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Page 73
... Strahan , no less than 59 hours after leaving Melbourne . The Australia left Hobart on the Monday evening , sheltered in Port Davey , steamed into the same gale that endangered the Grafton , and slipped back to Hobart after a 48 - hour ...
... Strahan , no less than 59 hours after leaving Melbourne . The Australia left Hobart on the Monday evening , sheltered in Port Davey , steamed into the same gale that endangered the Grafton , and slipped back to Hobart after a 48 - hour ...
Page 116
... Strahan's imports , but the Emu Bay railway was the chief enemy . It captured most of the passenger traffic and much of Zeehan's freight , and its trucks of coke and coal often passed the very wharves of Strahan on their 138 mile ...
... Strahan's imports , but the Emu Bay railway was the chief enemy . It captured most of the passenger traffic and much of Zeehan's freight , and its trucks of coke and coal often passed the very wharves of Strahan on their 138 mile ...
Page 166
... Strahan was ninth , and Waratah was eleventh . Thus four of the eleven largest towns and cities were western mining towns , while another two - Burnie and Strahan- were the ports of these towns . The Mt. Lyell field was probably most ...
... Strahan was ninth , and Waratah was eleventh . Thus four of the eleven largest towns and cities were western mining towns , while another two - Burnie and Strahan- were the ports of these towns . The Mt. Lyell field was probably most ...
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