OCEAN GREYHOUNDS

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 8964, 1 November 1907, Page 2

OCEAN GREYHOUNDS

A Faster Service.

(Press Association—Copyright). | Melbourne, October 31.

Sir James Mills, on being interviewed , said that during his recent visit to tho Old Country he had endeavoured to have a faster steam service instituted between England aud Australia via Canada aud New Zealand. There was every prospect of his efforts being successful and the time for a through, passage from England to Sydney' being reduced to 26 or 28 days. A scheme was being prepared by an English syndicate to lay boforo the Imperial Government for a fast service via the All Rod route, but be was not at liberty to say whether the Union Company was connected with tho syndicate. The idea was to construct a railway across Ireland to Blacksod Bay in County Mayo, tho other Irish I terminal point would connect by a I steamer ferry transporting bodily I the train and" passengers to a poiu” in Scotland. Tho steamers would run from Blacksod Bay to Halifax, thence by fast improved railway service to Vancouver. From Vancouver a j faster typo ot steamers than at ! present employed would run to Ans- ! tralia.

If the service was to bo continued as at present tho Union Co. were having four now steamers built. One would bo of the Marauui typo, but ouo thousand tons larger.