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STATEMENT in Detail of the EXPENDITURE for MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES— contd.

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 1886-87.

£ s. a. £ s. d. £ s. a. 421 2 0 Brought forward ILASS X.—MINISTEE OF MINES— continued. Vote No. 53 —Miscellaneous Services— continued. Item 2—Local Museum of Specimens,— Ores, minerals, &c Publications, &c Freight 400 0 0 49 19 10 10 2 11 Item 3—Rewards for discovery of new goldfields Maintenance and management of water-races, — Item 4—Nelson Creek Item 5—Wainlea-Kumara Item 6—Maintenance and raising sluice, Kumara Sludgechannel Item 7 —Argyle-Charleston 400 2 9 1,316 16 4 2,327 3 1 6,348 2 0 389 2 3 10,381 3 8 250 0 0 192 2 5 78 6 8 Item 8—Mount Ida Water-race (contingencies) Item 9—Kumara Water-race, altering tuiinel Item 10—Eent of Tokatea Block to 23rd March, 1886 Item 11—To defray cost of lectures by Professor Black and others in the principal mining centres throughout the colony, and for Schools of Mines contribution of £1 for £1 — Salaries Travelling expenses, freight, cartage, &c Advertising Plans Chemicals Subsidy on " Black's Chemistry for the Goldfields " Subsides to Schools of Mines, — Kanieri Eeefton Thames 1,455 12 6 955 15 2 15 2 6 20 0 0 37 4 5 120 0 0 10 0 0 70 0 0 330 1 2 410 1 2 Loss recoveries for chemicals and apparatus 3,013 15 9 90 0 0 2,923 15 9 Item 12—Subsidy of £1 for £1 on moneys subscribed for prospecting for gold at deep levels, — Cardrona Prospecting Association Tapu Low-level Tunnel Company Cromwell Prospecting Association Little Boatman's Low-level Tunnel Company 303 12 10 470 9 2 28 7 7 150 0 0 952 9 7 Item 13—Purchase of S. Inder's interest in Sections 8 and 10, Block III., Blackstone, claimed by W. Agnew Item 14—Sellars and party, settlement of claim for damage done to sluice-boxes, as per judgment of Warden's Court Item 15 —Eemoval of bodies, Hatters Terrace, £1 for £1 subsidy .. .. ■ Item 16—Erection of shelter-huts To give effect to recommendations of the Goldfields Committee, — Item 17—School of Mines, Otago University Item 18—Costollo v. Croninville miners, half taxed costs.. Item 19—Aids to prospecting and rewards for mineral discoveries, — Subsidies to local bodies and mining associations Subsidies to guides and prospectors Steam-jet pump Provisions and stores' Freight and cartage Wages .. Tools Travelling expenses .. Advertising and printing Contingencies 160 0 0 275 3 0 45 0 0 386*14 0 1,674 9 9 285 15 5 216 4 10 286 3 3 122 1 10 241 6 8 21 17 .10 66 10 3 5 8 8 7 2 0 Less recoveries from prospectors, Big Bay 2,927 0 6 18 0 Item 20 —To give effect to resolution of House of Eepresentatives on claim of F.D. Eich and others for compensation towards cost of opening Shag Point Coal-mine Item 21—Eemission of railway charges on carriage of quartz, Te Aroha to Auckland Item 22—Bonus on 200 tons copper, at £5 per ton, on bonus to be paid on a lesser quantity for shipment than 50 tons .. Item 23 —Geological surveys, field-work, &c, exploration .. 2,925 12 6 3,000 0 0 52 19 1 Carried forward 22,504 11 5