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TABLE I. RETURN of the NUMBER and AMOUNT of TELEGRAPH MONEY ORDERS ISSUED within the several POSTAL DISTRICTS during the Year ended 30th June, 1878.

TABLE K. CASH VALUE of SHIPPING TELEGRAMS, and Amount chargeable to each Department of the General Government for Telegrams transmitted, during the Year ended 30th June, 1878.

TABLE L. DEBTOR and CREDITOR STATEMENT.

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District. Number. Commission. Amount. Auckland Thames New Plymouth Napier Wellington ... Blenheim Nelson Westport Greymouth ... Hokitika Christchurch Dunedin Invercargill ... 1,533 161 433 1,102 2,749 493 256 374 962 576 1,767 2,030 364 £ s. d. 192 14 8 18 0 4 54 13 4 138 9 8 338 7 8 57 7 0 32 12 4 48 3 0 119 0 0 65 4 8 207 19 8 240 8 4 42 4 0 £ s. d. 6,965 16 7 598 14 0 1,982 5 8 5,003 9 6 12,056 2 4 1,962 13 11 1,189 19 5 1,767 0 3 4,254 15 1 2,186 14 11 7,178 11 1 8,335 17 5 1,440 10 3 Total 12,800 1,555 4 8 54,922 10 5

Colonial Secretary Customs Defence Government Annuities ... Judicial Postal Registrar-General Treasury Public Works Shipping Keports Weather Keports £ s. d. 2,376 4 11 768 3 2 2,501 1 5 128 3 9 1,846 19 10 2,239 0 8 321 17 4 846 1 3 5,367 9 5 1,876 2 7 877 8 0 Less amount received in cash from Government Annuities ... 19,148 12 4 128 3 9 Total 19,020 8 7

Db. 'o Total Cost of Maintenance of Stations Total Cost of Maintenance of Lines £ s. d. 69,340 1 8 18,259 4 9 £ s. d. 87,599 6 5 Cit. By Cash Receipts as under: —■ Ordinary and Press Telegrams* Incidental Receipts not included in tables : — Excess on Ordinary Telegrams Amount collected from Government Annuities Department for Telegrams transmitted ... Collections for Copies of Telegrams, &c. Amount collected by Postal Department for Money Order Telegrams Proceeds of Sale of Condemned Line, Horses, Sundry Material, Old Furniture, &c. £ s. d. 73,284 1 10 77 13 3 128 3 9 £ s. d. 16 14 1 640 0 0 537 1 2 Balance—being Receipts in excess of Expenditure Value of General Government Telegrams 74,683 14 1 6,104 16 3 £93,704 2 8 19,020 8 7 £93,704 2 8 * Of this amoui it, £1,007 Is. 5i was collected in postage stanr ps. i.—1878. By Authority: GEOKi E DlUSBUEY, Gi ivcrnment Printer, Wellington 'rice Is.