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Total number of miles of Line, 3,259. Total number of miles of Wire, 7,423. * This line now dismantled from Stony River, and new one substituted. t Average cost per mile, 3—F. 2.

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_E K — continued. Tota: Cos 1 of the Li: res of Telegraph, &o.— continued. Section of Line. Length of Section in Miles. Cost of Clearing Bush. Cosl of Wire, ! Total Cost of | Arms, Poles, including Insulators, &c, Delivery. including Carriage. Cost of Erection. Total Cost of Section. Cost per Mile. Lyell's Bay to Wellington Wellington to Patea Wellington to Masterton Masterton to Castlepoint... Castlepoint to Porangahau Porangahau to Napier Napier to Tauranga Auckland to Alexandra ... Auckland to Newcastle, reconstruction, 70 miles (including new line from Hamilton to Cambridge, 12 miles) Mercer to Thames, including four towers for spanning Thames and Piako Rivers... Second Wire from Napier to Tauranga, 200 miles Tauranga to Katikati Katikati to Qraliamstown Third Wire from Auckland to Mercer, 40 miles Third Wire from Auckland to Grahamstown, 76 milea Third Wire from Wellington to Masterton, 60 miles ; from Nnpier to Waipukurau, 42 miles Grahamstown to Coromandel Patea to New Plymouth, 90 miles ; less 28 miles not yet erected Onehunga to Junction, reconstruction, 5 miles ... Third Wire, Napier to Q-rahamstown, 270 miles Manukau Heads Line Cambridge to Alexandra, reconstruction, f>0 miles Maketu to Opotiki Wellington Signal Station Line and Lunatic Asylum Second Wire,"Wellington to Wanganui, completed from Wanganui to Bull's, 26 miles Poverty Bay Line Kaipara and Bay of Islands Line ... Masterton to Waipukurau, Third Wire, 115 miles Foxton to Palmerston Fourth Wire, Wellington to Masterton, and Waipukurau to Napier, 102 miles Tokotea Line ... Thames Alteration, including Pukorokoro Line, 9 miles Second Wire, Wanganui to Hawera, 58 miles Second Wire, Wellington to Wanganui, completed from Wellington to Otaki and Bull's to Foxton, 82 miles Fourth Wire, Waipukurau to Porangahau, 18 miles Second Wire, Wellington to Wanganui, completion of, 32 miles Ohinernutu Line Rangiriri to Mercer, reconstruction, 9 miles Hawera to New Plymouth via Mount Egmont Palmerston to Fielding ... Waiwera Line from Warkworth ... Railway Wires, — Auckland to Penrose, 8 miles ... 4 180 60 36 53 68 200 152 £ s. d. ... 67 18 6 264 4 6 22 15 1 176 9 4 74 0 0 153 18 6 :1. £ s. d. 123 5 0 6 4,647 12 7 £ s. d. 104 6 0 2,315 9 5 839 4 4 388 18 6 722 18 6 918 9 8 5.76S 13 7 £ s. d. 57 15 0 3,062 11 9 2,357 6 3 1,267 9 ] 1,105 16 10 1,252 10 2 5,767 18 5 8,256 0 0 £ s. d. 285 6 0 10,093 ]2 3 3,460 15 1 1,679 2 8 4,367 14 8 4,704 15 4 21,090 3 0 3,256 0 0 £ s. d. 71 6 0 56 1 6 57 18 4 46 19 6 82 8 2 69 3 9 105 9 0 21 8 5 6 1 1 4 2,362 10 0 0 2,459 15 6 6 9,404 12 6 12 1,393 14 6 841 15 9 1,453 3 8 3,688 13 11 44 19 8 36 2,158 8 10 1,386 13 10 1,492 7 5 5,037 10 1 139 18 7 30 43 793 19 9 1,584 1 3 9 31 17 0 1,041 3 0 3 2,521 19 5 2,607 9 1 530 5 9 1,461 8 6 880 11 1 1,266 0 10 1,482 15 3 4,313 16 11 2,837 9 7 7,050 4 5 21 11 4 94 11 8 163 19 2 231 0 9 383 18 5 617 19 2 15 9 0 173 1 6 816 9 7 1,136 6 11 2,125 18 0 27 19 5 30 1,108" 13 6 146 17 6 605 6 3 188 17 2 414 6 9 1,020 11 10 2,076 12 0 1,356 6 6 4,204 18 6 13 5 10 140 3 3 62 4,026 17 10 1,144 11 3 2,002 5 9 7,173 14 10 •116 14 1 40 5 0 4 6 0 36 19 10 81 10 10 16 6 2 36 37 18 8 833 17 8 3,680 10 4 340 5 8 1,844 11 4 1,057 15 7 5,563 0 4 2,231 18 11 20 12 0 61 19 11 54 844 7 6 1,959 8 3 349 5 8 1,238 9 10 643 4 7 1,301 4 6 1,836 17 9 4,499 2 7 36 14 9 83 6 4 4 62 6 0 90 9 8 34 18 6 187 14 2 46 18 6 107 220 23 15 0 5,323 6 8 54 0 0 3,524 10 0 4,993 15 0 385 4 3 5,610 4 0 2,685 16 0 202 16 6 4,519 6 3 5,256 0 6 642 0 9 13,677 15 3 18,258 18 2 24 13 10 127 16 7 82 15 4 25 96 5 6 653 12 3 1,542 9 0 283 13 0 555 6 5 241 10 2 2,194 0 11 1,178 15 5 19 1 6 47 3 0 4 138 7 6 83 1 10 932 5 2 27 12 5 677 2 5 91 5 8 1,747 15 1 201 19 11 17 2 8 50 9 11 49 9 0 420 8 4 811 8 3 1,281 5 7 142 7 3 19 7 0 693 16 0 211 16 0 924 19 0 15 18 11 551 0 3 2,875 4 4 1,937 6 5 5,363 11 0 65 8 2 321 17 0 216 16 3 354 7 11 893 1 2 49 12 3 2 187 14 6 9 12 0 328 1 6 109 13 0 976 10 9 21 16 0 1,492 6 9 141 1 0 46 12 8 70 10 6 26 17 6 66 16 3 93 13 9 10 8 2 49 12 16 25 0 0 499" 6 6 1,236 3 6 235 6 0 426 1 3 946 10 4 93 19 0 178 3 3 1,629 10 6 111 3 9 616 19 2 3,837 4 4 440 8 9 1,720 10 2 78 6 2 3(3 14 0 107 10 7 33 13 11 43 19 6 77 13 5 9 14 2 Totals North Island Totals South Island 1,495 1,764 10,166 17 7 i 19,563 7 6 5 29,730 5 HI 47,405 18 1 4 55,644 7 9 4 43,772 12 10 43,861 11 4 54,565 17 5 52,991 15 1 55,911 5 11 72,061 1 8 t 104 5 9 t 97 10 9 No. 1 Cook Strait Cable, ncluding freight from London and expenses of laying No. 2 Cook Strait Cable, including freight from London, expenses of laying, and 8i miles of spare cable, and demurrage of ship " Zealandia " Five miles spare No. 1 Cable, including freight from London ... 3,259 103,050 5 10 87,634 4 2 107,557 12 6 327,972 7 7 29,864 0 0 13,218 6 8 2,822 4 3 Total Expenditure, exclusive of Lines in progress £ 373,906 18 6