The loan of £10,000 made by the Lords of the Treasury to the Colony is duly shown in the Crown Agents' accounts for the quarter to 30th September 1866, but no special report of the transaction appears to have been made to this Government. On receipt of the accounts above referred to about 2 months since, it was supposed that the loan would have been paid off in England out of the £14,000 remitted in August last, and that if the Crown Agents were short of funds, the payments for Military Contribution would be deferred until further remittances were received.
According to D.W. Julyan's letter to Sir I. Rodgers of 6th December last, however, the Military Contribution to 30th September had been paid and the repayment of the loan deferred. It now seems that the Military Contribution for the last September Quarter has been twice paid for, whilst the Crown Agents paid it in England on the 20th of November, a Treasury Certificate for it was forwarded to the Secretary.