The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1889-01-22
THE COMING PACIFIC SERVICE.

Project of The Canadian Pacific Rail
way - First-CIass Steamers and
Great Expedition.
The London correspondent OF the
Auckland Weekly News, writing un-
der date of October 10Th, gives some
particulars of the steamship service
likely to be established shortly be-
tween Vancouver and Australia, with
Honolulu as calling station, as
follows:
we have heard little until lately of
the proposal to establish mail SER
vice between England and the Anti
podes by way of the Canadian Pa
cific Railway in lieu of the existing
San Francisco route, but it has not
on that account been lost sight of.
1t will be remembered that it was
much talked about in AnglO-Col-
onial circles, and the generous offers
of the company were set out In de
tail in these columns. Nothing de
! finite was done ut that time, but lat
terly tie Agent General has been
placing himself in communication
with the authorities Of the company,
with the object Of resuming the neSo-
tiations for a mail service to replace
the San Francisco one, which IS to
be abandoned in a years time. The
company, on their part, have APP
preached Mr.. Archer, the Agent-Gen-
eral for Queensland, with an offer to
establish mail service from Lon
don to Brisbane via Halifax and Van
couYer in thirty-fve days at the out
side, and this service they propose to
work in conjunction with line to
New Zealand. L may say, in pass
inc, that it is extremely doubtful
whether the latter colony will be con
tent with an auxiliary mail service,
seeing that it has always insisted
upon having separate one. There
is to be direct line from Vancouver
to Honolulu, from Honolulu to FIJI,
and from Fiji to Brisbane, with u
branch from Fiji to Auckland. Tho
Atlantic service from London to
Halifax will not need to be provided,
inasmuch as it is already in opera
ton in connection with the China,
Japan and Hongkong mail service,
but the company will set up separ-
ate service for the Pacific route from
Vancouver to Brisbane and Auck-
land They promise that the boats
shall be Of the highest class, with
every accommodation for mail and
passenger traffic. In regard to the
latter they propose to introduce what
will be an agreeable novelty. They
will issue through tickets from Lon
don to Brisbane and Auckland and
back, by virtue Of which passengers
will be able to go to and from Lon
don and the Antipodes without ex-
pending penny beyond what they
have paid for their tickets. That is,
the company will convey them, board
them, and lodge them the whole dis
lance for a fixed sum. Even cab
fares and light refreshments will be
included. At the present moment
the company own all the hotels along
the line from Halifax to Vancouver,
and they intend to adopt the same
system over their entire route, and
| they will also arrange their time
tables in such a manner that travel
ers will not waste an hour in passing
from one point of connection to an
other. This of itself will be an inn
mense improvement on the Frisco
service, which sometimes keeps pas
sengers waiting for days in the Cali
fornian capital
In the important matter of subsidy
the company decline to say anything
very positive; but they appear to
think that the three colonies of
Queensland, New South Wales, and
New Zealand will effect a substantial
saving by cooperating to support
the proposed venture, because the
Governments Of Great Britain and
Canada are prepared to deal very
generously in the matter. They are
particularly anxious to bring
Queensland into the arrangement;
and entertain hopes of being able to
effect this, because the contract with
the British India line will terminate
two years hence. The company aver
that they do not wish to compete,
but only to alternate with the British
India line, but they say that their
service will be so infinitely superior
that they will eventually mOnOpOlise
the passenger traffic.