THE ALL RED MAIL PROJECT.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43214, 13 August 1907, Page 4

THE ALL RED MAIL PROJECT.

An interesting contribution to the I discussion on the all-red mail scheme * now proceeding, jf. somewhat infer- ( miittently, in the several portions of the Empire interested, is provided by the London Daily Chronicle, which, at the same tame,- gets back neatly on those people who never lose an opportunity of .designating the English Lib- ’ erals “Little Englanders.’ The Chronicle remarks that the Imperial aspirations of the present Ministry are seriously hampered by the Little Elnglandism of their predecessors in their arrangement with the Ounard Company of (1903. By that agreement the Ounard Company' promised to build forthwith two steamers of an average ocean speed of from twentyfour to twenty-five knots am hour in moderate weather, suitable in all respects ito maintain and develop the company’s line between Liverpool and New York, or other ports in Great Britain and America. The agreement specified New York'—not Quebec or Montreal—as the port of call In return for this promise and the Admiralty conditions attached to it, the Balfour Government undertook to give the Cunard line the following favours: Al lump sum of £150,000 a year for twenty years; a loan of £2,600,000 at 2$ ner cent.; the annual Post Office subsidy of £68,000 for mails.