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importance of completing the Defences of this
Colony on a fixed
and permanent plan,
and with all convenient epeed.
The cost of constructing the __ necessary works was estimated by the at £55, 625; and, on the
Har
Office
invitation of Her Majesty's Tavernaccent the Colonial Legislature has at my instance
voted that sun.
m
According to a Memorandum of Colonel Walker, CRC. dated 27th October, 1884, it was estimated that this suur would be speut as • follower- ( 1 ) Before January 1 = 1885 - £40, 42.50. (2) During
1883
(3) During 1886
33,800.
11375.
£55,625
However, the amount.
actually spent in 1884 was
only $3, 465, equivalent to £635.5.0.— The sum
provided in the Colonial n Estimates and sauctioned by Her Majesty's Government for Defence Works
during 1885 is $200,000, equivalent
Thus the
to £36,667.
money ave
available
for 1885 accounts to ___
(1) Unexpected balance from,
1884
S£9814.15
( 5 ) Sun on the Estimates for 1883 £36,667.0
Of which sum there had been expended up to May may 1.5. 1885 only $20, 200!!" equivalent to
Consequently there remaines,
£46,487.15
£4,620,0
in 1885 ₤4-1,865.15
to be expended in 1885–
It
now appears that Colonel
Halker proposes Defence Works, ( not
all
only