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Waikaia. At Waikaia about seventy Europeans and eighty Chinese are engaged in mining. There are about sixty alluvial claims being worked, and of these only two employ more than two men. There is no noticeable improvement in mining prospects here, although the amount of gold obtained is still, considering the population, far from insignificant. It is said that the bank bought during the year gold to the value of £6,758. None of the special claims taken up a few years ago are being worked. Two special claims were recently granted—to Sew Hoy and Kum Yok. In connection with these claims, work is being actively prosecuted, as about forty men are engaged making a water-race at Nokomai, which, when completed, will be used for the purpose of working claims. Journals of the House of Representatives, 1894 www.atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&d=AJHR1894-I.2.1.4.4&cl=search&srpos=6&e=-------100--1------0sew+hoy--&st=1