HC Deb 16 February 1863 vol 169 cc343-4
MR. MAGUIRE

asked the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, Whether any Correspondence has passed between Her Majesty's Government and the Colonial Governments of Australia and New Zealand respecting a new Postal Service between those Colonies and the Mother Country viâ Panama; and, if so, whether there is any objection to lay such Correspondence on the table of the House?

MR. CHICHESTER FORTESCUE

said, there had been no correspondence up to that date worth laying before the House. The Legislature of New Zealand had passed an Act for the establishment of postal communication with this country by way of Panama, and the Postmaster General of New Zealand was now in this country for the purpose, among others, of forwarding that object. The Legislature of Victoria, however, had declined to be a party to the scheme.

    c343
  1. POST OFFICE SAVINGS BANKS. 29 words
    2. c344
  2. CUSTOMS ACTS (TOBACCO DUTIES). 29 words