A NEW AUSTRALIAN POSTAL SERVICE.
< . . Negotiations tve ieiirn are proceed ing for a 'mail rteifyice between th< Australian Colohies anil UaVa. The "Argus," 6f July 'sayfc r : —W< understand tbiit a gdntldihan arrivec in Melbourne by H7N.M.S. 'Ctirdfioa who is empowered by the 'Govdrrlment to enter into negotiations with'the Governments of the "various Xusfcraliia'ti colonies for the establishment of a line of mail stealers between Australia and Java. The proposal is that steamers should leave Java monthly .for Australia, touching first at Port 'Darwin, and then making the round voyage of the colonies, proceeding alternately via Torres Straits, -Brisbanei'Sydbey, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Western Australia, and vice versa. We are informed that the subsidy asked for frbin each of the colonies is very 'mdd&rate in hmount, and altogether insignificant a~B compared with the advantages offered by such an 'enterprise for opening 'up relations Hvitli'the'important island■ of Java.
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Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 843, 29 July 1871, Page 3
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146A NEW AUSTRALIAN POSTAL SERVICE. Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 843, 29 July 1871, Page 3
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