WHAT THE "CANADIAN-PACIFIC" HAS DONE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 12001, 19 October 1906, Page 4

WHAT THE "CANADIAN-PACIFIC" HAS DONE.

The Canadian Pacific Railway has ju&t started a train known as the "Overseas, Limited," which makes the run across tho continent from Quebec to Vancouver in 96 hours. The object, is to rush the mails to the Far East. Speaking of the remarkable growth of the C.P.R., Mr George H. Ham, its special agent, whoj went to Vancouver on the first trip of the "Overseas, Limited," said: — "The prediction of 20 years ago that the CanadianPacific would make for a united Canada, as well as for the greater unity of the Eimpire, has been amply fulfilled. The company, with 12,000 miles of line, is now, in more ways than one, the backbone of the Dominion. Its ships on both oceans the other day carried the Canadian flag around the world. Its telegraph lines span this continent, and do business with Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. It conveys British troops from England across Nortli America to India and China. It has done more than any other single agency to develop the Northwest, which is supplying Britain with comfortable homes. Its great financial success has improved the public credit of Canada. It* energies have made her a powerful young nation where before she waft v mere collection of provinces

without a common aim ov a common patviotisin. All this, and more, has been accomplished by tho Canadian-Pacific in a quarter of a century which, in the life oi a communitj, is hut ah the twinkling of an eye. In the gre.it future that lies before us. and in the greater consolidation of the Empire, upon which the mmd of the English race is set, the CanadianPacific is destined to play a htill more conspicuous part. Its latest achievement in the direction of binding England and her oversea pos-^ssions ir.ore closely together is the transporation of the China mail from Liverpool by one of her Canadian-Pacific steamships to Quehec, thence by a special train across to Vancouver, and from there by another Canadian-Pacific steamship to Hongkong, the total distance of 13,000 miles to be traversed in 30 days, 10 days less than the time consumed by the Suez route."