THE COUNTIES OF PICTON AND THE PELORUS!

Marlborough Express, Volume III, Issue 133, 29 August 1868, Page 3

THE COUNTIES OF PICTON AND THE PELORUS!

The following figures have been handed to ps. for public information, as the result of a thorough and patient investigation of the various documents and vouchers in detail, under which all monies have been expended since the Separation of this Province from Nelson until the present time. It is satisfactory to learn that when the model petitions from Picton and the Pelorus, seeking to be erected into Counties, are taken under consideration by the Assembly, these figures will be produced in contradiction of the statements contained in those mendacious documents. We regret that the late period at which the information reached us, renders it impossible this week ,to do more than lay it before our readers, but we. may possibly on a future occasion, devote a little space to its consideration. Return showing the Total .Expenditure and Territorial Revenue of the Province of Marlborough, from its foundation to June 30, 1868: .. TERRITORIAL REVENUE, Picton District — Receipts from Laud Sales, Pastoral licenses, &c. ... 24,378 18 1 From Gold Fields ... ... 7,869 12 2 £32,248 10 3 Wairau District — Receipts from Land Sales, Pastoral licenses, &c. ... 153,116 14 5 Total .. g £185,365 4 8 EXPENDITURE. Picton District — Public Works 49,339 11 4 Wairau District — Public Works ... ... 37,410 15 9 Interest on share of Nelson Debentures (£7,500, which was spent wholly in the , Picton district ... .. 4,627 15 lj? Amount expended on Opawa Breach ... 11,314 0 9 Ditto ditto Gouland’s Ferry 1,561 11 0 General Government expen- , diture, including Departmental, Police, Gaols, Hos- , pital, Charitable, Education, Immigration, Surveys, Steam Subsidies,.&c, ... 111,792 11 6 J- Total ... ... £216,046 6 8 -—The difference, between the totals of Expenditure and the Receipts of Territorial Revenue (£30,681 25.) has been derived from Publicans’ Licenses, and.those sources which are now classed; under the head of “ Consolidated Fund,”