Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1870.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 889, 10 December 1870, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1870.

It is with ranch pleasure that we note the fact that a public meeting of the inhabitants of this Province is announced for the purpose of impressing upon the Government the claims of Ahuriri as a port of call for the line of mail steamers under the new contract. This at least is a subject thai is of great importance to every one of us, and one pn which all parties can unite and work together. That an arrangement can be concluded by which the mail steamers shall pass along the line of coast in actual sight of the port, and not. stay to deliver the mails, is almost past belief, and certainly beyond bearing by the public. Up to the present time, perhaps, no community in the whole Colony has been so badly treated in the matter of a mail service as Hawke's Bay has been. Our mails arrive in Wellington or Auckland, as the case may be ; and there remain for an indefinite period. "When they may be expected at this port no one can tell : often it is only after weeks of waiting that they are delivered to us. Frequently the letter portion has to come overland frqm Welling'.on, and the more bulky part is delayed for a casual steamer. Nor is the case much better with outgoing mails, — the steamers leaving the port without much, if any, reference to mail dates, and great inconvenience is sustained in consequence. Let the public of Hawke's Bay, by action not to be mistaken, show that they are in earnest in. this matter, and we have no doubt that it will be accomplished. It is absurd to suppose that the Government, if it pleased, pould not insist upon a call at Napier as one of the conditions of ihe service.