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Appendix I. DEBTOR AND CREDITOR STATEMENT.

Appendix K. COMPARATIVE TABLE showing the RATES Charged for Messages on the VICTORIAN, NEW SOUTH WALES, and NEW ZEALAND LINES OF TELEGRAPH, distance for distance.

Appendix L. STATEMENT showing the Number of INTERPROVINCIAL LETTERS DESPATCHED during the Postal Year ending 31st DECEMBER, 1867; the Number of TELEGRAMS forwarded from each PROVINCE for the Year ending 30th JUNE, 1868; the proportion the TELEGRAMS bear to every hundred LETTERS; and the proportion of LETTERS and TELEGRAMS despatched in the UNITED KINGDOM, BELGIUM, SWITZERLAND, and NEW ZEALAND.

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Dr. 'o Total cost of Maintenance of Stations 'o Total cost of Maintenance of Lines £ s. d. 9,489 17 10 5,406 7 3 £ s. d. 14,896 5 1 Ob. •By Cash Eeoeipts as under, — Ordinary, Press, and Provincial Telegrams ! Subscriptions from the Press [ Other Eeoeipts, Tariff Sales, &e. | Subsidy from Otago Province for Tokomairiro Station for | year ending 31 Dec, 1867 Amounts due as under, — Subsidy from Otago Province for Tokomairiro Station for -|- year ending 30 June, 1868 Do. from Wellington Province for the Featherston Station for fa year ending 30 Juno, £75, less value of business done, £18 3s. Do. do. for G-rcytoivn Station for z year ending 30 June, £37 10s., less value of business done, £18 14s. 4d. ... : Do. from Canterbury Province for Selwyn Station for fa year ending 30 June, £75, less value of business done, £24 10s Id. £ s. d. 10,821 10 7 588 6 8 41 3 9 37 10 ' Oj 37 10 0 £ s. d. 56 17 0 18 15 8 50 9 11 lalancc (Credit of Department) Total Cash Revenue den. Government Telegrams 11,652 3 7 C.G72 0 3 3,427 18 9 £18,324 3 10. £18,324 3 10

VlCTl New Zealand. IEIA. No. of Miles. First 10 Words. Per Word. From To No. of Miles. First 10 Words. Per Word. From To Melbourne ... Ditto Ditto Ditto Ararat Ballarat ... Belvoir Sandridge... 150 96i 205 3 s. d. 3 0 2 6 3 0 1 0 d. 2 2 2 1 Christelmrch InTereargill ... Duncdin Christcliurcli Oamaru Balclutha Christchureh Lyttelton 164 94 244 8 s. a. 1 8 1 3 2 1 0 10 d. 2 l.V 2i 1 New Sout: Wales. Sew Zea: ilM. Sydney Ditto ... Albany liuston s. d. | ... I 380 4 0 C13 5 0 d. 3 3 Nelson ... Timaru Invercargill ... Pieton s. d. I 392 2 6 622 2 11 d. 3 3i In New South Wales, offices close at 6 p.m.; Head Offic :ent. extra. Offices closed on Sundays. In Victoria, offices open from 830 a.m. till S p.m., excej In New Zealand, offices in chief towns open from 8 a.m LO'30 a.m. and from 5 p.m. till 5'30 p.m. jc open till 9 p.m. Messages sent after G p.m. charged fifty per jt Sundays, when they are closed all day. i. till 8 p.m. on week days, and on Sundays from 10 a.m. till

Station. No. of Letters. No. of Telegrams. Proportion oi Telegrams sent for every 100 Letters. Wellington Ma,rlborough Nelson Canterbury and Wcstland Otago Southland 289,058 47,215 143,371 801,774 575,948 81,209 12,313 6,206 6,962 42,101 32,668 5,384 4-41 13-14 4-85 5-25 5-66 7-20 Total number of Letters ... ... ... .■■ 1,938,571 „ Telegrams ... ... ... '.. 106,10? Proportion of Telegrams to every one hundred Letters ... ... 5'4' In the United Kingdom 1 Telegram sent for every 121 Letters. In Belgium 1 ,, „ 37 ,, Tn Switzerland 1 „ „ 69 „ In New Zealand 1 „ „ 20