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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1904

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Comleroy Road

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 10 September 1904 · page 4

The cricket club here promises to be exceptionally strong this season., in spite of the mean underhand work of a certain Comleroy resident who promised to join…

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On Tramp. No. XVIII

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 10 September 1904 · page 6

The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun,—the Vales Stretching in pensive quietness between On each side…

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Comleroy Road

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 17 September 1904 · page 12

LOCAL sports are having a good time here among the hares and rabbits. One day last week two of our knights of the trigger captured no less than nine rabbits and a…

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On Tramp. No. XIX

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 17 September 1904 · page 9

And through the shade Of funeral cypress planted thick behind, Hears no reproachful whisper on the wind From the beloved dead…

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On Tramp. No. XIX. (Continued.)

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 24 September 1904 · page 6

All the earlier burials in this cemetery (the Presbyterian Cemetery at Windsor) were in the low ground near the road, and by the railway garden there's one:…

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Comleroy Road

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 1 October 1904 · page 8

THE Methodist Sunday-school anniversary was held on Sunday week, when there was a large attendance present. The children looked charming, the girls wearing white…

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On Tramp. No. XX. (Continued.)

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 1 October 1904 · page 6

and now they sleep Mixed with the shapeless dust on which thy herds Trample and graze ? I, too, must grieve with thee O'er lost loved ones…

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Railway Smash at Richmond

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 1 October 1904 · page 12

WHEN the special train which conveyed the railway picbnickers to Richmond on Monday last was being stowed away in the carriage shed at the local station a terrific…

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Comleroy Road

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 8 October 1904 · page 12

A GOOD deal of damage has been wrought by the late frosts. Some of the farmers had young potatoes and pumpkins killed. They were looking well after the rain, and will…

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Comleroy Road

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 15 October 1904 · page 4

The pionic in connection with the Wesleyan Sunday-school was held on Eight. Hour Day. About 120 scholars and others attended, and all enjoyed themselves…

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On Tramp. Xxi

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 15 October 1904 · page 1

To morrow, and to-morrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this pretty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time. Out, out, brief candle!…

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"On Tramp."

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 29 October 1904 · page 12

MRS. James Clark, of North Richmond, informs us that our old scribe, G.C.J., has fallen into a slight error with regard to the family history of her parents. Mr. William…

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Freeman's Reach Road. Strong Protest against Proposed Deviation

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 5 November 1904 · page 6

SOME twenty-five residents of the Freeman's Reach and Wilberforce districts attended the public meeting called for Monday night last, and held in the Freeman's Reach School of Arts, for…

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Correspondence. On Tramp—That Error. (To the Editor)

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 5 November 1904 · page 6

SIR,—I have to apologise to Mrs James Clark for perpetrating an error in regard to her father (the late Mr William Wilder), Of my own knowledge I knew nothing of Mr Wilder's antecedents, and I…

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Freeman's Reach Road

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 19 November 1904 · page 4

ON Thursday last, Mr. Brinsley Hall, M.L.A., introduced to the Hon. C. A. Lee, Minister for Public Works, a large and influential deputation of Hawkesbury…

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Freeman's Reach Road

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 26 November 1904 · page 7

IT is to be hoped that tin; deputation introduced to the Minister (or Works on the 17th instant, it the repairing of the above road, will be successful in obtaining' what they asked for. It will be a…

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A Neglected Road. (To the Editor.)

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 26 November 1904 · page 2

SIR—Being an occasional traveller to the Colo district, I have been very much surprised at the state of parts of the Government road. One portion in particular…

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Comleroy Road

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 3 December 1904 · page 8

MR. E. HENNESSY hag got his Messenger colt into great fettle for the approaching Kurrajong races. Mr. Hennessy has given his horse a few trots on the track, and…

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Richmond Bridge

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 10 December 1904 · page 1

THE construction of the new bridge over the river at North Richmond is going ahead rapidly, and Mr. Carson has sixteen concrete cylinders down and eight to tackle,…

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Comleroy Road

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 24 December 1904 · page 12

The Sydney Fruit Exchange hag lost two of its most prominent agents, Messrs J. Hennessy and Vin. McMahon, of Comleroy, having finished selling the bulk of the…

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