The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-10-30

TBuRsDAr. ocTosER 30. 1ss.


TW past has been a very dull week in business erses-
Several ships overdue are anrousy booked for. The PGafiHa,
fron Bremen, Is about 100 day out the Erie, from Ne" Bed
ford. leo days the Raduga, from Boston, ~ days and the
Gahiei, from Liverpool, IG3 days, all with full eargoes.
The CoHsntnt oH arrived On the 24th from HIio, where she
had discharged a part q her cargo She sailed again for Vic
tSfa yesterday.
The ship LeoHidas al.o sailed yesterday for Monte yideo, 3.
A. During her stay Ia port, she has been thoroughly repaired.
Owing to the disturbed state Of currency, she was Obliged to
pay IS per ernt- premium for money advanced on bottomg.
The WhAIeshiP HGTeHgo, which arrived on she 26th from the
Southern Ochotsk, brings in a good catch, sustaining the favor
able reports already received from the North
The EhaIeship BTggGHzG was sOIi at public auction on Thurs
day last for $4,000. She will D. repaired and fitted out from
ibis port on German account, Nr q. Thoms acting a. her agent.
She 3 now hove down, and IS her timbers are all sound,
will be repaired with no great outlay. Though an old vessel,
abe 4 safs for ten years service At least. With such good for
tune as has attended the whaling business the past twelve
months, this will prove a good Investment. She will sail under
the oIdsnburg flag, and make her first cruise on the California
coast.
In exchange, there s but little doing. The only transaction
se hear offs a bill drawn at Is per cent
american capitalists do ns work briskiy, they will soon
be distanced IN the race Of opening a practicable emigrant aud
freight route across the cou,ineut. 1t may no; Re generally
known tina; a large English company is already established to
open an emigrant route through Canada to British Columbia,
Ths ASSOCIATION Is known as the . British Columbia Overland
Transit Co." and l. even nCw booking passengers through
from Loudon to Fort Hope, on the Fraser River, at a cos; Of
ks2 or sic each. The mode q conveyance IL as follows:
Prom roc,,o, :, n.o.,.., Dsysi
Montreal 10 St. Paurs. by Grand Trunk Railway .-.........3
~ steamer up the Red River TO Fort GaIry-.-.:--.:"--3
FROM Fort Garry by spring wagons and horses to fraser River-2S
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The Company have booked ana dispatched several hundred
passengers already. Arrangements are in progress for building
suitable steamers 70 run on the led River. Lake winnepeg and
the river Saskatchewan, which; is stated to be navigabIe to
within about 200 miles Of Fraser River. An efficient staff Of
superinten~isnts, express riders; horses, &c, for the various
stations en- route, are nov being engaged by the Company,
AMI { - expected with these facilities the time from London 10
FORT Hope vii! be next year reduced TO thirty days 70 this We
have 10 add SIX days from Frazer River 20 San francisco. and
twenty-five days 10 Shanghai. This enterprise Is but the fore
runner Of efforts that SI soon BE- made by English capitalists
20 open a railroad to British C1umbia, through British Terri
tory which in connection with n steam line thence to China
would BE- 4 great thoroughfare fr travel and freight