RAILWAY STATISTICS.

Evening Star, Issue 10705, 18 August 1898, Page 3

RAILWAY STATISTICS.

The figures extraoted by Mr W. W. Charters from the Railway Statement laid on the table of the House of Representatives last month qontain, in a small compass, a vast amount of interesting information concerning the great highways of the colon). The first table deals with the ordinary truffle on the " port" lines for the year that ended on March 31 last, and may be quoted in full:-

All these lines show increases over the preceding year, both in traffic and in revenue. The total mileage of the whole of the railways in the colony on March 31 readied 2,066 miles; the total number of stations and stopping placeß 770, and the total number of passengers, exclusive of season-ticket holders, carried during the year was 4,672,264. The total revenue for the year was £1,376,008, and towards this sum the Cap'erbury railways contributed £326,267 i or nearly one-fourth. Towards this amount (says the 'Lyttelton Times') the Christchurch Meat Company contributed £24,098 and the Belfast Company £15,768. The cheap excursion traffic was again better in Canterbury than in any of the other provincial districts. The following are the

consisted of 273 engines, 543 carriages, 207 brake vans, am s 8,204 waggons.

- Number Passengers Number Parcels. Tonnage Goods. Revenue Ch'ch am) LyttelConfutations Dunedin and Port Chalmers stations Invercargill and Bluff stations ... Auckland and One- ' himga stations... Wellington and Te Aro stations £ 335,571 97,729 676,466 140,283 312.430 88J51 383,243 110,943 109,308 45,195 232,001 65,566 173,710 39,758 144,468 53,410 130,606 68,019 112,058 43,532

figures :— Passengers. Revenue. Ohristohurch ... 155,381 .£22,437 Dunedin ... ... 97,301 19,5*0 Invercargill ... 54,024 11,772 Wellington and Napier ... 05,833 10,7(19 9,891 Auckland... ... 67,130 The rolling stock at the close of the year