THE TORRES STRAIT AND SAN FRANCISCO MAIL SERVICES.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4360, 11 March 1875, Page 3

THE TORRES STRAIT AND SAN FRANCISCO MAIL SERVICES.

'(From the.. Brisbane . Courier, 'Fehmaxy. 16.) The mail delivered here by the Brisbane} on the morning of the 29th of January, left London, via Briridisi, on the''evening of the 11th of December;; .that is. to say, the course of post on this occasion- between London and Brisbane, was /forty-eight days ; or, perhaps, ■we may say forty-eight and a half days, including: the frequent .stoppages between .this; and Singapore. In like manner, the Mikado, after a.splendid trip,. arrived in Sydney on the .6th of February, two days under, her contract time, bringing with her. the Australian mail despatched from Liverpool on thejoth of December ; that is'to. say, she brought to Sydney news four days-later; but her mails were delivered in Sydney on the fifty-third day out from England, and-they did not-arrive here until the fifty-ninth, having been detained nearly four days in Sydney. Again, the Suez mail arrived in Melbourne on the 10th of this month, bringing dates, via Brindisi, up to the 24th of December;-that is to say, the course of post between London and Melbourne, via King George's Sound and Adelaide, was forty-eight days, a few hours under what it : was to Bris-. bane, via Singapore and Somersetr This last mail, when 'we receive it by the Blackall this morning, as we may expect to do, will be fiftyfour days out from England. . . . It will be seen from the time we have given, that there is every reason : to believe that the Torres Straits mail. may be made to do better in point of time- for Sydney than the Pacific line, and that it may. equal the performances of the P. and'O. boats, unless they improve their time, and unless faster boats than the Ellora are laid on between Melbourne and Sydney. ■