THE EMPRESS LINE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 77, 30 March 1908, Page 5

THE EMPRESS LINE.

Taster and More Frequent Service. (Received 8.23 a.m.) : OTTAWA, March 29. The Canadian-Pacific Railway Company is building two new larger and faster vessels for the Atlantic side of the Empress service. The company is also establishing a weekly service, and in the event of the Motherland's renewing the mail contract to the Far East, new vessels will be built for the Pacific. [The Empress line, a three-weekly- service maintained by the Canadian-Pacific Railway, between Vancouver and Japan and China, was established in 1891. A contract has hitherto existed between the British Government and the C.P.R, Co., under which mails are carried from Liverpool in the following time: To Yokohama, 22J days; Shanghai, 27 i days; Hongkong, 29* days. Mails and passengers are carried in "Empress" Atlantic steamers from Liverpool to Quebec where close connection is made with the "Over-Seas, Limited," the fastest long-distance train in the world, which covers the distance between the two oceans in about 8S hours (record, 78 hours). Different vessels of the Empress line, the best of which are 14,500 tons, with a horse-power of 18.000, have broken several trans-Atlantic records.]