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The drainage of the Maniototo Plains is effected by the Taieri River, 

 which takes its rise in the Lammerlaw Range, entering the plains between the 

 Rough Ridge and the Rock and Pillar, which it skirts, and finds an outlet 

 under the same range, at another point between that and the spurs of the 

 Kakaunuis, to the left of the saddle over which we are presumed to have 

 journeyed. This river is fed by the Swine and other burns flowing from the 

 ranges on the right hand, and by the Kyeburn — which takes its rise at the 

 mount of that name, in the neighbourhood of the Maruwhenua Pass, flowing 

 along the foot of the Kakannui — and joining the Taieri River in the 

 neighbourhood of the Taieri Lake. The land under Mount Ida, and at the 

 township of that name, would thus appear the highest in that district, and 

 higher than the Ida and Manuherikia Yalleys. The Ida Valley is drained by 

 the Ida Burn, which takes its rise on the right hand, and the Pool Burn on 

 the left ; these two join together at a gorge in the Raggedy Range, and flow 

 through it in one stream into the Manuherikia Valley and river of that name, 

 which at the township of the same name, joins the Molyneux River, and then 

 passes through a gorge down through the Teviot Basin. The Ida Yalley is 

 also drained on the extreme left hand by the Manor Burn, which takes its rise 

 between Pinelheugh Range and Rough Ridge, and also joins the River Manu- 

 herikia. The Ida Valley is thus higher than the Manuherikia Valley. The 

 Manuherikia Valley is drained by the river of that name, and by the Lauder, 

 Chatto, and Dunstan Creek tributaries. 



In the Maniototo Basin, on the Rock and Pillar Range, there are alluvial 

 diggings at Hyde, extending to no very great height above the water level, 

 and at Hamilton, at an elevation of about 800 feet or higher, and Mount 

 Ida, under the highest peak of the range of that name. Latterly, also, at the 

 Kyeburn River, at about the junction of Mount Kakaunui and Mount Ida 

 Ranges, in the vicinity of Mount Burster, not far from the Maruwhenua Gorge. 



In the Ida Valley, the diggings are at the Welshman's and German Hill, 

 one of these being in either face of Blackstone Hill and the Rough Ridge, at 

 about the centre of the valley, and both at some elevation, say, at about 100 

 feet above the water level. I am informed there have also been some deep 

 alluvial workings, to about 150 feet, under the Raggedy Ranges, at Black's 

 No. 3, the lead running parallel with the ranges, and under a terrace formation. 

 In the Manuherikia Valley, the diggings are at St. Bathans, Drybread, Black's 

 No. 1, Manuherikia, Conroy's, Butcher's, the Fraser River, and Mutton Town 

 Creek ; the banks of the Manuherikia and Molyneux. The beaches or exposed 

 portions of the bed of the latter river, during hard frosty weather, have been also 

 extensively worked, with extremely rich results, especially where perseverance 

 has been shown by the miners working below the water level, as at French- 

 man's Point, at the junction of the Manuherikia and Molyneux Rivers. 

 Extremely rich returns have been secured by the dredgers on the Molyneux 



