ABSTRACT OF THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 
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parts of the world, and the transport thereby, it will be 
interesting to compare the different routes, and point out the 
advantages of each, and the probable effect they will have upon 
the passenger and goods traffic passing to and from our country, 
China and Japan, and our colonies in Australia. 
With regard to India, including the Straits Settlements, neither 
the new route by Panama, nor that by the Canadian-Pacific Kail- 
way, can compete with the old routes by the Cape or Suez \ for 
taking Singapore as the limit, the distance to that place by way 
of Panama is 15,000 miles, and by the Canadian-Pacific Railway 
13,400; or if the distance across the Dominion of Canada is 
halved, as the speed would be double that by steamship, 11,500 — 
in comparison with 11,500 miles by the Cape, and by the Suez 
Canal 8000 via Gibraltar, or 6500 via Brindisi. 
In the following statement of distances to various places in the 
East, fractions of fifties are not taken, and the distance by rail over 
the Canadian-Pacific Eailway is, as above explained, halved, and 
made to count as 1825 miles instead of its real distance of 3650. 
Hongkong. — The Panama route is 1800 miles further than by 
the Cape, 6800 miles further than by Brindisi, and 4600 further 
than by the Canadian-Pacific Railway. 
SJianghai. — The Panama route is 700 miles further than by the 
Cape, 3650 miles further than by Brindisi, and 4900 miles further 
than by the Canadian-Pacific Railway. 
Yokohama. — The Panama route is 1100 miles nearer than by 
the Cape, 3900 and 4800 miles further than by Brindisi and 
the Canadian-Pacific Railway. 
Australia. — Sydney by Panama route is 100 miles more than 
by the Cape, 2450 miles more than by Brindisi, 450 miles more 
than by the Canadian-Pacific -Railway, but 350 miles less than by 
Cape Horn. 
The distance to and from Melbourne would give an additional 
advantage of 1000 miles to the Cape and Brindisi routes, thus 
making the former 1100 miles nearer (with the further advantage 
of no dues to pay) and the latter 3500 miles nearer. It would 
even be an advantage for cargo boats to come in the proper season 
by Cape Horn, as it is only 350 miles further, and would avoid 
canal dues. Passenger boats might take the Panama route instead 
of risking the deadly climate of the Red Sea in the northern 
summer. 
