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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 Contract time by the Company's Steamers is as follows :—
Between Southampton and Melbourne Between Brindisi and Melbourne......
54 days 43 ""
but the voyage is generally performed in from three to seven days less.
QUEENSLAND.
Passengers (First Class only) can now be booked at through rates, viâ Singapore and Torres Straits to Queensland. They are conveyed from Singapore by the Steamers of the Eastern and Australian Mail Steam Co. (Limited).
They can also be booked to Sydney by this route.
Fares (from Southampton)
Thursday Island
Townsville
Bowen
£85
87
88
Keppel Bay. Brisbane
Sydney
£89
93
97
From Venice or Brindisi (including Transit through Egypt) £5 less. Tickets for the Homeward Voyage can be obtained from the Agents of the Eastern and Australian Mail Steam Co. (Limited), at the above Ports.
NEW ZEALAND.
Passengers (First Class) are booked to New Zealand at the following rates:- 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 O
From Venice or Brindisi (including Transit through Egypt) £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 te 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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