THE PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Last Night.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1764, 25 October 1883, Page 2

THE PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. [BY TELEGRAPH. — PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Last Night.

The following are the public accounts for the quarter ending 30th September, 3883: — Oichnary revenue accounts. — Receipts : B U.mce on 30th June, 1883, cash in public .account, L 131,893 & ; advances in the hands of officers of the Government : colonial, L189,7G2 8s 8d ; foreign, L 75.814 3s 3d ; total, L2G3.47G lls lid ; giand total, L397.3G9 19s lid. Ordinary revenue: Customs, L 360,105 15s 2d; stamps (including postal), cash receipts, Lll4,4 f )4 9s 7d ; pioperty tax. L 4518 8s 9d; beer duty, L 12.419 10s Id; railways, L 203.873 13s 4d ; telegraphic, L 24.049 108 7d ; registration and other fees, L 12.059 7s 'Jd ; marine, Li, IJ7 Gs 5d ; miscellaneous, L7.9J1 4s 9d ; total, L 744.970 4s lOd. Terntoicvil levoiiue: .Depasturing licenses, rents, etc., L 15,284 Is sd ; miscellaneous, L3llO 0o0 o 8d; total, L 18.394 2s Id : Grand total, L763,5G4 Gs lid. Recoveries to account of unauthorised expenditure of previous quarter, L 2,529 7s 4d ; deficiency bills issued under section 18 of the Public .Revenues Act, 1878, L 100,000: Grand total of receipts, L1,2G3,2G3 14s 2d. The expenditure for quarter was :—Permanent, appropriation Civil List, L 7.208 14s 8d ; infceicat and sinking fund, L 455,295 12s lid ; under special acts oftheL'gisUtme, £15,124 15s 3d; Ellesmere .md Jforsyth reclamation, and Akaroa l ailway trust, £142 19s 10d ; total, £478,042 2s. Annual appropriation : Legislative, £14.2 il 13,11 d ; Colonial Secretary, £G1,032 15s 8d ; Colonial Treasurer, £22,011 15s 9d; Minister of Justice, £30,333 9s 2d ; Post-master-General, €Gs,2tiO 3s od ; Commissioner of Customs, £20,933 IGs 2d ; Commissioner of Stamp*, £(i,i)3o 15> lid ; Minister of Education, L73.G09 14s 9d ; Minister for Native Affairs, L 5,108 9s 8d ; Minister for Mines, L4,(i54 Gs Sd ; Minister for Public Works, L 223,81919 5; Minister for Defence, L14.G11 5s 3d ; total, L 572, 488 2s Gd. Services not provided for, L 399 lls Bd. Total, L 1.000,929 IGs lOd. Balance on the 30th September, 1S83 : Cash in the Public Account, L 5,087 Us sd ; advances in the hands of the offic3rs of the Government— colonial L 102,018 7s 9d, foreign L 52.239 18s 2d— L20.325 5b lid ; total, 212,333 17s 4d : Grand total of expenditure, L1.2G3.2G3 14.s 2d. The land fund account for the quarter was as follows :— .Receipts : Balance on June 30th, 1883 (cash in the public account), Lfi0,433 13s Gd ; advances in the hands of the Government, colonial, L 28.821 IGs Sd ; foreign, LGGS 14s Gd ; land sales for cash, L "53, 785 2s 2d ; on deferred payments, L2G,GO4 ( Js lid; reco\eries on account of unauthorised oxpediture of previous quarter, LlliO; total receipts, LIG!),4S4 18s Bd.— The expenditure, was as follows :— Under special acts of the Legislatuie, one-third of proceeHs of land? sold on deferred payment paid over to locaj bodies, L4.7G3 17s lOd ; New Plymouth Haibour Boaid Endowment, LB2B Gs M;* Ello.smere and Forsyth reclamation, and Akaioa i ail way trust, L 1.465 Is ; annual appropriation, Minister for Lands, L42,24j 18s (>d : Colonial Treasurer, LI.GGO; sei vices not piovided for, L 900; balance on 30fcIi SeiJtoinbor, 1883, cash in public account, L101,G89 3s 2d; advances in the hands of the otficvjin of the Government — • colonial, LGS,3BG IGs lOd ; foieign, Li 43 14s 3d. The total expenditure was L1G9.474 17s Bd.

