Show A Transcontinental Railway Sir John Forrest Is trying to per suado tho Australian parliament to borrow a fow million pounds In order to construct a transcontinental railway rail-way from tho eastern states to western west-ern Australia If this Is dono among other things a new sportsman s paradise para-dise may bo opened up According to a government ofllcer who has boon examining ex-amining this largely unknown country coun-try It abounds In kangaroos emus pheasants and rabbits There will also bo some work for tho ethnologist as tho blacks of this region are said to practice all the old tribal rites some of them horrible |