POLITICAL AND NATIVE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1912, 10 April 1880, Page 2

POLITICAL AND NATIVE NEWS.

£By Telegraph.] WELLINGTON. April 9. It is roughly calculated that the revenue for the financial year ended March 31st is about £2,167,000, or about £278,000 under the Treasurer’s estimate. The returns are not nearly complete yet, and the calculations are complicated by an allowance having to be made for transfers from one department to another. No reliable estimate as to actual expenditure can yet be made, the nearest attempt being to put it down at about £3,100,000, hut this cannot be taken as anything more than a very rough estimate. Judging from present appearances, there will be a deficiency next year of fully half a million, even allowing for the property tax being collected, and so large a sum cannot possibly be materially lessened by retroncnment.

The Government have received telegram* to-day from Mr Parris to the effect that he is proceeding with the road from Normanby to Mania, and is now laying off the line past Titokowaru’s place. Great care is being taken to avoid interfering with his enclosures and cultivations. Some little difllculty has to be encountered in avoiding them, owing to the n dural features of the country, but it is believed that this will bo successfully accomplished. Mr Parris had an interview with Titokowaru and his people, all of whom received him with the utmost cordiality and civility. The Hon. Mr Rolleaton went South to-dar on private business, but will not be absent many days.