NEW ALL-RED MAIL ROUTE.
FROM LONDON TO AUSTRALIA. By Telerraph—Preta Association—Copyright (Reo. October 10, 10.30 p.m.) London, October 10. The "Daily News" states, in oonneotion with tho All Red mail route, that a contract valued at a million sterling has been placed with the Perry Company, contractors, to build a harbour at Blacksod Bay (in Ireland), a railway from Coollooney to Blacksod Bay, via the Ballina Channel, train ferry across the Irish Sea. The paper adds that the scheme has passed the theoretical stage.
The now All Red mail route proposition is a schemo for establishing an express mail service between Britain and Australasia, via Canada. The several British shipowning firms interested are treating with a Canadian syndicate for the purchase of four hundred thousand acres at Capo St. Charles, Labrador, to establish an ice-free port. It is proposed to construct a trans-Continental railway to the Pacific. It is claimed that the journey, from London to Winnipeg will be performed in five days, with an additional sixteen days to Sydney. Blacksod Bay, on the West Coast of Mayo. Irolond, will be the headquarters of the service on this side, connecting by a Bpecial railway with the main service at Sligo,
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1878, 11 October 1913, Page 5
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200NEW ALL-RED MAIL ROUTE. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1878, 11 October 1913, Page 5
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