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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1866

4 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Terrific Explosion in Bridge-street, Sydney

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 8 March 1866 · page 3

IF we were to announce this morning that a large part of Bridge-street, Sydney, was a heap of ruins we should be almost borne out by its present desolate appearance. At half-past six o'clock…

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Department of Public Works, Sydney, 8th May, 1866. To Contractors and Others. Bridge at Umeralla, on the Road From Cooma to Queanbeyan

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 24 May 1866 · page 3

FRESH Tenders will be received at this Office, until noon of Tuesday, the 5th day of June, from persons willing to Contract for the construction of a Bridge at Umeralla, on the road from…

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Fenianism, Rinderpest, and Railways

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 24 May 1866 · page 2

AN esteemed correspondent has kindly furnished us with the following highly-important extracts from a private letter received by the last mail from England. The writer is said to be an authority on the subjects…

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Suspicious Occurrence on the Road Between the Grey and Hokitika

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 16 August 1866 · page 4

We have spoken more than once about the number of men killed on the road between Hokitika and the Grey; and a remarkable fact is testified to by the person…

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