1882.
VICTORIA.
REPORTS
OF THE
MINING SURVEYORS & REGISTRARS.
QUARTER ENDED 3ls'r DECE~IBER 1881.
PRESENTED TO BOTH HOUSES OF PAHLIAMENT BY HIS EXCELLENCY'S COMMAND.
1>11 :ilutf)ot'il!!: JOHN l<'ERRES, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, liELBOl;RNE, :r-To. 4. APPROXIMATE COST OF REPORTS. £ •. d. Prcp!lration (not given); Printing {1,575 copies) 94 4 0 INDEX.
Summary.-Gold Mining Statistics for the quarter ended 31st Decc:nher 18~1. , . Table showing the Yield of Gold from certam parcels of Quartz raised durmg the Quarter Ill some of the Deepest Mmes in Victoria ; with Depth of the deepest Shafts, Levels, Cross-cuts, &c. Estimated Yield of Gold and Quantity of Gold Exported during the Quarter ended 31st December 1881, p. 5. Gold received at and issued from the Royal Mint during the quarter ended 31st December 1881, p. 5. Summary of Yiel
SUMMARY.
GOLD MINING STATISTICS FOR THE QUARTER ENDED 31st DECEMBER 1881.
TABLE SHOWING APPROXIMATELY THE NUMBER OF l\HNERS EMPLOYED, THE J\UCHINKRY IN USE AND ITS VALUE, ON THE SEVERAL GOLDFIELDS IN THE COLONY OF VICTORIA. (Compiled from tke Mining Surveyors and Registrars' Reports for tke Quarter ended 31st December 1881.)
Alluvial Quartz MACHINERY EMPLOYED IN ALLUVIAL MINING. MACHINERY EMPLOYED IN QUARTZ MINING. Miners. Miners. ::!' : Number Number Steam Enppes of DISTRICT, DIVISION, ·: Steam EI1fines / 10 ·- -~9.~~re_ distinct Price of Gold I Quartz per ounce~ AND Reef-s l ~~ I }i I 1 ~ u irl (J~,rli,u~J.;u~~iijn~g~b~.~&'n~.~.ng. ft I I UIAJPI~?.~'f!'~!'lrinlatel·~f~1~· a.ctna.lly m! proved St'BDIYISION. r;·, u 1 to be Auriferous. ______1 .I J 1 ol J j !i ! J ! ni~ 100 120 230 - 450 - - 300 - 16 15 19 321 _: 207 - - 16 - 49:000 4~ 32 3 17 6 4 0 0 0 •. 4~- 4 -- ~------11 3 3 18 6 3 19 6 .• 2,780 - 1,230 4,972 '35" 9,ou --84-1"'2;9641-69. -3-l--68-l--5-~-~7- -~-s-1 --~ · -43- --~5--I-2-I--I-o+-I-o-l·-l-:c97:--+-s"",o-53-+-9- 1,:ma 29 ------s8 I-·151'3 1--4-I-o,·z-s-9-:--I-S-5!1--I---s-50--l Totals .. ---- 1--1-1--1~-1-- -~ ~------1--~-+--1--1---·1----1------1------1----1----1
BEECH WORTH. 110 3180 4 2 6 Beechwortl1 Division . . • • :;_:8 ~73 ~14 = 1,265 _2 25 _ 4 _: _: s~oo _: _:o :~ - _ 2 1 115 ~ -:~5i I = ~ ~ - _ 21,970 47 Ya.ckandand:th North Subdivision 168 120 94 - 382 3 14 - - - ~ - ~.ooo s 24 16 - 5 80 1 " _1 - 1 2 - 10 117 a 10 9 i 1 6 Yackandlludah South Subdivision 4 1 0 I.ndigo Division • • • • • • 2 8 249 6 9 1 4 28 Buckland Division . . • .. • • §~ ~1¥ M~ 6 1 ~~~ - n ~ 4 4~~ 5 zi 21 ~ 1M 7 no 1 2 .: - z~. ~! ~ 1~ g 4 0 0 5 1 4 1 6 Wnndiligong Subdivision • ~ •• 3 -5 -; Alexaudra Subdivision • • • • ~~: ~ m = ·~~ - - -2 - ~ ·gg · = = - ~ m M - - - 4 ~ h: 5~ ~~~ ~ i~ ~ 4 1 0 4 0 0 Dry Creek Subdivision . . • • 51 ' 32 13 1 97 - ~ ~ 260 - -· ~ ~ - 1 12 ~ 10 = = ~ - ~:~gg 71 2 3 15 6 Beualla Subdivision . . . , •• 2 22 2 1 4 4 0 0 Gaffuey's Creek Subdivision .• 1 3 19 3 18 6 ~~ I - ~ ~~ = ig: = - ..: ~ 1ig = ~ ~ - If Ji i2 ~~ _: ~1 - 2~~:~g ~1~8 95 HH 4 0 0 Wood's Point Subclivision . . • • 60 2 30 - 92 = 120 _ 9 9 _ 3 36 ! 30 .: = ~:rs~ 33 14 3 16 6 4 1 0 Big River Subdivision . • , • = _ = 3 15 0 Mit,ta, Mitta '\"orth Subdivision .• 15 ~ 235 - ~50 ------~ ·- - - 2 26 - 18 --- 2,000 18 11 3 10 0 Bethanga Subjivision , • . . -- lOO - 100 - - ~ -- ~ ~ -- 4 40 ~ 5 ~ ~ - - 5,010 20 22 3 10 0 3 15 0 Mitta. Mitta Houth Subdivision •• 20 8 10 - 38 - - - 8 1 3 -- 1 10 1 11 - - - 4 - 1,400 12 10 3 5 0 3 12 6 J:llmiesou Subdivision 100 20 130 __25_o_l·-,---l--:::-:-·l---,---l-- __ - - 450 - - - 4 __47__ __s___ u~•-=- __~ ____ -__ __- __ __-_ __I6_,oo __ o_ ___9 _ __21__ 3 H o 3 18 3 1 1 1 1 1 11 1 13 7 25 3 117 10 3 " .. I ::: --3-:- ::: : :: - --::- -Ioo-- : __· -:-::-::- 1:: :: 3 18 3 3andhurs~;;;~~U;T. 1,:: --~~~ ·-···~-- !_~-- _!~ _s_s_~-- ~~--~-l-2-:-:-·l--:-:~-2-:-·l--~-'- --:~ ~ ~~ --~- ::::~: :~ 3 18 3 5 3 19 0 ·=:~~;~~~~i~~~on ~~d ~~ani~ ~~ ~ ~~ = ~~g -~ -12 1 40 4 iO ~30 = 5o = = ~g ~~~ = 1~ = = ~ 25 _: 2~;~~ ~i M~ ~ i~ g 4 1 0 warangaNortl1i •• __71__ ~~~--=--~---l----l - 15 ~ - ~ - ~ - 3 9 168 - 79 - - 3 20 9,680 11 130 315 0 4 2 0 1 Tota.la .. _1,2_49___ 1_83_1 __4._698 __ 30__ 6_,_75_7 ____s_ _ji32I}1 _ -m· ==4= _1_12 ___ --30- ~-·~ --I--3-I-_-_7-I-I-~~~-:-~~2~5_5----~~~-~---5,~082~~~-~-~==~+~-·5_53_ _3_-.======_2_o_s_ •23'7 -57-l--5-1...:.7,-07-2-l--1-4-5--i---7-79--l 11 MARYBOROUGH. Maryhorough Division .. .. 1,250 320 730 - 2,330 160 30 12 6 2 35 17 2 463 160 2 - 20 27 108,616 5& 172 4 0 0 4 2 0 175 10 15 - 230 10 8 2 8 - 8 1 6 1 25 ~ - ~ ~ - 11,100 2~ 1 4 0 0 4 1 6 Ma.jorea. Subdivision.. •• •• 4 2 6 .A..mherst Division H • ~ H 461 120 98 - 679 - 62 5 5 63 ~ 64 - 8 12 lOO 49 - - 4 3 - 22,752 7 30 3 15 0 488 322 90 - 000 100 3 - 36 - 18 1 4 - 1 88 73 - - 4 4 22,783 19 42 4 0 0 4 0 0 A voca Subdivision •• 4 2 3 Ditisio~~ 449 300 825 - 1,574 44 6 - 4 ~ - - 4 30 693 246 - - 21 12 5 64,492 18 193 4 0 0 395 245 200 - 840 - 13 ~ --- - - 15 130 39 - - 8 7 - 6,195 19 74 3 15 0 3 19 0 122 23 9 ~ 154 - - - 11 1 ~ 3 ------2 35 - 16 ~ - 1 - 1,515 37 ll 3 18 6 3 19 0 St . .A rnaud ·South 100 96 18 - 304 ~ - 12 - 1 6 ~ ~ - 3 - 3 39 - 20 - - 2 - 2,530 2U 34 3 16 o 4 0 0 1© 105 306 - 574 - i 5 - ~ ~ - - - 14 310 118 2 - 11 22 - 40,557 7 70 3 15 0 4 1 0 --:;:693 -~.5-41- -2-.2-9-1 -_- -1-,5-2_5 ___5_4_ -~-.-632_, __4.~7 I-- ~-=- -4-- 1 75~m 4 w 1,941 -4~~-----77 -7-7- 280,540 136l E27 Total• •• 416 58 2o -96 ------m -s------1------1---1------. -· --1-~1------1-- --·-- 1---1------'~-__;-1---1 CASTLE MAINE. 3 17 0 4 0 0 Ca.stlem~tine Division ... •• 376 252 283 - 921 2 30 3 53 -- 152 8 6 1 - 24 425 1 180 5 1 18 22 1 45,360 9i 103 700 400 322 - 1,422 4 78 39 6 15 306 - 23 2 2 24 ( 20 546 148 4 1 9 15 '12,967 28i! 37 3 17 6 3 18 0 Fryer's Creek Division • • • • 3 11 0 Hepburn Division . • • • • , 300 320 370 - 990 1 8 - 9 4 64 80 1 30 2 1 4 1 28 484 2 202 1 ~ 17 40 - 32.450 82 89 4 2 0 Taradale and KynetonSnbdivision 364 105 21 - 490 6 125 10 8 3 6 - ~ -- 2 32 - 24 - - - - - 11,000 28 19 3 18 6 319 6 100 160 377 - 637 - 13 ~ 2 17 ·- 17 - 21 - 33 681 230 ~ - 24 3 2 51,528 145~ 77 3 19 0 4 1 0 ~~r~~3~~~:,~ R{~~~i~ri :: :: 216 95 65 ~ 376 1 10 2 7 9 8 100 10 8 - 10 148 4 62 - 2 6 ~ 8,413 ~ 78 3 18 6 4 0 0 Blue l\Iountaiu North Subdivision 117 ~ 28 - 145 - - 1 - ~ - --- 1 18 ~ - - ~ - -- - 370 4 4 3 17 0 3 17 6 2.113 r,4oo -- 4,981 1 1 1 -9-2- 8o 1 118 2,335 -7- s15 -Jo- --4--7-4- so ---2-22-.o-88-l--1-7-2--l---4o_7_ Totals •• 1,3~2 -----u------;;51 --s+--l·-~-32_ _27- --66~1 -~9~ -~-3- 24 28i-~ -a ------c------1--1·--1-1--~------•- --l-·-l---1----l·------1-----j----l---- ARARAT. 190 230 50 - 470 6 85 11 3 4 36 ~ 12 - 4 11 - 4 62 - 28 - - 2 3 8,500 39 30 3 16 6 4 2 0 458 200 620 - 1,278 8 115 1 1 4 - 25 - ~ - 28 10 - 85 1,218 324 - - 48 10 7 140,862 27 37 3 13 0 4 1 0 270 60 - - 330 1 10 12 1 1 12 ~ - - - 10 - - - ~ ~ - - 770 16 9 3 19 6 4 0 6 •. 466 122 12 - 600 22 410 16 7 2 2 ------~ 15,500 6,1 5 3 19 6 4 1 5 .. !1,'38'i ~ ~ -- ·-2,-67""'8-l--3-7-l--6-20-l--17+--l---31-l-10-- --7- -~ 12 - 32- -91-l-_-ll--3-1--l--1-,-28-0-·l--- ~-34_7_ ----~~----- 50 13 7 165,632 881, Totals •• ---n 81 •·- --l-----~--~-----l---l·---l----·l------~-.------~·-l--·------li----1 GIPPSLAND. I ; 2 14 28 3 9 0 3 16 6 2 5 15 3 3 0 0 3 10 0 ~~~F:r~~;:::·~~~d:· ::Ore~~ u~ ~ ~~ ~ m =~ =10 - = = = llgg ~ ~ ~ - 3 = : ~; 1 i = 1 = = = = ::flJ 24 25 3 15 6 3 19 6 3 12 0 3 19 0 3 6 0 4 0 0 :: :: = = I = _: 3 15 0 3 17 6 .. ~78006. ~4 ~46 =- fY~ - 1 - - ~1 =~ Jg30 =- -~ -~ ~ - ~ 58~ i3 120~ -~ =- =- -- 12,110H~ ~~6~ 3~19 3 10 0 4 0 0 Il-l - 1 46 3 10 0 4 0 0 :: ¥i = ~ = = -1 = = = = = 1 = 5 - ~ 1 ~ _: = = - - '}~ J u 3 8 0 3 18 0 .. 18 22-- 1--40-44-- 1 9--- ~ 387 23 13 316 0 3 16 6 3 15 0 3 17 6 •• :: ~ _ 3 _12 = _2 1 = .!. = ~~ = ~2 = = 10 2 80 ~ 18 ~ _ = _ - 3.~ 1~ r 3 15 0 3 19 6 1 1 Totals .. .. •• l-,140- __4_06_ --566- -~-:c-2==_-l--:-2,-:-:-+_-_-_-_4==-~ll---·l~-:c--:c-1~ ____-~·,_--2- _-8_ _..... ---i=--1,_440_ --2~ ~ n --,-_23-l-_z-II---I--67-0-·I--l-6- 484- ~ --=-1-=-- --~--~-l---85,568:-:-- --21-2~=--+-4-8-9-l 1 1 GRAND TOTALS .. •• 14,007 7,861 16,188 74 38,136 216 5,947 153 1 3 781 178 273 16,422 34 448 191 136 342 20 818 17,422 76 6,349 -S41--l-0- 500 438 77 1,86i).577 1.278:'! 3,645 T. COUCH:MAN, Department of Mines and Water Supply, Melbourne, 21st January 1882. Secretary for Mines and Water Supply. No. 4. SHOWING 'l'HE YIELD OF GOLD FROM CERTAIN P.~RCELS OF QUARTZ RAISED DURING THE QUARTER D' SOME OP THE DEEPEST MINES IN VICTORIA, WITH THE DEPTH OF THE DEEPEST SHAI<'TS WHICH ARE NOW BEING 8UNK, OR THE SINKING 01<' WHICH HAS RECENTLY BEEN STOPPED, ETC. (Compiled from Returns made by tlte 1lfining Surveyors and Registrars for tlte Quarte1· ended 31st December 1881.)
I i 1 I I I DISTRlU'/?, DIVISION, Depth at i I Depth of I Deptl! of I! I whlcl! Quantity Average I Width i Dip of the Reef Dip of the Strike of the i Depth tbe the AND NAME OF COMPANY. NAJIIE OF REEF. the Quartz Crushed. Yield of Uo1d , of the Reef. I th Ifitom Shoot Reef ! NAJIU; OF COMPANY. i NAJ\IE OF REEF. of deepest I REMARKS. per Ton. ! I e or1zon. of Quartz. (Bearing). SUBDIVISION. l was got. ------··- i------I i -----~--~---II~S-Iul--ft--·-1-~ I 1'------~------I 1 ·--~ Feet. Oz.dwt. gr. Ft. in.! Feet. Feet. Feet. BALLARAT. 1----;::- I I 950 1 Temperance • • • • Bond of Hope •• ,750, 850,9:$0 , 1,500 0 7 12 2 0' W. 3!1. in 6ft. N. N. Temperance ... Band of Hope .. 950 750 Central Division t lllnck Hill • • Black Hiil •• • • 'Sface. to 600 3,217 0 6 6 :2 in. to 3 ft.•' w. E. N. Black Hill •• Black Hlll •• 600 600 600 * Flat veins of quartz about 30 feet In width. Little Hopewell Trlb. No. I Staffordshire •• 227 1' 415 0 8 G 6 0' W.70" s. Litcle Hopewell ... • • 1 Staffordshire •• 520 500 500 Southern Division •• ::I 400 Buninyong Division .... 0 3 10 ii2 to 40 0 E. 66" N. N.s•w. Imperial •• • • ' Hiscocks ... 4!0 400 1 ~:2 i 3,~~ 1 Smythesdale Division •• ·.·{ ~~Iperial.. :: :: Hisc~~ks I_ i 4 reef~·E. so• l Clunea l,lGS 1,090 Port Ph!Jlip • • • • Clunes lOO to 990 I 9,888 0 4 14• I' 2 to 30 0 N. l'ort Pltiilip 1,190 " Including pyrites. Cre!nvick Division t 2 reels W. ao• j N. New North Cltmes Ciunes 1,105 1,105 l,tOfl :l\ew North Cluncs •• I Clunes soot~ :1,100 ,. 1,233 0 8 15• 2 to 7 0 W.15" * Including pyrites. Gordon Rubdivision .. • • Black Horse United •• , Big Hiil 930 920 920 Steiglltz Subdivision • • .. •• .. Blackwood Division and Blue Mountain New Sultan • • 1 Sultan and others 25 to £00 1,222 0 5 15 3 in. to 2ft. Varies Varies N.n•w. Sultan and others 914 900 900 South Subdivision BaHan Subdivision •• ··t·· ! ,I I i BEECH WORTH. I I Beech worth Dh·ision ... •• I Rcfonn .. 1 Ueform, l\lyrtleford .• i 450 438 0 3 0 12 0 w. 8. w. Best and Co. .. Exeelsiort Wooragee •• 310 1!>0 180
Yackundanduh North Subdivision ~ ~ i • • • • .. Y:l.ckandandnh :South Subdivision . . l ::\Iaguire's Perseverance ·9o I 66 1 12 8 I 6 w. s. N. Uigclowc and Clingan Homeward Bound 450 420 0 5 8 2 6 N.20" N.26'W. , ~lagenta ::1 ~ragcnta 160 to 200 ' 172 w. 81" JH. Uurns Prospecting • • Robett Burm 200 264. 254 Indigo Divjsion [ i Mclntcye and Co .•• Campbeli's •• 100 16 I 16 11 I 6 w. 75' N.32°W. Buckland Dlvjsiou .. • • • •• I •• •• Wandiligong r,.ubdivlsion •• • • Cornish United •• Elgin 450 !GO 0 14 0 2 0 N. and 8. ::I Alexandta Subdivision •• Lucky 400 306 0 19 19 3ln. to N. E. 45' N. W. 24' :s. W.24° Dry Creek Subdivision •• :: I ~~e Vulc.~n :: BennHa Subdivision .. ... Gaffney's Creek Subdiv1sion .. Golden Belt •• Homeward Bound 250 0 2 IS 2 6 s.w. s~· X. W. 33" N.W. 33' Wood's J->oint Snbdivlsion ~. Waverly •• 'Vaverly •• 200 0 2 22 4 0 N. E. S SANDHURST. 1,200 North Shennndoah •• ~-ew Chum .. 890 543 1 4 9 2 to 4 (Herculcs ann Energetic .. Victoria. 1,340 1,320 Not sinking. Victoria 1,330 1,100 1 Shenandoah • . • . NewChum •• 890 1,118 0 IS 2 2 to 4 I Victoria l:ee! Q. lii. . • ::I 1,300 Not sinking, Sandhurst Division New Ctmm Consolidated •• New Chum •• 800 1,300 1 16 18 2 ~ New Chum and Victoria. •• New Chum •• I,242 1,148 1,14t! Sinking. l'riucess Dagmar.. ~ ~ Johnson'a 847 I 0 12 12 I Victoria Reef G • .!\I. • • Victoria I ,180 1,160 1,160 Not sinking. 1,106 HeTculcs and l~nergetle •• Victoria 550~00 i 3,239 0 14 4 \.Old Chum .. .. New Chum .. 1,]17 !,106 Not slnkir••. * Spurs from a few lncbes to 80 feet tn length. Kilmore Division • • • • .. .. " Hea.tllcote Division and \Va.ranga South Alabama and Butler's U.eef Bntlor's 023 145 1 I4 6 0 6 696 609 691 Su.bdt,~ision Waranga North Subdivision .. 'faylor and Murray •• Whistler's 140 22 5 2 6 ~!AUYBOROUGH. Ma.ryborough Division .. Majorca. Sulldivision • ~ I Union Q. ]f. :: I Chu;~h Hili :: ·100 ~00 Amllerst Division 400 t :Sew Briseis •• ! White Stur •• 2ao 245 245 AYoca SubUivision · ·~ I (,{ueen's :Birthday·. Bealiba 400 to 500 6,657 0 6 20 6 0 E. 85' 15' s. 1.')" N.1s•w. Queen's Birthday Bealiba 632 600 600 l)unotly and Tarnagulla Divlslons Watts 894 332 t Yorkshire •• Watts 270 to 332 U95 0 8 3 9 0 w.so• N. N.iO'W. Yorkshire •• •• ! 33~ • • Ing1ewood Division • .. • • •. 1 ~.. We(lderburn Division •• •• .... •• Red bank and St.Arnaud South RuLdlvisions ; • • • • 680 St. Arnaud !\ortll Subdivision • • •• Lord Nelson Western 100 to 680 725 0 16 19 6 in. to 14 ft. w. s. N.lO'W. 1,ord :S elson '\Vestern 689 680 I CASTLEMAINE. I Forest Creek Wattle Gully 530 450 l:ltlll alnking. Castlemainc Dhision u • • 1 Wheal Tei'l'ill Trlb. Wattle Gully 300 465 0 12 12 3 0 ' W.75° N 2"W. 450 ' New Era •• Ferron's •• ::I 80 to 380 5,893 0 8 13 16 in. to 20 ft.l E. 36'1 N.14'W. New Era ~"erron's •• ~14 500 .Fryer'a Creek I>ivislon Howe Bros. Cattle's •• 852 1?5 500 ; Itowe Bros. • • Cattle's •• • • 150 to 330 2,027 0 2 23 w.so• N.1ln S N.5° E • 1 I ~to 2~ ~ ; 176 l N.l8"W. Hepburn Division • • .. :: :: Frenchman's •• 4,210 0 8 I2 s. 22" W.22 I Taradate and Kyneton Subdivision ~ ~!sing St~.r :: I :~o i :: :: I X ortb British •• Parkin's fiOO 600 0 11 19 6 E.78° Vertical N.lli•w. 1 600 600 Tarmngower D1vlsion •• Locke's G. l\L •• Itish Blily's •• If>O 113 5 0 5 4 E. 80° Vertical N.12° W. 600 f Grand Junction .... Lisle's •• 140 31 1 4 6 4 E. 45' Vertical N. ij J~orth ~:ltish :: :: IPark~~· a St~ An drew's Division • • • • Blue 1\Iountaiu :!\orth Subdivision ::I:: I •• •• •• ARARAT. !I Ararat Division •• I ... 6iagdal;· :: :: 2,409 2,048 2,002 ! 1,510 ! Newington •• •• I 1,940 1,510 ' IPrince Patrick • • • • , I,830 1,500 1,500 I Prince Alfred • • • • 1,680 1,026 I,026 1,000 ! :~ Crown Cross United •• 1,498 1,000 Still sinking. Pleasant Creek Divislon • • 1 Plca•antCreek Cross Reef •• CroBB and Flat •• 6I2 to 1,120 413 1 18 17 1,238 1 1 Oriental • • • .. 1,387 1,238 Still slnktag. I IPleasant Creek Cross Reef 1,220 I,200 I,200 : Extended Cross . • • • 1,090 1,070 1,070 West Rcotchman"s •• 1,052 800 800 t Scotch man's United •• 1,018 1,000 1,000' Barklv Division Raglan Division •• I i GIPPSLAND. •• i Omeo Subdivision ... f •• Just in Time •• Southern Cross 20 86 2 0 0 I 6 E. N. N. andS. Gibbo Subdivision • • ' Southern CroSB •• :;outhem Cra§ 30to 70 18 2 0 0 2 0 E. s. N. and S. .. i Mltchell River & Boggy Ck. Subdivisions , !•• .. •• i 700 500 700 Crooked Rlver Division .. u i ... New Good Hope Good Hope •• , I • Exhibit! on .• Exhibition •• • • Sface. to i!Oft. 185 1 4 22 I 0 N. 30" w. E. and w. Dargo Subdivision •• 1 } Budgee Tribute .. Budgee • • Sfaoo. to 60ft. 73 0 16 10 0 6 S.45° w. E. and w . l· ...... :: .. ;; I Jericho Division •• •• i •• I ... Douneily's Creek Division i ...... • I Long Tunnel .• Coben's .. 830 723 "' Below adlt leveL Stringer's Creek Division LongTunne1 Coben's •423 to 723 0 Ill 8 8 0 W.58' N.W.20" t Long Tunnel Extended •• Coben's .. l 6IO 600 * Below adlt level. Russelts Creek Division Beudoc Sub•livision •• .. 1 Tan,-in Subdivision ... Traralgon Subdivision Department of Mines and Water Supply, Melbourne, 21st January 1882. T. COUCHMAN, Secretary for Mines and Water Supply. 0 4 5 ESTIMATED YIELD OF GOLD AND QUANTITY OF GOLD EXPORTED. FROM information obtained by the Mining Surveyors and Mining Registrars from Gold Buyers and others the ToTAL QuANTITIES OF GoLD got respectively from ALLUVIUMS and QuARTZ REEFS are as follow:- Alluvial. Quartz. I Total. oz. dwt. ,. ... I oz. dwt. Quarter ended 31st December 1881 87,549 19 137,521 15 225,071 14 THE QuANTITY oF GoLD, the produce of this Colony, ExPoRTED, according to Returns furnished by order of the Honorable the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, is as follows:- oz. dwt. Quarter ended 31st December 1881 101,371 18 NOTE.-ln addition to tlle above, gold specie from all sources was exported to the value of £900,496. GOLD RECEIVED AT AND ISSUED FROM THE ROYAL MINT. STATEMENT of the Gross Weight of GoLD received at and issued from the Melbourne Branch of the RoYAL MINT during the Quarter ended 31st December 1881. RECEIVED. ISSUED. Gross Weight of Gold Gross Weight of Rough Gross Weight of Gold Gross Weight of Coin. Gold. Bullion. Bullion, oz. oz. oz. oz. 29,414'56 133,872'95 131,438•67 35,203'032 i V. DELVES BROUGHTON, Royal Mint, Deputy Master of the Royal Mint, and Chief Officer Melbourne, 6th January 1882. of the Melbourne Branch. STATEMENT of VICTORIAN GoLD received at the Melbourne Branch of the RoYAL MINT during the Quarter ended 31st December 1881. Gross Weight of Rough Gold. Gross Weight of Gold Bullion. oz. oz. 7,391•88 126,558•47 :l V. DELVES BROUGHTON, Royal Mint, Deputy Master of the Royal Mint, and Chief Officer Melbourne, 6th January 1882. of the Melbourne Branch. 6 QUARTZ, QUARTZ TAILINGS, PYRITES, l~TC. SUMMARY. THE following information has been obtained relative to the AVERAGE YIELD OI<' GoLD from certain parcels of QuARTz, QuARTZ TAILINGS and .MuLLOCK Crushed, and PYRITES and BLANKETINGS operated on, during the Quarter, and the GOLD obtained therefrom :- Average Yield of •J:om:r~:·&:.: Gold from MI:lilNG DISTRICTS. Quantity Crushed. Gold per Ton. Crushed. Quartz. tons cwt. qrs. oz. dwt. gr. oz. dwt. gr. Ballarat ...... 126,097 15 0 0 6 19•56 42,967 12 5 Beech worth ...... 12,098 12 0 0 ll 19'14 7,136 17 8 S:tndlmrst ...... 65,957 0 0 0 10 12'08 34,638 9 8 Maryborough ••...... 14,580 7 1 0 8 13'66 6,247 0 IS Castlemaine ...... 27,6:36 0 0 0 5 22'22 8,188 ll 5 Ararat ...... 24,021 0 0 5 6 20'99 8,256 18 21 Gippsland ...... 8,742 16 0 0 14 6'96 6,246 14 16 Totals ...... 279,133 10 I 0 8 3'49 ll3,682 4 9 Quartz Tailings and lJ!ullock. Ballarat ...... 94 0 0 0 3 7•85 15 12 18 Beechworth ...... 1,333 0 0 0 4 8'53 290 6 0 Sandhurst ...... 250 0 0 ! 0 1 15'36 20 10 0 Maryborough .•• ...... 778 0 0 I 0 3 15'05 141 2 0 Castlemaine ...... 1,756 0 0 0 2 0'07 175 17 13 Ararat ...... 500 0 0 0 1 0•34 25 7 2 Gippsland ...... Totals ...... 4,711 () 0 0 2 20'14 668 15 9 Pyrites and Blanketings operated on. Ballarat ...... 507 15 0 2 13 o·os 1,345 12 10 Beech worth ...... 156 15 0 0 18 13•7 145 ll 0 . Sandhurst ...... 881 10 () 2 5 7•75 1,997 12 12 Maryborough .•• ...... Castlemaine ...... 178 16 0 2 7 20•59 427 17 () Ararat ...... I ... Gippsland ...... I 23 0 () I I 3·}:3 i 24 6 0 Totals ...... 1,747 16 () 2 5 2·31 ! 3,940 18 22 .. . I NoTE.-This Summary does not show the total quautitks of quart-~::,&c. 1 cruslJcd or O]Jeratcd nn,lntt only the yield of certt~in crusllings~ &e. reflpecting which the Mining Surveyors and Hcgil:'trm·s hnve he-en able t.o ol)tnin lnformntioll. Owiug: to the clrcumstancethut many of the mtH::llhie· owners nrc unable to give, or arc precluded from giving, infol'mntionJ it is impo:il-f~H>le to eompl<.'tu return!' from every distt•ict,; and in consh.IeriiJg the relative importance of ca.rh distriet, ns rcgardt< quartz mining-, &c., the tahles relnting madtincr;r :-:hould be examined and compo.red. Office of Mines, THOS. COUOHl\fAN, Melbourne, 21st January 1882. Secretary for Mines. 7 MINING SURVEYORS AND REGISTRARS' RETURNS. QUARTZ. TaE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and R~gistrars relative to the AVERAGE YIELD OF GoLD from cert:tin parcels of QuARTZ Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter, and the GoLD obtained therefrom. I Division and Subdivision, Average Remarks relative to the Total Yield o! and Where Quartz was obtained. Quartz Crushed. Yield ol Gold Depth at which the Name of Company. per Ton. Gold. Quartz was obtained, &c. tons cwt. qr. oz. dwt. gr, oz. dwt. gr. BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT. CENTRAL DIVISION. Band of Hope and Albion ' Redau 12,109 0 0 () 8 9"47 13 0 ~50 to 490 feet Cousols Britannia Specimen Gully 748 o o o 3 14'47 134 15 o : 170 feet Hanthorn and Co. White Horse ... 250 o o o 7 o 87 10 o • 120 feet Temperance Little Bendigo 1,500 o o o 7 12·35 563 12 9 i .50 to 950 feet Corn Exchange Sailor's Gully ...... ,. 50 o o 2 17 21'72 144 15 6 300 to 350 feet Smith's Freehold United ... Redan ... 2,200 0 0 0 2 4'52 240 14 17 600 feet New Koh-i-noor ... Redan 4,549 0 0 0 4 5 957 5 0 300 to 500 feet New Koh-i-noor, No. 2 Redan 113 0 0 0 7 3·39 40 7 0 320 feet Williams' Freehold Redan 1,807 0 0 0 4 3"52 374 13 8 370 to 430 feet Post vffiee Golden Point ..