New Steamer Route.
There is* says a Home paper, a curious report going abroad which certainly wants confirmation. Corarnunio cation with the New World is to be Conducted on entirely new principles. Liverpool and Queenstown are to be superannuated, md Galway is the port of the future. The new route is to be via Newfoundland. Seventy miles of new railway is all that is necessary to be laid, and for it charters have already been obtained. In the narrows by Nova Scotia the carriages will be shunted on to the steamboats — the whole journey between New York and London will be reduced by three, or possibly fonr, days. Business will so prosper that trade will not content itself with less than a daily service of Atlantic liners, and the dis tance from New York to Liverpool may be achieved m five, or even four and ahali days. Engineers and capitalists ate consulting at New York, and m five years Galway will be the port of "Western Europe. The scheme is not entirely a new one. The promise has often been made before. Bigger boats have been. built, greater speed has been attained, but Queenstown has still managed to hold her own.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 37, 9 January 1883, Page 3
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201New Steamer Route. Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 37, 9 January 1883, Page 3
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