THE MAILS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 936, 7 February 1890, Page 15

THE MAILS.

THE LOSS BY FIRE. We are indebted to the Post-office officials for a copy of the following telegram, received from the mail agent on Wednesday • —, 11 The B.M.S. Alameda, which left Auckland for Honolulu at 4.30 a. m. on the 3rd of December last, and discharged pilot at 5 a.m., reached Tutuila at 3.47 a.m, on tho 7th, and Honolulu at 3.10 p.m. on the 14tb, She left the latter port for San Francisco on the same day at 11 a.m . and reached San Francisco on tho 21st at 2 p.m. The mails left for New York at 8 o’clock on the evening of the arrival, by train, and were forwarded from New York to Queenstown by the steamer Servia, sailing at 9,30 am on the 28th. The inward mail did not reach New York until the 9th of January, and owing to a further delay of 14 hours on the overland journey through the (rain beiDg snowbound, the Alameda did not get away from San Francisco until 6.15 am cn the 15th of January, and arrived at Honolulu at 11 am on the 22nd, leaving again for Auckland on the following day. Mails were delivered at Tutuila on the 29th of January, and the pilot waa taken aboard at Auckland at 6.30 am yesterday morning.” The agent gives the following particulars ef the accident by which mall-rpattqr was

destroyed on the way across the Continent i —“Through the firing of a train in Ne-hra-ka on the 19th January, about 40 tons of United States maikmatter vras destroyed; Some registered and other correspondence for the colonies is known to have been lost; but full particulars could not be obtained, though the Post-office thinks the quantity is not large. Had our British mails atrivfcd at Neto York in time they viouid have beexl cn the train destroyed;” Tho Alameda would have arrived earlier had she not experienced very heavy head Bean during the last few days.