ANOTHER ATLANTIC ROUTE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 53, 2 March 1907, Page 5

ANOTHER ATLANTIC ROUTE.

New Fort for Ireland. ST. JOHN'S, March 1. Sir Robert Bond, Premier of Newfoundland, in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, proposed a resolution approving of the Government's entering into a contract with Messrs. Mens Brothers, of London and Paris, for a weekly 17-knot service between Killary Bay, on the west coast of Ireland, and Green Bay, Newfoundland. He explained that the mails landed at Green Bay would go by a two-hour journey across Newfoundland, whence 20-knofc steamers would tnke them to railhead, at Gaspe, Quebec The scheme, he said, also offers an alternative tmmel under the Strait of Bell isle to link up the proposed railway along the Labrador coast. By either route there would be a saving of 32 hours over the other Atlantic routes. Newfoundland, under the contract, is to pay a subsidy of 75,000 dollars a year for 25 years, and subsidies also are expected from Canada, the United States, and Great Britain. t Killary Harbour is a bay on the Atlantic coast of Ireland forming the westernmost boundary between Mayo and Galway. At present it does not appear to be connected with the Irish railway system, but the railway running to Clifden in Galway is not more than 12 or 13 miles distant at its nearest. It is also becoming a common thing in the United Kingdom to make a new port for a specific purpose, as shown in the Great Western Railway's new route between Fishguard in Wales arid Rosslare on the coast of Wesford. Both of these two now flourishing ports were two years ago little more than peaceful villages.]