THE NEW MAIL ROUTE.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 67, 26 March 1870, Page 2

THE NEW MAIL ROUTE.

The California]!, New Zealand, and Australian mail line commence the service on the 26th instiint. Mr. H. H. Hall has, fortunßtelVj succeeded in chartering two of the finest boats in the colonies, namely, the Won»a Wonga and City of Melbourne, a d, judging 'I'rom the extraordinary demand for passages, the public appear to have entered 'most heartily into the scheme. The first boat to leave will be the Wonga Wbnga, under the command of Captain T. id. Be.il, late of the P.N.Z. Company. She isi novv in port, and will *be slipped, cleaned, and • the necessary alterations made to meet the requirements consequent on the number of passengers proceeding by her. The number of passages booked tip to the present time are 52 in the saloon, 33 in the cabin, and 65 in the steerage, independent of an allowance for twenty steerage passengers in Auckland Of this number two-thirds are booked through for England. The providing of the steamer yn\h Use necessary adjuncts of stewards and attendants will be c rried out by Messrs. Ban-on and Austen, and will be on a most liberal scale, and it is understood that nothing ■will bo found wanting in this department that can in any vray conduce to the comfort of all on board. Mr. Hall also gives the inducement to passengers proceeding on this route to remain in any port on the line for two months, their through-tickets being available for the succeeding boats. Mr. Hall's arrangements have been so far completed that no great detention will be experienced by passengers at the ports of transhipment; so tliat passengers requiring speedy transit will be landed in England within the specified time. We may also state that, in. addition to the large number of passengers leaving by the Wonga Wonga, 23 have taken their passages by the City ot Melboxirne, which will leave on the 27th of April, under the command of Captain Granger, of the A. S. N. Co. Subjoined are the dates of departure, arrivals and retard of the colonial steamer:—From Sydney, Wonga, Wonga, March 26 ; City of Melbourne, April 27; Wonga Wonga, May 28; City of Melbourne, Juno 30; and afterwards the steamers will leave on the 30th of each sucoaeding month. The departures from Auckland will tnke place on 2nd April, 4th May, ■■4th' June, 7th July, and the 7th of each succeeding month. Tne steamers will arrive at Honolulu in fifteen days, by contract time, from Auckland, meeting the San Francisco 'steamers —which proceed direct, and generally make the passage in ten days. The outward mail leaves San Jfrancisco on the 10th of the

month, reaches Honolulu on ov about the 20th, on which date the colonial steamers leave, reaching Auckland in fifteen days and Sydney in twenty-one days, landing passengers in about forty-seven days, and telegraphic intelligence in thirty days from England.— Sydney Herald, March 14.