AUCKLAND.

Waikato Times, Volume VI, Issue 318, 28 May 1874, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

FINANCIAL STATEMENT. Wednesday. The Provincial Treasurer moved his Financial Statement at 7 to-night. Estimates total levenue at £132,075, made up as follows :— Balance in Tre.uury, December 31&t, 1873, £8675 ; Land Revenue unler Land Court Fees Act, £.;2,0W ; Capitation Giant (special allowance), £10,000 Provincial revenue, including reimbui sinenta, £20,000 ; pilotage, port charges, £1000 ; repayment of mortgages (balance sinking fund of loan), £2,400 ; refund by Colonial Government for purchase of native lands, £500 ; gold duties, £8,000 ; gold-fields revenue (including reimbursrnenU), £3500 ; royalty on Kakakawa mines, £1000 ; part repayment of advance to Education Board, £5000 ; advance from Colonial Government secured on land sales, £40,00(X Estimates— Ngaruawahia gaoler, 10 months, £120 ; fuel and light, £20 ; rations for prisoners, £G0 ; main roads south of Province, maintenance and extension, £6000; public works, do., exclusive of roads, £1000. The agitators against the Education Tax will hold a procession to-night. The Fiji Government mail subsidy will expire shortly, it is probable that the service will break down, the New Zealand subsidy being insufficient to maintain it. Smith's combination troupe performing at the Prince of Wales Theatre took £450 last week, over a thousand people were in the Theatre on the Queen's birthday. Mr Vogel has telegraphed after the Superintendent that the Colonial Government tire unwilling to grunt Vesey Stewart any hind for special settlement of Belfast farmers, because of absence of guarantee and misrepresentation bj Stewart in letters lent home. The barque East Lithmn bas been sold to Mr J. S. Mncfarlane for £1,350. Marks, owuer 4 of Rarey, has enteied an action for £250 against Dornwell, butcher, for riding on the course during the hurdle race, and causing collision with Rarey, and causing bim to lose the race.