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Table STATEMENT of RECEIPTS and EXPENDITURE of the PUBLIC

£ s. d. £ s. d. £ b. d. RECEIPTS. CONSOLIDATED FUND. ASSETS OF THE TEAR 1876-77 s— Revenue, — Postal Telegraphic ... Registration and other Fees Railways 22,457 14 3 153 14 5 40 17 4 26,031 18 8 48,684 4 8 Recoveeies, — Advances to Land Fund ... ... ... Unauthorized Expenditure ... ... .... Penalty under San Francisco Mail Contract Emigrant and Colonist's Aid Corporation,— Temporary advance ... £5,000 0 0 Promissory Notes for Interest ... .1,475 16 1 Advances under section 53 of " The Counties Act, 1876 " ... Miscellaneous 47,500 0 0 7,743 2 6 5,000 0 0 6,475 16 1 435 17 11 4,720 18 9 71,880 15 3 120,564 19 11 FINANCIAL YEAR 1877-78 :— Revenue, — Ordinary, —- Raised by Taxation, — Customs ... ... ... £1,272,961 5 3 Stamps ... ... ... 151,068 16 9 1,424,030 2 0 Receipts for Services rendered, — Railways ... ... ... 516,458 12 10 Postal ... ... ... 113,358 8 10 Telegraphic ... ... 72,361 1 7 Judicial ... ... ... 46,797 10 7 Land Transfer ... ... 36,578 3 9 Registration and other Fees ... 27,603 0 8 Marine ... ... ... 19,491 11 4 Miscellaneous ... ... 42,074 4 0 904,722 13 7 Territorial, — Land Sales ... ... ...£1,440,824 4 5 Depasturing Licenses and Assessments 94,224 2 2 Miscellaneous ... ... ... 51,514 12 10 2,328,752 15 7 1,586,562 19 5 Balances transferred to Consolidated Fund by the operation of "The Public Revenues Act, 1877":— Land Fund Consolidated Loan of 1867 Defence and Other Purposes Loan of 1870 State Forests 3,915,315 15 0 • 115,646 7 9 37,632 0 8 35,116 18 9 2,226 13 3 190,922 0 5 Carried forward 4,106,237 15 5 120,504 19 11