TELEGRAMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10505, 31 October 1895, Page 2

TELEGRAMS

(Fkom Our Own Correspondent.) Wellington, Oijtober 30. The Supplementary Estimates are, as was expected, upou a more moderate scale than usual. Oh ordinary revenue account tbe total is £33,419, publio works fund £14,893, lands improvemeut account £6800, Native lands purchase account £4200, consolidated fund for i services i_o; provided'-vt'or £18,135. Among the James Brown Patterson was born at Alnwick, ! items are expenses of Colonial Treasurer to Northumberland, in im Ha emigrated to Vie- i Lon.ioa £500, bouu__ for dtftcuct'ou of rabbits fiM.f "w »nd went to the Forest Creek gold* ; £IQQQ fiaanciai _ iAvißet to Government, nine Hold. He then engaged in farming near Dayles- ~' nwnn. c . c- twr , c ■ ■ ford. Io . IS7I. hS was elected to repre- . months, £300 ; fee to Sir J. Vogel as financial sent Castlemaine in Parliament, and lias adviser to Government, balance of jear, £100; represented the constituency ever sine* setth-mtnt of dtims of «....W. BH, £260; He look office in Mr (now Sir) Graham Berry's Vencouver mail service, £5000 ; expenses of Ministry in 1875,-and-was Po3tmastSr-geaeral in , Tariff Commi-sion, additional, £210; refuge R-S™ oM^°? a MwSt^ -S1500: expanses in connection with Joerry Ministry. H>* visited Lngland lalSSi; and -~__ /i„..«n;. ■-.■„-. ...^ » i,i. .i « I did not return to Victoria tilT ISB9, when he ">* Conc-hation and Arbitration Act, joined the Gillies Ministry. He was prominent iv £-"9 0'. r&ilvi».y fares to Vancouver, £1200; preserving order in the maritime strike of IS9J). final expeoses in connection with the After tbe defeat of the. i-iiUiiS-DeaXin Mini-try New Zeal-nd Rifle As.-cciation; £30ff; Mr Pati erson Jrc-visi'wd. KuKland. After his purchisa of Martini - Heavy ammunition, return he succeeded Mr sliMs as Preniier. aiid £5000; volunteer camps of instruc.fou, £1000; shor.lyK-foiroh.s defeat was created a K.C.M.G. j prosecution of g ro g. te Ui,. X , £100; i^pectors under Liceuting Act, £600; purchase of the Hermitage, Mount Cook, £900; tupply of fish ova aud acclimatisation of fish, £250; valuation fees under Advanoea to Settlers Act, £3500. Main roads, additional-—Birkenhead-Warkworth, £200; Napier-Wairoj, £300 ; Bel-gi-ove-Westpoit-Reefton, £500; Rreiton-Hoki-tita-RoM, £500 ; Nelson-Havelock and bridges, £200 ; Blouheiffi-Kaikoura-Waiau, £300 *, travelling allow-iiices of Ministers, £313; expewes in connection with VVau_-_.-i.iia wreck, £276; criminal prosecutions, £3066; industriel schooK £433; lunatic asylums, £4072; whutf at Decanter Bay, Banks Peninsula, £150 ; exoe«"«-s of Christchurch Hospital Commission, £465 ; alterations at"Burn__ftm Industrial Schoo', £300. Tha Otago item-, are :— Wna-f, Horseshoe 8..y, Stewart Island, £200. Roads aod Bridges—OUgo : B«anmont-Rankle-bnrn, additional, £400; Wir-gf.-*ld-Ra.__nui, £50. •Southland: Mabel district, £200; Hcdge-bope-Mst-.ur», £100 ; Lonakera settlement, £150; Forest Hill, M'Donald road, additional, £300. Roads— Oiago: Wait*ti road additionol, £100; Normanby, Hontit Cargill, £150. Southland : Oerpuki-Waiau, £120 ;•' Reaby Retreat, .£IOO ; Wak&rewa-Grove Bush/£100; Centre BushOiapirj, £100; Waltaestown, Spar Bn»b, ahd Waimituku Flat, £100 ; Bluff road, £500; Campbelltown, £100; aud Camphelltowu, £600; Girdiers road, £50; Hillend Bush, Dipton Flat, £320; Heddon Bush, £200 ; Black Creek bridge and road, £200.

Sir Patrick Buckley is mnch better to-night.