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Show AUSTRALIA PLANS IMMENSE RAILROAD Special Cable to Tho Tribune. MELBOURNE, Australia, April 27. The hiccest thing, next, to the attempt to build in Sydney the remainder ofl her navy, which Australia will undertake under-take this year, is the const ruction of the groat federal transcontinental railway rail-way from l'ort Augusta in southern Australia to Kalgoorlie in western Australia. Aus-tralia. The enterprise will cost at loa 125,000,000, though the official estimates esti-mates are nearly $6,000,000 below that llgiin ; yet tho Labor government is determined de-termined to do the work itself without the intervention of a contractor. British manufacturers of railway ma- terial expect to receive a considerable preference in all iron goods, and mnlt-ers mnlt-ers supplviuo; internal combustion engines en-gines have been given ample opportunities opportun-ities of demonstrating their abilitv to I compete on favorable terms with American Amer-ican enterprises. Tenders are mow being be-ing invited, in London and Australia! onl . for 135,000 tons of steel rail-. About 2000 men will be engaged on i the work, 1000 starting at cad, end. The two parties will meet ill the middle of tho route in a desert and I will have to be supplied with water at enormous coal The gangs will need to be accompanied b camel commissariat commis-sariat corps, and will for many months encounter grave risks. The lino is to ho I ' 7' i miles huig. aud in the opinion of Kincr O'Malley, the labor minister for home affairs, is the longest thai has ov er been undertaken as one job. The treat American lines hae been in most instances built in sections. |