8.—3.

CLASS X.—MINISTER OF MINES—continued.

74

Appropriations for Consolidated 'Fund Services.

Item. 18 1-82. £ s. d. £ s. d, MINES — continued. 19 18 VOTE No. 52— continued, Local Offices — continued. Havelock — Receiver of Gold Revenue (also Clerk and Bailiff Resident Magistrate's Court £100) Hindon — Receiver of Gold Revenue (also Clerk in Crown Lands Office Dunedin £250) Jackson's Bay — Receiver of Gold Revenue (also Registrar of Births &c. fees, Resident Magistrate £50, and Land Officer £100) 50 25 0 0 0 0 20 20 0 0 Less 10 per cent, on Salaries for 3 months ... 21,987 10 154 0 0 0 Total—Vote No. 52 ... 21,833 10 0 1 2 3 4 5 VOTE No. 53. Miscellaneous — Repairs of damages to water-races caused by floods — Argyle, Charleston Nelson CreelRewards for discovery of Seventeen-Mile Beach Gold Field—R, IL Wessels £150, David Morgan £30, Thomas Burns £30 ... Argyle Water-race —Equitable adjustment of claims for damages to private works Mount Ida Water-race, for contingent requirements of Trust Settlement of Claims — John Cox, of Waihemo, for loss of waterright, as recommended by Gold Fields Committee Hugh Mcllhone, for services as Inspector of Miners' Rights, Thames, as recommended by the Gold Fields Committee Assistance towards Prospecting, by the purchase of Diamond Drills, &c. 280 0 350 0 210 0 797 3 0 0 0 9 500 0 0 250 0 0 151 IS 4 3,000 0 0 Total—Vote No. 53 ... 5,538 17 1 TOTAL OF CLASS X. £27,? 72 7 1