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FROM PADDLE WHEEL TO TURBINE GREYHOUND.” -

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THE HISTORY OF THE EASTERN MAILS.

TRAVEL DISCOMFORTS IN THE PIONEER DAYS.

P. & O. COMPANY'S MAGNIFICENT RECORD.

An interesting account of the development of regular mail ser- vices to the East is given in a brochure prepared by the P. and 0. Company, mainly for the Inter- national Postal Conference which is now being held at Home Extracts are given below," "

made by the Company being satin- | Nile, work with the object of it- factory, this service was under proving the transit through Egypt which had been initiated by the en- taken.

terprise. of Lieutenant Waghorn a few years previously.

The East India Company, realis- ing that communication with India was now placed on an efficient basis, made an arrangement with the P. and O. Company for services be

The Hindostan was the first steamer despatched by the company to India, and her departure frodi

The first contract for the convey-tween Suez and Calcutta, and, ulti-Southampton for Calcutta on Sep- mately, regular steam services were tember 94, 1849, marked an epoch inaugurated between Southampton in the annals of steam navigation. and Alexandria and between. Suez This enterprise was publicly treat- and India. This was the commence ed as one of national importance.

wat of the Eastern mail service which has worked now for between eighty and ninety years.

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ance of mails dated, August 30, 1837, was made between the Penin sular Company and the Cominis- sioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain" and Ireland for and on behalf of the

Much eloquence and heen expend Queen's Most Excellent Majesty,

eil by statesmen in India and in And was for the weekly coureyance

England on

the benefits which of Her Majestys Mails and Des patches from Falmouth to Vigo, rapid and regular steam communi Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibral-ention would be likely to achieve; ter, and vice versa with good, substantial, and efficient steara vessels with engines of isot less than 140 horse-power to each vessel," the time of the voyage from Falmouth Gibraltar not exceeding 16

24

hours.

This contract provided that each ship should be fitted with a power-

ze fuliarmament consisting of six guns

First P. and O. Proposals.

and many enterprises were project ed with a view to the attainment of so desirable an end, but it was and rot until the Peninsular Oriental" Company undertook the maintenance of the service that this idea was actually carried into

effect.

Steam Vessels Orderedi The P. and O. Comps consider

Pro-Railway Days. Those who have known the over land route only by being whirled across the Isthmus of Suez by rail gun form little idea of the dis comfort of the journey in pre- railway days. In those early days, after landing at Alexandria, the first part of the transit was by the Mahmoudieh Canal, which connect ed Alexandria with the Nile and

by means of which the produce of the Nile Delte was diverted to that port from Rosetta, the former.em

porium of trade. This journey of 43 miles was accomplished in a big, masbless canal bost, in form not unlike the dababenhs used to- of nine or twelve pounds, twentyed that this enterprise was neces day upon the Nile, towed by a muskets, twenty pistols, twenty sity of the age, and likely, sooner

steam tug ab the rate of five miles an swords and thirty rounds of powder or later, to prove remuneratives hour. From Atfch, where the canal and ball, and it was provided that they also considered that the "traffe debouches from the Nile, steamers on cach ship a naval officer and his of an Indian servies would materi-started for Cairo, a distance of 150 servant should be carried to see that ally assist their existing Mediter-miles and accomplished the journey due and strict performance of rancan line. With this conviction in about sixteen hours to Boulas, the conditions of the contract was they applied for and obtained a

near Cairo, where passengers land- Royal Charter in 1840. The Char- made!

ed. Passengers had then to remain ter was granted on the condition the night in Boulae, but sometimes that the company established steam

two or even three days were spent In the year 1830, the British Gov-communication with India within at this place erament effected a convention with

two years, and the directors at once From Cairo to Suez the route las the French Government for the

set about implementing their eng- across the desert for D0 miles, and the journey was performed in two- transmission of mails for and fromagement by building the Hindostan wheeled omnibuses holding six per- India through France via Mar- and Bentinck and purchasing the sons, and drawn by four males or seilles From Marseilles & British Precursor. These vessels were of horses, the road being merely

track across the desert. There were Admiralty Vessel conveyed the

1,800 tons and 500 horse-power.

various etations at which horses mails to Malta, whence, with

At this time the directors of the could be changed, in from eight to heavier the larger and

por P. and O. Company had an inten minutes, and the journey took about 16 to 18 hours, of which time tion which by arrangement was timation that in the event of proper about 10 hours were occupied in conveyed by the P, and O. Com-facilities being provided by the actual travel and the remainder in pany's steamers via Gibraltar, they Company for the converance of stops for rest and refreshment. It were taken to Alexandria, But Her Majesty'e Mails and Despatches way therefore be said that at this the Nile, this service also time a very efficient system had these arrangements did not work on regularly and the P. and O. Com. would be transferred to the Com-heen provided by the P. and O. pany. No time was lost, therefore, Company fer the conveyance of pany was asked to submit a plan in contracting for an iron steam mails, passengers and cargo across for establishing a more rapid and vessel and the service across Egypt Egypt. On arrival at Suez mails was taken over. Other small ves and passengers were embarked for regular means of transportation to sels were acquired and severs the journey to India. and from the East. The proposals steamers were constructed for the

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Diary of Coming Events

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Mails:-Inward: Queen's Theatre: "Lady of the European Jurope vid Siberia (Kashima Pavements." Maru).

Baturday. (June 29.)

World Theatre: The Missing Link!!!

Star Theatre: Resurrection." Tea Dances: H.K. Kotel änd Peninsula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.

Dinner. Dators Repulse Bay Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 8.30

St. Peter. Tennis: A Division: Hong Kong C.C. v. University, Recreio Craigongower, Chinese R.C. v. South China, Indian R.C. v. Row- Joon 0.03" Division: Kow- loon O.C. v. University, M.B.K. v p

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Pavements."

World Theatre: "The Missing. Taikoo, Kowloon Bowling Green Civil Service, Craigengower. Link."

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