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SOUTH AUSTRALIA, 1894.

Number of Telegraph and Telephone Offices .... 250 Length of Lines (Telegraph) 5335J miles. Ditto (Telephone) .. .. 244~ „ Length of Wires (Telegraph) . 10,926 Ditto (Telephone) 2244 Number of Messages, Local 402,776 Receipts, ditto £17,315 Number of Messages (Intercolonial) 241,008 Receipts, ditto .... .. £16,730 Number of Cable Messages, all Colonies— Forwarded, 44,989 ; Received, 44,892. .. .. 89,881 Gross Receipts, ditto £304,150 South Australia's Proportion. £34,700 Number of Post Offices 646 Ditto Money Order Offices . .. 184 Postal Receipts (including Money Order, £4439) .. £118,702 Value of Money Orders issued £226,160 Ditto, paid £219,509 Value of Postal Notes issued to Post Offices £68,550 Ditto paid £66,506 C. TODD, Postmaster-General and Superintendent of Telegraphs,

QUEENSLAND, 1894.

RETURN RELATIVE TO THE TELEGRAPH SERVICE, 1894.

On 31st December, 1894— Number of Telegraph Stations ... .. .. 362 Miles of Line Wire 17,812 Miles of Line 9989 Total Cost of Construction to date £845,885 Approximately— Number of Messages transmitted "Cash" 737,536 Number of Messages transmitted " 0.H.M.5." 77,938 Value of O.H.M.S £7971 o*. 10d. International. £ s d Number of Messages transmitted.. 912—Value 2982 3 9 Number of Messages received 951— „ 2428 12 6 £5410 16 3 Nett Revenue to Queensland, or proportion of value in favour of Queensland, £180 I*. Ad. Telephones. Number of Telephones 741 Amount received in 1894 £4742 17s. Id. JOHN M'DONNELL, Under Secretary Post and Telegraph Department and Superintendent of Telegraphs.