POLITICAL AND NATIVE NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 255, 13 April 1880, Page 2

POLITICAL AND NATIVE NEWS.

Wellington, April 9. It is roughly calculated that the revenue for the financial year ended March 31st is about L 2,176,000, or about L 278,000 under the Treasurer’s estimate. The return* are not neatly complete yet, and the calculations are complicated.by an allowance having to be made for transfers from one Inpayment to another.' No reliable estimate as t.. actual expenditure can yet he made the nearest attempt being to put it down at about L 3,100,000, hut this canm.t he taken as snything more than a verv rough estimate. Judging’ from pr smit appearances, there will he a deficiency uevtycarof fully half h million, even allowing fur the property tax being collected, and so large a sum cannot possibly he materially lessened by retpencluneut.

Tiie Gavmnmnnfc have receiv-d telegrams to-day frem Mr Parris to th ■ effect that he is proceeding with ihe road from Nonnanby to Madia, and is n>»w laying oh' Ur lino past Titokmwarii’s pluco-. Or.ait can* is bo’ug lakm to avoid interfering \vit;; ids enclosures and cultivations. iSunv* little diftlcuiti has to be encountered in avoiding .hem, owing to the natural features of the country, but it is behoved that this will be successfully accomplished. Mr I 'arris had an interview with 'Tit ikokowrru and his people, ail of whom received him with the utmost cordiality and civility,