ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 167, 15 July 1907, Page 2

ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES.

iFrom Our Special ll CorresponaentO

LONDON, June 7.

A NEW SA3T FEAKCISCO MAIL SERVICE.

It is announced that Messrs. Andrew Weir and Co., a firm of shipowners with offices in London and Glasgow, are about to start a new mail steamship service between San Francisco and Australasia to lake the place of the American Oceanic line, which recently ceased operations in consequence of the failure of Congress to pass the Ship Subsidy BilL The service will start in August. The sailings will be monthly, and, to enable mails to be despatched twice a month, the present route via Vancouver will also be employed. By the new route the boats, says a Eeuter message from New York, will take only 30 days to Sydney. I called at the London office of Messrs. Andrew Weir and Go. to obtain further particulars about the new service, but in the a-bsence of the head of the firm, who is himself dealing with the matter, and who will be away from London till the end of the month, no one at the office was able to supply definite information. 1 gathered that the new service will be between San Francisco, Auckland, and Sydney, "with liberty to call at Apia and other ports," and the company's own eteamer3 will be employed. Some of these boats are already known in Australian ■waters, and one at least of them, the Aymeric, has been to J\ew Zealand. The following time-table shows the sailings from San Francisco, the vessels employed, and their gross tonnage; —

Steam- Gross Register Sailing from San ship. tous. Francisco.

Foreric 3387 10th August, 1907 Tymeric 5314 10ti Sept., 1907 Yeddo 4563 10th Oct_ 1907 Oceano 4367 9th Nov., 1907 Aymeric 4363 lOtn Dec, 1907 Elleric 3370 10th Jan. 190S