The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-06-06
SJCCINCr STATEMENT 0E IFS
ORGANIZATION.
To Coruscs WITH the Canadian
PSeifsc Railway.


vii probably De further subsidies
by New South WSIes Snd Queens
lSnd snd by the Imperisl govern
uens, The credit Of originating IN.
I ideS Of SIDING this 70 the list Of tn,
worlds highwsys belongs to Csnads
The service, IS now insugursted. !!
Only the beginning Of sn enterpris,
thst vii estsblish S weekly steam
service in the Atlsntie s1d PseiiC
oessns, connected By the canadian
Pscife railway, snd capable OF lsnd
ing London mzils st. ssy. Brishsne
or Sydney in shout twenty-siz days
That. taking the distance into con.
siderstion. would De one OF the most
uossble postal. commercial and trs-
vsllsr,s highways on the earth
Mr.. James Huddzrt. the managing
owner OF the Mowers and Wsrrimoo,
the pioneers IN the new service, beSrs
q nsue which has long held prom
insns place IN Austrslssi2n maritime
eutsrp-ise- The firm OF Huddart,
Parker il Co. Is well known and has
one OF the large fleets employed in
the exchanges Of commodities between
New South Wales. Victoris. South
AustrsIis snd Tasmania The Mo
wsrs ard Wsrrimoo, were built
IN 1892. st Newcastle on Tyne,
by Msssrs- Swan i Hunter, under
Mr. Hadisrt's supervision last year.
In January LIST he wrote to Sir
John Thompson. the Dominion
premier. and the ultimate result Of
the psrley Ess that Csnsds offered q
subsidy Of $125.O00 per snnum, and
On this basis 9 contract was con
cIuded for S monthly service The
fses thst seton Ess tsken at the
Brisbane conferences, held so recently
Is Msrch last, should finally dispose
Of the feeling that Mr.. Huddart's en-
terpriSs Is in sny sense or in any de-
gree unfair to New Zeslsnd, which
pays nesrly sll the present Subsidy
to the San Francisco service
In 1892 New South Wsles pur
chased goods from the United States
TO the extent Of over 100000. The
same colony exports to the States 8
total Of over 100000; but Of this
about S5,0l0,000 was gold, showing a
trade balance very distinctly IN favor
OF the States The total exchange
between the United States and New
South WGes alone In the ten years.
1883 g. amounted TO no less thsn
S4S.0O0.0Q0. SGrely this Is g trade
worth fostering and Developing The
United STATES and New Zealand are
very veil able 10 subsidize the San
Francisco service NJ H1ddsrt
avoids both New Zealand and the
United States He starts from sgd
uey. calls st Brisbane and Honolulu.
and goes On to Vancouver
In view OF the resolution passed al
BI-bz1e co1fze1es, Mr. Huddart
asked Sr George DIbbs, 10 confer
With the otEer colonies On the sub
jeet Of { federal subsidy Mean
while M HuidsZt addressed { letter
70 tEe Australian governments IN
which he set forth the case for the
proposed service
SIr George Dibbs pledged himself
10 bri1g tLs matter Of Substituting
service under the consideration Of
parliament before the close u the
session. and the session was intended
to be closed b. the end Of May The
government would propose and sup
port & subsidy Of probably. either
$4,000 OF $4,000 As far az could
be judged =hen the HioEers left
Sydney, the legislative assembly WIS
distinctly favorable to the proposal
Q1eensls1d has been asked for
$4,000, the ships calling al MoEeton
bay, the poEt of Brisbane, - the last
port Of departure and the first OF
arrival
The more coumsrce i created be
tween the British communities IN
the South Pacific and the American
continent the more vii the prod1e
we EGks-L4kA-- u t-- A-AS-A @ADAk-
situated besseen them be Developed
AZ present Hawai- leads HsEzii
shOEs what can Be done By enter
pEise operating intsIligsntly upon
these tropical soils FIJI. which viii
probably De called a. By the ships
running II the Cznsdizn-Aastrzlian
serviee, Is getting into z strong posi-
uon- HsE external trade nov amounts
to about S30O1.00O annually Sn
John B Thurstol- the g5TsIuoE, L
extremely aariOls that E'Iji shall be
brought into one q the great lines
Of OCEAN travel and trsf7c- He IS
convinced that Il would heip In the
uCrs rapid Development Of the ayr
cultural resources Of : group which
hss g uGeh good land az there L II
the British West Indies AZ present
only sbOa1 1000 serzs cut Of totsl
srss q sbo7t 100000 ars cultivated.
OF c91zse Il L Mt expected thai Hs-
Esiizn e0une-cs with Australia viii
grUs 70 large dimensions II i re-
coguizsd that HsEanis trade must
20 chiefly 70 California But the