The Evening Sta. SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1871.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 460, 1 July 1871, Page 2

The Evening Sta.

SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1871.

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of noticing our small contemporary ; but yesterday evening's issue contains statements respecting the relative merits and prospects of the transPacific mail services so untruthful and misleading that we cannot withhold comment. Our contemporary chronicles the doings of the City of Melbourne on her down passage to Honolulu, en route for San Francisco, and triumphantly shows that tlio Sydney people will savo seven days in course of ppsfc, over the detestable and accursed; deviation to Auckland. The City of Melbourne was twenty-one days under steam in going from Sydney to Honolulu, by way of Levul{»,**wlierens the Nebraska was but nineteen days eight hours under steam in connecting the same two ports, via Auckland. The inclusion, therefore, of Auckland in the line of route shows for so far a * clear gain in time to the Australian 1 public of nearly two days. And yet our contemporary, with an assurance insufferable, asserts and endeavours to make people believe that the gai/i of time has been on the side of the Fijian service. What purpose can bo hoped for by this systematic inisrepresenta- . tion it is difficult to conceive. The whole article is written in a spirit gloating over the expected failure of the New.Zealand service, and rejoicing in the success of the line that h: intended to leave New Zealand out in the cold. Could anything evince - more insolent contempt for Auckland's and New Zealand's . interests than the ■; following flourish ; of", trumpets ?— " Thanks, however, to £ the folly and insolence of the NewZealand Government in this matter of postal service via America, the Australian Governments will have nothing to do-with this country,1' It will be a glorious day for this pestiferous little print when Now Zealand will be shut off the route, and when the traffic across the Pacific will be borne past our shores. Any effort to overcome a difficulty which he supposes nature to have imposed on New Zealand, by geographical position, provokes our contemporary's implacable hostility; and his best wishes are for the success of a line that " will have nothing to do,with this country." Our vicious little contemporary also gloats over the fact that our mail boats on their pioneer trips have had a smaller number of passengers than have gone by Mr. Hall's boats, ignoring the fact that the new boat made its appearance in Australia almost as soon as its coming .was announced, and left again as rapidly .as the necessities of coaling would allow. But fiction and fact come equally ready,to the hand of our contemporary. He says, "In fact it is notorious that the New South "Wales Government would not give any subsidy to Mr. Hall's line untiLhfijifji-nesaaii £0 tevvo- . Wy:-co«necttofiyffith the Njyap Zealand [ Government-d',.^ i?K ;' ag "' on the contrary it is notorious that it was only "while in connection with the New Zealand Government" that the New South Waleß Government would acknowledge in any form Mr. Hall or his service, and when in that relation to New Zealand did actually pay a subsidy:. Whereas, it is equally notorious, notwithstanding the insinuations of the Evening News, that since Mr. Hall ceased connexion with New Zealand, and up to this very hour, the New South Wales Government most persistently declines to have anything whatever to do with Mr. Hall or his speculation, and has not, and will not, give him a subsidy. Even when urged by the earnest remonstrances of the people of Sydney, caused by the prospect of suspension of the 'mail communication, the utmost ' that " could be wrung from the Government was, that a mail should be mado up and placed in charge of a private person, who would see to its safetransmission to America. Such was the effect on the New South Wales Government of Mr. Hall's ceasing connection-with New Zealand. Mr. Hall, unfortunately, does not appear to be honoured in his own country as much as his spirit of enterprise deserves, or as the livening News would desire in "the interest of Australia, and to the, detriment 6£ AuokJa?k)r His venture deserves a better fate than it will receive, but in tfee interest of Auckland and New Zealand we cannot but rejoice in the benefits and the prospects'of .our own 'magnificent service of trans-Pacific mail boats now established.