STEAM TO AUSTRALIA.
(From the Home News.) The need for more'rapid steam communica- ■ tibn with’the Antipodes has Jong been recognisedj but it seems now actually within reach. The performances of the Lusitania, one of tie 'Pacific Company's line, prove that by utilising the Suez Canal the voyage put and home c ■ i f be very^.appreciably shortened. TheLusitan s brought mails from' Adelaide, via Aden and Gibraltar, ted days leas than the time allowed the P. and O, steamers by contract,' and her mails' forwarded by Blind'd from Suez were ; in London six days quiche* tdan 2 usual. This was only accomplished, •however, by steaming direct from Australia’to Suez, a long ocean voyage which cauno: be performed alj high speed except, by .very high- ' cldss ships; Tlie ; tbrihage 7 rausb be ‘considerable, to provide room for the J supply of coals sufficient ! to last'for forty’days at : least, and maintain'a’speed of upwards’ of 300 miles a day. -The -Pacific -Company’s- magnificent fleet of steamers* built expressly for the long voyage from Liverpool to Callao, is exactly suited for •the purpose. "’ ’ ~ ’
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5277, 22 February 1878, Page 3
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178STEAM TO AUSTRALIA. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5277, 22 February 1878, Page 3
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