TELEGRAPHS.

No. 35.-TOTAL LENGTH of TELEGRAPH LINES OPEN in the various

(a) Excluding cable lines.

77

137

-

7

7

77

136

136

7

7

7

7

136

106

(b) Including 397 nautical miles of cable between Singapore, Malacca, and Penang from 1892 to 1896, 1,205 miles from 1897 to 1900, 1,203 miles in 1901 to 1905, and 1,200 in 1906.

(c) Excluding railway telegraph lines.

(d) Exclusive of telephone lines, so far as ascertainable.

(e) Including railway telegraph lines.

COLONIES, POSSESSIONS and PROTECTORATES at the end of each Year.

TELEGRAPHS.

COLONIES, POSSESSIONS and PROTECTORATES.

British India (Years ended 31st March) (a). Straits Settlements (b).

Labuan (a).

1904. 1905. 1906.

(f) Inclusive of 128 miles of line connecting Domira Bay with Fort Jameson in North-Eastern Rhodesia. (g) Including cable lines.

(h) Government lines only. The figures for private lines are not available.

(2) The returns are for the 30th June of the years following those stated above.

(4) The figures represent the length of lines owned by military authorities and not for public use.

these lines were abolished and telephone lines substituted.

(1) The returns are for the 31st March of the years following those stated above.

In 1906

(m) The only telegraph line in Fiji is that between the towns of Suva and Levuka-a distance of 54 miles, which includes 12 miles of cable line between the two islands.

(n) Part of the lines are in the Bechuanaland Protectorate.

TELEPHONES.

No. 36.-TOTAL LENGTH of TELEPHONE LINES (other than those concurrent with PROTECTORATES at the

(a) The figures are exclusive of the length of lines belonging to one private company, the length of line of which cannot be stated, but the length of wire in use was 675 miles in 1906.

(b) Exclusive of railway telephone lines.

The figures relate to the length of military lines. In addition, there are lines (length of wire 1,400 miles) belonging to one private company. (d) These figures have been specially estimated by the New South Wales Government in order to obtain the mileage of telephone lines open in later years. The number of miles opened each year only are stated in the original returns.

TELEPHONES.

TELEGRAPH LINES) open in the various COLONIES, POSSESSIONS and end of each Year.

(1) Military lines only.

(k) Police and private lines only.

(2) Inclusive of 19 miles of military lines open to the public, but exclusive of 608 miles of wire used

for military purposes only.

CROWN LANDS.

No. 37.-EXTENT of CROWN LANDS GRANTED and SOLD, AMOUNT REALISED, and

(a) The value and acreage are for land finally alienated in the year,and partly paid for in previous years.

—a large proportion of the land having been originally selected

(b) Exclusive of Northern Territory, where 473,280 acres were alienated and 334,643,520 acres were unalienated up to the end of 1905. (e) Gross amount realised, exclusive of Survey Fees, but inclusive of balances on conditional purchases, and deposits and interest for land still in process of alienation.

(d) Including annual quit-rent payable.

(e) The figures represent the amount received by the Treasury from land sales during each year, and not the amount for which the land was actually sold. (f) The figures relate only to Sales for Cash.