THE QUARTER'S PUBLIC ACCOUNTS.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 10, 13 January 1881, Page 2

THE QUARTER'S PUBLIC ACCOUNTS.

? Although the public accounts for the last quarter are not yet finally made up, we believe that the following will he found tb be the accurate figures (shillings and pence being in all cases omitted) : — Receipts — Assets of previous year since realised (including .£2OOO on account of sale of 'Wellington Supreme Court site), ; Customs, .£325,103 ; stamps, .£32,006 ; land-tax, .£2186; beer duty, .£18,248; railways, .£196,878; postal, ; telegraphic, .£16,879; judicial, £13,454; land transfer and deeds registry, .£11,525 ; registration and other fees, .£9955 ; marine,- .£3306 ; miscellaneous, £12,281 ; land sales, .£72,153 ; depasturing licenses, &c, .£36,672 ; miscellaneous territorial revenue, £1296 ; miscellaneous recoveries, £4675 ; total receipts, £793,158. Expenditure—Liabilities of previous year since paid, £4835; civil list, £8074 ; interest and sinking fund, £313,079 ; appropriations under special Acts, £10,429; subsidies to Counties, &0., £60,379; one-third proceeds of lands sold on deferred payments, £1309; New Plymouth Harbor Board endowment, £886; Ellesmere and Forsyth reclamation, &c, £1069; Legislative, £6043; Colonial Secretary's department, £56,480 ; Treasury, £11,651; Justice, £31,417; Postal and Telegraphic, £58,577; Customs, £19,914; Stamps, £5492 ; Education, £68,113 ; Native, £653; Mines, £2015; Public Works, £113,073; Defence, £62,494; Lands, £34,286 ; services not provided for, £4817— - total expenditure of Consolidated Fund (less £38,500 transferred from Public Works Fund for contingent defence), £836/095. The expenditure in excess of ¦ receipts for the quarter was therefore £40,300. Of the other revenues whioh go to Local Bodies, the gold duty- 1 -realised £9177, and gold fields revenue £4260. The expenditure of the Public Works Fund amounted to £426,944, the chief items being — Railways, £238,056 ; roads, £39,697; contingent defence, £38,500; public buildings, £36,978 ; miscellaneous publio works, £18,322 ; land purchases, . £17,818 ; immigration, £16,139.