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this line, combined with the great commercial advantages conferred by the service, led 

 Parliament, in 1888, to decide that a fortnightly service by direct steamer would satisfy- 

 all the mail requirements of the colony. A return laid before the House shewed that 







A REACH ON THE RIVER AVON. 



the steamers in 1887 brought to the colony two thousand five hundred and forty-eight 

 passengers, with ten thousand six hundred and eighty-seven tons of cargo by weight, 



