FEDERAL MAIL CONTRACTS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 8998, 9 November 1907, Page 2

FEDERAL MAIL CONTRACTS.

Nov. 9, 10.7 a.m. Per Press Association. —Copyright. Melbourne, November'.!). _ A hitch has occurred in tho mail eomiWt negotiation;; with the Orient Co. Both Governipj s nt_ and the Gomnamv art. roficent. but it_ is sitt'iered'tUat the causn of the uisi'mta }'s the treatment of butter for oxijovr, •:uci. [ho connection of the c'cmpaW'wiiii'svhiifc is known as the five lines combination. It nppnors that negotiations wero proceeding harmoniously between tho I'cacral Govorniiu-nr'nnd the company until tho State intervened and succeeded in crcatim* iU . ;l;wllocic.

Tho Victoriau Government demunds that tlio .Orient connection with the five lines combination shall cease, and that; there shall bo'no differentiation IK.-r.w6en those butter exporters who have contracted to send all their butter by the lines embraced in the combination and those who divide their trade with outside cnnipauies^^^^^^^^^^^