THE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2032, 28 August 1880, Page 4

THE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES.

pFBOM OUB OWN COBBBfPONDBNT.] WELLINGTON, August 27. The supplementary estimates are just down. The following are the principal items: — Audit office, £8450 ; Agenoy-General, £4OOO (including the Agent-General's salary, £1500) ; Hospitals (additional), £9OOO ; Charitable Institutions (additional), £3OOO ; compensation to discharged offioers, £IO,OOO ; Sydney Exhibition, £I2OO ; fee for Sir G. M. O'Rorke's patent of knighthood, £9B ; refunds of deductions from subsidies on account of hospitals, &c, £3OOO ; expenses of Boy til Commissions, v"z., West Coast, £2OOO ; Civil Service. £1450 ; Local Industries, £650 ; bonus for encouragement of local industries, £1000; Middle Island Commission, £720; Judicature Commission, £1000; Fiji mail service, £2470; intercolonial lervice (additional), £1155; expenses, £1000; granta to Education Boards towards expenses of school committees at 10s per head of attendance, £10,432 ; Volunteer Bine Association, £500; discharged constables, £3000; repairs to Admiralty house, Auokland, £SOO j Education Department, Dunedin, £2OO ; Public works fund Greymouth Harbor works, £17,500; railway protection works, Bakaia, £7000; purchase of -waggons, £22,000; provision for unemployed on railways, £7500; roads, Wellington district, £4055 ; land purchase, North Island, £1525 ; increased gaol accommodation, £2OOO ; Waimapu bridge, £5500; Hokitika Harbor works, £5000; contingent defences, £14,000 (including maintenance of prisoners, £1000) ; steamer Hinemoa, £4OOO. Crown Lands Department, £2060; Government Insurance, £612 ; services unprovided for, £6823 ; services in excess of votes, £18,466; total unauthorised expenditure under consolidated fund, £25,289; ditto public works fund, £17,096.