CHARLESTON MAIL SERVICE.
The following petition has been very numerously and influentially signed by Charleston residents : " The memorial of the undersigned, merchants, storekeepers, bankers, and tradesmen, in the town of Charleston respectfully showetb, " That, your memorialists have suffered, and are suffering great inconvenience and annoyauce by the manner in which tho present mail arrangements with the town and district of Charleston are being carried out. " That, prior to the present contract for the mail service with-this place there was a strictly daily mail service between Westport and Charleston. " That, when tenders were invited for the mail service between Westport and Charleston for the current year in terms as before —namely for a service dally —your memorialists inferred tho said service would be continued as formerly. Such, however, is not the case. " That, by the method adopted in carrying out the present mail service with this place, Charleston is now practically deprived of the advantages of daily communication. "That, each AVestport mail for Charleston under present arrangements remains in the Addison's Flat Post Office for one night, and every Saturday's mail necessarily for two nights. "That, the effec'; of the exiting method of carrying out the present mail service with this place is that all mails arriving at Westport, by steamer, in the course of Friday evenings, whether from Nelson or Grcymouth, are not deliverable at Charleston until the Monday following. " That, in the case of the particular mail which ordinarily arrives from Grreyinouth during the evenings of Friday this almost invariably happens so.
" That this inconvenience is felt the greater in the case of such mails from the South, the overland mail service between Greymouth, Charleston, and Westport having been some time ago abolished.
" That, the distance from Westport to Charleston is but fifteen miles only, via Addison's Flat, and some twenty miles only by the Beach. "That, it is inferred the postal authorities at Wellington cannot be aware of the facts herein set forth. Tour memorialists therefore pray that you will be pleased to cause full inquiry to be made iuto the allegations herein contained, and to grant them such redress as will meet the exigencies of the case.
" Your memorialists have the honor to subscribe themselves your obedient servants."
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Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1163, 31 March 1874, Page 2
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371CHARLESTON MAIL SERVICE. Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1163, 31 March 1874, Page 2
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