CANADA MAILS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 811, 7 May 1910, Page 5

CANADA MAILS.

TRANS-ATLANTIC. 81-WEEKLY . SERVICE. By TelerraDti—Press Association—Oonyrieht Ottawa, May 5. Negotiations are proceeding with the object of eventually securing for Canada a bi-weekly mail service with Britain, by subsidising the Canadian Northern Railway steamers running to Bristol,' in addition to the present subsidies to the steamers run by the Allan and Canadian-Pacific lines. THE NEW SERVICE. The Canadian Northern is the third great Canadian railways systems having !M3B miles of line, and ranking next to the Canadian Pacific and the • Grand Trunk. The Canadian Northern Com'pany recently decided to establish between Canada and Bristol a'now line of steamers to be known as tho Royal Line, and to bo inaugurated about the middle of May. Three steamers—the Royal Edward, the Royal George, and the Royal Sovereign—were to mamtain a ten-days' service to Quobec and Montreal in the summer months, and probably to Halifax in the winter months. The ' boats will have a speed of 21 knots,' and wiU possess accommodation for 350 first, -30 second, and 600 third-class passengers. It was recently stated that an amalgamation of the old-established transAtlantic Allan line and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company had. been practically arranged. The idea now is to alternate the C.P.R.-Allan weekly service and the new Canadian Northern undertaking so as to secure a bi-weekly semco. .