274 NEW TRACKS IN NORTH AMERIOA. 
Eastern States would continue to receive the silks and teas of 
China from us, than that the latter should come to us 
through them. { 
Passenger traffic with Japan and New Zealand ‘ill pro- 
bably be diverted into the new channel :— pe 
Vid Marseilles and Vid New York and 
Bombay. San Francisco. 
London to Yokohama 5 SS MRS eS . 388 days. 
Again, the shortest route to New Zealand is vid Panama; 
but San Francisco is 700 miles nearer New Zealand than ; 
Panama is, and already the line of steamers which did run 
between Panama and New Zealand has been discontinued, , 
and a line from San Francisco established instead. We shall 
be able, in fact, to go from London to Wellington in thats 
seven days, thus :— 
London to New York , : ‘: ; 
New York to San Francisco . : : : * eee 
San Francisco to Wellington . , Qt 
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Our Australian goods traffic will not be affected, and but few 
passengers will incur the increased expense of a long land 
journey by crossing North America. | 
