TO LONDON BY SAN FRANCISCO.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2111, 10 February 1870, Page 2

TO LONDON BY SAN FRANCISCO.

The New South Wales Government received the following highly-impor-tant letter by the last mail from England : “ Rectory House, Martin’s-lane, Can non street, London, E.C., 3rd December, 1869.—T0 the Don, the Chief Secretary of State for New South Wales.—Honorable Sir—We have the honor to inform you that a committee of English and Australian gentlemen, having been formed in the mouth of September last, with the object of establishing a new, cheap, rapid, and improved route between Europe and Australia through America in less than 10 days, effecting a saving of 20 per cent, in time and 10 per cent, in money, have now concluded arrangements for the intended service by means of of a line of steamers from Milford Haven to Portland, and another line in correspondence from San Francisco to Sydney, by a company to be styled the Atlantic and Pacific Mail ' Steamship Corporation, which company will be prepared to submit to you a tender for carrying the mails between Europe, the United States, and New South Wales, on the following terms;—-Ist, The service to be performed in first-class steamships, specially adapted to meet the wants of the Colony, averaging a tonnage of from 2500 to 3500 each, and capable of accommodating 150 lirst-class and 75

second-class passengers. 2nd. Every outward and homeward voyage to be performed within a period of forty days to Sydney. 3rd. Premiums and penalties to bo on a basis of I/>0 per diene 4th. Security for the due fulfilment of the contract to bo given to the satisfaction of your Government. sth. The subsidy to bo paid to the corporation for the transmission of the mails to be fixed at LIOOO per voyage out, and a like sura per home. Gth. The contract to be for ten years. It is also important you should be informed that the corporation will undertake the conveyance of passengers from London and the chief cities and towns of England to Sydnc} at the unprecedentedly low through rates of LGO first-class and L3O second-class, including rail, provisions, and other charges ; the journey through America being at its widest part, and therefore the most healthy, quickest, and cheapest hitherto proposed. It being considered by the committee of the utmost importance that every practical facility should be afforded by your Government to the speedy conclusion of the present negotiation, we to urge on your attention the propriety of nominating some representative in London on your behalf, with full power to treat and conclude with the corporation. —We have, &c., “ (Signed) Cummins & Go.