SAN FRANCISCO MAIL SERVICE.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4548, 18 October 1875, Page 3

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL SERVICE.

Further papers respecting this service have been presented to both Houses of the General Assembly. Sir Daniel Cooper and Mr. Russell, writing to the English postal authorities on August 16th, say :—"The ships to be employed upon the Pacific part of the route will bo much better and faster than those hitherto used, and it is hoped they will keep their time with tolerable certainty; but it is apparent to us that unless we can connect at New York with the fast boats which leave that city on the Saturday or the Wednesday, the arrivals of the mail hero must be very uncertain and irregular, and the usefulness of the service be much impaired. We enclose the time table for your approval. Under it, the homeward mail will be due in San Francisco on the Thursday, and, if to time, should leave San Francisco by the Friday morning express, and reach New York on the following Friday morning, about thirty hours before the departure of the Saturday boat (two in the afternoon of Saturday we believe to be the ordinary hour of sailing). This margin of thirty hours we have allowed to meet the contingency of the non-arrival of the boat at San Francisco on the Thursday, and to cover any delay that may occur on the railway between San Francisco and New York. Our desire is that the mail should be despatched by one of the fast boats leaving New York on Saturday, but that if at any time the mail should not arrive in time for the Saturday boat, then it should be held over for the Cunard boat on the following Wednesday ; that, infact, the homeward mail should not be Bent by any vessels except the fast Saturday boats of the White Star, Inman, or Cunard, or by the Cunard steamer on the Wednesday. When we made this contract with the American Pacific Mail Company, we remembered and recognised the fact that the American people have a large < interest in the success of this line, and we believed, in making the contract with a powerful American company, we should interest them still more

in the enterprise, and eventually a more speedy transfer of our mails across the Continent. In the meantime, however, we think the plan we have laid down, of sending our mails from New York to England by the boats we have named on the Saturdays and Wednesdays, and by no others, will effect a great improvement in the service, and we beg yon will move the postal authorities at Washington to give effect to this request."

Time Table for Mail Service between Great Britain, New South Wales, ana New Zealand, by way ol San'Francisco. (Approved by. the PostmastersGeneral of New South Wales and New Zealand, on tho 12th August, 1875.) OUTWAED ROUTE.

Londc Thursd Leave. n, "Sa ay. We nF fl's< an, AucK ,ay. Sund ARRIVE AT. and Pt.Chlms, Sy ay. Saturday. Wee dney, ,'sday. 1S75 Octobe r 21 Nov. 10 Dec. 6 Dec. 11 Dec S Nor. Deo. 18 Deo. 16 Jan. 8 Jan. 5 Jan. 2 Jan. 8 Jan 30 Feb. 6 Feb 5 1876 Jan. 13 Feb. 2 Feb. 27 March 4 Mar Feb. 10 March 1 March 20 April 1 Mar March 9 March EwHi W \\f\v 'ill II 1 . 2C April May 6 April 4 May 1 June 20 May 24 June 21 July 21 May 2/ »ia> 18 June 24Jun 16 July 22Julj 24 e 21 19 June 29 July 19 Augu t 13 August 19 Aug 10 Sept. 10 Sept S Oct. 14 Oct. ust 16 July Augusi 27 August 16 Sept. 24 Sept. 13|Oct. 13 11 Sept. 21 Oct. 11 Nov. 5 Nov. 11 Nov t Oct. 19 Nov. 8 Dec. 3 Dec. 9 Dec i Nov. 16 Dec. 6 Dec. 31 Jan. 6 Jan i Deo. 14 Jan. 3 Jan. 2S Feb.'. . 3 Jan 31 7~ Or on arriv al of the i nail from New Yorl HOMEWAED ROUTE. L EA VE Arrive a T Sydno Frida y Pt. Chi ras, Auckland,|San Fran,] London, \ Wen'si ay. Mom lay. Thursday. Thu rsday. 1875 0 P.M 6 A. M 5 P. M, Nov. 10 Nov. 17 Nov. 22 Dec. 16 Jan 6 Dec. 17 Dec. 15 Dec. 20 Jan. 13 Feb 3 1876 14 Jan. 12 Jan. 17 Feb. 10 Mar oh 2 Feb! 11 Feb. .9 Feb. 14 March 9 Mai \tarch 10 March 8 Marol 13 April 6 Apr April 7 April 5 April 10 May 4 Ma> zo May 6 May 3 May 8 June Uun e 22 June 2 May 31 Juno 6 Juno 29 July 2U June SO June 28 July 3 July 27 Aug . 17 Julv 28 July 26 July 31 Aug, 24 Sep . u August 251 Auk. 23 Aug. 28 Sept. 21 October n Sept. 22 Sept. 20 Sept. 25 Oct. 19 Nov 8 Octobe r 20 Octobe r 18 Octob or 23 Nov. : 18 Dec 7 Nov. 17 Nov. 15 Nov. 20 Dec. 14 Jan 4 Dec. 15 Dec. 13 Deo 18 Jan. 11 Feb ■ 1