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Railways, roads & transport, 1900

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Bridge Accident

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 29 August 1900 · page 2

An accident occurred on Monday at the bridge which is being erected over Judging Creek , whereby a lad named Arthur Rawlings, aged 16 years, met…

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Tenders Received for Road Work

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 29 August 1900 · page 3

Mr Geo. F. Allman, Road Superintendent, kindly sends at the following list of lowest tenders received for road work for publication: --…

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A Train Without a Driver

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 30 August 1900 · page 3

A peculiar Accident happened to-day on the railway of the Australian Seasoned Timber Co., Wandong. A train load of logs left the depot Whilst the rails were…

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The Roads

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 31 August 1900 · page 2

The road between Grahamstown and Adelong Crossing is in such a state that night-travelling is almost an impossibility. Certainly, nobody…

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Burglary at Old Junee, The Railway Station Safe Removed Sixteen Pounds Stolen

Coolamon Echo · Friday 31 August 1900 · page 6

AT 3.30 this morning, Mrs Rose, wife of Mr A. Rose, stationmaster at Old Junee, was aroused by hearing sounds of rapping in the vicinity of the…

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Temora - Wyalong Railway

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 1 September 1900 · page 4

Further consideration was devoted by the Public Works Committee on Monday to the expediency of constructing a [?] of railway from…

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Serious Accident at Bon Accord. Train Guard Badly Injured. Amputation Necessary

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 4 September 1900 · page 4

A very serious accident happened on Saturday last to Wm. Thornton Ogden, the guard of the mid-day train from Albury to Wagga. Whilst at Bon Accord…

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Temora to Gunbar and Wyalong Railways

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 5 September 1900 · page 4

MR Henry Deane, Engineer-in-Chief, Railway Construction Branch, Department of Public Works, was examined on Friday afternoon by the Parliamentary…

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The War Ladybrand Besieged. Guerilla Fighting. Kruger and Steyn's New Capital on a Railway Train. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 6 September 1900 · page 2

Commandants Grobeliras, Fouries, Lemmers, and Tasebrocks, with a large force are b[?]iging Ladybrand. They have commandsered all the able…

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Rating Buildings on Railway Property

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 6 September 1900 · page 6

A matter affecting the rating of buildings on railway premises is engaging the attention of the Goulburn council, states a telegram of Friday. In 1898…

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Culcairn to Germanton Railway. Inquiry by the Public Works Committee. the Line Approved Of

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 6 September 1900 · page 4

On Monday afternoon the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works closed the evidence in connection with the inquiry into the expediency of constructing a line of…

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Killed by a Tram

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 6 September 1900 · page 2

At an inquest to-day on the man identified as Edward O'Grady, aged 66, a laborer, residing at Swan Hill, who was killed through jumping out of an electric…

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The Railway Extension

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 7 September 1900 · page 2

The Gundagai-Tumut Railway Bill was read a first time in the House last night…

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The Gundagai-tumut Railway

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 7 September 1900 · page 2

Mr. R. Donaldson, M.P., has the assurance of Mr. E. W. O'Sullivan, Minister for Works, that the bill sanctioning the construction of the…

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Train the Eyebrows

The Temora Star · Saturday 8 September 1900 · page 1

Take the eyebrows away, and how provokingly insipid some faces become The closer the eyebrows to the eyes the greater the amount of intelligence is supposed to…

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Gundagai Tumut. Railway

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 8 September 1900 · page 2

The Assembly on Thursday night gave the necessary leave, on the motion of Mr. O'Sullivan, to introduce a bill to sanction the construction of a line of railway from…

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Tarcutta. Roads

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 11 September 1900 · page 2

Our roads are in a wretched condition. To keep them in proper repair would take at least half-a-dozer maintenance men, whereas we have only one, who is…

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Electric Tram Accident

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 12 September 1900 · page 2

A man named Michael Rehane had his leg cut off last night in George-street by an electric tram…

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The North Shore Bridge. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 13 September 1900 · page 3

Mr. Henry Copsland, the Agent-General for New South Wales, has received seven tenders for the construction of the North Shore Bridge, Sydney…

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Killed by a Tram

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 13 September 1900 · page 3

At au inquest to-day concerning the death of Mie[?]rael Lehone in the Sydney Hospital, as a result of luring his leg cut oft by an electric tram in…

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