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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND.
Passengers for Australia and New Zealand leave Southampton every fourth Thursday, Venice every fourth Friday, and Brindisi every fourth Monday.
The Passengers from Southampton proceed through the Suez Canal, and those from Venice and Brindisi are conveyed from Alexandria to Suez by Railway.
At Point de Galle they are transferred to a Steamer which proceeds to Melbourne, calling at King George's Sound and Adelaide (Glenelg). Glenelg is about twenty minutes by rail from Adelaide, and during the stay of the Steamers trains will run at frequent intervals.
One of the Company's Steamers leaves Melbourne for Sydney immediately on arrival of the Packet from Galle.
Passengers for New Zealand are transferred at Melbourne to the Local Steamers carrying the Mails under contract with the Colonies.
The length of passage by the Company's Steamers will, under ordinary circum- stances, be as follows :-
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Between Southampton and Sydney Between Brindisi and Sydney
56 days.
45 "
Arrangements having been made with the Contractors for the Mail Service between Melbourne and New Zealand, the PENINSULar and Oriental Steam Navigation COMPANY are now prepared to issue Through Tickets to Passengers, and to receive CARGO and PARCELS for the following Ports in NEW ZEALAND, vis. :— HOKITIKA, WELLINGTON, NAPIER, TAranaki, WANGANUI, LYTTELTON (Canterbury), THE BLUFF, DUNEDIN (Otago), NELSON, WESTport, Greymouth, TIMARU, and Oamaru.
rates of passage from soUTHAMPTON to neW
ZEALAND.
Port Chalmers (for Dunedin), Greymouth, Hokitika, Bluff,
Harbour (for Invercargill), Lyttelton (for Christ-
church), Nelson, Picton, or Wellington
Auckland, Napier, Taranaki, Wanganui
£98 10
102
From Venice, Ancona or Brindisi, £5 less.
Rates of Freight can be ascertained upon application at the Offices of the Company, 122, Leadenhall Street, E. C., and at 25, Cockspur Street, S.W.
COLOMBO.
Passengers are now booked from Europe to Colombo at the same rates as to Galle. They will be conveyed from Galle to Colombo by the Coach which runs daily between those two places.
BATAVIA & PORTS IN THE DUTCH ARCHIPELAGO.
Arrangements having been made for the conveyance of Passengers from Singapore by the Steamers of the Netherlands India Steam Navigation Company, Through Tickets are issued from Southampton and Brindisi (see page 21).
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