HAWKE'S BAY HERALD. Napier, July 16, 1859.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 2, Issue 95, 16 July 1859, Page 2

THE HAWKE'S BAY HERALD Napier, July 16, 1859.

We were just about to intimate that, before our next publication, the "Lord Ashley," with the English May mail, would be due in Napier, and again to congratulate our readers on the prospect thus afforded of being brought within two months of England and ten or twelve days of the capital of New South Wales, — when, bj the arrival of the "White Swan," our pen was arrested by learning that doubts had arisen as to this part of the arrangement being carried out in its integrity. It would appear that the fleet of the company is considered scarcely adequate to the extent of coast service laid down in the programme, for the manager is in treaty with the owners of the "White Swan" -and "Queen" to take the whole of the East Coast work off his hands — the former to make fortnightly trips between Auckland, Napier, and Wellington, conveying, each alternate time, the mails and any cargo or passengers that may be on board the mail steamer for this port ; although we learn that, consequent upon such a change being carried into effect, the Hawke's Bay mails will probably be forwarded, as before, to Wellington, and conveyed to Napier by the "White Swan," upon her arrival from the south. A change such as that in contemplation would, by affording us fortnightly, instead of monthly vitits from the steamer, materially increase our facilities of external intercourse ; but it would cause a bieak in our communication with Sydney, and tend to check the goods traffic between the two places by the risk and delay attendant upon transhipment. If, however, it is found that the "Lord Ashley" cannot perform the double voyage between Sydney, Auckland, and Napier within the month, and that the company find it necessary to treat with Mr. Kirkwood for the co-operation of the "Swan," the people of Hawke can have little to say in the matter, beyond expressing a feeling of satisfaction that, transhipment being unavoidable, the services of so powerful and punctual a vessel should have been secured for the purpose, and that bimonthly should, under the pending arrangement, be substituted for monthly trips. The owners of the "White Swan" strongly urge the necessity of a wharf being constructed, so that she could. come within the harbour. It is quite obvious, that, in the absence of proper conveniences for the accommodation of such vessels, we must lose much of the benefit which would otherwise accrue to the province from their visits ; and we trust that the subject is one which will not be overlooked by the Provincial Government.