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HARBOUR DEFENCES. Table I. Return showing the Expenditure on Harbour Defences, in detail, from their Commencement to the 31st March, 1892, also Liabilities at that Date.

31st March, 1892. Aetitce Bell, Engineer for Defences.

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Classification. Total Expenditure 1879-79. .1979-80. 1S80-S1. 1883-Si.* 1881-85. up to 31st'March, 1885. t 1 1885-86. 1886-87. 1387-88. 1838-89. 1889-90. Total Expenditure 1890-91. 1891-92. 31st March, 18S5, up to 31st March, 18924 Great Totals Expenditure from 1878 to 31st March, 1892. § Grand Total Liabilities Expenditure known to and exist at Liabilities 31st March, at 1892. 31st March, 1892. I.—Matebial ibom England. £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ K.B.L. guns and carriages, etc. ... R.M.L. guns and carriages, Sue..'., iField-guns and carriages, service pattern ... Machine-guns and carriages Ammunition... War Office stores: Miscellaneous equipments ... Military Adviser to Agent-Q-eneral Torpedo-boats Whitehead torpedoes and air-compressing machinery Submarine mining stores for submarine defence of ports ... Miscellaneous charges : Freight, insurance, shipping, &c. 2s',357 26,357 35,149 4,203 38,034 11,189 17,770 354 102,142 4,557 800 13,813 23,721 102, 142 30,914 900 13,813 24,530 900 1,746 3,352 ... 10 799 "809 3,504 6,"393 11,890 5,674 4,975 ... 4,830 4,830 "514 3,976 1,986 486 523 121 344 392 330 129 342 291 5,104 4,330 9,934 4,330 11,036 100 ... I I 6,300 4,736 llJ036 8,104 685 375 4 9,168 9,168 873 32,055 2,096 3,260 O. || 619 17.G65 17,665 857 416 2,227 3,500 339 2,027 3,539 3,370 900 10,175 13,675 793 Totals 5,697 27,572 I 6,300 46,532 51,813 53,579 46,075 35,079 4,886 Or. 148 291 191,575 238,107 893 239,000 6,963 ■ I II. —WOEKS IN THE COLONY. Defence works generally : Batteries, depots, launches, engineering, and miscellaneous charges Purchases, &c, o"f land : Sites for depots and batteries i 912 ! 2,638 10,257 713 532 905 5,700 58,081 74,429 25,806 12,770 9,195 5,410 195,918 201,648 63 i 202, 282 ... " 17,273 11,421 1,578 2,240 1,671 " 689 1,646 36,518 36, 518 200 38,718 Totals 713 532 905 912 2,638 5,700 75,354 85,850 27,384 15,010 10,866 10,946 7,056 : 232,466 238,166 834 239,000 Totals I.jtnd II. 6,410 28,104 905 73,459 50,089 15,752 10,798 7,347 J 424,041 476,273 1,727 7,212 9,601 52,232 127, 167 139,429 478,000 I * There was no expenditure for the years 1881-82 and 1882-83. t At this date (31st March, 1835) the actual construction of defence works commenced. The expenditure in the colony prior to this date was— (a) For surveys and other expenses incidental to the visits of Colonel Soratehley, R.E., and Major Cautley, R.E., to report upon the defences of the colony; (b) the salaries and travelling-expenses of those Imperial officers ; (c) the landing, transport, storage, and care of R.M.L. puns and ammunition, and of torpedo-boats; and (d) other miscellaneous charges. t This column represents the expenditure oa all accounts incurred since the actual construction of the defence works commenced —namely, from 31st March, 1835, to 31st March, 1392. § This column represents the sum of the separately-shown expenditures of the two periods assigned in the two preceding notes. [J The total expenditure on submarine stores was £198 ; but £1,117 was recovered, chiefly by insurance on cable, &c, lost in the " Assaye," making a credit balance of £619.