The Hawaiian gazette., 1871-04-05
The New Zealand and Australian
Steamship Line.

steamship Line.
Our New Zealand and Australian readers will
be glad 70 learn that the long mooted steamship
line from San Francisco to the Colonies is now
an assured fact, and that the first vessel of the
new service will leave our port on the Sth of
April On the 7th inst the Hon. Julius Vogel
teegraphed from Washington 70 the proprietors
Of this paper that the contract with Messrs.
Webb and Holiday was just signed and later
dispatch from Mr. w. II. Webb, at that time in
New York, gave the full particulars of the ar
engagements made. Tbs contract signed is " for
a four-weekly line between San Francisco, New
Zealand, Sydney, and Melbourne, at such speed
as to enable the mails to be delivered in London
or rice Uersa, in forty-eight days The pioneer
steamer is to sail on the sth Of April" BY refer
euce to our advertising columns it will be seen
that the magnificent steamship Nevada formerly
in the Panama service, is to be the frst vessel
employed. She is announced to stop at Homo
lulu, Hawaiian Islands; Auckland, Lyttleton,
and Port Chalmers, n. T.; connecting with
steamers for Sydney, y. S. W, and Melbourne,
Victoria. Returning ria the same ports, she
viii leave Port Chalmers on May 18th, and Auck-
laad on May 18th. The first vessels employed
in the service will be the Nebraska, Nevada,
Santiago de Cuba, Dacotah, and Moses Taylor,
all saunch first class vessels, the four former be-
ing equal in speed and accommodations to any on
the Pacific. AS will be seen above, the contract
is for four-weeky service, 1. E., thirteen trips
per annum, alternating with the p. & o. line.
Even with the comparatively inferior vessels en-
ployed before, the amount of Australian and New
Zealand travel through our port has been large F;
it is doubtless destined to increase and grow to
formidable proportions. Our route is by all odds
the most pleasant, and the trip is made cheaper
than by the English steamers. In place of the
stormy Indian Ocean and Red Sea, we offer the
traveller the usually calmer Pacific Ocean, seven
days of land travel by the great Transcontinental
Railroad, and the passage of the Atlantic by some
Of the best steamships afoat. The opportunity
of seeing something Of the United States should
alone be great iBducement to travel this way.
Up to the present time Congress has blindy
refused to see that the subsidy asked for the es>
adjustment Of the line was a perfectly legitimate
demand on the nations purse. But the pres
poets are gUod for a speedy reconsideration o
the subject. Unfortunately, at the time when
the bill was laid before the Senate and House
there we're a number Of other steamship subsidiey
Of a more or less questionable nature demanded
and our scheme, deserving of the utmost encour
agement from any member who believes in tbH
establishment Of American commerce, suffered il,
their company Sooner or later we must BELIEVE
that the necessary aid will be granted, which
with the assistance Of the Australian Colonies
will establish the line as one of the foremost il
the world. The New Zealand Government ha-
by its liberal action, virtually inaugurated IT,
line on a substantial basis, and will undoubtedl.
tatiye here, the Hon. Julius Yogel from the ne
meut Of his arrival worked steadily and persist
emily 10 this good cause. He addressed thu
Chambers Of Commerce Of San Francisco, Chi
cago, and elsewhere, on the subject, and the
satisfactory arrangements just consummated at
Washington are very much due to his tact anG
Wherever be has travelled he has
left an impression highly complimentary to him
self the Government be represents and the en-
terprise and enlightenment Of his fellow Colo
nists His addresses have been characterized by
good sense, terseness, and a thorough compre-
hensiol Of the subject. Mr.. Nogel left for Eng
land on the Cunard steamship Russia, on the s,h
Of March, Immediately after the consummation 0,
the contract with Messrs. Webb and Hulladay.
The former gentleman, the eminent ship builder
and ship owner of New York, is one of the
shrewdest and most far-seeing men in the United
States, while the latter firm owns a large proper
ton of the steamships for domestic and foreign
Pacific ports leaving San Francisco, and has been
with dozen enterprises of the great
est Importance to our coast. Both Messrs. Hol-
laday and Webb count among the wealthy men
Of our country, and the interests of the line are
perfectly safe in their hands, We shall say
nothing in regard to the vessels to be employed,
that as soon as they arrive in the Colo
NAL ports, they will be the admiration of all who
can find time to inspect them.-Nelcs Of tie
World March ISL.