FORTNIGHTLY MAIL SERVICE FOR AUSTRALIA.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 79, 13 July 1868, Page 170

FORTNIGHTLY MAIL SERVICE FOR AUSTRALIA.

(From tbe Home News.) The inconvenience of the arrangements for the Australian mail service is becoming more and more, experienced, and it is not too much to say that it is operating so; injuriously as to amount to a substantial restriction of trade. How can it be otherwise, when letters sent from Australia to England, via Southampton, arrive a day after the • outgoing mail has left, a,nd when, with respect to those via Marseilles, only four days are allowed for answers from London, three from Liverpool, and no more than two from Ireland, and less from the remoter parts of Scotland ? Australian readers will not, under these circumstances, be surprised to hear that the commercial classes have taken up the question, and they are knocking at the Government doors:- for a change commensurate with the importance of the trade with this country. What is required is a fortnightly independent service; and the Imperial Government have been strongly urged, by a deputation to the Postmaster-General, to take the initiative in overcoming any local impediments to an improvement so calculated to. promote the social, commercial, and industrial interests of all the Australian provinces.