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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 475, 2 May 1867, Page 2

New Aheavoesievts of the Panama. CoitPAXY.—We understand that by the last mail from England, Captain Benson has received information from the directors of the P.N Z. & A.R.M. Company (hat arrangements had been made for the booking passengers through from Panama to New York ; and that instructions hare been issued by Captain Besnon to the various agents of the Company in these colonics to grant through tickets to persons desirous of proceeding to New York, suelx tickets being now obtainable of the Napier agents, Routledge, Kennedy and Co. No doubt this new arrangement will prove a great additional inducement to colonists visiting the mother country, to use this 'iuo in preference to the Suez route, so as to pay a visit to the United Slates. Steamers leave New York for Liverpool regularly three times a week, and very moderate fares are charged by the American steamers. It has also been decided by the directors of the Royal West India Mail Company that in tu:ure the transshipment from the main line to the Intercolonial steamers shall take place at one of the Virgin Islands named soma distance to the north ot St. X’homas, where there is a good harbour, and it is a very healthy place. Thus, passengers from New Zealand will not be tasen to St. Thomas at all, nor will they go on board any vessel going to or from that place. This arrangement has been made, we have been informed, io prevent the possibility of any communication with St. Thomas, where at present there is an epidemic-