| Show THE governments ACCOUNTS seven months montas of tho the current final year hare have now passed and the agate jentof ment of receipts and expenditures expenditure sup up to this time to in something to which all citizens are entitled and in which a great many are interested there Thor ewas waa a decided increase in the revenue this being however overcome by a corresponding increase in disbursements on the pension account these seeming to grow continually we are advised that last month the revenue amounted to the outlay figuring up to leavin leavings leaving thiral 6 a deficit of ef over three and a third lillions that of a year previously being practically the th same and both being so sa much by way of expansion of the public debt which is now a little under a billion the figures for the seven months ended february jl are as aa follows fol lowe fiscal year fiscal year receipts 1893 ISM 1892 customs Ou stoma i 4 1 0 lat int revenue 8 miscellaneous total expenditures civil and mis fr war navy indians indian total ordinary expenditures tures pensions interest jB A total expenditures surplus the expenditures a are re thus seen been to have increased against RIL aa increase in receipts of and reducing the already small surplus accumulated during the period named down to the insignificant sum of it is surprising it if not unaccountable that with so many of public aid disappearing with the he advance of time the outlay shield uld continue to grow and the amount paid out so 0 o steadily and largely increase but so it 16 is |
