MAIL CONTRACTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 901, 27 May 1903, Page 3

MAIL CONTRACTS.

AND COLON ED LABOI,

By Telegraph -l’rc-is / . -snix on Copyright Melbourne, May 20. In jji.i de p itch with reference to the employment of Indians on mail steamers, Mr C. amb; riaJ.u points nut tnat ;:ie Indian Mutiny Act pledges me British Government to' the inhabitants of India the ■saii.io recognition and almost tno same rigiils M oilier subjects of the Empire. Tnuri fora it is nojiussioie to join the Uommon'.veaith in a contract debarring their '■inployui: nt on mail boats. He endorses the necessity of an accelerated speed for j\ >ure ~,/; eiimenls, and urges that the new contract" need not extend beyond three years. By that time possibly quicker I'oouuunicatiou will be obtainable. With

regard to tin: Hilggc.-tioii that the uuilding of a trans-continental railway to Bort Harwm so Unit the mails might be sent over tqe trans-Siberia': railway, Mr Chamber-on,-i i-; i,f i,o opinion inattiic mail mould be landed in. England much faster by ilio Anns Siberian railway loan by the sea A , i-,1,].! us madi in Melbourne that ; J,e 1,, accelerating ol the Van-C-V.ver mail vie", ai.d the bringing of one of the boats now employed up 10 the sp.-cd of ■chfi line. An u.errascu suefitly of £15,060 will he required.