The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-06-05

To Connect With the Canadian
Pacific Railway.

The Miowera is the pioneer ship OF
the new Canadian-Australian line,
which mas already been subsidized by
the Dominion government and which
will probably be further subsidized
by New South Wales and Queens
land and by the Imperial govern
ment. The credit of originating the
idea of adding this to the list of the
worlds highways belongs to Canada.
The service, as now inaugurated, is
only the beginning of an enterprise
that will establish a weekly steam
service in the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans, connected by the Canadian
Pacific railway, and capable of land
ing London mails at, say, Brisbane
or Sydney in about twenty six days.
That, taking the distance into con-
sideration, would be one of the most
notable postal, commercial and ira
veller's highways on the earth.
MIR. James Huddart, the managing
the pioneers in the new service, bears
a name which has long held q prom
inent place in Australasian maritime
enterprise. The firm of Huddart,
Parker & Co. is we'll known and has
one of the large fleets employed in
the exchange of CT nmodities between
New South Wales, Victoria, South
Australia and Tasmania. The Mo
vera and Warrimoo, were built
In 1892, at Newcastle on Tyne,
by Messrs. Swan & Hunter, under
Mr.. Huddart's supervision last year.
In January last he wrote to Sir
John Thompson, the Dominion
premier, and the ultimate result of
the parley was that Canada offered
subsidy of S125.O00 per annum, and
on this basis contract was con
Guided for a monthly service. The
fact that action was taken at the
Brisbane conference, held so recently
as March last, should finally dispose
of the feeling that Mr.. Huddart's en-
tp-pri.e is in any sense or in any de-
gree unfair to New Zealand, which
pays nearly all the present subsidy
to the San Francisco service.
In 1892 New South Wales pur
chased goods from the United States
to the extent of over S4,0O0,O00. The
same colony exports to the States a
total OF over S7,000,000; but of this
about S5,OOO,0OO was gold, showing a
trade balance very distinctly in favor
OF the States. The total exchange
between the United States and New
South Wales alone in the ten years.
1892. amounted to no less than
S4S.000.000. Surely this is a trade
worth fostering and developing. The
United States and New Zealand are
very we'll able to subsidize the San
Francisco service. MIR. Huddart
avoids both New Zealand and the
United States. He starts from Syd
ney, calls at Brisbane and Honolulu,
and goes on to Vancouver.
In view of the resolution passed at
Bri. bane conference, Mr.. Huddart
asked Sir George Dibbs, to confer
with the other colonies on the sub
ject of a federal subsidy. Mean
while MIR. Huddart addressed letter
to the Australian governments, in
which he set forth the case for the
proposed service.
Sir George Dibbs pledged himself
to bring the matter of Substituting
service under the consideration of
parliament before the close of the
session, and the session was intended
to be closed by the end of May. The
government would propose and sup
port subsidy of probably, either
$4,000 or 100000 AS far as could
be judged when the Miowera left
Sydney, the Legislative assembly was
distinctly favorable to the proposal.
Queensland has been asked for
$4,000, the ships calling at Moreton
bay, the port of Brisbane, as the last
port of departure and the first of
arrival.
tween the British communities in
continent the more will the produc-
tive capacities of the island groups
situated between them he developed.
At present Hawaii leads. Hawaii
shows what can be done by enter
prise operating intelligently upon
these tropical soils. Fiji, which will
probably be called at by the ships
running In the Canadian
service, Is getting into a strong posi-
ton. Her external trade now amounts
to about 100000 annually. Sir
John B. Thurston, the governor, is
extremely anxious that Fiji shall be
brought into one of the great lines
OF ocean travel and traffic. He is
convinced that it would help in the
more rapid development of the agri-
cultural resources of a group which
has as much good land as there is in
the British West Indies. at present
only about 10000 acres ont of a total
area of abont 100000 are cultivated.
Of course 1t Is not expected that Ha-
wailan commerce with Australia will
grow to large dimensions. 1t is re-
coguized that Hawaii's trade must
go chiefly to California. But the
Canadian connection may prove of
considerable value In the course of
time. Canada is a consumer of tro-
pical commodities, and the Canadian
Pacific railway is cheap road to the
Atlantic seaboard, and anyway, the
good people of Honolulu will not OBJ
ject to seeing the ships of the Cana
dian Australian line in their port or
to the additional tourist expenditure
which must be involved in brief v;sita