'FRISCO MAIL LINE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 24 May 1907, Page 2

'FRISCO MAIL LINE.

OCHANK' I.IMC nmxiTULY WITHDKAW. lieccivcd 24th, 12,511 ii.in. „ .. ~ Sydney, ihiy 23. iVlimt;. news was received fcwlav "f Uic inlciiffon „f tJic Oceanic Coy 'l O withdraw from' the Sydney-San l.'r.iucisco mail service. Hi' Jones, Sydney manager of the compnay, interviewed, .-laied lie I,ad received a (Mlilc from the directors to that effect, ami instructing liiin to dispose. of all properly here, and wind up the allairs of the company in Sydney without delay. He intends to close tho ollice hy June 3(), Received 24th, 1.5 a.m. Sydney, May 23. Mv .Tones dee'ared that the primary" cause of the withdarwal was the failure of the Ships' Nnbijy Bill to pass Congress, helped along iii a great measure hy the unfortunate trouble which the steamers got into, although It must not he forgotten that for years they ran with clock-like regularity. Mr Jones has no information as 1o . I, 1 ' 1 l * l '' ''""f Willi the steamers. Ihe property in Sydney chicllv con- > h ' S , of ? °" :l1 'V large quantity of , coal, aud ollice fittings.