The settlers of Whau are complaining bitterly of the new postal arrangements that have recently come into force in that district. About the beginning ot the year, the post-master received intimation that the Post-office was to be removed to the railway station, The- settlers, hearing ot this, petitioned the Government again-t its removal, on the ground that the railway station, being on the hill away from the centre of population and the line of traffic, was an exceedingly inconvenient place for the village Post-office. The Government replied that if the settlers would enter into a bond to pay £8 per annum (the sum paid for conveying the mail from the station to the store) the Post-office would not be removed. Tho settlers replied that while they would willingly subscribe far more than eight pounds to help an em barrassed Government they hardly thought that the Hall Government would require struggling settlers to enter jointly and severally into a bond for eight pounds to secure so desirable a boon. Nothing more was heard of the matter, and the settlers thought their remonstrance bad moved the Government to submission. About a fort night ago, however, without any public warning or intimation, the Post-office was removed to the Kail way-station, and the settlers are experiencing all the disad vantages they anticipated. While previously they could call at the store at any hour and get their letters, the time of delivery is now fixed at from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Previously letters might be posted within a few minutes of S a.m. for the outgoing mail, now they must be posted at 7 a.m. The outgoing mail is closed two hours before the incoming mail is de livered, so that with the name of a daily mail, the district is little better off than if it were a bi-weekly. The sta« tion is also so inconveniently situated that rather than submit to the double in convenience, -some of the settlers, it is said, are arranging to have their letters otherwise conveyed to them. Surely it is wrong that for the sake of a paltry £88uch postal incon veniences should be thrust upon the inhabi tants of so larpe and scattered a district..
