§ MR. PIKE PEASE (Darlington)To ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies if he can now state what are the
§ to this office for the conveyance of these mails is based are taken at long intervals only. The contract with the company provides not only for a mail service to Hong Kong with extension to Shanghai, but for services to India, Ceylon, the Straits Settlements, and Australia. The company conveys parcel mails as well as letter mails, and is under certain obligations regarding the conveyance of Government passengers and stores and the sale of their ships to the Government.