An Express Train on Fire
The Midland Scotch express which runs between St. Pancras and Glasgow, met with a serious accidents on the night of October 28, by which a passenger was burnt to death and…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1883
32 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 2
Accidents on Railways
The following particulars of the accident on the Glenelg railway line, whereby a young man named Arthur Taylor lost life on the 28th December, are furnished by the South Australian…
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Hides at last week's sales were dull of sale except for really prime heavy weights (say 69 lbs, and over.) At to-day's sales competition was better, best heavies realising 4d. to 4 3/8d.,…
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THE first annual meeting of members of the above association was held on Saturday afternoon at the Temperance Hall. In the absence of the president (the Hon. L. Fane De Salis,…
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Fat Cattle.—On Monday our market was very firm, and prices better by 10s to 20s per head.—good beaf worth 21s to 23s per 100 lbs; and on Thursday the market was, perhaps, a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Letters to the Editor. Queanbeyan Railwaystation Site
SIR,—In the face of the insulting impeachment contained in the requisition appearing in your columns addressed to Mr J. J. Wright J.P., respecting the above, I would simply…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local News and Notes. Queanbeyan Railway Extension and Station Site
MR. GALE, secretary to the deputation lately appointed to wait on the Hon. the Minister for Works, to urge the calling for tenders for the further extension of the Goulburn to Comma…
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THE following shows the proposed distribution of vote on the estimates for subordinate roads under tie officers of the roads department within the districts in which this paper chiefly…
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Fat Cattle.—Market steady at about 20/., with not very much meat of good quality coming forward inferior and mediun quality being plentiful…
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Fat Cattle.—On Monday prices were very firm at last week's rates, and on Thursday prices were higher by at least £1 per hend, boat beef being worth 24s to 25s per 100lbs…
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Fat Cattle.—On Monday prices were firm at about 24s. per 100 lbs. for best quality, and on Thursday, although the supply was limited, prices were a trifle easier; it is, however, now…
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How is the boy this morning? Why do you shake your head? Ah! I can see what's happened—There's a screen drawn round the bed…
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THE monthly meeting of the above, held on Saturday afternoon at the Temperance Hall, was of unusual interest. The chair was taken by the Hon. L. Fane De Salis, M.L.C.,…
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FAL CATTLE came forward plentifully, mostly however of inferior quality, and prices are firm at about 23 for best, or £8 to £9 10s per head; and with winter not yet commenced, much…
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ON some of the Western roads they attach a passenger car to a freight train and call it , "mixed." It isn't in order of things that such trains…
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Fat cattle.—Good quality remain firm, but this week the market was very full, especially of inferior lots, and prices declined nearly £1 per head, good beef selling at 20…
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FOLLOWING is a copy of the Tramways Declaratory Act as finally passed by the legislature on Friday night, and assented to on Saturday by his Excellency the Governor;—…
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THE following letter has been received by Mr. Gale, acting secretary to the Queanbeyan Railway League, in reply to the correspondence he was authorised to undertake on behalf of the…
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THIS great event was celebrated on Thursday last, the preparations for which were in every way complete. A few particulars of the growth of Albury, as follows, may not be…
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THE following verses "On the Railway Union" at Albury between New South Wales and Victoria," were composed for the occasion by Mr. Halloran and were read with much interest at…
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