THE ESTIMATES.

Press, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4637, 11 June 1880, Page 3

THE ESTIMATES.

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I {SBOX OT7B OWB COBRBBPOm>XST.~\ WELLINGTON, June 10. Th* Estimates for the current financial year 1880 81, are as follows :— BBTBBUB. £ 1 Customs ... 1,250,000 Stamps _ 140,000 Property tax 300,000 Railways _ 950,000 Postal ... ■_. 145,000 Telegraph ... ...; 80,000 Judicial 60,000 Land transfer and deeds registry... 32,000 Registration and other fees ... 32,000 Marine ... ... _ ... 16,000 Miscellaneous 50,000 Pastoral licenses 135,000 Total £3,190,000 BXPBHDITUBB. £ Civil list 29,750 Interest and sinking fund 1,453,161 Permanent appropriations under, speoial Acts of the Legislature ... 50,587 Legislature ... . 39i851 Colonial Secretary's department ... 170,220 Treasury ... 50,470 Justice 137,139 Post and Telegraph 278,646 Customs ... .. 90,848 Stamps 23,785 Education 297,730 Native ... .;. ... ... 14,262 Mines ... ... , 23,200 Pablic works .... 634,079 Defence 180,981 Total ... 3,473,709 From the estimated expenditure has to be deducted £225,000, the estimated amount which will not be aotually spent within the year, and £50,000 departmental reductions, the total net expenditure being therefore £3,198,709, leaving a deficit of £8709 to the revenue. However, there has to be added the - proceeds of the propoeed n s w taxation, viz.,teer duty, £80,000; increase in succession duties, £10.000; total, £90,000; less £40,000, the estimated loss by exemption of personal effects from the Property Tax, giving a net addition of £50,000. If from this the deficit of £8709 6s 7d be deducted, it leaves £41,290 13a 5d as the estimated surplus for the year.