THE COLONIAL MAILS.
Considerable misapprehension seems to exist among many of our friends respecting the mails from the Colonies to England. All letters come together to Alexandria, but from that port those addressed via Marseilles are so sent, and reach London generally on the Monday before the departure of the outward mails leaving London on the following Friday. The letters addressed via Southampton come round by sea,, and reach London generally six or seven days later than those via Marseilles, and thus a diy or two after the departure of the outward mails, so that there is a delay of a month in replying to them. It thus follows that all correspondence requiring attention or reply by the return mail-should be addressed via Marseilles.
Letters addressed via Messina generally reach London two days before those via Marseilles; so that letters of special import should be written in duplicate, one copy via Messina, one via Marseilles.
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Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 91, 25 April 1870, Page 3
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155THE COLONIAL MAILS. Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 91, 25 April 1870, Page 3
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