• 291 o o o 7 20·35 ll4 3 18 I 200 feet BlaekHill Black Hill 3,217 o 0 0 6 6'09 1,005 18 8 , Surface to 600 feet New Crescent Redan 575 0 0 0 6 17·94 194 o o : 490 feet Black Hill United , Black Hill Flat 1,693 0 0 0 6 17'5 569 12 12 1 450 feet Wilson's Freehold ; Redan 4,324 0 0 0 4 4"31 903 13 13 ! 300 to 470 feet Serjeant's Freehold Redan 3,165 0 0 o 4 ll'l9 706 16 o 1 500 feet Band of Hope Quartz Red an 3,484 o 0 0 7 17·36 1,345 8 8 , 400 feet Band of Hope Quartz, No. 2 Red an 2,507 o o o 10 ll ·95 1,:315 18 IS : 350 feet Band of Hope Quartz, No. 4 Redan 1,630 o o o 9 18·97 797 18 12 , :\60 feet Parade ...... Ballarat East .•. 410 o o o 8 11·59 173 18 o 1200 to 400 feet Sulieman Pasha ... Ballarat F-ast .•• ... 1 1,780 o o o 7 o·08 623 6 o I 400 feet Llanberris Gum-tree l!'lat • •• ' 1,479 o o o 2 12·79 187 6 5 I 200 feet Corn Exchange, No. 2 Sailor's Gully ••• 80 0 0 o 12 5"81 48 1!! 9 · 250 feet Dimock's United Little Bendigo ... , 1,838 0 0 o 4 0'39 369 2 0 lOO to 400 feet Mazeppa Sailor's Gully 62 o o 3 6 10'83 206 o o 200 feet Queen Black Hill 2,288 o o o 7 1'72 809 o 0 400 to 500 feet Y ouug Band Extended Red an 2,158 o o o 15 o·J6 1,619 4 20 480 feet Smith's Freehold ... Redan 2,850 o o o 5 13'49 792 12 o 420 feet North Band and Albion Redan 2,000 0 0 0 15 l'l 1,504 I 2 0 GOO feet Washington Redan 1,209 o 0 I I 3 15'34 1;429 0 o . 320 to 400 feet Speedwell Poverty Point 1,420 o o 1 0 4 9"46 312 o 0 !50 feet Pierce's Lease Canadian ... , 1,810 o 0 I o 12 2·91 1,097 0 o Surface to 145 feet Band and Barton United ... Redan ... , 1,200 o 0 I 0 6 16 1 400 u 0 500 to 600 feet Fritz Canadian ... i 5~0 0 0 I 0 8 22'28 ·~ :.10 0 0 50 to 200 feet Public crushings ... I 6,212 0 0 : 0 ll 21'15 3,t26 I l:l ------i----1--·---1 Totals ... •.. , 71,628 o o 1 o 1 2o-49 128,127 11 1 SOUTHERN DIVISION, ,---1---~--- Speedwell Tribute Staffordshire Reef ... : 1,140 0 o i o 2 6"47 I 129 7 8 190 feet, 8 feet wide Little Hopewell Tribute, Staffordshire Reef 475 0 0 o 8 6·11 196 o 227 feet, 6 feet wide No. 1 i Little Hopewell Tribute, Staffordshire Reef 861 0 0 i 0 2 10·21 1 104 8 12 , 220 feet, 6 feet wide No. 2 C. Wilson and Sons Staffordshire Reef ... 796 0 0 I 0 4 2'53 163 8 0 :Surface to 60 feet, 6 1 1 , feet wide Williams' Fancy Tributers Kangaroo ... I 760 0 0 1 0 7 3"62 i 271 14 181190 feet, 20 feet wide 1---,--~-- Totals ...... i 4,032 0 0 I 0 4 6'97 I 864 19 14 BuNINYONG DIVISIO:lf. ,------1------~-: One-and-All Hiscock's Reef, &c. .. . ! 923 0 0 I o 4 12·041 207 15 o ;I ;;o to 200 feet Imperial Q. M. Hiscock's 1 3,04 4 o o o 3 10·92 1 525 18 o I1 I~ fet t Doleoath Hiscock's ... i 584 o o I o 5 19·19 169 7 o 200 feet 1 I Webb Brothers Hard Hills 418 o 0 o 5 5·78 109 10 18 120 feet Dezosa ... Hard Hills ... 1 120 o o 1 l 1 16 I 130 o o Jt>7 feet Llewellyn Magpie ... 160 0 0 ! 0 fi 6·7 5 42 5 0 ' 225 feet Totals ...... 1~-;;---;;--!--;;-~4-~· ~M"~;;; I SJ\lYTHESDALE DIVISIO:lf. :------1----1----1 Canico Canico Flat ... i 319 0 0 : 0 6 1·5 I 96 14 o \ 60 feet Southern Ji:xtended Canico Flat .... __1:._::_o_~~ I:l·09 i--o-~ 10 feet I 1 I Totals ••• ... 330 o o I o 5 21·s9 I 97 11 o i I i 1 8 AvERAGE Yield of Gold from certain parcels of Quartz Crushed during the Quarter, &c.-continued. Remarks relative to the Division and Subdivision1 Average I Total Yield of Depth at which the and Where Quartz was obtalMd. Quartz Crushed. Yield 6f Gold Gold. Name of Company. per Ton. Quartz was obtained, &c. ------· ------,,____ ------tons cwt.qr. oz. dwt. gr. oz. dwt. gr. CRESW!CK DIVISION. Port Phillip ...... Clunes Reefs ...... 9,888 0 0 0 3 22'23 1,941 3 12 lOO to 990 feet New North Clunes ... Clunes Heefs ...... l ,2:33 15 0 0 7 3•53 440 18 0 500 to 1,100 feet South Cluncs ...... Clunes Reefs ...... 9,948 0 0 0 3 18•98 1,885 12 0 220 to 676 feet Perseverance ...... 554 0 0 0 4 10'5 122 18 I2 240 feet Golden Age ...... Sulky Gully ... 86 0 0 I 9 18"29 127 19 I3 110 feet 36 feet Mills' Reef ...... :Mills' Heefs, Creswick ... 22 0 0 0 11 0·13 ------12 2 3 Totals ••• ... 21,731 15 0 0 4 4'07 4,530 I3 16 ------·--- GORDON SUBDIVISION. R laek Horse United ... Egerton ...... 8,116 0 0 0 3 0•23 I,221 1 0 400 to 900 feet f :gerton Limited ...... Egerton ...... 9,45I 0 0 I 0 8 3'37 3,846 17 22 280 to 810 feet ] }iscovery ... Egerton ...... lOO 0 0 i 0 0 I2'96 214 0 220 feet I 'arker's United ...... Gordon ... ···j 3,080 0 0 : 0 14 20'I 2,285 0 0 350 to 625 feet r arker's ...... Gorilon . ... 32 0 0 I 0 2 3 3 8 0 160 feet .. ----,------Totals ...... 20,779 ~~~-2-- 7,359 ~ . STEIGLITZ SumnVIsrox. I A . lioclscllcr ... Elaine ...... 106 0 0 0 18 7·24 97 0 0 llelson and Party ... Elaine ...... 20 0 0 0 10 0 IO 0 0 :.\fcMurtrie and Son ... Elaine ...... 16 0 0 0 11 6 9 0 0 l 0 0 I 5 0 17 10 0 1)uulop and Clark ... Elaine ... ••• I I4 c.alder and party ... Elaiue ... 4 0 0 0 7 12 1 !O 0 ] {ingrosc and partv ... Ehtinc ... :::I 18 0 0 0 10 0 9 0 0 r s'hott and party .~. ... Elaine ...... 8 0 0 0 10 0 4 0 0 ~ Tbe deepest sinking ]\, 1cConville ...... mainc ...... 7 0 0 4 8 0 30 8 0 at which the quartz 0 'Farrell ... El:tine ...... 12 0 0 :l 13 8 44 0 0 I was obtained does L ittle and party ...... Elaine ...... 16 0 0 0 8 3 6 10 0 not exceed 60 feet s'cott ancl party ...... Elaine ...... ll 0 0 0 15 0 8 5 0 D a vis and party •.• ... Mount Do ran ...... 2 0 0 7 10 0 15 0 0 A shfield and party ... Mount Doran ...... 3 0 0 0 10 0 1 10 0 I l\fortimer and Sons ...... 2 0 0 I 5 15 () 11 10 0 ) o-r Totals ...... 239 0 1 2 4'52 2G5 3 0 ------Br,,\CJtwoon DIVISION A ND l3LUE :MouNTAIN SO'GTII St:nDrnsroN. s ultan ...... Barry's Reef ...... 69 0 0 0 0 10'65 1 10 15 600 feet Tribntcrs, No. 1 Darry's Reef ... 44 0 0 0 Ii 0•73 37 9 8 600 feet ...... 165 feet 'l'ributers, No. 2 ... Darry's Reef ...... 1.5+ 0 0 0 4 8'99 33 13 I6 Tributers, No. 3 ... Darry's Heef ...... 241 () () 0 4 1'48 48 18 20 500 feet () 500 feet Trilmtcrs, No. 4 ... I~arry's Heef ...... 2li 0 0 8 11•12 91 16 12 Tribntcrs, No. 5 ... Darry's Reef ...... 15:3 0 0 0 3 2•27 23 13 ll 145 feet Harry's Heef ... 15+ () 0 () 2 15'03 20 4 Il 400 feet Tribnters, !'\ o. 6 ...... I I 13 Il 25 feet 'frihntcrs No. 7 DarrJ •'s HcC'f ... 149 0 0 0 (\ :12'46 51 ... 500 feet Tri!Jutcrs: No. 8 Darry's ]{eef ... 41 0 0 I () 18 0·29 3G 18 12 60 :Mounters Tributt•rs, No. I Harry's Hccf .. . lOG 0 () 0 3 2:2'02 20 15 6 feet 200 Tributcrs, No. 2 Darry's Hecf .. . 21 0 o! 1 9 ]2·9 3I 0 7 feet 0 40 feet Annie Laurie ... 1 Barry's Reef ..• 130 0 () 0 0 19'2 5 4 Victoria ... I Y ankce Reef ... 250 0 0 0 9 4•4 IH 15 20 140 feet New Cosmo ... I Snake Gully ... 380 0 () 0 1 0•68 19 IO I9 I Totals ... 2,109 0 0 0 5 2'28 537 5 0 BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT. llEECllWORTII DIVISION. 450 feet Reform Myrtlcford 438 0 0 0 3 0 65 14 0 Barwidgee 32 0 0 0 (j 0 9 I2 0 Surface H. M~ttthews Surface l\forrison :tnd Co. ... Ilarwidgee 6 0 0 0 9 0 2 14 0 1 () 2 12 Jl 5 0 500 feet Homeward Bound ... Hocky Point 90 0 0 0 20 feet Lloyd and Co. lluffalo Hiver ... 40 0 0 0 8 0 16 0 () 50 fee~ \V.. Matthews J3uffalo River ... 60 0 () () 21 0 0 0 170 feet Jiackett and Co .... Wooragcc 22 0 () 2 5 12 50 1 () () 50 feet Sydney l{eef Wooragce Ii 0 0 0 12 IO 4 9 0 5 17 0 Surface Eiger ~tnd Co. Barwidgec 13 0 0 0 lOO feet Paul and Co. Buffalo Creek ... 60 0 0 0 6 0 I8 0 0 Stony Creek 3:> 0 I) I 9 1 0'91 48 I2 0 20 feet Dryce and Co. Surface Hardisty and Co. Stony Creek 6 0 0 () 10 I2 3 3 0 Stony Creek 4 0 0 3 ]() 0 12 2 0 Surface W.Biner 30 feet Croft and Co. . Stony Creek 11 0 0 I 16 0 l!l 16 0 50 feet Trezise and Co. ... i Stony Creek 57 0 0 I ll 1:>·89 BO 0 0 20 0 0 0 I3 12 13 lO 0 Surface Sundry lot~ ... i Stony Creek ------Totals ... 909 0 0 lo 8 17'9 397 10 0 I I 9 AVERAGE Yield of Gold from certain parcel;; of Quartz Crushed during the Quarter, &c.-continued. Division and Subdivision, Remn1'ks relative to the ! I I Average \ Totnl Yield of De1)th at which the and Where Quartz was olltainctl. Quartz Cruslletl. Yi~~r ~1o;;~ld uold. Quartz waS: obta.ined, &c~ Name of Compauy. I ------·.·------·---- 1 tons cwt. qr. oz. YACKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVISION. Mc::\!ahon and Co. Samly Creek ... 99 0 0 1 4 6'3 120 2 0 so feet Maguire and Co .... . Sandy Creek ... G6 0 0 1 12 8•36 I06 I5 0 90 feet 11 0 0 I 11 2 17 2 0 1 20 feet Alexander Crowc Sandy Creek ... 1 Laton and party ,,, Sandy Creek ... 26 0 0 1 7 19'38 3fi 3 0 20 feet Murphy and Co. Sandy Creek ... Ill 0 0 2 15 15'9 52 17 14 40 feet ... Sandy Creek ... 30 0 0 I 7 10•4 4I 3 0 60 feet Hance and Co. 1 Six small crushings ••. · Sandy Creek ... 55 0 0 2 I l1'6!i 114 I 17 I 80 to GO feet Rainbow Co. . Sandy Creek ... .)5 () 0 I 5 3'42 44 0 0 80 feet Lady Mary : Hillsborough ... 90 0 01 010 5·3:1 46 0 0 i Surface 0 o· 0 8 7'85 I 22 18 0 . 40 feet Folster and Co. ' Hillsborough ••• 55 1 Morning Star llillsborough ... 12 0 0 2 3 16 26 4 0 20 feet Wilberforce and Son Hillsborough ... 30 0 0 2 4 18'6 66 17 () 20 feet Coombes and Meurant , Hills borough ... 9 0 0 o 17 5·33 i 7 15 0 Surface 30 0 0 o 12 8 I 18 10 0 \30 to 40 feet Three small crushings · Twist's Creek ... -----.------Totals ... 567 0 0 5 9•87 I 720 8 7 ------____: ____ INDIGO DIVISION. I Magenta .M agcnta Hcef 172 0 0 0 5 9•35 46 7 0 1 160 to 200 feet Miller and Co. Golden Bar Reef 22 () 0 0 15 16•:36 17 5 0 I 20 to 30 feet Brunn and Co. Golden Bar Hecf 134 0 0 0 3 12•35 23 ll 0 Sou le ...... Magenta Hecf 27 0 01 0 4 16 6 6 0 I 5o to 60 feet Various reefs, Magenta Mill Various reefs ... 38 0 01 0 8 15'78 16 9 0 · Surface to 60 feet Matthews and Co. Golden Bar Reef 29 0 () i 1 3 8"27 33 17 0 40 fc~t Young and Co. ... Essex Heef 37 0 o' 1 18 20•75 71 18 0 Adams and Co. llappy-go·Lncky 22 0 o I 2 0 21•82 45 () 0 O'Brien and Co .... 14 0 o. I 3 5•14 16 5 0 Demon ... Demon Reef 13 () 0 15 9'2:3 10 0 0 1 60 to SO feet Various, Place's Mill Various reefs ... 84 0 gl 0 12 13•43 I 52 15 o . Surfact' to llO feet Ruhe and Co. Garibaldi Reef 8 0 0 3 18 9 31 7 0 30 to 40 feet 29 8 o 160 feet Mclntyrc and Co. ... 1 Campbell's Heef 16 0 0 1 16 18 1 12 4 Hl 6 o 1 80 feet ... Camphell',; Reef 12 0 0 McQueen and Co. 1 ... I 32 0 0 0 15 19'5 25 6 Moss and Co. ... Foord's Paddock •• ~ I Various, Rutherglen Mill ... Various reefs ... 45 0 0 0 15 3"78 34 2 g I Surface to 60 feet ------1 Totals ... 705 0 0 0 13 14'19 479 2 o I ------! V.l ANDILIG0!\'0 Sl:llDIVISIOX. At Cornish Mill : Cornish U. Q. M. Elgin Reef, Corni;;h lease 160 0 0 0 14 0 112 0 0 4.30 feet At Never Too Late Mill: Vale and Nancc :ForlornHot1e Reef M. Ck. 28 () 0 1 ll 1•71 43 lO () J. Stephens and Co. Kildare Re0f, M. Ck. 14 0 0 0 7 :N3 5 0 0 At lluckcye Mill lluckeyc Red, M. Ck.... 12 0 0 4 4 0 50 8 0 At Stephen's Mill : 'Mitchell and Hewitson H. :i\-1. Heef, M. Ck. 83 0 0 0 16 0 66 8 0 H.. Hewitson ... West Range, M. Ck. 33 0 0 1 3 15•27 I 39 0 0 Tickell and Gray Eureka Hccf, Ht. Beh. 73 0 0 3 3 6•9 I 231 0 0 G.Ck. () Edwin Gribble ... I Not statccl 16 0 0 0 15 () 12 0 Chalwell and Sou ... , \Vest Hange, near White 15 0 0 0 17 8 13 0 0 Star, M. Ck. Four small lots ••• , Not stated ... •.. 21 10 0 0 13 0'55 14 0 () At Birthday Mill : Carlile and Co. ... I' Cherrytrec Reef, G. Ck. 35 0 0 1 6'85 37 5 o Ieo feet ~ Peters and Parkhill ... · mowfiy Reef, G. Ck. . .. 35 0 0 3 I 10"28 ll8 0 o . 40 feet Three small lots ... Various 34 0 0 0 7 1'42 12 0 0 At Ebenezer l\fill : Rickard and Halvcy GunnisLnkeHeef,G. Ck. 10 0 0 () 16 0 8 0 0 At Railway Mill : Myrtle Co. .Myrtle Ueef, G. Ck. 201 0 0 0 6 18'38 68 0 0 Attridgc Bros.... 'Vallaby l{cef, G. Ck 15 0 0 1 9 8 22 0 0 1~~ .. Dunean Christmas Hecf, G. Ck .... 10 0 0 0 15 0 7 10 0 P. Orchard ]{cd Huth lied, G. Ck .... 22 () 0 0 8 4"36 9 () 0 G. Lloyd Bulgarian ltcef, G. Ck.... :lO 0 0 0 12 () 18 0 0 At Try Again Mill : Hon. J. A. W allace :md Welsh Hecf, 310 0 0 7 7"43 423 (i 0 Ck. W. Henton Capes llecf, G. Ck. 19 0 () 5 6 7•58 101 0 0 Oriental Mill : Crabbe a11d Co. Oriental Tribute 208 0 0 0 9 20"31 102 8 0 Three small lots Various localities 24. 8 0 1 3 1•77 28 3 0 At Gill's 1\ii 11 : C. 111. Gill nnd Tributers Home Hed, G. Ck. 42 0 0 0 7 9'14 15 10 0 60 feet Three small lots Growler's Creek 37 0 0 011 3"2-1 20 12 0 Totals ... 1,487 IS 0 1 ·1"74 l,5ii 0 0 10 AVERAGE Yield of Gold from certain parcels of Quartz Crushed during the Quarter, &c.-continued. Division and Subdivision, Average Remarks relative to tbe Total Yield of and Where Quartz was obtained, Quartz Crushed. Yield of Gold Depth at which tbe Name of Company. per Ton. Gold. ------Quartz was obtained, &e. tons cwt. qr. oz. dwt. g:r. oz. dwt. g:r. Bt:CKLAND DIVISION. Lily of the West Harrietville 27 0 0 1 7 0 36 9 0 Old Dodge Harrietville 11 0 0 1 ll 0 17 1 0 Tiddle-de-addle-de Harrietville 500 0 0 0 7 12'48 188 0 0 Lizard ... Harrietville 43 0 0 I 17 16·18 81 0 0 Jackass Harrietville 15.'1 0 0 0 15 0'78 115 0 0 Luke and Co. Harrietvill e 102 0 0 1 15 0 178 10 0 Matilda Harrietville 10 0 0 1 15 0 17 10 0 Champion Harrietville 2 0 0 6 10 0 13 0 0 Five small lots Harrietville 43 0 0 0 14 18•42 31 15 0 Hope Co's. Mill : Champion Running Creek ll2 0 0 0 18 9'42 103 0 0 Matthews and Co. Running Creek 12 0 0 0 5 4 3 2 0 James Gilbert and Co. Running Creek 24 0 0 l 10 0 36 0 0 Murdoch's Mill : Augustin and Co. Buckland 43 0 0 0 18 3'35 39 0 0 Pandridge and Co. Buck land .50 0 0 I 4 9·6 61 0 0 Three small lots Buekland 16 0 0 I 7 12 22 0 0 Miner'~-right Mill : Clemens and Co. Buckland 30 0 0 1 5 20 38 15 0 King and Co .••. Buckland 14 0 0 4 8 5'14 61 15 0 Sundry smaJllots Bneklanrl 10 0 0 l 0 0 10 0 0 Red Jacket Mill : Maguire and Co. Buckland 84 0 0 0 8 2•28 34 0 0 Henderson's Mill : H. Butler and Co. Porepunkah 29 0 0 6 0 37 14 0 W. Butler and Co. Pore punkah 15 0 0 I 0 16 15 10 0 Jno. Butler and Co. Porepunkah 16 0 0 3 10 0 56 0 0 Four small lots Porepunkah 66 0 0 0 10 6•9 33 19 0 McCabe and MacDonald's Mill: Riley and Co .... Woolshed 71 0 0 I 5 0 88 15 0 Francis and Brown Woolshed 20 0 0 l 0 0 20 0 0 Gilbert and Co. Woolshed 25 0 0 0 15 0 18 15 0 Sundry small lots Woolshed 20 o o o 15 o 1 15 o o Turner's Mill Bright ... I lll 0 0 0 5 14•05 31 0 0 i Totals ... 1~~ ~H~o3 1o_o_i ALEXANDRA SuBDIVISlON. Vulcan G. M. Lucky Reef ... 306 0 0 o 19 19·45 303 2 0 , 400 feet Hope of Richmond Durham Reef 50 0 0 o 2 o 5 0 0 ! 70 feet Multum in Parvo Durham Reef l o o 8 0 o 8 0 0 20 feet Multum in Pal:'vo Durham Reef 1 0 0 10 0 0 I !0 0 0 40 feet Mennoni and party Durha1u Reef 2 0 0 4 6 12 8 13 0 60 feet Providence Providence Reef 80 o 0 o 15 3·78 , 60 12 14 100 feet Tea-tree Tea-tree Reef ... , 30 0 0 o 9 J4·05 14 7 12 1 Totals ... r--:D~,~ 10·47 ·~--:;:;-1521 DRY CREEK SuBDIVISION. R. G. Meade, Unee, Table Table-lam!, Dry Creek ... 1 294 0 0 0 3 0 44 2 0 80 feet land BENALLA SUBDIVISION. Shannon llenalla ... ·~--~~ -2-~: -::--:- Surface from 60 to 80 feet Golden Queen ... Benalla ... 54 0 0 l I 5'3 7 57 6 2 40 feet and so feet Golden Crown ... Benalla ... 14 0 0 4 3 15"78 58 ll 5 50 feet Little Wonder ... Benalla ... 14 0 0 3 5 10•64 J 45 16 5 Surface to 30 feet Totals ••• ... 182 0 0 2 2 1·o1 I 382 ll 16 GAFFNEY's CREEK SuB------! DIVISION. Wallaby G. M...... Wallaby Heef ... , 600 0 0 0 4 16 140 0 0 Surface to 70 feet Hunt's Extended G. ~I. ... Hunt's Reef .. . 1,800 0 0 0 0 20 75 0 0 Different depths Golden Belt Q. M. ... Homeward-bound Reef 675 0 0 0 2 18•78 93 18 18 I 250 feet A1 G. ~I...... , Castle Reef ••. ... 80 0 0 l 5 3·90 100 13 0 Surface to so feet I Totals .•. 3,1.'55 0 0 0 2 14:31 409 ll 18 WooD's PoiNT SuBDIVIsiON. United Morning Star Hill Morning Star reefs 380 0 0 0 I 2·12 20 13 15 . 260 feet G. M. Morning Star Prospecting Morning Star reefs 200 0 0 0 3 10'56 34 8 o 1 200 feet Lady li'ranklin ...... : Lady Franklin Reef 50 n o 0 1 Jl•52 3 14 o 17 0 feet St. Gothard G. M. . •. 1All Nations reefs 70 0 0 0 6 0 21 0 0 I 90 feet Waverley ...... ' Waverley Reef 80 0 0 0 2 22•9 11 16 10 , 200 feet I i------1-----1---- i Totals ... 780 0 0 0 2 8•37 91 12 1 BIG RIVER SUBDIVISIOX. i Luck's All G. M. ···I W~rner's Reef ••• i 260 0 0 0 9 22"15 129 o 0 200 feet Londonderry G. M. , .. ' Ra1lway Reef ...... ~ 300 0 0 0 2 11'2 37-- 0 o 600 feet i Totals .. . .. ·\---;Go-;;-;;- o 5 22·29 166 0 0 1I AVERAGE Yield of Gold from certain parcels of Quartz Crushed during the Quarter, &c.-continued. I Average Division and Subdivision, Total Yield of [ Remarks relative to the and Where Quartz was obtained. Quartz Crushed. j Yield of Gold Depth at wl!ich tile Name of Company. per Ton. Gold. Quartz was obtained, &c. tons cwt. qr. : oz. dwt. gr. oz. dwt. gr. MITTA MITTA NoRTH SuB- DIVISION. I McGra ••• ...... Cotton-tree Creek .. . 11 0 0 I 0 9 5'45 5 l 12 P.Powell ...... Cotton-tree Creek ... 12 0 Ol I 1 16 13 0 () Eddy and Jinkins ... Cotton-tree Creek ... 12 () n 0 10 22 6 ll () Lockhard, Healy and Co .... Cotton-tree Creek ... 30 () 0 l 1 17'6 32 I2 0 Reise and MeGann ... Cotton-tree Creek ... ll 0 0 0 13 21'82 .~ 1a 0 Miller and Robinson ... Cotton-tree Creek ... 15 0 0 0 5 12 4 2 12 H. Lane ... 4 () 0 I 0 16 21 3 7 12 ...... Cotton-tree Creek ... I John Padget ...... Cotton-tree Creek ... 7 () 0 0 12 12 4 7 12 Sullivan ...... Cotton-tree Creek .. . 10 () 0 I 0 5 12 2 15 0 D. Duncan 0 () (J 2 2 2 I2 ...... Cotton-tree Creek ... 6 I 7 Try Again ...... Cotton-tree Creek ... 74 0 0 0 ll 20'11 43 16 () Ryan and Eagen ...... Cotton-tree Creek ... 11 () 0 I 1 0 10•91 11 5 () Harper ...... Cotton-tree Creek ... 13 0 0 I 6 18•46 17 8 (J G. Herbert ...... Cotton-tree Creek ... 9 0 0 ! 0 7 8 3 6 () Hidden Treasure ...... Cotton.. tree Creek ... 5 0 0 8 3 4'8 40 16 0 I Foster ...... Cotton-tree Creek 25 0 0 0 10 16•:)2 13 7 0 ... I Ralston .•...... Cotton-tree Creek ... 1.5 () () 0 0 18'16 14 0 0 Doctor ...... Cotton-tree Creek ... lO 0 () 0 7 9•6 3 14 0 Powell and Co...... Cotton-tree Creek .. . 7 0 () 1 0 0 7 () () McCalpan and Co. ... Cotton-tree Creek ... 1:i () 0 a 1 7'39 39 17 il I Sparrow and Hancock ... Cotton-tree Creek ... 15 0 () () 6 16 5 0 0 I Carfrew ...... Cotton-tree Creek ... 15 () 0 2 I 20'8 31 8 () Jennies .•...... Cotton-tree Creek ... 12 0 0 1 0 0 12 () 0 '1'. Peach ...... Cotton-tree Creek ... 7 0 0 1 17 3•43 1:3 () () Marines ...... Cotton-tree Creek ... 127 () 0 0 6 20•03 43 8 0 Grauya ... Cotton-tree Creek 452 0 () () ll 12'5;{ 260 8 0 Totals ... 928 0 0 0 13 19•67 641 5 12 MITTA MITTA SouTH SuB- ~IVISION. 'rhos. Regan Granite Flat 26 0 () 1 18 0 49 0 .Jas. Reid Granite Flat :::I 14 0 0 0 11 10"28 8 0 ; 15 feet Chas. Williams ..• Granite Flat 13 0 0 I 16 22·15 12 feet Empress Granite Flat 28 () () () (i 10•28 8 feet Otto and Tucker ... Millar's Creek 1 14 0 22 8 1 ~~ 76 , 50 feet W. Smith ,Junction 5 () 0 3 li 5 ;~ 6 feet McLeod and Co .... Junction 65 () 0 0 1:1 16•98 5 feet L. Whyte Granite Flat ... 36 0 0 0 10 0 60 feet 25 feet Totals ... 188 14 () 1 2 7~ JAMIESON SunmvisiON. Sailor Bill's Sailor Bill's Creek 160 o o o 1a 12·75 380 feet Alabama G. M. ... Flume Creek 18 0 0 2 17 6•6 300 feet 178 () 0 () 17 22'92 159 16 0 I BETHANGA SUBDIVISION. \ Trewalla and Co. .. • Flagstaff Hill ... 35 () 0 1 5 6•85 44 5 0 SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT. i SANDHURST DIVISION. i Albert G. M. and C. ... i Diamond Hill ... 275 0 0 () 5 10•59 74 ]() 10 I l Albert Crushing ... . .• Devonshire Gully 2,430 0 0 0 6 19'09 825 13 0 Beehive ...... : Raglehawk ... :1,838 0 0 0 9 22•59 i,907 15 0 Bird's Reef ...... Kangaroo Flat 688 0 () () 9 0·78 310 14 11 I Catherine Reef l.J. C. ... Eaglehnwk ... ••• I 1,0](j 0 0 () 5 21'46 299 8 12 Fortnna Works ...... New Chum Gully 1,234 0 0 0 5 ()•33 :109 ; () Frederick the Great ... 1 Sebastian ... 3,844 () 0 0 5 2;3'66 1 1,15() lJ 0 Garden Gully United ... ' Garden Gully Heef 4,462 () 0 I 8 5':37 I 6,296 16 0 G. G. Consolidated ... I Golden Gully ...... 5,359 () 0 (J 6 2::!•79 1,873 8 0 I GreatExtendedHustler'sReef 1 Hustler's Hcef 708 1/ () o a 12·s7 1 125 3 :21 Great Hustler's ...... I Hustler's Reef 303 () 0 () 6 4•!Jl 94 0 0 Great Britain ...... Golden Square 1,082 0 0 0 7 7•52 ' 395 ];j 10 Mixed lots from Garibaldi ...... New Chum Gully :::I l,i15 () () 0 19 7·38 ; 1,655 13 0 Great Southern ...... Garden Gully Reef 3,705 0 0 () 4 5'27 ' 781 14 4 various reefs (xe,, page 34). Hercules and J<;nergetic ... Long Gully ••• I 3,239 t) 0 014 4•3712,29617 0 Hustler's Reef ...... Hustler's Reef 1,518 0 0 () 9 3•49 I 694 ., () ,Johnson's Reef ...... California Gullv 6,744 0 0 0 10 ;{•75 '13424 14 () Koeh's Pioneer ...... Long Gully .:. 3,210 0 0 () 6 16'72 1:074 16 12 Lazarus...... New Chum Gully ... 817 0 0 0 8 I '33 I' 329 I 12 New-chum and Victoria ... New Chum Beef : 4,188 0 0 0 4 ]()•9 932 15 () New-chum United ... New Chum Ueef 2,899 0 0 1 3 18•51 3,4-lfl 1:>, 0 Shamrock ...... Whipstick ... 446 0 0 () 6 l3':J4 146 4 () Shenandoah '" ... Golden Square l,t>61 () () 0 18 3•59 i 1,507 7 0 Victoria Consols...... Victoria Reef ...... I 4,536 0 0 o 7 s·s i 1,623 11 o Virginia ...... Eaglehawk .. . 1,146 () 0 () 9 15·12 551 16 lO Victoria Reef G. M. ... Victoria Hecf ... 