The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-02-27
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
SATURDAY y. FEBRUARY %.
steam Navigation i'm tho Pacific.


Two great enterprises in tie Pacific Ocean
were started about the same time,-t the san
Francisco, Yokohama and IIongLong line Of
steamers, and the Panama, New ZEALAND and
Australian line. The former Of these i PROVING
itself q success: the latter has evidently not sue
cecdei, having obtained from the British Govern
ment a release from the contract for carrying the
mail-. The China line i probably to become
semi-monthly before a long time shall claTec.
That there will be temporary drawbacks in the
progress Of steam navigation i o. D. expected.
Failure however in ono line may only D. the
means Of pointing out success IN another. One
reason of tie failure Of tie Panama and Austa-
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eru route = - strong n Competitor FOR the fur
nishing Of specify Communication between the
mother country and the Colonies. Being only Il
branch Of the great Eastern China route, diver.-
ing from that at Point de Gale, Ceylyn, il has
thereby great aiyantagcs. One Of these i the
accompanying telegraph to the above mentioned
point. Another line of communication DIVORCES
from the China route at Singapore, taking the
north coast Of Australia, AMI will probably -oon
have n continued line Of Telegraph alongside.
stretching from leland % Island, and point 10
point, through tie InIian Archipelago AMI thence
overland 10 the Australian metropolis. With
these two routes AMI their advantages % contend
with, it j. nj strange that the long ocean route
should fail Of being properly supported.
But California and the whole United States
furnish in their vast resources more or les Of 4
basis for trade with the Australian Colonies. Ir.
then, this can be joined with the needed communi-
cation with England and Europe. it may DC fully
sufficient % warrant the establishment OF 4 new
line in place Of the one abandoned. With the
two growing countries, California and Australia,
ut either end Of the route. there il better Pros
Pect Of it, becoming permanent. From 4 leading
article on this subject in the san Francisco Times
Of the 2Sth Of January, we learn that over
twenty-siX hundred passengers have arrived in
California from the Colonies IN the last two years.
The total exports from san Francisco 20 Australia
during tine past fourteen years have been over
eleven million dollars, the import Of c1al over
two hundred thousand tons; and these figures
aaJrd no measure Of what the corresponding fig
urcs will be for the next ten years, with increased
facilities combined with increased production.
Now add to the California trade the travel
and mails from England. which will attain their
destination more rapidly AMI conveniently by the
route via san Francisco than by the way Of
Panama, and tic probabilities Of 4 successful
line Of steamers are much increased. With the
completion Of the Pacific Railroad. the time from
southampton to san Francisco will be but sixteen
days. The present schedule time % Panama,
i. e., southampton to AspinwalI, Is at least seven
teen days. IL would require n very large amount
Of travel 10 warrant the steam COMPANIES In
shortening it to twelve days. The route by way Of
New York has the additional advantage of variety.
and the accommodation Of the great Trans-At-
lantic lines u steamers, and a continued track
through the GOODNESS of tie temperate zone III
stead Of the heats Of the West Indian seas. san
Francisco i certainly preferable to Panama a. a
way-statiOn. The alrcady-alluici-to advantage
Of an accompanying telegraph line i Of course to
be considered, although Panama viii soon have
the same.
81 much for getting started on the shores Of
the Pacific. The passage across Is the next con-
siIcntion. Tie distance from san Francisco t.
sydney, vfl Honolulu and the FTi Islands. j.
twelve hundred aud ninety miles les than that
from Panama via Tahiti AMI Wellington, New
ZEALAND and eleven hundred miles less than the
length Of the great circle route to the southwark.
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