ILLUSTRATED ODDS AND ENDS.
Just think of being able to reach Canada from England in three and ahalf days, says the Sphere, from which the accompanying sketch is taken. Yet that is the purport of the Bill which has
been lodged in Parliament for the construction of a railway through the North of Ireland to Blacksod Bay, from which turbine steamers will whisk travellers through to Halifax. London mails would
then be delivered in Montreal within five days, Japan could be reached in 17 days, Hongkong in 22, and Sydney, New South Wales, in 26 days. An alternative route has been suggested from Ireland to St. John's (Newfoundland). From that port
the mails would go across the island by rail to Bay of Islands (80 miles); thence across the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Gaspe on the mainland (275 miles). Neither of these routes must be confused with the Tehuantepec (Mexican) route.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13494, 22 May 1907, Page 9
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