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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1612, 21 January 1903, Page 12

Fifty men have been put on the Springfield end of the Midland railway. where there is a good deal of tunnelling work to he done. Tenders are now being called for the Staircase viaduct on this section. The structure ■will he 200 feet from the river-bed, and will have two spans of 192 feet and one of 60 feet, the total length cf viai* duct and approaches being 563 feet_ Metal windguards are to be. provided. During the year 1902 there were eighteen petitions filed in Wellington by debtors, according ta the records of the Official Assignee’s office. The number for the preceding year was thirteen.; The number of adjudications on petitions by creditors was four, as against five in 1901. Twelve orders of immediate discharge were granted by . the Court, or twice as many as in the year, previous; and there was only one case in which the order of discharge was suspended by the Court, as against six in 1901. ' The Hutt County balance-sheet for the half-year ended the 30th September, 1902, has been certified to by the Auditor-General. The general account shows that at that date there was a balance erf £2692 19s 6d. The principal items of receipt during the half-year were General rates, £1692 18s 4d.; Government subsidies, £735 12s 7d; licenses and feee, £334 14s 2d. The principal expenses were:—Administration, £639 3s lid; hospital and charitable aid, £4Bl 18a ; public works, £1367 9s Id ; transfers, £167 4s 4cL