The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-04-23
TIE PACIFIC -
Commercial Advertiser.
April %.
The Australian steam Line.

and Honolulu. The following is the time table
of the new line, as published in the SOufhcn
Cross Of April ID:
SAN FRANCISCO MAIL RoUTE.-Time Table for the
Mail Service by the Californian New Zealand, and
Australian Mail Line of Packets =
UPWARDS
To leave Sydney To leave Auckland
18th March, 1870 ID April, 1870
9th April, 4th May, "
18th May, " 9TH June, q"
goth June, " 7th July, q"
And each month following to leave Sydney on the
last day Of the month, and to leave Auckland on the
9TH Of the following month.
The steamers to leave Sydney at 1 O'Clock p NJ,
and Auckland at 2 O'Clock 2. NJ, respectively, Oh
the above appointed days.
UPWARDS:
To leave San Francisco on the 10th of each month,
commencing On the 10th day of April next.
The steaming time advertised is as follows: Sydney
to Auckland, > days Auckland to Honolulu. -
days Honolulu TO San Francisco, 10 days San
Francisco to New York, 6 days New York TO Liver
pool, 9 days As days right through
The table makes no allowance for stoppages at
Intermediate ports, and announces the mails to
be delivered in IS days from Sydney to Liverpool.
The mails by the Wongq Wonga left Sydney
March Goth, at 4 p. NJ, arrived here April 10Th,
will arrive at San Francisco, May LIST, New York,
May eth, and Liverpool, May 18th. Making the
time through for the initial trip % dayE instead
of the time calculated. This can be reduced to
4j days only by hGcing larger and better uesseLs,
which can make the passage from Auckland to
Honolulu in II days, arriving here the morning
the San Francisco steamer is to leave, and making
the time between this port and San Francisco in
ten days.
We notice that the Colonial papers calculate on
a..
their mails being delivered in Liverpool in forty
days by this route. 1t can be done from the last
port of departure only whether it be Auckland
or sydney is immaterial, viz: IA days to Homo
lulu, 10 TO San Francisco, t to New York and 10
to Liverpool-in all 40 days. But TO do this, 4
faster boat than the Idaho between this port and
San Francisco must be in the service, rs her trips
average about u days. The Nebraska can
make the through trip from either Sydney or
Auckland to San Francisco. (stopping at Honolulu
ten hours to COAL in % days, which will allow
the mails to be delivered in England, inside Of 40
days. The fine steamers owned by Mr.. Webb
will easily accomplish this.
The Southern Cross in commenting on the
opening of this new enterprise, compared with
the old india mail routes, has the following
remarks
llc opening u ulEECL SletLl communications Win
San Francisco, and through it with the Eastern States
of North America, is an event of such importance as
20 mark a new era in the commercial history Of New
Zealand. To Auckland it is of peculiar interest, not
only from the selection of this city by the contractors
SIS the most suitable station for their vessels, but from
the existence Of an old-estlblished trade with San
Francisco To this trade the new line cannot fail to
give increased development. 1t will also bring to the
notice Of people Bell-accustomed to the consideration
Of mining questions in the States the extensive and
rich gOld-ields, now languishiEg for want of capital
and special skill, in this province and in other parts
of the colony.
1t will be seen that the San Francisco line is, for
postal purposes, beyond comparison, the best OF the
three. 1t would afford q delivery Of English letters
in Auckland twenty-one days sooner than The route
via King Georges Sound, and twenty-three days
sooner than that via Torres Straits, even when for
warded via Marseilles.
The two steamers engaged for the mail service
between Sydney and this port are the WOnga
Wonga Of 1900 tons burthen, and the City Of
Melbourne of 1000 tons burthen-altogether too
small for properly performing the service. We
understand they are chartered only for four
months, when some other plan may be fixed on.
The New Zealand subsidy is understood to be
500, 600, provided Auckland is made the final
port for departure.
The passenger travel by this new route will be
very large. The first steamer from Sydney and
Auckland brings 10 passengers, and we see it
stated in ono Of the Colonial papers, that before
the departure of the Wonga Wonga, over one
hundred berths had been engaged for the City of
Melbourne. With good steamers and good accom-
modations, from two to three hundred passengers
may be calculated on by each vessel.
All the passengers who came by the Wonga
WOnga Tor oil who desired to go) Went forward
in the steamer IdahO, which left port on Thursday
April Dist, at / p. NJ. She was altogether too
crowded, as she has accommodations for only
about one hundred, while there were over two
hundred on board. If some larger vessel is not
engaged TO perform the service from this port to
San FrauciscO, complaint will justly be made
against this line from the very outset. =
We have referred several times of late TO the
Importance of this enterprise which will open to
our merchants new avenues of trade. As soona as
reliable intelligence regarding the present colonial
tariffs and markets for our island produce is re-
ceived and published, arrangements will De made
to ship produce thither. The Wonga Wonga
takes a small freight of sugar and pulu, intended
TO test the New Zealand and Sydney markets for
these articles. Other shipments will 20 forward
in future steamers.
Important Telegraph
Honolulu will soop be connected by telegraph
with San Francisco, New York, London, Yoke
mama and HOngkong. \ company has been
By the California Legislature to lay 4
telegraph between San Francisco and
Japan, via this port. The bill provides substan-
tally
That ]. Taylor. W.. H. Clary, H. C. Crane. G.
Iessup, H. c. Roberts, c. S. Cousins, E. L. SulIi-
ran, Thomas DOolan, L.. W. Greenwall, and John
Nightingale, their SUCCESSORS and assigns, shall be
and empowered to construct, maintain,
md operate 4 line or lines of telegraph from any
point that may be selected by them in the State of
California. to Honolulu, and Brooks Island, in the
Pacific Ocean, thence TO Yokohama, Japan. They
re authorized to construct SAID line or lines of tele-
raph along and upon any road or highway, or
gross any of the waters, or any lands within the
inits Of the State, by the appropriation of any trees
hz natnre- or hz the eractinn of nnu naces-