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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 105, 4 May 1881, Page 2

The returns of gold exported from New; Zealand during tha quarter ended Slut 1i1t.,; are gazetted. There has been a marked' decrease all over the colony as compared; with the corresponding quarter of 1880, the total diminution of export being nearly 40 per cent. The value of the gold exported inj the March : quarter of 1881 amounted to; £202,232, as against £318,208 in the same quarter of 1880. Auckland exported gold to! the value of £23,779, or about 50 per cent: less than in the March quarter of the previous year; Nelson £1000, or 75 per cent lesaWest Coast £95,280, or nearly 30 per cent: lesB ; Otago, £82,167, or nearly 40 per cent ■ less. Marlborough exported none at ally whereas in the corresponding quarter of 1880, the export was £850. The total export] of gold from New Zealand from Ist Aprils 1857 ta'3M March, 1881— a period of 24 years— has reached the large virtue of £37,582,868, ' ; A somewhat startling proposition wad recently made to the Otago Waste Lands Board by Mr. W* Mason, the first Mayor of; Dunedin. The subject, of ... Mr. Mason's application'Tjras' lnotKing. Jes}B ..than a ten' years' leased Lakes Wakatipu and, Hayes, 1 His.desirfe Is. to establish a J ,big fish-preserv-i ing industry, in the .interior— netting the large fish in' the lakeiajttdifreefcing fhtvi for! export^ ''/^ThY flsh^in thVse lakes ire; of oourse/i;iie ! acclimatised ones (with the e.x-j ceptipn of. eels', probably), and the objection| toMr.iiason'a ,^t once, going on with his lndustty, without a lease or anything of the; sort, is that the law prevents such neb. being; netted. The Land Board, however (fays the! Otago Times), could give Mr. Mason no; facilities itf the matter- It is altogether, beyond their power to grant a. lease of the!