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

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, 1889-90

CLASS IX.—MINISTER OP NATIVE AFFAIRS :— Vote No. 51—Miscellaneous Services: — Item 1—Expenses of Commission on claims of Ngarara and other Native tribes Item 2—Compensation in lieu of land at Poverty Bay awarded to Ihakara Waikato for military services Item 3 —Amount recommended by the Public Petitions Committee to be paid to Captain Eugene McCarthy as balance of wages when in command of s.s. " Hannah Mokau " Item 4—Expenses of Tauponuiatia Commission £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 366 17 0 25 0 0 54 0 0 224 8 6 CLASS X.—MINISTER OF LANDS AND MINES :— Vote No. 55 —Miscellaneous Services :— Maintenance and management of water-races, — Item 1—Nelson Creek Item 2—Waimea-Kumara Item 3—Kumara Sludge-channel Item 4—Argyle-Charleston 964 10 2 2,183 1 10 3,614 13 2 447 17 0 670 5 6 Item 5—Thames and Reefton Schools of Mines Item 6—School of Mines, Otago University Item 7 —Assistance for testing minerals Item 8—Special representation of mining exhibits at Dunedin Exhibition Item 9—Special representation of mining exhibits at Paris Exhibition Item 10—Compensation to A. McDonald for damage to hotel at Orswell Creek Item 11—Compensation and expenses in connection with Proclamation of Arahura and Teremakau Rivers as tailing channels Less payment from goldfields revenue of Counties Grey (£505 8s.) and Westland (£482 0s. Gd.) on account of above 7,210 2 2 1,040 0 8 500 0 0 142 8 9 160 5 3 3 5 0 50 0 0 1,598 9 0 987 8 6 611 0 6 Item 12—Contribution to Assay and Metallurgy Instructor, Otago University Item 13—Contingencies and Mining Inspectors' travelling expenses, — Salaries and clerical assistance Travelling expenses Advertising, stationery, &o. Repairing diamond drill Payment to S. Locke for visiting Whakatane and Ruatoki, arranging for opening of the Uriwera country for exploration Conveyance of mails between Bluff and Port Pegasus, Stewart Island Boring machine Safety-cage Subsidy towards sinking shaft at Coromandel Diamond bits for drill Fee paid to W. C. R. Austen for preparation of report on treament of ores and visit to Frieberg Law-costs Miscellaneous 66 18 4 940 5 1 50 1 0 16 5 3 63 0 0 200 0 0 56 0 0 15 0 0 47 18 0 54 1 0 393 13 10 1,884 16 2 105 0 0 27 0 11 49 12 9 Less amount realised by sales of gold exhibits, Paris Exhibition 11,801 18 6 421 16 4 CLASS 13-MINISTER OF DEFENCE:— Vote No. 65—Miscellaneous Services: — Item 1—Rewards for conviction in sly grog-cases Item 2—Repairs to military graveyards Item 3—Purchase long-service medals Item 4—Pension to Mrs. Elizabeth Ford, from 1 April, 1889, to 31 March, 1890 Item 5—Pension of late F. G. Rawson continued to his widow Item 6—Pension of late William Oliver continued to his widow Item 7 —Pension of Mrs. Passmore continued to her sisters .. Item 8—Pension to Aperahama Tahumirangi, for wounds received while in the service of the New Zealand Government Item 9 —Pensions to recipients of New Zealand Cross Item 10—Special allowance to ex-Constable Packer for serious permanent injuries received.in the service Item 11—Special allowance to ox-Constable Miles Leighton for serious permanent injuries received in the service £11,380 2 2 51 0 0 30 0 0 0 15 0 46 0 0 45 0 0 3i'l5 0 7 10 0 190 0 0 39 10 10 30 0 0 Carried forward 474 10 10