The Evening Star. WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1870.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 105, 11 May 1870, Page 2

The Evening Star. WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1870.

We have recently, in a leading article, drawn attention to the great necessity for stretching a telegraph Avire to Manukau Heads and the Lighthouse ou Tiritiri. The insignificance of the expenditure as compared with the magnitude of the benefits to commerce from these small branch lines of telegraph, makes it appear strange that this should have been so long neglected ; but if anything were wanting to urge the pressing necessity of what we have advocated, it was supplied on Monday evening. The Phoebe had been detaine ! at Onehunga for some days past her time for starting, in order to receive the mails from the San Francisco mail boat. • At length, she was ordered to leave, and while steaming out of the Bay on the west, under the shadow of the Manukau Heads, and within easy speaking distance, the Wonga Wonga was steaming into the entrance of our harbour under the eyes of the Lighthouse-keeper at Tiritiri. Had Auckland been connected with these two entrances to her waters, as in any other colony she would long ago have been, a few hours further delay would have given the Phoebe the Southern share of trans-pacific mails ; and amid satisfaction universal throughoutNewZealand.thesuccess of the new mail route would have been confirmed with eclat. As it is, there will be grumbling and discontent, and people South will say they have had but a foretaste of Auckland as the port of call. In this matter what is everybody's business is nobody's business, and while such a small thing as this would go far to allaying needless irritation, our people, our merchants, and our Chamber of Commerce say," peace, peace, when there is no peace."