THE PANAMA MAIL.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 3026, 8 April 1867, Page 6

THE PANAMA MAIL.

To tho Edft? r of *^ c toAUur Soxjthkrw Croii. <?tw —The ' Lord Ashley Has arrived in harbour without our English mail via Panama, the steamer on the Utter route not having made her appearance at The SSSm mil mU not now be received before the inter-provincial hoa,tQnthe West Coart, comes into the Mauukau-on the *2& of ftu month. Auckland certainly derives little advantage frpm this Panama route, whjch may rightly be termed, as far as our postal coorespondeace js concer^ned, the route of all evil." Whilstwe had tyQ strings to our bow, the liberty of writing per first Reamer on the Ist or 2nd of the month (to Sydney, the Australian colonies,and Great Britain), we ha^beßides the mad leavinsr the Manukau on the 3rd for Wellington with SLmvls for Panama, the extra supplementary mail mCc fSfh yh the East Coast. This route was *4#p6ed Jwi^ie g?sate>V number of those who had to Wsk 't$e v mother pQuntry— the steamer corrc. x '* Port Cfralm,ers » $&* ty catch the arriving kw * — i&jtfj "^ fchij^ line for ' Aldinga or otnei ' —^tti «^ be saws^eo 1 wJjtno# The Auckland public >„ - JjfifSfvkk^ and a direct steam service between ■"**ci©dwould Melbourne. Such a service properly couv- "**^«ii if) leave us independent of the Panama route, wu. Auckland is of no benefit as long as the harbour 01 the Waitemata is not made the port of call. Postal.