HYDE.—May 24

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 18, 4 June 1869, Page 3

HYDE. —May 24

(From our own Correspondent.)

_ The present mail arrangements are giving very general dissatisfaction here. I cannot understand how a letter posted at Naseby does not arrive at Hyde until the following Saturday week. The ' Chronicle ' is nine days old when

the fortunate residents at Hyde get' a look at it. In fact, "your own" did not see one for I believe three weeks. The constable who runs the mail between Waihemo and Hyde travels a distance of, I understand, 10i miles.. .Now, if we got the mail, via Kyeburn, the constable at Hamilton coram<j: through Hyde could deliver the Hyde and Hamilton mail, travelling each, week a distance of 81< miles, .that is j miles less than the constable at j Macraes has at present to ride. We I would then get both tho np and down i mail delivered at Hyde about eleven ! o'clock a.m. each Saturday, as also the ! papers and letters, nosted at'- Nnsebv on Friday, on the following day, allowing an opportunity of answering by the following Monday's mail. A gentleman at Hyde told ?ne, last week, tbat there was a letter posted at Nasoby to him some three weeks' since, and I 'do not believe be has got it yet. The first intimation he received of it being from the gentleman who wrote it asking him, at ISFaseby, if he received it all right. This is certainly a state of. things which sjiould not be allowed to exist; and I believe if the Chief Postmaster was petitioned to on the subject he would give us the mail via Ejyeburn, seeing that an actual saving of distance would be the result, besides regularity in the delivery of the mail.