The Vancouver Route.
o The Aorangi was to have sailed frot London on March 17 on her ioitii voyage as one of the fleet of 6teamei run by the Canadian-Australian Royt Mail (Steamship line. This service wa inaugurated four years ago by Mr Jamc Huddart, of London, the steamers Mic wera and Warrinioo having been th vessels hitherto engaged. The rout by which tho Aorangi will travel is a follows : — From London to Teneriffe Cape Town, thence to Australia, callin at Albany, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney Lironeeston, Hobart, Brisbane on n New Zealand, calling nc Auckland o Wellington ; theoee to Fiji Islands, call ing at Suva ; thence to Honolulu ; am thence to Canada via Victoria and Van couyer; and thence passengers who tak< a ticket for the " round the world ' journey cross Canada by the fanioir Canadian Pacific Railway, and proceec Home by one of the Atlantic liner? Sinc9 the establishment of this route th< Canadian and Imperial Government! jointly have proposed to give a Bubsid] of nearly a quarter of a million pound: for a line of 20 knot mail steamers t( brng the Auatralian, and also the Japan and Cbina mails, from Quebec to tht United Kingdom.— Dunedin Star.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 235, 7 April 1897, Page 3
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200The Vancouver Route. Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 235, 7 April 1897, Page 3
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