The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-02-17
FROM AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
Arrival of the Nebraska"

The L. s., n. T., q \. Steamship Nebraska. Capt.
Harding, arrived at this port Sunday morning last
at 1880. Is days lO4 hours from Auckland. We
have full files of Sydney papers to Jan. 10th. and
from New Zealand to the 26th, for which, together
with memoranda to be found in our commercial
column, we are indebted to the courtesy of Mr.. II.
Craig, purser of the NebraSkd. On the last trip
hence, this steamer arrived at Sydney in l91 days
from Honolulu, including stoppages. The last
three mails from England have been delivered in
the Colonies by the Webb line several days ahead
of the p. q O.
Mr.. Webb. and Mr.. Vogel the Postmaster General
of New Zealand Government were in Sydney. en-
deavoring to effect some arrangement for a Crop
Grafton in the San Francisco mail service on the
part of the Australian Colonies. \ deputation
from the Sydney Chamber of m had an iu-
terview with Sir James Martin, (Premier and
Attorney General of the Colony on the 18th of
January. The deputation urged the Government to
place on the estimates an amount Of El5,O0 a
year to be paid in monthly i~nstallments to Webb's
line, as a temporary aid. until tenders could be
regularly made and acceptcd-provided WebB's
boats continue to ran to Sydney. 1t was repre-
scented that the line now brought the English mails
within 40 days. In the annual report of the Cham
Der it was stated that the advantages of the San
L AOhtC hhA "a Ah LI5 AbA
and that a scheme has been started there of laying
a Geographic cable from San Francisco via Homo
lulu, FIJI, New Caledonia and Cape Moreton, to
Sydney and Melbourne. Says the report:
Every boat that has sailed on this line has further
demonstrated its value to the colony at large, in
opening an increasing market for our exports aud
1t is not too much to say that the presence of
American buyers in this and in the Melbourne
market, has raised the price Of the whole clip of
wool of the colonies sold to this date by at least
Id per pound and but tor the facility of rapid
communication by the steamers, it is hardly prob
able that we should have had so many American
BUYERS in this market as We have had this season.
As a result of their presence, besides a cOnsidera-
Bile quantity OF wool and other produce being
sent by the steamers to San Francisco. one ship
with 2400 bales of wool has already sailed from this
port for Boston. and several vessels have sailed
from Victoria woolladen for American ports.
Other things being equal we should prefer a
colonial company TO obtain the contract. but as
Webb's line was in the field. we thought that its
/ continuance could be more cheaply maintained.
Webb's line had this advantage, that it was
almost sure to be subsidized by the United States
/ Government. and, therefore. Mr.. Webb was enabled
10 make arrangements with us on terms which
were possible to no other company. It was quite
possible that in twelve months time when the
Government called for tenders, other companies
might compete.
Sir James Martin informed the deputation that
he would bring the proposal before the Cabinet,
which would consider the question Of proposing
$4,000 for the present year on the terms men
toned. and inform the Chamber as soon as possible
of the decision arrived at.
The Sydney Morning Herald of the 10Th, says:
1t is probably an evidence Of the attention which
the increase Of the traffic between sydney and
San Francisco has excited, that the Peniusular and
Oriental Company are said to be about to place
more steamers on the Australian line. So far as
colonial produce Is concerned. the news by this
last opportunity is highly favorable, and CORES
ponds in this respect with the general intelligence.
The Empire Of the 10Th devotes a leader in
advocacy OF Substituting Webb's line. in which it
states that while the average time occupied in the
transmission of letters and papers via BrindiSi was
90 days, the time occupied by the line via San
Francisco was only 40. On one occasion the City
Of adelaide, on her return trip from San Francisco,
brought into Sydney a London Times only As days
old. And when the great Canadian line is finished
as the rate of twenty-five miles by railway will be
substituted over a considerable distance. or ten
miles by steamship. it is calculated that the time