THE DIRECT MAIL SERVICE
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(Hum OCR contesjpomt>mrai) " WELLINGTON, Octobers!.
33ie Government were oonsider&blg enrprieed on reading in the paper thU morning the London cable message pel Press Association, to the offeei that the New Zealand Shipping Company had declined the teraaa offered for the ■tenmtJL of the direct nmU service to New Zealand, on the ground that the amount offered was insufficient, but that it -wm thoegafc I likply the Shaw, Savill and Albion Ctai|Miny "would, accept tho renuwal. Those Statemeata wholly inconsistent with the infosranation received bjr the G»Tem« monfe, and it is believed that the piibia m&M&g& quoted must have been Ken!; under «oa»8, nußconsoptioa. Oa ao point ia Wie €teveraaionti infonaatioa snore clear, sndpositive thiaa &s to the (jottaintjf'of the two shipping cosipasiea working to« gether in absolute concert, and not tho sligMcat fihado of a reason has beau, shown for suspecting any change of imnt in thia reapeot. . The question oi payments waa virtualjy settled, and as I stated last nighfc ! the cole points mnaiuing &t issue rclakul j to'details, eueh as penalties foe tore jieh o2 contractor late delivery. I'lio shipping I authorities here also doubs the acciiracj" ; of the fcslegram.
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Press, Volume XLVIL, Issue 7698, 1 November 1890, Page 5
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