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Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1718, 5 February 1874, Page 2

The Abstract of Receipts and Expenditure of: the Provincial Treasurer of Nelson, during the quarter ended the 31st December, 1873, is published in the Provincial Gazette, from it we gather that the actual receipts of revenue from all sources amounted to' and the actual disbursements to but the balances from the previous quarter, and to be carried to the next, are £13,716 and respectively. The receipts were as follows : —Capitation allowance from the General Government, .£4372 ; goldfields revenue, £1105 ; publicans and other licenses, £5Q ; harbor dues, £193 ; Government wharves, .£125 ; fees under Scab, Act, £32; education rate, £375; Bruriher Coal-mine, ; dog licenses, £12 ; miscellaneous, £125 ; land fund, £9350. The disbursements were : Executive, Executive establishment, and Land and Public Works department, £1813 ; Wardens, gaols, and police, £2964 ; hospitals, £1140 ; maintenance of destitute poor, £426; Nelson Lunatic Asylum, ,£359 ; education— grants to Provincial schools £1950, other charges, including purchase of a site for a school, ,£232. The items under the head "Miscellaneous" amount to £3282, which sum includes .£2600 for the purchase of Westport sections. The expenditure on public works on the gold-fields during the quarter was £1604. Grants to Road Boards, am pun ted to £825, and £5596 was expended upon public works on

the South-west Gold-fields, the principal items being : — Road from Hope to Lyell, £1371 ; road, Charleston to Westport, via Addison's, £595 ; Brunner Coal-mine, £1811-: grants to Gold-field District Boards, £500.