The Hawaiian gazette., 1885-08-12

what is paid for carriage across the Atlantic and
probably in most cases all that should be paid for
carrying the mails. The companies were still act
ing in concert, and in consequence of their COM
bination refused to accept these terms which were
80 liberal compared with those they had received,
that they fell suppose that they could drive the
Government cut Of the position ii had taken by
refusing to carry for the compensation offered.
The Superintl,dent Of Foreign Mails said the
American COMPANIES had refused the offer of 81
90 per pound ftr carrying the mails. This is what
is known as the combined sea and inland postage,
and Is equivalent TO 50 200 per ton. They receive
at present the international rate of Al cents per
pound. The Postmaster General has directed the
following changes to be made in the dispatch of
correspondence for foreign countries to take place
August LIST: Mails for Cuba, heretofore dispatched
By sea from New York will be forwarded to Key
West, vie Tampa, Fla. for dispatch to Havana by
the steamer which leaves Key West every Mednes-
day and Friday; correspondence for New Zealand
and the Australian Colonies, heretofore included
IN mails made up at San Francisco for dispatch to
those colonies direct, will be forwarded exclusively
via Great Britain in mails made up at New York
as well as San Francisco. There being only one
dispatch during August next, ON the LIST prox,
from San Francisco for China aud Japan direct,
correspondence for China Japan and the East In
dies will be also forwarded until the 10th of Aug
INST via Great Britain IN mails made up Mt New
York, to contain all registered correspondence for
the destinations above named.
San FRANcrsco, July 3.-The announcement
that Postmaster General Villas has dropped the
August schedule of ocean mails those via ihis port
and the Pacific Mail Steamship Company vessels
to New Zealand, Australia and Panama, and has
ordered that Australian mails be sent via Brndisi,
accustomed considerable surprise among the local
Postofice officials, who have not yet received the
August schedule. The Pacific Mail is under con-
tract to the New Zealand Government to carry the
mails for that country until the nrst of November,
after which date no arrangements have been
announced. If San Francisco mails are sent via
London and Brindisi, they will be, it is estimated,
nifty six days en- route to Australia.
NEw YoRK, July "a conference of representa-
tiyes of the Pacific Mail and ether steamship
lines was held to-day to determine upon course
Of action to pursue in the matter Of carrying tue
United States mails to foreign ports. The result
was the adoption of the following announcement
to the public:
"All letters or packets relating to cargo on
board any of our vessels j DO received and con-
veyed to their destination and, in order that the
public may not be inconyenienced, this company
will also for the present receive at its office at New
York and forward all letters enclosed in stamped
envelopes, if the postage stamp is of denomina-
ton sufficient to cover the postage that would be
chnrgeabe thereonif the same were sent by mail,
provided, that such envelopes shall be duly d.
rected and properly sealed, that the letter can
not be taken therefrom without defacing the en-
velope, and the date of the letter of its trans
mission, the receipt thereof shall be so written
or stamped upon the envelope"
This form of announcement said Vice Presi-
dent Lauterback, of the Pacific Mail Company,
"is substantially that adopted by all the oompan-
les, and there the matter now rests