STEAM TO COROMANDEL.
To the Editor of the Heeald. Sib, —To a new comer it appears a most extraordinary tiling that you hare not daily steam communication with Coromnudul, a tlistriot wliicli promises to vie witli tlic 'Xliames in the richness of its mines. «V"Mhm>; to examine the various claims in the Curomanuoi li-trici, I find to mv that I must wu:t for a particular day to leave Auckiauu,
must pay an additional f :ir e, say 10s. instead 1 of 7s. ns to the Thames, and then either wait several days or else return to Auckland Yia the Thames, so that the journev from Aueiiand to Coromandel and back coats 27a., while about the same distance, viz., from Auckland to the Thames and back, can bo done for half the money. I find also that a higher rate of freight is charged to Coromandel than to the Thames. All this militates against-the advance of Coromandel, as capitalists hesitate to invest in interests which they can only inspect at so great .1 co?t of timo ani passage money. Perhaps your notice of these facts may induce the proprietor of '.he Lalla Rookli to give us a d!>ily boat to ami from Coromandel.—l am, if., Saw Chuit,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 2348, 4 August 1871, Page 3
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