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CLASS X.—MINISTER OF MINES— continued.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

Item. 1884-85. M MINES DEPABTMBNT— continued. £ £ 12 Id VOTE No. 52— oontinued. Otheu Chahoks — Travelling Expenses Impeding Engineer Forage, Inspector of Mines, Thames 300 50 300 50 850 2,258 Total— Vote No. 52 ... 850 MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES. ■I 3 4 5 6 7 8 VOTE No. 53. Assistance towards Prospecting, by the Purchase of Diamond Drills, upon a subscription of one-third being contributed Local Museums of Specimens Rewards for Discovery of New Gold Fields Maintenance and Management of Water-races — Nelson Creek Waimea-Kumara Maintenance and raising Sluice, Kumara Sludgechannel Argyle, Charleston Mount Ida Water-race, for contingent requirements of Trust £500 ; and £250 for extension- ... Eent of Tokatea Block To defray cost of lectures by Professors Black and Ulrich in the principal mining centres ... Subsidy of £1 for £1 on moneys subscribed for prospecting for gold at deep levels Muddy Creek Channel, on condition of contribution of £lfor£l Borough of Thames, in aid repairing flood damages Contingencies 3,uoo 250 2,500 1,080 2,900 G,SOO 400 9 Id 750 320 250 11 1,000 12 13 H 500 500 1,300 Total—Vote No. 53 ... 21,550 TOTAL OF CLASS X. £2 1,808