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subject from the Port Master General which

I referred confidentially for the minion of

of the Members of Legislative Council. The Council unaniniously agree with the Pré Master

no

Several in considering that us public inconvenience would attend the discontinuance

of the Southampton Mail if provision

if provision could conveyance by other routes

We make for the

Soldiers and Sailors

penny

litters and

Concur.

in this Opinion I fully

It will be seen that the Boat Master General advocates in his report the establishment

of uniform rates

for the Brindise and Marselles

routes- some increase

arise if this suggestion

7

Revenue would

were carried out

but the Post Master Generali recommendation

>

is not based on this

ground

but on the

greater convenience that it is believen would result to the Mercantile Community

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in Houston and China from the adoption uniform rates. I did not ask the Council to expres

an Opinion on this point fearing test it might neerpitate enquiries which would entail delay in replying to

your telegram, but four of the Mamber of Council, two of them Merchants, have stated their

scale

Opinion

that

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of uniform rates by all routes would be viewed with aleroval by the Public. Believing that this Minion would be generally cutertained I by to recommend the suggestion of the