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STATISTICAL RETURN, NEW SOUTH WALES, 1897. Number of Telegraph Stations (including Public Telephone Offices) 800 Miles of Line-wire 33,072 Miles of Line , 12,745 Total cost of construction to 31st December, 1897 £920,036 Inland and Intercolonial. Number of Messages received and transmitted 2,133,298 Revenue (including £17,521 14*.. fW. value of O.H.M.S. business) ~' £142,774 6*. Id. International. Messages transmitted— Number 25,199 Value (including O.H.M.S. business £1101 19.5. Bd.) £71,705 o*. Ad. Messages received— Number > 17,494 Value £52,565 lis. M. Net Revenue to New South Wales £5645 10*. M. Telephones. Number 6726 Amount of Revenue received in 1897 £39,613 Postal and Electric Telegraph Department, General Post Office, Sydney, 2oth March, 1898.

VICTORIA. On 31st December, 1897— Total Mileage, Telegraph Lines 3823 „ „ Wires 9378 Total Number Staff Post and Telegraph Offices 209) „ Contract „ 184 [ 791 „ Railway „ 398 J Nett Telegraphic Revenue, 1896-7 £101,605 6s. Wd. J. GAVAN DUFFY, Postmaster-General.