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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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