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by water from the Long Drive, although both batteries were treated in 
precisely the same manner. Alterations were made, but the yield was still 
the same, when the waters were crossed, and the right-hand battery worked 
by the water which had previously been used for the left-hand one. The 
consequence was that the right-hand battery then produced more than the 
left-hand one. Experiments were again made, and the effect was always the 
same: whenever the water from the Long Drive was used from one-third to 
half the gold was lost. This was stated to him by the manager of the claim, 
who put down the whole result to the water coming from the Long Drive. 
If they stopped the water from the creek, and used that coming from the 
Long Drive only, the result was still the same: they lost from a third to half 
the gold. In consequence of this statement of the manager, he (the speaker) 
had brought up two bottles of water from the Long Drive for the purpose 
of having it analyzed. It was a matter of the greatest importance that it 
should be ascertained what the contents consisted of. The other water, by 
which the battery produced the most gold, came from the Moanataiari hill, 
which was the richest hill as yet found on the gold field. The people who 
had given him the information on this subject might possibly be mistaken, 
but he was quite sure they were not deceiving him. The water which he 
had brought up he intended to forward to Dr. Hector for analysis. 
It was a most important question, involving immense monetary considera- 
tions. If the statement made to him were correct, and he had no reason to 
doubt it, that this water from the Long Drive lost, say, even a third of the 
gold, which could only be obtained by using the other water, then the loss 
must have been already very large. 
Dr. Purchas asked if the water used from the hill referred to, as saving 
the gold, was clean 
Mr. Whitaker Venti that it was pretty dinis: ; it was died at one 
machine before coming down to the Kurunui, but it was filtered, and 
tolerably pure when used by that Company. 
Captain Hutton said that, taking the general question of water, there 
are more hot springs in Auckland, in proportion to its size, than in any other 
part of the world. A great many had already been discovered, and there 
were, doubtless, many more lying undiscovered away in the far north— 
probably a vast number. No doubt some day these springs would prove as 
attractive as those of Switzerland and Germany did in the present day. He 
had drunk the water from the springs at Whangarei, and it was quite equal 
to any Seltzer water he had ever tasted in his life. 
With regard to the question of analysis, he thought it useless to send 
less than six gallons of water if a thorough analysis were required, as a large 
nti codi pm. t an appreciable residue. Respecting 