8,~57 0 () 0 5 a·o1 i 834 14 0 Totals ...... ! 64,320 0 () 0 10 5•98 132,962 6 6 12 AVERAGE Yield of Gold from certain parcels of Quartz Crushed during the Quarter, &c.-continued. I Dlvlslon and Subdivision, Average Total Yield of Remarksrelat!ve to the and Where Qua;rtzwasobtained. Quartz Crushed. Yield of Gold Gold. Depth at which the Name of Company. ------· per Ton. ------Quartz was obtained, &c. tons cwt. qr, oz. dwt. gr. oz. dwt. gr. KILMORE DIVISION. Long Tunnel Heedy Creek ..• ... 4 0 0; 1 3 0 4 12 0 ...... I Prince Arthur ...... Heedy Creek ...... 31 0 0 l 0 9 6•17 14 8 0 Eureka ••• ...... Reedy Creek ..• ... 243 0 0 0 3 17•77 45 9 0 Eugene ...... Strath Creek ...... 2 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 United ...... Heedy Creek .•• ... 8 0 0 0 12 0 4 16 0 Mysterious ...... Reedy Creek .•• ... 4 0 0 0 5 0 1 0 0 Queen Victoria ...... Reedy Creek ...... 184 0 0 i 0 7 9'39 68 0 0 Perseverance ...... Reedy Creek ...... 7 0 0 l I 0 0 7 0 0 Lily of the Valley ... Strath Creek ...... 1 0 0 1 4 0 1 4 0 Golden Reef ...... Strath Creek ...... 8 0 0 2 8 18 19 lO 0 Golden Gate ...... Reedy Creek ...... 45 0 0 0 3 12'26 7 18 0 Hopeful ,Junction ... Reedy Creek ... .~ * ! 54 0 0 0 7 12 20 5 0 Livingstone ...... Reedy Cr€ek ...... 20 0 0 0 4 21•6 4 18 0 Totals ...... 611 0 0 0 6 13'9 201 0 0 HEATH COTE DIVISION AND WARANGA SmiTH Sun- DIVISION, Alabama and Butler's Reef Caledonia Gully ... 145 0 0 1 14 23"17 253 10 0 623 feet. wJ.RANGA NORTH Sun· I DIVISION. Sutherland and Co. ... Rush worth ...... 179 0 0 0 14 5•08 127 4 0 l Molloy and Co...... Rush worth ...... 13 0 0 5 6 20'3 69 9 0 Rich and Co...... Rush worth ...... 33 0 0 0 1G 9•45 27 1 0 Rose and Co...... Rushworth ...... 2 0 0 7 17 12 15 15 0 I Vaughan and Co, ... Rnshworth ...... 21 0 0 0 9 3'42 9 12 0 Crocker and Co ..•• ... Rush worth ...... 20 0 0 1 2 18 22 15 0 Burns and Co...... Rushworth ...... 13 0 0 I 16 9'23 23 13 0 I I 9'23 90 4 0 Clausen and Co ...... Rush worth ... "'I 26 0 0 3 9 T. Thompson and Co. Hushworth 23 0 0 2 12 5•43 60 1 5 ...... "' Burch and Co...... Rushworth ...... 15 0 0 0 13 10•4 10 1 12 I Snelling and Co ...... Rushworth ...... 8 0 0 0 18 19•5 7 10 12 Manning and Co. ... Rush worth ...... 34 0 0 5 1 20'82 173 3 12 McDonald and Co. ... Rush worth ...... 60 0 0 () 4 8 13 0 0 I Ayers and Co...... Hushworth ...... 11 0 0 0 8 9'81 4 12 12 Sundry small lots ... Whroo ...... ,.:17 0 () 0 6 14•28 12 3 22 .I Menzies Trib. Comps, ''-'broo ...... _, 0 0 0 14 18'22 19 18 12 (O'Leary's Trib.) I ~All above water !eve Hodge Bros. ... Whroo ...... 30 0 0 0 14 1•6 21 2 0 I Christensen and Co, ... Whroo ...... 23 0 0 0 9 0 10 7 0, W. Cameron and Co. ... Whroo ...... 11 0 0 lO 19 19'63 120 18 0 II. Cameron and Co...... 12 0 0 1 17 2 22 5 0 Augustine and Co. ... Whroo ...... 49 0 0 0 6 6"36 15 7 01 Sundry small lots ...... 15 0 0 1 0 2•6 15 1 12 Stranger ...... Fontainbleau ••• ... 8 0 0 0 16 6 6 10 0 London ...... Coy's Diggings .. . 17 0 0 5 4 4'23 88 11 0 Taylor ...... ~ .. ' Coy's Diggings ... 22 0 0 5 2 6'54 112 10 0 My er ...... I Coy:s D~gg~ngs ... 10 0 0 3 5 0 ;)2 10 0 Union ••• Coy s D1ggmgs . 35 0 0 0 14 0'65 24 10 23 ... 1 .. l Fick and Co...... , Coy's Diggings ... 6 0 0 1 12 0 9 12 Torson and Co...... \ Coy's Diggings ... 5 0 0 1 19 0 9 I5 Sundry small lots ... Coy's Diggings ... 16 0 0 0 5 13•5 4 9 gll 0 0 0 8 9•6 42 0 Mary .Tane ...... Coy's Diggings .... ' lOO 0 iJ Totals ... 881 0 0 1 7 17•6 MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT. MARYBOROUGII DIVISION. I I Cambrian Battery ... , Various places ... 277 7 0 0 12 16'25 Ii:'l 16 () Thorn son and party (crushed : Try Again Reef, near re· 116 0 0 1 0 5'37 117 6 0 at Cambrian) [ servoir 1 Lange and party (crushed Moonlight Reef, near re• l 94 0 0 I 13 5•36 156 3 0 at Cambriau) servoir) Stamps Freehold (crushed Golden Point ...... 87 0 0 0 8 19'58 38 'l 0 at Cambrian) All Nations Battery ... Chinaman's ...... 267 0 0 0 8 12 I 113 9 12 Totals ...... 84I 7 0 0 14 6'92 601 1 12 AMHERST DIVISION, : At Wm. Cosstick's Mill: Croydon ...... Opossum Gully ... 440 0 0 0 a 5'68 7l 4 6 70 to 150 feet Duns ton Bros ...... N. Wn. Reef, Amherst... 33 0 o' I 8 15'45 47 5 6 Near the surface 0: 12 Catherwood and Co. ... Mysterious Lead ... :37 0 ; 0 3 13'86 6 9 30 feet Sundries ...... North of Amherst .. . 234 0 0 0 6 5'54 42 18 0 ~'rom surface to lOO f t. At T. Bartlemore's Mill: Sundries ...... About Talbot ...... 399 0 0 0 4 19•8 9{\ 5 6 i From surface t{) 50 ft. At J. R. Walker and Co.'s I Mill: I' Leeds ...... ! All Nations Reef ... 300 0 0 0 7 2•08 106 6 : ~ Nod"mf~• Totals ...... 1,443 0 0 0 5 13'24 400 11 ! ' 13 AvERAGE Yield of Gold from cert~tin parcels of Quartz Crushed during the Quarter, &c.-continued. Dlvlslon an~~ dSubdivlsion, 1 '"'he- Quartz w•s obt·,·ned. A vera~e •rota! Yield of ltcmarks relntlvo to t.hc _ 1 n '" " " Qu:JJ'tz Crushed. Yield of uold I Cold I Depth at which tile _____N_~_m_e_o_f_c_om_.p_a_nr_. ______1 ,______l_'"_r_T_on_.__ ' • --Q-ua_r_~_w_u_s_o_b.m_i_n_cu_,&_o__•• 1 1 1 tons cwt. qr. oz. dwt. gl', --:. dwt, gr.l DUNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA 1 DIVISIONS. I Queen's Birthday ... [ Bealiba Reef ••• 6,657 0 0 0 6 20·29 12,278 11 0 Welcome ... I George Reef ... 250 0 0 () 7 8•02 . 91 13 12 Sydenham ... Quaker's Gully 571 0 0 0 5 3•4 146 16 0 Sydenham ••• : Havelock 76 0 0 0 16 22•73 64 8 0 Posini and party...... f Burnt Creek 34 0 0 0 10 7'76 17 11 0 Wiscott and party .... Burnt Creek ... I 47 0 0 0 6 3'57 14 9 0 Thomas and party . . • Tarnagulla 6 () 0 1 3 0 6 18 0 Yorkshire ... I Watts Reef 2,195 0 () 0 8 3'07 892 1 6 Bendigo Working Miners ••. ·. Cay's Diggings 140 (J 0 0 6 () 42 () 0 J. J. Robinson ...... i Spondulix Heef 0 0 1 5,200 oz. 65 () 0 North Harvest Home Harvest Home Reef 30 () () 0 6 3 9 3 18 Totals ... 10,006 0 1 0 7 6•06 3,628 11 12 JNGLEWOOD DIVISION. Jersey Reef Q. M. Inglewood 11 () 0 0 1 16'64 0 18 15 i") .Tersey Reef Q. M. Inglewood 120 () 0 0 8 18·6 52 13 0 Jersey Reef Q. M. Inglewood 187 0 0 0 15 9·ll 143 16 0 D. Jones and party Thompson's Gully 12 () 0 0 1 16 1 0 0 William W atkins and party Thompson's Gully 10 0 0 0 9 12 4 15 0 i Q Lord Nelson · St. Arnaud 725 0 0 0 16 19'72 609 16 0 1 lOO to 680 feet Premier... St. Arnaud :::I 65 0 0 0 3 0 9 15 0 I 80 feet No. 2 South New Bendigo .•• Bristol Reef 25 0 0 1 5 0 31 5 o : 60 feet No. 3 South New Bendigo ... Bristol Reef 75 0 0 0 5 0 1815 o i40fect Strathalbyn St. Arnaud 17 0 0 0 8 0 616 o i 120feet Public crushing ... Various reefs .. . 40 0 0 0 10 0 20 0 0 i Various New Bendigo Bristol Reef .. . 820 0 0 0 16 3'92 662 14 o 1 240 to 320 feet Hicks and party ... Blink Bonny .. . 70 0 0 0 6 1'71 21 5 0 300 feet Totals .. . 1,837 0 () 0 15 0•66 1,380 6 0 CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT. C.A.STLEMAINE DIVISION. Central Wattle Gully ... Wattle Gully ••• ... 457 0 0 0 6 3•08 140 0 18 ll 0 and 350 feet Wheal Terrill Tribute ... Wattle Gn!ly ...... 465 0 0 0 12 11·79 290 8 12 300 feet Eureka Phwnix ...... Eureka Reef ...... 300 0 0 0 3 15·57 54 14 16 60 to 80 feet Ajax United ...... Bolivia Reef ...... 691 0 0 0 2 15·94 1 92 1 0 Various Public crushings ...... Various ...... 537 0 0 0 7 3•51 ! 191 17 12 Various Argns United ...... Argns Reef ... 277 0 0 0 4 10·151 61 5 4 O'Connel and Co. ... Dogleg Gully ••. ... 103 0 0 1 7 18•4 143 0 0 Lewis and Co...... Nimrod Heef ...... 275 0 0 0 ll 15•05 159 17 12 Crown Nimrod ...... Nimrod Reef ...... 115 0 0 0 2 20'87 16 lO Ol Manchester ...... ::\.fa.nehcster Heef ... _____780 0 01 , () 2 11·781 97 3 0 · Crushecl by water power Totals ••• ... 4,000 0 0 I 0 6 5·63 1,246 18 2 -·-) FRYER'S CREEK DIVISIOll'. Ancient Briton ... Blacksmith's Gully ... 142 () 0 0 2 22•14 20 15 0 110 feet English-Australian G. M .... Golden Gully ...... 2,404 0 0 0 2 17'56 328 7 2 \50 to 260 feet Renaissance ...... Specimen Hill ... 1,152 0 0 0 1 9·33 80 0 0 50 feet Little and Co...... Cattle's Reef ...... 56 () 0 0 5 0 14 0 () 9 feet Royal Saxon ...... Golden Gully ..• ... 916 0 0 0 2 19'7 129 4 0 lOO to 130 feet New Era ...... Ferron's Reef ...... 5,83:3 0 0 0 3 13·7 1,041 10 0 80 to 380 feet Redhouse and White ... Golden Gnlly ...... 59 0 0 0 2 10•98 7 5 0 30 feet Ditto (Rowe's Tribute) Cattle's Reef ...... , 45 0 0 0 5 6·4 ll 17 0 Surface to 8 feet Rowe Bros...... Cattle's Reef ...... 2,027 0 0 0 2 23•9 303 13 0 150 to 330 feet Rowe Bros. Cattle's Reef ... 210 0 0 22•62 240 feet ...... , 0 0 9 18 0 Ferron's Reef ...... Ferron's Heef ...... 934 0 0 0 2 19•04 130 9 0 430 feet Enterprise ...... Fryerstown ... 640 0 0 () 8 5'47 263 6 0 230 to 270 feet Chapel Hill ...... Chapel Hill ... 149 0 0 0 7 1•12 52 10 0 82 feet Golden Valley ...... Nuggetty Gully ... I 80 0 0 0 6 21'6 27 12 0 i so feet North Star ...... Blacksmith's Gully ... I 20 0 0 0 2 2'4 2 2 0 1 90 feet McDonald and Wilson ... German Gully . 50 0 0 1 6 19·2 67 () 0 /90 to 145 feet .. ol North Saxon ...... Golden Gully ..,. ' 57 0 0 2 5·89 6 8 0 150 feet .------Totals ...... I 14,774 0 0 I 0 3 9'08 2,495 16 2 14 AVERAGE Yield of Gold from certain parcels of Quartz Crushed during the Quarter, &c.-continued. Division and Subdivision~ Average I . Remarks relative to the and Where Quartz was obtained. Quartz Crushed. Yield of Gold Total Yield of Depth at which the Name of Company. per Ton. Gold. Quartz was obtained, &c. 1-- tons cwt~ oz. dwt. gr. oz. dwt. gr. IiEPBURN DIVISION. German Gully ...... German Gully ... 180 0 0 0 12 14"2 ll3 6 12 200 feet Victoria Quartz ...... Frenchman's Reef North 380 0 0 0 4 21·34 92 2 tl 1 iO feet Ajax Quartz ...... Ajax Reef ...... 45 0 0 () 4 10'66 10 0 0 220 feet Bragg and party ...... Ajax Hne ...... i 28 () 0 0 l 20"78 2 12 6 :35 feet Fear Not ...... Collier's Reef ...... 60 0 ol 010 0 30 0 0 50 feet Walker and party ,.. Keep it Dark ...... 8 0 01 2 0 0 16 0 () lOO feet United Quartz ...... Lanky Gully ...... 800 0 0 0 2 0 80 0 {) 56 feet (tunnel) Rising Star Quartz ... 1 Blind Creek ...... 4,210 0 0 0 8 12·:l7 1,792 10 0 250 feet Cornish Quartz . . . Cornish Reef ...... 184 0 0 0 5 22•1 54 9 12 120 feet Hutton and party ... Doctor's Gully ... 50 0 0 0 4 0 10 0 0 90 feet Prospectors ...... Hepburn ...... 200 0 0 0 6 I2 66 0 0 lOO feet ' ---- Totals ...... 6,145 0 o/ 0 7 9 2,266 0 6 TAERANGOWER DIVISION. Caledonia Mills ...... North British Inde- 744 0 0 0 12 6'8 456 19 0 pendent Phamix Mills ...... Irish Billy's, Swiper's, 609 0 0 I ll 13'24 960 15 0 Victoria, South Ger- man, Beehive, Grand Junction, Gough's, Duun's, Target reefs, Linscott's Mills ...... and Wattle Gully Eaglehawk, Lisle's, Lin- 597 0 0 0 11 17"68 3.'i0 7 0 scott's, ami Brass reefs Little Wonder ...... Green Val!ey ...... 68 0 0 0 2 16'39 9 2 II W clshman ' s Reef .• . Welshman s Reef 180 0 () 0 1 10 66 I3 0 0 I D unn's Reef ...... Dunn's Reef, Muckleford 72 0 I 4 08 0 12 6 0 0 I Totals ...... 2,270 0 0 : 0 15 18"66 ! 1,790 15 17 ------ST. _>\.NDREW'S DIVISION. I central ...... Reefton ...... 199 0 0 I I 7 10"61 273 I 0 280 feet E ureka ...... Warrandyte ...... 36 0 0 0 15 18 28 7 0 30 feet E'ngel and party ...... Warrandyte ... 14 0 0 0 4 7 3 0 2 70 feet Apted and party ... Pioneer 8 0 0 0 7 12 3 0 0 80 feet ... ::: I I G ardner and party ... W arrandyte ...... I ll4 0 0 0 2 22"95 I 16 17 0 Surface {. Story and party Wild Dog I 1 17 0 35 feet I ...... 1 0 o'I 1 17 0 p igtail Reef ...... Anderson's Creek ... 75 0 o, 0 16 18"88 62 19 0 145 feet ----- Totals ...... 447 0 oi 0 17 9•77 389 I 2 I ARAUAT MINING DISTRICT. PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION. Wimmera ...... Stawell reefs ...... 3,965 0 0 0 6 4•78 I,228 19 19 I Pioneer and Galatea ... Stawell reefs ...... 3,956 0 0 0 9 12•80 1,885 13 21 New St. George ...... Stawell reefs ...... 4,531 0 0 0 7 17"78 1,753 14 15 ,I Various, from 100to Stawell reefs ... 2,914 0 1,I58 0 I8 Scotchman's ...... 0 0 7 22"75 ~ 1,120 feet Moonlight ...... Stawell reefs ...... 6,313 0 0 0 5 20"5I 1,848 I 0 W onga and Birmingham ... Stawell reefs ...... 2,315 0 0 0 2 23"28 343 16 8 I I. North and South Wales ... Deep Lead ...... 27 0 {) 1 8 14'66 38 12 I2 ) - ,, Totals ...... 24,021 0 0 0 6 20•99 8,256 18 2I GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT. 0MEO SUBDIVISION. Northy and party Swift's Creek ... 25 0 0 0 8 12 Ribbing and party Swift's Creek .•• 13 0 0 0 17 0 Chinese ... Swift's Creek ... 4 0 O' 0 6 7 Peter Forsyth Swift's Creek... I28 0 0 1 0 0 Totals ... I70 0 0 0 17 I8•l6 1\ Great Success Company's mine 810 0 2 I 4•23 17 10 0 1 Surface to lO feet Victoria Company's mine 60 0 0 0 0 I9 I 2 7 12 Surface to 40 feet Totals ... ···I 68 10 0 0 5 19•27 : 19 17 I2 I ! CROOKED RIVER DIVISION. Uncle Tom ... I Uncle Tom Reef 54 0 0 0 9 0 24 6 0 ! ! 15 AVERAGE Yield of Gold from certain parcels of Quartz Tailings and Mullock Crushed, &c.-continued. Division and Subdivision, Average 'Jlotu l Yield of Uelllilrks relu.tive to the and "'here Quartz was obtained. Quartz Crushed. ! Yiel GIBBO SUBDIVISION. 4:l8 0 313 10 0 Just in Time About 70 yards S.E. of 36 0 65 4 o 10 feet Zulu Creek 1 Southern Cross Ab.out 70 yards S.E. of 1 20 feet Zulu Creek Totals ... DONNELLY'S CREEil: DIVISION. Bismarck United ... Upper workings 385 10 16·S3 591 8TRING.ER'S CREEK DIVISION .I Long Tunnel . Cohen's ••• 1 6,586 0 13 18'52 4,535 0 Long Tunnel (tributers) 1 Cohen's l 453 0 1;{ Jl!•19 314 9 Long Tunnel Extended Cohen's 534 0 7 5'91 193 9 Totals 7,S73 0 7'63 5,042 18 12 QUARTZ TAILINGS, MULLOCK, ETC. TaE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining ~urveyors and Regi.stmrs relative to the AvERAGJo: Ymi"D OF GoLD from certain parcels of QuARTZ 'fAILINGS and 1\h.:LLOCK, &c., Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter, and the GOLD obtained therefrom . .~--- ~~·------··---~--·--·--~-·---·-·----~·------Division and Subdivision, •railings Quartz Tail!ngs Average Where Quartz and T 0 t 1 Y' , 1 0 f I Remarks relative to the and :Mullock, &c., were . Name of Company. obtained. ' Cruslled. per Ton. Gold. 1}fullock 1 &c., were obtained. tons cwt. q_r. : oz. tlwt. gr. oz. dwt.gr. BALLARA'f MINING DISTIHCT. STEIGLITZ SuBDIVISION. Kay a.ndCo. 94 BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT. BEECHWORTfl DIVISION. Wallaby Hurdle Flat 284 0 0 0 2 0 28 8 0 50 feet Whangdoodle Hurdle Flat 13 0 0 0 2 ]6•62 l !.5 0 Surfaee Totals 297 0 0 :m 3 0 YACKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVISION. Lady Mary Hillsborough ... 50 0 0 0 2 16'32 6 14 0 Morning Star Sandy Creek ... 413 0 0 0 2 12•61 52 :J 0 Wild Horse Sandy Creek ... ------170 0 0 0 2 16'94 23 0 0 Totals ... 633 0 0 0 2 14•07 81 17 () INDIGO DIVISION. Various companies Various Ioca'fities 123 0 0 0 2 0 12 ti 0 1 V alious reefs W ..l.NDILIGONG SUBDIVISION. At Never Too Late Mill : I Vale and Na.nce Forlorn HopeReef,Morse'sl 30 0 0 0 3 8 ;; Creek I BuC:i>.LAND DIVISION. Da.vis and Co. Ha.rrietville ... 250 0 0 0 12 21'12 SANDHUHST MINING DISTRICT. WARANGA NORTH SUB DIVISION. Menzie's Trib.,Ba.Ia.elava Hill: Whroo ;?ij(l 0 0 0 1 1.5'36 I 21) 10 0 I 16 AVERAGE Yield of Gold from certain parcels of Quartz Tailings and ::VIullock Crushed, &c.-continued. Division and Subdivision, Where Quartz Tuillngs and Quratz Tailings Averag-e relative to the and Mullock, &c., were Total Yield of atwllich tile nnd Mllllock, &c., Yield of !\old ttold. Namme of Omnpnny. obtalne tons. cwt. qr4 ozs. awt. grs. uzs. dwt. gr, , MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT. MARYBOROUGH DIVISION, All Nations Battery ... Alma ...... ST. ARNJ.UD SoUTH SuB- DIVISION. Lancashire ...... Stuart MiU ...... ST. ARNAUD NoRTH Sun- DIVISIO:s' Public Crushing ... Wilson's Hill ...... 60 0 0 0 3 0 9 0 0 Mullock Public (,'rushing ... Wilson's Hill •.• ... 350 0 0 0 5 () 87 10 o i Tailings ------Totals ...... 410 0 0 0 4 1(;•97 96 10 o; ' CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT. CASTLEMAINE DIVISION, l Davis and Co...... Golden Point ...... 780 0 0 I 0 I 12 58 10 0 F. C...... Forest Creek ...... 534 0 Oi 0 1 18•47 47 5 0 Totals 1,314 0 0 0 1 14·63 105 15 0 TARRANGOWER DIVISION...... Phrenix ...... 190 0 0 0 4 13"89 43 10 0 Tailings ...... I North British ...... 5 0 0 I 0 7 9'6 1 17 0 Tailings Tot:tls 195 0 0 0 4 15'63 45 7 0 ST. ANDREW'S DIVISION...... Central ...... Rcefton ...... 247 0 0 I 0 2 ll'l5 24 15 13 280 feet ARARAT MINING DISTRICT. PLEASANT CaEEK DIVISION. North Md South Wales ... Deep Lead ...... 500 0 0 0 1 0"34 25 7 2 PYRITES AND BLANKETINGS. THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars relative to the AvERAGE YIELD OF GoLD from certain parcels of PYRITES and BLANKETINGs operated on in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of ench Mining District during the Quarter, and the GoLD obtained therefrom. I , Division and Subdivision, Pyrites i 'V here I)yrit.{l.S and Bl::mkctings Avcrogc . Total Yield of I Remarks relative to the and and Hlankctlngs Yield of Gol CENTRAL DIVISION. I Smith's Freehold United ... Redan ...... 16 0 0 1 11 13'5 25 5 0 New Koh-i-noor ...... Redan ...... 5 0 0 3 9 22•2 17 9 15 Llanberris ...... Ballarat East ...... 12 10 0 2 13 22'56 33 14 6 Band and Albion Consols ... Redan ...... 71 0 0 3 0 12·5 214 17 0 Totals ...... 104 10 0 2 15 18 291 5 21 0RESWICK DIVISION. Port Phillip ...... Clunes Iteefs ...... 102 10 0 3 3 23•29 327 17 0 New North Clunes ... Clunes Reefs ••• ... 20 10 0 4 10 18•73 93 1 0 South Clunes ...... Clunes Reefs ...... 49 5 0 3 7 8'89 165 18 0 Totals ...... 172 5 0 3 8 3'2 586 16 0 GORDON SunDIVISlON. Parker's United ...... Gordon ...... i 55 0 0 3 13 8•72 201 15 0 STEIGLITZ SuBDIVISION. Kay and Co...... Elaine ... "'I 167 0 0 l 8 8•33 236 14 0 ' BLAOKWOOD DIVISION AND BLUE MouNTAIN SouTH SuBDIVISION. Sultan ...... Barry's Reef ...... 9 0 () 3 4 14•78 29 1 13 I 17 QUANTITY of PYRITER, &c., operatl;d on in each Division and Subdivision during the Quat·ter, &c.-continued. Division and Subdivision, Avcmgc to the and Where w·as1u1irL was o~Aaincd, Pmldlcd. Ykl1l of Hohl the Name of Company. per Ton. oz. dwt. _gr~ oz. Jwt. gr, : BEECHWORTH MINING DISTinCT. BEECHWORTH DIVISION, I Reform ...... :!\'Iyrtleford ...... 13 0 0 011 5'54 7 6 0 'VANDILIGONG SUBDIVISION. At Stepllens's Mill, four )11-Iorse's and Growler's parcels, different owners . creeks and Ovens 119 15 0 0 13 16'68 !<2 0 0 1 mvcr } BucKLAND DIVISION. ~- r-~·--~~ Davis and Co...... Harrictvillc ...... 10 0 0 3 !0 21"6 35 9 0 Hope ...... Running Creek ... 14 0 0 I I () 17•14 : 20 16 0 Totals ...... 24 0 0 2 6 21 56 5 0 ---~~-·--~--~--~------~--- SANDHURST MINING DISTinCT. SANDHURST DIVISION. United Pyrites ... Pinchgut Gully 275 0 0 2 11 22'6 714 4 0 Spargo Bros...... Great Western Gully ... 209 0 0 1 17 13•66 392 12 0 Sandhurst&EaglehawkP.E. ,Jackass Flat •.. 194 0 0 1 JO 20·1 299 2 12 R. J. Liddle and Co. . .. Derwent Gully 19G 10 0 2 18 9'4 573 14 0 Catherine Reef U.C. . .. Catherine Reef 7 0 0 2 11 10•28 18 0 0 ----·------1--·---·~------Totals ...... i 881 lO 0 2 5 7"75 /1,9D7 12 12 ' I CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT. CASTI~EMAINE DIVISION. Geo. Yeats Castlemaine Pyrites 120 0 0 Works HE.PDURN DIVISION. Rising Star Blind Creek 45 IG 0 , 250 ft>ct Ajax Quartz Ajax l{cef 4 0 0 · 220 feet Tota!s 49 16 0 ST. ANDREW's DIVISION, Central :Nlining .. • Re efton 9 0 0 GIPPSLAND MINIKG DISTTIICT. STRINGER'S Cohcn's Reef ...... I 23 0 0 24 6 o I WASHDIRT AND CE:Th:IENT. SUMMARY. TuE following information hns been obtained relative to the A YERAGE YIELD OF GOJ,D ffolll certnin parcels of \VASHDIRT Puddlcd Hnd Sluiced and CEMENT Crushed during the Quarter, and the GoLD obtained therefrom. Quantity Avernp;c Tot --·----· --~·-- Washdirt. tons cwt. oz. dwt. gr. oz. dwt. gr. Ceme11t, tOHS cwt. oz. dwt. gr. oz. thYt. gr. Ballarat" 39,485 () () 1 22•06 3,788 18 Ballarat § 41 0 0 ., 12"1'8 5 0 8 •• ~ 1' Beechworth t 38,J66 0 0 0 19 1,5:!6 11 16 Beech worth ••• I Sandhurst ... I Sandhurst ..• i I Maryborough ... I 35,273 0 0 15 1.5 :M:aryboroug-h /i ... 1 141 0 0 5 (1•{)4 3i\ 8 18 I Castlemaine 12:J,62.5 0 0 0 22•5!) 20 Castlemaine, ... f lOO 0 0 14 12'72 7'2 13 0 Ararat :j: 9,600 0 0 11 2 Ararat *" I, 183 3 () 4 2'45 242 13 lO Gippsland Gippsland 5 0 0 8 0 2 0 \) ---~~-·-- Totals 246,549 () 0 13 Totals 0 4 :!1•5! ;){)t) 0 4 -----·-----~ XoTE,-'Ihis ~nmmary yield from certain washing:; retunlS" are imrH'l'fcet ns ~iuicing~ &c.1 owlll_g to tile impop;:-.ibte to cenlplcte returns distrit.:ts 't Certttln parcels treated in anrl nJnck\"\'rond diYi:-!ons only.--t Certain parcels ll'C!l~Cd in DucklntJd divisions trrale\l l1l ~~~~~then: treatea 1n in Fr,\ u::; ln;ck md Ttil"l':m:.::ow..:1' Cert.a:n :parcels ncated Office of Mines, THOS. COUCIIJ\IAN, Melbourne, 21st January 1882. Sccrctnry for J\Hnes. J·'' 18 WASHDIRT. THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars relative to the AvERAG~E YIELD 0.1!' GoLD from certain parcels of WASHDIRT Puddled or Sluiced in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each Mining District during the Quarter, and the GOLD obtained therefrom. Division and Subdivision, Average "' Remarks relative the t , to and ~Where Washd!rt was obtained. Yield of Gold T o"I >le'11 Depth •t which the Name of Company. ol Gold. washdirt Wll!l obtained, &c. per Ton. 1 gr.