THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL SYNDICATE.
pAN ULTIMATUM DELIVERED.
By'; Telegraph— Association.--Copyright.
* London, May 16. -, The 'Minister for Customs (Sir W. J. Lyne) . has given the Australian Mail Syndicate notice that if it fails to'a enter into the additional bond within a week ! the contract will be 'cancelled..■: '. • '■,■ ... . ;,>;.'-,.
"The additional bond asked for means the increasing of the deposit on the contract from £25,000 - : to £50,000. ; The ActingPremier, Sir John Forrest,-confessed the other day ; to some anxiety concerning* the new English mail service (says the Sydney Morning Herald). The signing of the contract, as is only too well known, by no means settled the' matter"-'for Australia, and although ■ the Acting-Prime Minister will make ho? intimation as to the progress of the negotiations that are * going on in London, he has by inference made :it known that Mr. Deakin and : lie are ,in constant communication about them. He stated, when asked if any conclusion had been < arrived ; at;'; that no (• cablegram had reached him' from Mr. Deakin- that > day, and that he .was anxious to hear what was doing. ■ '■•'.-'. : , , ' "I have no reason," he said, "to be uneasy; but every day is a day lost. If there had been anything \ serious I think I should have heard at once. We would like to have it settled up." ' As to the .suggestion that the Government might agree to pay over .the annual subsidy to the debenture-holder!, Sir John Forrest said: ' "We would have ino objection to paying the money to anybody if there is proper equipment and the service is performed. That's done every day of the week. ;If a contractor wishes money paid -to any person other than himself, he makes , arrangements for it to be done." • '." Has that been suggested?" was asked. "There is certainly nothing definite about it. It is a matter :of no importance so long as we pay the subsidy on the service being duly carried out." ; • ■ :■ " Don't you think- the time is getting dangerously short?" ;'.*' Yes J ; we ; will be glad when it's -all over." . .;■•. .. ..:;•..-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13491, 18 May 1907, Page 5
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