THE "ALL-RED" ROUTE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 1 November 1907, Page 2

THE "ALL-RED" ROUTE.

THE LATEST INFORMATION. interview' wTra'si^'^jS!^ Received Nov.-1, 0.2 a.in. "" Melbourne, October 31. fcir James Mills, in an interview, sail that during his visit he had endeavored to have a faster steam service Instituted between England and Australia, via Canada and New Zealand. There was, he said, every prospect of his efforts being successful, and the time for a through passage from England, to Sydney being reduced to 20 or 28 days, A scheme was being prepared by an English syndicate to lay before the Imperial Government for a fast service via the All Red route. He was not at liberty to say whether the Union Company was connected with the syndicate. The idea was to construct a railway across Ireland to Blackiaod .Bay, In Mayo. The other Irish terminal would connect by a steamer ferry transporting bodily train.and passengers to a point in Scotland. Steamers would run from Blacksod Bay to Halifax, and thence by a fast improved railway service to Vancouver. Prom Vancouver a faster type of steamers than at present employed would run to Australia. If the service was to be continued as at pre. sent, the Union Company were having four steamers built, one of the Marama type, but a thousand tons larger.