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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport
103 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 6
As was generally expected there was a great muster of people at the opening of the the Tharwa Bridge on Wednesday, comprising residents from every conceivable part of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Some few weeks ago Mr. Morrison resigned his post as a trustee to the Bulga Creek Road. We understand that Mr. Luke Fox, of Yarralumla, has been gazetted to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →James Miller Woodward has been sentenced to thine years' [?] on the charge of manslaughter of [?] Coldstein, in Waterloo-rood, London. last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following are the lowest tenders for the undermentioned contracts received by Mr S. Archer, resident engineer :—Contract No. 24, A. Cawthorne, £68 13s 5d…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A shocking railway accident occurred at Bodmin, in Cornwall, to-day. An excursion train from London, while running at a high rate of speed, became derailed, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. O'Sullivan is in receipt of a communication advising him that that secretary for Public Works has approved of the sum of £50 being granted for the purpose of repair…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Swede named Gustave Lockroem well to Central America about a year ago to work on a banana plantation. The place was not to his liking, and he decided to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Charles F. Cloy, a tattered, timeworn tramp, appeared at a Chicago police station the other day and charged himself with having embezzled £2,000 from the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr De Burgh, the Chief Engineer for Bridges, accompanied by Mr Archer, made a trip to Foxlow last week to inquire into and report upon the proposed bridge over the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THIS is the age of economy in N. S. W. Till recently we were spendthrifty people with holes in our pockets burnt by gold in its heated anxiety to be sprat. Now we…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During the last few days Mr. de Burgh, Chief Engineer of Bridges, had had one or two men testing the soundness of the Qudanbeyan bridge. We understand that he…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney, Tuesday.—The Melbourne press thinks the intecolonial agreement of the Railwy Commissioners will be unfavourable to Victorian interests…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE question of setting down for trial the actions which have been instituted against the railway commissioners to recover compensation in connection with the Redfern…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tenders were opened on 22nd inst. for the construction of a bridge over Tuggranong Creek, road Queanbeyen to Naas, when John McArthur, of Cooma, proved the lowest…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following are, the lowest tenders for the undermentioned contracts received by Mr S. Archer, resident engineer:—Contract 36, 12 tenders, lowest W. O. Tankey, £29;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London, Thursday—A new bridge is [?] being built over the Hudson at New York to cost four and a half million pounds. [?] is to be constructed wide enough for [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It will be a matter of considerable regret with the residents of this district to learn that Mr S. Archer, our road superintendent, is to be removed to the Mudgee district. It…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Standing in the centre of an open field at Hoxne, near Eye, in Suffolk, in an obelisk erected to the memory of King Edmund, who met his death…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It appears that a number of women have taken to the road as tramps and are traveling toward California. They are said to be honest women who are in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In Committee of Supply in the House of Commons last night, a vote of £90,000 for the administration of British East Africa was passed by a majority of 198…
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