THE CANADIAN-PACIFIC LINE.

Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 26, 2 February 1888, Page 2

THE CANADIAN-PACIFIC LINE.

Mr. Owen Jones, who arrived hero by the Aorangi as the representative of the CanadianPacific Railway Company, is an old New Zealand settler. He was an Auckland contractor, and with his partner, Mr. Ware, built the Lyttelton and Auokland docks, as well as carrying out railway and other large works. Having realised an independence, Mr. Jones some few years ago _ returned Home, and has since spent his time there and in America. His present mission is to endeavour to get this and the Australian Governments to unite in establishing a mail Bervice to Vancouver's Island, connecting with the Canadian-Pacifio Railway, and also in establishing telegraphio cable commumcationbythesameronte. Mr. Jones has already seen Ministers here on the Bubject, but it has been deemed desirable to pobtpone consideration of the matter until Sir William Fitzherbert returns from the Postal Conference in Sydney. He will then, of course, bo perfectly familiar with the views of the other colonies regarding the Canadian-Pacifio mail line and tho Pacific cable question. Sir William Fitzherbert has also personally travelled over the Canadian- Pacific Railway, and is well acquainted with all the facts concerning that ronte. Pending Sir William Fitzherbert's return, Mr. Owen Jones has gone South for a few days. He claims, we believe, that four days may be saved in tho transit of mails, by the adoption of the Canadian in preference to the San Francisco route, and that tho former, unlike the latter, is not liable to interruption in winter by heavy accumulations of snow. As soon as Sir William Fitzherbert returns, the Cabinet will discuss the matter with him and Mr. Jones.