A Railway Across the British Channel
Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 January 1899 · page 2
Mons, A. Mottier, of Paris, has conceived a gigantic enterprise which he expects will solve the much-vexed question of transportation between England and the Continent. It is fashioned after…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 January 1899 · page 2
IN the case of the tram accident in Elizabeth-street the jury returned a verdict of accidental death. Deceased had been riding on the footboard of a crowded tram and was…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 January 1899 · page 4
TARALGA, Tuesday.—A surprising escape is reported to have happened to a party visiting the Wombeyan Caves. When one of the buggies containing Mr. J.F. Kershaw and Mr. B. Cox, two…
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Goulburn Herald · Friday 20 January 1899 · page 2
AT yesterday's police court a coach-proprietor was fined for the use of offensive language towards a railway official at Tarago who had reboked him for solicitating passengers for…
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Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 23 January 1899 · page 2
WITH reference to the above, Mr. Affleck has received the following communication from the Department of Public Works:—…
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The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 25 January 1899 · page 4
CONCERNING the commencement of Ned Kelly’s great crimes, we saw in our last that Sergeant Kennedy and Constable Scanlan, utterly ignorant that the bushrangers were…
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Crookwell Gazette · Friday 27 January 1899 · page 2
ATTENTION being dire tod to an obelisk just created at our local post office we have made inquiries and find that the valuable information to the…
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Crookwell Gazette · Friday 27 January 1899 · page 2
TENDERS are called for in this issue for two large deviation contracts, one on road Leighwood to St[?] and the other on road Crookwell to Taralga…
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The Burrowa News · Friday 27 January 1899 · page 1
GEORGE STEPHENSON built railways; Robert, his son built bridges to run them over; for railways have given birth to the most stupendous and…
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The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 28 January 1899 · page 3
In connection with the Murrumburrah Races the Railway Department advertise the issue of Holiday Excursion Tickets from Young to Murrumburrah and Harden, commencing on 31st…
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Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 2
LAST Tuesday afternoon the new bridge which spans the creek in Murrumburrah was thrown opened for traffic, and it proved a great boon to…
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Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 6
I netted a handsome commission out of my first experience, and being naturally enthusiastic, began to indulge in visions of a speedy effluence. For some weeks after my…
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The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 2
IN a recent address at Grenfell Mr. Holman, M. L. A. speaking with reference to the Koorawatha Railway Bill said that they now knew as much as he did about it. Thanks to…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 2
AT the recent conference of Railway Commissioners of the various colonies the question of the unused halves of intercolonial return tickets was considered. It was decided that in case where…
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Goulburn Herald · Monday 6 February 1899 · page 3
THAT part of the Goulburn.Wombeyan road between Richlands and the caves has long been a great obstruction to traffic because of the steep grades and generally bad location of…
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Goulburn Herald · Monday 6 February 1899 · page 3
At the recent conference of railway commissioners of the various colonies the question. of the unused halves of intercolonial return tickets was considered. It was decided…
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Crookwell Gazette · Friday 10 February 1899 · page 2
CONTRACTORS are reminded that tenders for road works close as follows:--On 11th February, at Crookwell--deviation at…
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Goulburn Herald · Friday 10 February 1899 · page 2
THE tender of F. Poidevin has been accepted for work on road Taralga to Rookwell…
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Goulburn Herald · Friday 10 February 1899 · page 2
Generally on the various lines continues to be satisfactory; passenger and mineral traffic show no falling off, and the carriage of live stock is good ; the grain traffic so for has not…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 February 1899 · page 4
THE Minister for Works has called for a report from the Engineer-in-Chief for Railway Construction as to the date he expects to be able to call for tenders for the several lines which have been…
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