1 (7)
2 may probably have cost upwards of a lakh of Rupees or £10,000.
3 The whole Line is pronounced by the Telegraph Inspectors to be in a
4 sound and efficient state. At each Office there is one Head Assistant
5 and two or three Signallers, in all about twenty-five
6 men (inclusive of three or four Artificers), all Euro-
7 peans. The cost of the Establishment will be a little more than Rupees ~
8 2,000 or £200 per mensem,
9 117. This being a new and remote Province, it is probable that full
10 advantage will not be taken of the Telegraph, so
11 soon as in many parts of India. The number of
12 messages, private and public, at the five stations, does probably not
13 exceed 300 or 400 per mensem, of which about one-third are des-
14 patched by natives; but it will rapidly increase, to the financial profit
15 of the Department. The public messages being comparatively explicit
16 are for the most part accurately delivered ; the private messages being
17 more brief, and consequently less intelligible, are not perhaps so ac-
18 curately rendered. But on the whole the Establishments are efficient —
19 and well organized. The Punjab Line gives satisfaction to the Govern-
20 ment and to the public, and bears abundant evidence of the energy
21 and ability of the Chief Superintendent, Dr. O’Shaughnessy, not only
22 in the founding of the Department, but in the maintenance of its dis-
23 cipline, order, and effectiveness.
24 Establishment.
25 Uses of the Telegraph.
26 Section PLE,
27 ‘MARINE.
28 118. The headings prescribed for this Section are—Sea-goin# Vessels,
29 Ports, Harbours and: Lights, and Inland Navigation. The two first
30 headings do not of course apply to this Inland Province. It is only
31 under the last heading, namely, Inland Navigation, that there is any sub-
32 ject matter for report.
33 119. It might at first sight appear r that Inland N atighiton would be
34 . flourishing in the Land of the Five Rivers. There is
35 Inland Navigation. :
36 aac Mika 2 no doubt; indeed, that the valley of the Indus must