D.—No. 1A.

APPENDIX.

15

NEW ZEALAND MAIL SERVICE.

TABLE SHEWING THE NUMBERS OF NEWSPAPE JS DESPATCHED FROM THE SEVERAL CHIEF POST OFSTC !B8, AND P/ SSING THROUGH TH1 POST OFFICES IN THE i iEVERAL PROVINCES OF NEW ZEALAND, DURING THE I EAR 1863. I I i I ' ■ i New Wellington. Napier. Nelson. Picton. Lyttleton. Nelson. Dimediu. Invercargill. Totals. Auckland. Wellington. Napier. Plymouth. Without the Colony. United Kingdom 55,205 16.302 415,059 96,939 8,115 34,914 6,604 55,205 3,240 70,883 34,914 6,604 122,857 16.302 Australian Colonies . 26,272 1,218 10,067 924 7,431 573 12,167 10,067 924 7,431 115,756 22 : 403 196,811 22 : 403 Other Places 3,689 368 1,161 3 1,753 8 1,381 1,161 3 1,753 1,664 280 10,307 280 Total Foreign 126,900 9,701 46,142 7,531 64,389 3,821 84,431 210,277 38.985 622,177 38.985 "Within the Colony. Other Provinces in New Zealand. 87,546 9,637 50,947 8,474 30,481 11,871 52,709 77,497 16,273 315,435 Offices within the Province. 239,0S9 112,603 40,772 ! 34,917 i 21,576 225,014 232,095 40,866 955,932 277,723 309,592 i 60.139 Total Inland 326,635 9,637 163,550 49,246 65,398 33,417 1301,367 General Totals, 1863 . Ditto 1862 . 453,535 302,815 19,338 209,692 56,777 39,512 129,7S7 117,150 37,268 10,289 862,154 198,500 549,869 310,883 105.124 23,974 1,923,544 14,341 191,873 12O9,:i37 Newspapers having been dealt with in the same way as Letters in the Eeturns, the Notes to the preceding <-' Table No. uall ilicable here. are ei