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MONSOON ALLOWANCES-HOMEWARD.
* On these trips, Four days extra are allowed for the Bombay and Suez packets, but only There are taken in the Table. Eight days extra are allowed for the Packets from Shanghai, but as Five days only are taken in the Table the arrivals at Brindisi and Southampton may be Three days later than the dates set down, One day extra is also allowed for the voyage from Yokohama to Hongkong, which is taken in the Table.
+ The hour of departure from Bombay during the 8.W. Monsoon will be 5.30 p.m.
This stoppage of 20 hours at Aden is understood to be the maximum time, and the Company's Agent is, however, to use every effort to reduce the stay of the Packet to the shortest time actually necessary for Coaling.
The Steamers may occasionally leave Alexandria and Port Said earlier than these dates.
NOTE 1-In the event of the Packet bringing the mails from Chins, Ceylon, &c., failing to reach Suez in due course, whilst the corresponding Packet from Bombay has arrived, the Brindisi Packet is to remain at Alexandria for 48 hours after the appointed time for departure, that is, until 8 a.. on Thursday; and if the China, &c., mails are known to be in transit, her stay masy be prolonged until 5 P.M. on that day, but not so that daylight is lost."
NOTE 2.-The maximum detention of the homeward Calcutta Packet at Point de Galle, in the event of the Packet from China or from Australia being late, is fixed at 48 hours, counting from the appointed hour of departure.