supplied with water from the Hit or Miss Race. Also about fifteen fossickers buying water from the Government water-race. Inder and Party, Spec Gully. —Elevating claim of 9 acres ; water obtained from the Hit or Miss Race. L. Hore, Enterprise Gully. —This claim has been converted into an elevating claim. Three heads of water are purchased from the Government water-race and stored in a dam; pressure, 80 ft.; pipe-line, 800 ft. Matthew Young, Enterprise Terrace. —Face, 38 ft. ; wash, 5 ft. Water brought in six miles from the East Eweburn Creek. Claim, 6 acres. Three men. A. and J. Brown, Enterprise Terrace. —Ground-sluicing with two and a quarter heads of water obtained from the Government water-race. Two men employed. Enterprise Mining Company, Enterprise Gully (W. Newman, manager). —This company has one claim above the Government water-race; and is working in the '' Maori bottom.'' The auriferous wash is 6 ft. to 8 ft. in depth, lying on a clay bottom, and having above it a 6 ft. band of clay and 20ft. of "Maori bottom." The water is obtained from a private race from the West Eweburn. There is one man in the " Maori bottom " Claim. The No. 2 Claim is an elevating claim in Enterprise Gully below Inder and party's claim. Two men are employed at the claim in Enterprise Gully. Elevator lifting 18 ft. ; 900 ft. of piping in use ; 120 ft. of boxes. F. Beed, Main Gully. —Elevating claim. Four heads of water from Government water-race ; lift, 18 ft. ; pressure, 140 ft. Two men. Henry Moore, Enterprise Gully. —Special claim of 8 acres. Supplied with four Government heads of water. Elevator pipe-line is 500 ft. in length, reduced from 19 in. to 11 in. diameter ; nozzle pipe-line, 400 ft., reduced from 11 in. to 7 in.; face, 13 ft.; wash, 2 ft. Two men employed. B. Moore, Enterprise Gully Spur. —Ground-sluicing in shallow ground. Inder and Brown, Enterprise Gully (J. Marslin, manager).—Claim, 21 acres; face, 17ft.; wash, 5 ft. to 6 ft. Four heads of water obtained from the Government water-race; pipe-line, 900 ft. in length, reduced from .19 in. to 11 in. diameter ; pressure, 120 ft.; elevating, 23 ft.; working " red wash." Three men employed. M. Lennane, Coal Pit Gully Spur. —Ground-sluicing. Water brought in six miles from Butcher's Gully ; 500 ft. of 7 in. pipes used. One man. M. Young, jun., and J. Beck, Coal Pit Gully. —Ground-sluicing. Two men employed. Hewitt and Beck, Goal Pit Gully. —Ground-sluicing with water from Band of Hope Water-rase. Isaac Parfitt, Little Kyeburn. —Special claim of 10 acres, elevating; water-supply obtained from a small private water-right ; ground shallow. One man employed. " Maori Bottom." W. Dowdall, Main Gully. —Ground-sluicing on the west side with one head and a half from the Government water-race. B. Moore, Main Gully. —Ground-sluicing on west side with one head and a half from the Government race. George Currie, Main Gully. —Ground-sluicing on west side with one head from Government race. Lee Gin, Main Gully. —Ground-sluicing on west side with one head from Government race. Barrat and- Lennane, Main Gully. —Ground-sluicing above the Government water-race with water from the Enterprise Company. East Side of Main Gully. P. Botting. —Ground-sluicing ; two heads from Government race. L. Botting. —Ground-sluicing; two heads from Government race. Kong Sing. —Ground-sluicing; one head from Government race.