POSTAL COMMUNICATION WITH ENGLAND.
[BY TELEGRAPH.OWN' com:.f.sro x d t. ] \Y klungton , Sat unlay. One hears so frequently of the little use the Sail Francisco mail route is to the colony, that the subjoined extract from a letter received by a Wellington merchant from hi* correspondent in Rio will he read with interest. lie complains about the time, three months, it takes for a letter i to reach New Zealand via London, and he also complains of die high rata of postage. lie says ho should like to know how it is that on letter.-! going via London, a charge of Is is levied 011 tho receiver of a latter from Brazil at this end, whereas letters from Brazil via Lisbon or .Marseilles are sufficiently .stamped at thu other end. The letter* referred to was despatched by the writer to be carried by thu direct New Zealand Loyal mailship. It is scarcely j conceivable that such cases of complaint : would have arisen if the letter had to travel from Brazil to California and to New { Zealand bv the Sail Francisco mail boat.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8223, 7 April 1890, Page 5
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182POSTAL COMMUNICATION WITH ENGLAND. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8223, 7 April 1890, Page 5
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