this to show that tho southern members bad i no time to properly cxamino tho accounts, and, if they objected to them to bring them before the Council. I will briefly notice some of tho ' items in the accounts ending September 30, 1873, the end of tho past financial year. I find on the revenue side that wo began with a balance brought forward from 1872 of £25,890. Tho totil receipts from land eaJen were £275,055, jKintur-igo roils £22,000 ; tho local revenue £2300 ; capitation grant, allowed by the General Go- ' "rernment out of consolidated fund, 15s per Lead on 6615 people, £4061 ; a refund of £135; making a total revenue fo>' 1873 of £332,833. The expenditure is £120,251 ; viz, — 25 per cent, handed over to the Board of Works, £68,913; local charges, £34.033; proportion of departmental charges, £6254 ; loan charges, £11,000 ; leaving a balance of £212,582. This is n large balance, and under the arrangement the Provincial Government have with their bankers, they get four per cent on the amount deposited for six months. Now there is that large credit balance of £212,000, and yet not a single half-penny of tho interest on it is credited to tho south. Now, say for instance that £150,000 has been, on the average, lying to the credit of this part of the province, at, tlio end of tho last financial year it was entitled to 4 per cent. on this or £6000. With regnrcl to tho esti mated amount for the present financial year I eeo we began with a balance of £212,582, and there is an estimated revenue of £160,956, •which will be very much increased on account of the land sales having been much larger than was anticipated, and yet (hero is not a single penny placed to credit of the south by ■way ol interest. It seeins to mo that during the present financial year there will bo some thing liko £250,000 «t least to our credit, at the bank, and tho interest on this at 4 per cent, would be £10,000. Then as to tho re leased sinking fund, I will hero explain that it has never yet been pnid into the treasury, but will be probably realised during the present financial year. 