GENERAL CONTINGENCIES.
A return showing details of the general cc.Titingenci-s, item £9527, in the Colonial Secretary's Department during 1897-98, was laid on the table-to-day. In a very varied list appears : —Reception of 'the Governor £81, books and publications £95. railway, passes to acclimatisation delegates £16. flaj^ for Government House £10, Jubilee illuminated address to Queen £23, half costs publishing transactions of Dunedin Medical Congress £91, passages of Harbour Conference delegates £34, photographs Waitoriia Caves £9. rewards for the arrest of deserters £70. Subscriptions to newspapers £263. Larger amounts include night-watchmen and extra messengers £1173. extra clerical assistance £964. cleaning offices £1081. telegrams to Australia, England, etc., £2209, aiid travelling allowances and expenses of Ministers £1790.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6285, 16 September 1898, Page 1
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115GENERAL CONTINGENCIES. Star (Christchurch), Issue 6285, 16 September 1898, Page 1
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