We pointful out some time ago stirditv *>fc" ouvpt'*y irtg large *>cean stcaiiieis to deliver the San Francisco mail along our coast. It will tie recollected that we suggested the advisability of subsidising the t'jtion Company's steamers to deliver the mails between Onehunga and Port Chal mers. The cost of this coastal service would be considerably less than what we are now paying for the large thiough boats. At present we are giving £l-*>,ooo a-year to the Pacific Steamship Company tor carrying the letters from Auckland to the South, when, by employing the local steamers, we might save at least f't> T tWO annually, and also have the satisfaction of knowing that the mone\ paid to the Company would he le distributed in the Colony, instead of being spent across the water. Were the Ttviot* Company's boats employed, there woutd fx; no necessity for a coastal pilot, ami no danger of touching on bars, and landing mails and passengers outside the Heads. Our contemporary the »' New Zealand Times" expresses our views on the subject vet** clearly. He says : " The question as to whether the mail steamer City of San Francisco- did or did not touch on the t>ar when last she left Port Chalmers, is, in consequence of the efforts of some foolish writers on both sides, heing magnified into an utterly un deserved importance. It is quite plain that the running of enormous ocean steamers up and down the coasts of this Colony, for the conveyance of a couple oi dozen pas sengers and a number of mail bags, is quite ridiculous, and that the sooner such a service is put an end to the better, in order that it may be replaced by one which shall leave the coastal portion of tliu serv ice to the Colonial steam tleet, that can do the work more cheaply, and far more ettiebntly. There seems indeed to be a pretty unanimous opinion throughout the Colony that the change we hav<_> indicated should be brought about : and in due time we have no doubt but that it will he accomplished. 