THE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Wellington, December 21.

Otago Witness, Issue 2286, 23 December 1897, Page 34

THE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Wellington, December 21.

The following are the principal items in the Supplementary Estimates : — Expensrs under the Awarua Seat Inquiry Aci 1 , £116; Otago Jubilee Industrial Exhibition, £500; payment to Reuter's Telegram Company for special telegrams, £500; grant to Auckland Industrial and Mining Exhibition, 1898-99, £500; New Zealand flora, £400; bonus for felt industry, £500 ; expenses incurred through the Maori prisoners recently convicted at New Plymouth, £500 ; balance of half-rate on lots of shipment of timber to London per Rangitikei, £144- ; Vancouver nsail service^ £2608 ; cost of transit from Vancouver to New York and New York to Queenstown of Homeward mails, £838 ; inter provincial service (Vancouver service) — mail agents, agents, and travelliog allowaoce, £850 ; diving operations to recover mails from wt-eck of Tasmania, £560 ; defalcations by a postal officer now deceased, £280 ; refund of customs duty on statue of Bishop Harper, Christcburch, £76 ; sta' ue of her Majesty the Queen, Auckland, £220 ; monument to the victims of the; Bruuner coal mine disaster, Stillwater, £30 ; refund of duty on good* destroyed by fiie at Auckland wharf, £2200 ; shipping master and examiner of masters and mates, Wellington (also under Secretary for Defence, £400), £50; fish hatcheries and expenses of expert (Aysou) to Canada and America, £750 ; improvement to Sonaes Island light (to be refunded by Wellington Harbour Board), £800; technical education, £100 ; grant for refuge work, £1500; Salvation Army Prison Brigade work, £250; D-pirbmenb of Labour — increase of salaries (aeeretary £25, chief clerk £25, four inspectors £25), £150 ; expenses in connection with "The Conciliation and A'bitration Act, 1894 " (additional expenses), £650 ; expenses cyanide patent, £1500 ; Bruuner mine disaster (additional expenses), £208 ; mining exhibits (Auckland ludu?trial Exhibition), £250 ; experimental station (additional), £1000 ; compensation for cattle destroyed for tuberculosis and other diseases under the Stock Act, £1000 ; Auckland maintenance department (additional permanent) way materiAl), £500 ; Napier-Tatauaki (to repair damage by- floods), £4200; additional permanent way material, £2000 ; Wellington, removal of slips ab Summit. £750 ; claims in connection with accident, Kailokc, £336 ; Huruuui-Bluff (additional permanent; way material), £2500; compensation to Captain W. T. Powell on retirement from service, £623 ; liabilities N<jw Zealand Rifle Association meeting, 1897, £400 ; passages of Instructor Burbory, R.A., and family from England, £121 ; paseages of Captain Coyle, R.E., and family from England, £201 ; passages of wife and family of Colonel Penton, commander of the forces, from England, £136 ; old soldiers' commission (additional), £550; compensation to M 'Lean Bros, in full satisfaction of a)l claims, £3500. .