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  2. March of Destiny: How City Was Hewn from Wilderness.

    ONE hundred years ago the site of Brisbane was a wilderness of tangled forest, from which the fires of a hundred tribes ascended in spiral columns of smoke; in the 'forties and 'fifties it was a sprawling settlement reaching out steadily into the besieging forests, hewing down a wilderness for homes, while ever onward stretched the camp fires of the settlers, east, north, south, and west, and the great waves ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 2,303 words
  3. GROWTH OF THE CITY.

    The first means of crossing the Brisbane River were ferry boats, and these served to meet requirements until 1861 when the need of a bridge was acutely ...

    Article : 379 words
  4. FIRST OF ITS KIND.

    The Grey-street Bridge, though not holding pride of place amongst the great bridges of the world as to length, breadth, weight of stone and metal, or ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 642 words
  5. AUSTRALIA'S FIRST BRIDGE BUILDER.

    David Lennox, Australia's first superintendent of bridges, was paid £120 a year. When he was building the Landsdowne Bridge, at Prospect ...

    Article : 198 words
  6. SALE OF LAND.

    In this issue is a plan of the proposed subdivision of land available for sale arising out of the resumptions necessary for the approaches to the ...

    Article : 91 words
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