New Competitor for the San Francisco Mail Route.
From advices from Sydney, we learn that there is every probability of the White Star line entering the field as competitors for the next contract for carrying the mails via San Francisco. Should this be true, the company would be well able to carry out their contract, having in their possession a fleet of steamers which may be said to be second to none in the world. The White Star line have already extended their business to the Pacific Ocean, having three of their steamers (the Oceanic, Germanic, and another) engaged in the trade between China and San Fran* cisco. Each of the boats named are of over 4000 tons, and are in every respect splendid specimens of naval architecture, besides being of great speed. This line could well carry -on tbe service as they have their main line of vessels running between New York and Liverpool, and it is their vessels that are renowned for some of the fastest passages on record between the two places named. The Pacific Mail Company if this report be true will have a most powerful rival in the White Star line, a Company which has such great resources of capital and vessels.—Herald.
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4369, 4 January 1883, Page 2
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207New Competitor for the San Francisco Mail Route. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4369, 4 January 1883, Page 2
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