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Wellington Independent, Volume XXIX, Issue 4072, 7 April 1874, Page 2

Speaking of the San Francisco mail service, the "Sydney Morning Herald" thus alludes to the vast commercial advantages that would follow the trade between New South Wales and New Zealand being sedulously cultivated :— " Within a few days' steam is the Colony of New Zealand, which has all along shown an inclination to maintain the most friendly relations with us, which has joined us in the great work of opening the new postal service with England via San Francisco ; which has a coast-line of about three thousand miles, with numerous bays and inlets ; which has an area of more than a hundred thousand square miles, which has fine soil, a splendid climate, and is rich in minerals and raw products of great commercial value. Its population is as large as was the population of this colony twenty years ago, and its exports and imports show that it has carried on the work of colonisation and improvement with Anglo-Saxon energy." This tends to confirm the idea we have before expressed, that time will see the union, for commercial and other purposes, of the colonies comprising the eastern division of Australasia.