AN ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN PENNY POST.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2416, 4 October 1886, Page 2

AN ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN PENNY POST.

When an Anglo-Australian penny post becomes (as before long it must) an accomplished fact wo shall owo tho.boou primarily to Mr Heuniker-Heaton, remarks tho London". correspondent ,of the Dunediu Star. Ever since that gentleman got iuto Parliament ho has hammered away unremittingly at tho excessive; rates charged for Antipodean postage. To begin with, nobody paid attention to'his grievance. He was snubbed by UnderSecretaries, voted a bore by brother M.P.s, and left unreported by the papers. But the Australian member for Canter- • bury is not a person one can easily' suppress. Ho dosired for obvious reasons, to nsswr ''•'■sal 1 ■ '.''■ ; '-_-,-'--irty scheme o' .;, < Z 1 ™ 8 . .f' rm lnd Australia. B w!ll find it to sL, to plead', a'J ' VB ,their goods conßiti,i lo and the Horn* ..uulbL!™ Muefore long, In this he was right, The motion Mr Heaton raised later in tho Bession in favor of a universal penny post prorod a success from a strategic point of view, though lost by a larao majorty. There was au interesting debate upon'it, and Heaton himself made a speech (it read much hotter than it sounded) whiei showed he was thoroughly master of iis subject, and it attracted considerable attention. Since then the lion, gentleman has been sifting post office statistics and generally strengthening his case in tho hopo of tho advoni of a more complacent Government, That .' saino Government is now in office, and Mr Ronton, through the columns of the 'Times,' aunounceshismtentioA of immediately tackling the new General (Lord John Manners) ro a"\ colonial penny post. A bettor time, ft f suggesting such a schemo could not i J many ways have been selected. Thg attention Mr Beaton's letter has reueiyefl showß that, •"'ho ' Times' itself devoted! a leader to the subjoot, and almost all tim othor bandon da'lios rofer to the mombjfl for Canterbury's proposal favorably, fl