Supplementary Estimates.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3030, 31 October 1878, Page 1

Supplementary Estimates.

Wellington, Tuesday. The Supplementary Estimates are out to - night. The amounts in full are £94,295 additional, chargeable on the consolidated fund, and £686,203 on tbe; public works fund.; The following are some of the item's:—Lunatic asylums, i teacher Deaf and Dumb. Institutions, £400. Postal—chief officer, Auckland, suburban letter carriers delivery (6 months), £175. Marine—Naval Training School, repairs, and addition to buildings, £200; in aid ef establishment of Sailors' Homes, £600 each to Auckland, Wellington, and Dunedin. ' Education—scholarships (additional) £125; expenses of BoyalCommission on the New.Zealand, University and- secondary education, £100; native clerk at Alexandra, £125; T. W. Porter, compensation for loss of office (also Constabulary estimates £100), £100; Native Schools, Auckland, Taupo, four months, £40; Militia and Volunteers, purchase Snider ammunition (additional); £3500; Volunteer Bifle Association, £2000; Constabulary retiring allowances ' (additional), £3000; extra pay for constabulary* : £3855; Goldfielas. Mining Inspector, Hauraki (additional), .£SO; allowance to A.J. Allom, for services as receiver of gold revenue at Ohinemuri, from 1875 to 1877, £150. Miscellaneous:—Bey. T. S. Grace, compensation for losses during the native disturbances, awarded by Mr Commissioner Beckham in February, 1878, £2069 12s; gratuity to Susannah Lowry, widow of: the late headkeeper of the Auckland Asylum, £150; John Ander- , son,. Mahurangi, payment of Supreme Court expenses-in- connection with an incorrect Surrey, £380 5s 4d; anchor and cable testing apparatus for Auckland, . Wellington, Lyttolton, and Dunedin, £3000; County Council Thames, fees received in 1877-78 from Thames water-race, £1122 Os 6d; F. W. Paul, late captain Hauraki Bifle Volunteers, for injury sustained to his eye while marking at a range, £50; subsidy to Volunteer Hall at Hamilton, £100; J. S. Craig, compensation for loss sustained in connection with irregularities in the Engineer Volunteer Militia Corps in 1875, £150; .William Garrick, compensation for an injury received in Auckland Militia in 1864, £75;. railway fares for Volunteers and Fire Brigades, £500; in settlement of the claims of Mrs Meurant, £2,088 15s 3d; roads in native districts, North Island (additional), £600; repairing roads in Auckland, and expenses of .collecting tolls, £4500; salary of Puhoi ferryman, • one - - year, •• from 31st: - December, 1877, £21;". unexpended, balance of vote of £1200 for purchase and' improvement of recreation ground-ait the Thames, £400; H. W. Farnall, in final settlement, of a claim on account of services rendered as an immigration agent, £250; Waterworks on Goldfields,,Thames, construction and supervision (additional); £6500.' Public, Buildings: Court-house at Papakura, £250; Court-house, at Port Albert, £70; compensation to Colonel Thomas McDonnell for loss of office, £400. Miscellaneous Public Works: Harbour defences, £44,000; roads in deferred payment, blocks disposed of prior to Ist January,; 187,3, £10,000; for loans to local, governing bodies to enable them to repair damages caused by the recent floods, £50,000. .North' Island lines authorised by the Bailway Construction Act, 1878: Wellington, to.Foxton, by West Coast, £15,000, Waitotaraßiver to Upper Patea crossing, £40,000; Te Awamutu to; New Plymouth, £12,000; Masterton to Papatu, via Woodville,- „£16,000; Waikato to the Thames, £30,000; branch line to Hamilton, £2000; Helensville to Kaukapakapa River, £2000; Whangarei to Zamo, £5000. £100;000 is put down for additianal frails, if found advisable to take advantage of the market.