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AUSTEALIA-SUEZ SERVICE.

No. 148. The Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington, to the Secretary, Postmaster-General's Department, Melbourne. Sib, — General Post Office, Wellington, 4th November, 1910. I have the honour to ask that you will kindly inform me whether Homeward mails despatched from Australia by the P. and 0. steamers are transferred at Alexandria for conveyance to Brindisi. I have, &c, D. Robertson, Secretary. The Secretary, Postmaster-General's Department, Melbourne. [Suez Conn. 10/149.]

No. 149. The Acting-Secretary, Postmaster-General's Department, Melbourne, to the Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington. Sir, — Postmaster-General's Department, Melbourne, 17th November, 1910. With reference to your letter of the 4th instant, asking whether Homeward-bound mails despatched from Australia by the P. and 0. steamers are transferred at Alexandria for conveyance to Brindisi, I have the honour to inform you that steamers of the line mentioned both from and to Australia omit Brindisi as a port of call, the rule being to proceed direft from Port Said to Marseilles, and vice versa. The mails from Australia are transferred at Port Said, and conveyed to Brindisi by one of the company's express steamers (the " Isis " or " Osiris ") working that section of the mail-service. I have, &c, Justinian Oxenham, Acting-Secretary. The Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington. [Suez. Conn. 10/160.]

WELLINGTON-SYDNEY CONNECTION, ETC. No. 150. The Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington, to the Deputy Postmaster-General, Sydney. Sir,— General Post Office, Wellington, 22nd April, 1910. I have the honour to refer to the despatch of English and Australian mails from Australia to Christchurch in this Dominion, and to request you to kindly send the letter portions of the mails by way of Bluff on occasions when the steamer for Auckland leaves Sydney one day late. lam asking the Melbourne Office to do the same. I have, &c, The Deputy Postmaster-General, Sydney. D. Robertson, Secretary. [Letter in similar terms to the Deputy Postmaster-General, Melbourne.] [P.O. 10/1106.]

No. 151. The Deputy Postmaster-General, Sydney, to the Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington. Postmaster-General's Department, Sir,— General Post Office, Sydney, 6th May, 1910. Referring to your communication of the 22nd ultimo relative to the despatch of English and Australian mails from Australia to Christchurch, I have the honour to inform you that the matter has been duly noted at this office. I have, <fee, E. J. Young, The Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington. Deputy Postmaster-General. I P.O. 10/1106.]

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