ALL RED MAIL.
THE SHIPPING TROUBLE. Per United Press Association. By Electric Telegraph.-^-Copy right. ■-•-."■ SYDNEY, ;. Dec. 30. A local merchant; advocates substituting a weekly service via Vancouver for the Suez route. The mails could be landed in London in 32 days, by using t 16-knot steamers across- the - Pacific. He believes. New Zealand might join the service by sending the mails to Fiji in a 16---kn- steamer. MELBOURNE, Dec. 30. The shipowners deny that the combine will result in a reduction of wages, though they admit that a large number of hands may be thrown out of employment. The means taken for floating the s.s. Australia, which lies on the rocks at Point; Nepean, are expected to prove effective in about three weeks.
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Southland Times, Issue 19499, 31 December 1904, Page 3
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123ALL RED MAIL. Southland Times, Issue 19499, 31 December 1904, Page 3
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