A SERIOUS MATTER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 10 November 1913, Page 5

A SERIOUS MATTER.

HOLDING UP OF 'FRISCO MAIL,

INCALCULABLE DAMAGE MAY ' BE DONE.

WELLINGTON* Last Night. Tho San Francises service has been completely disorganised, owing to the strike. The M'OUna arrived from Sydney on Thursday, outwaxd bound for the Califorttian port, and right up till noofn oft Saturday it was tliought that she would bo able to get away. But now her movements are indifinite, so complicated is the situation, especially regarding the seamen and firemen, that the date of her departure is an unknown quantity. This holding up of the 'Frisco steamer at this time of tho year is a much aKisre serioxis business than many imagine. In view of the possible hold up of the intercolonial vessels, merchants and business men generally, all over New Zealand, had been depending on tho 'Frisco mail connection tarremain intact. The consequence was that the mails which were shipped dn the Moana on Friday afternoon, when it was thought she was to get away, were unusually large. Besides containing a large amount of Xmas .mail matter, there was inclnded a very large number of orders from New .Zealand firms for goods for next winter's use. There were "also, it ftiay safely be con- | eluded, large numbers of Bank drafts !in payment of Xraas stocks. The j 'Frisco mate is a most popular one for i the cd'nmercial community; and its I hold up will cost the country an in- [ calculable sum of money. '