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Wellington; new store for Telegraph Department, Wellington; dwellinghouse for Medical Superintendent, Mount View Lunatic Asylum, Wellington; drying-shed for the same institution; workshop for the Whau Lunatic Asylum, Auckland ; repairs, &c, to public buildings, Thames, to survey office, Auckland, and to quarantine station, Auckland; repairs, painting, &c, to courthouse and post-office, Napier; additions to courthouse, Patea; re-covering printing office roof, Wellington, with iron; new gas service, painting exterior, and painting, papering, distempering, and renovating interior of Parliament Buildings, Wellington; repairs to, painting exterior, and renovating interior of, Government House, Wellington. Contracts have been let and works are in progress for the following, namely : Auxiliary asylum and overseer's cottage, Auckland ; also the gas- and water-services for the same building ; new courthouses at Pukekohe, Hawera, Greytowu, Masterton, Waiuku, Bull's, and llussell; additions to courthouse building at Wanganui; new post-offices at Te Aroha, Kihikihi, Greytown, Manaia, and Paeroa; alterations and repairs to quarantine barracks, Wellington; new police-stations and lock-ups at Hawera, Lower Hutt, Newmarket, Kamo, Foxton, and Bull's; also additions and repairs to stations at Otahuhu and Lower Hutt. Many miscellaneous works have also been executed, such as general repairs to Government Buildings, Wellington and Auckland; repairs to Resident Magistrate's residence, Opotiki; alterations, &c, courthouse, Tauranga; removal of courthouse, Ohinemutu; repairs to survey offices, Auckland ; additions to Her Majesty's Gaol, New Plymouth (by prison labour) ; supply of furniture, &c, and many minor works of a similar character. A new post-office, as also extensive additions to Parliament Buildings, are being executed by a private architect, with which works this office has nothing to do beyond passing the accounts through for payment. The total expenditure for the North Island has been — £ s. d. Judicial .. .. .. .. .. 5,833 18 5 Postal and Telegraphic.. .. .. .. 9,310 4 1 Lunatic Asylums .. .. .. .. 1,849 10 3 Miscellaneous .. .. .. .. 6,411 10 10 Sundry repairs, alterations, furniture, &c. .. . . 23,508 18 0 £46,914 1 7 I have, &c, P. F. M. Burrows, Architect.