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Table No. 16. Comparative Table showing the Progress of the Telegraph Department during the Financial Years ended 30th June, 1866, to 30th June, 1879; 31st March, 1880, to 31st March, 1882; and Calendar Years ended 31st December, 1882, to 31st December, 1893.

Number of Miles of Line. u Number of Telegrams forwarded during the Year. Value of Government Messages. Total Value of Business done during the Year. Cost of Cost of Maintenance Maintenance , ines Q. °- excluding canons. Australian Cable Subsidy. Total Expenditure. Cost of Maintenance of Lines per Mile. Tariff in Operation. Year ended of -5 i ' r~ Miles of °£ Wire. .c Private,. GovernE and Press. ment. Total. — lelegraph Revenue from all Sources. 699 I, 39O 13 24,761 2,746 27,407 £ s. d £ s. d. £ s. d. 5,561 19 2 483 3 2 6,045 2 4 £ s. d. £ s. d. 3,934 3 4 2,443 2 11 £ s. d. £ s. d. 6,377 6 3 3 9 10 30th June, 1866 1867 757 1,498 21 55>62i I5.33I 7°>952 j 9,070 10 1 3,770 4 8 12,840 14 9 8,017 14 7 2,541 4 11 10,558 19 6 3 7 1 14,896 5 1 4 17 4 Mileage tariff. 1868 1, no 2,223 31 72,241 26,244 98,485 11,652 3 7 6,672 o 3 18,324 3 10 18,520 10 4 13,430 11 9 31,951 2 1 17,218 1 4 12,252 6 o 29,470 7 4 9,489 17 10 5,406 7 3 1869 1,329 : 2,495 45 106,070 50,097 156,167 14,266 12 7: 8,547 4 9 22,813 17 4 ■ 6 8 6 Mileage tariff in operation up to ist Sept., 1869; uniform 2s. 6d. tariff from ist Sept., 1869, to 31st March, 1870; and is. tariff from Tst April, 1870. 1870 1,661 2,897 56 122,545 62,878 I 185,423 16,417 7 4 14,120 4 10 30,537 12 2 I 8 9 11 1871 i>976 : 3,247 2,185 i 3,823 72 J 253,582 59,292 312.874 81 344, 524 ' 67,243 411,767 22,419 8 8 9,876 17 6 32,296 6 2 . 21,254 4 3 11,344 3 8 32,598 7 11 I 5 19 6 1872 28,121 10 o 11,043 3 9 39, 1 64 13 9 23,593 9 9 ! 8,858 19 7 32,452 9 4 i 4 2 3 1873 2,356 ! 4.574 j 93 485,507 83,453 568,960 39,680 18 9 11,105 2 o 50,786 o 9 27,040 18 10 9,479 5 4 36,520 4 214 1 11 . " 1874 1875 2,530 5,782 2,986 6,626 1 3,154 7,247 3,259 7,423 105 645,067 107,832 752,899 127 786,237 130,891 917,128 142 890,382 160,704 1,051,086 155 952,283 172,159 1,124,442 46,508 18 10 12,618 11 6 59,127 10 4 55,301 12 3 13,679 10 9 68,981 3 o 62,715 10 4 16,154 6 o 78,869 16 4 65,644 15 3 17,024 8 9 ! 82,669 4 o 38,801 19 4 15,021 17 11 45,8i4 « 4 14.24° 19 7 53.823 17 3 j 6 3 11 60,055 10 11 ! 4 16 4 1876 61,696 14 5 21,074 8 8 82,771 31 5 18 10 1877 63,353 IO IO i7,93i 8 o 81,284 18 10 ■ 5 12 11 From ist November, 1873, address and signature given in free. 1878 1879 31st March, 1880 3,434 8,035 3,512 8,117 j 3,638 9,333 J 3,758 9,587 3,824 9.653 182 1,065,481 194,843 1,260,324 195 1,201,982 246,961 1,448,943 214 824,734 l8 3,675 1,008,409 227 1,058,342 246,370 1,304,712 234 1.215. 849 222,923 1,438,772 73,284 1 10 19,148 12 4 92,432 14 2 85,402 o 2 26,949 2 2 112,351 2 4 58,120 3 3 19,707 6 3 77,827 9 6 69,340 1 8 18,259 4 9 79,5°2 o 5 17,299 7 10 68,651 10 10 14,758 4 5 87,599 6 5 5 10 o 96,801 83509 83,409 15 3 4 3 4 1881 73,002 2 o 27,021 3 8 100,023 5 8 78,828 19 8 22,737 ID 4 101,566 16 o 78,224 1 823,154 8 3 101,378 9 11 667 1882 69,165 5 0118,292 13 4 87,457 18 4 4 17 4