THE 'FRISCO MAIL SERVICE.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 10 December 1901, Page 3

THE 'FRISCO MAIL SERVICE.

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.] Sydney, Dec 10. The Daily Telegraph commenting on Mills' proposals, says in is probable that the Frisco service will have come cheaper to Australia than it appears to have been contemplated when the Oceanic Co. submitted its terms. Mills' ideas that if sufficient encouragement should coincide with those of the Commonwealth and New Zealand Governments, the 'Frisco service will become hardly worth subsidising with anything like a considerable sum, and might find itself in a position of having to take whatever the Australian Government chose to give, which in the event of the Vancouver conditions being satisfactory, will be simp'.y what alternative a foreign service is considered worth. (special to "stab.") Dunemw, This Day. Mr V. A. Sproul, the local representative of the Oceanic Company, writing to the Dunedin " Star " in relation to complaints made by Mr Rhodes, of Timarn, in regard to the " Ventures" last trip to Auckland, says : " While our steamers are not absolutely stationery in very rough weather, they are absolutely safe, and I may say are classed as A 1 at British Lloyds. The food is y the best that money can buy and the attention is home out by the majority of passengers as all that they desired."