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sunk in the sea, The father, hearing this, begged them to point out the 
spot where he disappeared ; then, throwing off his clothes, he plunged into the 
sea, and dived to the bottom, assuming, as he did so, the form of a fish. At 
the bottom of the sea he came upon a large carved house, and, as he drew 
near to it, he saw his little son fixed up as the tekoteko. As he approached, © 
the child cried out to him; but he took no heed, and continued his search — 
for the occupants of the house. Presently he me ta woman, Hine-matiko- 
tai, and questioned her about her people. She told him that they were all 
away at their work; but that, if he waited till sundown, they would all 
return, but be careful, she said, to close up every aperture through which 
light may enter; then enter the house and hide yourself. Ruapupuke paid 
reat attention to what the woman told him, and did exactly as she directed. 
By and by the occupants of the place, with a loud noise, came pouring in, 
till the house was quite full. Then Ruapupuke asked Hine-matiko-tai what 
he was to do. ‘ Do nothing,’ she said; ‘ the sunlight will kill them. Only 
stop up all the gaps, that no warning gleam of light may call them forth 
before sunrise.’ At the usual hour for waking, Tangaroa, the chief, asked, 
‘Is it not daylight ?” ‘No,’ replied the old woman, whose business it was 
to watch for dawn; ‘itis the long night; the dark night of Hine-matiko 
tai! Sleep on; sleep soundly.’ So they slept till the sun rose high in the 
heavens. Then Ruapupuke let in the light, and set fire to the house, and 
it was burnt, all except the verandah, of which he brought away the four 
side-posts, the ridge-pole, and the door and window frames, and so intro- 
duced the knowledge of carving to the world.’ Hinga nga roa built the 
first-carved house, called Te Rawe-oro, at Uwawa, the dwelling-place of Te 
Kani o Takirau. After him lived Te Wirakau, who was a carver of wood, 
and, in later times, Tukaki, and, lastly, Honu Taahu, the builder of Hau-te- 
ana-nui-6-Tangaroa, attached to the Christchurch Museum. 
Arr. XIV.—Notes on Quartz Crushing at the Thames Gold-fields. 
By J. Goopatt, C.E. 
(Read before the Auckland Institute, 13th September, 1875.] 
AntHoven many of our members are well acquainted with the entire process 
of quartz-crushing, for the sake of those who are not conversant with the 
process, I will give a short account of quartz-crushing, as now conducted, 
before I proceed to make a few remarks on the apparatus used and the 
method of treatment. 
Quartz-crushing comprises not only what the name implies, pulverising 
the quartz, but the entire system of gold extraction. At the Thames, that 
system may be designated as the wet crushing and amalgamating in battery 
