We (European Mail) believe we were the first to draw attention to the ex cessive postal rates on letters and newspapers between England, Australia, and the East. Our effoVts have resulted in some slight J amelioration as regards letters, and we have now the satisfaction to report that a movement lias "been organised with the object of obtaining a reduction of the fourpenny postage charge now made on all newspapers sent by the overland route vid Brindisi. There can be no two opinions pn the subject of a change, the advantages of which are all on one side ; so that we have good hopes of seeing a larger reduction on the transmission of newspapers than has been conceded in regard to letters. The newspaper is, so to speak, public property, and the imperial revenue should suffer rather than that the colonist should be compelled to forego his intellectual pabulum, on aegount of the cost ot transmission.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 968, 15 March 1871, Page 2
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156Untitled Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 968, 15 March 1871, Page 2
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