THE CALEDONIAN CLAIM.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2547, 17 April 1871, Page 3

THE CALEDONIAN CLAIM.

Our Auckland telegrams continue to tell of the increasing riehnc<s of tiiL mine, which will be easily understood by the following particulars culled from laic Auckland papers. The trushings of the various claims on the Thames for March gave an ageregato yield far in excess of any previous return for too same period. There wove 8,799 lens or stone crushed, which yielded 45,2 d!) ozs. 11 dwts., or 14.460 ozs. 14 dwts. over ihc yield for February. Of this quantity tnc Calc lonian Claim turned out 83,00'.) ozs. The following is the quantity of ihc gold to the Bank of New Zealand by this mine, as well as the prices realised oz. dwt. gr. £ s. d. Fob. 18 ... 7,779 5 0 March 4 ... 11,058 2 0 March 18... 12,711 16 0 - 84,957 18 7 April 1 ...13.784 17 0 - 87,760 10 3 Total ... 46,234 0 0 £128,244 11 2 Dividends paid, L 47 per scrip; total, L 126,420. Attached is a report of what several of the Thames mining companies have done during the present quarter ending the 81st of March ri Name. Tons. Ozs. 13 ui Total si.

Caledonian, Feb. ) 46.284 47 12,640 Golden Crown l ... 1,25!) 8.937 A4O 7,680 All Nations . . 779 3,594 265. 7,020 Nonpareil, two | 4(jo l ( jg7 13,i 8 . 3,847 Cgaavo .!. jwftw I i.m; Morning Star ... 700 1,218 os. /o ) Mo.watari ... 1,808 1,729;} Kurauui ■■■ 2,578 1,059 A snlendid comineiiecment towards another rich fortnight’s yield was made in the Caledonian miin yesterday, when 7 cwt. of enormously rich stones were brought to the surface. Some of them were of immense nze. One huge block weighed over 2 cwt., and w/8 of such a rich character as to throw the splendid bock of sloae exhibited last week entirely into the shade. At a rough calculation, its value may be estimated at 1*3,000. Many of tin other blocks, although not so I vgo a? this one, were proportionately rich. —Jic lnrtiser, April 5.