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THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — UNITED KINGDOM
luland Orders
Total 1
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Number
Amount
Number
Amount
1890 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898
9,027,750 9,027,934 9,190,304 9,334,299 9,314,022 9,429,609
£ 23,333,417 24,575,036 24,953,532 25,582,236 25,919,853 27,494,145
10,374,144 10,524,774 10,685,206 10,900,963 10,921,617 11,128,258
£ 27,165,905 28,720,829 28,923,127 29,726,817 30,249,087 32,114,579
1 Including colonial and foreign orders.
The inland orders in 1897-98 were as follows : —
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Number
Value
Number per cent, of Population
England Scotland Ireland
Total, U.K.
7,914,255 967,740 547,614
£
23,211,225
2,772,746
1,510,174
25-2 22-7 12'0
9,429,609
27,494,145
23-5
The number and value of ' postal orders ' were as follows : —
Year ending March 31
Niunber
Amount
1890 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898
44,712,548 57,232,939 60,681,078 64,076,377 67,182,998 71,380,975
£ 17,737,802 21,768,793 22,759,282 23,896,594 24,826,874 26,014,583
The telegraphs were transferred to the State on February 5, 1870; on March 31, 1898, the British Postal Telegraphs had 41,516 miles of telegraph line, and 280,578 miles of wire.
The following table gives the number of telegraphic messages forwarded from postal telegraph stations in 1879 and in each of the last five years : —
