E.—No. 7.

No. 4— continued. STATEMENT of Number of Days occupied in Transit of Mails between London and the several Ports of New Zealand via Marseilles and Southampton, and via Panama, from June, 1866, to February, 1869, being the period during which the Panama Service was in operation.

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