THE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES..

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10264, 16 October 1896, Page 5

THE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES..

BY TELEGRAPH,—SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] Wellington, Thursday. The following are the main items of general interest on the Supplementary Estimates :— Printing of Hansard (additional), £400. Printing of Banking Committees' reports and evidence, £250. > Reporting Banking Committed of Legislative Council, £200. Reporting Bulking Committee of the House of Representatives, £350. Compensation tor loss of olfiflo to C. C. N. Barron, late chief reporter of Hansard, £1.500. Gratuity^ 0 messengers employed during Expenses of representation commission, £700. New printing machine, for more rapidly printing Hansard, £500. Printing General Assembly library catalogue, £1,037, Introduction of Rocky Mountain sheep, £300. Cost of licensing polls under the Alcoholic Liquors Sale Control Act, 1893, £3000. Grant in aid of fire brigades annual demonstration, £250. Railway passes for members of, fire brigades attending annual demonstrations, £250. Subsidy ot £1 for £1 towards expounds of sending an expert to Ainorioa and Great Britain to investigate and report on markets for New Zealand hemp, £250. Revision of maps and other preliminary expeusesin connection with the Government Valuation of Land Act, 1898, £1000. Subsidies paid to counties separate rates collected for 1895-98 - Waitaki County, £1432 ; Wallace County, £SflO. For promotion of sale of New Zealand produce in the United Kingdom, £'200. Moiety of oosii of freight 011 West Coast timber, £023. Cost of the Timber Conference, £379, Conveyance of mails by sea—cost of transit from San i)rauuisco to New York and from New York to Queenstown, of homeward mail, 1895 (additional), £6536. Contingencies, gratuities, etc,, in connection with ocean mails (additional), £1000. Balance of cost of now cable steamer Tutunekai, and expenses of bringing her out, £28.500. New tower Farewell Spit Lighthouse (additional), £200. Subsidy £1 for £1 for relief of sufferers by flood, Invercarglll, £191. Grunt for refuge work, £1500. Expenses in connection with the Concilia:l#ii and Arbitration Act, 1891 (additional), £250. Schools of Mines (additional)— Subsidies towards cost of buildings and appliances, £1000. hleotrio power, engineoriug, and report, £uOO. I'urchasc of about 11 miles of WaitohiHiminui rabbit fence, £750. Subsidy to Otngo Agricultural and Pastoral Association towards the erection of Agricultural Hall, £500. Establishment of additional experimental stations, £500, Compensation for cattle destroyed for tuberculosis and other diseases under the Stock Act, £1000. Purchase of Martini-Henri ammunition (additional), £1000. Repairs to torpedo boat, Auckland, £155. Expenses Nciv Zealand Rifle Association's meeting, £500. J. J. Meikle, of Southland, in full satisfaction of all claims against the Government (recommended by the I'nblic Petitions Committee), £500. Supply of fish ova, and acclimatisation of fish and animals, £300. Grant to Cheviot County towards completion of roads (additional), £501). Railways — lleriot • Roxburgh survey, £1000. Land claims (drainage), £1500. Grant to the Cliristchurch Benevolent Society's Home, Addingto'n, £50. Grant to derrick's City Mission, Christchurch, £50. The following Auckland votes are on the Estimates for roads aud bridges, eto, :— Waipa Bridge at Ngaruawahia (subsidy £1 for £1). Raglan and Waipa, £500. l'ahi Wharf and road (to account), Otamatea, £90. Kaikohe and Taheke, Hokianga and Bay of Islands, i'soo. Purua Bridge, Whangarei, £200, Maungatapere Road, Whangarei, £200. Tokatokn Swamp, Otamotea, £1890. Roads on goldfieids, etc.:— Wairakei Bridge to Waiinaru, £150, Kikiwhakariki to Koputanaki, £200. hang ipoua Mill Road, £100. Bridge, Kuaotunu, £200.