The Ocean Mail Services

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 117, 19 October 1901, Page 4

The Ocean Mail Services

Stdnet, October 16. The Daily Telegraph, dealing with the trouble between New Zealand and the Messrs Spreckels, says that the Vancouver line presents many attractions to New Zealand, and would make 'each • formidable appearance as to rival the San Francisco line under New Zealand support, and that the Commonwealth, finding other conditions equal, may yet have to consider whether it dial! subsidise a British or foreign line to North America. It is quite possible that the Messrs Spreckele may find it to their interest to sing smaller both in Australis and New Zealand in order to preserve their right to the present fat American subsidy. Mklsouknb October 161 Sir J. Gl Ward has cabled to Mr Drake, Postmaster - General, asking whether some arrangement cannot bo made whereby New Zealand may be made a party to the P. and O. and Orient mail contracts, with a view to diverting New Zealand and English mails to the Suez route. The Cabinet will consider the question as soon as the motion of censure is disposed of. Brisbane, October 16.

Regarding the statement! made in New Zealand by the Messrs Spreokels* representative that there is a possibility of extending the San Francisco mail service to Queensland if the New Zealand proposals are not accepted, the Premier states that be has received no communir cation of any kind from the Meters Spreokels. The Queensland arrangement with the Canadian line has still two or three years to run, and the. Governmenfr have no power to complete'negotiations with the M*ara Spreckelt,;-that being a matter entirely lot the Federal Government. ■ r