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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 226, 22 September 1881, Page 2

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(From our own correspondent.) E% telegraph.] _ Wednesday li p.m. The supplementary estimates ire just circulated. The total amdant of supplies asked for is £212,000 18s U, made up as follows :— Consolidated fund, ordinary revenue account £68,048 ; land fund account £19,926; total £87974. Publi« Works ahd land £121,664 j Qoverntoept insurance account £2750, The following are tne totals of each vota :— Class 1, Legislative, £3648 ; Class o, Colonial Secretary ; expenses general election, £3000; Statistics Department (including £1290 additional in connection with last census) £11,200 j lunatic asylums £1635 j printing and stationary AIOOO ; compsnsation to dfflcera let- loss of cince £1000 ; mi«c«l!aneonß £2359. Class 3, Colonial Treasurer; Property Tax Department £1754 ;, miscellaneous £672. Clasa 4, Minuter of Justice : Courts and prisons £859. Class 5, Pqital and Telegrapk £4103. O ass 6, Cdmmiliioner of Customs ; marine, -apd harbdr (including £500 in aid of Sailori ISP e) i -f H 2 -'u Cl »? s - 8 » Miniater of Education" JESood' (including iscJO for purchase of sohool recreation groundf.) Class 9, Minister of Native Afiairi (incladiag £3000 for establishment of sanatorium at Ohinemutu and £20(B for vacctasuion of Natives) £8000. Class io, Minister of Minsg (includmj £3000 for assistance in tie puiahase of diamond drills), £5538^. Class 11, Minister of Pablia Works, £1600.; Class 12, Minister of - Defence (ificludiHg contingent defence £1500, liabilities of Volnntew «orps for clothing £1600, Volunteer Riflr Amciation £300,, amount required "tb cover the difference betwaeh the pay voted last session and the rates on the present Estimates for npncommissioned office** and. Constabulary, viz, 6d par day, for the six, months wded 30th S«ptember, im t JE1935, police £3014,- and b.b. Hinemoa £3000), £12,769. Class 23. Minuter of Lands (inclkdin? iatrodnctionof Nsw Zealtiid tiabert into E«nc« £500, refund to Titatsie Steel Company of amount paid £1250; to assist pnblic domalni, developing local iadDstries, and raising plants for distillation £1000, additional compansation for determination of lease of rtins £3000, and abatement ef nLbblt ndiiance 1 ), £19,150. In addition to the abov« there are set down the following amounts for roads, bridges, land purchases in the North Island, ko., £19.496; additions to quarantine stations, £2500 ; and contingent defence, £100,000. • ' This Day, 2 p.m. The last sessiea of the present Parliament is practically at in end. Ths Appropriation Bill was run through all its stages in a few minutes without half the mambers present having seen a copy. Nobody car«d wkat was done; all were aagerly engaged in packing up their papers preparatory to leaving this evening for their homes. The Hotfse meets at 4 o'clock this aftsrnoon to finiah op the formal business and the prorogation will take place this evening or to-morrow morning, -■- . i