110
1
C
hours less.
At present the mails to and
from
Victona
Jasmania and the other Australian Olonies to
the Westward of Melbourne are carried once a
mouth between this bountry and floint de Galle.
- by the Peninsular and Oriented Packets employed
the China Mail Service and the Maxels to
CIL
and
from
Som
Queensland are likewise carried by the
& packets between this Country and Inigapore -
Victoria providing for the packit service between leyton
and Melbourne under a Contract which the Colony
has with the peninsular and Oriental Company
and which will
expere
at the same time
OLA
the
Imperial Government Contract which the Company new holdes
and Leczensland providing for her Mail Service
/
betwan Singapore
and the Colony. There can
be little doubt that if any arrangement such
as that now
in
existence is made for the carriage
of the Australian Mails after the termination of
the present Contract the Colonies would objet to
such Mails being carried round by Bombay, the
as the time which would be occupied
Inove
under M Holts tender between Brindisi and
de Galle would be 44778 hours against
Norsit
2 the present time. The great saving of time in
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the Conveyor
the
se Mails which
would be
effected under the peninsular and Oriental. Companys
Ander, would certainly be of material advantage to the
Correspondence of the Colonies concerned, and would
tend to facilitate satisfactory arrangements with them
when the proper time arrives.
Having reference to the above observections
My lords are of opinion that the tender should be
accepted which the perinoular and Oriental
as
Steam
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