Quarterly Accounts of the Government.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4620, 25 October 1883, Page 2

Quarterly Accounts of the Government.

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Wellington, Yesterday. The following are the public accounts for the quarter ending 30th September, 1883 : — Ordinary revenue, — .Receipts : Balance on .June 3,0,1833, £397,36519s lid. Ordinary rpvenue—Customs, £360,165 15s 2d : stamps, £114,494 9s 7d ; i?ro^ perty Tax, £45.18 U 9d 3 ' beer duty, £12,419 10a Id 5 railwayi, £?0§,583 13j

4d ; v telegraphic, £24,049 10s; registration and other fees, £12,089 7s 2d; marine, £3427 ,6s sd; miscellaneous, £7921 4s 9d; total, £744 970 4s lOd: Territorial revenue—Depasturinglicenses, rents, &c, £15,284 Is sd: miscellaneous, £3110 Os 8d ; total, £18,394 2s Id; grand total, £763,564 6s lid. Eecovered on account of " unauthorised " expenditure of previous quarter, £2529 6s 4d; defi* ciency bills issued under Section 18 of the Public Eevenues Act, 1878, £109,000; grand total total of receipts, £1,263,263 14s 2d.

The expenditure for the quarter was: — Permanent appropriation, civil list, £7208 14s 8d; interest and sinking fund, £455,295 12s lid; under special Acts of the Legislature, £16,124 15s 3d ; Ellesmere and Forsyth reclamation and Akaroa railway trust, £142 19s 106*; total, £478,042 2s Bd. Annual appropriation: Legislative and Civil Service, £572,488 2s 6d.—Services not provided for, £399 11s 8d; total, £1,050,929 16s 10d.—Balance on 31st September, 1883,£204,257551 id; total, £212,333 17s 4d. Grand total of expenditure, £1,263,263 14s 2d. The land fund account for the quartel' was as follows :—Receipts : Balance of June 30th, 1882: Cash in the Public Account, £60.434 14s 6d; advances in the hands of Government—colonial, £27,821 16s 7d ; foreign, £668 14s 6d ; land sales (for cash) £53,785 2s 2d, (on .deferred ptyments) £26,604 9s lid ; recoveries *'bn account of unauthorised expenditure of previous quarter, £160 ; total receipts, £169,474 17s Bd. The expenditure is as follows:—One-third of proceeds of land sold on deferred payments- paid over, to local bodies, £4763 17s lOd ; New Plymouth Haibor Board Endowment, £828 6s Id ; Ellesmere and Forsyth's reclamation and Akaroa railway track. £1465 Is. Annual appropriation :—Minister of Lands £42,245 18s 6d; Colonial Treasurer, £1660; services not provided for, £900. Balances on 30th September, 1883 : Cash in public Account, £101,689 3s 2d; advances in the hands of the officers of the Government—colonial, £15,376 16s lOd; foreign, £545 14s 3d ; total expendituse, £169,474 17s BeL