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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4179, 12 August 1874, Page 2

The estimates to defray the salaries, contingencies, and' expenses of the immigration Department, in connection with the Immigration and Public Works Loan, for the year 1871-5, were laid before the House yesterday by the Premier. The total amount of the vote proposed for the year is £181,161 in round numbers, and £270,396 for 1873-I—a sum which includes £250,000 for the introduction, location, &c., including liabilities for immi-' grants now on the way. The vote proposed for the Agent-General’s Department for the year is £12,065. Among the items are £IOO for a private secretary for the Agent-General ; twelve clerks, £1590 ; a shipping officer, £400; a shipping agent, £300; an assistant shipping officer and travelling agent, £300; a medical officer, £500; advertising and stationery, £3OOO ; the chief agents office in Dublin, £2OO ; for six agencies in the United Kingdom, £3OOO ; and for travelling expenses, £IOOO. For the introduction and location of immigrants in the present year, £275,000. The Immigration Officer at Auckland is set down at £3OO, and it is proposed to vote £BOOO for country depots’in that Province, and £9OOO for advances for works in connection with the location of settlers, including advances for cottages, £9ooo—total for Auckland, £17,858. The salary of the Immigration Officer at Taranaki is £IOO, and it is proposed to advance to the Province, for depots and for works to assist settlement and the other purposes contemplated by the vote for Auckland, a sum of £20,000. Taranaki, therefore, stands for £20,125 for the year. The officer at Hawke's Bay has the same salary as the officerat Taranaki, but in that Province an “ interpreter and collector of bills ” is necessary, who will draw £l5O from the Immigration Fund. A sum of £2OO is to bo given for the purchase of a site for an office or depot, £IOO for two schoolmasters in the Seventy-mile Bush, and £458 for repairs to the depot at Napier ; and ’ it is proposed to grant £2OOO for depots, and to advance £9OOO for works. The total for Hawke’s Bay is £12,136. The Immigration Officer at Wellington will receive £375, the depot-master and matron £IBO, a cadet £6O, the Quarantine keeper and matron’ £l2O ; and it is proposed to vote £2OOO for country depots, £3OOO for advances for cottages, and an advance of £60,000 “on land for public' works in connection with ■ settlement on terms provided by the Provincial Public Works Advance Act, 1874.” The total for Wellington is £66,283. The Nelson officer will have £l5O ; in the construction of a depot at Nelson and country depots, &0,, £3OOO is to bo spent, and £BOOO is to ho advanced for works to promote settlement. In Marlborough the officer receives only £25 ; contingencies are set down at £500; for depot, &0., £2OOO is asked, and it is proposed to advance £14,000. Total for Marlborough, £16,535. To Westland, £2OOO is to be voted for depots ; and £12,000 as an advance for the usual purposes. Total for Westland £14,175. The immigration officer at Canterbury is salaried with £4OO ; his assistant has £2OO ; his clerk, £IBO ; and his messenger, £62 12s. The immigration officer at Timaru will have £125 ; and it' is proposed to -vote £BOOO for depots, &c., but nothing for advances to promote settlement, Canterbury having employed a portion of her ample funds in that direction, and not requiring the aid of the General Government. The total for Canterbury is £9317.: The Immigration Officer for Otago is' set down for £325 ; his two clerks, £2OO each; his cadet, £6O; and the visiting surgeon, £SO ; £6OOO is to be voted for country depots ; and the Province desires an advance of £IO,OOO bn the terms proposed by the Government in connection with' the location of settlers, erection of cottages, ! &c, .'The total for Otago is

£17,395. There is also a vote to be proposed of £I2OO, as the moiety of the cost of four steam launches—one each for Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, slnd Dunedin., , • A Blue Book of the Imperial Parliament contains some interesting particulars as to the distribution of land in Scotland. In the “north countrie” there are 18,946,694 acres,, of an annual value’of £18,698,804, or within a fraction of £1 per awe; : These lands are divided amongst 131,5? V owners, of whom there are not fewer than Jl-,546 in the city or burgh of Edinburgh, and 10,991 in Glasgow. In the ancient “kingdom o’ Eife,” with its thirteen or-more royal boroughs, there only 304,363 acres, and these are divided amongst not fewer than =10,410 proprietors. Inverness has the largest area, 2,589,408 acres, divided amongst 1867 owners, the value per acre being 3s. only, as compared with 60s. in Eife. The smallest county is Cromarty, which has only an area of 18,206 acres, divided amongst 231 proprietors. The lands of Renfrew are of the highest annual value, £3 12s, per ' acre ; those of Linlithgow and Clackmannan,, £3 ss. per acre; those of Lanark, £3 Is. per acre. The lands of lowest value are those of Sutherland, which are set down at 13d. per acre, with Zetland next at 25., and Boss next at 2s. 6d. In Glasgow there are 4812 acres, of the annual value of £2,342,164, or £4BO per acre ; in Edinburgh there are 3738 acres, valued at £1,294,331, or £350 per acre ; and in Leith and Dundee the value per acre is the same, namely £2lO.