. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. JUST ARRITED IX PORT. four weeks between S^^lney and Bremen, its Australian ports being Syd-ney, Melbourne, and Adelaide; the Messageries Maritimes—French mail-hne—has a similar four-weekly service each way between Sydney, Mel-bourne, Adelaide, and Marseilles. Then there is a four-weekly serviceeach way of the British India Steam Navigation Compan
. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. JUST ARRITED IX PORT. four weeks between S^^lney and Bremen, its Australian ports being Syd-ney, Melbourne, and Adelaide; the Messageries Maritimes—French mail-hne—has a similar four-weekly service each way between Sydney, Mel-bourne, Adelaide, and Marseilles. Then there is a four-weekly serviceeach way of the British India Steam Navigation Company, betweenBrisbane and Aden, connecting at Aden with the same companys line,to and from London, and touching at Batavia, Java, on everv New Zealand Shipping Company and the Shaw Savill Sc AlbionCompany have each a four-weekly service from London to New Zea-land by way of the Cape of Good Hope and Hobart, Tasmania, and STEAMSHIP LINES TO AND FROM AUSTRALIA. 313. r^ SHIP-YARD SCENE. their steamers return to Londonby way of the Strait of Magellan,Eio Janeiro, and the Canary Isl-ands. Last, but by no means least,is the four-weeldy service each waybetween Sydney and San Francisco, which has been already mentioned. All these steamship lines receive subsidies from the colonial govern-ments, and all, witli the exception of the American one, receive subsi-dies from their homo governments. It is a curious circumstance, and ahumiliating one, to Americans in Australia or having relations witli theantipodes, that the American line between San Francisco and Australiais subsidized by the colonies, but receives nothmg from the UnitedStates, under whose flag it sails. Our commerce with Austraha andISew Zealand now exceeds twelve millions of dollars annually, andcould be greatly increased by the encouragement of regular and perma-nent steam communication with the colonies. An officer of one of the steamers running to San Francisco spoketo us. and remarked tha
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