THE FIJI BUDGET. RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 432, 28 December 1889, Page 4

THE FIJI BUDGET. RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE.

Tjik financial statement of Fiji was submitted by message to the Legislative Council ot that colony about a fortnight ago. It &ays :—: — The actual receipts for the nine months ending the 30th September of the present yeav may be taken in iound figures at £42,966. The actual expenditure for the same period has been C 35,262. In consequence of the improved relations no*7v brought about between the public 1 re.venue and expenditure — an improvement which there i& no' reason to doubt will be maintained — the Governor, in respect of the year IS9O, has felt justified in remitting one half of the rate of special tax for some time past imposed upon official salaries. With this remission the estimated balance in favour of revenue for the approaching year amounts to a sum of nearly £5,000, and hence His Excollency anticipates that Her Majesty's Government will aareo thot the time has arrived when this tax, the valuo of which will be about ■ £1,200 only, may be'entirely taken off, and the revenue again left to the usual sources. The estimated revenue under the formal headings of receipts amounts to £64,000, which leaves a balance of £4,925 upon estimated expenditure. , This amount is somewhat' below t that for the present year (1889), but it has been deemed prudent to keep the estimate within the actual experience of the .last two years. The totial estimated expenditure amounts to £59,075, Is Id, as against £57,489 16s 4d for the year 1889. The difference in excess, amounting ,to £1,585 4s 9d, is almost wholly attributable to the decroase in the rate of: tax upon . official salaries, which .presents itself in the shapo of additional expenditure, 1 and the necessary addition to the, annual vote in aid of the return passages to India of immigrant labourers consequent upon an increased number of such immigrants in the colony.

The marriage of the Rev. >3. Hughes Jones, pasoor of the Newmarket .Baptist Church, Melbourne, Victoria^ to Miss Mary jK.pwei^daugliterof Mr(r. W. Owen, of this city, took place on Saturday. Mr Jones is not a stranger, in Auckland, as he was ,for typo years pastor ,of the ' Ponsbnbjr Baptist Church and preceded the Rev ( . MV Gil'mbre in, tha ( t ( charge] , Mr Jpnes.left for Melbourne in l)e'cember, 1886, arid shortly ■ aiterwards i* was called to take charge of, a church at Newniarlcet:, , JVl.eljDpurne. , "j 'He'/ came' to ■Auckland, by the 'last' Sydney ' Steamer to get jnarried,,ah^ lefi yea ' ' w i tjh, J h is .bridefor Syjine.v and Melbourne, by 'the s.'s. Waira- , rapa bo morrow. „,,,, .' N.S.W., .Parl^raentji winch, was called together,, tor i^he discuas'ipn ' ot liiiunciUl question'^ ha& prqrogued* '",J n ,-» , *