LOAVES AND FISHES.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 635, 14 September 1899, Page 5

LOAVES AND FISHES.

SOUTHLAND'S SHARE OF THE SPOIL. Following are most of the Southland [ items on the Estimates, the amounts in i braokets representing the liability on 31st i March, 1899, reducing the vote to that ex- . tent:— Settlement roads in Wendon district (£150) > £200 ; Centre Bush-Otapiri (£150), £200 ; Mataura to Dunsdale, £200 ; Wainekiki to Mataura, £400; Mokoreta, blocks VII, IX , £ for £ ; Oteramika (£255), £300 ; Otera-mika-Timpany's road, £150; Kingswell's Creek-Seaward Bush '(£sl3), £520; Seaward Bush township road through block 111, £100 ; Neil's road to termination of Seaward Bush railway (£100), £200 ; Seaward Bush towni ship-McQuarrie road (£166), £200 ; Seaward Bush blocks HI, IV, £200 ; Mataura IslandTitiroa Siding (£ for £), £200 ; One Tree Point to Waimatua (£ for £), £200 ; Toi Tois, section 2,' block X, £100 ; Waikawa-Fortrose (£300),. £500; Mokoreta, block VII, £100; Waikawa Valley, £100 ; Waikawa, block I, £150; Waikawa, block VII (£94), £150; Waikawa-Otara (£532), £800 ; Otara to Haldane Post Office, £200 ; Waikawa- Wyndham Valley (£157), £500. Bridges, etc. — Otapiri bridge at Dodd's, £150; Mararoa bridge (£269), £270; im--proved farm settlements, Waikawa (£412), £600; Haldane ' (£581), £800; Waipati (£127), £500 ; Wairaki-terrace (side cutting down), £50; Waikaka township-Little Waikaka, £150 ; Gore-Waikaka, £400 ; ParrawaNokomai, £150; Riversdale-Waikaia, £200. Publio buildings. -- Courthouse, ' Bluff, £1100; police station, Invercargill, £1000; Mataura post-office, repairs, etc. (£43), £130.