THE AUSTRALIAN-AMERICAN MAILS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5993, 30 July 1887, Page 6

THE AUSTRALIAN-AMERICAN MAILS.

It is looming up in the near future that the present contractors, J. D. Spreckles and Company, for carrying the mails to and from Auckland and Sydney and the United States, and also English mail matter in transit, will have to contest with the Canadian Pacific for that privilege. This Company, which iB reaching out in every, direction for business on the Pacific, has made a bid for the work, offering to run steamers and connecting trains at such a rate of speed that the English mails will reach their destination in thirty days, a reduction of 48 hours in the time made by the Spreckles steamers, the owners of which have, in consequence, been Btirred up to seek engagements with the Eailway Company, by which quicker time across the continent can be made. They even propose to drop the mails at San Diego down the coast, to be forwarded east by way of San Francisco, and at Chinson to Peka, via Santa Fd. By this means it is estimated that at least 24, hours in the through time can bo saved. The probability of a chunge in the stopping places of the New Zealand mail steamers is not good news to the railroad agents to San Francisco, some of whom derive a very good income from the British tourist travellers. However, as far as the whole matter is concerned, there can be no question of a change of any kind until the expiration of the present contract, a year from next November.