THE 'FRISCO MAIL SERVICE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 79, 22 July 1876, Page 2

THE 'FRISCO MAIL SERVICE.

[From the " Star's" Special Correspondent.) Wellington, Friday. Papers re the Californian Service, today, show that since May the mails delivered under the contract time as '<«' lows :—ln May, six hoxirs inward, thirty hours outward ; in June, forty-fa] 1 inward; in July, fifteen hours inwardThe agents make repeated applications fo r the remission of £468, port charges for tn e Oyphrenes, but the Government steadfastly refuse to recognise her as a contra* vessel. On May 29, the representatives

m Syda*y addressed •Jr-u-tmst t'OVßmments, suggesting ► 'f nZ-nt rvnm he changvd in for or ,;!.> r-nt.: t'p'n* Sjtlwy «" Bnc |I/ "3 f *? ./ Y''"'iolnltt. and Sarv Kranuwo '' mi ,/,-.,.mtU : th.' prweifiil hflujs KrfvanW «"' «vil«* »t F"«i», L tt tf„ulance of transhipment *t "' ...mvwiwnce to passenger* m "lii'iL'tlU'in to retain «&«» accommoda*sm their starting point to their "i Ltiiutti»n» while it wiU result tn ni.liinif tarw intercourse of comCahfornia «rf the , .« for which* under the present '„f transhipment, the service is TlllY tuwlesn. Although the distance rtidirwt voiito proposed is somewhat !', the time occupied in the voyage* uy,lnojr to San Francisco and ■net '" W oiii«t »"* nM materially increased. "wniwinif to refrain from conducting .Ljlstul Wrviw of New Zealand, the 'motors aw actuated by the knowledge itlioif tone» »'»« l magnificent ships are Ll.at unfitted for the coasting trade u „npl«tt«.l. This trade can be more L.„iit»ufcinfaufii>nly earned out by the ''lwiil steamers New Zealand now Leon, commanded as they are by sea.tlit>i'(>«u'hly acquainted with the coast, t lu, contractors are undesirous inturforinif with this trade. The ,1, of watur in some of the flew Jnnd p'"'ta «* 9,> limited that „|1 | m hi tf i.ly dangerous, and at time* loimixwsiMtf foe vessels if tally loaded gnu* and leave. On July 3 Sir J. Mil MogTOphed to the I'ostmasterBoml tit' Sydney: " The Government || W much indebted if, to-day or torro,Vi you will let them know your m »'bi)tit change* in the Californian riw, Have had no reply to repeated w ts cf the same kind. The captain* tltu service will not be continued as iwsunt, and that th» contractors will )»it up. If yw* such a result let us nr, The people here would not much totit, tliey iu?&ao tired oi it» brregralarities. ■oil wish it to proceed it wottld surely lettur &> state your views. If we know tmm wo shall soon be able to say if iro willing or not to meet them. At ■ lout tllo service is a continued source \ inimyance." Sir J. Vogel on the Bth advising the Sydney CJovern* it tii appoint a Select Committee, as ulumi hurt!, and asked the contractors' woiitativt'S to state what reductions in subsidy will be allowed if the contract iwliliinl as asked.