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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5950, 1 October 1890, Page 2

As showing tho advantages tho Americans derive from the maintenance of the Pacific mail route wo may tako from the shipping columns of a San Francisco paper the list of merchandise shipped by the last steamer from thero for New Zealand and Sydney. The A.uckland Star says :—" There we read of 1050 barrels of flour sent from the United States to Australasia, when Now Zoaland can produeo as much wheat to tho acre as the finest of grain-bearing countries; 901 doors, and the timber companies of Auckland only half employed ; 125 cases of honey, when an Auckland firm gained a prize for that commodity at the last Melbourne Exposition ; 21,2501b of dried fruit, and fruit rotting on the ground iv each and overy colony of Australasia, with perhaps the exception of Tasmania; 13,1551b of hops, and the valley of the Waikuto admiral.]!}' suited for their cultivation. All this for one trip only. Probably at other timesi merchandise is carried still more hurtful to the pride of those who believo in the enterprise of colonials, and tho possibilities of New Zealand."