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New Zealand Mail, Issue 691, 29 May 1885, Page 18

The statement of receipts and expenditure for the Colony for the quarter ending March 31st, 1885, are published. The ordinary receipts to the Consolidated Fund were £979,695 10s Bd, which included among other items : Customs,. £377,259 1.7 s ; stamps, including postage cash receipts, £150,118 4s 2d ; propertytax, £91,236 13s 8d ; railways, £292,942 14s 3d ; telegraphic, £26,896 6s The territorial revenue amounted to £71,198la 7d. Deficiency bills issued under the Public Revenues Act, IS7B, amounted to £214,900, bringing the total receipts upto £1,490,604 12s 2d. The expenditure* on account of the same fund, contains, the following items : —Permanent appropriations, £371,208 6s 5d ; annual appropriations. £636,715 7s 9d. The cost of ordinary services was £1,009,513 9s 3d. Deficiency bills amounting to £261,200 were redeemed. The cash balance in the public account and in the hands of officers of the Government is £219,891 23 lid. The proceeds of land sales for cash brought in £24,069 Is Id, and on deferred payment £21,431 11s lid, making £45,500 13s in all. The balances in hand on this account amount to £31,931 is 3d.