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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3628, 27 February 1883, Page 2

In reference to the San Francisco mail sendee, ■concerning which our telegrams stated yesterday that tho Government had no definite information touching tho intentions of the New South Wales G-oa'eminent, we clip the following from the Sydney Bulletin:—"lt is stated that when the current mail contracts from Sydney to 'Frisco terminate, which will be very shortly, there will be competition for the subsidy. The White Star line which lately has commenced to run steamers between 'Frisco and Honolulu intend to bid for tho service, and the Orient Company are reported to have the service also in view. The Pacific Mail Company, which has the contract at present, and has borne the brunt of the pioneering, and done the service thoroughly well, should certainly hai-e the preference, if their tender be anything like equal to the others; that is to say provided the contract is to be renewed at all. We suspect that the Orient Company means merely to try for the subsidy, not for a line of stamers to 'Frisco, but by their present line and route A"ia Suez outivard, and tho Cape homeward.''