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There appears therefore a net decrease in 1870, amounting to 205,410/. The falling oft' 
in amount occurred in Auckland, Nelson and Westland, while in Marlborough and Otago 
there was an increase. The total quantity of gold exported from New Zealand from the 
ist Apni, 1857, to the 3 ist December, 1870, was 5,542,84g ounces ; the total value, 
21 ,505,479/. Ihe total quantity of wool exported in 1870 was 57,059,765 lbs., against 
27,765,636 Ibs. in 1869, being an increase of 9,274,,27 Ibs. The^toil value skteTfor 
18701 was 1,703,944/., agamst 1,371,230/. in 1869, showing an increase of 332,714/., or 
24-26 per cent. 33 ' ^ ’ 
I.—Precious Metals, Minerals, and 
SoiLS. 
1 Samples of Alluvial Gold from the 
following districts of Otago :— 
(1.) Opunake Diggings, Southland : Fine 
Orold, with Platinum and Black Sand. 
(2.) Moeraki: Fine Gold, with Gamet Sand. 
(3.) Tuapeka: Blue Spur Sluicing Gold from 
older drifts. 
(4.) Dunstan: Gold from River Beaches. 
(5-) Shotover: Black Gold from Terraces. 
(6.) Wakatipu: Rough Scale Gold from the 
Lake Terraces. 
2 Samples of Alluvial Gold from West- 
land:— 
(7.) Okarita: Fine Beach Gold. 
(8.) Ross: Deep-Sinking Gold. 
(9.) Hobo : Scale Gold from the older drifts. 
(10.) Greenstone: Coarse Gold from the ground 
sluicing. 
3 Samples of Alluvial Gold from Nel 
son :— 
( IT 0 Lyall: Nuggety Gold. 
(12.) Wakamarina : Shotty Gold. 
4 Reef Specimens from the following 
Gold Mines, viz.:— 
Otago: Shotover, Cromwell, and Waipouri. 
Nelson: Reefton, Lyall, and Collingwood. 
Auckland: Thames and Coromandel. 
5 . Gold and Silver as prepared for ex- 
port, in i o oz. ingots :— 
(1.) Melted Gold from South Island, alloyed 
with Copper Assay. 
(2.) Melted Gold from the Thames, alloyed 
with Silver Assay. 
(3-) Refined Gold, prepared by the Chlorine 
process. 
(4.) Melted Silver, prepared from the native 
Alloy by the Chlorine process. 
(5.) Cake of Silver Chloride formed by same 
process. 
(6.) Gold Specimens from Perseverance Mine. 
6 Gilt Models of the largest - sized 
Ingots exported from the country. 
6a Blocks of Coal from different mines. 
7 Blocks of Haimatite. 
8 Blocks of Steatite. 
9 Box of Graphite. 
10 Box of Copper Ore. 
11 Box of Galasna and Blende. 
12 Box of Auriferous Quartz. 
13 Black Sand (Titaniferous). 
14 Articles manufactured therefrom. 
15 Bottles of Crude Petroleum from 
Taranaki. 
16 A Collection of Rocks, Minerals, and 
Fossils, illustrating the Geology of Otago. 
&c. &c. &c. 
II.—Timbers of the Country. 
1 A large Collection of Native Woods. 
2 Whole Trunk Sections of Kauri (Dam 
mara Auslralts). 
3 Ship Timbers and Bent Pieces (dressed 
and in the round). 
4 Specimens of large Manuka Tree 
(•Leptospermum scoparium). 
5 Specimen of “Yellow Pine.” 
6 Slab of the same. 
7 Piece of Old Tree. 
8 Sashes, Doors, &c., of local manu- 
facture.