CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10] — Page 257

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be reproduced all along

the line. That

the book would start with

that

is to say

· fair regularity, perhaps, but their movements and their port of call would be entirely governed by considerations relating to cargo, it would be quite possible that P.1.0. steamer which had left Europe before the Freuch mail might arrive

· here after it.

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There are enough private steamiers,

of a take them altogether, to allow

The mails

Mail from Europe arriving in Hong Kong

two or three days.

Such state every

of things would be indeed desirable if it could be counted on. would be small, would be quickly dealt with, and there would be much less rush and impatience

about.

about their distribution than at present.

But it is as useless to hope for this as it would be to believe that metereologists. will ever be able to arrange that rain shall fall only when it is convenient.

they do at present, three and four within a or livo, and then no more. day perhaps for nearly a fortnight.

The steamers would come in, as

lo.

I submit that there is little analogy between the lines of steamers plying to China and those which cross the Atlantic. There

are-

no porte

voy age

of call in the Atlantic, the occupies little over a week, and r first-class steamers leave regularly.

the regular arrival

enough to ensure the,

mails at either end

of the u

route. But the

of the

voyage to China.

occupies

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