straining
to the utmost,
Every
in the
item of Estimates for the present year, And comparing them with the actual receipts for last year - now known -, I cannot ' after adding £2,000 to the
of "Postages" which
item
Appears underrated, make
out a
large probable fixed
revenue than £105,000.
I have not overlooked
the fact that the increase
in
what I have termed the
Permanent revenue has been
at the rate of about
£12,000
per annum for the
last four years, but this has
arisen from Exceptional causes which
to a great measure
no longer exist.
The increase
in the "Rents classes, sales,
with the
The Opium monopoly
has, for the present I think,
Almost reached its limits. The Police Rates are limited
by law to the Police Expenditure which was fixed last year
by Ordinance upon
a new
and Extended basis which
will not
require
immediate
Alteration
And the Postal
receipts - an item but
of recent origin -