THE MAIL SERVICES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2128, 10 July 1907, Page 2

THE MAIL SERVICES.

V ANCOUVER AND SUEZ ROUTES. (Special to Times.) WELLINGTON, last night, postal report states in regard to tlio Vancouver service that the contract between the Federal Government and the Union Co. lias been extended for two years from July un--1 ,i t i l< i-L exi^ tin P t , er “s- A port of ■ call at- N|ew Zealand is not mentioned in the present extension of the service, but negotiations to that effect will be resumed when the question of ' a further renewal comes up. It i s understood that the present contrac tor may be prepared to enter into a three years contract to include a New Zealand port and to provide a new > last steamer for the service in each ?/ three years. The CanadianI acific Railway Co. has also, it is-. 1 ' understood, been considering t)m > A question of competing for the service to include New Zealand, to bo performed by the fast 14,000 ton steamers of the Empress line now employed in the trade between Canada, Japan and China T’’e subject is now bemg considered by the British Government As to the Suez service negotiations vice n ° W ln progress for a weekh' ser- ,'