Isles of the East : an illustrated guide : Australia, New Guinea, Java, Sumatra . General View, Genoa. engaged and arrangements made for various tours. Passengers wishingto return overland by rail may avail themselves of the first and secondclass through carriages of the Nederland-Algiers express runningbetween Genoa and Amsterdam via Milan, St. Gothard, Basle andCologne or the fast train service via Marseilles and Paris, or via Switzer-land and Paris to London. From Genoa the Nederland Line proceeds, as mentioned above, viathe Suez Canal, Colombo, Sabang and wSingapore to Batavia, whilst theR
Isles of the East : an illustrated guide : Australia, New Guinea, Java, Sumatra . General View, Genoa. engaged and arrangements made for various tours. Passengers wishingto return overland by rail may avail themselves of the first and secondclass through carriages of the Nederland-Algiers express runningbetween Genoa and Amsterdam via Milan, St. Gothard, Basle andCologne or the fast train service via Marseilles and Paris, or via Switzer-land and Paris to London. From Genoa the Nederland Line proceeds, as mentioned above, viathe Suez Canal, Colombo, Sabang and wSingapore to Batavia, whilst theRotterdam Lloyd touches, after leaving Marseilles, likewise Colombo A Botterdam-Lloyd Passengers for England are landed at Rotterdam, and aregranted a free passage to London by Hook of Holland or Flush-ing routes. Return tickets available for two -years are interchangeablewith both companies. The shipping facilities offered by the above-mentioned two. lines,combined with the efforts in the same direction by the KoninklijkePaketvaart Maatschappij have naturally produced most beneficent resultsas far as the commercial community of these Islands is is particularly noticeable in the principal cities where fine bankmgand insurance houses, high class stores and hotels have sprung up, andare keeping step with the increasing demands which education, refine-ment and accumulated wealth are making. THE RAILWAYS OF JAVA. A few words concerning the railway systems of Java and Sumatramay be apropos and interesting. In 1863 a com-pany called t h €N ederlandschIndische SpoorwegMaatschappijwas formed for thepurpose of layingdown and workinga
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