The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume XII, Issue 957, 10 August 1878, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

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The estimates of expenditure for the year ending June 30, 1879, were laid on the table of the Assembly on Thursday night, but it is impossible with the means at our disposal to give them full space m our columns, nor indeed would they afford matter of interest generally to our readers if published m detail. The tot.il estimated expenditure is <£4,1 24,574 8a 6d. Besides this, the total interest payable, including sinking fund, is £1,225,129 5s Id. Tho items chargeable against the consolidated fund are as follows ; — Civil list,

i! 29,750 ; permanent: charges, [ £780,-17 los 91; liabilities and engagements, £115,440-; public Ppfs, .£18^,570 198-2(1, law ami justice, £113,909 ?s 4d ; postal a;>d telegraphic, .£243,954; customs, £lfto6 13-j Id; marine, £45 991 HHjOd; education, £217,370^' nat|||, £31,857 ss; militia ancti / voluiftteors, £24,678 12s ; constabyk; 4#y» £137,774 10s; railways^ ,£487,203 2s 10 I; public domains and buildings, £32,341 4a ; Crown lands -surveys and - , goldfielda j?231,249 15s; • miscellaneous, £359,920 9s Gd. Expenses of both Houses are estimated at £21,575. ■ There, is one section of the esi.iv mated expenditure however, which has special interest-, for country districts, and that is the subsidies to Counties and ; Road Boards. It js proposed tosubsidise counties to the extent of £105,500 ; to give to road ,boards £76,500; and to borongha £69,000 and this^in.addition to the percentage of land revenue payable bo,the more fortunateeounties which is, estimated at a further sum of £220,b60. The principle on! which l such dMriteWrion \vill be made is not qf .course,'^ yjet before us, but we have no doubt that members repre(senting. those counties which;are, not m the possesion of a share of the land fund will make some endeavor to obtain such an adjustment ot distribution as will equalise to somo extent tiie position of the endowed and endowed counties, or, failing that, urge the precedent of the £40,000 grant ef a' former session as a method of obtaining such equitable adjustment. ,