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was devoted to kitchens, stables, servants' bed-rooms, 
outhouses, and verandahs ; and 350/. to the fencing and 
clearing of the Government Domain. 
w/But it was well known that what appeared on the 
Public Estimates was only a small portion of the total 
sum to be spent on the Government residence. 15,000/. 
was said to be a moderate calculation of its final cost : 
and money for the purpose had already been borrowed 
by the Government, whose funds were so exhausted as 
not to be able to meet more pressing exigencies. 
And yet Lord John Russell's instructions to Captain 
Hobson had dwelt with great force on the necessity of 
frugality generally in a colony ; and had particularly 
required him to set a good example to private circles in 
simplicity and plainness of domestic living. 
The total amount destined for the department of 
Public Works and Buildings was 5354/. ; and of this 
not one shilling was to be spent at any other place 
than Auckland. 
The colonial brig, employed chiefly to carry the 
revenue drawn from Cook's Strait to the seat of ex- 
penditure, was alone to cost 1535/. per annum. 
And all the other items were entirely and purely 
for the benefit of the " centrical " settlement, except 
40/, for a schoolmaster at Port Nicholson. 
The Colonial Secretary coolly estimated the sum to 
be derived from the sale of lands during the year at 
50,000/. ; which would leave, after deducting upwards 
of 12,000/. for the Survey Department, the purchase 
of lands from aborigines, and making of roads and 
bridges, and 50 per cent, from the surplus for immi- 
gration, a net revenue of 19,000/. from that source 
alone. By this means he managed to predict, on 
paper, an excess of expenditure over revenue of less 
than 350/. But the result of the last land-sale made 
