21 KNOTS AN HOUR.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 2998, 3 February 1881, Page 4

21 KNOTS AN HOUR.

«An«io-Australian" writes m the Euro- j _f_l of November 5 :-« A celebrated King authority, speaking at Liverpool ?H*Sr day, at a meeting held m connecf G °' "th the Atlantic lines, gave it as his tion wi m h . me wag not f ar distant opinion -«™ „ ould be built to cross tho when stea. tong hvivAea> and averagAtlantic of 1, ' Q1 knofcs fco the hour. Well, wg a speed of * and New Zealand colonies as the Australian _ cry besfc of everything, like to have the . fulfilled, as doubtless when this prophecy v , 9to a_ers of 10,000 it will be, we shall hay,. _ runn i ng between tons—or perhaps more- . If I mistake London and the Antipodes. -, nt c onipany) not the managers of the Om. , the orient, speaking at a banquet on boaro. , menfc> s0 foreshadowed some such achieve ~ b e lon« that the merit of originality does noi, 0,000 to the Liverpool man. A steamer of In. '.| a tons would be a floating castle indeed, an«. speed of 21 knots an hour a consideration, for at this rate New York would be within six days of Liverpool and London the Cape fifteen days and Australia and New Zealand about twenty-nine or thirty days. The cost of propulsion would, probably, be but very little in excess of what it is now in a 3000 or 4000 ton ship, for there can be no doubt that the experience' of engineers would be equal—what with compound engines and other contrivances—to effecting a considerable saving xtt the cost of fuel. It is needless to say that such a revolution m oceangoing steamships as is here suggested is one that should engage the earnest attention of capitalists and others in ib& colonies, as one which will have an importaßt bearing upon the meat and other industries."