THE NEW ZEALAND MAILS.
Some time back the Melbourne Argns ungenerously protested against the mail boat having been detained at the Heads for an hour and a half, m order that the New Zealand portion of the Suez mails might be transhipped to New Zealand. Messrs. M'Meckan, Blackwood, and Co. replied to the Argus, and m concluding their letter, said : — "A weighty reason for the haste m getting the New Zealand mails away by the Arawata can be given. By her taking these mails it gives bankers, merchants, and others m Invercargill, Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington, and Nelson, together with numbers of outlying towns, the opportunity of replying by the Assam to the correspondence she brought. For such an advantage to their New Zealand brethren we believe there are very few, if any of our merchants who would not gladly have given the hour and a half. It has often been shown m your columns that the subsidy this Colony now pays to the P. and O. Company is so reduced by contributions from New Zealand and other colonies, that we have comparatively a small sum to pay, and we contend that these contributions should have some consideration — at any rate an hour and a half— without being told such 'an innovation should not be allowed again.' "
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 664, 31 March 1879, Page 2
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216THE NEW ZEALAND MAILS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 664, 31 March 1879, Page 2
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