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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport
124 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 4 of 7
When the motor-man started in on [?] second cup of coffee he became sociable. “yes, sir,” he said, “we certainly do catch some queer things on fenders…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the month of October 1827 there appeared the advertisement of a gentleman entirely independent, whose disposition was not be exceeded, who had lost the chief of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is difficult to be strikingly new and original nowadays but the feat was accomplished by Miss Orde-Powlett when on the occasion of her wedding she drove up…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The first man curiously enough, to. introduce the trams into England, was a Mr Train That event occurred in the streets of Birkenhead,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The road race, long talked of In cycling circles, from Goulburn to Sydney, or , more strictly Ashfield 131[?] miles, eventuated Saturday. It was for riders attached to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE most important road race ever held in the State was carried out on Saturday by the League of Wheelmen, when a great number of the best road cyclists of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One of the greatest railroad races ever entered into in the United States was carried out by the New York Central and the [?] Companies (says a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →They caught him in the [?]. His pony’s pastern had been sinashed by a bullet and so he could not get away. He was a mean type of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Littlechild, winner of the Dunlop Road Race on Saturday, informs us “Goulburn Post” that the report in a Sydney paper and published by us that .Harris assisted him to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne, Tuesday.—The attitude of the railway employees with respect, to the retrenchment proposals of the Government in causing great alarm, and there is every…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Goulburn to Ashfield road race, and Little child's great record of 8 hours 20 minutes for the Goulburn-Sydndey record, were the chief topics of conversation in cycling circles on Monday, and it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In December, 1832, there was a memorable general election, font was the first after the Return Bill. There were many exciting contests but one of the strangest was that for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The youths of the city are complaining of the sharp practice of one of their number. One of the best situations in town (from, a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Very rarely (says " The Globe ) has an epoch-making incident made such unobstrusive appearance in the Press as the completion of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Friday tenders were opened for eight road contracts with the following results :—Contract 15, G. Doolan (6 tenders) £8 9s 3d; 16, S. A[?]eb, (6) £70; 17, Wm. Taylor (9)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The “Shoalhaven News” writes:—The Bungonia Progress Association has asked the co-operation of the Goulburn association in an agitation to have a new road opened…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fit Place called after the chalk-pits that were near it, not after the statesman, is one those old houses that fringe the Downs at Epson, and give a character to the famous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railway Commissioners’ annual report shows a loss on the Crookwell rail way--after providing for working expenses and interest, £580. The working expenses and interest…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During the discussion upon the State Iron Works proposal in the Assembly on Thursday, an interjection being made about the North Shore Bridge, Sir John SEE, Premier…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Melbourne; Saturday night.—The annual cycle road race, for prizes valued at £160, from Warrnambool to Melbourne, 165 miles. took place to-day, and excited a good deal of…
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