AUSTRALIAN MAIL CONTRACTS
Condon, July I. I The Shipping Gazette, referring lo ', the cancellation of the mail contract, i ■ays: —'"The Commonwealth made a ( ; pretty Bash of 'he business, whatever I one may, think of the contractors' lack of < tact. Those who in future interest '. themselves in the carriage of mails and produce will be advantaged by the widened krowledge of the methods and eccentricities of antipodean statesmen.'' Melbourne, July 3. Under *he new mail contract a clause will be inserted for the price to take in the ports of all States of the Common- • wealth, with special mention of Brisbane. Beceived 6th, 12.40 a.m. Melbourne, July 5. Particulars of the new mail contract are promised to-morrow. The deposit, which was £2500 under the old contract. b increased to £IO.OOO, and the sum-s----lul tenderers have tn be given lx>n<l* /or £15,000 on completing the contact.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 6 July 1907, Page 5
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145AUSTRALIAN MAIL CONTRACTS Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 6 July 1907, Page 5
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