THROUGH LINE BETWEEN ENGLAND AND THE ISTHMUS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 12, Issue 925, 14 March 1868, Page 4

THROUGH LINE BETWEEN ENGLAND AND THE ISTHMUS.

■■' (From the "Home News.") The announcement that, as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made, the Atlantic vessels of the Eoyal Mail Steam Packet Company will extend their voyages to Colon, will be received with satisfaction by all who are interested in the communication between England and those countries which lie beyond the Isthmus of Panama. The increasing importance of the traffic between this country and the North and South Pacific, Central America, and, though last, not least, New Zealand and the Australian Colonies, calls for a means of communication more suitable to its value than that which has hitherto been provided/ and we rejoice in the prospect of a line of first-class mail steamers running tfirough from Southampton to Colon, by which arrangement the inconvenience so much complained of by passengers of having to change from ship to ship will be avoided, and, embarking at Southampton, they will be able to proceed in the same ship through to Colon, which, as our readers are doubtless aware, is the Atlantic terminus of the Panama Railroad. '.While the arrangements in question will be a great boon for outward passengers, it will, perhaps, be still more advantageous for those who are homeward bound, as, arriving at Colon, they will be able to walk on board the Atlantic steamer which v -will convey them either to Plymouth or Southampton. The arrangement will probably also be found very satisfactory to merchants, as goods for the Isthmus shipped in .England will be conveyed to that locality 'in the ship in which they were originally received, and in the same way goods from the Pacific, &c, received ■r^at Colon, will be delivered in" England without being transhipped from one vessel to another. We have not heard when the through service is expected to be commenced, but we lose no time in drawing the attention of our readers to the decision which has been come to, as we are sure that it is one which will be received with the utmost satisfaction by all who are interested in the communication between this country and the Pacific.