AUCKLAND SPECIAL

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 241, 19 October 1901, Page 2

AUCKLAND SPECIAL

THE 'FRISCO SERVICE

Special to Timk-.

Auckland, last night. Speaking ot' the amendment made last ! night by the Postmaster-General in his j San Francisco mail resolution, a local i contemporary commenting to-day says . that the Oceanic Company asks but it would doubtless accept t'dd.OOO, an : amount which it would easily he enabled tii earn at the low poundage in question if i it had fair play. Str .loseph Ward, speak- ! ing of f 17.000, declares that the House I would not agree to increase it to .020,000. ! Why not ? We are told Auckland die- ; tates, but nothing is said of dictation when the Southern influences divert our mails | to slower routes at greater eost to the colony than the fastest. It is time that the North eatnc to a clearer comprehension of how the business of the country is managed, and of how readily public funds are spent upon every Southern interest, and how grudgingly they are withheld when public interest runs in harness with the interests of Auckland ami tho North. lit spite of its great service | to the whole colony, in spite of its usefulness, its cheapness. and its attendant advantages, the 'Frisco service is opposed in the South because of its Auckland association. The Postmaster-General may deprecate the local jealousies, hut that does not alter the fact that it is local jealousies, and Southern jealousies, which endangers our best mail service : and it , also handicaps railway development | throughout the Auckland province. The ; provincial system tight which is now proj feeding in Parliament may perchance ! result in tho perpetration of another in- ; justice, or in the starving out of the 'Frisco i mat!, if it does, the Government will toll us that this evil befol us because we were not conciliatory. Hut at least our emphatic protests compel a moditicution of those ama/.ing resolutions, and all the conciliatoriness in the world would never have effected even that much. BOOKMAKERS BEFORE COURT. Nino bookmakers appeared before tin Police Court to-day, charged with obstructing the footpath by loitering about consulting race cards and opening telegrams. Ex-Judge -Martin appeared lot the bookmakers, and submitted that the police in such eases say not merely " movt on," but “ move on and stop loitering,' which he held had not been done in thest cases. Again, lie held that these ease, did not constitute loitering, which was tie lined by Webster as “ wandering as at idle vagrant.” His Worship said he wouli not give his decision till W ednesday, it order to enable him to look into the point raised by counsel.