SAN FRANCISCO MAIL SERVICE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 194, 15 August 1872, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL SERVICE.

In the form of a Parliamentary Paper,, a letter from the Hon Mr Yogel to Messrs Webb and Hoiladay has recently been published bearing date July 6, 1872. Our readers will, we are sure, be glad to learn that Mr Yogel has at last arrived at the conclusion that the time has come for holding these gentlemen strictly to. the terms of their contract. He writes as follows : — Gentlemen. — I have the honor to express to you the strong disapproval of the Government of New Zealand of the manner in which the Cali'oruian Mail Service is being performed. It appears to methat you' have departed from the terms of your contract little by little, until you consider yourselves at liberty to pursue just that course which satisfies your own convenience. For example, the mails from Great Britain, which reached San Francisco on the 21st May, were not forwarded thence until the 24th, owing to your not having ready a vessel to proceed with them. Yet you do not consider it necessary that you should inform ma'of the delay, or make any explanation respecting: its cause. For the service between San Francisco and Honolulu, you have been using just such boats as it suned you to use, and again you have not offered to this Government any explanation. That these boats would not have been approved of by the Government, I conclude alike from the information given by the mail agents, and from opinions published in San Francisco papers. A9 to the latter, I must, suppose them .to be well fouuded, as I presume that, if they were not so, the libeliaw would be appealed to on your behalf. Apart from such opinions, the experience bad of' the "Mabon'ga" proves her to be not fit for tlr"e service which you have contracted to • perform. You are continuing to make " ''connections " at Honolulu, instead of running boats through between San Francisco and ' New Zealand, and we have not yet received trustworthy information of the " Dacota" having left New York to take her place. on the line. The Government of New Zealand, as you know, have made to you many concessions to aid you in overcoming difficulties incidental to the establishment of, an ocean mail service; but you have steadily gone beyond our ' concessions, without informing us either that you desired so to act, or had so acted. All such actions and amissions must now cesser and I desire that you will understand and accept, in its fullest significa'nce^ my notification , to 'you that the Gfovernment consider; the. time; has come for holding you strictly to the terms of your con tract. In a conversation with ypu in Melbourne, w,hen you agreed" to -reduce to £46,000, the sum receivable for the service, pending the completion of ! theagreement 1 with <the A.S.N. Co;, I stated'that it was. my intention not to , recommend the Government to; enforce against you; the penalties to which you had rendered youf- :; selves liable^ by breaches of your contract committed' up; to Uhat time. Since; outj: .conversation, j many of .the con-" tract. h^ those breaches- has been most irritating = and serious. ";i I ''desire! [therefore 7 that yioii-, will nQt^su'piabse^^tbai,, by giving you the x written haiificaijiibn " That the Govern- ' ment consider the time has come for holdj^tfg v i?o^tri 4 ctl^ Joijtheyterms p/' your Icon^i ' Hract^'',.;/'!.'' ' ; am..< :"wamng^:'W^ /weakebtn^^^ under jheV I contract to demaud penalties lor breaches

committed; between the date of our conversation .end ?tbat borno by this letter.- - 11 "regret "to >iay.' : : that the " Nevada,'' — in icdnsequW^p,. /"p'robfihly 1 of being worked, because you hi>,ve failed to supply^ a third suhabie boat — is now in such a condition as to make repairs, absolutely, necessary. I notify to you that she will not,; unless. she has, been,- 4^thoroughly repaired, be permitted to. carry passengers from New Zealand after the voyage which Bhe has ; just commenced. I am content to believe that you will readily, cause such a repair to be; undertaken.- But as .the matter isone of .great importance^ I. think it right to. inform you that the Mail.Agent. ;is authorised, should the necessity unfortunately arise, to protest. -against your despatching 'the "Nevada ". on another voyage, unless she shall have been thoroughly repaired. — I have, &c, Julius : YOGEL." '•":,"'. A capital letter, but why wait until the Assembly was'juston the point of meeting beforeexpressingsuch "strong disapproval" of the manner in which the service is being performed ?" 'Nearly every sentence of the above remonstrance might? have been written twelve months ago." . „.;.'