~------oz. dwt. gr. ---=-:wt. BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT. I SouTHERN DIVISION, I I Turner and party ... I Break-o'-Day ...... 1,920 0 0 0 2 10'23 232 18 8 30 to 50 feet; 2 to 3 feet thick ! Grant and party ...... Break-o'-Day ... ···I 1,000 0 0 0 2 21·72 145 5 o i 6 to 30 feet ; 3 feet thick Totals ...... 2,920 0 0 0 2 14'16 378 3 8 !--- S~ITTim~DALE DIVISION, Hefonn ...... Ha(ldon ...... 4,075 0 0 0 4 8·o!l 883 15 0 70 feet Haeecourse ...... Haddou ...... 13,650 0 0 0 2 8'27 1,600 6 0 170 feet Trunk Lead ...... Haddon ...... 14,560 0 0 0 1 3"85 844 16 0 250 feet Totals ...... i 32,285 0 0 0 2 1'49 3,328 17 0 i Gonuo:s- SunD!VISION. ' Kerrit Barcct ...... Kerrit Barcct, Gordon ... 40 0 0 0 0 7•2 0 12 0 120 feet BLACKWOOD DIV!;;ION AND BLUB Mom Totals .,.. I 4,240 0 0 0 0 9'2 81 6 0 I ... ! BEECHWORTH MINING DISTRICT. ' BEECIIWORTH DIVISION. Bollm1 and Co. ... Three-Mile Creek ... i '·'"' 0 0 I , • , " 0 • 10 to 20 feet ,-----~------ 1 INDIGO DIVISION. I Chiltern Valley Gold Mines Chiltern Lead ... I 2,246 0 0 ! 0 2 0 224 12 o 280 feet ::itoekyard Gold Mining ••• Durham and Caledonian : 26,000 o 0 ! 0 0 13'46 728 19 16 315 feet 1----~----- !------1 Totals ... • .. 28,246 0 0 1 0 0 16•2 953 11 16 • BucKLAND Divr~ION. Chew On and Co. ... German Town ... 200 0 0 0 3 0 30 0 0 Harvey and Co. ... German Town ... 300 0 0 0 2 8 35 0 0 Ah Mew and Co ..•. ... German Town ... 320 0 0 0 2 4'5 35 0 0 M. George and Co. ... Freeburgh ...... 500 0 0 0 2 0 50 0 0 Tin Choy and Co. ... Freeburgh ...... 500 0 0 0 2 9•6 60 0 0 Ah Tow and Co ...... Freeburgl1 ...... 600 0 0! 0 J 16 50 0 0 Chung Ye and Co. ... H arriPtville ...... 900 0 0 3 0 135 0 0 Ah Sam and Co ...... Jhrrietville ...... 300 0 0 2 16 40 0 0 Ah Sue ltnd Co ..•• ... l~uekland ...... 200 0 ~I 0 4 0 ' 40 0 0 Ah :Mun ami Co. ... Bucklund ...... 100 0 0 f) 3 14'4 : 18 0 0 () Total~ ...... , 3,U20 0 0 2 12•36 4!!:3 0 0 ... ! ·-·~ -·-·--~-- -··- ---· ' -----~- ----·------~~ 19 AVERAGE Yield of Gold from certain parcels of Washdirt Puddled or Sluiced, &c.-continued. 1 Division and Subdivision, Average He marks relative to tllc Total Yield ' Depth at which the and Where Washdlrt was obtained. j Yield of Gold of Hold. Name o:f Company. per Ton. ' 'Vashdirt ...vas obtained, &c. oz. dwt. gr. oz. dwt. gr. i MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT. ::'>fARYBOROUGH DIVISION. Gold brook Carisbrook 85:) lO 0 120 feet Argus ... Chinamans 45 0 0 Totals 900 lO 0 :\IAJORCA SuBDIVISION. New Kong Meng Majorca 835 9 0 190 feet Perseverance Narrigal 160 0 0 Totals 995 9 0 AMHERST DIVISION. Union G. M. . •• .•• }fount Greenock Lead •.• 1,850 0 0 1 Hoffnung G. M . ••• • •• Mount Greenock Lead ... 1,825 0 () Totals .•. 3,675 0 0 AVOCA SUBDIVISION. Working Miners ..• Company'sLeases,Home-1 16,750 0 0 bush ' CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT. CASTLEMAINE DIVISION. Grttnd Trunk G. M. Loddon Plains, Guildford 260 0 0 J<'nYElt'S CllEEK DIVISION. I Ellis and Co. Church's Flat ...... 2,600 0 0 7'2 39 0 0 114 feet l'arsons :1nd Co. Horse-shoe Bend 6,500 () 0 8"64 ll7 0 0 10 feet Williams and Co. New Year's .Flat 3,900 u 0 7•2 58 10 0 17tul8fcct Trethcwcy and Co. Ne·w Year's Flat 1,950 0 0 8 32 10 0 17 to 18 feet 'l'onkin 'tml Co...... Chokem :Flat 2,600 u 0 1•8 26 0 u 14 feet Arthur a.nd Co. ... Butcher's Hill 325 0 l 0 16 5 0 80 feet Thomas and Co. ···1••. Bald Hill ... 5,200 0 u 12 130 .''> 0 90 feet Mein's .Freehold G. M. . . . Guildford ..• 2.010 u 2 9·:ll 240 0 () i 200 feet ::;tcvens and party ... · New Year's Flat 1,800 0 0 12 45 0 0 ; 17 feet Jessen and party ... Specimen Hill 1,000 0 0 12 10 () I 10 to 12 feet Anderson and party Spring Gully ... 2,000 () 25 0 0 10 12 feet Fox and party Pennyweight ... 1,500 0 75 0 0 i Various Totals ... 31,385 0 817 0 0 HEPBL'RN DIVISION, Kinsman and party Spring Creek ... 616 0 () 0 12 46 4 0 !50 feet (tunnel) Yuille and party ... Doctor's Gully 300 0 () () 4 17 10 0 10 feet Black and party ..• Doctor's Gully 600 0 0 0 0 30 0 0 40 feet :'\l[awby and party Doctor's Gully 20,000 0 0 0 I) 0•43 18 () 0 6 to 3U feet Sartori and party Stony Creek 2,000 0 0 0 I 0 lOO 0 () 5 to 25 feet Pagan:itti and party Blind Creek N. 10,000 0 0 0 0 2'44 51 0 0 10 feet Hunt and Sons Dry Diggings .•. 50 0 0 0 13 9'6 33 lO 0 20 feet (tail race) Joncs and party ... Dry Diggings ... 3,000 () () () 0 14"88 93 0 () 20 feet Davis and party .•. Dry Diggings ... 1,000 0 () () () 14'24 30 10 () 1 fi feet Sheppard and party Dry Diggings .•. 1,500 0 0 0 0 8·96 28 0 () ; Surface () () l'erry and party ... Dry Diggings ... ••· I 200 0 0 l 6 12 10 ! Surface Ah Mong Dry Diggings ... 2,000 0 0 () () 9'6 40 0 () 1 Surfact: () 300 Chinese All Hepburn district 12,000 0 0 1 0 600 () 0 1 Shttllow Various European parties ... All Hephurn district :::I 1,250 0 0 0 1 ()•9 65 () 0 To 8 feet Tot:tls ... 54,516 0 () I) 0 10"26 1,165 4 TARADALE AND KTNETON SUBDIVISION. [ronstone Hill ... South Taradalc 6,008 () 2 631 160 feet ]<~!lis's .Freehold ... 1 South Taradale 4,7a3 3 731 180 feet Confluence ... J' Malmsbury 3,510 l ; 220 feet Little Wonder ... Malmsbury :3,400 Great Wonder ••• i Malmsbury 1,000 Royal Standard ... Malmsbury i02 Tot,als TARRANGOWER DIVISION. Alien and Co. "'f Eaglel1awk Gully () 6"46 14 0 12 feet Hobt. Grigg and Co. ... , Porcupine Flat () 19•2 13 () 1 20 feet ,J. Knight and Co. ... [l'orcupine Flat () 17"14 16 5 25 feet () () Abram Grigg and Co. • •• Pegleg Gully ... 18 37 10 1 20 rect 1 Totals ... ~.820 0 () 0 () 13·74 80 15 () H 2 20 AVERAGE Yield of Gold from certain parcels of Washdirt Puddled or Slniccd, &c.-continued. DiYision and Subdivision, Average Total Yield of Remarks relative to the and Where WasMJrt was obtaiued, Yield ol Gold Depth at which the Name of Company. per Ton. Gold. 'Vashdirt was obtained, &c. S:r. ANDREW's DIVISION. oz. dwt. gr, oz. dwt. gr.i Ewart and Co. ••• Hoddlc's Creek 400 0 0 0 l l·Ol 20 16 20 40 feet Crown Warrandyte ... 1,145 0 0 0 1 10•12 81 8 0 130 feet ( diorite) Holloway and Co. Warrandyte 206 0 0 0 1 20'15 18 19 0 80 feet ( diorite) 170 Europeans All the district 10,000 0 0 0 2 0 1,000 0 0 Various 60 Chinese All the district 1,200 0 0 0 1 16 lOO 0 0 Various Totals ... 12,951 0 0 0 1 21'26 1,221 3 20 ARARAT MINING DISTRICT. RAGLAN DIVISIO:I'. New Victoria G. M. Waterloo Flat 6,ooo o o I o 13 18·0914,126 4 14 160 feet Royal Saxon G. M. Waterloo Flat 160 feet ~~~~~11,218 1212 9,600 o o I o u a·24 5,344 17 2 CEMENT. THE following information has been obtained from Returns made by the Mining Surveyors and Registrars relative to the AVERAGE YIELD of GoLD from certain parcels of CEMENT Crushed in the several Divisions and Subdivisions of each Mining District dming the Quarter, and the GOLD obtained therefrom. I Average DlviBion and Subdivision, Total Yield of Remarks relative to the and Where Cement was obtained. Cement Crushed. I Yield of Gold Gold. DepLh at whieh the Name of Company. per Ton. Cement was obtained. tons cwt. qr.l oz. dwt. gr. oz. dwt. gr. BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT. SOliTHERN DIVISION. Munro and party, crushed } (on hire) at the William's Kangaroo 41 0 0 0 3 12'88 7 5 o 70 feet Fancy Company's battery MARYBOROUGH MINING DISTRICT. AMIIERST DIVISION. I At T. Bartlemore's Mill- Talbot ...... 51 0 0 0 ,.J 8 8 18 Near the surface Sundries DUNOLLY AND 'l'ARN.AGULLA DlVlSIONS. Glamorganshire .•• ... Bealiba ...... 90 0 0 0 6 0 27 0 0 CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT. i FRYER'S CREEK DIVISION. I Thomas and Co ...... Bald Hill ...... 90 0 0 0 15 0 ! 67 10 0 90 feet T.ARRA.NGOWER DlVISION. Hard Hills, Muckleford ... 1!uckleford ...... 10 0 0 0 10 7•2 5 3 0 ' ARARAT MINING DISTRICT. PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION. North and South Wales ••• Deep Lead 1,183 3 0 0 4 2'45 242 13 10 ! -~··----·----~- ·------··-··~·---·-·C-- GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT. RussELL's CREEK DrviSION. Private ... Cement Hills, Tangil ••• 5 0 0 0 8 0 2 0 0 i 21 NUMBER AND DISTRIBUTION OF MINERS ON THE GOLDFIELDS OF THE COLONY, FOR 'l'HE QUARTER ENDED 31sT DECEMBER 1881. (From Returns made by the J{ining Surveyors and Registrars.) Name of Place. No. Total. I! Name of Place. No. Total. -·------BALLARAT DlSTRICT. Brought forward ...... 7,711 Central Division : Gordon Subdivision: Ballarat West and Sebastopol ... 1,600 }Jgerton ...... 413 Ballarat East, including Canadian, 1,360 Gordon ...... 253 Sailor's Gully, Mount Clear, and Korweinguboora ...... 6 Little Bendigo -- 672 Sago and Bunker's Hill ...... 20 Steiglitz Subdivision: -- 2,980 Steiglitz ...... 50 Southern Division: Elaine and Mount Do ran ...... 80 Long Gully ...... 6 Morrison's, Dolly's Creek, &c. ... !\0 Staffordshire Reef ...... so -- ISO Italian Gully ...... 5 Blacliwood Division and Blue Mountain Kangaroo ...... 53 South Subdivision : Moonlight ...... 10 Golden Point ...... 50 Bulldog ...... 50 Hed Hill ...... 4ll Rokewood Junction ...... 40 Barry's Reef and Split Tree ... 9ll Mount Misery ...... 190 Yankee Reef and Creek ...... 40 Yankee Hill ...... 10 Simmons' Reef ...... 40 Grassy Gully ...... 30 Sebastopol and Lower Lerderderg ... 40 Spring Creek ...... 8 Blakeville ...... 15 Sawpit Gully ...... 8 Snake Gully ...... 40 •Jackson's Gully ...... 5 Goodman's Creek and Bullengarook ... 20 Whim Holes ...... 20 llall:m Flat ...... 25 Hard Hills ...... 35 Garibaldi and vicinity ...... 10 l;'renchman's ...... 20 Wright's Reef ...... 20 Pinchgut ...... 30 llacehus Marsh and vicinity .. . 10 Break-o'-Day ...... 80 Maher's Hill ...... 10 Western Creek 70 I 450 ...... I -- -- 750 Ballan Subdivision : Buninyong Division: Upper Werribee River and vicinity ... 4 Durham and tributaries ...... 20 4 Green Hills and Devonshire ... 10 ----- Seotchman's and Hard Hills ... 150 Total for Ballarat District ...... 9,017 Hiseock's and Fairweather Reefs ... 1:!0 I Winter's Flat and Cobbler's ... 25 --- Gum-tree ...... GO Napoleon, Kitty's Hanges, and Gym pie 20 --- Prospecting and isolated parties ... 1.5 Grenville ...... :l BEECRWORTH DISTRlCT. Magpie Hanges ...... 30 Beech worth Division: P. J. Hanges ...... !'i Spring Creek ...... 105 Black Lead ...... 5 Silver Creek ...... 25 -- 473 Deep Creek ...... 22 Smythesdale Division: Hurdle Creek ...... 25 Smythesdale ...... 70 Pennyweight Flat ...... 50 Scarsdale and Newtown ...... 60 'l'wo-mile Creek ...... 45 Cape Clear ...... 10 Three-mile Creek ...... 160 Brown's ...... 40 Six-mile Creek ...... 30 Italian Gully ...... 10 Stony Creek ...... 55 Derwent Jack's ...... 20 Myrtleford, &c...... 100 Piggoreet ...... 20 Wooragee, &c, ...... 55 Bottle Hill ...... 50 Reid's Creek ...... 33 Snake V alley and Hard Hills ... 70 Woolshed ...... 105 Happy Valley and Lucky Woman's ... 150 Sebastopol ...... 60 Haddon ...... 475 Eldorado ...... GO Golden Lake ...... 5 I Stanley and neighborhood ...... 300 Madden's Flat ...... 10 Bowman's Forest ...... 35 Linton's ...... 130 I-- 1,265 Monkey Gully ...... 12 Yac!tandandah Soutlt Subdivision: Moonlight ...... 5 Clear Creek ...... 40 Preston Ilill ...... 5 Bruarong ...... 14 1,142 Kirby's Flat ...... 22 Creswiek Division : Rowdy Flat ...... 24 Creswiek ...... Osborne's Flat ...... 3() Clunes ...... !lOO Allan's Flat ...... 14 Spring hill ...... ···I~ 1,080 Staghorn Flat ...... 26 Red Streak ...... 325 Twist's Creek ...... 28 Union Hill ...... 12 Muddy Creek ...... lG Longpoint ...... 10 Hillsborough ...... 25 Diamond Gully ...... 6 Sandy Creek ...... sn Cobbler's Gully ...... 6 Township ...... 38 Bald Hills ...... ]0 llayes' Point ...... 16 Sulky Gully ...... 25 -- 382 Slaty Creek ...... 15 Indigo Division: Mopoke .•• ...... 10 Chiltern and New Ballarat Leads ... 103 Humbug Hill ...... 12 Suffolk Lead ...... 4 Portuguese Flat ...... 15 Indigo Lead ...... 340 llack Creek ...... 10 I Lancashire Lead ...... 4 Bullarook ...... 15 I Lanarkshire Lead ...... 4 -- 2,366 Caledoninn Lead ...... 8 Carried forward ...... j7:n; Carried forward ...... 11,647 22 NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS ou the Goldfields, &c.-continued. I Name ofPlace. No. Total, Name of Place. No. Total. -·- ~··~-·- ~~·------~---·-- ---· Brought forward ...... 1,647 Brought forward ...... 4,426 Indigo Division-continued. Mitta Mitta North Subdivision: Clydesdale Lead ...... 8 Cotton-tree Creek and Ticinity ... 250 Robert Burns Lead ...... 10 --- 250 Durham Lead ...... 14 Bethanga Subdivision : Rutherglen reefs ...... 48 Flagstaff Hill ...... 23 Chiltern reefs ...... 66 Gift Line ...... 40 Kincardinshire Lead ...... 12 Hamburg Line ...... 14 Newcastle Lead ...... 12 Welcome ...... 7 All Engl::md Lead ... 4 ...... __ , Jarvis Creek ...... 10 Buchland Division: 637 Tallangatta ...... 6 Buckland ... --- lOO ...... 308 Mitta Mitta Soutlt Subdivision: Harrietville 132 ...... Granite Flat 16 Harrietville to Bright ...... 450 ...... Bright to Boundary, including Run- Mitta Mitta River ...... lO Junction 8 ning Creek ...... 260 ...... Lightning Creek ...... I 4 WandiligongSubdivision: --- 1,150 --- 38 Morse's and Growler's creeks ... 177 Jarnieson Subdivision: Alexa.ndra Subdivision : --- 177 Howqua River andtributaries ... 5 Goulburn River, from Howqua to Alexandra and vicinity ...... 40 20 Gobur and vicinity Jamieson ...... 5 Mack's Creek .•. 40 Devil's River and tributaries ... 32 ...... Johnson's Creek and tributaries Goulburn River, from Jamieson to ... 12 Swampy Creek 60 Head of U T Creek . 15 ...... Sailor Bill's Creek ...... 80 Goulburn River ...... 8 5 Doogalook ... 8 .Flume Creek ...... Baker's Creek ...... 30 Spring Creek and Durham Gully ... 16 Jamieson River and tributaries 10 Higinbotham ...... 2 ... Tea-tree Creek and vicinity ... 20 --- 250 Acheron Field ...... 16 --- Maindample and Doon ...... 12 Total for Beechworth District .•• ... 5,064 Yea ...... 20 ---- Merton and vicinity ...... 15 Scattered population ...... 10 ---- Buxton ...... 2 Benalla Subdivision: --- 233 Benalla 108 ...... SANDHURST DISTRICT • Gowangardie ...... 5 Goomalibee ...... 7 Sandhur.•t Divi.•ion: --- 120 Back Creek and Spring Gully ... 300 Dry Creek Subdivision: Sheepshead and Golden Gully ... 420 Brankeet Creek ...... 13 Golden Square and Kangaroo Flat ... 400 Dry Creek ...... 35 Crusoe Gully and neighborhood ... 100 Hell's Hole Creek ...... 32 Marong and Bullock Creek ... 140 Table Land ...... 11 Victoria and New-chum reefs ... 450 Glen Creek ...... 3 Long, Maiden, and Derwent gullies .. . 480 Black Charley's ...... 3 Ironbark ...... 470 --- 97 Bendigo Flat ...... 450 ! Gaffney's Creek Subdivision: White Hills and Epsom ...... lOO 140 I Goulburn Ri vcr ...... 12 Huntly ...... I Gaffney's Creek ...... 36 Sydney Flat and Whipstick ... 300 Cannon's Creek ... , .. ... 3 Specimen Hill and Sailors' Gully ... 270 I I Raspberry Creek, &c...... 32 Devonshire Gully and Dead-horse .Flat 250 I Wallaby Reef and Creek ...... 14 Windmill Hill and California Gully ... 350 Moving population ...... 6 Eaglehawk Gully and Flat ...... 300 Ryan's Creek ...... 2 Snob's Hill and Pegleg Gully ... 350 Lyre Bird Creek ...... 2 I Haywood ...... 70 Moonlight Creek ...... 2 Elysian Flat ...... 60 --- 109 Sebastian ...... 80 Wood's Point Snbdivision: Kam>trooka ...... 50 I Wood's Point and 1\:lorning Star ... 36 Scattered and prospecting ...... 220 Lower Goulburn ...... 18 ---' 5,750 K ilmnl'e /)ivi.~ion : Right and left branches ...... 20 I Gooley's Creek ...... 4 Reedy Creek ...... 176 Harper's and Pheasant creeks ... 6 Sunday Creek ...... 7 9 Perkins' Creek and Waverley ... 4 Strath Crc<'k ...... I All Nations and Creek ...... 24 --- 192 Black H.iver ...... 20 1 H eath.cote Division and Waranya Soutlt Moving population ...... 8 Subdh•ision: ;\1aori Creek ...... 4 Graytown ...... 25 20 Redcastle 75 Never-mind Spur ...... i ...... --- 164 I Heathcote ...... 135 Big Rive1· Subdivision: Costerfield ...... 200 Frenchman's Creek ...... 2 Tooborac ...... 20 'Varner's Creek ...... 10 Kimbolton and Campaspe ...... 20 Enoch's Point ...... 10 Coliban and Myrtle Creek ...... 20 Hailway Creek ...... 24 Wild-duck ...... 40 Jim Thomas' Creek ...... 4 --- 53 5 Big Ri v(;r North ...... 20 Warnnga Nortlt Subdivision: Big River South ...... 2 Rushworth ...... 110 Fry's Creek ...... 2 Whroo and White hills ...... 86 I Moving population ...... 10 I Coy's Diggings ...... 84 Guulburn Hiver ...... 8 I 28 0 - 92 I -I l Carried forward ...... 1 Total for Sandhurst District ...... 6,75 7 4,42~ I 1- 23 NuMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields, &c.-continued. Name of Place. Total. I Name of !"lace. No. rroial. MABYBOROUOII DISTRICT. Brought forward 5,653 lrnglewood Division-continued. M aryhorough Division ; ' Alma ... 250 Opossum Hill :)5 Waterloo 30 Wehla 30 Inkerman 50 .Jordan 20 Moonlight Flat 50 Kangadaraar Creek 25 Adelaide Lead ISO 840 Golden .Point 30 lVedderburn Division: Craigie 50 Wedderburn M Four-mile Flat 65 Garibaldi ll Carisbrook 200 A voca Forest 8 Mosquito 150 Woolshed and Yorkshire Flat Blucher's 160 Kilburnie and Nine-mile Rush Newtown 150 154 Havelock 150 Redbank and St. Arnaud South Subdivisions: Chinaman's 525 Stuartmill, &c. 30 Bla.ckman's T..ead 50 Redbank, &c. 25 Maryborough 260 Hinds Ill 2,300 Moonambel, &c. 120 Majorca Subdivision: Darling Flat 40 Majorca llO Emerald Flat 20 England's Hill Lead 10 Sandy Creek 12 Gibraltar Lead 20 Canterbury :)7 Scandina.vian Lead 10 Gullies between Stuartmill and Hinds 10 McCallum's Creek 30 304 Rocky Flat 20 St. Arnaud North Subdivisio11 : 200 New Bendigo 125 St. Arnaud 190 Amherst Division: 42 Talbot Silver 11ines, &c. 45 Emu, &c. 12 Scandinavian Lead 5 ]2 Mount Greenock Lead Carapooe lOO Bell Rock, &c. 4.) Nuggety and Long gullies 56 17 Kangaroo Gully and Flat Blink Bonnie, &c ..•. l:l4 :Mallee :;o Mia Mia Flat and tributaries 81 n Daisy Hill and tributaries Queen Mary, &c. 98 Dalyenong 95 Adelaide Lead South 44 574 Blacksmith's Gully 40 Emu and Cockatoo 50 Total for Maryborough Distl'ict 7,G25 Brown's Gully 6 Rocky Flat 4 Mount Glasgow 6 Lilicur 10 679 A.voca Subdivision : I Amphitheatre li 35 CASTLE:MAINE DISTRICT. Avoca Lead 50 Green Hill Creek 50 'i Castlemaine Division : Percydale I Castlemaine 95 lOO ·I Home bush 400 Eureka Reef 2f.i Lam plough 40 Guildford 91 Mountain Hut li 9i 15 i Campbell's Creek No. I Creek 20 Sailor's Gully 4:! No. 2 Creek 40 ji Barker's Creek 90 Kimberley and Sardine lO Myrtle Creek 4 Donkey Hill 15 11 Moonlight Flat Middle Creek, &c .•.• 15 Chewton Gullies east of A voca 20 W attic Gully BungBong 20 Golden Point Lexton 20 11 Diamond Gully Barnes Reef 2-5 jl Bolivia Reef ... Scandinavian Gully reefs 25 \l:.!l -- 900 , ! Fryer's Creek Divisio11: Dunolly and Tarnagulla Divisions: I i Golden Gully tc Fryerstown Dunolly ' Spring Gully to Specimen Hill 300 Chok'em Flat to Vaughan ... Burnt Creek lOO Goldsbrough Butcher's and Kangaroo hills 90 395 German and Mopoke gullies 84 Inkerman 75 Moliagul, &c. Loddon: V aughan to Pennyweight 80 140 Table Hill and Tarilta ... 110 Bealiba 145 Murphy's Flat, &c .... Guildford hills 2UO 12 I>oddon: Vaughan to Holcombe 90 Jones' Creek, &c. 105 Tarnagulla Nuggety Hill and Irishtown JJO 160 Green and Sailors' gullies 58 ')"_, I Half-way, &c. (;6 Llanelly, &c. Pickpocket and Hard hills ... :\0 Strnthloddon and Hit-or-Miss 70 Wild·dog, &c. 50 I Mosquito Flat 11 ,-- 1,·122 35 Hepburn Division: 1,574 Dry Diggings Section 50 Inglewood Divisions; 11 Y andoit Section I 9ii Inglewood 365 :I Boots Gully Section 48 Berlin Diggings llO !I Italian Gully Section 20 Kingower 80 !I Spring Creek Section 70 Mcintyre's 40 I 11. Doctor's Gully Section 20 Synnott's 45 . I Brandy-hot Section 4:! Burke's Flat 90 Deep Creek Section 86 I Carried forward Carried forward 2,:343 1~11' il r NUMBER and DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields, &c.-continued. I Same of rrace, 1'otal. Name o! .Place. No. Total. -·~--~·~--~"--··-· ----. ---·~----·----·- ~~_:-__! Brought forward ...... 2,343 Brought forward ...... 470 Hepburn Division-continued. Pleasant Creek Division: Blind Creek Section ...... 150 Silver Shilling ...... 12 Stony Creek Section ...... 46 Deep Lend, Forty-foot, & Welshman's Flat 392 Wombat Creek Section ...... 74 Great Western ...... 90 D>wlesford Section ...... 248 Stawell ...... 665 Connel's Gully Section ...... 40 Seventy-foot ...... 20 --- 990 Germania ...... 16 Taradale and Kyncton Subdivision: Welcome ...... ! 6 T Nu:unER anJ DISTRIBUTION of MINERS on the Goldfields, &c.-continued. No. Total. Narnc of Plnce. No. Total. ~----~·----·-·-·--·- -- Brought forward 1,077 Brought forward 1,784 Jericho Division: Russell's Creek Division-continued. Columbia Reef (Buckley's Flat) 4 Dry Creek 8 Good Hope Creek ••• 2 Lower Jordan 61 Stony Creek 3 Upper Jordan 10 Bull Beef Creek l Red ,Jacket Creek ... 