'A Shanghailander just back from Singapore enviovsly records the fact hat when there he could reach London with a mailed letter in eight days for the cost of 35 cents. The high air postage rates paid by Shanghat on letters sent by. steamer Singapore or Saigon are exactly the fees which the Chinese Government, has to hand over to the carrying com~ panic, There Is no prospect of their ing reduced apparently and, nowa days, with the reopening of the Siber jan land mail route letters from Shanghai can reach London, earlier by that route than by alr. This, of course, is due to the time lost in con necting, the steamer with the alr-mail at Singapore. When the Imperial 'Airways has extended its service to Hongkong and the Shanghai-Canton alr service has been regularly estwbUished, the situation should be radically altered, And then, it is to be hoped, Shanghai will be' able to take advantage of the alr service at considerably lower cost than the present rates,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.