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CLASS V.—POSTAL AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT— continued.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

item. 1892-93. TELEG-EAPH CABLE SUBSIDIES. £ L 2 VOTE No. 30. Contingent Subsidy Proportion payable on account of reduction of intercolonial and European rates (five months) 309 3,086 2,777 Total —Vote No. 30 TELEGEAPH EXTENSION. VOTE No. 31. Telegraph Extension 3,000 3,000 Total—Vote No. 31 CONVEYANCE OF MAILS BY SEA. 1 2 4 5 6 7 8 y 10 ii VOTE No. 32. Bluff and Stewart Island Chatham Islands Service Blind Bay Service San Francisco Service Cost of Transit from San Francisco to New York of Homeward Mails Atlantic Transit Homeward Mails ... Interprovincial Service (San Francisco Service) Suez Services Mail Agents and Travelling-allowance Auckland Steam Service Hokitika and Southern Ports and "Westport and Karamea Services Fiji Service New Zealand and Pacific Islands Service G-reat Barrier Mail-service Pelorus Sound Mail-service (8 months) Salary, Eesident Agent, San Francisco Contingencies, Bonuses, Gratuities 225 200 150 18,500 4,200 1,800 3,000 2,500 600 793 12 13 14 15 16 17 520 1,690 1,200 200 120 100 8,000 Less estimated credits—San Francisco Service 43,798 11,000 Total—Vote No. 32 32,798 CONVEYANCE OF INLAND MAILS. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 VOTE No. 33. Auckland Thames New Plymouth Napier Gisborne Wanganui Wellington Blenheim Nelson Westport Greymouth Hokitika 3,850 1,432 440 1,790 550 820 2,620 980 1,310 242 540 1,350