CO129-116 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [11-12] — Page 148

communications between the

dow, and thies

United Kingdaww, East Indies, bluna, Japan And the Australian Colonies, And also the report of flies Select Committer of the Bresses of Commons on East Indian Communications, and of thie

and

bo

to the

report; by Captains Tyler R. E. of t

This inspection of Plies Railways

Ports of Staly tive of the Stations routes for

corrveyances of marls to the East, I do myself the trover

the

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to report that the main point effecting this place which is brought forwards in ttress poppers appears to bas the arrangements to be mades for thin pengments of thes Subsidy

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subsidy for the conveyances the mails from Singapore of the 'u to Houghoug Ports of t

blina and

and ow to thos

Japans

the

And, were it not for anomarlons position the Government of this Colony Gelaced, in by having Packiet.

Are

the

is

+ Agencies (all of which entirely out of its purisdiction attached to- the Hougtong Post Office, thes Considerations of this point. would perhaps bes unnecessary

Having

is view the

necessity the Semperial ~ Governement is under of Maintaining the postal Contracts here at its own

•Cost, our account of the larges

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