Revenue Returns.
(By Telegraph. ) WELLINGTON. Apuil 18. The accounts for the colony, for the financial year ending 31st March, are now completed, and show a surplus, as far as the consolidated fund is concerned, of £77,000. Against this must bo placed a deficiency in the land fund of £II,OOO, leaving a net surplus of £66,000. This satisfactory condition of the colonial finances will, the Premier slates, enable the Government, as promised to Parliament, to use the full amount of the primage duly in the reduction of the public debt, and they will then have a credit balance for the your."
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 4986, 20 April 1889, Page 2
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