ANOTHER ROUTE TO NEW ZEALAND.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 39, 10 September 1887, Page 2

ANOTHER ROUTE TO NEW ZEALAND.

New Zealand used to be considered the most unaccessible of all Great Britain's Colonies, but the contrary is being rapidly brought about. Before even the great Trans-Continental • Canadian line was finished to Vancouver from Montreal, negotiations were put en train by the enterprising Dominion Government for the starting of a new Pacific mail line to the colonies, and although there are still many difficulties to be surmounted there is every reason to believe that Within a year the ’Frisco mail route will be superseded and a splendid line of new and powerful boats will bring on the European mails from Vancouver to Auckland and Sydney. The mails will then be Carried under the British flag from Liverpool to the colonies and the starting of an important and valuable Interchange of Australasiaii and Canadian commodities become possible. The Panama route is now a little in the background owing to the great delays and disappointments which are retarding the completion of DeLessep’s pet project, a Completion which many at Home and in America are commencing to doubt ever taking place, but although the Panama route is still one of the things that are to be and may be not, a third and extremely important route is on the verge of being opened. The railway mania has spread to South America and by the joint operations of the Argentine and Chilian Governments an iron road will run from Buenos Ayres on the Atlantic across the fertile plains of La Plata, surmount the lofty range of the Andes and link East and West together by its termination at the Chilian port of Valparaiso. This route will bring New Zealand and Australia nearer to the Old Country by thousands of miles. American enterprise and capital will provide another line of steamers and the ’Frisco and Canadian routes have a powerful competitor. The new line will open in December next so that next year should see a perfect revolution in the means of communication between Great Britain and her antipodean possessions.