10 Western Bran eh . 6 Blue Jacket Creek ... 8 I 1-- 79 BB Creek 26 I Bendoc Subdivision: Prospecting and fossicking ... 13 Bendoc 15 lily of the Valley Co. 10 Delegate Uivcr 14 Aberfeldy Hiver ... 4 Bog and (luccnsborough li Star and Thomson .•• 6 Back Creek 40 Lochfyne Line 4 Prospecting 8 12 Aberfeldy Co. Bonang ... 6 I72 lOO Donnelly's Creek Division: Tarwin Subdivision: Donnelly's Creek .•. 64 Foster 58 Aberfeldy 46 -w aratah Bay 12 Fulton's Creek, &c. 10 Benison's Creek 3 120 Stringer's Creek Division: Traralgon Subdi>•ision: Walhalla (Cohen's Reef) 313 Morwell 2 Aberfeldy River .•. 20 Naracan Creek 6 Thomson River 51l Traralgon Creek ... 3 Stringer's Creek 8 }'!inn's Creek 2 Happy-go-lucky I Tyer's Hiver and Creek 5 Fulton's Creek 4 Merrimun's Creek ... 4 W calth of Nations Heef 2 Moe 4 Tubal Cain 2 La Trobe 4 New Venture 2 Eaglehawk Creek ... 4 I Mudies 2 Couchman's Creek 18 Hanges (prospecting) 10 Drouin 8 :Eureka I Sunny Creek 6 415 Tarwin 2 Russell's Creek Division: Bcnnett's Creek Crossover Creek 9 Hed Hill ... Tanjil, &c. 31 78 Hussell's Creek 11 Hawthorn Creek 8 Total for Gippsland District ••• Wombat Creek 4 2 Carried forward GRAND TOTAL 38,I36 Office of Mines, THOS. COUCHMAN, Melbourne, 21st January 1882. Secretary for Mines. MINING SURV ~YORS AND liEGISTRARS' REPORTS. BALLARAT MINING DISTRICT. CENTRAL DIVISION. Mr. David Ckristy, Mining Registrar. In reviewing my statistical returns for the last quarter, it is gratifying to observe that the progress of mining has increased considerably. The Band of Hope and Albion Consols, under the able management of Mr. R. M. Serjeant, is yielding handsome returns. The Young Band Extended Company, in their workings, have discovered a reef bearing north from the mundic vein, which was discovered by the Band of Hope and Albion Consols, yielding 15 dwts. per ton from 2,158 tons, and a continuation of the same will probably be found in the adjoining claims. Active operations are still being continued to the south of the Redan line of reef. In a future report I hope to be in a position to furnish encouraging returns, which may tend to establish the stability of this goldfield. In alluvial mining, I have to state that the City of Ballarat Company is still working with that energy which has characterised them for years past. l<'rom recent indications there is every likelihood of this mine becoming highly remunerative and of the shareholders being repaid the heavy outlay they have already incurred. Consumption of water by mining companies within the division during the quarter :-October, 35,Hl9,000 gallons; November, 35,918,000 gallons; December, 40,314,000 gallons; total, 111,421,000 gallons. Rate per 1,000 gallons :-1s. for boiler purpo8es, and 3d. for sluicing and erushing purposes. STATEMENT SHOWING THE QUANTITY OF ALLUVIAL GOLD OBTAINED BY COMPANIES WITHIN THE DIVISION DURING THE QUARTER. oz. dwt. gr. No. 3 Koh-i-noor 83 0 0 City of Ballarat ••• 269 9 0 Co-operative parties, including Chinese, approximately 1,100 0 0 1,452 9 0 DrviDENDS PAID J.'ROM QuARTZ MrNEs DuRING THE QL"ARTER. £ s. d. Band of Hope and Albion Consols Company 8,980 0 0 Brennan's Freehold Company 280 0 0 Temperance Company ... 940 0 0 New Koh-i-noor Company 1,200 0 0 Williams' Freehold Company 260 0 0 Black Hill Company 744 0 0 Wilson's Freehold Company 300 0 0 Young Band Extended Company 2,400 0 0 Band of Hope No. 4 Company ... 1,800 0 0 Band of Hope No. 2 Company ... 2,500 0 0 Band of Hope Quartz Company ••. 1,350 0 0 Smith's Freehold Company ... 1,400 0 0 Washington Company ...... 1,800 0 0 North Band and Albion Company 1,800 0 0 Total dividends £25,754 0 0 SOUTHERN DIVISION. JJir. George Perry, Mining Registrar. QUARTZ MINING. As anticipated in my last report, the returns for the past quarter show a marked improvement, which, on the whole, have well remunerated those employed at this branch of mining. The Little Hopewell Company's Tributers No. 1, at Staffordshire Reef, have done exceedingly well. The Tributers No. 2 have not done RO well as expected, in consequence of the lode not turning out as remunerative as the trial crushing promised. The Speedwell Tribute Company, having worked out their present levels, are making preparations to sink deeper. Charles Wilson and Son's mine is opening up well; consequently all the vacant ground between their claim and the Little Hopewell Company's claim has been taken up and applied for under lease by the Rising Star Company, to be registered under the No Liability Act. The venture is looked upon with favor, and, as the ground lies between two payable claims, very little doubt exists as to its success. 27 Kangaroo.-The William,' Ji'ancy Company's Trihuters have done well. The lode is 2'' feci wide, showing good gold throughout. The Long Gully Company, at Corindhap, will shortly commence the erection of their battery, tenders for same having been accepted. The Golden Tunnel Company, at Mount Misery, arc driving a tunnel for the Cockatoo Reef. They are in 145 feet, but expect to have to drive a further distance of lOO feet before striking the lode. ALLUVIAJ" McGill's Freehold Company, Rokewood, have erected their machinery; they u-c repc·: tee! to have bottomed on good nuggety gold, but, as they have only commenced ~n open ont, nothing detinitc as yet can be said as to the value of the mine. Grant and party and Turner and party, at Break-o'-Day, are reported tr. ktve reeently discovered some rich ground. No water is sold in this division. BUNINYONG DIVISION. Mr. Rohert 1ff. Harvey, Mining Surveyor and Registrar. QUARTZ MINING. Owing to two of the chief gold-producing mines having been engaged in progrc. , e works, the yteld of gold is considerably less this quarter than last. These mines are the Dezosa, where 11 new battery of eight stamps has been erected, but only one crushing obtained for ten days' work, 11nd the mine of 'V ebb Brothers, who have been :sinking, and have had only three weeks' cru~hing. Another new battery is in course of erection at the South Imperial mine, and the Imperial Company are erecting new machinery to work the northern portion of their ground. The Llewcllyn miue has recommenced crushing; they have had 160 tons crushed for about 5! dwts. to the ton. The stone at the One and All Co. obtained by the tributers gives under 2 dwts. per ton, which barely pays wages; 2 dwts. would pay crushing expenses and wages, as the stone is abundant and easily obtained, being run direct by means of a tunnel to the battery. Several of the mines on the Hard Hills are being steadily prospected, and in all probability will shortly be on payable stone. On the Kitty's line prospecting is being carried on, and one party has cut some good narrow leaders. The Lady Mary, at Cobbler'~, have not yet got anything payable ; they continue driving along the line of reef, in which they see a little gold. ALLUVIAL MINING. Nothing new during the quarter. Water up to the present time has been plentiful, but generally this branch of mining is decreasing. SMYTHESDALE DIVISION. 1lfr. John Lynch, Mining Surveyor and Registrar. The returns of gold show a considerable falling-off during the quarter. This is mainly due to the stoppage of work in the portions of the Reform mine worked from Nos. 2 and 3 shafts. It is stated that the company purpose sinking a now shaft near the site of No. 1 shaft. Of the other mines at Haddon the Racecourse is the best, the yields being regular as well as satisfactory. The Haddon Valley Company have not struck anything of a paying chameter on t.he Trunk lead, which continues poor. The Haddon V alley Consols and the Uacecourse Extended companies have not yet made much progress in the work of pro~pecting. :Mr. Fox, on Crown lands, and several Chinese parties within the Nintiugbool Estate, are getting large quantities of gold in runs moderately shallow and of wide extent. In view of these facts, there is reason to ho1)e that Haddon will long maiutniu its reputation as a safe and profitable goldfield. Further on, in a southerly direction, as f[u· a~ Cape Clear, there is but little doing, and nothing that calls for special mention. Brown'~, Scarsdale, Smythe:>dnle, and Piggoreet, are all but abm1doned, so far as deep miniug is concerned. At Happy Valley mattcn.; ure not much better. The Wavcrly mine, which has been in existence for twenty years, and tl1e ~ole surviving representative of deep alluvial mining in that locality, has recently ceased from being worked. The Argyle mine at Linton's eontinues to he steadily worked, and this is the only company operating on the deep lead" there. The Lilly Company, at Carngham, are removing and re-erecting machinery, and the Caledonia have not yet bottomed. Throughout the district there are sevm·al small parties working shallow ground, but their gains seldom cover more than a poor and precarious subsistence. I11 quartz mining we have had no advances during the quarter, but there are indications that matters will improve CRESWICK DIVISION. Jffr. J. Stevenson, .Mining Registrar. . I ~ave the honor to report that .mining spec~lation. ~till continu~s. Amongst the progressive alluvml mmes there are now teu lmnd dr1lls at work, m addttwn to the dmmond drill, endeavouriug to prove the course of the leads and deeper ground. There is an average increase of over 12 grs. per ton in the quartz crushed ; a smaller quantity of quartz has, however, been treated. The Spring Hill Consols and Cooper's Freehold Company have been added to the list of gold producing mines, and there has been an increase of alluvial gold of over 3,000 ozs. during the quarter. Tbe following are the yields and dividends from the principal mines:- NAME OF CmrPANY, YIELDS. DIVIDESDS AND ROYAt:rr. oz. rtwt. gr. £ s. d. Ristori Freehold Company, Spring Hill 4,534 3 0 9,797 6 6 Dyke's Freehold Company, Spring Hill 1,428 5 0 1,789 4 0 Madame Berry Company, Spring Hill ... 4,287 2 0 9,868 5 6 Lone Hand Company, Spring Hill 3,673 ll 12 6,832 13 9 Loughlin Company, Spring Hill 3,115 5 0 4,257 15 0 Cooper's Freehold Company, Spring Hill 161 19 12 49 17 0 Spring Hill Consols, Spring Hill 102 0 0 24 11 3 New .Australasian Company, Red Streak 3,853 15 0 7,500 0 0 South Clunes Company, Clnnes 1,000 0 0 .Approximate from small claims 1,500 0 0 22,656 1 0 £41,119 13 0 ------The quantity of water us ea during the quarter was 92,559,000 gallons, at 1id. per 1,ooo gallons. GORDON SUBDIVISION. lllr. Tlwmas Cowan, Jlfining Surveyor and Registrar. Black Horse tT nited Compnny, Egerton.-There is nothing of nny con:'!equence to report regarding this company during the past quarter. The stone at present being operated on is of poor quality, and is obtained from various depths ranging from 400 to 900 feet, but the mine being worked with good judgment and great economy, lms enabled the management to make dividends out of small returns, the yield being only 1,221 ozs. 7 dwts. of gold from 8,116 tons of stone, or an average of 3 dwts. 0·23 grs. per ton. Prospect:ing operations have been carried on in the No. 8 level, north of the No. 1 shaft, but so far nothing payable has been discovered. One hundred and thirty-two men have been employed, and dividends to the value of 2s. per share, amounting to £1,000, have been paid during the quarter. The Egerton Compnny, Limited, Egerton.-This company have been mising stone from their quarry shaft only during the quarter, from depths ranging from 280 to 810 feet. During that time 9,451 tons have been crushed, which yielded 3,846 ozs. 17 dwts. 22 grs. of gold, or an average of 8 dwts. 3·37 grs. per ton. Dividends amounting to 12s. per share, equal to £15,000, have been paid during the quarter. Prospecting operations have also been carried on at the Sister Rose shaft, at a depth of 930 feet, but as yet nothing of a payable mtture has been discovered. Two hundred and fifty men have been employed. Egerton, Discovery Company.-This company have been prospecting their ground during the quarter at a depth of 220 feet on a lode averaging 6 feet in width. .A trial crushing of 100 tons was taken from the lode, which yielded only 2 ozs. 14 dwts. of gold, or an average of 12·96 grs. per ton. The company ceased opemtions on the 19th December, but intend to resume work with the view of testing the lode at a greater depth. Twelve men were employed up to the date of suspending operations. Nineteen Chinese are still engaged in washing the tailings from the Egerton and Black Horse companies' batteries, and, as I have been informed, have obtained about 55 ozs. of gold. The Parker's United Company, Gordon.-This company ha,"c continued regular crushings from depths varying from 350 feet to 625 feet. Operations have been carried on at the 700-foot level, with the view of cutting the stone which has been worked at the 625-foot level, but progress is slow in consequence of the hard and wet nature of the ground. Progressive works hnve also been carried on to the north in a level 500 feet in depth, in which a strong lode has been discovered. No trial crushing has yet been made, but the estimated value of the stone is from 6 to 7 dwts. per ton; 3,080 tons of stone have been crushed during the quarter, yielding 2,285 ozs. of gold, ot· an average of 14 dwts. 20·10 grs. per ton, and 201 ozs. 15 dwts. were obtained from treating pyrites, at works recently erected. One hundred and fifty men have been employed. Dividends amounting to 3s. 6d. per share, equal to £3,500, have been paid during the quarter. Parker's United No. 1, Quartz Mining Company.-This company have been engaged during the quarter in the erection of machinery and poppet-heads, which arc now nearly completed. Eight men, on an average, have been employed during the quarter. Parker's No. 2 Company.-No work has been done by this company during the quarter. North Parker's Company.-This company have been engaged in prospecting their ground at the 200-foot level, but not having met with anything of a payable nature have discontinued operations. They intend, however, sinking another shaft at the northern end of the leased ground. Ten men are employed. Parker's Company.-This company continued prospecting operations during the quarter until the 8th December at a depth of 160 feet. .A trial crushing of 32 tons was taken from a lode lliscovered at this depth, which yielded only 3 ozs. 8 dwts. of gold, or an average of 2 dwts. 3 grs. per ton. In consequence of the poorness of this yield the company ceased operations, but it is stated they intend sinking another shaft on a different portion of their lease. Fifteen men were employed up to the date of suspending operations. Parker's :Freehold Company.-Sinee last quarter this company have continued to sink their shaft, which has now reached a depth of 555 feet. From the time of passing the 450-foot level, several quartz leaders, varying in thickness from 2 to 8 inches, have been met with, which are said to be gold-bearing to the extent of 6 dwts. to the ton. The company consider they have only 100 feet to sink before meeting a lode worked by the adjoining company (Parker's United Company). It is presumed the water level will be met with at this depth, and preparations me now being made for the purchase of a 20 horse-power pumping engine, fitted with "·watson's patent pump." Fourteen men have been employed.· 29 Purkds Extended Company.-During the quarter this company have been engaged in prospecting their ground at the lOO and 210 foot levels. A lode averaging 2 feet in thickness has been discovered at these depths, but no stone has as yet been cruHhcd. The quartz obtained from this lode has been stacker! on the surface, and should the result from further prospecting the mine be deemed satiafact.ory, the company intend erecting machinery. Seventeen men arc employed. Shamrock Company.-This company have been prospecting their ground at a depth of 320 feet along the course of a lode which is stated to be 3 feet in thickness, but no trial crushing has yet been made, although gold is stated to be visible in the stone. Twelve men are employed. Nine Chinese arc still washing the tailing.'> from the Parker's United Company's battery, and, as I have been informed, have obtained about 22 ozs. of gold. The Parker's United )liners Company, ~ioorabool \Vest.-No work has been done by this company during the quarter. The Great Northern Parker's Company, Korweinguboora.-No mining work has been done by this company during the quarter, but six men have l.Jeen engaged in the erection of a five-head battery, which is now nearly completed. An engine of lO horse-power has also been purchased, but has not yet been erected. ALLUVIAL )liNING. Kerrit Bareet Company, Gordon.-This company during the quarter have continued prospecting operations, and have discovered a gutter which is stated to be 26 feet in width at a depth of 120 feet. A maehinefull of washdirt was washed, which yielded only 12 dwts. of gold. The company are still engaged in prospecting the gutter. Thirteen men are employed. LAL LAL IRONWORKS, I~AL LAL. This company have been engaged regularly during the quarter in raising and smelting iron ore and in manufacturing all classes of foundry work. Eighty men have been employed. STEIGLITZ SUBDIVISION• .Mr. D. lrfurphy, .Mining Registrar. There has been a slight improvement in quartz mining in this subdivision during the quarter just past. At Steiglitz there are still hopes that the good old times of the past will yet be revived, and strenuous exertions are being made to float two or three companies to again try some of the old ground that proved rich many years ago, but which was never properly worked. At Elaine some small trial crushings from the tops of the reefs have given splendid returns : a few of them reaching as high as 5 ozs. to the ton, and one crushing of two tons yielded 15 ozs. The amount of quartz crushed during the quarter il:l not as great as that for the preceding one, but the average yield is a good deal higher than usual. There is very little doing in alluvial mining, although water has been very plentiful all through the subdivision. The alluvial and quartz diggings at C:trgarie are now entirely abandoned. BLACKWOOD DIVISION AND BLUE MOUNTAIN SOUTH SUBDIVISION. Mr. John F. Ilansen, )}fining Registrar. QUARTZ :\ilNING. A slight increase in the total quantity of gold from quartz over that of the previous quarter has been obtained, owing to a larger number of tons having been crushed. The avemge yield of gold per ton, however, has been a few grains less. Some of the companies lately formed are more or less energetically carrying on progressive works. The Simmons Reef Amalgamated :Mining Company have finished the erection of their wintliug and pumping engine. The lifts have been fixe ALLI:'VIAL MINING. No new ground has been opened up. The majority of the miners :uc engaged in overhauling ground that has been previously worked. The Chinese population is gradually decrcasin.,., about twenty of them having recently left, mostly for Tasmania. "' No miners are employed mining for metals or minerals other than gold. The average quantity of water sold was four sluice-heads, at about 5s. per week per sluice-head. The rainfall during the quarter has been-Oetober, 4·94 ; November, 5·26 ; Decemller, 3·55 ; total, 13·7 5 inches. BALLAN SUBDIVISION. 1llr. John Ji~ Hansen, ~tlining Registrar. Mining is at a complete standstill in this subdivision. BEECHWOR TH MINING DISTRICT. BEECHWORTH DIVISION. Mr. A. Alderdice, Mining Registrar. The past quarter has been a most unfavorable one for sluicers, little or no rain having fallen during that period, and in consequence the springs are rapidly drying up. Only one or two of the sluieing claims have been able to wash down, and these lm ve not shown satisfi\ctory results for the time occupied in working them. Tlw sluieers cannot expect to hnve sufficient water to carry on full work before May, as the dryest quarter of the year has yet to come. The following are a few of the principal returns for the quarter, viz. :-Bolam and Co., Three-mile Creek, 80 ozs.; Ah Sam and Co., Three-mile Creek, 794 ozs. (this for about eighteen month's work); Phillips and Co., Nine-mile, 270 ozs.; Trezise and Co., Stony Creek, 90 ozs. There has been a little activity in quartz mining during the quarter, principally at Stony Creek, where several good returns have been obtained, notably those from the reefs owned by Messrs. Trezise and Co., Croft and Co., and Bryce and Co. The alluvial mining at Stony Creek is at a standstill in consequence of want of water. The miners at work are stacking the washdirt until the first rainfall. The lead running through Hardisty's paddock is still pt·oving more than payable. Elmer and Co. have been compelled to abandon their claim on the Deep Lead, Bowman's Forest, in cotHequence of their not being able to cope with the water. They speak confidently of the ground being payable, provided powerful machinery Wet'J put on the ground. The Prospecting Quartz Company, Beechworth, have aba11doned their reef (the Rose) as not being paynble. The machinery has been purchD-;etl by the Hon .