THE ALL-RED ROUTE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2623, 22 June 1904, Page 60

THE ALL-RED ROUTE.

The growing poptdarity of the All-Red route is proved by a notification just received from the Vancouver agent by the .Union Steam Ship Company, wherein it is stated that after June 18 there will be two trains run daily from Vancouver to meet the demands for passages made by patrons of the Canadian-Australian line. The morning train will leave Vancouver at 7 o'clock, the afternoon one at 5.30 o'clock. Montreal may now be reached in four days and a-half, Toronto (switch town for Niagara) in a few hours' less tim«?, the run, thence to th& Falls -being a matter of 12 hours.

The men enrolled for the Royal Naval lie serve on the Australian and New Zealand station will be 700—500 seamen and 200

stokers. The limits for age- for enrolment " will be as follows : — For the seaman clase, ,18 to 40; for the stoker class, 21 to 40; ttmd no man will be enrolled whose height as less than sft 3in, or che=t measurement itees than 32in. The men will receive retainers of from £5 to £8 per annum,

an addition to which they will receive drill pay of from 3s 3d to 5s per day, iwhile each man on joining will be supplied .with a uniform suit. A larger number of ships have been launched in 1903 for the German navy than any previous year. In 1897 six ships took the water; in 1898, four; iv 1899, cix; in 1900, seven; in 1901, six; in 1902, five; ,while the number rose to 10 last year — viz., three first-class battleships, on© first-class fcrmoured cruiser,, three third-class cruisers, one gunboat, and two river gunboats. A Wellington 1 message advises that the iTJnion Company are having a new steamer fcujlt at Home for the Wellington-West Coast trade. She will be somewhat larger than the Mapourika and of greater speed. 'As the company were advised that turbines could not be advantageouely employed on a .vessel whose speed will not exceed 14 knots, the new steamer will be flitted with twin-

screw engines of the usual type. An interesting sale of obsolete British jnrarships took place recently at Chatham .dockyard, when the following vessels were idisposed of, at the prices shown: — Belleas'.e, £8600 Duke of Wellington. £8350; 'Algiers, £9350; Edgar. £5100; Hannibal, dB«500; Daphne, £4050; Swallow, £4000;

i»nd Incarus, £3900. j | vAn interesting experiment was recently j jiisuV in Narragansett Bay to determine , .whether the crews of submarine torpedo- j .iboats could escape from them whilst the were- submerged- The submarine j under the command of Lieutenant j Kelfon, was submerged, and two largo dogs , ;,were placed, in the torpsdo firing-tube, one. j •sat "a time. With a wooden wad behind '/them, the dogs were shot into the water, (and. shortly afterwards the - animals rose to (.the surface and swam around as if nothing j 'out of the ordinary had happened. The Nautical "Gazette is responsible for the state- J ment. ' The cargo steamer Anglo-Saxon, from ■ Kew York,- via Australian ports and Auckland, Wellington, and Lytielton, arrived on Friday afternoon, and was berthed at the Victoria wharf. The vessel, which is Vunning: under charter to the American and Australian lin». has about 500 tons of cargo , Soy discharge here. The Anglo-Saxon is a \ Wei screw steamer of 4263 tons gross and ■ tons net register, and is 380.3 ft in ■ (length, 50.2 ft in beam, and 25 6ft in depth ■ >f hold. The propelling machinery con- ; "Wists of- a &et of triple expansion engines of i !'489 horse-power, nominal, and the vessel is J "fitted -with electric light and with up-to- j [Vl&te appliances for working cargo. The tteamer was built in 1902 at Sunderland by &Jessr3 Short Bros., and was engined by picsers G. Clark and Co. She is owned by )tbe Seafield Shipping Company (Limited), i l of London, and is under the command of j I/Captain H. Perry. The voyage of the [.vessel has been uneventful. This is V>f the vessel has been uneventful. This is tier final port of discharge, and after leavlans here sho will eioss the Tasman Sea io ■(Newcastle and load with coal fcr a SouLh • •►American port — probably in Ohili. The j "Anglo-Saxon is faster than tho average j 'cajgo boat, her speed being from 11 to 12 • iknets, in contrast to the ordinary eight or nine knots. . ' . The Shire line steamer Buteshire left the IGeorge street pier, Port Chalmers, on SunUay morning for South African and West of England ports, via the Bluff. A novelty in the shape oi a " tea room ■will ba a feature of the. Union Steam Ship Company's new turbine steamer Loonga-na, j recently launched at Dumbarton, and to b© j employed in the Melbourne-Laimceston ser- ; .vice. The apartment, which is of ample j ■ 'dimensions, k on the main deck, and is i '•intended for the use of passengera who , -prefer a cup of tea or coffee, with bread \ tend butter or cake, to a heavy breakfast in ' the saloon after a tempestuous night. ! It is now possible in the: Mediterranean I feeet to send wireless telegraph messages a jdistanoe of 35 miles without their being in- j Jtereeipted by passing vessels. This result has j /been achieved by "tuning" experiments,; "conducted utfder tho supervision of Captain ' H. B. Jackson, of the Duncan. The Belgian government has put v.-ireless telegraph j on the mail-boats running between ,-Dover and Ostend. This is at the disposal •' |of passengers, the charge being 2d a word for messages to the shore. The following vessels arrived here for the week ended June 19 : — Inxei-cargill, «.s., 123 .■ions; Rose Casey, s.s.. 99; Isabella Antler- I [eon, schooner, 79; Warrimoo, ?.a, 2076; 'Soonya, s.s., 663; Buteshire, s. c ., 5574- ; „Tarawera, s.s., 1269; Anglo-Saxon, .=.«., 2671; Pukaki, s.s., 917; Monowai, s.s., 2153: i ■Waikare, s.s., 1901; — total tonnage, 17,525 tons. The departures were: Corinna, s.s., j 812 tons; Kawona, s.s., 903; Matatua, s.s., ' '6188; Hawke's Bay, s.s., 4583; Whangape, ' 'j5.5., 1901; Invcrcargill, s.s., 123; Ze-alandia, ' e.s., 1763; Rose Casey, s.s., 99; Warrimoo, 'b.s., 2076; Tarawera, s.s., 1269;— total ton- i snage, 19,517 tons. I t The Buteshire took tho following- carffO from Port Chalmers: — For Livprpool : 70vv) ' mutton, 2000 carcases lamb, 11.700 crates rabbits, 21 bales flax. For Glasgow : SOO boxes boned beef, 1550 sacks oats. For Cardiff : 150 crates rabbits. For Bristol : 150 crate? rabbits. For Durban: 750 boxes Dtittor, 50 crates rabbits, 110 cases theeto. 750 sacks bran. For Capetown; 75 boi.c& butter.