The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-05-08

March 8, 1875.
Tenders will be received at this office. and in Lon
don at the offices of the Agents-General of New South
Wales and New Zealand, up to noon on Wednesday,
the 9th May next, for the conveyance Of mails once
in every four weeks, for the term of eight years, from
commencement of the service, by the following route,
viz -
"San Francisco and the Colonies of New South Wales
and New Zealand, via Honolulu and FIJI.
"The vessels conveying the mails from San Fran
cisco to proceed alternately to New South Wales and
to New Zealand, and the mails for New Zealand or
New South Wales, as the case may require, to he tran
shipped at a port in FIJI into and conveyed by another
VesSeI ~ ~1--t ~-P~Ofy anu power, TO the colony.
The vessels conveying the mails to San Francisco to
proceed thither alternately from New South Wales
and New Zealand, and the mails from New South Wales
or New Zealand, as the case may require, to be con-
veyed in another vessel of equal capacity and power
to n port in FIJI, and to be there transhipped into and
conveyed by the vessel going to San Francisco. The
New South Wales mails to be delivered at and dis
patched from the port of Sydney, and the New Zea-
land mails TO be delivered at and dispatched from the
ports of Port Chalmers, LyttletoD, Wellington, and
Auckland, respectively, and in passing Hawkes. Bay
the mail vessel (weather permitting) to call of Napier
to deliver and receive mails to and from that place,
the said aforementioned mails TO be delivered to and
received from a steam launch TO be provided by the
Postmaster-G General of New Zealand, and the con-
tractors to convey with the mails from or to San
Francisco any local mails between the said ports of
New Zealand respectively, as may be required by the
Postmaster-Genera to be so conveyed. The steamers
hAhJ AOAh az iug no NAA " oOOfN VI AAN
steamers from Port Chalmers may run through to
San Francisco on each trip, and the steamers from
San Francisco may run through to Sydney on each
trip, or other notifications in respect to the " fork
ing " at FIJI may be made at the option of the con-
tractors, subject to the approval of the Postmaster
General of the Colonies of New South Wales and New
Zealand.
Separate tenders must be sent in for an eleven
knot, an eleven and a-half knot, and a twelve knot
service respectively. Tenderers TO state the date
upon which they will agree TO commences the service.
1.-The conditions of agreement and all other partic-
ulars that may be required can be obtained OH appli-
cation at this Office, or in London at the offices of the
Agents General for the colonies of New South Wales
and New Zealand. 81. F. BURNS"
The Herald of Auckland in commenting on this
subject says:
Australian and New Zealand mail matters would
appear to be unsettled in the minds Of English writers.
The subject of a fortnightly mail has been revived in
the leading London journals. Foremost among the
contributions that have been made to tins important
subject, we notice a pamphlet from the pen of Mr..
William Purdy, says the Australian and NeV lea
land Gazette. The pamphlet as a reprint Of letters
published in some Of our daily contemporaries, with
additional matter, and exhibits, through a very per-
spicuous style, q perfect command Of the subject.
The object the writer has always in view is the estab-
fishing Of a fortnightly mail service. Mr.. Purdy, in
a small compass, gives q useful exposition Of the act
ual positions Of the various existing mail routes, and
reviews the results Of the various mail contracts so
far as they have yet gone. The whole Of this little
pamphlet will deeply interest all our readers, and it
Will be found that IN every case a practical view has
been taken Of the whole question. During nearly a
quarter Of a century the Australian mail service has
been undergoing-as Mr.. Purdy says-a series Of
transitions, and We most heartily hope with him that
the present year may bring a solution of what is an
absolute necessity Of the position. Seldom have we
seen SO important a subject treated better in such a
narrow space. Mr.. Purdy finds room to suggest, as
well as to criticise, and in conclusion be invites pub
lie attention to the mail service with Australia with
the following great objects in view That the Aus
tralian Governments merge all minor differences in a
determination to ensure a perfect fortnightly service.
That the most efficient line Of steamers be Imperially
subsidized; that special attention be given to dividing
the mails, one route being for the western and south
erly colonies, the other for the northern and e%asterly
colonies; these and many other equally good sugges-
tons are strongl. put by Mr.. Purdy, and We heartily
commend this pamphlet to the earnest study Of all in
terested in the progress Of Australia"