•J. A. Wallace, who doubtless will not remove it from its present site until he has thoroughiy tested the country in the vieinity of the reef. The Reform H.eef, MyrtleforJ, ha~ been let on tribute for the purpose of sinking the shaft and further prospecting the reef, which hns not been paying well for some time past. The people of Ehlorado have not yet given up the i(lea of re-opening the deep lead there. At the present price of tin in England nuy of the old claims would pay well to work for the black sand alone. It i~ a great pity that the owners allowed the machinery to be I'emoved fl·om all the claims, as it is certain, had it been left, one claim at least, giving employment to say lOO men, would have been at work now. Y ACKANDANDAH NORTH SUBDIVISION. Mr. J. C. Forster, Mining Registrar. There is no mining as yet in thiH subdivision. YACKANDANDAH SOUTH SUBDIVISION. Mr. J. Smart, Mining Registrar. In alluvial mining, owing to the dry season, the miners do not work more than half time, as a rule, and many have temporarily ;;uspended working their claims in order to get employment at t.he harvest. ln quartz mining I have to report that the average yield of gold per ton is in excess of the return £or the last quarter, IJ.nd would have been still larger only for the accidental breaking of the shaft of the crushing machinery of the PriJe and Stringer Mill when crushing for the Caledonian Company. Seveml of the almndoned reefs on Twist's Creek have been taken up with every prospect of success. The Wild Horse Quartz Mining Company have now started their new hattery, and have crushed a quantity of mullock that was lying on the :mrface. \Vork will be resumed after New Yca,r's Day, when some fair returns may be nnticipated. 31 INDIGO DIVISION. Mr. R. Arrowsmith, Mining Surveyor and Registrar. Quartz mining cannot be said to have improved in this division during the quarter, aml matters are likely to remain in the same condition until capital is invested to test the reefs at far greater depths than have yet been reached. It is to be regretted th~tt the R. Burns Prospecting Company, formed for this purpose, has not met with that support at the hands of the public commensurate with the value and importance of the attempt. At present work ha5 hcen SUHpended pending other arrange~ents. . Alluvial mining, on the other hand, is improving. The Chiltern Valley Gold Mmes Company w11l shortly commence blocking out. The Indigo Stockyard Company have been only moderately successful, although a large amount of driving has been done. They are still uncertain as to the whereabouts of the old Indigo lead, and are putting down a bore on its :~npposed course...... Both the Star and l:<'ederal Standard compames have commenced to place their plants m position. A new company, to he named the Hutherglcn and Murray Valley G. M. Co., have taken up a large extent of very promisino- country on the course of the Clydesdale and other leads north-east of Rutherglen. At no time has the general prospects of the alluvial mining interests been more promising than at present. A very large amount of capital has been introduced, together with m?st efficient machinery, which, under the direction of skilled and intelligent managers, can scarcely fatl to fully develop the resources of this undoubtedly important mining division. WANDILIGONG SUBDIVISION . .t.l1r. T. C. Kaigltin, Mining Registrar. The past quarter has been marked by much apparent dullness as regard~ the development of new payable mines, in fact mining matters in the subdivision may he said to he unprecedentedly quiet, notwithstanding that the yield of gold has been much in exce~s of the amount :mtieipated, even by the most sanguine. The returns from quartz reef.s give an increa.se of over 400 oz~. as compared with the previous quarter, while the average yield per ton from the stuff crushed alw show,; an improvement, being slightly over 1 oz. per ton as against 16 dwts. for the previous quarter. Another crushing plant has been removed from the subdivision during the quarter, the Houomblc ,J. A. VV allace having taken the Prince Arthnr 1\:Iill down for the pmpose of re-erecting it on one of his mines in another portion of the colony. The Old Mongrel crashing plant, owned by Messrs. D. :lVIunro and Co., which has lain unused in the township fot· many year~, has at length been taken away. The Cornish Company has at length been favored with some payable stone. The Myrtle Company also have discovered a shoot of stone that, with their nppliances for raising and crushing, will give a good return. Some very good stone has been crnshcd from the Try Again nml a reef adjoining named the "Capes," which has just passed into Mr. Wallaee'" hands, and from which rich yields have been obtained. No record of any sales of water. BUCKLAND DIVISION. Mr. B. K. Smart, 111ining Registrar. As is usual for the last quarter of the year, there iH an increase in the amount of golll wou, the returns from the alluvial being very satisfactory; but, a~ European miners here, as a body, ignore sluicing, the bulk of this gold goes to the Chinese, about twenty of whom have lately departed from here for the land of their birth, taking with them from one to four hundred pounds t~tcrling each. In my last report, the description of Henderson Bros.' new crushing mill, at Porcpnnkah, should have read thus :-The waterwhcel is overshot and it;; size 20 feet in diameter, with 4 feet breast, and the spur-wheel is 12 feet in diameter, with an 8-inch face, &e. The yield of gold from Harrietville would luwe been far heavier had it not bec·H that the two large companies, known as the Tiddle-de-addle-de and tho .Jackass, have heen engaged drivin"i ad its to strike their reefs some distance below their present workingR. Some little slir was created a short t.ime ngo by the discovery, by a well-known prospector, of two reefs in ihe neighborhood of Bowstead',; hostelry, on the summit of the Alpine range, and that these new finds were not mere myths, there is ample evilleuee in the fact that he parted with the most of his interest therein for a cash consideration to parties who personally inspected the reefs l•eforo purchasing; but since then I have heard nothing more about them. The alluvial Loft Branch, at Harrictville, nlluded to in my last report as a place where coarse gold, in the shape of small nuggets, was to be obtaine ALEXANDRA SVBDIVISION• .IIfr. A. B. Ainswort!t, 1~Jining Surveyor and Registrar. The feature of the quarter is the occupation of certain lease blocks at Buxtons for tin mining. Valuable stream tin, discovered some years ago by Hitchcock, Starling, and Guy, in one of the tributaries of Bishop's Creek, led to this movement. The extent of the deposit has not yet been fully ascertained, and it is hoped that the parent lode may be discovered, when something permanent will doubtless result. The results of the crushings of the Vnlcan Company form the bulk of the quartz gold obtained-that company alone having crushed from the Lucky line. It is with regret that I find the Hope of Richmond Company have, after patient and apparently exhaustive prospecting of their ground, determined to wind up their affairs at Durham Gully. The company obtained gold in patches in a number of places, but nothing of permanent value or payable. The Multnm in l.,arvo patch yielded a nice little result to the discoverer, J. A. Palmateer. The Marchioness of Normanby Company's new shaft is down 80 feet. The Record Company have suspended work for a time. The Secundus Company are driving and prospecting some upper levels, pending future arrangements for working the block. At the Accident Reef, at Spring Creek, work has been stopped for the present. Little pocket patches are found now and again at Durham Gully, but nothing of permanent value. The alluvial mines have obtained but poor results during the past quarter. No water has been sold. Three miners have been prospecting for tin at Buxton. DRY CREEK SUBDIVISION. Mr. J. Pemberton, Mining Registrar. lVIr. Meade has completed his lower-level tunnel in the U nee claim, and is now raising good stone. There is nothing of interest to report upon, as mining matters have been very quiet during the past quarter. BENALLA SUBDIVISION• .ftlr. C. H. Wlleatland, ftlining Registrar. During the quarter just past progressive work has been done in the quartz claims near Benalla, as will be seen from particulars in another part of this report. The Shannon Company, from their two erushings of 20tons and 80 tons, obtained 65 ozs. 0 dwts. 12 grs., and 155 ozs. 17 dwts. 12 grs. respectively. The Golden Crown Company, from a special crushing of 2~ tons, realized the handRome return of 47 ozs. 4 dwts. The Golden Queen and Little Wonder claims have also obtained good results. The Lion Company's claim aml crushing plant are, I understand, in the market for sale, as is also the crushing machinery of the Onward Company at Gowangardie. As regards alluvial matters, the New Temora Company are steadily developing their mine, and obtaining encouraging prospects. The erection of the Lady Ethel Company's machinery is not yet com plete, but in about two months it is expected that the work of sinking will be resumed and the mine be opened out. Large areas of country have been taken up under the extended areas bye-law. One company has secured one hundred men's ground, commencing about three miles south-west of Benalla ; two other parties have obtained forty men's ground each in Goomalibee, and another party thirty men's ground in the parish of Warrenbayne. In the Gowangardie district very little is going on. The Good Hope and Good Hope Extended companies, nea1· Violet Town, have applied for two leases, and, if they are granted, intend to carry on active operations. The formation, so far as has been ascertained, comprises granite-dyke, about 8 feet wide ; but sufficient work has not yet been done to prove the ground. From an experimental crushing of 4 tons. 16 cwt. a raturn of 7 dwts. to the ton was obtained. At Goomalibee nothing has yet been done to require mention. GA:FFNEY'S CREEK SUBDIVISION. Jlfr. A. B. Ainswortlt, .ftfining Surt•eyor and Registrar. I have nothing cheering to report of this subdivision, the average yield having been unus~ally small A large number of claims are idle, and likely to remain so during the dry season. The Transit of Venus Company are making good progress towards the erection of machinery. The veins in the company's workings are looking well and showing gold. The returns from alluvial mines are barely up to last quarter's results. No water has been sold. Gold only is being mined for. WOOD'S POINT SVBDIVISION. Mr. A. B. Ainsworth, Mining Surveyor and Registrar. I have nothing new to report respecting mining in this subdivision. As apprehended last quarter the yields for the quarter ending with the year 1881 are very .small. Lasting imJ::lrovem~n~ ~an o~ly ?a brought about by the investment of capital for further prospectmg. At present this subdiVISIOn; With 1ts great extent of auriferous country, and its numerous half-tried or wholly unprospected lodes, IS almost entirely overlooked. The alluvial con~inues to yield low wages on the average, with here and there a handsome return to individual miners. No water hns been sold. No mining save for gold only. 33 BIG RIVER SUBDIVISION. Mr. A. B. Ainsworth, Mining Surveyor and Registrar. In regard to this subdivision I have only to report that the old Antimony Reef, Specimen Creek, has been taken up by a Melbourne company, who propo~e to prospect it and the country it traverse~. T~e only claims working are the old Londonderry 1md Luck's All; the latter had a very payable crushmg tins quarter. No water has been sold. The alluvial yields are up to tll6 average of small wages. Gold only is mined for at present. MITTA MITTA SOCTH SUBDIVISION. Mrs. Mary Tlwmpson, .itlining Registrar. I am very glad to be in a position to report that much general improvement has taken place in quartz mining during the quarter. The discovery of a reef near the junction of the Dark and Mitta Mitta rivers, about thirty miles up the latter river from the :Mitta M.itta village, has raised the hopes of the miners. A trial crushing of stone, which had to be carried on pack-horses a distance of thirty miles, yielded at the rate of about 22 ozs. to the ton. The stone was taken from a vein or leader of about 10 inches wide, running from the side of the reef; the other portion of the reef, which is about 3 feet wide,. is expected to yield about 3 ozs. to the ton. There is no change of importance in alluvial mining. MITTA MITTA NORTH SUBDIVISION. Mr. J. C. Forster, Mining Registrar. It will be seen by the returns that the quantity of gold obtained at Granya during the past quarter was about the same as that obtained during the previous quarter. The averages were respectively 13 dwts. 19 grs. and 12 dwts. 11 grs. The principal miner's right claims have been bought, and are being formed into companies. Messrs. Miller and Co. crushed 5 tons of quartz from the Hidden Treasure reef, which gave the handsome return of 40 ozs. 16 dwts., or an average of 8 ozs. 3 dwts. 4 grs., which, it is stated, is the result of five weeks' work. BETHANGA SlJBDIVISION. Mr. J. C. Forster, Mining Registrar. There is nothing fresh to report this quarter, with the exception of the floating of Messrs. Harris and Hollow's company, with 75,000 shares at 20s. each, which will be the means of introducing increased capital. The Hon. J. A. Wallace and Co., on No. 2 north of the prospecting claim, have commenced a tunnel, which has already been driven 70 feet, and it is expected the lode will be struck at about another 50 feet. Machinery is being erected for the purpose of smelting the ore. Messrs. Harris and Hollow are treating their ore by what is known as the wet process, extracting therefrom the gold, silver, and copper. JAl\UESON SUBDIVISION. Mr. 1V. H. Edwards, JJJining Registrar. The Gleeson's Lease Company have finished sinking their shaft, put down to strike Clancy's Reef. The directors have decided to drive east, when it is considered that from 7 to 10 feet of driving will strike the lode. The Venture Company are still prospecting. The origin~tl contract for driving the tunnel under the old workings has been fini::;hed, but nothing has yet been struck of a payable nature; it is intended to continue driving a further distance of 50 feet. The Extended Sailor Bill's Company, Mack's Creek, having finished the extension of their tunnel and struck the reef, which is about 8 feet wide, intend to take out stone for crushing. Gold has been seen in the stone, and from appearances there is every possibility of the reef becoming richer. However, 5 dwt. ;;tone will pay the shareholders dividends, as arrangements have been made with the owner of the Mack's Creek crushing machine to crush at a very nominal figure; in fact, it has been decided to allow the company to crush a few hundred tons at Is. per ton, the company to. put and keep the machine in order. SANDHURST MINING DISTRICT. SANDHURST DIVISION. ~~Jr. N. G. Stephens, Mining Registrar. Mining operations during the past quarter have been attended with very payable results, and at nu period perhap~ has there been shown better evidence of confidence in the stability of our quartz reefs. A considerable outlay has been made in the purchase and erection of more powerful machinery for pumping and hauling, and in patent roek-borers, which are fast coming into general use. The calls have of late been very heavy, but have been well responded to, except in cases where thL~ ground was taken up on outside lines for spceulative purposes. There is little doubt that a large portion of the workings now being carried on in the mines i, attributable in a measure to the rock-borers, which accomplish work in much less time than ordinm·;· hand labor. c 34 The subjoined statement will show from what mines the prineipal portion of this quarter's yield of .gold was obtained. The quantity of water sold during the past quarter for mining purposes was 117,000,000 gallons. Additional particulars respecting some of the quartz, &c., crushed during the past quarter (included in the tables prefixed to these reports) :- Depth at which Where Quartz, &c., ! Name of Company. were obtained. Quartz was Width of Reef, &c. obtained. ·~------~---- feet New-chum Consol!dated New-chum Reef .• 2,398 6 800ft. 340 2 tt. Erecting new winding engine> two 18 in. cylinders. One Mltchell's and one National drill. Shalt, 820ft. Still sinking. North Shenandooh New-chum Reef . • 543 662 16 0 : 4 D•90 890ft. 100 From 2 to 4 ft. N ormanby rock-drill I in use. Garihaldi.. New-chum Reef • • 1,305 1,406 8 0 : 1 1 13•29 620 to 660ft. 150 From 1ft. to 4ft. Two National rock· drills in use. Ellesmere New-chum Reef • • 1,073 983 !3 0 I 0 18 8 ·02 663 and 140 ft. 3 ft.-Two ~ational drills in use. Shaft, 719 ft. Shenandoah Kew-chum Reef •• 1,118 844 11 0 '0 15 2•59 890ft. lOO From 9ft. to 4ft. Three Normanby drills, Shaft, 965 ft., sinking. North Old-chum New-chum Reef .. 260 187 17 6 0 H 10·82 New-chum United New-chum Reef , • 8ll 648 5 0 0 13 12•48 6GO to 850 ft. 2 !t. Two National drills. Shaft, 890ft. «Craven's New Chum New-chum Reef .. 82 48 0 0 11 17'26 700 ft. lOO About 9 ft. Two National drills. Shalt, 730 feet. Old-chum New-chumRecf .. 761 314 4 0 0 6'18 300, 500, and 1,037 ft. oo From 3 in to 12 ft. Three National drills. Shaft, 1,117 ft. New·chum and Victoria New-chum Reef •. 3,960 824 6 0 0 3'91 Surface to 1,148 ft. From 1 in. to 3 ft. Shaft, to 42 ft. Sinking. Garden Gully United Garden Gully Reef 4,462 6,296 16 0 1 8 5•37 Cornish United .. Garden Gully Reef 283 179 18 0 0 12 17•13 408, 868, and 900 ft. .. ) E'rorn 1ft. to 5ft. -Unity Garden Gully Reef 560 240 18 6 0 8 14•49 300 to 840 tt. HiO From 6 in. to 12ft. Shaft, 1,038 ft. Sin kig~ -Great Southern .. Garden Gully Reef 3,1172 748 0 0 0 4 4'51 250ft. loo 15 It. Six Sational drills. Shaft, 500ft. Johnson's Reef Extended Johnson's Reef 80 214 2 12 2 13 12•75 Princess Dagmar Johnson's Reef 847 868 19 0 1 0 12•43 600ft. Avernge,l2 ft. Three National drills. Shaft, 600ft. United Jobnson's Johnson's lteef 290 IRO 16 15 0 12 11'30 340ft. 150 V cry slnall spurs. Johuson's Reef G. M, Johnson's Ueef 3,405 1,657 2 o 0 9 11•6 100 to 600ft. 3 in. to 3 ft. Chiefly spurs. Three National drills. Shaft,730ft.,slnklng • .Confidence Extended J ohnson's Reef 369 178 0 15 0 9 15·5R 400ft. 6 ft. Shaft, 685 ft. 1Iercules and Energetic Victoria Reef 3,239 2,296 17 0 o 14 4•37 550 to 600ft. Various. From 30ft. to spurs of a few inches. Shaft, 1,340 ft. Struck good payahle reef at 600ft. ·victoria Reef G. llf. Victoria Reef 3,257 834 l4 o 0 5 3·01 300 to 1,160 ft. From 1 ft. to 28 ft. Shaft, 1,180 lt. "Victoria Reef Q. M. Victoria Reef 737 143 11 14 0 3 21•51 50ft. 4ft. Sbaft,1,330. ft. ··victoria Consols Victoria 1\eef 1,927 255 4 0 0 2 15•56 Shaft, l,Olllft. Preparing machinery to use Patent drills. ·Duchess of Edinburgh •• Devonshh'e Reef •• 2,013 854 8 3 0 8 Jl•73 4ji() to 510ft. lOO Sp11rs. Shaft, 520 ft. Ellen borough St. Muugo and De 3,7SO 2,14! 19 6 0 ll 10•17 640ft. so 35ft. Shaft, 640 lt. About to erect vonshire rC'efs rock·drllls. EuatwOQd's St. Mungo Reef 2,966 1,023 0 0 6 21•581: 640ft. 35ft. Worked from Ellcnborougll Co's., shaft. Own shaft, 400 ft. Hustler's Reef Hustler's Reef 1,1)18 694 0 0 9 3•4D 50 to 400ft. 6 in. to aft. Two National roek·drllls. Shalt, 1,050 ft. United Hustler's and Hustler's R..,f 2,151 1,190 10 12 o 11 1•661150 to 370ft. About 3 ft ., at top to 40ft. at bott.om. Two Red an lOO Notional drills. Shaft, 750 lt. ,·United J>erseverance •• Perseverance Reef 126 56 17 12 o 9 o·GG 150 to 300ft. •• 1~0 About 10 in. Frederick the Great Tri· Freder!ck the Great 3,844 1,150 11 0 0 5 23 •66 Surbce to 580 ft... 150 l'rom 1 ft. to 40ft. Shaft, 600 lt. bute Ueef Blrd's Reef Birrt's Reef 189 146 11 o 1 o 15 12·05 I 2oJ ft. 50 From 2 ft. to 10ft. Shaft, 540ft. Sinking. New Moon llfoon Reef .• 480 365 6 18 0 15 o·82 I Surface to 300ft... 110 Spurs, 3 in. to 2ft. Shaft, 48~ ft. Sinking~ Grent Britain Alfred Reef 271 102 13 5 0 7 13 •83 ! 250 to 450ft. GO From Gin. to 4ft. Two National drills. Shaft, 475 ft. North Hansel-Monday •• Carshalton Reel G65 160 15 12 o 4 20 •04 I 180 to 250 ft. lOO 4 ft. Shaft, 300 ft. · G. G. Consolidated Glasgow •• 1,459 656 18 0 0 ll 0·11 i 430ft. 90 ! Shaft, 535 ft. PYRITEs. Ellenborough St. Mungo and De· 32 123 5 9 3 17 1'03 vonshire reefs North Shenandoah KewChum Reef .. 7 1 15 20•57 Ellesmere No. l. • New Chum Reef .. 11 114 21'81 Shena.ndoah New Chum Reef .. 8 1 13 12 · Cornish United •• Garden Gully Reef Ill I 4 22'73 , United llustler's&Rcdan Hustlcr'sandUedan 36 1 0 4 reefs $oTE.