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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XX, Issue X, 5 March 1898, Page 298

Stamp collectors must, says the ‘Sketch,’ look alive if they want to profit by the Graeco - Turkish War. During the occupation of Thessaly a special set of stamps has been issued, and, as it seems likely that the Turks may soon have to withdraw, these stamps ought to be worth collecting and keeping. Australia claims the largest automobile carriage ever constructed for actual service. The car utilises seventy-five horse-power. The car travels from Coolgardie to the coast for the transportation of merchandise of the mines. Besides the load on the car itself, it drags two ‘trailers’ over a distance of 400 miles. A railroad was too expensive a luxury to indulge in in that country, and so the idea of the big motor was conceived. So scarce is water along the route travelled that the steam is not exhausted into air, but saved, reconverted into water, and thus used over and over again.