Daily Evening Bulletin

MAIL SERVICE TROUBLES.
Discontinuance of the San Francisco-Australian Mail

San Francisco, Oct. 10.-Advices from Australian colonies by the late mail give important details in relation to the action of the colonies for the maintenance of the postal service to England via San Francisco. The continuance of the service was contingent upon the payment by the United States of one-third of the annual subsidy. Congress adjourned last session without making the appropriations for the subsidy, and the Democratic House struck the Senate clause out of the Postal Bill, which enabled the Postmaster General to contract for the carriage of American mail by sea, whereby payment could have been made on account of the Australian-China-Brazilian mail. The result has been that the Postmaster General of New South Wales has given the necessary three months' notice of discontinuance so far as that colony is concerned, and the contract terminates on its account next month. New Zealand, however, will continue the service, alternating with the direct line to England, in this way securing a fortnightly mail service without reference to Australia.

It is expected, of course, that the next Congress will compensate New Zealand for the expense. It has been the persistent policy of the British Government to break down the San Francisco-Australia mail route, and the late Democratic Congress played into the hands of England.