POLITICAL NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.-SPECAIL CORRESPONDENT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2059, 17 September 1885, Page 2

POLITICAL NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.-SPECAIL CORRESPONDENT.]

Sir X Vogel's Claim. Wh !.I.lN(,ton, Wednesday. [^ UNDKRsrvvi) tli.it tin; Public Petitions Committee intend to loput on Sn Julius Vogel's petition bcfoie tin* session closes, ilMiougli itvvisgenei illy expected no repot t would be hi ought up. S.i \\ r m. Fit/heibi rt is to b> interviewed to moinnv, and the lepoit is expected to be piesented to the House on Fnday.

The San Francisco Mail Service. The Kan Fi.inci-'co mail sen ice has now been <ui,mg<'d, the tendei of the Union S.B. Coiii|>iny having been accepted foi the conveyance of the mills The arrange ments nude .ne tint t!ie Union Company is to c.my the mails between Sydney, Yudiland .md Honolulu, the Oceanic Com p.my continuing the service between Honolulu and San Fi uicisco. It is antici pated that with the subsidy expected fro-n New South Wales, and the post ige, the cost of the service to New Ze il.md will be a mere bagatelle. Mt Centei, lepiesentuifr the Oceanic Coinpmy, was in Auckland last e\emng with the intention of letmning to Ameiica, when the (Jo\einm"nt placed tlicmsulves in communication with him, and he m shortly exjie.'ted in Wellington to coin (»lete an uipciiHiits. Two steamers will be required b> the L mon C )inpany for then poition of the sen ice and one of the^e w ill be the new vesiH, the Maraioa, wliich is ex potted to ,un\e here m Noseniber, the con tract commencing the last week in Nosem her. (J. McLean, cliiurman, and .Tas Mills, in inatfintfducctor of the Union Coin p.my, have conducted the negotiations with the (ioveinment. I understand tlieteims under which they tender are such, that they do not intend to make much profit out of it, and they ha\e only been induced to tender in that the service should not fall through. The boats to be employed bv the Oceanic Company are the steamers Mauposa and Alineda.

Prorogation of Parliament. Capt. Uussoll intends leaun^ to morrow morning overland for Napiei, stiyin^ a da> en route at Palmeiston. Mi Biyce also mtends ptoccedmg by the same oppoitunity to Wang mm, and leaves foi Kngland in about ten days. The Auckland meinbeis will probably leave by the Hinemoa at midnight on Fnday, and the piorogation will take pi ice on SitunUv.