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the

expenditure, including payments made by the Crown Agents up to the of last February

end

on

account of 1891, amounted

to about $170,000, excluding the expenditure Public Works extraordinary to some $130,000. These

on

be taken as

amounts may approximately showing the extent to which the proposed alteration will affect the financial results of the

current

current

year, vir. $130,000 if the extraordinary expenditure be met from a loan, or in the opposite event, #170,000.

The revenue.

4.

for 1899

is estimated at $2,144,178,-

and the ordinary expenditure at $1,773,918, showing

an

lus of the

estimated surplus

former

over the latter of

#370,260. This surplus

is.

subject to reduction by _

on account of

$114,000

shrinkage in the Opnum

3281-9