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No. 2. STATEMENT of Number of Days occupied in Transit of Mails between London and the several Ports of New Zealand via Marseilles and Southampton, during the Year 1864, being the period of Messrs. McMeckan, Blackwood, and Co.'s Second Contract for Conveying Mails between Port Chalmers and Melbourne.

TIME OCCUPIED IN

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