A SYDNEY VIEW.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 193, 15 August 1889, Page 5

A SYDNEY VIEW.

WHAT MR O'CONNOR SAYS.

Sydney, August 9.

The Postmaster-General, Mr O'Connor, states that the London. Post-office pays no portion of the San Francisco mail subsidy, and therefore has no voice in the question of the renewal or non- renewal of the contract. All the Imperial Post-office does is to carry the British portion of the mails to and from Great Britain and America, and should she object to do this any longer it would be of no consequence, as the San Francisco line is very little used for British correspondence, and no inconvenience would be felt if no letters were sent to or from Great Britain by this route. The average number of letters from England received via San Francisco does not exceed 190 per month, while the number sent from this colony is not greater than 3,000 a month. This latter number will be greatly reduced when the new arrangement comes into force for the departure of maiis from Adelaide on Wednesday instead of Monday, as the letters are mostly those that could not be sent by Suez owing to the awkward date of departure. As a convenience, therefore, for the conveyance of mails to or from England, the San Francisco route will be practically useless.