CHANGES IN THE STEAM SERVICE.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVII, Issue 1740, 15 July 1862, Page 2

CHANGES IN THE STEAM SERVICE.

We have been requested to publish the following changes consequent on the week of tLe ' White S*an.' The alteration is such as tomake Welliagfton still more the centre of Steam Communication than it was e*?en under the last arrangements of Mr. Ward ; besides continuing us on the trunk line. These arrangements i?e necessarily temporary; but they are a step in tbe right direction. The whole question, including the division of th© expense among the Provinces, must com© before the Assembly at c very early drjte ; meanwhile we cannot help congratulating our readers on the fact that the more steam is employed to unite the Colony, the more prominently does the importance of the central position of Wellington manifest itself. We could not help beinsr struck with the transit conveniences offered to members this session over any previous one, by the leave of absence for *> fortnight applied fov yesterday by Mr. Moorhouse, whose government at Canterbury can thus for instance, receive his assistance whenever occasiou may necessitate. We will, endeavour to place a Wellington Time Tuble, under tbe (ollowing regulations, before our readers on Thursday.

1. The steamer Queen will leave Port Chalmers on the arrival of the mail packet from Melbourne, on or about the 30th instant, and will proceed, carrying the mails as usual, to Wellington; thence via Napier to Auckland, arriving in the last named port on or About the 29th inst. ; will leave Auckland on the 7th August, returning via Napier, Wellington end Lyttelton to Port Chalmers, carrying the homeward mails of ali the Northern Provinces, and arriving at the last named port on or about the 16th of the same month. This service will be repeated monthly. 2. Tho I.W.R.M. Co.'s. steamer Lord Worsley will continue upon the service arranged for boat No. 2 in the last published time table, until the Gth'August, thß day of arrival at vianukau; will leave Manukau for Taranaki and Wellington so as to arrive in the latter port before the departure of the steamer Queen, thence for the South; will then make an intermediate trip via Picton, Nelson, and Taranaki to iManukau, tp tfike up the new time ; and will leave Manukau on the 24th August, for Wellington via Tawjnaki. From and after the 24th August the InterProvincial service between Manukau and the Bluff, calling at intermediate ports, will be conducted each month as heretofore, except that on the Southward trip, the steamer will proceed direct from Taranaki to Wellington. The dates of departure from Wellington and ali ports to the South -yard will be the same as those appointed in the late time table for the steamer White Swan (No. 3.) 3. The I.C.R.M. steamer Airedale will leave Sydney on the ist of Augtwt for Nelson, Picton, Wellington, Lyttelton, Otago and the Bluff, and will return thence to Wellington, calling at these ports as regularly gs possible the dates appointed in the late time-table for boat No. 2; will leave again on an intermediate trip to the Southern ports to take up her n&w time, returning to Wellington on or about the 27th of the same month. The I.C.R.M. steamer Lord Worsley will then proceed to Sydney via Nelson, and the Airedale will take up the inter-provincial service indicated in the preceding paragraph. The Sydney and Cook Strait service will thenceforward be conducted a* heretofore, one of the I.C .R.M. steamera arriving in and departing from Wellington on the same days as are appointed for the inter-provincial boat. The services, No. 2 and 3, will be performed by two boats interchanging at •ellington, so that the boat Arriving each month from Sydney shall proceed ti Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, *nd the Bluff, and the boat arriving from Manukau via Taranaki shall proceed via Nelson to Sy n ey. The European mails for all the Provinces not directly served during the ensuing months by the foregoing arrangements will be torwaided Without delay by a supplementary service. Tlio service between Syduey and Auckland wiU not be affected by these arrangements.