SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.
Auckland, Tuesday, 7 a,m. The Macgregor left San Francisco on the 18'h August, the detention being caused by sending the mails via Boston instead of New York. She left Honolulu on the 2Sth, and anchored at Kandavau on the 10th, leaving again the same day. Mr R. B. Pringle is purser, and Mr Matthews mail xgent. The mail contains 25.000 letters and 80,000 papers lor New Zealand, and 132 bags for Australia. Passengers.— For Auckland : Dr and Mrs Buller, and Miss Kerns ; for Lyttelton : C. A. Poet; for Port Chalmers: Mr and Mrs Herman and family, Lieut. Bass, Mrs Becker, and Mr and Mrs bhera. The mails are not yet landed, the captain refusing to give them up until the subsidy is paid. 11-6 a,m The mail dispute is still unsettled. Negotiations are proceeding, but the Post Office authorities do not expect to receive the mails for two or three hours. The Customs authorities have ordered no coals to be put on board the Macgregor, pending the rettlement. The A S.P. Company have served a writ on the Mscgregor for £267. for services rendered by the Star ef the South while the Macgregor was on a reef at Kandavau.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 309, 15 September 1874, Page 2
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204SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 309, 15 September 1874, Page 2
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