A GIGANTIC STEAMSHIP PROJECT.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 138, 22 May 1880, Page 3

A GIGANTIC STEAMSHIP PROJECT.

Somo tiino ti-o we drew attention to tin- fuel tliar, the superiority of the trade oi Ureal Britain over lh.it of any other country in the world was due to' its regularity of postal communication • with i !;ei»ii countries, and tin; means which I':,.- sua:;,.:.-. '.•u.n.Wyiriu' the letters and papers afforded laToshiji'oers for the transit ■ ■!' "'nods. It now scums that this ip.ieslioii has been taken up by a far-see-ing senator in the I'niicil States, and that the in.'.tier is tn come under the notice of Congress. ||,. propose? the establishment of mail steamship lines from the principal ports of thn i'nited States to world. Seventeen distinct lines am established, and the am,ami to he paid us compensation for each line it loft blank. The President and I'oslmasjorGeneral are authorised to receive tenders for the scrviee, which is to he as follows: ■—First,: For a weekly mail service between Boston and one or more ports in Great Britain. Second: For a somiwc ikly service between New Vurk and one or more ports in (ileal Britain. Third : For a weekly service between the port of Now York and Havre and Bremen. Fourth: For a semi-monthly service helwren the port of New York and one or more ports of thn Mediterranean. Fifth : For a semi-monthly service between the port of Now York and Buenos Ayrcs, Monte Video and Rio ill.- Janeiro Sixth: For a semi-monthly service lu'twoen New York and San Francisco via l'anama and the port of Valparaiso H'hilii. Seventh : For a weekly service between Philadelphia and one or more port i in (ireat Britain, and one or more ports in France, Germany, and Holland. Eighth: For a weekly service between Baltimore and one or more ports in (ireat Britain, and one or more ports in France, Holland, and in the Baltic Sea. Ninth: For a wiokly service between Charleston (S.C.i. and one or more ports in Great Britain, France, ami Holland. Tenth : For a weekly service between New Orleans and one or more ports in Great Britain, France, and on the Baltic. Eleventh: Fur a trimontllly eei'vieo between New Orleans, via St. Thomas, ami one or more ports in the West India Islands, and the p iris of La < lunyrn, Porto Cabollo, I'.aranipulla, Oartlmjjona, ami Aspinwall, and on the .Spanish Main. Twelfth.: For a tri-inomhly service from New Orleans, touching on outward bound and return trips at. the ports of Galveston, Texas, Tampico, Vera Cruz, t.'iiatzacnnlco.Tobusco, Lacuna,I 'anipcehc. Sisal, and Havana. Thirteenth: For a monthly service between New Orleans Mid tlio ports of Belize, in British Honduras; St. Thomas and Lsalial, in Guatemala, Orriva, l'uorto Cortes, Tl'uxillo, and Hicrona, in Honduras; Huatanc, Htiotan, Uttlla, and Bnnaoeo, in Bay blantls, Fourteenth : Km-a semi-monthly service between San Francisco, via Honolulu, to nno or more ports in China or Japan, and by direct or branch linos with one or more ports in British India. Fifteeentli : For a weekly service between Norfolk, Vn., and one or more ports in Great Britain, France, Germany, ntld on tlio Baltic. Sixteenth : For a weekly service between Jacksonville, Fin., mid Iltivnmm, Cuba. Thn ships used itrn to be built in America.—European Mail..