Sydney Post Office.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume I, Issue 23, 23 September 1843, Page 4

Sydney Post Office.

(From the "Sydney Morning Herald.") Gentlemen, — Allow mo, through the medium of jour valuable paper, to call the attention of the public to the great inconve- ! nience and loss to merchants and shippers, occasioned by the neglect of the post office authorities, It was generally known to parties shipping goods to New Zealand, that the Shamrock schooner, Captain Daldy, was to leave this port early on Tuesday morning : notice had | been given to this etfect at the post office, consequently the mail was expected on board on Monday evening. On Tuesday morning I saw Captain Daldy, who stated that the mail had not been forwarded ; at his request, 1 1 called at the post office, and told the young man at the receiving box, that the Shamrock would leave about mid-day. It appears, upon enquiry, that the mail was not sent, although there was abundance of time, as she did not leave the harbour before three o'clock, p. m. Therefore, those persons who have shipped goods for the Bay of Islands and Auckland, may have the satisfaction of knowing that their invoices and bills of lading are still in Sydney, and that their goods will arrive at the above-named places without any address. Having, as I have, recently visited .New Zealand, and brought orders from different parties there, and which were to be paid for on the receipt of invoice and bill of lading. Now, I ask any person who knows what business is, if I do not run the risk of having those goods thrown upon my own hands, as the next vessel that follows may have a quantity of the same ? I certainly should like to know if, under such circumstances, the Postmaster is not amenable for such (to my mind) culpable neglect ? A Subscriber. G-eorge- street, 24th August. If Jacob Montefiore, Esq., one of the late Board of Commissioners for the Province of South Australia, had been a Chinese mandarin, or the Celestial Emperor himself, he could not have been welcomed to these shores by more signal honours, or had more marked attention shown him during his tempory sojourn amongst us. Besides the public dinner given to him at the Queen's Theatre, by a large body of the older Colonists, he has been feted at the private residences of most of the respectable settlers, and escorted to several of the country districts. Mr. Montefiore has expressed himself highly gratified with all he has seen and beard, and we understand he has volunteered to advocate the interests of the colony on his return to England. A few such enlightened and intelligent men paying us occasional visits, en route, to the mother-country, would soon be the means of inducing a larger investment of capital and exportation of labour, all that are now wanted to make South Australia go ahead. Mr. Montefiore sails in the Terror. — Adelaide Obs. Rise in the Price of Siieep. — The unexpected cheering prospect of the flock master from the recent new discovery of reducing sheep into tallow, has become so apparent that it is with difficulty the butchers can obtain, at advanced prices, sufficient quantities to meet the demand of his customers. One [gentleman assures us, after having within the last few weeks advertised twice offering I to purchase sheep on cash terms, that he has had but one answer to his application ; and as a proof of the sudden rise in value of sheep from the confident success of this new speculation by the settlers, Mr. M'Gregor of the Goulburn, we are informed (by a gentleman who heard of the circumstance froxn his own lips) lately effected a sale, consisting of 2,000, at 10s. per head all round, plainly showing the present value to be more than double the amount asked only a few weeks back. This is a cheering prospect for the colony.— -Port Phillip Herald.