On the other hand, 380 bags of British and 150 bags of Canadian mail are lying in the local post office and the officials cannot place the mail aboard the Empress, but must wait till Friday, when ' they will send it to Victoria to go on the Japanese liner -Fushimi Maru which takes 15 days to cross the Pacific, while the Empress of Russia _makes the trip in 12 days, Until the bitter fight which is now being waged at Ottawa between Government postal officials and heads of the C. PR, mail service is concluded, all Canadian and British mail for the Orient will go by Japanese liners from Victoria or from Seattle.
At_a recent conference between the Governments and the railway, a proposal was set forth that the C. PR. carry United States and Canadian mails to the Orient on the basis of 35 cents per Ib, for letters and four and a half cents Pound for periodicals and news-Papers, instead of being paid a subsidy as heretofore, on a space basis.
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