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circumstances beyond control.

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by the 25th of July.

105

C.

e. My Lords did not deem it

necessary that

Fenders should be called for a fort nightly

service between Hong Kong Yokohama having

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ference to the fact that there is now

existing

fortnightly packet service under contract with

the Trench

ment between those points

Governmen

and that the most important portion of the

: correspondence between this Country & Japan

conveyed via San Francisco.

Forms of Tender for these services were

accordingly prepared and approved of by my

Lords and the postmaster General was requested

by a letter from this Board

of

the 26th

of.

June when issuing Notice calling for Tenders

o

to require that all Tenders for the services in

question should be sent in to the post Office

by

On the 29th of July the postmaster General

forwarded to the Treasury the Tenders which

had been received.

for

the

Conveyance of the

India + China Mails.

These Tenders

are

as

follows:

1. A Tender from the From Shipping Company

of Liverpool for

a service between Suez and

Bombay fortnightly

2. Two Tenders from Mess? George Smith &

Son of Glasgow for services weekly

a.

Between Brindisi & Bombay by the Suez

Canal.

b. Between Brindisi and Alexandria and

between Suez and Bombay.

3. Several Tenders from the peninsular and

Oriental Steam Navigation Company for services varying

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