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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

RAILWAYS WORKING ACCOUNT.
SHOWING the Total Revenue and Expenditure during the Financial Year 1877-78, to the termination
of the Four-weekly Period ending 12th January.

RAILWAYS.

| Section. | Length
open
for
Traffic. | Total Revenue to
Date. | Total Expenditure
to Date. | Percentage
of Expendi-
ture to
Revenue. | FOR A TWELVE-MONTHLY
PERIOD, AVERAGE TO DATE. |
| :--- | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: |
| | | £ s. d. | £ s. d. | | Revenue per
Mile of Rail-
way open. | Expenditure
per Mile of
Railway open. |
| | | | | | £ s. d. | £ s. d. |
| Kaipara | 16 | 1,721 11 11 | 2,311 6 0 | 134.25 | 199 16 7 | 268 5 5 |
| Auckland | 87 | 17,041 1 9 | 12,779 14 11 | 74.99 | 440 17 3 | 330 12 5 |
| Napier | 59 | 12,274 13 11 | 9,436 10 2 | 76.87 | 386 7 5 | 297 0 7 |
| Wellington | 28 | 7,400 11 4 | 5,818 3 11 | 78.61 | 670 8 7 | 527 1 7 |
| Foxton | 40 | 4,605 8 11 | 4,610 16 11 | 100.11 | 213 16 5 | 214 1 6 |
| Wanganui† | 21 | 1,046 19 6 | 2,180 10 7 | 208.27 | 92 11 9 | 192 16 7 |
| New Plymouth | 21 | 2,263 17 3 | 2,473 8 9 | 109.25 | 200 4 1 | 218 14 9 |
| Greymouth | 8 | 3,174 8 10 | 2,826 18 6 | 89.05 | 736 18 6 | 656 5 0 |
| Westport† | 19 | 673 11 11 | 683 5 8 | 101.43 | 99 10 0 | 100 18 9 |
| Nelson | 20 | 3,047 7 0 | 3,145 4 11 | 103.21 | 292 19 6 | 292 1 0 |
| Picton | 18 | 2,299 9 8 | 2,665 3 2 | 115.90 | 237 4 11 | 274 19 6 |
| Christchurch | 381 | 126,995 6 1 | 100,227 8 3 | 78.92 | 620 3 9 | 489 9 2 |
| Dunedin | 104 | 48,900 4 5 | 38,075 19 1 | 77.86 | 1,049 0 3 | 816 16 2 |
| Invercargill | 140 | 21,793 9 1 | 16,885 15 1 | 77.48 | 303 19 8 | 235 10 7 |
| | 962 | 253,238 1 7 | 204,120 5 11 | 80.60 | | |

WHARVES.

• The revenue from wharves is not included.
  † These results are abnormal; neither of these lines is yet doing its proper traffic.

Public Works Office,
February, 1878.

JOHN CARRUTHERS,
Engineer-in-Chief.

Member of House of Representatives elected.

Clerk of the Writs' Office,
Wellington, 22nd February, 1878.

THE Clerk of the Writs has received a Return to
the Writ issued by him on the seventh day of
February, 1878, for the election of a Member to
serve in the House of Representatives of New
Zealand, for the electoral district hereinafter speci-
fied; and by the indorsement on such Writ it appears
that the under-mentioned gentleman has been duly
elected Member of such district, viz.,-

For the District of the City of Wellington :
GEORGE ELLIOTT BARTON.

G. S. COOPER,
Clerk of the Writs.

Member of House of Representatives elected.

Clerk of the Writs' Office,
Wellington, 25th February, 1878.

THE Clerk of the Writs has received a Return to
the Writ issued by him on the 7th day of
February, 1878, for the election of a Member to serve
in the House of Representatives of New Zealand, for
the electoral district hereinafter specified; and by
the indorsement on such Writ it appears that the
under-mentioned gentleman has been duly elected
Member for such district, viz.,-

For the District of Parnell :
FREDERICK JOSEPH MOSS.

G. S. COOPER,
Clerk of the Writs.

Money Order and Savings Bank Office opened.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 20th February, 1878.

IT is hereby notified for general information that a
Money Order and Savings Bank Office will be
opened at

WAITARA,
(Chief Office New Plymouth,)
from and after 1st March next.

By order.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

OFFICIATING MINISTERS FOR 1878.—NOTICE No. 5.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 26th February, 1878.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in
the eighteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, and intituled "The Marriage Act,
1854," the following name of an Officiating Minister
within the meaning of the said Act is published for
general information:—

Baptists.

The Reverend ALEXANDER JOHN HAMILTON.

WM. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.