Wallamba River. Roads
The road to Bulladelah for some time has fallen into disrepair, owing to the maintenance man (Mr. L. Gallagher) being sent to help on other roads. He…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1899
226 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 7 of 12
A Remarkable Coach Trip. Flooded Roads at Moorland. Kew, Aug. 5
I CAME here on the coach on Tuesday night. We had a terrible trip. It rained from the time we left Candle until we arrived at Camden Haven. When we got to Moorland, between Crossingham's and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Forster and Bungwall Road. To the Editor of the Wingham Chronicle
SIR.—Permit me to draw the attention of your readers tot he discreditable state of the Forster and Bungwall Road. Travellers overland from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Attempt to Wreck a Train
A determined attempt was made to wreck the southern mail train near Ashfield station on Monday night. Large pieces of rail being laid flat across the main line fastened to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road—Bucton's Bridge. Public Works Department, Sydney, 3rd Aug., 1899
SIR,—In reply to your letter dated 8th ultimo, presented by you from the Kendall Progress Committee, urging that a grant of £600 be made for expenditure on the road…
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ON the principle that good roads make a good people, and good people make a good country, the trial of a new American road-making machine at the Hawkesbury…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A Road-Making Machine
THE American road-making machine has been tried at the Hawkesbury Agricultural College, in the presence of Mr. Valder (principal), Mr. Farrar (of Queanbeyan), the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collapse of the Glebe Island Bridge
GLEBE Island bridge, an old structure, quite out of date for the immense traffic which crossed it for the abattoirs and otherwise, collapsed on Saturday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Attempt to Wreck a Train. Narrow Escape of the Melbourne Express
AN attempt was made to wreck the train which left Sydney at 7.15 p.m. on Monday for Melbourne, but by the timely discovery what would probably have been a terrible…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Strange Railway Accident. London, August 3
WHILE the Manchester express was passing at full speed through Greetland Station to-day one of the large driving wheels became detached, and leaving the line traversed the station-master's office and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Railway Accident near Paris. 17 Killed and 73 INJURED. London, Aug. 7
FURTHER particulars of the terrible railway disaster near Paris state that two express excursion trains left Paris at an interval of five minutes of each other. While the first train was stopping at Juvisy, 12…
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ON the principle that good roads make a good people, and a good people make a good country, the trial of a new American road-making machine at the Agricultural College, briefly referred to in our last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another Mountain Fatality. Admiral Bridge's Sister Killed. London, Aug. 11
MISS Christina Bridge, a sister of Vice-Admiral Bridge, late Commander in Chief-in-Chief on the Australian Station, while touring in the Alps, near Zural, Switzerland, was stung…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bicycle Road Races. to the Editor of the M. R. TIMES
SIR,—I notice a bicycle road race is again proposed. Surely these flying apparitions on wheels have tracks enough on which to "scorch," without making a racecourse of the Queen's highway, to the great…
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THE following were the lowest tenders opened last Saturday at West Kempsey for works on the local roads:—1, Road Kempsey to foot of Jeogla…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Iceland's Living Railway
If the camel is the ship of the desert, the Iceland pony is the cab, train, omnibus, and tramcar of the wonderful country to which he belongs. To begin with, he is a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway Accident. London
While a train was crossing a bridge over a flooded river at Santiago, Chili, the structure collapsed and the train was precipitated into the raging…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Keilabakh Bridge to Ogden's Crossing Road. Sydney, 15 Aug. 1899
Date of letter under reply, 4th January last, received on 12th June, from Messrs. W. Houston, J, H. Yarnold, and other residents of Keilabakh…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Killawarra Bridge. Tender Accepted. Sydney
THE tender of Mr. E. W. Fitzgerald, for the construction of a bridge over the Manning River, at Killawarra, has been accepted at £7,700…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Official Correspondence. £100 Grant for Killabakh Road. Sydney, 15th Aug., 1899
Date of letter under reply:—4th January last, received on 12th June, from Messrs. W. Houston, J. H. Yarnold, and other residents of Killabakh…
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