FIFTY YEARS AGO.
MAILS FOR SYDNEY. SERVICE TO BE DISCONTINUED. (From the HSEAiD of October 5. 1865.) tAxoTHBB blow has been struck by the Weld Administration at the commercial prosperity of Auckland. The contract with the Panama, New Zealand and Australian Royal Mail Company for carrying Hie mails between Auckland and Sydney, terminates on. November 1. and the Go- . vernment have signified their intention not to continue the arrangement. Captain, Vino Hall has written up to the agent in Auckland to say that the next is the last mail which will visit Auckland to bring or take away the English mail —neither will the supplementary mail, as hithertofore, leave the Manukau lor the South. We shall be left, in fact, to receive or send our letters, as the Government may choose to send or fetch them. The Ministry can scarcely say that they make this > lianee on the score of economy, for at the very moment when they intend doing so, they are squandering their revenue and ours on a Panama service and on the laying down of a marine cable across Cook's Strait, and telegraphs from one end of the Middle Island to the other, to enable the Middle Island Provinces to keep the trade of the West Coast goldfields amongst themselves.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16040, 5 October 1915, Page 11
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