D.—No. 2. APPENDIX.

No. 2. TABLE SHEWING THE NUMBERS OF LETTEBS DESPATCHED FEOM THE SEVERAL CHIEF POST OFFICES, AND PASSING THEC-UGH THE POST OFFICES IN THE SEVEEAL PROVINCES OF NEW ZEALAND, DUEING THE YEAE 1862.

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Auckland. N. Plymouth ' Napier. Wellington. Nelson. Picton. Lyttelton. Dunedin. Invercargill, Without the Colony:— United Kingdom (I) ... 60,858 6,281 6,359 19,117 14,371 2,049 43,366 60,860 6,078 Australian Colonies (I) ... 19,433 1,311 1,224 6,296 4,785 566 10,934 143,802 6,312 Other Places (I) 3,017 268 2 824 741 53 741 2,025 182 Total Foreign 83,308 7,860 7,585 26,237 19,897 2,668 55,041 206,687 12,572 Within the Colony :— Other Provinces of New Zealand (h) ... 44,185 15,335 8,431 35,373 28,077 8,086 39,152 42,714 11,877 Offices within the Province (c) 68,789 22,831 43,184 20,374 1,580 140,266 139,830 8,558 Total Inland 112,974 15,335 . 31,202 78,557 48,451 9,666 179,418 182,544 20,435 General Totals 196,282 21,798 38,474 104,879 68,399 12,260 234,459 389,234 32,663 fbj These numbers include only letters posted in the respective Provinces for such destination. (c) These numbers include all letters posted at any office within the Province for any other office in the same.