THE MAKURA'S MAIL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 625, 30 September 1909, Page 6

THE MAKURA'S MAIL.

ON BOARD THE CHALLENGER ? .-' ; A correspondent "Letters" writes as Sol lows:—"I have beep anxiously, Watching vom paper.for the announceinent regarding the English mail, which arrived at Suva per Makura last Jlonday, having been transhipped, theio per H.M;S. Challeiiger for -Auckland, ,11ms savuig many days in. its delivery,, but so' far hfivo not noticed any information to that cilcct. Can you tell mo .whether'or not this mail is coming to Now Zealand by the Challenger, This is a real object. lesson of what could bo done always if arrangements were made with tho Union Company io mako i tho necessary oomtotion at Suva with their New Zealand steamers, and hope Sir Joseph-Ward and members of Parliament generally will take the lesson to heart, and endeavour doling the com. ing session of- Parliament to arrange this desirable connection, and so avoid sending the mails to Australia, which means, of course, a long delay in tho delivery of our i mail," The postal authorities received cable advice last evening that. 33 bagsof. mails .-for Jfew Zealand had been transhipped from tho Ma. knra to H.M.S., Challenger at Suva. Tho warship is duo at Auckland to-day.