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TABLE 1. Return of the Number and Amount of Telegraph Money Orders Issued within the several Postal Districts during the Nine Months ended 31st March, 1880.

TABLE K. Cash Value of Shipping Telegrams, and Amount chargeable to each Department of the General Government for Telegrams transmitted during the Nine Months ended 31st March, 1880.

TABLE L. Debtor and Creditor Statement.

* Of this amount, £866 10s. 7d. was collected in postage stamps.

By Authority: G-eoegb Didsbtjbt, Government Printer, Wellington. Price Is.]

District. Numher. Commission. Amount. Auckland ... Blenheim ... Christchurch Dunedin Greymouth... Hokitika Invercargill Napier Nelson New Plymouth Oamaru Thames Timaru Wanganui ... Wellington... Westport ... 1,798 407 I,l8o 1,347 SH 330 496 856 252 308 227 iS° 373 968 1,836 249 £ s. d. 217 8 8 47 1 8 144 6 8 160 9 8 59 11 o 38 2 8 55 7 4 108 19 8 29 16 4 38 5 4 27 5 4 16 19 8 43 8 o no 19 4 212 10 8 27 n 8 £ s. d. 7,652 15 1 1,604 4 7 5,120 12 9 5,588 9 5 2,031 1 3 1,298 14 10 1,834 10 4 3,97i o 5 1,033 13 o 1,372 2 7 955 7 4 569 8 1 1,485 17 7 3,754 3 9 7,244 14 i 908 911 Total ... 11,291 46,42 i,338 3 8

Department. Value. Colonial Secretary Customs Defence Judicial Postal Registrar-General Treasury Public Works Shipping Reports Weather Reports £ s. d. 2,080 13 o 278 3 9 3,469 13 3 2,162 1 o 2,426 1 3 73 9 o i,736 4 9 5,429 8 6 i,i45 9 9 906 2 o Total 19,707 6

Db. "o Total coat of maintenance of stations ... Total cost of maintenance of lines £ s. d. 68,651 10 10 £ a. d. Cb. By Cash receipts as under : —• Ordinary and Press telegrams* Incidental receipts not included in tables : — Excess on ordinary telegrams Collections for copies and search of telegrams Amount collected by Postal Department for money-order telegrams Proceeds of sales of condemned line, horses, sundry material, &c. Amount recovered for erection of private lines ... £ a. d. £ s. d. 14,758 4 5 83,409 15 3 78 4 5 ' 53,9H 13 5 17 10 6 564 11 o 1,421 15 T 537 3 4 224 6 4 Special wire subsidies for Press purposes Recoveries on account of midnight cable service 2,574 6 7 86 11 9 2,660 18 4 Amount received on account of guaranteed stations 122 15 n Value of General Government telegrams 58,120 3 3 19,707 6 3 Balance 77,827 9 6 5,582 5 9 £83,409 iS 3 £83,409 15 3