THE MAIL SERVICE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 131, 1 September 1871, Page 5

THE MAIL SERVICE.

The following is the memorial from the Cromwell Corporation to the Post-master-General of New Zealand, relative to making that town the terminus of the North-western mail service :—''. "To the Honorable the Postmastergeneral, Wellington. " The Memcrial of the Cromwell Corporation humbly sheweth. "1. That the mail service to Cromwell, so far as regards the arrivals from Dunedin, and the departures to that city, is in a very uusatisfacory state, a continuance of the present arrangement being calculated to be detrimental to the inhabitants of the town and district, especially the commercial portion of the community. • ■ ' "2. That Cromwell is the natural terminus of the mail coach line, and byits increasing importance as a mining and commercial centre, deserves special consideration at your hands in making any new contract or modifying any existing arrangement, "3. That you, as Postmaster-Gene-ral, have power to alter, as circumstances may render necessary, any existing mail' contract,'aml we think that this may be done without detriment to any vested interests. " 4. That the present mail terminus is Clyde, a distance of only thirteen uiileß from Cromwell. "5. That by the mail coach leaving Dunedin a little earlier in the morning, it could easily reach Naseby the sameevening, and then as easily Cromwell on the following one. " 6. That Cromwell is the proper de. pot and terminus for the North-Wes-tern mails ;_and by. complying prayer of this memorial, postal comma* nication will be improved and facile tated over a vast portion of the Pro? vince (without extra expense), a real public grievance would be removed* * while other towns would share in the benefit Cromwell now asks for itself. '* i'our memorialists therefore prar that you will cause such steps to be taken as will speedily effect the object they have in view ; and your memo* riulist*, as in duty bound, will ever' pray, &o."