D.—No. 2. APPENDIX.

No. 1. TABLE SHEWING THE NUMBEBS OF LETTEBS BECEIVED AT THE SEVEBAL CHIEF POST OFFICES IN NEW ZEALAND DUBING THE YEAE 1862.

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Auckland. N.Plymouth. Napier. Wellington. Nelson. Picton. Lyttelton. Dunedin. Invercargill. Without the Colony :— United Kingdom (a) 59,882 4,397 5,601 15,830 14,549 36,275 43,456 4,310 Australian Colonies (a) 20,604 1,098 602 5,799 5,102 9,736 126,792 5,606 3,107 * Other Places (a) 2,890 21 8 206 770 148 486 12 Total Foreign ... 83,376 5,516 6,211 21,835 20,421 3,107 46,159 170,734 9,928 Within the Colony: — Other Provinces of New Zealand 42,647 16,711 12,283 42,403 22,706 8,311 32,365 42,564 14,916 Offices within the Province . ■. , 59,732 17,622 37,375 13,005 1,382 137,218 146,948 6,260 Total Inland ... 102,379 16,711 29,905 79,778 35,711 9,693 169,583 189,512 21,176 General Totals ... 185,755 22,227 36,116 101,613 56,132 12,800 215,742 360,246 31,104 (a) These numbers include all letters so originating, but exclude all letters for any other Province or place received thence with the Mail for ti e Province named. • No direct Mails were received at Picton from the United Kingdom or the Australian Colonies. The above total was ascertained by sub< received from Nelson, &c. ivision from Mails