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Abstract- of Revenue 'and Expenditure, for the year ESSO. 
EXPENDITURE. 
Salaries. 
REVENUE. 
GOVERNMENT GRANT for the YEAR 
Botanical, 
Zoological,. 
Other Receipts, 
•? c. 
8 uperintendent, 
Assistant Superintendent, 
Acting do., 
Bill Collector, 
Road Mandor, ’ 
Garden Labourers, 
Extra do., .... 
8(55 66 
■- 1,140*00 
. 180 00 
180 00 
... 2,840 45 
561 68 
Other Items. 
Manure and Cartage, 
Laterite, ... ... ... ... 
New Buildings, 
Repairs to Buildings, 
Food for Animals, 
Purchase of Plants, 
Bo, Garden Tools, ... 
416 95 
... 483 00 
255 00 
57 10 
' ... 2 IS 52' 
16 16 
. . 314 69 
Co nt in uk nt Expenditure. 
Travelling Expenses of Superintendent, Ac., ... ... 
Bo. Assistant Superintendent, 
Bo. Bill Collector, 
Repairs to Garden Tools, * .... 
Purchase of Stationery and Sundries, 
Bo. Books, 
Miscellaneous, - ... ... ... 
71 26 
.... 136 15 
37 02 
05 58 
... 35 50 
123 77 
... 1,160 49 
, 
$9,158 91 
Total, 
E xpert dit Lire, 
Balance, 
. . $ 8,000 00 
. 2,000 00 
.. 1,191 41 
.$11,191 41 
. 9.158 91 
$2,032 50 
WALTER FOX, 
Act mg Swperinten deni . 
Report by Mr. Cantley on a short Visit to England in 1881. 
« 
1. Having obtained six months’ leave of absence, I proceeded to 
England direct via the Cape of Good Hope and took with me for iden- 
tification about two thousand Botanical specimens, collected from trees 
in the Botanical Gardens and jungles in the neighbourhood, which being 
packed and sent on board in a green state, afforded me eonsfant employ- 
ment in pressing and drying for a considerable part of the voyage. 
2. This, however, was 
at the Cape of Good Hope, 
of them. ' 
scarcely completed, when a storm, ^ met with 
caused the destruction of about five hundred 
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