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3.-The total amount of commission paid to the Crown Agents or others in connection with
the loan.
4.- The total amount of charges, advertising, and all others incurred and paid in respect of
the loan.
5.—The profit or loss in exchange on each of the amounts of the loan repaid annually. 6.—The rate per cent. per annum the loan has cost annually--the rate to include interest, commission, and all other charges from date of borrowing up to the most convenient date of this year.
7.—The amounts to be stated in Pounds Sterling as well as in dollars, also the rate or rates
of exchange at which each conversion has been made.
Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD also gave notice of the following motion for the next meeting,--
That the Council postpone consideration of the Estimates for 1891 for Public Works Extraor
dinary No. 29 on the Abstract List-in so far as regards the following numbers under that heading-Nos. 1, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, 16, 18, 21, 25, 29, 32, 34, 35, 36 and 37, until Government lay on the table detailed and complete statements of the proposed works shew- ing what is to be done in each case and the necessity for the works, together with estimates and plans, including a definite statement of their intentions with reference to Drainage and Water-works, so that the Council and the Public may know precisely what it is the Council are asked to sanction and for what purposes the money to be voted is to be used. Further, that the Government lay on the table a copy of the Despatch and Statement sent to Lord Knutsford in reply to his Despatch of 18th April last, also a fresh report from the Surveyor General as to what works he can now reasonably undertake to do during the ensuing year, and also a report detailing the Public Works to which the Colony is already actually committed.
Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD, pursuant to notice, asked the following questions
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1. Will the Government lay on the table, before proceeding with the Estimates for 1891,
Sanitary Board's letter of the 11th August, 1890, containing certain recommendations on the subject of the Water and Drainage Works?
2. Will the Government, before proceeding with the Estimates for 1891, lay upon the table detailed and complete statements of the proposed Works not already sanctioned by the Legislative Council together with plans and estimates in detail including a complete statement of the new drainage scheme and of the arrangements proposed by Government for carrying it out promptly and effectively?
The Acting Colonial Secretary replied.
BILL ENTITLED " AN ORDINANCE TO AUTHORISE THE APPROPRIATION OF A SUPPLEMENTARY SUM OF THREE HUNDRED AND FORTY-NINE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY DOLLARS and SEVENTY- NINE CENTS TO DEFRAY THE CHARGES OF THE YEAR 1889."-The Acting Colonial Secretary moved the second reading of the Bill.
The Acting Colonial Treasurer seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a second time.
The Acting Colonial Secretary moved that this Bill be referred to the Finance Committee. The Acting Colonial Treasurer seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
BILL ENTITLED (6 AN ORDINANCE TO APPLY A SUM NOT EXCEEDING ONE MILLION SIX Hundred and Seventy-four thousand Seven Hundred AND EIGHTY DOLLARS TO THE PUBLIC SERVICE OF THE YEAR 1891."-The Acting Colonial Secretary moved the second reading of the Bill.
The Acting Colonial Treasurer seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a second time.
The Acting Colonial Secretary moved that the Bill be referred to the Finance Committee. The Acting Colonial Treasurer seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
BILL ENTITLED
AN ORDINANCE to amend Ordinance No. 8 of 1873, ENTItled The DanGEROUS Goods OrdinancE, 1873."-The Acting Attorney General moved the third reading of the Bill.
The Acting Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a third time.
Question put-that this Bill do pass. Bill passed.