'FRISCO MAIL SERVICE

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 238, 16 October 1901, Page 2

'FRISCO MAIL SERVICE

KILKENNY CATS REDIVIVUS.

AUCKLAND V. WELLINGTON

ill j (Special to Times.) Auckland, last night. s ‘ The refusal of the Spreckles Company st to accept the terms offered hv the Governi° menl will not surprise anyone who has 11 examined them. “It would be foolish, remarks this evening's Star, to blind ourselves to the fact that the attempted ' change in the conditions of the ’Frisco ;i service represents the influence of the powerful political and commercial in-!-.rests of Wellington. ,\o argument of •my importance to the colony as a whole uas been advanced in support of the , ; alteration and justification of the ad van--1 tape of the terms suggested for the inferior | •’ i Vancouver service. The utterances of the j c | New Zealand Times on the subject of i t ; patriotic duty and Imperialistic loyalty • ■ are the merest theatrical claptrap. I Goes any sane Englishman expect I ito regard tiie United States as a j ; national enemy, whom it is our ' | duty to boycott." What does i.iio New j j Zealand Times think should be our atti- j , j tude towards the commerce of Germany j ; and France and KussiaV We protest j vehemently against this unjustifiable 1 ] ; attempt to promote discord and bitterness [ , 1 between us and the great Anglo-Saxon j : j race on the other side of the i’acilic. We ' } resent it more osn-.cially because it is a : disingenuous ellurt to exploit for the bene- ■ fit of one city the sense of loyalty and the j enthusiasm for the Empire, which it and j the whole colony should be proud to share. I ! At the same time, we have the saih-fae- I i ' lion of knowing that the local interests of i j Auckland in this matter coincide with the I j interests of the colony, and that every j j i effort we make to retain the San Francisco >

| mail service tends to the benefit of the i whole of New Zealand.