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CLASS X.—MINISTER OF MINES— continued.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

Item. 18 16-87. £ GEOLOGICAL AND METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 1886-87. Total number of officers ... 8 1 2 3 4 VOTE No. 52. Salaries — Analyst Clerk and Curator (also Meteorological Observer and Statistical Clerk £00) Assistant Geologist Weather Reporter (also Examiner of Masters and Mates £100) Draftsman Museum Assistant and Librarian Field Assistant Messenger and Keeper 400 350 345 300 240 225 190 125 5 6 7 s 2,175 9 10 11 12 Other Charges— Field Expenses and Special Surveys Meteorological Stations and Time Ball Observatory Intercolonial Weather Exchange Contingencies 800 300 80 200 Total—Vote No. 52 ... 1,380 3,555 MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES. 2 S 4 6 0 7 8 !) 10 11 VOTE No. 53. Assistance towards Prospecting, by the purchase of Drills, upon a subscription of one-third or more being contributed for their use Local Museums of Specimens Rewards for Discovery of'New Goldfields ... Maintenance and Management of Water-races— Nelson Creek Waimea-Kumara Maintenance and raising Sluice, Kumara Sludgechannel Argyle, Charleston Mount Ida Water-race (contingencies) Kumara Water-race, altering tunnel Rent of Tokatea Block To defray cost of lectures by Professor Black and others in the principal mining centres throughout the Colony, aud for Schools of Mines —contribution of£lfor"£l Subsidy of £1 for £1 on moneys subscribed for prospecting for gold at deep levels Purchase of S. I rider's interest in Sections 8 and 10, Block III., Blaekstone, claimed by W. Agnevv Sellars and party, settlement of claim for damage done to sluice-boxes, as per judgment of Warden's Court Removal of bodies, Hatter's Terrace, £1 for £L subsidy Erection of shelter huts To give effect to recommendations of the G-oldfields Committee— » School of Mines, Otago University Costello v. Croninvilie miners, half-taxed costs ,,. 11—B. lA. 2,000 350 2,500 .1,250 2,800 7,000 3U0 500 220 120 3,C00 12 2,000 13 1G0 14 276 100 160 15 16 17 13 500 90