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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1883

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

An Important Tramway Case

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 June 1883 · page 2

AT the Metropolitan District Court on Monday morning, before Mr. District Court Judge Wilkinson, the following case was heard:— M'GRATH V. THE COMMISSIONER FOR RAILWAYS…

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Fatal Accident on the Tramway

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 June 1883 · page 2

ANOTHER terrible accident, which ended, fatally occurred on the tramway on Saturday evening, in Pitt-street, Between the No. 2 police-station and Gipps-street, the victim being a married…

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Shocking Railway Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 July 1883 · page 1

ON the night of Whit-Monday, May 14, one of the most disastrous railway accidents that has happened in Scotland for some time occurred at Lockerbie[?]station,…

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J. Bridge's Weekly Report

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 17 July 1883 · page 2

Wool.—At this week's sales the lots offered were generally small and unattractive, but for anything uniform biddings were brisk and prices satisfactory…

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Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 17 July 1883 · page 4

NEW YORK, May 24.—The eighth wonder of the world, eighth in point of time, but first in point of significance, was to-day dedicated to the…

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Queanbeyan Lands and Roads Association

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 July 1883 · page 2

At the usual monthly meeting of the above organisation held at the Temperance Hall last Saturday, at which there was a good representative attendance…

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Unauthorised Obstruction of Roads

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 August 1883 · page 2

IT is a matter of common notoriety that in several parts of the Queanbeyan district public roads are closed against those who are entitled to use them, or that traffic along them is…

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J. Bridge's Weekly Report

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 August 1883 · page 2

Fat Cattle.—At to-days' sales 1498 were earned and prices were easier all round. Fat Sheet were also forward in large numbers and met with a dull market, prices were easier…

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J. Bridge's Weekly Report

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 August 1883 · page 2

FAT CATTLE: The supply this week were moderate and prices were about 10s lower all round. Best bullocks averaged £7 3s others from £4 15s…

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Opening of First Section of Goulburn to Cooma Railway

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 31 August 1883 · page 2

WE publish elsewhere a paragraph from the Braidwood Dispatch announcing that the first section of the Railway from Goulburn to Cooma,—viz., to Tarago,—is expected to be…

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Goulburn to Cooma Railway.—contract No. 2

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 31 August 1883 · page 2

OUR Railway League has not been inactive, or unwatchful in the matter of railway progress hitherwards. Although the Department has not thought fit to reply to correspondence…

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Railway Panic

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 September 1883 · page 2

THERE is a considerable degree of uneasiness in town just now caused by a rumour that it is the intention of the Government to abandon the railway route via Queanbeyan, for the…

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