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the fast Saturday boats of the White Star, Inman, or Cunard, or by the Cunard steamer on theWednesday. When we made this contract with the American Pacific Mail Company, we remembered and recognized the fact that the American people have a large interest in the success of this line, and we believed, in making the contract with a powerful American company, we should interest them still more in the enterprise, and eventually secure a more speedy transfer of our mails across the Continent. In the meantime, however, we think the plan we have laid down, of sending our mails from New York to England by the boats we have named on the Saturdays and Wednesdays, and by no others, will effect a great improvement in the service, and we beg you will move the postal authorities at Washington to give effect to this request. We have, &c, Daniel Coopee, Special Representative of New South Wales. Thomas Russell, Special Representative of New Zealand. W. Page, Esq., Secretary, General Post Office.

Enclosure 2 in No. 1. To the Pacific Mail Steamship Company of New York, in the United States of America. We, the undersigned John Fitzgerald Burns, the Postmaster-General of the Colony of New South Wales, and Sir Julius Vogel, the Postmaster-General of tbe Colony of New Zealand, as such Postmasters-General, in pursuance of the contract dated the twenty-third day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, and made between the undersigned John Fitzgerald Burns, the Post-master-General of the Colony of New South Wales of the first part, the undersigned Sir Julius Vogel, the Postmaster-General of the Colony of New Zealand of the second part, and you the said Pacific Mail Steamship Company of the third part, do here appoint the days and times mentioned in the printed time tables hereunto annexed, and signed by us respectively, as the days and times on and at which the vessels to be provided and employed for the conveyance of the mails referred to in the said contract, in pursuance of the provisions and stipulations therein contained, shall leave the respective ports of departure. Dated this seventeenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five. John Fitzgerald Bubns, As Postmaster-General of New South Wales, (by Daniel Cooper, his Attorney). Julius Vogel, As Postmaster-General of New Zealand, (by Thomas Eussell, his Attorney).

Sub-Enclosure to Enclosure 2 in No. 1. TIME TABLE for Mail Service between Great Britain, New South Wales, and New Zealand, by way of San Francisco. (Approved by the Postmasters-General of New South Wales and New Zealand, on the 12th August, 1875.)

OUTWARD ROUTE. Le. Arbiye at London, Thursday Evening. * San Francisco, Wednesday. Auckland, Sunday. Poet Chalmers, Saturday. Sydney, Wednesday. 1875. Oct. 21 Nov. 18 Dec. 16 187C. Nov. 10 Dec. 8 Jan. 5 Dec. 5 Jan. 2 Jan. 30 Dec. 11 Jan. 8 Feb. 5 Dec. 8 Jan. 5 Feb. 2 Jan. 13 Peb. 10 March 9 April 6 May 4 June 1 June 29 July 27 August 24 Sept. 21 Oct. 19 Nov. 16 Dec. 14 Feb. 2 March 1 March 29 April 26 May 24 June 21 July 19 August 16 Sept. 13 Oct. 11 Nov. 8 Dec. 6 Jan. 3 Feb. 27 March 26 April 23 May 21 June 18 July 16 August 13 Sept. 10 Oct. 8 Nov. 5 Dec. 3 Dec. 31 Jan. 28 March 4 April 1 April 29 May 27 June 24 July 22 August 19 Sept. 16 Oct. 14 Nov. 11 Dec. 9 Jan. 6 Feb. 3 March 1 March 29 April 26 May 24 June 21 July 19 Aug. 16 Sept. 13 Oct. 11 Nov. 8 Dec. 6 Jan. 3 Jan. 31