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No. 6. STATEMENT of Number of Days occupied in Transit of Mails between London and the several Ports of New Zealand via Brindisi and Southampton, and via San Francisco, from April, 1870, to April, 1871, being the period of the first San Francisco Service.

THE TRANSIT OP MAILS.

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