The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-07-16
The AustraIian steann scrvlce.

In looking over our colonial files we find fire.
quent reference to the newly-established steam
line, and nearly all are warmly in favor of it,
over every other scheme. There is q general
desire to break off the intimate commercial rela-
tions SO long existing between the Colonies and
England, and open new ones with the American
republic. The following is from the Wellington
independent:
We fear the day is fast passing away when Great
Britain can any longer be q useful nursing mother
to any of her descendants. The natural decay of the
energy of q people whose history goes so far back
her constant combats with the growing evils of age-
her vast liabilities, and her scattered territorial pos
sessions-oyerwhelm her with care, and unfit her
daily more aDd more for the active work of the
worlds pioneers. In her colonizing operations she
has seldom, if ever, gone about that work with zeal
has too often been dragged into it by the rash acts
of pilgrim fathers and New Zealand Companies, and
has thrown away of late Yeas, and is now throwing
away, golden opportunities of building up q world
wide empire. The United States has practically been
q colonizing nation all her time. Every new State
settled-every Territory reclaimed from waste-has
really been q new colony, though not separated from
the old by seas. But in her case the work has been
done with q will, and the birth of a new member in
the great family of States has been always hailed as O
labor of love, with rejoicing and festivities. Hith-
erto, most Of her work has been within her own
coasts, but she cannot much longer confine her efforts
to those limits. The execution of the great work of
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viii not. Is that road to break short off where it
touches the salt water, shrinking back from contact
with il, like q timid maiden dipping her foot in the
brine? Hardly. We think we can already see her
shooting out into the vast waters beyond, not on
rails, it is true, but in floating palaces, holding out
her arms to receive from the far off corners Of the
world like ours, those who may be willing to ~recipro-
cate her friendship. The arrival on the shores of
California of this living freight of Englishmen from
Australasia will, we believe, send a thrill of pleasure
through the bosom of our elder sister, which will
make throb the great national heart on the banks of
the Potomac, and which will before long be res
pended to by greetings and welcomes sent to US
across the ocean.
The Otago Times, discoursing on the prospects
of the rival lines has the following:
The San Francisco mail service has suddenly as
the appearance Of q dificulty-especially
from a Government point Of view. 1t is not all
that Mr.. Collie, the representative of the
New York shipping firm, will be successful in his
negotiations with the Australian Governments.
in the matter of subsidy, the advantages they offer
to the Colonies are at least commensurate. A really
efficient mail service across the Pacific would require
large, powerful, and well appointed steamers. Such
q service could not be thoroughly established without
the aid of considerable capital permanently invested
in the enterprise. Its ultimate success, moreover,
would largely depend on the amount of trade as well
as Of passenger traffic between the Colonies and the
States. And not the least consideration is the assur-
lnce of the safe conveyance of our mails from one
end of the route to the other. In all these respects,
here is clearly no comparison between the service
which has been so hastily adopted by the Postmaster
General and that which the New York ship owners
Are now proposing for our consideration. The
chartered by the contractor, Mr.. Hall, have
hitherto been engaged in the Australian coasting |
rade and unless the traffic across the Pacific should
'roTe n very thin one, they can scarcely be expected