CARRIAGE OF MAILS.
London, March 2.
Papers relating to Mr Henniket Heaton's universal penny postage pro* posals were placed before Parliament to-day. Mr Heaton's fourth letter ; shows that the English Post Office collected £i 16,000 annually : for the carriage of letters to Australia, and further states that, m proportion to her population, Australia sends England six times as many letters as America sends. Mr Heaton asserts that the Orient and Peninsular and Oriental Companies are willing to carry six times the present quantity to and from Australia for the same charge as at present.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1498, 4 March 1887, Page 2
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94CARRIAGE OF MAILS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1498, 4 March 1887, Page 2
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