THE ESTIMATES.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2299, 16 August 1881, Page 3

THE ESTIMATES.

[By Tblbgbaph.] [FEOII THE OW CORRESPONDENT OP THE “ PBBSB.’’] WELLINGTON, August 15, The following are the portions of the Public Works Estimates relating to Canterbury, showing the vote and the amount expanded to June 30th : ISTMIGBATTON. Christchurch 10s; expended, £47 16s 3d ; clerk, depotmaster and matron, £200; expended, £25, Lyttelton—Quarantine keeper and matron, £l2O ; expended, £ls. EAIXWATfI. Hurunui to Waitaki, with branch lines— District engineer, £550 ; assistant engineer, £275 ; draftsman, £260 ; clerk, £2OO ; clerk, £180; total, £1465. Construction and land, main lino and Oxford, Eyreton, Lyttelton, Southbridge, Springfield, Whitecliffs, Opawa, and Waimato branches, £144.000 ; expended, £35,670 4s 81. Main line to Upper Ashburton, £12,000; expended, £3806 19s; Lincoln to Little River, £16,000; expended, £4585 5s 6d. Assistant engineer, £350 ; Albnry to Fairlie Creek and Burke’s Pass, £29,000 ; expended, £3329 lls 9d ; purchase of rolling stock from, the Bakaia and Asbbnrton Forks Company, £6930. Total vote, £207,930 ; expended, £46,892 Os lid. Canterbury Interior Main Line—Resident engineer, £275 ; construction and land, Oxford to Malvern, £18,500; expended, £364 5s 3d. Whitecliffs, Bakaia, Temuka, Eangitaka, £SOO ; total vote, £19,000 ; expended, £354 5s 3d. Waitaki to Blnff, with branches—District engineer, £475 ; assistant engineer (also architect, bead office, Middle Island, £100), £2OO ; assistant engineer, £250; resident engineer, £325; draftsman, £2OO ; clerk, nil; clerk (also head office, Middle Island, £140), £l4O ; storekeeper, £195; messenger (also head office, Middle Island, £6O), £6O ; total, £1845. BOADS. Hokitika to Christchurch—Maintenance, supervision, and damages by flood—vote, £8260 3s 4d ; expended, £3550 3s 6d. Roads to open up lands before sale—Through Mathias Pass, Bakaia, to Hokitika, £ISOO ; road to Upper Ashley, over Euku Pass, £SOOO ; expended, £6500. Courthouse, Christchurch, £SO; Lyttelton, £5500 (of which £540 has been expended); implements for prisoners, Ac., £IOOO. GENEEAX. Public buildings include the following;— Court houses, gaols; police stations, and lockups, £30,106 (£6637 already expended) ; post and telegraph offices, £10,680 (£1647 expended) ; customs, £900; survey office, £1000; lunatic asylums, £60,720 (£25,137 expended) ; hospitals, £2500; school buildings, £85,000 (£3700 expended) ; lighthouses, Ac., £12,400 (£596 expended) ; harbour works, £22,145 (£6830 expended). Introduction and location, Ac., of immigrants, including management of country depots, vote £20,000. Expended to June 30tfa, £5228 13s Bd. Purchase of land under the Immigrants Land Act, 1873, £IOOO ; expended, £736 16s 9d ; repairs to immigration and quarantine depots, £1000; expended, £IOO ; contingencies, £SOO. Opening up roads and constructing bridges through lands recently purchased, £7683 2s lOd ; expended, £4982 15s Id ; water races. Middle Island, assistant engineer, £250; construction and supervision, £2OO ; expended, £Bl6 3s 6d ; contingent defence, £75,000 ; expended, £100; harbor defences, £9OOO ; expended, £1396 15s 3d. Roads in Native districts (transferred from tho Consolidated Fund), £10,441 7s 3d ; expended, £3387 lie lid. [Note —Amounts already expended to June 30th include liabilities to that date.] Lighthouses. Cane Egmont completion, £800; Tory Channel leading light’, £3OO ; French Pass beacon, £7OO ; Light on Waipapa Point, £6500 ; light in Hauraki Gulf, £3BOO ; sundries and contingencies, £300; total, £12,400. Contingent Expenses—Legal and other expenses incurred by Government in defending Messrs Brogden’a claims, £3OOO ; telegraph extension, £4 ; outstanding liabilities of previous year, £4048 4s 2d ; orders, instruments, and materials, £2691 7s ; Matanra to Gore, £IOO ; adding to reconstruction, £550 ; Waiau crossing, £SO ; Albury lino, £ll4O ; poles and arms, £575 ; telegraph extension, £2OO0 —Total vote for telegraph, £11,154 lie 2d. STTItItABY. Immigration, £24,588. Public Works (departmental), £12,772. Railways, £1,017,636. Surveys of new lines of railways, £4OOO. Roads, £262,763 19s sd. Land purchases, £87,623 17s 4i. Waterworks on goldfields, £22,000. Telegraph extension, £11,154 lie 2d. Public buildings, £190,906, Lighthouses, £34,545 lls Id. Contingent defence, £84,000. Charges and expenses of raising loans, £14,000. Total, £1,765,989 19s.