D—No. 2

12

THIRD REPORT ON

STATEMENT of the / mount due torn trie, I o, he 'onics in Australia and ISew Zealand on account Ml 'ra, lan at, •ac, \et <ervice, rom January, 1857, to 31st March, 1861. Colonies. No. of letters in the year 1857. Per c«ntage for each Colony, Amount due from 1st Jan., 18*7. to 30th June 1858, being Half-cost. Due from 1st July 1858, to 30lh Sept. 1858, being Half-cost. Due from 1st Oct. 1858 to 28lh Feb. 1859, being Half-cost. Half guarantee of irJOOO per month against loss from 1st July 1858, to 28th Feb. 1859, (8 months.) Due from 1st March 18. r.9, to 31 it Dec. 1859, at £180,000 per annum (P. & O. contract). Halfcost. No. of letters in the year 18(iO. Per centage for each Oleny. Due from 1st Jan. to 30th June nifio, at £i 80,000 per annum (P. & O. contract), Halfcost. Due from 1st July I860, to 31st March 1861, at £134.072 per| annum, (P. A O. new contract), ! Half-cost. Total amount .due from t!n | Colonies from 1st Jan. 1857, tc 31st March, 1IKJ1 Victoria- - 798,000 58.333 £ s. d. 60,544 8 2 £ s. d. 13,489 10 2 £ 6. d. 22,482 10 3 £ B. d. 14,000 0 0 £ t. d. 43,749 15 0 1,257,400 54.622 £ 8. d. 24,579 18 0 £ 8. d. 27,585 4 2 £ s. d. 206.431 3 9 New South Wales 311,400 22.763 23,625 18 2 S263 18 10 8773 4 10 5463 2 0 17,072 5 0 438,600 19.053 *8955 18 0 9622 2 10 78,776 9 8 South Australia - 99,400 7.2B6 7541 8 10 1680 5 3 2800 8 9 1743 16 8 5449 10 0 178,300 7.745 3485 5 0 3911 7 8 26,612 2 2 New Zealand - 77,900 5.694 5909 17 0 1316 14 9 2194 11 3 1366 11 0 4270 10 0 266,700 11.586 5213 14 0 5851 3 3 26,123 1 3 Tasmania - 68,900 5.037 : 5227 18 10 1164 16 2 1941 6 11 1208 17 4 3777 15 0 . 93,400 4.058 1826 2 0 2049 7 4 17,196 3 7 Western Australia , 12,400 .907 I 941 7 8 209 14 10 349 11 4 217 13 0 680 5 0 28,500 1.238 557 2 0 625 4 3 3580 18 1 Queensland from 1st April, 186039,100 1.698 f382 1 0 857 10 6 1239 11 6 38,541 IS 4 24,000 0 0 75,000 0 0 1,368,000 | 100.000 103,790 16 8 23,125 0 0 2,302,000 100.000 45,000 0 0 50,502 0 0 359,959 10 ♦Including £382 Is. for Queensland Letters from 1st January, to 31st March, 1860. fThree months only from 1st April, to 30th June, 1880. General Post Office, London, June 5, 1861. Frank Jas. Scudamore