POSTAL STATISTICS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2787, 31 December 1887, Page 2

POSTAL STATISTICS.

The following statistics of the New£| Zealand Postal and Telegraph Dcpaij} 9 meht for the year 1887 are interesting™ -Staff employed, 2044;'• letters' posted, 18,188,144; letters delivered, 19,896,448; newspapers posted, 6,844,828; newspapers delivered, 7,479,209; books posted, 1,710,718; books delivered, 1,747,941; letters registered, 185.504; post-cards posted , 741,611; telegrams transmitted,.

1,886,266; tolegraph line, 4,546/Jjks; wire, 18,998 miles; changes, 18; telephone Subscribers, 2,042; total miles travelled by mail conveyances, 3,608,971; money orders issued, £547,755 2s 9d; money orders paid, £481,185 7s; postal notes issued £24,980 6s 9d; Savings Bank deposits, £1,248,405,651 id; standing to credit of depositors, £1,615,979 -9s 6d ;W

venue, £806,46018s 7d; expenditure, £292,29218s 8d; Btirplus (being profit) £14,16719s lid." . : ■ y

ENGLISH pronunciation; -'M

; Bulweivis pronounced Bullet,' Talbot is pronounced Tolbut, Thames is pronounced Teins, Oowper is pronounced Cooper.HolboriieisprdnouncedHobuii,: Weuvyes is. pronounced' Weeins, KnollyV.is pronounced Knowles Cockburhe is, pronounced Coburne, Brougham" is pronounced Broom, Cirencester is pronounced Sissister, Norwich, is pronounced- Norricfe' St.Leger is. pronounced . Colquliora is pronounced Cohoqn, Grosvenotis is pronounced Grovenor, Salisbury is pronounced Sawlsbury, Beaucliamp is pronounced Beecham, Marylebone : is pronounced Marrabun, Abergavenny ispnounced Abergenny, Marjoribanks is pronounced' Marchbanks, Bolingbroke is. pronounced Bullingbrooke, H'arwarden is pronounced Harden,

THE RABBIT PEST.

There is another pest in Australia■ £j that is putting the people there beside M themselves with •apprehensions, and) ™ at their wits ;ends how to deal with it.' :• New Zealand has suffered from rabbits '■■ but her case is nothing to .that of.New South Wales. The Sydney Mail contains appalling accounts of the spread . and ravages of the vermin. It is affirmed the brutes can exist practically without-Water and on anything eatable besides herbage. One writer seriously asserts that if means are' not;, devised to stay the propagation of tlfK ptygue ; the country will havo'to'j'b'e' abandoned to them. Wonder how those people feel—they are still alive I believe—who introduced " bunny" to Now Zealand. Of course they v/ero influenced by the very best intentions. And a h-1 of a mess they have made of it.—Asmodeus, in N.Z. Times.

' .HORSESALE.

Last Thursday says tlio Lyttelfcon ii Times Messrs Mntson and Co., offered * for sale, at Tattersall's the whole of ;•* Mr George King's stud of horses. The' attendance was only moderate, and the biddings extremely dull; indeed, the : Utter absence of life in the horse trado was never shown raoro conspicuously. For some of the Clydesdale mares the • . • best bids were only about one-third .of .' what had been offered a year or ty'ljL ago. Two brood mares were sold W- ' 12gs and 30 ga; unbroken colts, 4yrs, %; 3yrs, 17gs; 2yrs, lOigs. Theio was no comuetion for the light stock, which was mostly by Irvingtop,: though they included some of very good quality. Young Irvingtou was passed in at 115gs,

Mr and Mrs Jellicoe who have been on a trip to the old country, have arrived safely in Auckland, and left last night by .the Tarawera for Wellington. ■ >

Mr Pain, tho well-known London,--* Pyrotcchtiisfc,' shortly gives a exhibition on a large scale in tho Wei]' 1 lington Baßin Reserve.

Scene a Masterton Hotel, Race timeVisitor: "What's- my bill?" Waiter: " Let me see, your room was-" Visitor " 1 did'nt have any room; 1 slept on the billiard.table," Waiter: "Ahl Well; then, ei«hteeiipence an hour,"