A further sum of £BOO for steward's house and stable was requested, but has not been placed on the estimates. The next item for Drunkards' Asylum is a revote in part, we thinking it would suffice for the pre sent. For the Supreme Court the first two and last items are revotes; the sum of £3OO for laying out ground between building and the river will in the opinion of the Govern ment be sufficient to make the place sightly but they will not asphalte, as proposed by the architect, who estimates the cost at £7OO. The £2OO for furniture is required for the new portion of the builung recently com pleted. Orphan Asylum, first and second amounts are revotes, the third is for painting absolutely necessary. Since the estimates were framed, as honorable gentlemen are aware, a fire has destroyed the girls school room, for which a further sum of about £750 will be required to re place it. I may remark that this sum will be recovered from the underwriters. The next vote of £53,974 is for school build ings, of which the sum of £10,420 is a re vote, the balance of £43,545 being a new vote for new and additional buildings, furni ture, &c. The estimates of the Board of Education seem in some cases excessive; but the Ordinance as it at present stands does not give the Government control over this expenditure; the estimate has been put down as furnished by the Board. The proposed Bill, however, if carried, will' give the Go vernment the control, when a strict scrutiny will be exercised with a view to a more economical expenditure. The amount of £3600 for the Normal School is a revote of £3370, and a new one of £230. The two amounts, I understand, will complete the present building. Public buildings, £14,540 —This is a revote, and our contribution to the public buildings for General Government purposes. Museum, £l3,624—This is a re vote, and will be alluded to presently. Col lege and chemist's laboratory and lecture rooms, £10,850. This is a revote, to which I will also allude more fully presently. Under police buildings the £240 set down for Christchurch is for new cells required in consequence of the generally overcrowded state of the present lockup. The £750 for Lyttelton is for additional accommodation for members of the force. 