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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1905

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Cooma-Bombala Railway

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 24 June 1905 · page 7

A WELL attended meeting was held at Mr. Jonas' office on Thursday afternoon last, to take steps to form a deputation to wait on the Minister at an early date…

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Floods and railway disaster in Mew Zealand

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 26 June 1905 · page 2

The country been Wanganui end Southland, New Zealand, it flooded owing the continues rainfall, Great damage has been casued by…

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John Bridge & CO's. Ltd. Report. Wool

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 30 June 1905 · page 2

For our twentieth sale of the 1904-5 season, and last of the statistical wool year, we brought forward on Thursday a catalogue of 233 bales wool, consisting of…

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A Bridge Subsides

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 7 July 1905 · page 3

Whilst Mr. W. Peisloy was on his way to Eden on Tuesday with a load of 5 1/2 tons on, he met with a very nasty experience. His team was…

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Cooma to Bombala Railway. Deputation to the Premier

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 7 July 1905 · page 4

Reasons why the Government should press on with the construction of the railway extension from Cooma to Bombala were urged upon the…

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Deputation. Cooma to Bombala Railway

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 7 July 1905 · page 2

Mr. Wood, the member for Bega, introduced a deputation to the Premier (Mr. J. H. Carruthers) on Monday respecting the construction of the…

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A Bridge Subsides

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 8 July 1905 · page 9

WHILST Mr. W. Peisley was on his way to Eden on Tuesday with a load of 5 1/2 tons on, he met with a very nasty experiences. His team was about…

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The Ball and the Motor-car

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 8 July 1905 · page 4

"Motoring Illustrated" tells a funny story. Mr. John Phillips, an up-to-date Essex farmer, having several farms at a distance, decided to invest in a…

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Ex-Magistrate Killed by Train

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 15 July 1905 · page 7

MR. HENRY BAYLIS, who was killed on Wednesday afternoon the 5th inst. through being knocked down by a train near Homebush Station, in the early days…

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SPRAY Amusing Incident In a Tramcar

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 22 July 1905 · page 4

She was rather a stylish-looking young, lady, and attracted attention when she entered the tramcar. She occupied the only vacant sent, beside a rather…

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Potatoes and Motor-cars

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 29 July 1905 · page 3

"At the present moment," says Dr. T. Lamb Phipson, in "To-Day," "very strenuous efforts are taken to make the potato the prime agent of movement [?]…

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Cooma-Bombala Railway

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Saturday 29 July 1905 · page 7

THE following is the reply of the Premier to the recent deputation that waited on him re the above :—Mr. Carruthers: Personally, I have…

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Bicycle Road Race. Bathurst to Sydney

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 7 August 1905 · page 2

The handicaps for the Wallace Continental bicycle road race from Bathurst to Sydney, under the suspises of the League of New South…

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Japanese railway making

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 7 August 1905 · page 2

Japan has ordered from American firms 350 steel bridges, 150 locomotives, and 2000 steel cars, for quickest delivery. They are…

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John Bridge & CO's. Ltd. Report

Bombala Times and Manaro and Coast Districts General Advertiser · Friday 11 August 1905 · page 2

FURSKINS,— Opossum—The total offerings were 20,000 less than the previous week. Our catalogue consisting as it did of 30,728 was the largest of the day. The…

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Bathurst to Sydney Bicycle Road Race

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 14 August 1905 · page 2

Messrs M. Robinson, T. C. Robinson and E. G. Robinson, of Bunyan, left Cooma on their bicycles on Tuesday last for Bathurst, to take part in…

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Railway officers as postmasters

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 14 August 1905 · page 2

The Queensland railway officers who act as postmasters in outlying districts have requested the Deputy Postmaster General to allow them…

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Bathurst to Sydney Bicycle Road Race

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 18 August 1905 · page 2

The bicycle road race from Bathurst to Sydney will take place to-morrow (Saturday). The following notes from the "Daily Telegraph" concerning the…

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Motor Car fatalities

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 25 August 1905 · page 2

A man was run over and killed in Sydney this week by a motor car. Another, supposed to the J. T…

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Audacious Mail Robbery. Railway Van Entered

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 25 August 1905 · page 2

On the arrival of the western passengers train at Redfern on Tuesday morning it was disappeared that a robbery of mails had been perpetrated…

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