THE MAIL SERVICE.
(By Telegraph.) Auckland, >To-day. The Sydney Morning Herald says, with reference to the San Francisco service : “ We are officially advised that on the termination of the San Francisco Mail contract the Pacific Mail Company offered to continue the service at a reduction of 15,000, to which the Postmaster General agreed on condition that the Company should obtain the consent of New Zealand. Sir J. Vogel not only refused consent, but declined to allow New South Wales to re-enter the contract (which she never asked to do), and complained that he had been treated very badly. He, however, offered to carry our mails for L 7,000, and the result of the offer is that instead of paying L 18.750 as heretofore, we now pay only L 7,000 for the same service, and this latter amount will in all probability be entirely covered by postage collected in this colony. The Postmaster-General does not desire to obtain any concession from the Company, with which he openly expressed his sympathy, under the circumstances in which it finds itself placed.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1418, 31 December 1884, Page 2
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178THE MAIL SERVICE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1418, 31 December 1884, Page 2
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