MAILS VIA VANCOUVER.

Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13236, 16 March 1907, Page 2

MAILS VIA VANCOUVER.

MR. J. 11. RACE INTERVIEWED. Vesterday morning's papei-. contained two cablegrams ci.ncerning proposals to impiove' the mail' seivice via. A ancouver 0 A message fiom Melbourne stated that the Federal Postmaster-General favouied the introduction'of faster boats: and that a suggestion had been made that a. subsidy of £IIO.OOO should be provide.!, of which Canada, should pay £bO.OOO. Austialia £20,000; New Zealand £40,000; and it was said that the proposal will be discussed by the Premiers of Canada. Australia, and New Zealand, in London. A me. *>age ; fiom Ottawa stated that 'it was leported tveie'that, the Canadian-Pacific Railway Company intends to place two of i's Orient seivice vessels on a re-oiganised New Zea-land-Australian seivice.' Mr 'J'. H. Race. Canadian Commissioner to the Exhibition, being in Timaru, and as it is well kr.own that lie take.- a very great interest in the question of impioving the tirade and .social lelafions between Canada and New Zealand, a lepresentative of the " Herald" took an opportunity of having a tonvei-sation with him a.', the jailway station, as l* e Commissioner wait*ed for the express 1o journey south yesterday morning. Mr Race had "not yet ■ een the cablegrams, as l.e had been out for a drive (in the lain) to have .i look over the back country of Timani, and in spile of the; unfavourable conditioi:. l - under which he saw it, he was most, favourably impressed by if, both scenic-ally and iridustrially —''. i splendid piece of'country." he considered it.

On his attention being dtawn to til-e Oihwa ine siige, Mr ]?,»ce showed that he had beo behind >(he scene-. "We have been looking for that. We knew ih.it the Canadian Pacific were ready to drop in a« soon .is they saw a chance, and the failuie of the Ameiican Oceanic Com pany piovide-, the chance Tie Giand Trusk Pacific line is approaching completion, itnd it'lias been suggested that Mi J' (t. Hill, tiie gieate-,1 ot Ameiiean i.n! way magnates. was having an eye upon the South Pacific. The Oanadi.in-i'acihc have been watching .ill the-e movements, leady to drop in when they thought t.e time oppoitune. 'J liey have aliendy established a k9 day -sei vice between Hong-Kong and ljondon, with two or thiee magniticent ■,teameis thai they have put on (he i .uriio; and (hey .11 e likely now to compete in the Southern Pacific. If they do enter mio t'-is he'd, they aie eitain to push (lie tiafiic for all it k woii'ii. 'J he Can.tdianPacilic is oi'e ot the l.ugei-t and best 01ganised institutions ia Ameiica. lhe two sleameis mentioned in the dispatch would not suiiice, of couise. but they would be followed bv others

Theie lme been nego.iations going on quieth, sud llace e\ei mix e we (.inie down and these will be completed m London, when Su Joseph W'rfid meets Sn Wilfrid 1 .uiiiei Su Joseph W.u'd letuins by way of Cm id i and the lesult of then confeience ivill pubabU be an nouiiLed .it Ottiwa; —Ol it in iv be an counted sronei from Loudon I know t .it negotiations lie nndei *\wt\, and that tliev .ue bound to di iw to a satisfactoiy con elusion "

'You mentioned Rite, ( the new line, Giand Trunk Picihc Hin that line any ncUantiges foi iii o\er (he C.iradim Pacihs" ( "Xone at all It dfe-' not entei into Urn question Jhe fiia.nd 'lmrk line i« to open up two million acies of new conn tiy in the noitii west, and its Pacific teinnnus is at Pniue "liupeit. I,olth of Vancomei " /

' Is theie nny piospect of tiade Letveen Xeu Zeiland aid tanula to inppoit a mai 1 liae''"

" Veiy much *bsilei pio-pecls than 1 Mj Rice "I find that e uemanj things anticipated befue'l' came liPie,' " lepheil th.it we can evchange ad\.intageonsiy Me h.ue demonstiatefl. in nu coi'tubution to (he Chmtihiiri'h Exhibition, that Canadian apple.-* can be landed heie in splendid condition, and sold at one third, or at all events one half, the puces that Califorman apples .rune' been sold at lntheito And Canadian apple., aie unquestionably *upei 101 m qualitr to C'alifnini in Om is shoiter, dex eminent nioie Lipid. giMiig •i finer textiue. finei quahtj and co'oui. In ietuin we could take «ome of jour mutton and buttei : we alieady take jour gum und flax, and could lake more. "It is impoitant to note l-.it tiade follows the mails ' Establish a mail loute anjwheie. and men's minds follow that route Con c equentlj it was difficult foi >Cew Zeilanden. to think of doing business with Vincoinei, while then mills went thiough San Fianeisco Establish a dnect mail to Vincoiuei, and tiade will suiely follow it " ' Mi Race lepealed his assmance that negotiations ha\e lieen in baud and aie well adi.triced foi a mail seivice \i.i Can ada, but thmigji he hinted that he knew i omethmg of then natme he declined to gi\e any infoinnlion on that point; that must be left" to tlie outcome and the announcement to be made by the colonial Mmisteis who have the mattei in h'nd