IV.

(1). The cost of quarrying under present circumstances, is 4d. per foot, and at Mount Taipo, where the proprietor has just introduced improved appliances, he anticipates being able to reduce the price one half. (2). The freight to Oamaru is 10d per truck per mile, or 6s. 8d. from Mount Taipo. A truck carries 5 tons, or 110 feet, being about ¾d. per foot. Weston is about half the distance, and consequently the freight thence would be considerably less that from Mount Taipo. (3). The export of stone to Melbourne for some time has been almost nil, but by sailing vessels 25s. per ton appears to have been the ruling rate, and by sailing vessels to Port Chalmers, thence per steamer to Melbourne, 28s. per ton.