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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 307, 12 September 1874, Page 4

The Melbourne Press, without exception, praises the Peninsular and Oriental Company for the regularity of the "within time" arrival of their steamships with tbe English mail bags It is, says a Melbourne contemporary tbe surest service in the world, although it moat' not be forgotten tbat in comparison with ali the' other great steamship; fqmpajjies, it is the slowest. For twenty A - f -years past the company's vessels have gone at the same contract rate, aod dnrjng tbat time a knot per hooJr,;,^aod more than that, has beeu io fsjißd Jo the speed of .ocean? going steajyer|,| Ifc is thought, however, that there should be no difficulty in the speed .of this company's boats beipg increased to compete with tbqw runWfl^.iir the Atlantic Ocean. Were tsßr tbe'ease it is considered tbat the P. an^-^jCqjppany could, unaided, accomplish a double service, wbich has heftßlpfare bee^i considered must be the co_-fwMW^<jpmpanieß." In other words,' i. Irio-^lied thit there is nothing to^pretje^thi-yold, apd; wealthy copipany from performing' a mail service" for New Zealand and Australia via San F-anciscoy_a''it now does for Victoria and Neir' South Wales via Suez.