CANTERBURY.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 4, 22 May 1863, Page 3

CANTERBURY.

(*rom the Canterbury Press.) ,VThe Auditor's quarterly statement to the end of March, which has just heen prepared, shows the following Tesults :— The balance 0 n the lst January was L 68.174 ; the quarter's revenue wa5L49,632, of which L 36,063 came from the waste lands, 7:9517 from customs, and L 1284. from immigration bij] s . The total revenue was Ll 17-806 ; . thf total expenditure was i.79,828. Of this, wn at may bp termed the ordinary dependents of the Provincial Government, * or permanent charges, Executive, Electa-., *" a '» Legislative, Administration of Justice, ■• ns pection of Sheep. Weights and Mea- , s " r es, Public Plantations, Harbor, Charitable Aid, Hospital, cost L 6313 ; the Genera' Miscellaneous Expenses, 1.5731 ; Waste 'Land Department, L 613 4; Immigration, li X5966; Geological Survey, L 33 1: Educa- |:: 'tion, L 1362; Electric Telegraph, L 37 1; Steam Service, L 833; Public Works, 138.625; Railway, L 14,159. The balance in the Bank on the lst April was L 37.978. Hence fhe expenditure for the quarter has •exceeded the revenue by L3O 000, or, sup•posing'the railway expenditure paid out of loan, fhe expenditure still exceeds the revenue by nearly Ll6 000, or at the rate of 1i64,0D0 a year. '(From the Zvttleton Times. The departure of the Mermaid with i ffull 'cargo of wool, amounting to ahoni '2500' bales, completes fhe shipments of thi season. The total number of bales -shipper will he abont 11,000, of the value ol L 285.000, exclusive of some few 'hundrec bales which will probably he left behind. The Customs re« urns from the 13th Apr?' last to 9ih May inclusive, show duties-col-lected to the amount df L 4434 4s 2d. The declared value of imports during the same period amounted to L 45.803. Messr*. Poussard and Douay, tho French instrumentalists, are giving a series of concerts in Christchurch, which are well atMary Ann Roliin«on was charged on May 14th with drunkenness and using olxscence lan-mage. This was the third ofFence within three months. TheTtesident Magistrate informed hpr that he had no other alternative but to inflic* the full penalty, viz., fined £5 and 14 days* imprisonment; or if fine he not paid, one month's imprisonment additional This case shows ho«v far (he Tippling \.ct is operative. Mary Ann Robertson having anpeared before the Bench twice within the la«t five days for being drunk. Reports say she gets children to fetch he drink, thus evading the Ordinance. LOur readers will remember that the ibove act. empowers the sitting Magistrate to prohibit, under a heavy penalty, the sale or gift of intoxicating liquors to habitual Jiunkards. Mary Ann "Robertson was ihe fpsb patient on whom the efficacy df the ict was tried. — Ed. T.TA] Akaroa. — Great consternation has taken ilace in Akaroa among fhe owners of cattle, iwing to MrW. G. Inman, of German Bay, laving lost some sixteen head, and Mr je Lievre about ten head of valuable cattle. Phe cattlein both cases have died within the last fortnight. It was "feared that pJeuroSnenmoriia was the cause of death, but Mr eLievre is of opinion tliat his cattle died rom tutu and want of water, the part of the un on which they died being over supplied rith tutu and destitute of water. Mr Inman as <gone 'to 'Christchurch for advice. "We ave^heard an opinion expressed as to the Juse of this mortality among cattle, which we link will bear further investigation. It is lis,— that owing to the numerous and exmsive bush fires during the past summer, 'c ground has been in fhe bush thickly )vered with wood ash; the late heavy tins'havo carried the alkaline matter from ie ashes to the creek; the cattle have ■ank of the water thus strongly impregited, and disease, then death, has been the suit. Is it not possible that this is the se ?