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" The Government road from Blind Bay to Whangaparapara is nearly completed, and when that is done the mines will be more accessible. The Barrier Eeefs Company contemplate the erection of a stamp-mill on Kaitoke Greek in the near future, and the work of that company and of the Melville Corporation, which holds an option on the Great Barrier Mine, should make this part of the Barrier more lively than it has ever been before." COEOMANDEL DISTKICT. This district comprises the whole of the Coromandel County. Operations have been vigorously carried on in the Coromandel, Tokatea, Opitonui, and Kuaotunu districts, but little or no miningwork has been done in the more northerly and the southerly portions of the field during the year. The Hauraki, Kapanga, Eoyal Oak, and Hauraki Associated Mines have been the chief goldproducers, and the extensive developments in the Kauri Freehold Company's mines, and at Kuaotunu, will largely add to next year's gold-production. The following list shows the licenses for claims now held in the Coromandel and Kuaotunu districts, and it will be seen, on comparison with last year's list, that a very large proportion of the holdings have been surrendered : — Abstkact of Licenses for Special Claims and Licensed Holdings issued from the Warden's Office at Coromandel, in the Hauraki Mining District, and registered on or before the 31st March, 1899, in the Books of the Mining Eegistrar at Coromandel.

Date of License. Area. Locality. Block. Survey District. Name of Claim. Name of Begistered Owner. 10/7/97 5/11/96 20/11/95 31/3/98 8/11/97 23/12/96 A. B. P. 100 0 0 20 0 0 78 3 37 59 2 0 83 2 0 63 2 0 Kennedy Bay Coromandel II. IX. IV. VI. Coromandel „ Harataunga Akarana Albion Albion Extended Avondale Warrior .. Bay View Golden Butterfly Gold-mining Oo. (N.L.). Hauraki Main Lodes (Ltd.). John Bollard. Bay View Gold-mining Co. (N.L.). Kennedy Bay Matamataharakeke Coromandel Tokatea 18/2/96 2/7/95 21/8/95 5/8/97 5/8/97 27/8/95 27/8/95 21/2/98 21/2/98 21/2/98 21/2/98 21/2/98 21/2/98 21/2/98 21/2/98 21/2/98 25/7/98 6/6/98 2/3/98 14/4/96 1/9/96 25/6/98 21/7/97 10/3/96 1/9/98 100 0 0 18 0 30 38 1 8 98 0 0 60 0 0 2 0 12 10 0 90 0 0 90 0 0 90 0 0 90 0 0 90 0 0 90 0 0 90 0 0 90 0 0 90 0 0 100 0 0 54 0 29 28 3 3 30 0 0 14 3 21 96 1 13 50 0 0 30 0 0 28 1 10 Kikowhakarere Coromandel Kennedy Bay Tokatea Coromandel Tokatea Coromandel II. I. vv'i I. XI." VI. VII., XI. XI. X. II. XII. ir. VI. II. Coromandel „ Beatrice Bismarck Extended Britannia British Kapanga Freehold Proprietary Ditto Extended Bunker's Hill Bunker's Hill Extd. Castle Rock Consolidated No. 1 Ditto No. 2 „ No. 3 . No. 4 „ No. 5 „ No. 6 „ No. 7 „ No. 8 „ No. 9 Charley Beresford .. City of Chester Colorado .. Cuirassier Cuirassier Surplus .. Empress .. Forest Queen Four-in-Hand Good Luck I Golden Hill Golden Pah Golden Shore Golden Tokatea Grand Moehau Freehold Syndicate No. 1 Harbour View Hauraki Gem Hauraki Hauraki No. 2 t Hauraki Queen Hauraki Peninsula .. Hauraki South Ida Jersey Kaka Kapanga .. Kapanga Township.. Native Little Minnie Miners New Hauraki New Hauraki Gold Properties (Ltd.) Hauraki Golden Bay Mine (Ltd.). J. H. Witheford. Britannia Hauraki Gold-mining Co. (lotd.). James Halley. Bunker's Hill Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.). Kauri Freehold Gold Estates (Ltd.). John Lynch. William Whitaker. Cuirassier Gold mining Co. (N.L.). Empress Gold-mining Co. (N.L.). Frederick Charles Ring Horne. Four-in-Hand Gold-mining Co. (N.L.). H. L. Smith and others. 31/3/98 92 2 22 i xiv. 1 in. V. II. Hastings .. Coromandel F. G. Clayton. 6/10/96 30/11/95 4/8/98 22/3/97 18 2 0 100 0 0 30 0 0 93 1 28 Tokatea Coromandel Port Charles Golden Pah Hauraki (Ltd). Hugh Davis. J. D. Regan. Fitzgibbon Lough. Moehau .. 5/8/97 21/2/98 6/10/96 28/5/95 63 0 37 54 2 6 29 0 11 6 0 8 Tokatea Coromandel Harbour View Gold-mining Co. (N.L.). Matthew Dyer. Hauraki Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.). The Hauraki No. 2 Gold-mining Co. (N.L.) Coromandel V. 31/3/98 13/1/97 9/6/96 30/6/97 25/5/97 28/8/95 4/10/94 15/12/97 24/1/96 31/3/98 - 9/2/99 11/2/96 5/8/97 79 0 0 80 2 32 14 1 25 13 0 0 53 1 18 92 2 35 99 3 27 29 1 7 15 3 14 98 2 33 2 2 0 14 2 28 94 1 24 Cape Colville Coromandel / xi'v. | in. ii. V. VI. Hastings .. Cape Colville Coromandel F. G. Clayton. W. White and G. Linnet. Hauraki South Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.). Joseph Howard Witheford. Jersey Gold-mining Co. (N.L.). Hauraki Golden Bay Mines (Ltd.). Kapanga Gold-mining Co. (Ltd.). Hugh Campbell and J. J. Duross. Ernest C. Daldy. P. G. Clayton. A. B. Kelly and W. Dwyer. New Hauraki Gold Properties (Ltd.). Cabbage Bay Coromandnl V. I., II. VI. XIV. XIII., XIV. IT. VI. Harataunga Coromandel Kapanga Manaia Coromandel