MONEY AND CREDIT
401
—
1893
1894
1895
4,676
2,472
1,500
8,648
91, .594
53,181
31,894
9,410
5,105
1896
1897
Length of lines on 31st Dec. :—
State lines (miles)
Comiianies' lines worked by the 1 State . . . . I Companies' lines worked by coui- panies
Total length (miles)
. Capital expenditure (1,000/.) Passengers carried (1,000's). Goods carried (1,000 tons) . Receipts (1,000/.) Working expenses (1,000?.) .
4,621 1,754 1,435
7,810
82,469
45,582
35,014
8,549
4,475
4,670
2,024
1,407
8,161
86,488
49,578
40,758
8,956
4,703
4,680 2,892 1,667
4,753 '
3,268
1,763
9,239
95,163 57,542 34,991 10,304 5,438
9,784
103,492
56,98-'
35,724
10,103
5,505
The following are statistics of the Hungarian post-office for three years :■
—
1895 4,558
1896
4,607
1897 4,681
Number of offices ....
Letters and post-cards (1,000's) ,
198,048
222,295
236,825
Newspapers (1,000's) '.
89,081
93,943
92,635
Samples and printed packets (1,000's).
31,283
34,706
43,253
Money and postal orders (1.000's)
16,216
17,136
18,015
value (1,000Z.).
39,583
41,575
41,892
Parcels and money letters (1,000's) 1
15,689
16,320
18,114
In 1897 there were in Hungary 2,899 telegraph offices and 13,375 mile^ of telegraph line with 64,515 miles of wire. The number of messages v.as 13,396,578.
The united postal and telegr;4)h i-eeeipts amounted to 1,589,500^. sterlil!^^ and the expenses to 1,162,300Z.
Money and Credit.
The coinage of the Hungarian mint in live years was as follows (In thousands of florins) : —
i
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
1,000 florins
1,000 florins
1,000 florins
1,000 florins
1,000 flori's
Gold:
4-ducat .
—
—
—
—
_—
1 -ducat .
—
—
—
—
20-crowii .
50,888
25,257
19,353
10,227
36,373
lO-crowii .
5,434
4,928
—
159
2,589
Silver :
Florin
—
—
—
—
—
Crown
12,193
6,039
9,272
2,489
—
Copper
—
—
—
_
Nickel
3,506
4,585
840
—
Bronze
213
435
694
564
798
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