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SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Post OfficeNumber of Post Offices 681 Number of Letters and Postcards *18,804.962 Number of Packets *1,973,86*2 Number of Newspapers *9,488,965 Number of Parcels (per Parcel Post) *48,752 Revenue paid into Treasury (including " Recoups," &c, as shown below) £125,114 Money Order— Number of Offices 190 Number of Orders issued 80,503 Amount of ditto £234,187 Number of Orders paid 92,809 Amount of ditto £343,479 Number of Postal Notes issued 25*2,346 Amount of ditto £85,501 Number of Postal Notes paid 251,558 Amount of ditto £85,741 Revenue paid into Treasury £5917 Telegraph— Number of Offices 264 Length of Telegraph Lines (miles) 5525 Ditto Wires (miles) 11,526 Length of Telephone Lines (miles) 337 Ditto Wires (miles) 2921 Total length of Telegraph and Telephone Lines (miles) 5862 Ditto Wires (miles) 14,447 Number of Telegrams (Colonial and Intercolonial) 1,111,283 South Australian charges on ditto £51,688 Number of International Telegrams 118,186 Gross value of ditto £498,477 South Australian charges on ditto £45,001 Total number of Telegrams 1,229,469 Revenue paid into Treasury— On Telegraph Account (including " Recoups," &c, as shown below) ... £110,748 On Telephone Account £15,916 Recoups and Sales of Government property — Post Office £2035 Telegraph £947 Total Revenue (including " Recoups, &c.) £257,695 Total Expenditure (including cable subsidies and guarantees) a £"202,903 • Approximate. a " Total Expenditure " :— Includes amounts paid on account of — Cable subsidies, &c 5294 14 7 Observatory 915 14 8 £6210 9 3 C. TODD, Postmaster-General and Superintendent of Telegraphs. General Post Office, Adelaide, 18th March, 1898.

QUEENSLAND TELEGRAPH SERVICE, 1897. JN umber of Telegraph Stations 365 Miles of Line 10,026 Miles of Wire 18,031 Number of Messages transmitted and received (including International) 1,141,71.6 Value of ordinary Messages transmitted (excluding 0.H.M.5.) , £76.795 10*. l\d. Revenue paid to Treasury (including £5264 s*. sd. on account of Telephones) £76,986 I*. lOd. Cost of construction to date (including Buildings) £860,080 15*. lid. JOHN McDONNELL, Under Secretary and Superintendent of Telegraphs, Queensland.