AG: Expenditure referred to in paras: 10 to 16 of my Despatch No 258 of the 15th hour last will themselves amount to over $80,000, sure it appears from your Pil: the 2nd draft that the Expenditure on account of the new Steam Launcher to be met this year will be at least $59,000.
10. The proposed vote of $50,000 to the War Fund sanctioned in recent Telegraphic II a special item conte cour: is of course Expenditure which could not have been foreseen. I shall presumably learn from you in due course that this vote has been passed by the Leg: Council.
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Mr. MINUTE.
Mr. Antrobus. Mr. Cox. Mr. Lucas. Mr. Graham. Sir E. Wingfield. Earl of Selborne. Mr. Chamberlain.
!! I do not however understand why the Expenditure on Account for the Police Dept referred to in my Despatch No 298 of the 23rd Jan last, & the increases in the Sanitary & P.W. Depts referred to in my Despatch No 288 of the 2nd Jan & No 43 of the 12th inst: should not have been submitted simultaneously with the Estimates.
12. The same remark applies to the requisition for Stores for the P.W. Dep't enclosed in your Despatch No 370 of the 10th Dec last. I have authorised...