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Galway – 1850

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The Adelaide Times, Saturday May 11, 1850 p.8
Mr Thomas Birmingham, writing to Mr. J. Grattan, from London says:-
I have accidentally discovered since my arrival here, that influential parties are projecting the purchase of the town of Galway, the entire town, nothing else will satisfy them, at a fair price, and then to establish the packet station for steamers &c. I cannot doubt my authority for this information, though undoubtedly this is a most desirable project to have realised; but would it not be advisable for Government and the representatives of Connaught to enable the proprietors of land and other property, in and about Galway, to estimate the prospective value of their properties before they are called upon to part with them, by declaring at once Galway a packet and commercial station? Then they could, with some degree of certainty, place a value on that property somewhere near the mark. I can hardly think this circumstance occasioned the failure of the meeting at Ballinasloe; but, at all events, it is high time that the public should know a little of what is going on here rather ‘sub-rosa’.

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Galway for sale – 1850

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The Adelaide Times, Saturday May 11, 1850 p.8
Mr Thomas Birmingham, writing to Mr. J. Grattan, from London says:-
I have accidentally discovered since my arrival here, that influential parties are projecting the purchase of the town of Galway, the entire town, nothing else will satisfy them, at a fair price, and then to establish the packet station for steamers &c. I cannot doubt my authority for this information, though undoubtedly this is a most desirable project to have realised; but would it not be advisable for Government and the representatives of Connaught to enable the proprietors of land and other property, in and about Galway, to estimate the prospective value of their properties before they are called upon to part with them, by declaring at once Galway a packet and commercial station? Then they could, with some degree of certainty, place a value on that property somewhere near the mark. I can hardly think this circumstance occasioned the failure of the meeting at Ballinasloe; but, at all events, it is high time that the public should know a little of what is going on here rather ‘sub-rosa’.

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The new Galway Steamers – 1860

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The Connaught 1900 Postcard
The Connaught 1900
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THE GRAND HAVEN NEWS 16TH MAY 1860 P1

THE NEW GALWAY STEAMERS – STILL MORE RAPID COMMUNICATION WITH EUROPE

The steamship Connaught, the first of the four new Galway steamers to be called after the four provinces of Ireland, was to have been launched yesterday, and will probably be soon on her way to this continent.  The company has entered into a contract with the government binding themselves to convey mails and telegraphic dispatches to and fro between Galway and St. Johns respectively, in six days by the steamers of this line.

 

This is certainly a bold stipulation.  It is quite an American idea, and if carried out will bring the two continents into closer communication than they ever were before.  The distance between the two ports is about 1,650 miles, and if it is made in 144 hours, these vessels must run at a uniform speed in all weathers of nearly twelve miles an house.  it is said, however, that they will be able to run twenty miles an hour if required.

 

If they fulfill the terms of the contract, nothing can beat this rapidity of communication except Wise’s balloon or the Atlantic telegraph.

(N.Y. Herald, May 23)