THE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES.

Evening Post, Volume LIV, Issue 149, 21 December 1897, Page 6

THE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES.

♦ Among the votes appearing on the Supplementary Estimates, which were presented to Parliament to-day, are the following : — Expenses under Awarua Seat .Enquiry Act, 1897, £116 ; Olago Jubilee Industrial Exhibition, £500; payment to Eeuter's Telegram Company for special telegrams, £500; grant to Auckland Industrial and Mining Exhibition, 1898-99, £500; New Zealand Flora, £400 j bonus for felt industry, £500. Increase of salaries, "Wellington — Eegistrar Supreme Court, £25; Deputy Eegistrar, £10; Clerk Magistrate's Court, Wellington, £10. Expenses incurred through the Maori prisoners recently convicted at New Plymouth, £500. Balance half-rate on loss of shipment of timber to London per Eangitikei, £144. Vancouver mail service, £2608; cost of transit from Vancouver to New York, and New York to Queenstown, of Homeward mails, £838; interprovincial service (Vancouver service), mail agents, and travelling allowance, £950; diving operations to recover mails from wreck of Tasmania, £560 ; defalcation by a postal officer now deceased, £280. Increase of salariesCustoms Department, head office (two of £10), Clerk and "Writer (Audit), £20. Eefunds of Customs duty on— Statue of Bishop Harper, Christchurcb, £76 ; statue of Her Majesty the Queen, Auckland, £220}; monument to the victims of the Brunner Coal-mine disaster, Stillwater, £30 ; refund of duty on goods destroyed by fire at Auckland Wharf, £2200. Shipping-master and Examiner of Masters and Mates, Wellington (also TJnder-Secretary for Defence, £400), £50 ; fish-hatcheries and expenses of Expert Ayson to Canada and America, £750 ; improvement of Somes Island Light (to be refunded by Wellington Harbour Board), £800. Increase of salary, clerk (Accounts), Education Department, £10 ; technical education, £100. Grant for refuge work, £1500; Salvation Army Prison-brigade -work, £250. Department oC Labour— lncrease of salaries, Secretary £25, Chief Clerk £25, four Inspectors (£25 each) £100 ; expenses in connection wjth the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1894 (additional expenses), £650. Expenses cyanide patent, £1500 ; Brunner mine disaster (additional expenses), £208 ; mining exhibits Auckland Industrial Exhibition, £250. Experimental station (additional)— .Compensation for cattle destroyed for tuberculosis and other diseases under the Stock Act, £1000. Working Railways— Increase of salaries, General Manager, £50; Chief Engineer for Working Railways, £25. Auckland Maintenance Department — Additional permanent-way material, £500. Napier-Taranaki — Eepair dswnage by floods, £4200 ; additional permanent way material, £2000. Wellington— Removal of slip at Summit, £750; claims in connection with accident, Kaitoke, £336. Hurunui-Bluff— Additional permanent way material, £2500. Parliamentary Buildings — New library, £7000. Compensation to Captain W. T. Powell on retirement from service, £623; liabilities New Zealand Eifle Association meeting, 1897, £400 ; passages of Instructor Burbery, E.A., and family from England, £121 ; passages of Captain Coyle, E.E., and family from England, £201; passages of wife and family of Colonel Penton, Commander of the Forces, from England, £136 ; Old Soldiers' Commission (additional), £550; compensation to M'Lean Brothers in full satisfaction of all claims, £3500 ; Eoads and bridges.— Wellington districtHall Special Settlement, Pahiatna, £150; Eakanui-Makuri Pougaroa Junction, £400; Flat Point Eoad, £250; Driscoll's Eoad, £100 ; Kaiwhata Valley (additional), £,100. Increase of salary Record Clnrk Public Trust office, £10. The Chief Clerk of the Advances to Settlers office got au increase of £50,