THE TRADE WITH FIJI.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 367, 24 June 1874, Page 6

THE TRADE WITH FIJI.

Satisfactory telegraphic communications have passed between the directors of the Auckland Steam Packet Company and! the Hon. the Premier on the quaation. of additionally subsidising the' steamer plying between- Auckland and Fiji. - ~The result of the communication is, that lurangementß have been effected by which ,sjk interim service has been established, consisting of four trips, one in every six weeks,' -the steamer ' starting J from •Port Chalmers and calling at Lytteiton,. Wellington, and Napier, theace to Auckland, and then on. to Fiji, from which place she returns to Auckland and goes down South, calling at the inter* mediate [ports between this and Port Chalmers ■as above enumerated. The subsidy for the first .trip is L4OO, and I*3oo for each of the three others, the reduction being .made by Mr Yogel on these latter on account of the -probable inHJgttase of the trade which will follow the< first, tripmnder the mew arrangement _ The 1 Star of tlie"-S«uth is the boat agreed upon to: perform (the. service"; and probably by the : time, this Jbciterim arrangement ia eomplefiMi.' ,«. now *nd larger steamer, of a class sufficient to visit New Caledonia and the Sampan Islands', .SniT.'be rsady for service. — ' Southern Cross.' a '