New Contracts for
the proposed Postal Service to the East,
and in afterwards laying the whole question before the Executive Council, who unanimously resolved, yesterday, that the tender
of
the Peninsular and Oriental
Company for ten
years,
at
Two hundred and Seventy-five
thousand pounds sterling,
was
the most advantageous to the
Colony.
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The Postmaster General is of opinion
that the Canadian
route £275,000.
577
route would not be of much
advantage to the Colony, and in this opinion the Chamber of
Commerce also agree.
"The
Postmaster General and the
Chamber of Commerce also agree
that it would be more convenient
if the hour of departure of the
English Packets
were
fixed at
noon instead of at 4 P.M. as
at present. An hour in the morning
or late in the evening
would be most inconvenient
for the despatch of the Mails.
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