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Hong Hong should be required to pay according

to the distance over which its Mails are

carried. It is clear that the Packet.

Company has to be paid for the length

the Sea Service; and the burden must

ratâ

of

either be shared by the fobony pro as proposed or continue to be borne as it has been for many years past by the

6. Mother County

of payment which

As to the arrears now amount to about £30,000, I apprehend

that the Colony

mamily

accountable for the

settling the

delay which has occurred in

question, for the intention to prefer a claime

wav

was

mooked as long ago

as

1874- and

revived in 1880 on the conclusion of

the New Contract with the Ceninsular 7 Oriental Congrany

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In the 26th of June 1880, the felomal

Office informed Your Lordships that Lond Himberley was prepared to admit the juster

of the principle that the total amount. of loss should be shared in equal proportions betwean this branky and the Colonies concerned which he regretted; that this principle

upon at an

was

not laid down and insisted earlier period - the Correspondence of 18744 having apparently been lost sight of

Ao As to the principle on which the assessment had been made, it appears

to be

un assailable the calculation being based upon

ber of

the sewice rendered. 1. the

mum

letters and the distance over which they

are e

carved, and your chordships have already been pleased to state that

you

are unable

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