The Archive · 1893

FASTEST MAIL, TIME ON RECORD

The Chingtn arrived here this morning at 5 o'clock with the English mails ex P. & O. steamer Feninsular of the 19th ultimo. This is the quickest time on record for mails despatched by the eastern route. Fancy, one calendar month to Japan. It makes! one wish such a service could be maintained regularly. If the P. & 0. Ca. would follow the plan of the Meseageries Maritioies and send on their crack bots to thie country vid the Inland Sea, and the French mail responded by putting on faster boats, the tri-weekly service of the C. P. would not raise hopes une mouth to dash them to the ground the next. A tri-weekly servia for mails is next to useless in these

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