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LONDON, July 4. Tho Shipping Gazette, referring to the cancellation of the mail contract, says the Commonwealth has made a pretty hash of the business, whatever one may think of the contractors’ lack of tact.' Those who in the future may interest themselves in the carriage of mails and produce will be advantaged by the widened knowledge of The methods and eccentricities of Antipodean statesmen. MELBOURNE, July 4. In the House, Mr. Deakin, in reply to questions, said the Government had already taken steps to get the forfeited mail contract bond converted into cash. New tenders would bo called immediately, to ..be returnable in three months. The contract would provide a specified time fo" building steamers and the penalty for failure to fulfil the contract would be double. that in connection with the first contract.
Air. Hunter said that, in the mail contract a clause would be inserted for a juice to take in the ports of a'l States of the Commonwealth, with special mention of Brisbane. In the Senate in the Address-in-Replv debate the Government were severely criticised over the mail contract and naval agreement.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2125, 6 July 1907, Page 2
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192AUSTRALIAN MAIL SERVICE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2125, 6 July 1907, Page 2
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