THE SUEZ MAIL SERVICE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 227, 11 July 1873, Page 3

THE SUEZ MAIL SERVICE.

We £ (Star) ' received the following telegram on Saturday too late for publication The Government have arranged with Messrs Ml'Meckan, Blackwood, and Co., for six'iiiohths'- service each way, to connect with the P. and O. Company's boats at Melbourne. The contract boats leave Melbourne immediately after the arrival there of the-mail steamer, proceed* ing to Hokitilra, thence to Nelson, "Wellington, Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, and the Bluff. ; The time is to bo eight days to Wellington, ten to Ly ttleton, and eleven to . Port Chalmers; but practically whenever a steamer reaches Wellington early on the J eighth day, she will reach Port Chalmers on the tenth day after leaving Melbourne. The outward mail will be conveyed to Melbourne in twelve days from Dunedin, eleven from Ly ttelton, nine from Wellington, and six and-a-half from Hokitika. The steamer Patterson is to convey from Nelson the inward mails for New Plymouth and Auckland, and to convey the outward mail from those places to Nelson; the time to the.Manukau to be nine days. The exception in the latter case is for the Manukau and the prevailing westerly winds. The service will be commenced at Melbourne on the arrival of the English mail due there on the Bth inst., and at Dunedin for the outward mail on August 1. " ■