-The above figures are not to be added to those in the tnbles prefixed to these reports, Tlley are already massed and included in the tables. KIL:M:ORE DIVISION. Mr. George Davis, .Mining Registrar. "There is not anything of importance to report upon for the past quarter, as at the principal mines the men are at present occupied in sinking shafts, putting in cross-cuts, and doing dead work. Some parcels of quartz were crushed during the quarter, but the returns were not of sufficient note to call forth any special remarks. A great. number of the companies have made calls to enable them to carry on work, which, of course, militates for a time against the prosperity of the division. The United Quartz Crushing Battery erected to test the claims on the Kaiser line will soon be in full ·operation, and, judging from the large quantities of stone in that locality and from prospects obtained, I have no doubt the mill will be fully employed, and, if so, ought to pay the shareholders. There is nothing to report in alluvial miniug, as only a few miners are engaged in that occupation. 35 HEATH COTE DIVISION AND W ARANGA SOUTH SUBDIVISION. Mr. E. C. Bell, ll'fining Registrar. The prospects from quartz mining in this uiYision are encouraging. The Alabama and Butler's Reef Company crnshed 145 tons recently, from which they obtained 253 ozs. 10 dwts of gold. A crushing from :Messrs. Hall and McKay's reef, south of the Butler's Company, of 12 tons of stone gave the handsome yield of 25 ozs. of gold. The reef, which was struck at a depth of 60 feet, is 18 inches in thickness. A crushing of 27 tons from Wiley's Heef, Mundy Gully, Tooborac, yielded 14 ozs. 17 dwts. of gold. A crushing from Devaney's Maori Tom Reef, at Major's Line, of 6 tons lately gave 17 ozs. of gold. This reef has averaged, so I am informed, 2 ozs. to the ton since May last. At CosterfielU, a reef has been struck by the Bombay Company, at the bottom of the 270-foot level, the atitimony being 6 inches thick. There is nothing to report of any consequence iu connection with alluvial mining. W ARANGA NORTH SUBDIVISION. Mr. Henry Hicks, 1}fining Regist1·ar. ALLl:VIAL MINING. But little apparent change has taken place in this class of mining, although the quantity of gold purchased by the banks shows a large increase. QuARTZ MIKL'IG. On reference to my return under this head, it will be perceived that, although there has been a falling-ofT in the number of tons crushed, the gross and average yields of gold have been largely in excess of the previous quarter. In all the cases enumerated, the gold has been obtained by men working their own elaims. The richness of S(•me of the claims worked has given an impetus to co-operative mining. Mining for metals other than gold.-The Black Cloud Gold and Antimony Company have not furuishell me with any report. MARYBOROUGH :MINING DISTRICT. 1\'IARYBOROUGH DIVISION. 1lfr. P. Virtue, jun., 11Iining Registrar. QUARTZ :MINING. Three prospecting, three co-operative, and three ordinary quartz claims were registered during the qnarter. These claims are situate at Blueher's, Havelock, Chinaman's, and Mosquito. Lange and party crushed 116 tons for 156 ozs. 3 cl wts., and Thomson and party crushed 116 tons for ll7 ozs. 6 clwts. from their claims near the reservoir. Mr. Stapleton, whose claim is on the Alexandra Reef, Mosquito, crushed 25 tons for 52 ozs. What appe:trs to be au excellent reef has lately been found on the Talbot road, close to the borough boundary. The prospectors have sunk a shaft 10 feet deep, and obtained quartz showing gold freely. I understand that several claims in the neighborhood have been marked out, but none of them have been registered as required by the bye-laws. ALLUVIAL l\IINING. The works in connection with the Duke Company are progressing satisfactorily, and the machinery is in good working order. The rise near No. 3 shaft, for the purpose of draining the ground, has been put up 26 feet. The contractors have completed the winding plant at No. 3 shaft, and the erection of puddling machines is also progressing. The Berry Refonn claim has l1een worked out and abandoned. The Carisbrook United Company are making good progress with their works. The Carisbrook Freehold Company have suspended operations at their No. 13 bore, at a depth of 120 feet, in red granite. They have now begun and arc making satisfactory progress with their No. 14 bore. The following is a statement of the gold obtained from the principal alluvial mines in this division during the quarter :- oz. dwt. bYl'• Duke, Timo1· 1,972 16 0 Goldbrook, Carisbrook 8;')5 10 0 Little Band of Hope, Timor 23 5 12 Argu~, Chinaman's Plat ... 45 () () ------Total 2,896 ll 12 Dividends. £ s. d. Goldbrook, Carisbrook 1,800 0 0 Little Band of Hope, Timor 58 0 0 ------Total £1,858 0 0 ------36 MAJORCA SUBDIVISION. Mr. P. Virtue, jun., Mining Registrar. The Perseverance Company's mine was hindered for a considerable time, during the quarter, through 'a breakage in the mad1inery. The prospects of the New Kong l\ieng Company are improving. A portion Qf the mine has been let on tribute. The rise at the north end broke into shallow ground at 96 feet from the lower level. The men are now driving through a ridge of reef between the two leads. The water in the mine of the Union Bank Company is gradually subsiding, and the shaft has been sunk to a ,depth of 160 feet. The following is a statement of the gold obtained from the principal alluvial mines in this sub -division during the quarter :- oz. dwt. gr. New Kong Meng, Majorca 835 9 0 Perseverance, Narrigal 160 0 0 Total 995 9 0 Dividend. Perseverance, N arrigal £417 18 0 AMHERST DIVISION. Mr. C. Smith, Mining Registrar. Alluvial mining in this division has been in a rather depressed state during the last quarter, on -account of the winding-up of the Rip V an Winkle and Union Extended companies; the plant of the former rompany, which cost £5,000 to erect, has already been removed; and the latter company have stopped work, having driven over 1,200 feet to the west without discovering any payable gold. There is some encouragement, however, to be derived from the fact that the South Greenock Company (situated about a mile south of Mt. Greenock) have struck payable gold, having obtained 4 oz. 9 dwts. off the bottom of the shaft ; gold was also struck in the bore previously put down, but mining operations are stopped for a time in order to erect more machinery. I have also to report that several miners along Kangaroo Flat have made very good wages lately by puddling. Quartz mining is rather at a standstill at present, on account of the principal mines not being yet A VOCA SUBDIVISION. Mr. D. 0' Leary, Mining Surveyor and Registrar. During the quarter both alluvial and quartz mining have been progressing favorably, except for a breakage, since repaired, in a portion of the machinery of the Golden Stream Company. The ·working Miners United, at Homebush, continue to occupy a foremost position, having realized ·during the quarter the handsome result of 2,134 ozs. of gold, which have been sold in Maryborough, and therefore not credited to the proper division. The course of the lead northerly, in this locality, has not yet been satisfactorily defined, and will remain doubtful until some of the shafts now being sunk in that ,direction shall be bottomed. In quartz mining the reefs of the Pyrenees have been engaging more than usual attention. In the West of England Hill, near Percydale, a good payable reef is being worked from the summit, underlying westerly 24°, and, in order to facilitate its working, a tunnel has been opened out at the base of the hill, to intersect the reef at a depth of about 213 feet. DUNOLLY AND TARNAGULLA DIVISIONS• .~,lJ.r. W. G. Coucltman, Mining Surveyor and Registrar. In both divisions there has been more activity in quartz mining during the quarter, and a little more in alluvial mining in the Dunolly Division. The Queen's Birthday Company have been sinking their shaft deeper, driving the 500-foot level, sinking winzes, and stoping the backs of the lode. The main shaft has been sunk to a depth of 632 feet, and the 500-foot level dri veu 500 feet north. In No. 2 winze, from the 500-foot level, the lode is 6 feet wide and carry in"' a good quantity of gold. No. 6, or 600-foot level, is also being driven north, and the Gotdsborough shaft sunk deeper ; 6,657 tons of stone crushed during the quarter yielded 2,2i8 ozs. 11 dwts. of gold. King's Birthday Company have been sinking their shaft deeper, and driving their 540-foot level 37 south. Depth of shaft, 596 feet; length of level, 293 feet. A sample of pyrites from the lode at the 540-foot level has been tested at the School of Mines, Ballarat, and gave a return of 7 dwts. per ton. It is confidently expected that payable stone will be met with when a greater depth is attained. North Birthtlay Company have completed erection of pumping and winding phwt, and arc now sinking their shaft and a wiuze from No. 5 level deeper, preparatory to opening out. A little gold is occasionally seen in the stone. Curran's Freehold Company are sinking their shaft deeper. Harvest Home Company have sunk their shaft to a depth of 405 feet, driven levels and cross-cuts, and crushed a quantity of stone, but have not met with anything payable. North Harvest Home Company have had n crushing of 30 tons, which yielded upwards of 6 dwts. per ton. Welcome Heef Company have driven a cross-cut east 189 feet, bnt have not cut anything payable in it. Royal Gem·ge Company h11ve had some crushings about 8 dwts. per ton; hut, the water being too strong to carry on work to advantage with a whim, they have suspended Qperations pending the erection of steam machinery. Sydenham Company have sunk their shaft to 300 feet in depth, driven a cross-cut from it, and driven their north level at that depth 231 feet, and are now driving that level fmther, and stoping the backs from it. Watson's Burnt Creek Company (Itlluvial) have done a good deal of driving during the quarter, but have not got any payable wash as yet. Old Poverty Company have sunk the shaft to a depth of 680 feet, opened out east and west at a depth of 674 feet, and are now cross-cutting at that depth, and also driving the level at 450 feet 150 feet further, and rising up from it to the 390-foot level, driving through the stone which carries a little gold, but, a~ yet, not in payable quantity. Yorkshire Company have been sinking their shaft, driving levels and cross-cuts, and stoping the backs from 332-foot level. Depth of shaft, 394 feet; 2,195 tons of stone crnshed during the quarter yielded 892 ozs. Ll; dwts. of gold. Caradoc Company have been sinking their shaft and driving n cross-cut ; they report having got the lode with payable prospects. A new reef, which has been namell the" Spondulix," has been discovered by Mr. J. J. Robinson, at the head of Sparkes' Gully, Moliagul. The lode is thin, but remarkably rich; 5 lbs. weight of stone was estimated to contain 2~ lbs. weight of gold, and 22 lbs. weight of stone yielded 65 ozs. of smelted gold. Claims have been taken np, and arc at work north and south of the prospecting claim, but none of the holders report hnving got the lode yet. Nuggets have been got in old alluvial workings during the quarter as follows :-October 11th, a parcel of nuggets weighing about 23 ozs., by a party of Chinese in Dunoll y Old Lead. December 1st, a nugget weighing 28 ozs. 8 dwts., by Fleteher and Donald in Dunolly Old Lead. December 16th, a nugget weighing 16 ozs., at the Hard Hill, Dunolly. December 31st, a 1 INGLEWOOD DIVISION. Mr. F. E. Horan, Mining Registrar. Without doubt mining matters have progressed to a considerable extent in this division, and there is every reason to predict a still more decided improvement for next quarter. Quartz prospecting has been pushed on with energy, notwithstanding the lack of capital and other disadvantages. Several new companies are in course of formation to work well-known reefs at Inglewood and W ehla. The great success which has attended the Jersey Company has been a marked feature in local mining, especially towards the close of the quarter. This company, after a severe struggle of some years' duration, may be congratulated on having at length reached a safe landing. A reference to crushing;; will show a steady increase, culminating in a return of nearly 16 d wts. of gold per ton from 187 tons of stone. There is plenty of similar stone in sight, with a reef 8 feet wide, so that, on the whole, the Jersey Company will be fully justified in looking with confidence to a prosperous future. Their success cannot fail to luwc a. most beneficial effect on many similar mining ventures at Inglewood. Useful work has been done at the Maxwell, Morning Star, Madame Berry, City of Bath, European and Leicester Tribute, and other claims, while from the Burke's Flat Company returns continue excJlluut as heretofore. A spurt has been given to alluvial mining by two large and important finds-the first, a fine 1mgg-ut weighing, in the rough, 71 ozs., taken by Messrs. Brooker and Rase from 18 feet sinking ut Old Inglewood; the second, an exceedingly rich specimen weighing 131 ozs., taken by Messrs. Beattie rrud House from 7 feet sinking in ground near Greek Heef, Caledonia Flat. In the same claim were found about 30 ozs. of similarly rich pieces. From the nature of' the specimens and their position when disCO\'ercd competent judges are of opinion that they denote the proximity of a rieh reef. A little work is still being done in old ground, and the various puddling machines (mostly in the hands of Chinese) appear to be kept going. WEDDERBURN DIVISION. Mr. J. Reach, Mining Registrar. QUARTZ. Smith and party have had a trial crushing of about (11) eleven tons of stone from their reef in Queen's Gully, which yielded 9~ ozs. of gold. In consequence of the scarcity of water the stone lmd to be carted to Inglewood, a distance of twenty miles. Mandeville and Kinery have also struck what thoy consider payable gold in their reef at Farmer's Gully. ALLUVIAL. There is nothing fresh to report in alluvial mining for the quarter. All the puddliucr machinccl h:tre stopped working for want of water. Unless some heavy rain falls in January there will certniulv be ~~ water famine in this subdivision. " 38 REDBANK SUBDIVISION. Afr. D. O'Leary, Mining Surveyor and Registrar. There has been no improvement in mining matters in this 8ubdivisiou during the quarter; and nothing worthy of record has transpired in either quartz or alluvial mining. ST. ARKAUD SOUTH SUBDIVISION. Mr. W. G. Couchman, Mining Surveyor and Registrar. Nothing worthy of report doing in this snbdivision, either in quartz or alluvial mining, during the past quarter. ST. ARNAUD NORTH SUBDIVISION. Mr. W. G. Couchman, J.lfining Surveyor and Registrar. In this subdivision during the past quarter many new companies have been registered, and several of them have commenced active mining operations. The New Bendigo Company have crushed 820 tons of stone for a yield of 662 ozs. 14 dwts. of gold. They are now driving aloug the course of the lode at the 320-foot level, and stoping from 240 feet to 320 feet ; prospects still continue good. They have purchased new machinery for pumping and winding purposes, which is being delivered on the ground, and will shortly be erected. The Queen Semiramis Company have finished the erection of new winding machinery, and are getting out water which had accumulated, fixing new ladder ways, and putting the mine in order. The Gap Reef Company have erected a new whim, cut down, timbered, and centered their shaft 120 feet from the surface, and cross-cut at lOO feet 21 feet east to the lode. Ali.Jert Victor Extended Company have let a contract for sinking the new main shaft lOO feet from the surface, 32 feet of which has been sunk and partly timbered. No. 1 South New Bendigo Company are sinking their main shaft by contract, 100 feet from the surface, 62 feet of which is now sunk and timbered. No. 1 North New Bendigo Company have let a contract for sinking their main shaft 200 feet from the surface, and it is now down 25 feet. No. 3 South New Bendigo Company have let a contract to sink their main shaft lOO feet from the surface, and it is now down 28 feet ; 54 tons of stone crushed from the old workings, taken 40 feet from the surface, yielded an average of 3 dwts. per ton. No. 2 South New Bendigo Company crushed 12 tons of stone for an average yield of 1 oz. 2 dwts. of gold per ton, and another lot of 16 tous for an average of l oz. 8 dwts. per ton; they have driven a cross-cut to the reef, and are now sinking a winze from the lOO-foot to 150-foot levels. Rising Star Company are sinking their main shaft from the 460-foot level a further depth of lOO feet. Lord Raglan Company are breaking out stone from the lOO-foot to the 680-foot levels ; i25 tons of quartz crushed gave a yield of 609 ozs. 16 dwts. of gold. Hieks and party, Blink Bonny Reef~ have erected winding and cru~hiug machinery (five stamp heads); they hnve been engaged dmining their miue and repairing their shaft, which has been some time idle; they are about to drive a cross-cut at the 300-foot level to cut the main lode. The Bell Rock Company are sinkiug their main shaft from the 400-foot level a further depth of lOO feet ; it is now down 15 feet. South Bell Rock Company have erected a new whim, and are cleaning out old workings preparatory to further working the mine. Strathalbyn Company have cleared out an old shaft and pnt new ladders down to 120 feet ; l7 tons of stone crushed gave an average yield of 7t dwts. per ton. Hopeful Company have cleared ont an old shaft to 130 feet, and put dovvn new ladders; they drove 30 feet along the course of a lode at this level, but found nothing payable, and are about to sink the shaft deeper. There is nothing to report in alluvial mining. CASTLEMAINE MINING DISTRICT. CASTLEMAINE DIVISION . .Llb·. T. L. Brown, JJfining Surveyor and Regist1·ar. In alluvial mining tlw finds and prospects of the Deep Lead at Guildford, thence to Muckleford, are sufficiently good to ind.uce the formation of more companies to work under the extensive areas of private property believed to overlay rich diluvial deposits of gold. The completion of contour races, conveying a supply of water to Barker's Creek, has given great impetus to sluicing operations; those sluicers who have washed up being well satisfied with their returns. In quartz miniug the few reefs being worked are yiel(ling encouragingly. The Wheal Terrill Tribute, in driving at 300 feet deep from the Central Company's ground, found a fine reef 3 feet thick, from which 465 tons of quartz yielded 290 o;-;s. 8t dwts. of gold O'Connor and Co., from their new reef, obtained 143 ozs. from 103 tons of quartz. Lewis an!l Co.'s new find, cast of Nimrod Reef: from 27 5 tons obtained 159 ozs.17~ d.wts. ·w. M. William's Heef, Dead.-cat, is giving 1 oz. per ton; and other reefs are showing good prospects. In deep sinking the Forest Creek ·wattle Gully Company are down 530 feet with their engine shaft, and have parties of men cross-cutting and sinking a winze to cut known nms of stone. The Nuggety Company have cut quartz at their 300 foot level ; the crosscut has tapped the water, and is d.rainiug the whole line of the Nuggety and Little Nuggety Reefs. The United Ajax Company have sunk their shaft to 425 feet. They are continuing sinking, and will cross-c:ut at 400 feet. The quantity of water sold during the quarter was-260,944,000 gallons for slnieing, at tu. per 1,000 gallons; 2,500,000 gallons at 3d. per 1,000; aml 750,000 at 4d. per 1,000, making an aggregate of 941,302,000 gallons for the year 1881, and much more would be taken if obtainable. 39 FRYER'S CREEK DIVISION. Mr. ~711ark .Amos, jJfining Surveyor and Registrar. Population.-There has been a slight decrease in the population returns during the past quarter, but it is entirely confined to alluvial miners, the number of quartz miners having increased, although not to a marked extent. Puddling and sluieing is still canied on with moderate success, no particular complaints having been made, it may be pres11mcd the returns are mostly satisfactory. Companies.