Note 353 — Chapter X
Reading edition
The details of the different rates per mile which have hitherto been paid to the Peninsular and Oriental Company were as follows:—
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The first India and China contract (1844 to 1853) was paid for at 17 1 per mile.
The second (1853 to 1866) was first taken at 6 2 per mile.
and was afterwards reduced to 5 5 per mile.
The first portion of the Bombay service, namely, between Bombay and Aden, distance 79,872 miles per annum, was taken in 1854, at 6 2 per mile.
The extension of this service to Suez increased the distance to 142,656 miles per annum, and reduced the rate to 4 2 per mile.
And the subsequent arrangements in the Mediterranean brought the payment for the complete fortnightly line, now existing, down to the average of 2 7 per mile.
The Australian service between Ceylon and Sydney was paid for, from 1861 to 1865, at 21 5 per mile.
The same service was taken in 1865, at 19 0 per mile.
And the directors offered to double it for a sum that would reduce the rate to 13 6 per mile.
India, China and Japan contract 6 7 per mile.
Australian, Ceylon to Melbourne 14 4 per mile.