The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News, and Echo. MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1898. THE VANCOUVER MAIL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 149, 27 June 1898, Page 4

The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News, and Echo.

MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1898. THE VANCOUVER MAIL.

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Tfc is probable that the English mail services will occupy a place among1 the questions to be discussed duringthe present session of Parliament. The Hon. J. G. Ward Juts a I ready given not ice of motion for the production, of returns showing- the commercial results arisingl from the two Pacific services. The most ardent friends of the Vancouver line cannot claim that it has so far proved a success as a mail service. ..More than once Auckland citi-, zens would have received i£iiß-lish correspondence earlier if the Vancouver .service hud not been in existence, and to-day's mails are delivered via Vancouver simultaneously with mails of. even date via Sue;:. "We do not cherish any kind of prejudice against the Vancouver service, although we believe its chief supporters in Parliament and the press have been runningl it as a Wellington line in hostile rivalry to the San Francisco mail service. But, if the colony is to continue paying a heavy subsidy for the maintenance ol! the service, it ouyht to be shown that

we reap commercial or mail advantages from its existence which are something1 like commensurate with the cost to the colony. The ret urns bearing1 upon this question will be awaited with much interest*.