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Identifier: QueenslandRailwayAndTouristsGuide (find matches)
Title: Queensland Railway And Tourists Guide
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Archibald Meston
Subjects: State Library of Queensland Queensland Queensland Railways train travel tourist guide travel
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rrins, Lakes Navigation Co. Sandhurst : Hemmings and Wood, Loridans Build-ings, High Street. Launceston : Walch Bros, and Birchall. Hobart : James Walch and Sons. Christchurch : J. M. Heywood and Co., CathedralSquare. Bluff : J. G. Ward. Dunedin : Keith Ramsay, Vogel Street.Wellington : Charles St. Barbe, 52 Lambton Quay.Lyttelton : J. M. Heywood and Co., Norwich Quay.Invercargill : J. G. Ward, Crescent. Specially appointed by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, Passenger Agents to the Royal BritishCommission, Vienna, 1873; Philadelphia, 1876; Paris, 1878; and Colonial and Indian, 1886. AlsoPassenger Agents by appointment to the Amsterdam International Exhibition, 1883; and theCalcutta International Exhibition, 1883-84. Contractors to the Egyptian Government for theConveyance of Mails, &C, between Lower and Upper Egypt. AGENCIES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL TOWNS OF GREAT BRITAIN,EUROPE, INDIA, AMERICA, &c. CHIEF OFFICE, LUDCATE CIRCUS, LONDON. Brisbane Agents: GORDON; GOTCH 143 QUEEN STREET.
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BRISBANE. 17 low hill known as Teneriffe on the right, both sides of the riverare lined by handsome villas, cosy cottages, and beautiful familyresidences, embowered in gardens and clusters of evergreen trees.Thence along the river, curving sinuously like a huge serpent, onecoil nearly at right angles to another, the steamer rounds the sharpbend of Kangaroo Point, and berths beside the wharves of thecapital city of Queensland, surrounded by every tangible proof ofactive industry and general progress. The visitor by rail, after passing through a series of charming-suburbs, steps out on the platform of the extensive buildings atRoma street, or lands at the Central Station in the centre of thecity. Hansom cabs and jingles will convey him at fixedmoderate charges in any direction. Lines of busses will carry himto all parts of the city and suburbs. Horse tramways with neatcars run from Breakfast Creek to Woolloongabba and the West Endof South Brisbane. He will see around him a busy city wit

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