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Western Star, Issue 31, 13 June 1874, Page 1 (Supplement)

A comparison of what was performed by the rival services in carrying the February mails from Australia to England is, says the ‘ Sydney Morning Herald,’ not unfavorable to the Californian route. The Tartar left Sydney on Feb. 15, and the whole of her mails were delivered in London on April 6. The Ellora left Sydney on Feb. 23, and the mails via Brindis, only reached London on April 13, the Southampton not being due till eight days later. New Soutli Wales has therefore obtained for a sixpenny rate, a course of post within one day of being as short as that which cost tenpence. and seven days shorter than that for which Victoria pays sixpence. These remarks will apply with even greater force to New Zealand, inasmuch as the outward letters via Brindisi would be six days longer going from this Colony, or the difference of time in transit to Melbourne from here, whilst the ’Frisco letters are received here two days earlier than they are in Sydney,