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TABLE No. 8. STATEMENT showing Expenditure on Telegraphs out of Immigration and Public Works Loan to 31st March, 1888, and the Liabilities on that Date.

Line. Miles of Expenditure during Twelve Months ended 31st March, 1888. Total Expenditure ana Liabilities. Poles. Wire. £ s. a. £ s. d. 538,978 15 8 Expenditure to the 31st March, 1887 ■ .. * Telephone exchanges Cambridgo-Taupo Patumahoe Shortland Mauku Olovedon Te Ahuahu Hikutaia ■ Matakohe Taranaki District Pihama Stratf ord-Midhirst Woodville, Tahoraite, and Waipukurau (fifth wire) Tologa Bay Pakipaki-JRoyston Campbelltown-Sanson Kai Iwi Woodville-Kumeroa Te Kopuru-Kaipara Heads Marsdcn Point, Whangarei Heads, and Parua Bay Mauricovillo-Mangamahoe Omatere Owen Eiver lino Stillwater-Richardson Lighthouse Springston-Prebbleton .. Naseby-Hydc St. Bathan's, Cambrian, and Blackstone Hill Berwick Queensberry Broad Bay Nightcaps Otakaia Milburn Inangahua Junction Cronadon Little Grey-Junction Christchurch-New Brighton Hororata .. .. - .. Blackstone Hill-Cambrian Clinton-Waiwera South Tinker's Kakanui Ophir-Matakanui Abbotsford-Middlemarch Stock .. "<3 'i 8 16$ 35 *8 6 1 1 8 6 72 35 13 'ii 13,029 12 3 107 9 0 207 10 10 89 3 4 45 0 7 361 12 0 14 11 0 60 3 2 88 6 8 105 0 6 109 3 5 158 5 2 1,151 G 7 833 6 11 269 16 7 155 0 6 15 6 8 284 9 7 109 8 2 5 14 6 329 15 6 4 16 1G 7 3 38 0 4 3 10 0 138 16 6 22 8 7 349 11 8 169 17 10 28 13 10 110 7 10 436 7 8 80 5 10 14 19 0 3 2 6 0 7 3 3 19 6 43 13 0 73 5 9 2 11 0 40 0 0 G4 17 9 5 3 6 5 15 10 26 8 8 3,771 10 7 'ii io 4 ' \ 'ii 13 3 13 5 'h 1 12 7 22,984 G 1 Total expenditure to 31st March, 1888 Liabilities on 31st March, 1888 501,903 1 9 3,004 0 0 Total Expenditure and Liabilities £564,9G7 1 9