TIE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5697, 16 October 1896, Page 2

TIE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES.

"[Per Press Association.! WELLINGTON, Oct. 15. The Supplementary Estimates provide: — Printing Banking. Committee's report and evidence, £250; .ditto Legislative Council, £200; reporting House Banking 1 Committee, £350. -.' , . ... Compensation Mr Barron,' n late chief reporter Hansard, £1500. Expenses Representation Commissioners, .£7OO. Cost licensing poll, .£3OOO. Grant in aid Fire Brigades' annual demonstration, .£250; railway passes to members attending same, .£250. Subsidy flax export, .£250. Preliminary expenses Government valuation laud .£2OOO. Expenses New Zealand Rifle Association meeting .£SOO. . . Balance of cost of Tutanekai and bringing her out, .£25,000. I ©rant to refuge work, .£ISOO. Compensation to Messrs Mounsey and Austin, wrongful arrest at Rotorua, ,£SB. Supply of fish ova, .£3OO. Heriot and Roxburgh survey, .£IOOO. For promotion of New Zealand produce in the United Kingdom, .£250. Cost of Timber Conference, .£379. The introduction of sixpenny telegrams is responsible for a vote of ..£3264, represented by new appointments and promotions. For conveyance of mails by sea, .£7636. Refund Customs on memorial statue to the late Mr John Ballance, .£6O. Additional expenses in connection with Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1894, £250. ; Electric power and engineering and report, £5©Q. : 1-. . „ ■...-i- i Establishment of additional experimental stations (Dexrartment of Agriculture), £500. Compensation for cattle destroyed for tuberculosis and other diseases, ..£IOOO. Cost of hearing Railway Appeal Board cases, £400. In full satisfaction all claims of J. J. Meikle against the Government, .£SOO. Payment of Land tax on mortgage investments (advances' -to settlers office), £1774. Additional amount for telegraph extension, £6000. Purchase Martini-Henry ammunition: £1000. The following voteß are ,of, interest to Canterbury: — Enlarging railway sorting carriages, Hurunui- Bluff line, .£360; refund Customs duties on memorial .window to late Bishop Harper, £17; Whitcombe Pass Road, £1000; Court-house, Leeston, £250; additions Christchurch Post and Telegraph Office, £75. In the Ashley electorate the following sums mil be spent :— Cheviot roads, £500, and Police Station, Ainberley, £653.