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hundred and sixteen thousand

tollare available. The accounts of - receipts for the first Quarter

shew a surplus of -

(

this year Twenty

of

one thousand dollars over $21,000.

the Estimates, and I think that

• my anticipations

sanguine

paying

are not too

For next

year after

interest and sinking fund

on Nine hundred thousand

dollars. I anticipate a surplus of

There will therefore be no actual

necessity to raise extra revenue

until the

year

1888. One

of the

Unofficial Members of Council expressed an opinion

opinion in November last, which is shared in by

many,

that the ordinary revenue.

of the Colony would be increased

through the progressive development

#gococe

of

· about dixty two thousand dollars $62,001

-independent of what

- вс

what may -realized from the vale of land.

There

Commer ee

to such an

an extent.

as to be sufficient to meet all calls upon it. I shall be

very glad if time shews that this anticipation is correct.

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