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subject from the Port Master General which
I referred confidentially for the minion of
of the Members of Legislative Council. The Council unaniniously agree with the Pré Master
no
Several in considering that us public inconvenience would attend the discontinuance
of the Southampton Mail if provision
if provision could conveyance by other routes
We make for the
Soldiers and Sailors
penny
litters and
Concur.
in this Opinion I fully
It will be seen that the Boat Master General advocates in his report the establishment
of uniform rates
for the Brindise and Marselles
routes- some increase
arise if this suggestion
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Revenue would
were carried out
but the Post Master Generali recommendation
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is not based on this
ground
but on the
greater convenience that it is believen would result to the Mercantile Community
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in Houston and China from the adoption uniform rates. I did not ask the Council to expres
an Opinion on this point fearing test it might neerpitate enquiries which would entail delay in replying to
your telegram, but four of the Mamber of Council, two of them Merchants, have stated their
scale
Opinion
that
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of uniform rates by all routes would be viewed with aleroval by the Public. Believing that this Minion would be generally cutertained I by to recommend the suggestion of the