A. STATEMENT showing the ASSETS and LIABILITIES of the COLONY on the 9th July, 1867, exclusive of its Funded Debt.

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MEMORANDA ON REPORT OE AUDITOR

Assets. Provinces —Surplus Revenue Account ,, Separate Account ... (a) Supplementai-y Expenditure of the Year 1866-7 " Auckland Reserves Act" —Amount Advanced " Bay of Islands Settlement Act" „ " G-old Fields Act," Auckland „ " Gold Fields Act," Otago „ Gold Duty, Marlborough —Overpaid Public Buildings Commission ,, Imperial Government General Account ,, ,, Steam Subsidy Account— Amount Advanced ... Miscellaneous Advances CashIn hands of Sub-Treasurers and others In hands of Receivers of Land Revenue In transitu (Remittance Account) In Deposit in London Banks In Bank of New Zealand ,, „ 5 per cent. Deposits In Union Bank of Australia In Bank of Otago O O pH Page 89 90 65 102 102 102 102 102 102 102 102 98 £ s. d. 325,776 12 1 101,733 4 8 10,385 11 8 2,101 3 0 7,731 12 10 960 11 10 2,223 1 9 17 5 0 4 6 3 282,635 0 11 475 0 0 131,743 1 5 Liabilities. Reserved Fund —Unexpended Balance Loan of 1856 ,, Loan of 1860 „ Loan of 1863 Bank of Issue —Notes yet current G-old Duty, Nelson —Due to Province ,, Canterbury „ ... "... Otago „ ,, Southland „ Land Revenue —Balances Native Circuit Courts Fund " New Zealand Settlements Act" —Balance at Credit Treasury Bills Bills Payable LTnexpended Balances of Totes, 1866-7 Interest and Sinking Fund —Charged but not actually paid Miscellaneous Receipts in Suspense ,, Deposits (Trust Funds) Receipts of the period 1st to 9th July, being — Revenue of the Year 1867-8 £27,713 6 11 Less Disbursements of the same period 10,782 10 9 O o ■8-gS P-l Page 102 102 102 102 102 102 102 102 102 100 102 102 102 102 79-85 £ s. d. 34,200 16 9 32,357 15 4 1,575 3 11 508,154 1 4 462 12 0 1,441 18 11 41 3 6 6,071 19 0 1,301 18 0 3,808 13 6 307 12 8 52,407 16 6 125,000 0 0 100,000 0 0 114,274 11 3 100,241 17 10 6,011 3 4 93,074 1 8 101 101 101 99 102 99 79 79 22,705 13 4 3,808 13 6 164,260 12 5 67,500 0 0 43,128 14 5 30,431 2 2 37 3 6 5 10 11 99 79 79 16,930 16 2 £1,197,664 1 8 £1,197,664 1 8 (re) This sum includes the original Debt of the Province of Southland. It may be observed that the terms Assets and Liabilities used in this and the following Statement apply only to the recorded Assets and Liabilities, or in other words the Balances Dr. and Cr. shown in the Public Accounts. C. T. Batkin, Accountant to Treasury.