After negotiations lasting five months an agreement was reached a few days ago between the Canadian Government and the officials of the Canadian Pacific Oriental Service. This agreement calls for all Canadian mail to the Orient, delivered at Vancouver and Victoria, being carried at a fixed price per pound—the same terms now in force for the delivery of United States mail to the Far East.
The news that a settlement had been reached between the Government and the steamship line officials was welcomed on the coast, as, during the deadlock, all who had correspondence with China and Japan, and business men particularly, had the—ufpleasant experience of knowing that while many cars of mail matter from American sources were being loaded on Canadian Pacific liners here, not a single letter of - Canadian origin could be accepted, the post office instead sending the mail to its destination via slower Japanese boats.
In announcing the settlement of the dispute, the post office officials here announced that the arrangements made for sending mail to the Orient direct from Vancouver or Victoria does not include general mail matter but only such as is snecifieally directed "Vid C.P.R.
During the period when Canadian mail was being refused by Canadian Pacific steamers, merchants and manufacturers here assert, many thousands of dollars worth of business was lost by the disadvantages they suffered in having their mail reach China and Janan many days later than that of their American competitors.
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