-The Royal Saxon Company have now fairly got their new machinery in working order, with an unfailing supply of water from the Coliban source, so that, with moderate yields and economical management, fair prospects may be predicted. The ground occupied by the present company proved highly anriferous in the early days, when Clark and party made their £40 and £50 per week per man by simply scratching the surface. The ground is now being opened out both north and south, with very favorable indications ; and the line of reef extending north to Specimen Hill mny be said to have a fair chance of being properly tested and opened out during the ensuing twelve months. The English-Australian Gold Mining Company are still engaged prospecting at different partB of the claim, and, feom the encouraging nature of the crushings, have every reason to expect satisfactory returns during the next twelve months. The company have nearly 30 acres of land on the main line of reef connected with the New Era, Royal Saxon, and Howe Brothers, &c., &c. The reef is feom 1 to 5 feet thick, and worked at different levels from 150 to 260 feet from the surface, the yield for the past quarter having been about 3 dwts. to the ton. Renaissance Company, Specimen Hill, are making fair progress, although not generally suceeRsful up to the present period. The claim is now being worked on tribute. McDonald aud \Vilson, German Gully, are working two lease blocks, and have been engaged uninter ruptedly for many years with varied success. They appear now to be on a good run of gold (1:3; ozs. to the ton), but the thickness of the leader does not exccetl 6 inches, the quartz is raised from the 90-foot level. Rowe Brothers, Cattle's Line of Reef.-This claim continues payable, with no signs of being worked out, although not so remunerative as in former years. Ferron's Reef Company.-The mining manager reports very favorably of the progress made during the past quarter, the company having sunk their main shaft 50 feet (leeper, the gold being obtained from a depth of 430 feet from the surface from a reef 12 feet wide. New Era Company, Ferron's Reef.-A large nmount of work has been and is still being done by this company, the number of miners employed gra HEPBURN DIVISION• .Mr. T. Hale, Mining Registrar, Hising Star Company Quartz Claim.-The lode in from the face at the 250-foot level is 7 feet wide, and bears good payable stone. In the north drive, 4,210 tons of stone yielded over 8! iwts. gold per ton, and there is eyery appearance of a continuation. German Gully Quartz Company are putting in lJrospecting drives and cro.'!s-cuts in another part of the mine from that which gave the former grand results; 180 tons yielded 113 ozs. 6 dwts. 12 grs. during the quarter. 40 Cornish Company (quartz) are still pumping to drain the mine, and are also cutting the shaft down from the the top 11 feet 3 inches by 3 feet 8 inches, the former dimensions being but 9 feet by 3 feet. Victoria Quartz Company, Frenchman's North l~eef, have a winze at the 200-foot level; quartz has been struck showing good gold. Ajax Quartz Company are now prospecting, and are also sinking their shaft to a greater depth. The Argus Company (quartz) are idle, awaiting the drainage of the Cornish Company's mine. Hepburn Rocky Lead Company are sinking their main shaft (11 feet 6 inches by 4 feet 6 inches), an TARADALE AND KYNETON SUBDIVISION. Mr. S. Dorman, Mining Registrar. Notwithstanding thut several of the claims have been idle, and others short-handed, the yield of gold is in excess of that for the previous quarter by about lOO ozs., and the number of miners actually employed shows an increase of 50. The increuse in the yield of gold is made up by Ellis's Freehold Company, who are obtaining good dirt from a gutter from 80 to 100 feet wide. As I before reported, the most favored country is about l\tlalmsbury and Lauriston. The Humboldt and the Aruna Quartz Companies are erecting machinery; also the Ironstone Junction (Crawfords paddock) purchased from the United Kingdom Company. In shallow working, there is nothing worthy of report; a few fossickers and Chinamen earn about 10s. or 15s. per week. TARRANGOWER DIVISION. Nr. Robert Nankivell, ~fining Surveyor and Registrar. The past quarter shows an increase in the yield of gold of 298 ozs. 14 dwts. 22 grs. 'l'he Beehive Company are making good progress with their shaft; since starting they have got down 1 UO feet; the size of the shaft is 11 feet by 4 feet 6 inches. The boilers have been taken out, cleaned, and put in thorough repair, and preparation is being made for pumping as soon as they get to the water level. The Great Western Cymru Company are still pumping, and will have the mine drained in a week or two. The stamp batteries are being overhauled aud repaired, in readiness for crushing operations. In driving at the 200-foot level they have struck good stone, the quantity of which is estimated at 7,000 tons. The Independent Company, in sinking, have struck a new make of reef ranging from 1 foot to 4 feet 6 inches in width, which shows good gold. The Tarrengower Company arc still sinking their shaft, and making good headway with the rock-borer. Locks' Gold ~'lining Company, Irish Billy's Reef, is still producing good stone, averaging 5 ozs. 0 dwts. 5·09 grs. per ton. The Eaglehuwk Alliance Company have opened up their bottom drive for 190 feet in length, showing golden stone the whole length. A battery is on the ground, and is being erected; they have about 200 tons of stone ready for crushing. No change in alluvial mining except that some of the pnddlors have knocked off for a short time to go harvesting. ST. ANDREW'S DIVISION. },fr. Alfred Arm.~trong, ~fining Registrar. Very little change lms taken place in this division during the last quarter. The slight increase in the number of alluvial miners is caused by the hydraulic sluicing claims ut "\Varburton and Hoddle's Creek being worked by Chinese labor instead of Europeans. The small returns from quartz during the quarter are to be attributed to the fact that the two principal companies at Queenstown and Panton Hill have been sinking new and deeper shafts, which are not yet down to their proposed depths ; and the Pig-tail Company at Warrandyte having reached a slide in their shaft at a depth of 170 feet, which will involve sinking their shaft an additional .50 feet before the :;ame can be worked economically. I lmve not reecived any return of crushings from the Pig-tail Company during the quarter. A new company is being promoted to work the Diamond Creek reef, formerly known as Phipps' Reef, ·wliich has been suspended for the last four or five years. 41 BLUE MOUNTAIN NORTH SUBDIVISION. Mr. Graham McPherson, Mining Registrar. Up to the present time there have been no retnrns from any of the quartz mines. The Confidential Company, Alma Reef, have been at work, hut were unsuccessful in keeping down the water. I believe better appliances will shortly he upon the ground. The Triumph Company, Amelia Reef, have been baling with an 18 horKe-power for the last two months, but, on account of obstmctions near the bottom of the shaft, they have been unable to get out the water from the lower level. Lifts arc about to be put in, and it is confidently expected that, in a few weeks, they will be ready to get out stone. I<'ossickers and slniccrs have been apparently doing as usual. ARARAT MINING DISTRICT. ARARAT DIVISION. Mr. Thomas Foy.~ter, llfining Registrar. At the Black Lead Company's ch1im the erection of the engines, &e., is nearly complete. The engine required for winding is already in use, and the ~hnft is now being steadily s1mk by three ~hift~ of rniners. For the quarter the yield of gold hus apparenlly fallen off, but some parcels have been disposed of at Pleasant Creek and Ballarat, where higher rates are said to have heen obtained. PLEASANT CREEK DIVISION. Mr. H. C. Bate, Mining Surve,yor and Registrar. There has been a slight falling off in the yield of gold for the past quarter. The bore-hole in the Scotchman's United Company's mine has not yet been found, but it is confidently anticipated by the directors that it will shortly be discovere(l. As will be seen by the tabular statement, the shafts of the Cro•v·11 Cros~ Unite(l Company and the Oriental Company are both being further Rlmk, all(l it is hoped th!Lt the operations in these mines will prove the existence, at lower depths, of lodes rivalling in richness those worked in past years. 21200,000 gallons of watm were sold for miniug: purposes •luring the quarter. BARKLY DIVISION. Mr. H. C. Bate, Mining Surveyor and Registrar. There is positively nothing of interest to report upon for the past quarter relative to this division. No water was sold for mining purposes during the quarter. RAGLAN DIVISION. jJ[r. C. W. Minchin, Mining Registrar. At Waterloo, active operations in connection with all the mines at work at the date of my last report still continue with the exeeption of the I'ersevcrm1ce G. M. Company's claim, which has ceased working after some years' labor for small returns. The New Victoria G. ]\f. Company's mine continues to pay handsomely. From some two or three other mines in that locality, which, I understand, have been fairly successful in their gold yields, I have not yet received the usual quarterly reports, so am unable to give particulars of the results. The mines in the immediate vicinity of Beaufort have not, so far, proved profitable. Two of them are in an undeveloped state, and one has been closed. There is a little quartz prospecting being carried on throughout the division. The newly-discovererl reef referred to in my last report remains unproved, the proprietor, I am informed, having done little more than fossick on the casing of it, where he obtained some rich specimens. GIPPSLAND MINING DISTRICT. OMEO SUBDIVISION. Mr. J. Odell, llfining Registrar. During the past quarter, r·othing has occurred iu this subdivision calling for special notice. The quartz referred to in my laRt report as lying at Swift's Creek is now crushed, and the results are set forth in the return. The reefs discovered at the head of Dry Gully, Omeo, are still being actively prospected, and a company is being formed for the purpose of purchasing n ;;mall engine and lmttery, so that they may be properly tested, but until a crushing plant is on the ground it is impossible to form a proper estimate of the value of the reefs. ]) 42 GIBBO SUBDIVISIO~. Mr. Evan Marsden, Mining Registrar. Two new reefs have been recently discovered, and are being now opened up. A crttshing from the Southern Cross Company of 18 tons of stone yielded 39 ozs. of gold. The Native Youth Company have about 4 tons of stone to grass, but have no way of crushing it except by means of a wooden battery belonging to the Just-in-time Company, who charge £1 per ton for crushing in their primitive manner. A good battery is much required, as some of the reefs are unworked owing to the want of proper crushing machinery. Alluvial mining is declining. MITCHELL RIVER SUBDIVISION. Mr. J. G. Peers, Mining Surveyor and Quartz Registrar. QUARTZ. The following are the names of the companies which have been formed to work the reefs referred to in my report for the last quarter, viz.:-The Victoria, The No. I North Victoria, Great Success, Solway Ji'irth, and Mountaineer. The Victoria Company have six (6) men busily engaged sinking a shaft on the reef, and obtaining stone which is expected to yield a fair return. Crushing operations have been suspended owing to a want of water. The No. 1 North Victoria Company have four (4) men engaged sinking a shaft. The Great SuccesH Company are further sinking the shaft on their reef ; they had a trial crushing of 8j tons, which yielded 17 ozs. of retorted gold. The Solway Firth Company intend putting on meu immediately to open out the old workings. The Mountaineer Company have taken possession of their leased ground, erected huts, smithy, &c., and after cleaning out the old shaft, which was sunk about twelve years ago aud abandoned owing to great cost of cartage of quartz to the nearest machine, they have decided on driving a tunnel to cut the reef. Men are now engaged at this work. All the reefs above referred to are known to be auriferous, and in my opinion are well worth the attention of honftjide investors. The great drawback to the proper development of the auriferous reefs which are known to exist in thi~ district is the want of machinery. The Bairnsdale and 'fambo Company are driving a tunnel towards the reef. It is the opinion of the principal shareholders that this tunnel when completed will save them the expense of erecting pumping machinery. ALLUVIAL. I have not heard of anything worthy of special mention during the quarter, and am of opinion all engaged in this branch are satisfied, as I hear of no complaints. BucnAN SrLVER AND LEAD MrNr<:s. I am informed the Nevada Company have six men actively engaged making certain alterations in the furnaces, which were found to be defective, and that it is intended to commence operations on a large scale shortly. No other minerals searched for, and no water sold for mining purposes in the subdivision. BOGGY CREEK SUBDIVISION. 2lir. J. Fletclter, iJiining Registrar. There is nothing of importance to report upon during the quarter just ended. A few good finds have been made, and miners seem satisfied with their earnings. It is proposed to reconstrnet the Sons of Freedom Company and to recommend crushing from their leased ground shortly. CROOKED RIVER DIVISION. Mr. E. Harrison, Mining Registrar. Although a considerable amount of work has been done in quartz mining in this subdivision during the quarter, nothing has been diseovercd which can influenee in a permanent degree the prosperity of the district. The only crushing during the quarter wa~< a small lot of 54 tons from the Uncle Tom Reef; the result so far encouraged the owners of the mine that, they have let another contract for stoping from a different part of the reef, which will enable them to ascertain the extent of the shoot of payable stone ; if the prospects then appear favorahle a lmttery i:s to be erected. The New Good Hope Comptmy, after having driveu their nmin tunnel a distance of 1,130 feet, came upon a body of quartz, to all appearance the U(lod Hope reef ; it, however, 'vas not gold bearing where struck ; the company thercf(n·c devidcd to driYe a!oHg the line. After driving al,out 20 feet the reef pinched out, hut made again shortly at a plaee split hy tl body of stone of the same character as the walls. The reef then continued for nearly lOO feet, varyiug in width from 8 feet in the widest part to a thread. During the last week of work done in the old year, the reef had again pinched out, but it is expected to make again shortly. The Treasure Hill Company are now taking out quartz, to all appearance of a fair quality. The alluvial miners in this subdivision have been u little more fortunate during this quarter. One party on Good Lnek obtained about £100 worth of golu for six weeks' work, and on the Crooked River one or two claims ha ye vieldcll fair return~. No mining is doU:~ in this snbdivi~ion for metals or minerals other than gold, and no water is sold for mining purposes. 43 DARGO SUBDIVISION. 1rfr. J. B. Kelly, Mining Regist:rar. QuARTZ MINING. Very good yields have been obtained from the Exhibition Reef, the average for the quarter hemg nearly 25 dwts. per ton. Budgee Tribute and I>erseverance have also had fair yields. I regret, however, having to report the first crushing from the Eureka Company as a complete failure (only about l dwt. per ton) ; it is generally believed that, as the gold is exceedingly JinJ, it has passed away in the tailings. The Normanby Company, in continuing their main level, met with a small shoot of rich stone in the tunnel at 180 feet, but it has not proved to be of any extent. Pamelt Reef.-Mes~I'S. Fogarty and party are packing a trial lot of lO tons to the Eureka battery ; they are down with their shaft 80 feet, with a strong well-defined lode all the way. EnterpriHe Reef.-,Jorgensen and Co. are packing a trial lot of lO tons to the Exhibition machine. The following is a statement of the gold obtained from the principal quartz mines for the quarter : oz. dwt. gr. Exhibition Company 230 10 0 Perseverance Company ..• 16 0 0 Budgee Tribute 60 0 0 Eureka Company 7 0 0 313 10 0 Dividend. Exhibition Company £200 0 0 ALLUVIAL MINING. There is nothing new in alluvial mining for the quarter; about the average amount of gold appears to have been raised. No water is sold, and no metal or mineral other than gold mined for in this subdivision. JERICHO DIVISION. Mr. R. J. Donaldson, JJfining Regist:rar. During last quarter very little has been done in quartz mining, most of the companies having been engaged prospecting their mines or removing and erecting machinery. The alluvial miners have made a fair living, working the old creeks and gullies, but no new ground has been discovered. No water sold. DONNELLY'S CREEK DIVISION. Mr. 0. P. Wkitelaw, Mining Surveyor and Registrar. The only company that has crushed during this quarter is the Bismarck United, and from their mine 385 tons of quartz yielded 591 ozs. of gold. The New Hit-or-Miss Company continue driving their tunnel on the supposed track of the Bismarck lode, but have not yet come across any auriferous stone. The Fulton's Creek Company continue to drive their working tunnel, and have decided to at once erect machinery. The Toombon Company have commenced a main shaft, which is now down 60 feet. The present contract is for 120 feet, after the completion of which winding and pumping machinery will be requisite. Gold only mined for. No water sold. STRINGER'S CREEK DIVISION. Mr. W. M. Smith, Mining Registrar. For some time past the hitherto exceptionally regular richness of the stone raised from the Long Tunnel mine has been gradually falling off, which has materially affected the gross yield of gold from the division. This, together with t,he disappointing yields from the Long Tunnel Extended, might lead a stranger to think that the place had seen its best days. There is, however, no lack of enterprise and industry in developing the many promising reefs which are to be found almost on every hill ; and the general opinion is that before long a great and permanent improvement will be likely to take place. At present there are few good minero out of employment, and if only more capital was expended here in scientific mining there is very little doubt that a large and prosperous goldfield, equal to any in the colony, might be developed. As yet the place cannot boast of a diamond drill, and only possesses three National rock drills. A great deal has certainly been expended on machinery of various kinds, but the enterprise in this direction has not been followed up sufficiently. Alluvial mining continueR about the sarne as in previous quarters. Those working in the rivers and creeks are mostly earning good wages. 44 RUSSELL'S CREEK DIVISION. Mr. C. H. Williams, Mining Registrar. There is very little matter of interest to report this quarter. The ground sluicers have done pretty well, as they have had more water at command during the last three months than all the winter, but the yield has not been great, I suppose not realizing more than small wages. The Long Tunnel Company, Tangil, are now erecting a small battery ; they expect to be ready for crushing about the end of February. The quartz is exceedingly rich. I hear they expect it to go about 12 ozs. to the ton. The Standard Company are not at work at present, but are making arrangements to put on machinery. I am in hopes that this mine will give satisfactory returns. Messrs. Kelly and Co., and also Mr. Peter McLaren, are about erecting crushing plants. I am informed that the latter has obtained some good specimens on his leased land. A quartz claim was registered here a few days ago. Some specimens therefrom were brought in, and I muet say they were very rich. The owner recently obtained a 6 oz. nugget from the claim. No water sold in this division. BENDOC SUBDIVISION. Mr. J. Nichol, Mining Registrar. During the past quarter alluvial mining has been in much the same eondition as stated in my previous reports. Several good patches have been discovered, and most of the miners are on gold, but, owing to the uncertain nature of the ground, a continuance of gold for any length of time is very problematical. Quartz mining continues at a standstill. No water sold in this subdivision. Gold only searched for. TARWIN SUBDIVISION. Mr. H. M. Murphy, Mining Registrar. The two principal claims have been occupied during most of the quarter in erecting and preparing machinery, while other claims, notably the Ophir Company have been getting a little gold, but, in no case, much more than wages. Preparations have already been made by the applicants for the Franklin Tin lease, in the shape of clearing tracks, levelling, and in other ways, indicating the company's intention to begin work at once, or on the grant of the lease. No water sold. TRARALGON SUBDIVISION. Mr. C. Denis, Mining Registrar. Mining in this subdivision has not impt·oved during the past quarter. The wet and stormy weather has almost put a stop to sluicing and creek working, and compelled a good number of miners to seek other employment for the present. I am informed that, a few parties are quietly making good wages. No water has been sold during the quarter. By Authority: JonN FERREs, Government Printer, Melbourne.