THE SUEZ MAIL SERVICE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 284, 10 July 1873, Page 8

THE SUEZ MAIL SERVICE.

[Bt Telegraph.] We received the following telegram on Saturday too late for publication : — "The Government have arranged with Messrs M'Meckan, Blackwood, and Co. for six months' service each way, to connect with the P. and O. Company's boats at Melbourne. The contract boats leave Melbourne immediately after the arrival there of the mail steamer, proceeding to Hokitika, thence to Nelson, Wellington, Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, and the Bluff. The time is to be eight days to Wellington, ten to Lyttelton, and eleven to Port Chalmers ; but practically whenever a steamer reaches Wellington early on the eighth day, she will reach Port Chalmers on the tenth day after leaving Melbourne. The outward mail will be conveyed to Melbourne in twelve days from Dunedin, eleven from Lyttelton, nine from Wellington, and six-and-a-half from Hokitika. The steamer Paterson is to convey from Nelson the inward mails for New Plymouth and Auckland, and to convey the outward mail from those places to Nelson ; the time to the Manukau to be nine days. The exception in the latter case is for the Manukau bar and the prevailing westerly winds. The service will be commenced at Melbourne on the arrival of the English mail due there on the Bth inst., and at Dunedin for the outward mail on August 1.