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Wellington Independent, Volume II, Issue 60, 22 April 1846, Page 1

Post Office.—The present practice at St. MartiVs-le-Grand, as far as we can learn, appears to be to make up letters and papers "for all New Zealand " in one or more bass, and forward them by tha Monthly Packets to Sydney, addressed to the Postmaster-General, New Zealand, whither of course they go, and as a matter of course lie there for months, The residents of Wanganui have addressed her Majesty's Postmaster-General, with a suggestion that letters ai?d papers for tha Cook's Straits Settlements should be made up in bags separate from the Auckland bag, and the Postmaster-General of Sydney instructed to send them either to Wellington or Nelson, as opportunity offer— the intercourse between Sydney and these ports being very much more frequent than from Auckland thither. As taxation 13 doubled on letters and papers coming via Sydney, we ought to derive every possible benefit from the additional impost; and to send letters from Sydney to Wellington, via Auckland, is about as sensible a proceeding as sending from Bristol to Cork villi Cape Clear and the Orknies.