28 ANNIVEESAET ADDEESS. 



TlIT AND COPPEE. 



There are two otlier sources of mineral wealth now being 

 drawn upon, to whieL. it is needful to refer. 



In tlie course of my explorations in 1851-2-3 tin ore was dis- 

 covered by me in various places, and mentioned in my reports 

 to the Government. 



It bad been already named by me as a product of this Colony 

 so early as 1849 ; and on various occasions since, to the present 

 time, I have kept up the mention of my discovery of tin in 

 1851-2-3, vnth a view of inducing operations for its develop- 

 ment, and I have every reason to believe this has assisted in the 

 present search for and working of the ore. 



I have introduced some extracts from my lieports and other 

 public documents in the Appendix (C), which will justify the 

 assertion that, notwithstanding the claims of any other person, 

 thejirst mention and first discovery of tin, as a prodii,ct of New 

 South Wales, toere made hy myself. 



Many of the facts were also specially mentioned in my 

 Eesearches in the Southern Grold Eields (p. 128) in 1860. More- 

 over, I exhibited stream-tin at Paris in 1855. 



Tin ore was discovered in Victoria, in March, 1853, the date of 

 my explorations in the Maclntyre tin districts, but not till 1866 

 was it wrought as an article of commerce. 



The journals of that Colony, between those periods, contain 

 correspondence and other contributions on the subject ; amongst 

 others, Mr. Milner Stephen wrote about it in 1853, and Mr. Storer, 

 of the U.S. Xavy, in 1854. 



At the preliminary display in Sydney of the articles forwarded 

 to the International Exhibition at Paris, in 1867, four samples of 

 stream tin, averaging by Mint assay 49'625 per cent., and four 

 bars produced from the same quantities of the ore, were exhibited 

 by Messrs. Lamb, Morris, E. Hill, and Milson, Stanniferous 

 sand was also exhibited by Mr. Hill, from the Rocky Eiver. 



