PROSPECTS OF THE MAIL SERVICE.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2758, 19 December 1871, Page 2

PROSPECTS OF THE MAIL SERVICE.

(From Ike European Mail, ) An event of the utmost importance to all interested in this service has been celebrated within a few days. We refer to the completion of the European and North American railway connecting Halifax, Nova Scotia, with the great railway of the United States and Canada. A glaucci at the railway map will show that the' nearest and most direct route to England from San Francisco is via Montreal to Halifax, which, by the completion of the line referred to, makes the link complete -a grand trunk line over 4000 miles long. The opening of this line, and the new time-table to go into effect here by the overland railway, will enable the and passengers to go through to England from San Francisco in four (4) days less time than by the present route via New York ; making the time thus - Melbourne to San Francisco ... 32 days San Francisco to Liverpool 14 „ Melbourne co Liverpool ... 46 ~ The mails for New Zealand can be delivered in thirty-eight days from London. A glance at any chart will show that the mails going direct, and not via New York, will save quite four hundred miles of distance, and time in proportion. The “signs of the times ” point most favorably to the success of this great enterprise now and for the future. The present successful meut of the New Zealand' postal service' attracting the attention of Europe and America. A late number of tho London Times expresses astonishment at the speed and regularity of the arrival of the Colonial mails via the American overland route. We say, in conclusion, let there be a unity of action, based upon large commercial ideas

and pecuniary liberality, to the end that it may permanently establish the present service.