SAN FRANCISCO.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2248, 21 July 1870, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO.

We have to acknowledge the receipt by the last mail of files of the Sau Francisco Newt of the World, a paper which owes its origin to the estab'ishment of the new route, it is a capitally got up paper, and besides containing a large amount of useful and interesting matter concerning the United States, is well supplied with the latest foreign intelligence. The proprietors’ arrangements, when completed, will have the effect of making ita thoroughly useful paper to colonists. We cull the following from it: — The passengers of the Wonga Wonga, as they passed through Chicago and New York, excited much interest. The press welcomed those pioneers of an Australasian trade, and a favorable impression was made upon Congress in favor of the steamship subsidy bill now before it.

It is certain that ere long we shall have two more railroads acrosfc the American con- *

tiuent. Congress has adopted a bill to donate a large land grant to a company which proposes to construct a railway from the Atlantic to Puget Sound, on the Pacific coast. This road will be proceeded with forthwith. Another line is to be made from San Francisco, running in a more southerly direction than that which the present overland line pursues. The Legislature recently empowered the City of San Francisco by a popular vote to donate bonds to the value of 1,000,000 dols. to a company to construct the “Southern Pacific Railroad.” The vote was cast on Tuesday last, and tamed solely upon the employment of Chinese labor. It was thought the Company did not explicitly enough pledge themselves not to employ Chinamen, and hence “a cry” was raised hy the working men. The result was, to the surprise of everybody, a small majority of 124 against the subsidy.

W. Gray, Esq., who came out on tb* Wonga Wonga as Mail Agent, representing New Zealand, has since his arrival here been to Washington and back, and returns to Auckland by the outgoing steamer. He had no difficulty in at once completing arrangements for the immediate despatch of the Colonial mails across the continent to England. The Government at Washington expressed themselves as being only too glad to facilitate the matter. Amongst the passenger* who arrived in San Francisco by the first vessel of the new line we notice the name of Capt. Baldwin. This gentleman was selected, we understand, to report upon the various industries of our state for the New Zealand Government, and has been busily engaged in doing so, since his arrival in our midst. The New Zealand Government by the inauguration of this line, and by the anxiety they thus evince to become acquainted with the great resources of California, are deserving of the greatest praise. Captain Baldwin’s report, if thoroughly carried out, ought to be a valuuble document, and that it will receive the careful consideration it merits, we have no doubt, judging at least by his antecedon ts. After August, Mr Hall’s steamers will loavo San Francisco and Sydney every 28 days, so as to connect with and leave Honolulu on every fourth Saturday aiter August 20th, viz., Saturday, September 17th; Saturday, October 15th, &c. This arrangement is made so as to furnish the colonies with a monthly mail conveyance to and from England, alternating with the Peninsular and Oriental monthly line. With the new arrangement, commencing September 10th, the fine side-wheel steamer J. L. Stephens will be laid on between San Francisco and Hono-

lulu, which is capable of performing the trip in seven or eight days, as she is a first-class steamer, formerly on tire Panama route. She will probably leave San Francisco on the oth or 10th of that month, and every 4th week thereafter, so as to make thirteen trios a year. The total expense from Sydney to Liverpool will be L7O 10s, or from Auckland to Liverpool, L7l 10s. Regarding the time through, as soon as arrangements are in complete order and connection perfect, passengers may reach Liverpool in 4G or ,47 days from Sydney.