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The following table gives the ore stamped, tailings treated, and gold produced from the Premier Mine for the year 1898: —

The following table gives the total returns from the Premier Mine for the years from 1890 to 1898 (inclusive):—

Total cyanide gold value, £1,411 9s. Bd. Tipperary Mine (Area, 105 acres; owner, the Westralia and New Zealand Gold-explorers, Limited ; manager, Walter J. Stanford). —The returns for the past year have again been disappointing, and of less value by £1,738 17s. 2d. than the previous year's yield. The manager has furnished the following account of the operations in the mine during last year:— " Work in the low-level adit-drive west has only been carried on from time to time during the year when funds permitted. A total length of 160 ft. was driven during the twelve months, making a total of 550 ft. driven westwards on the line of reef from the junction with the adit cross-cut.* In February, 1898, a very good patch of stone was struck in this tunnel, but it proved to be of such small extent that very little gold was obtained from it. The line of reef has split into two at the extreme face of the tunnel, but if work is resumed again we intend to follow the hanging-wall line, being the reef which keeps more truly to the general course of the lode. The driving of level No. 6 and its connection with the surface at the mouth of the high-level tunnel was one of the very important works commenced and finished during the year. Up to the completion of this work there was no true ventilation in the mine. The work was begun on the 25th February, acting on the Inspector's orders, and was continued day and night until, the 6th November, when the connection was completed. The total length of No. 6 tunnel is 680 ft., and all but 95 ft. of this was driven during the current year. In addition to the tunnel to complete the surface connection, we had to sink a shaft 155 ft. to meet level No. 6. The whole of this work was unremunerative, but there is now splendid ventilation in the mine. The main work of the year has been the sinking of a shaft from the low-level adit to open up a fresh level, to be known as No. 9. Towards the close of 1897 this work was started, and, in order to avoid interference with our main roads in the low-level adit, a cross-cut was driven into the hanging-wall clear of the main tunnel, and the shaft sunk in this cross-cut. It was sunk vertically about 29 ft. until it struck the reef on its underlie. The underlie

Month. Quartz stamped. Bar-gold extraoted. Produce per Ton of Quartz. Concentrates by cyaniding. Total Value. January ... February ... March Tons. 410 430 526 Oz. dwt. 371 5 242 7 361 0 Dwt. gr. 18 2-63 11 6-53 13 17-42 Tons. Oz. dwt. £ s. d. 1,494 11 2 968 16 2 1,452 11 7 477 18 9 987 6 9 1,104 17 5 1,049 18 10 24 142*10$ // - - • April 605 680 625 335 305 485 310 200 215 244 17 273 17 260 0J 215 3i 155 li 206 li 123 16 149 12 183 17$ 8 2-26 9 0-18 8 7-69 12 20-31) 10 4-52} 8 11-95 7 23-68 14 23-04 17 2-45 May June My August September... October November ... December ... 1,490 9 3 831 7 11 496 14 6 599 2 1 726 0 0 5,126 2,787 H 10 21 24 142 10J 11,679 14 5

Year. Quartz stamped. Bar-gold extracted. Produce per Ton of Quartz. i Cono oyai lentrates by niding. Total Value. Tons. 161 270 1,178 3,163$ 3,137 Oz. dwt. 107 14 76 6$ 482 19f 1,976 17 1,238 3| Dwt. gr. 13 1909 5 15-68 8 4-8 12 11-93 7 21-45 Tons. Oz. dwt. £ a. d. 432 0 0 303 15 8 1,943 1 9 7,988 19 3 5,003 14 0 629 13 10 1,594 13 1 886 10 11 138 6 7 11,308 7 6 165 10 6 11,211 15 8 477 18 9 1890 ... 1891 ... 1892 ... 1893 ... 1894 ... 1894 ... 1895 ... 1896 ... 1896 ... 1897 ... 1897 ... 1898 ... 1898 ... . . ,*mm "597 704 397 19$ 221 3$ 13 7-97 6 6-79 160$ 206*17 17$ 44 0 3,848 2,82*2 11$ 14 16 67 13 10 20-99 43 5,126 2,78*7 4$ 24 142*10$ 18,184£ 10,110 19 11 2-88 185 461 0$ 42,084 7 6