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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 4, 11 October 1871, Page 2

The 27a0ozs. rcortccl gold brought up from the Tokatca G.M.C., Coromandel, on Monday evening has been assayed at the Bank of New Zealand, amt yielded 2.(>020zs ttdwts of melted gold worth £2 17s 6d per or.. The amount of dividend will be agreed upon at the next meeting of directors, to be held at Coromandel on Friday. It is expected to be pot less than 7s pgr share. There can be no doubt whatever that the Tokatca mine is one of the best and most permanent on the whole of these goldfields. At the Police Court yesterday, as will be seen from the report in another column, the father of the boy Mackay, who has been in custody for Hie past few days, attended the Court and expressed his willingness to take home the boy, who, he stated, had run away with some other lad and his parents were unaware of his whereabouts until the police communicated with them. The father is a most respectable looking man, and is. we liea a settler in good circumstances residing at Epsom. Young Mackay is not the first lad that has run away from a good home and come to grief thereby. We hear that Mr C. I-\ H. Lloyd, surveyor, is about to start on the survey of a very large block of land at Coromandel which the natives agree to sell. The survey will take some months to complete, as there is not only a large area of country to go over, but the bush in many parts through which lines will lmvjj to be run is of the densest and most impenetrable character. When this survey is completed, and the land thrown open to public competition, we may look forward to the establishment of settlements in many parts of the hitherto almost barbarous region between Cape Coluilie and the more settled parts of the Coromandel District. At Kitty's lead a augget weighing 520 z was taken from under a stump. A colonial Paliscy has been found at Cluncs, A phqtpgraphor. named Jqhp Tanner has there, after •four years labour, succeeded in producing photographs enamelled on copper. They are, we believe, iudestructable, and as specimens of art really beautiful. Eight hundred tons of stone yielded 1140 nzs of gold have been raised from the Smithfield reef, Gympie, since the 28th June last. Peace hath, her victories. Just so ; more fall iu love than in war.