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RETURNS RELATIVE TO THE TELEGRAPH SERVICE.

VICTORIA, 1894.

TELEGRAPH STATISTICS, 1894.

Total Miles of Line on Slat December, 1894 39631 Wire „ „ 9328J Number of Stations— Government 387 Railway Commissioners 397 784 Net Receipts year 1893-4 .£96,596 JAMES SMIBERT.

NEW SOUTH WALES, 1894.

Number of Telegraph Stations (including Public Telephone Offices') ... 830 Miles of Line-wire .... ». .. 27,450 Miles of Line . 12,165 Total cost of construction to 31st December, 1893 £820,822 Inland and Intercolonial. Approximately— Number of Messages transmitted (including about 300,000 0.H.M.5.) 2,200,000 Revenue (including £20,000, approximate value of O.H.M.S. business).. £138,179 International. Messages transmitted—Number 16,650 Value £50,680 Messages received —Number .. 15,000 Value Net Revenue to New South Wales £3155 Telephones. Number 3382 Amount received in 1894 for Telephones £20,290 Postal and Electric Telegraph Department, General Post Office, Sydney, 4th February, 1895.