Roads and Bridges Expenditure
Mr. Lyne, as ex-Minister for Works keeps his eye on the expenditure for roads and bridges. He asked the Minister for Works on Tuesday in the Legislative…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1897
97 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 5
Point Hut Road
The department has again been appealed to for a vote for forming the Point Hut Road. The latest answer received by Mr O'Sullivan from the department is—"I am…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court. Wednesday, June 16. (Before Messrs Maitland, P.M, Wright, Gale, and DeSalis, Js.P.) Throwing at the Train
Frederick Griffiths, a lad of about 17, was charged with that he did, on 7th June, maliciously injure certain property of the Railway Commissioners…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Mission Work Among Chinese Women. From a Paper by Miss Miller, Amoy, road at the Centenary of the London Missionary Society
One may visit many homes, each totally different from the other, only alike in the utter ignorance of the souls i therein, without God, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boycotting the Railways
On Wednesday afternoon a meeting of pasteralists and others was held at the Royal Hotel, the main object of which was to discuss the question of freights on railway and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boycotting the Railway
An important and significant meeting took place in Queanbeyan on Wednesday (says the Observer) having for its object both a protest against the existing railway freight [?] and the employment…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Tram Accident
A shocking tram accident, resulting in the death of a man named Sydney Adelphus Primrose, occurred last Friday night at the intersection of Market and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Japanese Railways
At the date of a recent return the total length of railway line in operation in Japan was 2118 miles. In the first instance Japanese railways were supplied…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The City Railway
A SCHEME for the extension of the railway from Redfern station to a to a more central position…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Accident at Cootamundra
MR. E. J. PERRY, forwarding agent and carrier, of Temora, was run over and killed by the mail train at Cootamundra on Friday night. His body was found on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →First English Railway Passenger
News has been received from New Zealand of the death of Mr. Crawford Marley, at the age of 83. Mr. Marley, who emigrated from Darlington to New…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Proposed City Railway Through Hyde Park
Mr. Austin Chapman, M.P., was one of the speakers at the Monster meeting in the Town Hall on last Friday night to protest against any portion of Hyde Park being taken for railway purposes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Railway Accident
A shocking railway accident is reported from Denmark. An express train running on the Nord Sj[?]landske Jernbane,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Parcels Rates
FRIDAY'S "Gazette" contains a new bylaw in regard to the carriage of stamped parcels by passenger trains. One feature in connection with it is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Man Who Knows the Road
He drives directly home, even in dark nights, does the man who knows the road. The ever-hanging gloom, the deceptive shadows, the uncertain sounds, don't bother him. He can feel…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Revised Railway Rates
OUR Braidwood contemporary, the Dispatch, has some capital comparisons on the inequalities of the new railway rates which have just come into operation, and although…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Parcels Rates
FRIDAY'S "Gazette" contains a new bylaw in regard to the carriage of stamped parcels by passenger trains. One feature in connection with it is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fearful Railway Accident
A man named George Thomas Kearsley had a narrow escape from instant death shortly before midnight on Tuesday at Peter sham by the train which left Redfern at 11.35…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Parcels Rates
FRIDAY'S "Gazette" contains a new bylaw in regard to the carriage of stamped parcels by passenger trains. One feature in connection with it is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Railway Commissioners en Tour
MESSRS. Fehon and Oliver, Railway Commissioners, accompanied by the Chief Traffic Manager, Outdoor Superintendent, Locomotive Engineer, Engineer-in-Chief…
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