Always tell an old friend that he is looking younger every day. He knows that \ou aic lying ; but he will enjoy it. " You never saw my hands as dirty as yours," said a mother to her little girl. "No, but your ma did/ was the prompt icply. 11 j lvyim; at Doctors.— "Ma, clear, Ada won't lake her physic. I've mixed her a dose of vinecai and sand, and she says I must take some first. Doctors ne\cr do, do they ma? ' Wjlmmj to Li/r Thkm Lie.— "Lovely weather, isn't it?" said one hotel man to mother on Wednesday ; " brings everything out of the gi omul blooming" "I hopu nob," haid the other, "for my chief cieditois me buried." A.v English servant girl, who had retuitied fiom the United Stites to visit liei fi lends at home, was told that " she looked really aristociatic."' To \\ hich she responded, : ' l Y"s, in America all ot the domestics belong to the hire class." A soiooLtmiLin \\ litmg to her mother, says, " I get along nicely with all my teachers, except Miss J inning, but I don't blame her, because she accidentally shot the young man she was engaged to, and it naturally makes her cross, especially on cloudy days." A max who was cutting turf on Murijoy hill, Portland, Me., recently tinned up with his spade a metal bar which, except for a glistening point where the spade struck it, looked like iron. The suspicious gleam caught his eye and induced him to carry the bar to an assayer, who pronounced it fine gold, and estimated its \alue at su'lodol. The discoveier conjectuies that the ingot was buiicd in the early days of the colony, either by some official to prevent its capture, or by some freebooter who had helped to plunder a Spanish treasure ship. The sons of the Earl of Essex and party (according to an English paper) recently weut upon a holiday camping tour throughout Wales. They proceeded with two laige show caravans, drawn by horses, and lived in the rough gip9y fashion, camping out at night, and cooking their food in the open air. Their meais, however, were served upon silver plate. TiibbJj was some tremendous scoring in the contest between Middlesex and Gloucestershire, which ended on August 18 in a draw, but was a virtual defeat of the western county in one innings. Middlesex started tha batting with Mr A. J. Webbe and Mr I. D. Walker. The former was got rid of for four runs, but the latter was then joined by the Hon. A. Lyttelton, and the pair made an extraordinary stand, scoring 145 and 181 respectively. MrO. T. Studd then followed with 91. The partnership of Messrs Walker and Lyttelton produced 326 runs — the longest stand ever made in a first* class match. The nearest approach to it was the 289 scored at the Oval last year by Shrewsbury and Barnes for/ Nottingham against Surrey. At |fche Surrey ground in 1869 Messrs W. G> Qrace £na B. R. Cooper, as cricketers will ,t, t readily J remember, scored 283 runs fdi-ti^dfSntle-/' men of the South against the^ Pliers '6f the South. Another very fn|n^(t;stafed was that made at Beeston in-ifi7ft.f)y_Mr I. D. Walker and the late Mr G. F. Grace for the Gentlemen of the South against the Gentlemen of the North. The performance at Clifton, as we have said, stands ahead of everything previously done in big matches ; but Barnes and Midwinter last season, at Lord's, for M.C.C. v. Leicestershire, put on 454 runs, and in a minor contest last year — Orleans Club v. Rickling Green — Messrs Vernon and A. H. Trevor actually made 603 while they were together. Mr Walker's hits in his 145 were two 6's, 17 4's, four 33, 14 2's, and 25 singles. Mr Lyttelton was out at 347, his 181 — a grand innings, despite two chances — comprising a six, 21 4's, five 3's, 19 2's, aud 38 singles. This is only Mr Lyttelton's third first-class match this season, and he has made 367 runs for four times out. Messrs C. T. Studd and Pearson played remarkably, well, and at the call of time Middlesex total' was 537 runs. Gloucestershire made 189 and, 234 — good enough scores, on ordinary .occasions,, but irsufficient in this case to effect anything more satisfactory than a ,dntwy;in: reality a defeat, for with ouly one wicket to fall -%y e A' : U*.rqns.tp < faye/^n. ,frni«gjb beating. Mi\>V, ,G f Grace scored 33 and 35; MrW. R.Gilbert, 36 »nd 79 j M* Mob^rley, $$ «£a<M^p> , „