Extract from "New Zealand Official Handbook."

"To show the great regularity with which these steamers make their passages the Company recently compiled a series of results showing that the five steamers have completed 73 voyages round the world, the longest average passage being—homeward, 40 days 1 hour, and he shortest 39 days 2 hours; and outward, longest, 43 days 4 hours, shortest 41 days 20 hours; and all these 73 voyages were performed without any loss of life.