LAST NIGHT’S WIRES.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 39, 14 January 1884, Page 2

LAST NIGHT’S WIRES.

[Per United Press Association.] Dunedin, Jan. 11. The four-roomed cottage and contents of Mr, Mcßride, carpenter, Bulclutha, were burnt yesterday. Insurance: £lOO in the Victoria. The Governor visited the Blueskin Show and the Hon. G. McLean yesterday. To-day he and Major Cantley have inspected the harbor with a view to defences. Christchurch, Jan. 11. The Criminal Sittings ended last night. Joseph Wheeler (sheep-stealing) got two years,’ and Joseph Pritchard (indecent assault) four years,’ both with hard labor. Auckland, Jan. 13. The Australia arrived at 6.30 this morning. She left San Francisco on the 23rd December. Passengers for Auckland —Captain and Mrs. R. Hill, Rev. Father Stack, Mr. and Mrs. Dean, child, and servant, Mr, and Mrs. W. D. Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. H. Brown, Miss Hili, Mrs. A. Campbell, Messrs. D. Hill, F. G. Gordon, Gifford, Marshall, Sobersky, Wesley, Fletcher, Denham, Mennain, Knight, Isaokson, Cure, Mac George, Colley, Peake, and five steerage; for Sydney —29 saloon and 39 steerage. Among the passengers for Australia is H. M. Mackay, agent for the Great Overland Route through America, now on a business tour through the Colonies. The steamer leaves at four o’clock this afternoon for Sydney. At the inquest on David Tusee, gumdigger, supposed to have been accidentally poisoned, a verdict of “ Death from natural causes ” was returned. The deceased had been drinking heavily. A special meeting of the Harbor Board is called for Tuesday, to consider the question of the Engineer’s report on the Calliope graving dock, and dispose of the tenders received for its construction. From the rumors current in town, the Committee’s recommendation will be that the Board should appoint another Engineer to draw up plans and specifitions prior to calling for fresh tenders.

WAXiuna:. Jan. 12. “ The Northern Jockey Club Races took * place to-day, and were well attended. IVbluixgton, Jan. 11. | The Public Accounts for the cjuarcer ending ( Deo. 31 show: Total ordinary revenue, . £1 197,337 16s. 7d- expenditure, £865,481 3s. 3d.; balance, £331,856 13s. 4d. The j Land Fund receipts were £154,359 Is. 4d., - and expenditure £65,830 16s. sd; balance, | £87,528 4s. lid. .... z The barque Villala has arrived here from t Liverpool, and the French barquentine Louise £ from Kole (Japan) after a passage of sixty-six ; & The Colonial Secretary has not yet considered the case of Kate Boyle, whom the j jury declared to have murdered her infant , while insane. ] Stephen Wilson, a navvy, was killed by a ■ fall of earth on the railway works at Patea ; yesterday. _ The Divorce Court opens on Thursday. The cases are Pizzy v. Fizzy (rule absolute), Elwell ». Elwell and Phillips (ditto), and Edwards t>. Edwards and Remington (rule nisi.) , Jan. 12, Information lias been received of a fire having occurred on Messrs Biddiford and Sons’ station, on the East Coast, resulting in the total destruction of a shearing-shed, stables, cow-house, and yard, and fourteen bales of wool. The fire occurred about two o’clock on Thursday morning. The building was insured for £l5O. , The following are the insurances bn Riddiford’s stationlmperial, £lOOO on building; the New Zealand Co. will lose about £2OO on the fifteen bales of wool burned. Baiba, Jan. 12. At the inquest on Stephen Wilson, a verdict of accidental death was returned. RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE OF CONSOLIDATED FUND, For the Quarter Ending Dec. 81ht, 1883. [Per Pbeks Association.] Wellington, Jan. 18, The ordinary revenue receipts balance on the 30th Sept., 1888, were :—Cash in the Public Account, £8,076 Ils. 5d.; advances in the hands of officers of the Government, £204,257 ss. lid.; total, £212,833 170. 4d„ Ordinary revenue—Customs, £335,601 10s.; Stamps (including “postal” cash receipts),£los,7l6 0s lOd.; Property Tax, £250,374 18s. lid.; Beer Duty £15,964 0s 6d; Railways, £224,653 0s 14s. 7d.; Telegraphic, £21,325 12s. 8d; Registration and other fees, £9,516 16s. 6d.; Marine, £3,649 3s. 5d.; miscellaneous, £9,100 6s. od.; total, £975,902 3s. lOd. 1 Territorial Revenue.—Depasturing licenses, rents, <fcc., £7,129 ss. 7d.; miscellaneous, £1,972 9s. lOd.; total, £9,101 15s. 5d.; grand total, £1,197,337 16s. 7d. Expenditure. —Permanent appropriations, Civil list, £6,986 15s. 2d; Interest and Sinking Fund, £327,642 os. 5d.; under Special Acts of the Legislature, £13,639 13s. 9d.; Ellesmere and Forsyth Reclamation and Akaroa Railway Trust, £43 Is. 8d; total, £348,310 12s. Annual appropriations.—Legislative. — 1 £21,883 9s. 9d.; Colonial Secretary, £52,622 19s. lOd.; Colonial Treasurer, £12,344 2s. 5d.; ! Minister of Justice, £29,958 14s. 4d.; Post- ' master-General, £59,058 12s. 4d.; Commis- ‘ sioner of Customs, £19,288 Is. 3d.; Commis--1 sioner of Stamps, £6,611 165.; Minister of ’ Education, £76,248 19s. 3d.: Minister of Native Affairs, £4.857 10s. 9d.; Minister of ’ Mines, £4,828 Is. Bd.; Minister for Public i Woiks, £161,559 16s. 5d.; Minister of De--3 fence, £66,097 14s. 7d.: total, £515,359 18s. 7d. Services not provided for, £l,BlO 12s. Bd. ’ Balance on 31st December, 1883—Cash in the Public Account, £165,354 15s. Bd.; advances f in the hands of officers of the Government, r £166,501 18s. Id.; grand total, £17,197,337 1 16s. 7d. The following is the loan expenditure for the quarterExpenditure—Annual appropriation for immigration, £12,211 148# . 7d.; Public Works Department, £2558 16s. f 5d.; Railway, £129,895 2s. 7d.; surveys of 1 new lines of railway, £2496 ss. 9d.; roads, i £12,547 10s. 2d.; land purchases, £14,702 195.; gold-fields roads, £9779 ss. 10d.; water3 works on gold-fields, £4396 9s. fld.; teles graph extension, £1156 9s. lOd.; public i buildings, £22,415 13s. Id.; lighthouses and r harbor works, £6807 Bs. 5d.; charges and expenses, £522 9s. 2d.; services not provided { for, £2OO 9s. Transfers under sections 3 and 1 21 of “ The Roads and Bridges Construction 1 Act, 1882”—To Main Roads Account, £29,651 9s. 9d.; to District Roads and River Works Account, £2llO 15s. 5d.; total, j £278,452 17s. 6d. Balance on 31st December, e igg3—Advances in the hands of officers of 3 the Government, £281,887 4s. Id.; investt ments on Duntroon and Hakateramea Railway Company debentures, £20,000 ; Treasury f bills, 1879 and 1880—Five per cent, scrip, . £124,049 19s. 2d.; Imperial guaranteed 4 per t cent, debentures, £50,000; total, £194,049 i 19s. 2d.—Grand total, £754,890.