THE CALIFORNIAN MAIL SERVICE.
The punctuality to their time-table which the Pacific Mail Steamship Company’s four large steamers have achieved while carrying the mails between this colony and San Francisco has again and again been remarked. Two of the steamers (the Australia and the Zealandia) are British-built, while American skill claims the City of Sydney and the City of New York, It may be that a wholesome degree of rivalry between tho boats exists from this circumstance, but, whether that be so or not, the performances of each steamer since the service was established have throughout been splendid, and the American builders might almost be excused should they give way to a little enthusiasm over the following reportAverage duration of each steamer’s round trip passage from San Francisco to Sydney and back, taken for throe years—Zealandia, 1301 hours ; City of New York, 1313 hours ; Australia, 1321 hours ; City of Sydney, 1353 hours. There is just a little in these figures in favour of the British article, but, then, our American cousins are little more than beginners in the art of iron ship-building.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2094, 9 November 1880, Page 3
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182THE CALIFORNIAN MAIL SERVICE. Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2094, 9 November 1880, Page 3
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