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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 8987, 27 February 1888, Page 4

Some time since, when the chance was made to Monday in the leaving "of the San. Francisco mails from Auckland there was considerable dissatisfaction expressed, not only in this city hut i s the South. It will be gratifying, therefore, to many to learn that we have the prospect of a return to the original day and that the contractors for the service have written to the masters of their steamers informing them that they may sail a day later from Sydney and Auckland, and then arrive in San Francisco in time for the overland express" This has come about from an alteration made in the overland train service between San Francisco and New York whereby the time of transit has been' shortened, and we have before us a time-table of the service recently issued at San Francisco by Messrs Spreckles, in which the intended alteration is embodied, the mails being timed to leave Sydney on the Thursday, and Auckland on the Tuesday. Either the information has not reached the postal authorities in this colony in time to have made the alteration in the coastal service to suitthe change of day,—or if it has, they have neglected to take advantage of it, so that correspondents are not to calculate on the mails appointed to leave to-day from Auckland, being altered to to-morrow. Unless special intimation is made, of course the San Francisco mails will close to-day as announced, but we have very little doubt that before the next mails leave—in March,intimation will be made that correspondents may avail themselves of the convenience afforded them in the extended time.