3 328
months
of
the
present year
and
of 1883 to which I would venture
to call Your Lordship's careful
attention, as it exhibits an increase.
in expenditure this
over the
year corresponding period of 1883, viz. #689.065 against $635,066, whilst the Revenue on the other hand
shows a serious falling off vir $675,868 against $803,070 or an increase of $54,000 in expenditure and a decrease of $112,202 in the Revenue. In these figures I
have not taken into account the
extraordinary
extraordinary public works which for the present being defrayed
are
out of accumulated balances, and for the completion of which it is - proposed to provide by means
of a loan. The expenditure this account will be found
On
shown separately at the foot of"
the Treasurer's statement.
2.
It will be seen
from
this statement that the principal reduction in Revenue has been
- for Opium under the head of
Licences. The amount collected
during