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Press, Volume XVI, Issue 2191, 27 April 1870, Page 3

A FEW FACTS. pERTAIN STATEMENTS haying been made concerning the state of the public accounts at different periods of Mr Moor- i house's administration, calculated to damage Mr Moorhouee at the coming election, the attention of the public is requested to the following statement (carefully compiled from I official returns) of FACTS :— When Mr Moorhouee came into office in November, 1857, there was a balance to the credit of the province of £6,810 0 0 When he left office in March, i 863, the balance to the credit of the province was then 31,978 4, 11 When re-elected in June, 1866, there was a balance against the province on the 30th of that month amounting to £82,216 17s Id When he left office in May 1868, the balance to the credit of the Province was on the 30th June following, after paying £51,929 17b Id due to the Bank! ... 130,616 9 0 And there was a borrowing power left to the extent of £200,000 on the Canterbury ! Loan. Mr Moorhouee expended in Public Works from Nov. 1857 to March 1863 ... 483,000 0 0 And from June, 1866 to May, 1868 168,310 0 0 Elect ore will do well to bear in mind that it was the Hall-Bealey-Bolleeton party who spent £250,000 on the West Coast road, about £15,000 on the extravagant Council Chamber, and who paid Mr Doyne about the same amount for professional services which were of no use to the Province!!! 4-26 FOB SALE, A FIRST-CLASS FARM of 160 AOBEB, with capital dwelling house, and every other requisite, within six miles of Christ* church. Price extremely moderate. Apply to No. M 4-28 GHABL&B CLABK.