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Table I. CASH VALUE of SHIPPING TELEGRAMS and Amounts Chargeable to each Department of the General Government for Telegrams transmitted during the Year ended 30th JUNE, 1873.

Table K. DEBTOR and CREDITOR STATEMENT.

Ta! [e H — contit iued. TOTA COS' of the Li es of Tel: eoeaph, &c. — continued. Section op Line. ■Sgt be--* rt Cost of Clearing Bush. Total Cost of Poles for Section, including Delivery. ' Cost of Wire, Anns, [nBulatorSj&c. including Cartage. Cost of Erection. Total Cost of Section. Cost per Mile. Brought forward ... 004 £ s. d. 4,246 0 5 £ s. d. 27,070 3 7 £ s. d. 19,534 7 2 £ s. d. 29,319 14 11 £ s. d. 80,170 6 1 £ s. d. Patea to New Plymouth, 90 miles, less 28 miles not yet erected ... Onehunga to Junction, reconstruction, 5 miles 62 4,026 17 10 1,144 11 3 2,002 5 9 7,173 14 10 115 H 1* 40 5 0 4 6 01 36 19 10 81 10 10 1G 6 2 Totals, North Island Totals, South Island 966 1,390 2,356 4,246 0 5 6,406 13 9 10,652 14 2 31,137 G 5 39,074 17 5 20,683 4 5' 22,980 7 9, 31,359 0 fi 38,829 1 3 87,425 11 9 107,291 0 2 90 10 0 77 3 9 Cook Strait Cable, including freight from London and expense of laying 70,212 3 10 43,663 12 2 70,188 1 0 194,716 11 11 29,861 0 0 Total expenditure (exclusive of lines in progress) 224.580 11 11 Total numl ber of i liles of Line, les poles and i 2,356. Total number of mil lea of Wire, 4,! .74. • This co6t per mil le inclui material for poi ■tion of lino (£ !8 miles) 7Ct t( be erected.

Depaetmixt. September Quarter, 1872. December Quarter, 1872. March Quarter, 1873. June Quarter, 1873. Totals. Colonial Secretary Crown Lands ... Customs Defence. Judicial Marino Native Postal Public Worts ... Registrar-General Registrar of Lands Treasury Shipping Reporti £ s. d. 250 0 0 17 7 6 65 8 0 217 3 0 149 8 6 12 1 0 316 11 6 317 11 0 436 12 0 2 11 0 13 7 6 97 9 6 207 6 6 £ s. d. 39G 16 0 ID 2 0 68 19 6 238 19 0 194 7 6 8 2 6 453 7 0 287 17 6 461 13 6 6 9 0 11 15 0 120 6 6 257 0 6 £ s. d. 449 2 6 22 2 6 75 10 0 358 14 0 177 14 0 3 0 6 402 8 6 317 15 6 671 2 0 21 17 0 11 18 0 159 5 6 255 5 0 £ s. d. 437 9 0 16 16 0 53 9 0 393 10 0 168 12 0 3 5 0 812 6 0 346 16 0 792 1 0 19 14 6 15 8 6 191 2 6 271 5 0 £ s. d. 1,533 7 6 75 8 0 263 C> 6 1,238 6 0 690 2 0 26 9 0 1,981 13 0 1,270 0 0 2,361 8 6 50 11 6 52 9 0 5G8 4 0 990 17 0 2,524 15 G 2,925 15 0 2,132 17 0 3,521 14 6 11,105 2 0

Dh. To total cost of maintenance of Stations To total cost of maintenance of Lines To commission on Java Cable Telegrams To refunds to Press, 25 per cent. • on value of Interprovincial Telegrams ... £ s. d. 27,040 18 10 9,479 5 4! 12 3 8' £ 8. d. Ck. By 'Cash Receipts, as under, Tiz.:— Ordinary, Press, and Provincial Government Telegrams* Incidental Receipts, not included in Tables, viz.:— Profit on San Francisco Telegrams Excess on Ordinary Telegrams Amount collected by Post Office for Telegraph Department on Money Order Telegrams ... £ 8. d.j 39,680 18 9 11 2 4 49 7 11 £ s. d. 487 2 2 I 289 11 0 Total Disbursements 37,019 10 0 Total Cash Receipts 40,031 0 0 To Interest on Capital Account at 6 per cent, on £224,580 lla. lid 13,474 16 8 50,494 0 8 869 19 8 Value of General Government Telegrams 11,105 2 o! By amount due by Kelson Provincial Government, being guarantee on Motueka Line... 51,136 2 0 To balance to the credit of the Department 228 4 4 228 4 4 £ol,SG4 G 4 £51,364 6 4 *Of this amount, £354 11s. 6d. iv-as collected in Postage Stamps. Price Is. 9<*.] By Authority: Geokqb Didsbtjby, Government Printer, "Wellington.—1873.