NEW MAIL ROUTE VIA THE MAGELLAN STRAITS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 58, 11 March 1870, Page 3

NEW MAIL ROUTE VIA THE MAGELLAN STRAITS.

-Wejearnthat projected to ¥uii"a v line* or mail trainers' Otagq ajid via Straits ~of Magellan." The'passage"between CHago and the Straits is- to occupy 15 days while the passage from the Straits to England, calling at the?Kiver Plate, is estimated at 25 days,, thewhole distance; thus being- performed in the short space of 40 . days.; The steamers for this route frfom'Ota&o will b -5 of 2000, tons Register, and will meet the western; South American steamers of 300$ tons 1 iregiMer. in the Straits, where, at a coal depot already transhipped.; The3Qo0 r : ton steamers now on the line ..from. Valparaiso to Liverpool ;malv& the; passage on an:• &&&" rage in 29 ;days;*.' ■la route were adopted and : subsidised by,-the .Austra-' lian and Zealand' prov crnmen ts sve' see no reason why the line should not pay well. Of course the time occupied on the returii days longer." lii 'consequence of the prevailing westerly winds, ; the steamers to stretch away ' nortK to : about lat. 30 south,'' where favorable weather may u be'm'etf\Yith: ; 1 W6 believe that Capt. Duncan, of Port Chalmers, has ,]?eeii> offered the, .coinmand of the first steamer of the projected line, and that Captain Thomson, of the 7 William Cargill, now -lying at Wellington, has been :offered the 'charge bf. , the second vessel.—'Times/ \