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May. ffil. SAILED. 24, Rangitoto, a.a., 419 tons, Mackie, for Melbourne via the South. JKXPECTKD ARRIVALS. Bangatira, 8.8., from the South, this day Ahuriri, from the North, 26th Wellington, s,s., from Napier and Auckland, 27th. Taranaki, s.B.,from the South, 28th Lord Ashley, e.s., from Napier, Taurangn, and Auckland, 3rd June. PBOJEOTED DEPARTURES. Kangatira, s.s., for Napier, 26th Ahuriri, e.s., for the South, 271h Wellington, s.s., for the South, 29th. Taranaki, s.s., for the North, 29th Lord Ashley, a.s., for the South, 4th. The barque Anne Melhuish, hence, arrived in Newcastle on the 10th inst. The b.s. Rangitolo sailed from the wharf yesterday, at 1 p.m., for Lyfilelton, Port Chalmers, the Bluff and Melbourne The " Geoloug Advortisev" states that during the continuance of a terriflc hurricanco in Western Australia one of the rivers rose thirty feet in thirty minutes. Schooners with their crews were swept away, and never afterwards beard of. An event, apparently unimportant, yet posgibly of wide-reaching consequences, is the contract just concluded between the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and the Central PaciQc Sailroad, by which the former agree to abandon their line of Bteamei-6 between Sau Franeiaco and Panama, and to put additional vessels on the route from Sun JFrancisco to Japan, virtually converting the Steamship Company into ft continuation of our Pacific railroads, and forcing the freight and passenger traffic of the East to come across the continent, instead of going round it. The Pennsylvania Central Kailroad Company are at the same time constructing vessels for a transatlantic line of steamers to connect with their railroad, and the Baltimore and Ohio road are contracting in Glasgow for English-built vessels for the same purpose. The expanding power and influence of these great railroad corporations appear to know no limit ; they are not satisfied nvith the control of the land, they now seek the control of the sea as well. In the meantime, the same aggressive, expansive tendency is visible in other financial quarters. American bankers are everywhere competing with old-establiehed English firms for the money business of the -world, and so remarkable has been the increase in the number of American banking houses in London that the owner of a new bank building in Lombard street, London, has thought it worth his while to advertise his " Offices to Let" in the New Tork daily papors. — "Tha Nation," (N.Y.).
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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3208, 25 May 1871, Page 2
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