The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-10-23

THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL.

information regarding the Australian
mail contract. The service is to be
continued upon the lines set forth in
the ADVERTISER, from information
received by the Australia on her last
up trip from the Colonies. The Union
Steamship Company of New Zea-
land is the contracting party, but
the Oceanic Steamship Company par
ticipates in the contract, as Messrs.
John Elder & Co. did in the old con-
tract of the Pacific Mail Company.
The following dispatch sent by Mr..
Center from New Zealand was re-
ceived in San Francisco on Tuesday,
the 18th instant, by Messrs. John D.
Spreckels & Brothers:
Union line received contract; their
line to connect with ours at Homo
lulu. Pearce's boats perform services
w. G. Irwin & Co. appointed agents.
Send plans of steamers to Auckland,
London and Sydney"
Our San Francisco correspondent
. sent US this dispatch, through the
courtesy of Messrs. Spreckels, and it
confirms, as already stated, all the
points which have heretofore been
presented by US in this connection. A
full-page advertisement on the back
OF our supplement to-day announces
that the first steamer of the new line
will leave Honolulu for San Fran
cisco on or about Saturday, NOvem-
Der 2Ist, and that the first departure
for the Colonies from Honolulu will
be on or about Saturday, November
18th. Of course the San Francisco
business of the new service will be
conducted by Messrs. Spreckels, and
the Honolulu business by Messrs. w.
Ct. Irwin & Co. It is fortunate that
this arrangement has been come to,
because it is a guarantee for the per-
manence and efficiency of the service,
and is a new point of departure i'll the
commercial enterprises of the Ha-
waiian Kingdom.
The new time table has not been
arranged, but we are inclined to
think that advance copies of it will
be received by the ZeaIandia, which
is due at this port on Sunday next.
Our San Francisco correspondent
states that if the present time table
be adhered to the Zealandia will sail
from San Francisco on the initial
trip of the new service on the 2lst of
November, and will run through to
Sydney as usual. The Australia on
her next trip from the Colonies will
remain at Honolulu, connecting here
with either the MaripOsa or Alameda,
which steamers will in future make
one trip month each way Jim six
days. This will be another advantage
to US, by giving US quicker steam
communication with the Coast The
Oceanic Company will also derive
advantage from the new arrange
ment, which should add materially to
its revenue without corresponding
Increase in expenditure. It's proper
ton of the mail subsidy and Aus
treIian passenger and freight traffic,
besides the additional commission
business that necessarily accrues from
so important and leading position
in the commercial world, will form a
very considerable item In the years
earnings.
But the advantages that must nee
essarily accrue to these Islands cannot
well be overestimated. It is the be-
ginning of new epoch in the com
merciaI life of Honolulu, and if the
occasion be taken advantage of as it
should be, it will undou btedly be the
lever to raise the busin ess interests of
this city out ofthe rut into which they
have recently drifted. 1t will be OBJ
served that through freight and pas
sengers are to be transferred at this
port. which will involve considera-
BILE delay, sufficient at all events to
enable passengers to move around and
see all that is to be seen in Honolulu
and its neighbOrhood. The Pail,
Waikiki and other points of interest
may be visited, thereby putting con-
siderable ImOney into circulation,
which our tradespeople will derive
the benefit Of This is not all, how
ever. The steamers running between
this port and New Zealand will re-
raain here regularly for several days
awaiting the arrivals of the mails
from the Coast. Considerable fresh
stores will be shipped on board fer
the return trip. There will be in
creased employment found for labor
ers In handling and transferring the
cargoes, which alone will circulate
money. There will be thirteen regu-
lar trips of the steamers to and from
San Francisco, thus affording in