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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2109, 7 October 1875, Page 2

The arrangements for sending mails to Auckland have not been of the most satisfactory character of late, owing to the steamers being rather irregular in their time table. It is therefore of the utmost importance that the fullest limit should be allowed to persons posting letters. This is not always the case. Once this week a mail closed at five o'clock one evening when the steamer conveying the mail did not sail until nine o'clock the following morning, and it is urged that in this instance the public might have had the advantage of the whole night during which to post letters without entailing any hardship upon the Post-office people further than to require the attendance of a clerk an hour before the usual time. To-day a complaint was made that the letter-pillar at the corner of Albert street was cleared ten minutes before the time, and it is said that this is not unfrequently the case. This may possibly arise from the absence of any recognised public time, but it is hone the less annoying, especially when business men find their correspondence has miscarried through a trifling difference between their time and the Post-ofßce time.