THE MAIL SERVICES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10901, 4 November 1898, Page 4

THE MAIL SERVICES.

Approval has been given, in the House to the Premier's proposal for the leuewal for a year of both the ban Francisco and the Vancouver mail services. This hand-to-mouth proceeding 18 . ad ted in view of the probability of New South Wales withdi awing its subsidy from the VanITSTT* so hat from first to C: T '"-omened entwpruie has been V confusion and embf »™s"u."' it seems predesnmi to an oar y fate both in the report of the SSZp Commerco Committee Mm the Premier's remarks mm* made resohtions; Md provision is made, if not for its obsequies at m . !, or the conditions that will be ißquisite when ! i will b® removed from the Im I be removed aiTanxremenh f " nim ° yin & th «t -aris i m zrxT °™f to this persistent desire to rive The fact that improvements are 1«; 2% -I. ° m y ear to year a! advanced by the Leader of the 0n principle that the yS ! the certain it is fcW tw w v > out be to to J2f,- WW service by San Fv™ • 68 0 * the lengthened £?S ? m moh a ST* steamers to rival the .^ din of <* a- Sue, «w'or l ?»'» '!» -iWamtamrf . ,J 0 ™ 18 vice could be attained nil ays sevdents in the most South con 'POll- - Inters and . reply fa L their ton mail. ' W ,i the reourselves to the fact tW blind convenience of -the <? A 88 tlie this or ; some . otw ° UtE ifs iu Auckland a& the port' 10 , fftte of trans-Pacific mafls is W of: the course the surest J, . 0f Permanence of the faran *. '• of • the the possession 0 f the.

[port of call wouT completion of the Trunk r ", th6 || But that prospect has, Un S# now faded into the hopeless di ß f and it is not improbable that th/kIPS we can have will be to alterant* Wellington and "go halves":i n 3 arrival and departure of tk boats. This, it will be observed? "! been suggested by the Premier'vj cn the cessation of tho VnJ' service is likely to be the adopted, as the only one tfeSl meet with tho approval of the sJ»v< ; When the Trunk lino is compwil as we presume it will be some tin?'#: the port of call is bound to be affirmed at Auckland, but it i 8 \Mf plorable thing that by folly this consummation should\ £ been made almost to vanish into fK distant azure. 4s|§