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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1882

23 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 2

Bungendore. Important Railway Progress Meeting

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 April 1882 · page 2

ON Saturday afternoon a large and influential meeting was held at Carroll's Hotel, Bungendore, I take step to accelerate the progress of railway extension from Goulburn towards Cooma. It was…

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The Fatal Tramway Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 April 1882 · page 2

The City Coroner held an inquest at the Commercial Hotel, Elizabeth-street South on Thursday morning, on the body of Margaret Alice Wells, aged five years, the little…

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Correspondence. Our Roads. to the Editor

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 April 1882 · page 2

SIR,—You must excuse me for doubting whether your proposal to wage war against the squatter be the right remedy for the two fearful cases of failure of justice, which are…

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Correspondence. the Roads. to the Editor

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 May 1882 · page 2

SIR,—There is a kind of argument, viz., abuse, which is resorted to when a disputant has not, so to say, a leg to stand upon; of tlhis Mr. Crace's letter is a palpable instance. I accused…

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Local News and Notes. the Roads of the District

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 30 May 1882 · page 2

THE meeting postponed from the 13th instant to Saturday last to discuss the late Supreme Court actions in which Mr John Southwell of Giniderra and Mr Wm. Young of Canberra…

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Mr. F. Campbell and the Roads

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 June 1882 · page 2

DEAR SIR,—I saw a letter in the Times signed "F. Campbell," in reference to the report of the late roads meeting, in which that gentleman contradicts a statement made by the chairman that in…

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The Fatal Accident on the Waverly Tram Line

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 June 1882 · page 2

THE City Coroner held an inquest at his chambers on Thursday morning on the body if the little girl Elsie Mabel Smeo, who was killed on Tuesday afternoon by the…

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Railway Demonstration at Hay. [?]Ay

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 July 1882 · page 2

THE opening of the final extension of the [?] western railway from Carrathool to Hay was celebrated this day with great eclat. Large numbers of residents from…

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The Hay Railway Demonstration. Notes of a Trip by the Editor

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 July 1882 · page 2

BEFORE these lines appear in pr[?] hilator of time and s[?] will have [?] that [?]…

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Local News and Notes. the Land and Roads Association

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 July 1882 · page 2

THE first meeting of the Committee of the newly-formed Land and Roads Association met at the Temperance Hall on Saturday afternoon. The following office-bearers and…

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Local News and Notes. Deputations. Roads in the Queanbeyan District

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 15 August 1882 · page 2

ON Friday last Mr. T. Rutledge, M.P., introduced the Hon. L. Fane De Salis, M.L.C., and Mr. John Cale, as a deputation from the Queanbeyan District Land and Roads…

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Railway to Queanbeyan

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 15 August 1882 · page 2

ON the same day a deputation consisting of Mr. T. Rutledge, M.P., and Messrs. J. J. Wright, J.P., F. Campbell, J.P., J. Gale, T. Parr; and J. Bull, waited upon the hon. the Minister for…

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Local News and Notes. Queanbeyan Roads and Land Association

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 22 August 1882 · page 2

THE monthly committee meeting (postponed from the 5th instant) of this association was hold in the Temperance Hall, Queanbeyan, on Saturday afternoon last. There was an…

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Letters to the Editor. Unauthorised Tolls on Public Roads

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 August 1882 · page 2

DEAR SIR,—In looking over your publication of Tuesday, the 22nd instant, I find that you have committed an error in stating that I was one that paid toll to Whitehead, Mr. Campbell's…

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Local News and Notes. Railway Station Movement

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 August 1882 · page 2

YESTERDAY afternoon a number of influential gentlemen met at the Royal Hotel to arrange for a public meeting. to take place at an early date for the purpose of discussing the most…

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Queanbeyan Railway Station Site

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 September 1882 · page 2

YESTERDAY afternoon the Oddfellows' Hall was filled with a must respectable audience, in response to an invitation which appeared in our last issue, signed by Mr Byrne, J.P., in…

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The Age Tuesday, September 19, 1882. Letters to the Editor. Roads and Tolls

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 September 1882 · page 2

DEAR SIR,—Thanks to Mr. F. Campbell for his information about the roads, but most of the residents of this district were well aware before be wrote that roads, until…

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Queanbeyan Roads and Lands Association

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 October 1882 · page 2

THERE was a large attendance at the general meeting of the above association, convened at the Temperance Hall on Saturday afternoon last…

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Queanbeyan Roads and Lands Association

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 10 November 1882 · page 2

LAST Saturday a general meeting of the members of the above association was held at the Temperance Hall. There was an excellent attendance…

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Serious Railway Collision

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 17 November 1882 · page 2

A TELEGRAM to the Echo, dated Bathurst Saturday, states:—The following are the particulars of the Bathurst railway disaster:—As the 3.30 mail train was coming round the curve into the…

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