THE SAN FRANCISCO SERVICE.
The following is the text of the so-called “ extraordinary” letter which the Chief Secretary of Victoria has received from the Colonial Secretary, Wellington, Sept 2. In regard to the Calefornian Mail service, I have the honor to inform you that pending more vessels being put on the line, and the connections being placed on a more satisfactory footing, the Government of New Zealand at the request of the contractors for the Californian Mail Service, have agreed to allow the contract steamers arriving at Auckland from San Francisco to proceed to Australia, and that we shall be glad, duriag the next four months, to carry mails for your Government by those steamers free of cost. In the course of two months the Government propose to send to Victoria a representative to confer with your Government on the whole subject of the Californian Service.—l have, &c., W. Gisborne. Letters of similar tenor were sent to the chief secretaries of the New South Wales,
South Australia, Tasmania, and Queensland Governments,
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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2692, 3 October 1871, Page 3
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171THE SAN FRANCISCO SERVICE. Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2692, 3 October 1871, Page 3
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