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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Aug 04, 1894
Page
3
The House met at two o'clock yesterday to read the Speech and appoints motions for money. No new business was forced. the adjournment was at daybreak. Names mentioned include Speaker and commissioners Shea and Talbot.
The notice outlines the Labrador mail steamer route starting from St John’s in July calling at Harbor Grace Flower’s Cove Nameless Cove Lance-au-Loup Blanc Sablon Bonne Esperance Salmon River and Red Bay as southern terminus. Coastal steamer connects around July 28 and every fortnight. Northbound calls include numerous ports from Chateau Harbor to Rama with two trips to last four ports and Battle Harbor as southern terminus on those runs. Returning south lists many harbors and islands with alternating calls including Cartwright Long Island Grady and others.
The document outlines duties of Post Office officers to detain any letter or postal packet bearing fictitious or reused postage, with possible return to sender or disposal per the Postmaster General. It notes alterations to Article 18 of the Universal Postal Union detailing front usage for stamps and address, and introduces a new parcel insurance service to Britain and Europe, effective July 1, 1893 with specified fees.
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