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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4170, 1 August 1874, Page 2

A hetden has been laid before Parliament showing the state of the Ecsorves Account of the Colony for the financial year 1872-3, showing the sums reserved under each vote, the sums expended during the financial year 1873-1, and the unexpended balances on the 30th of June of the present year. The amount reserved and charged to the Consolidated Pund was £19,120 ; the amount expended, £13,403 ; leaving the balances at £5717. The whole amount voted for public works had been expended, and, also those for tho geological and meteorological, land transfer, and deeds registry departments; also for Petty Sessions Courts, criminal prosecutions, conveyance of mails by

i-ea, ' and inland customs and- distilleries, and marine; Of the reserve .for the militia and volunteers in'the North Island £3195 remained unclaimed ; of that for the same forces in the South Island, £1599. There was an unexpended balance of £292 in connection with the Inspector’s and £239 with the stores department of the force. Tor the San Francisco mail service there remained unexpended an amount of £122 ; and in the reserves for salaries of European and Native officers, £B2 ; and in that for Native Lauds Frauds Prevention Act, £74 ; banks’ commission, £BO. The other balances were small. The reserves under the Defence and Other Purposes Loan Act, 1870, were £34,640, the amount expended £11,453 ; and the balances unexpended, £23,187.