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varging in extent and in the rate of speed
offered.
4. Several. Tenders from Mr Alfred Holt
1 Liverpool, varying in like manner in extent
and the rates of speed offered.
The postmaster General observes that Nos 1
Fund D
may
be set aside as
they do not provide
" a complete service - His Lordship after remarking
that for what the peninsular Wreental Cof
Arm
An
an
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express service (14 knots an
hour
the Meditteranean and 11 knots to Bombay
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and Shanghai) equal to 11'1⁄2 knots
hour
an
- throughout between Brindisi - Alexandria
" and Suez and Bombay and 11 knots
an
hour
· between Suez and Shanghai the sum demanded by the Comparry £400,000 A year is lower
than £1416000
a
spear
demanded by M. Holt
for
12
for a service at 18 knots an hour between (
Brindisi and Alexandrice and Suez and Bombay":"
and 11 knots between Suez and China-proceeds
2
to recommend that favorable consideration
should be gweir to a
Tender made by W. Holt:
wherein that Gentleman undertakes to convey
the Mails at 11 knots an hour between
Brindisi and Bombay and 10 knots an hour
between Bombay and Shanghai
for
the
sumn
77-
of
£336,500 with absolute penalties. Lord John
Manners observes that the Tender of the fleninsular
and Oriental Seam Navigation Company.
which
best w
may be compared with that of
which provides
Mr Holt above adverted to is one
for a speed of 101⁄2 knots instead of 10 knots
offered by Mr Holt
to Shanghai - against
072.
this
the line from
Suez
3 yain of speed ( and a
complete
y