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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport
282 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 15
One scourge was appointed to each stockade, whose duty it was- to inflict all corporal punishments ordered by tile, officer The cooks, warders, messmen…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THERE are still several wooden railways in existence in Canada and the United States. One of them is in the province of Quebec, and is 30 miles long. The rails are…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An interesting device in the way of applying a motor to a small craft has been brought out by G. Trouche and Company and constructed at their Buchet works near Paris…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE Government has at last been able to announce the new board of Railway Commissioners, the cable for which Ministers were waiting,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yes, I have had many adventures, both grave and gay, since I was run over by my own car, but there is no space to dwell upon them, and I will…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dr. Holt’s new motor car, just importance from England, appears an up-to-date machine. We have been informed by the Doctor that immediately on its…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At length the long-looked for information has been supplied, and speculation as to the individuals who are to control “ our greatest asset.” has been set at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The boy who, after studying the epitaphs in a churchyard, asked where all the bad people were burled, might be disposed. If he were a student of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The bare outline which I have given of the regulations under which the road parties and chained gangs worked conveys but a very faint idea of the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A TELEGRAM from Berridale on Friday says:--It is reported that the arrangements in connection with the Kosciusko road have been badly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT a recent meeting of the Yarrow- lumla Shire Council Councillor Falconor drew attention to the bad state of the Bungendore—Queanbeyan Road…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE body of a farmer, named Allen was found on the railway line, three miles from Glenrowan, near Melbourne, on Friday. He had been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SOME little time ago, instructions were given by the Public Woks Department for the calling of tenders for the making of a proper road between Reid's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Railway Commissioners have had under consideration the question of the new system of booking off. There are now two arrangements in force…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is proposed by a German engineer to use balloons for railway purposes.. A stationary balloon is fixed to a slide running along a single steel rail. This…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The tennis elbow, the bicycle foot, the clergyman's sore throat, and all manner of disabilities that come from modern conveniences are familiar to us. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Says the Junee Southern Cross:—At noon on Saturday last a number of officers and men of the Locomotive Branch…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →If you are travelling by railroad and want to know how fast the train is running you may determine it .almost exactly by counting the clicks made by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soon after the present Railway Commissioners took office they introduced better methods of illuminating the cars, and from time to time since…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Count Roco[?] is a great admirer of the motor-boat. As he truly says, the motor-boat is a comparative infant amongst craft, and many people are ignorant as to its…
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