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Anglo-Maori Warder, Volume 1, Issue 26, 19 October 1848, Page 1

Expenditure, Auckland. £ a. d. £ 8# d* Civil Establishments His Excellency the Lieut* Governor and Estabmnt. 48 7 9 Colonial Secretary's Depart 423 0 0 *' Treasury 215 0 0 Audit Department 112 10 0 Customs, includ.drawbacks 2,092 1 10 Post Office J52 9 4 Total 3,043 8 11 Judicial Establishment and Police Supreme Court 340 0 0 Law Officer 115 0 0 Resident Magistrate, and Police 998 10 It Sheriff and Gaol Coroner 4 5 6 Registry of Deeds, &c. 114 18 10 Total 1,808 18 2 Land and Surveys Survey Department 467 10 8 Land Claims Commission 197 19 10 Awardsfor Land surrendered 508 J 8 3 Land Purchases 405 ' Total - «,w,w -v. Public Works and Roads Public Works 1,043 19 11 Roads 1,725 1 i Total Miscellaneous Medical 263 10 7 Relief to Sick and Destitute 36 1 7 Aborigines 73 5 11 Printing and Stationery 136 16 8 Postages 45 8 0 Chaplain 50 0 0 Incidents 29 7 10 Total • ■ 634 10 7 -&«*** ...itrcT.. 166 19 .5 _ uo>ia»inm;i** -Ocnyonei v* *& o Total 228 10 1 Military Charges Militia 18 8 0 467 10 « 45 8 0 50 0 0 29 7 10 ■> i ■'■ ■ ■' 166 19 .5 Total of Auckland £ 10,082 13 General Charges The Governor-in-Chief & Establishment 785 15 3 The Bishop of N. Z. 150 0 0 Civil Secretary's Department 127 11 1 Interpreter to Genl. Officer Commanding Troops 53 0 0 Government Brig 133 12 7 Schools and Educational purposes 1,311 0 0 Charges on Receipts in aid Interest Payments at Auckland on account of other Stations—" Hokianga 24 0 0 New Plymouth 15 0 Wellington t 18 0 Nelson 31 10 0 1,444 12 Total ... £12,769 12 6

Past and Present,—We recollect very well one fine summer day, in the year 1812 or 1813, of taking a walk down to the Broomielaw to see the shipping. It was no difficult maiter then to walk to the bottom of the quay; and at the extremity of it on that day there lay a sort of toy, a small steam vessel, named the '* Comet." which every body laughed at, which the sailors jeered at ; and the maker, Henry Bell, was talked of as a «' half-daft, crazy man," for producing such a foolish affair in the face of day. Nothing daunted with this, as the vessel was aboat to sail, we took a pas-age to Greenock in that little craft, the precursor and the germ of all the splendid steam ships which now move along the waters in every sea. The " Comet" was the subject of merriment to the sailors aid the spectators as we smoked out of the harbour—in fact, she wai> always so, whenever she smoked; and the indignant saying of the old •« flyboat" captain at the t me, namely, that '• he had the pleasure to sail with the Almighty's wind, and not with the devil's reek/' may serve as a sample of the feeling which Whs entertained at the outset of the new inven* tion. The * Comet* had an engine of three horse power ! with a raised deck like the canal passage boats. To have ventured past Greenock at that peiiod, and for a considerable time after, in a steam boa*-, would have been accounted a tempting of Providence, On the 20th April, 1848, we again took a walk to the Broom elaw, but such a change! The quays on both aides extended as far as the eye could reach, and the harbour was fl'led with le\itathan ships from every quarter of the globe. The place of the little ' Cornel' of three horse powtr was supplied by dozens of magnificent Liverpool sttamers and Dublin fcteamers, ai d ships of war, and ships from China ; —and there is the Nugira just ready for sailing. How we do wish ror a aigLC of the 'Comet' of 1812, of,thisspleii*did floating palace of 1800 tons ami 7GO horae power!— Glasgow Constitutional,