MAIL SERVICES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13330, 6 July 1907, Page 5

MAIL SERVICES.

THE 'CANCELED CONTRACT. Press Association-Bv Telegraph-Copyright "LONDON, July 4.' The " Shipping Gazette" referring to the cancellation of the mail contract, .savs that- the Commonwealth has made a pretty hash of the business. Whatever one may think of the contractors' lack of tact, those' who in future: interest themselves in the carriage of mails and produce will lie benefited by the widened knowledge of the methods and eccentricities of antipodean statesmen. . MELBOURNE, July 5. Under the new mail contract n clause will be inserted for a price, to .take in ports in all the ..'Slates of the Commonwealth, with special mention of l'r:ribane. -Particulars of the new mail contract are promised to-morrow. The' deposit which. was £2500 --under the old contract .has been increased to ■ £IO,OOO aiid the siiccsesful tenderer will have to .give bonds for £15,C00" on completing the contract. THK ALL RED ROUTE: .'MELBOURNE, July"s. The .Government.--are advised that the Commonwealth' Agent attends tlis Confer-: ericeto be .heldiin Loridon" under the...presideney of Mr- Lloyd George, to discuss the all red mail route. ■ " EAR EASTERN SERVICE. . ;' . SYDNEY. July 5. ,Mr Carruthers-, Premier of Now South Wales, states that the Government:'intend to call tenders for a better and more regular service w r ith the Far East. The Queensland Premier is heartily working witli him to subsidise the -service.