THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 38, 14 February 1905, Page 4

THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS.

SENT BY 'FRISCO ROUTE. ' SYDNEY, February 13. Owing to the oversea mail uifficuMj. the Sierra, which left Sydney to-day for San Francisco, carries a. much larger, quantity of English letters tlJan usual, There is a dispute of some years* standing between the Postal Department and the Oceanic Steamship Companyj whb are dissatisfied with the amount offered under the poundage system. On the ent occasion the. usual amount of poruuk age was offered, but, as in foriaier ut«stances, it was refused. An adjustment of accounts is to bo made.

Negotiations Witk Orient Company Resumed.

(Received 10.8 a.m.) MELBOURNE, this day..; It is now staled that ncgotiations ; havj been resumed with the Orient Company, but. the Postmaster-General refuses itk"s slightest information. [As much as this has already been i* certained from London.] •■•:.

SYDNEY, February 13. Owing to the oversea, mail difficulty;•'•■■' the Sierra, which left Sydney to-day for\ San Francisco, carries a. much larger:'•;' quantity of English letters tllan usual There is a dispute of some years* standing between the. Postal Department and the Oceanic Steamship Compahyj who : ; are dissatisfied with the amount offcre! ;1 under the poundage system. Onthepiiefc 1 ent occasion the usual amount of poundage was offered, but, as in fottrier _.l;;■ stances, it was refused. An adjustments; of accounts is to be made. ' ~-'- :.