Repairs to Gininderra Roads. Letter From the Works Department
Goulburn Herald · Monday 1 January 1894 · page 3
THE following is a reply to a request made by the member for Queanbeyan:—Sir,—with reference to your letter of the 14th October last, urging repairs to the road leading from…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 January 1894 · page 3
The returns of Monday's railway traffic show that while the actual number of passengers was greater than on the same day of 1893, the receipts were less. This diminution of the latter is…
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Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 3 January 1894 · page 3
A MAN named Benjamin, Wooden, seventy-five years of age, was run over by the mail train from Sydney to-day at Junee. Death was instantaneous. The head and the limbs were…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 January 1894 · page 2
JUSEE, Wednesday.—A fatal accident occurred at the railway station this morning. Mr. Benjamin Wood[?]e, sen., aged 75, a very old resident of the district, was crossing the line at the northern gates,…
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The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 6 January 1894 · page 2
The municipal council has decided to co-operate with the Manildra Progress Committee in making further representations. to the Railway Commissioners for the reduction of the freight charges…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 January 1894 · page 2
IN another part of to-day's issue we report a fall of 132 points of rain on Thursday night. Another heavy thunderstorm broke over the city last night, accompanied by vivid flashes of lightning and…
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Goulburn Herald · Monday 8 January 1894 · page 2
IN Friday's issue a fall of 132 points of rain on Thursday night was reported. Another heavy storm occurred on Friday night, when eighty-two points of rain were registered…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 January 1894 · page 4
Melbourne, Sunday.—Mary Ryan, an old woman, who had been gathering periwinkles, was knocked down by a shunting engine on Saturday evening at Sandringham and killed,…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 January 1894 · page 2
THE washaway on the Southern line, between Tarago and Goulburn, which took place on Saturday, was made clear at 4 o'clock on Sunday afternoon…
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Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1894 · page 2
CONSIDERABLE damage has been caused on the Yarralumla road owing to the recent heavy rains. Post and wire fencing have been strewn in various parts of the road, and…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 January 1894 · page 4
THE railway returns for the first week in January are £100 better than were the returns for the first week in last year, the receipts for the week having been £65,000. The receipts for December were…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 13 January 1894 · page 2
TENDERS for works on the road between Collecter and Breadalbane, contract 35.94, were opened yesterday, the lowest and successful tenderer being James Msosuley, the amount being £26. The other…
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Goulburn Herald · Monday 15 January 1894 · page 3
MR ROSE, M. P. has been informed that the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds is available for expenditure on the Middle Creek road, and that a contract has been let for the…
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Goulburn Herald · Monday 15 January 1894 · page 2
TENDERS for contract 35-94 on the road between Breadalbane and Collector were considered on Friday. Four tenders had been received, namely—James Macauley, £26; W…
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Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 17 January 1894 · page 3
HOLIDAY excursion tickets will be issued at all railway stations commencing with the day trains leaving terminal stations on Tuesday next, 23rd instant, and there after by all trains…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 January 1894 · page 2
A YOUNG man named Arthur Spence, living in Grafton-street, and employed as a temporary fireman on the railway, sustained a most painful accident and had a narrow escape from a fearful…
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Goulburn Herald · Friday 19 January 1894 · page 2
ON Tuesday last Mr. Rose saw Mr. Lyne, Minister for Works, concerning the practicability of letting lengths of the Crookwell line (if passed by the House) out to small…
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Goulburn Herald · Friday 19 January 1894 · page 2
ARTHUR SPENCE, a young man living in Grafton-street, and employed as a temporary fireman on the railway, sustained a most painful accident and had a narrow escape…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 20 January 1894 · page 2
The Railway Commissioners have accepted the tender of Messrs. Franklin and Finlay for the taking down the engine-sheds at Granville, and re-erecting them at Harden, the price of the contract…
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Goulburn Herald · Monday 22 January 1894 · page 2
EARLY yesterday morning Mr. Walter Baxter. in company with another, was returning to Goulburn in a buggy from Tarago. Whilst passing along the Braidwood road, they saw…
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