D.—No. 2. APPENDIX.

No. 3. TABLE SHEWING THE NUMBEBS OF NEWSPAPEBS EECEIVED AT THE SEVEBAL CHIEF POST OFFICES IN NEW ZEALAND, DUBING THE YEAE 1862.

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Auckland. New Plymouth. Napier. Wellington. Nelson. Picton. Lyttelton. Dunedin. Invercargill. Without the Colony:— • United Kingdom 102,918 5,732 9,874 50,218 68,219 72,835 64,400 6,157 Australian Colonies 24,705 1,799 1,026 9,949 7,280 4,225 10,034 72,177 5,662 Other Places 1,758 10 331 595 176 457 Total Foreign ... 11,819 129,381 7,531 10,910 00,498 76,094 4,225 83,045 137,034 Within the Colony: — Other Provinces of New Zealand 41,414 17,287 20,563 34,815 24,513 3,070 37,364 30,522 19,872 Offices within the Provinee 8,461 3.961 7,417 2,282 600 61,472 19,576 1,060 Total Inland ... 49,875 17,287 24,524 42,232 26,795 3,670 98,836 50,098 20,932 General Totals ... 179,256 24,818 35,434 102,730 102,889 7,895 181,881 187,132 32,751 Newspapers having been dealt with in the same way as Letters, in the Beturns from which this Table was compiled, the Notes to the preceding Table (No. 1) are equally applicable here.