Correspondence.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 179, 9 June 1864, Page 4

Correspondence.

• THE SVF.V. ROUTE. To the Editor of the New Zk.ii.axd TTfra^.p. t Sir, —Your article of this morning showing tho ; advisihililv of establishing direct strum, cnimnnnicaf tion with Melbourne, is both a usoiiil and an interesting c.T!<\ I do not think, limtpt, that you have I put tlm advantages whiVT, wf.ul.l r.-suit to Ai'.'-kl/md , from such an inv.i'-ri:il;inir, :is fiillv sis you miirht have done. You say, anil truly rpomrli, "At tinpresent, linir , , our supplementary mail leave* to-dav. L> th.- Bth. and will arriv-, via Syd'n.-y iu Melbourne, in • Hto to 1.-i.v,- for Kn-luiid by 111.- u'n.U si<-a,,,.-r on thS 'JCith. Had w.-- direct sf..-ain communication between - Auckland anil Melbourne, tin- Kmrli.-Ir mail n. Ed w<\ s leave lmre- until the IStli, tins in.-» - us :-,:i addis tional 10 days." ~ V.ut this is not all. The- KnirlMi mail arrives in „ Ad.-lai.l.- on the sth, ani y..-lUm-no on 11,.■ <Uh or ', 10th cif'(he niontb. A steamer lejivimr Melbourne immediately afVr the arrival of the mail, that is n< soon as titvNew Zealand boxes could be transhipped. • should reach hen-mi tin- 17th, and not only would p our oMtiroini! mail oftl.- I'M): curry the inaiii bulk of r the- return 'mail, whU-h leave* on tho Bth. but s with anything like an ofiieicnt pi>st:il department t hero, wo should bo able to answer Ihimni-ss letters of s importance received by the m>.i! which arrived on t the 17th ; this would give u>; an advant.-ii.-r- oi' a whnl,. month in our posbd rnim-mrnicaivvn with V.nvopo. n- and that too, as You have inni" Ih-'i once remark,-il. j! with tho very moan* which arc- ipiilo easily within .. our roach, but which, for some reason fir other, aro not made use-of. "Direct, steam communication with Melbourne -would not only allow us another ron days to catch the ontpoinir mail, but wrii;K Winsr tinEnglish mail into AiicklimdYm the Hth of the mouth, instead of as now on the 2-2ud. s I am, Sir, 0 A Mf.MHF.U OF TIIK ChaMIIEU HI- , Co.MMEItCE. p Auckland, Juno Oth. e [We saw this advantage, but it would require a ' powerful and sure steamer to carrv it out—tm(. which - would arrive punctually to diit..' m c-r.liov trip, and 1 wo preferred to rest our arcMivunl on that which no show of reasoning could overturn. AVo quite believe 3 with our respected I'n'itespondcnt that such outgoing b mail of the lfl'Ti could take the answers in return to c letters i-ooo'ivcd, liv oiip mail later than <-:m be ~ answered now.—Ku. >>'. Z. ll.]