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Railways, roads & transport, 1903

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Proposed Public Works. Lockhart to Clear-hills Railway

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 30 May 1903 · page 3

ON Wednesday the Public Works Committee gave further consideration as to the expediency of constructing a line of railway from Lockhart to…

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Mr. Thomas Tait. Victorian Railway Commissioner Interviewed at Brisbane. Brisbane

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 30 May 1903 · page 3

Mr. Thomas Tait, the recently appointed Commissioner of the Victorian railways, arrived in the Miowera at Moreton Bay last night. Interviewed this morning,…

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Mr. O'sullivan and the Railway Strike

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 May 1903 · page 2

While addressing a meeting at Paddington, under the auspicies of the Women's Liberal League, Dr. Cullen was asked his opinion as to the position of the…

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Public Works Committee. Lockhart to Clear-hills Railway

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 May 1903 · page 5

On Wednesday the Public Works Committee gave further consideration as to the expediency of constructing a line of railway from Lockhart to Clear-hills…

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Motor Racing in Ireland

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 May 1903 · page 5

The Chief Secretary for Ireland has issued an order that during the Gordon-Bennett motor car race in Ireland the course is to be closed to everybody except…

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Another Motor Race Fatality

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 May 1903 · page 5

Another death, making the tenth, is reported, from injuries received in the automobile race between Paris and Bordeaux on Sunday last…

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Shocking Railway Fatality. a Guard Killed

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 30 May 1903 · page 4

A shocking accident, which had a fatal result, occurred shortly before 12 o'clock on Tuesday night at Culesirn. O. a. rivel of the down goods (in charge of…

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Lockhart to Clear Hills Proposed Line of Railway. Evidence of an Honorary Minister

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 2 June 1903 · page 4

Mr. J. Hayes. Honorary Minister, gove evidence on Friday before the Public Works Committee in connection with the inquiry into the expediency of…

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Accident to the Mail Train

The Junee Democrat · Wednesday 3 June 1903 · page 3

On Wednesday night speculation ran rife as to what had happened the Sydney mail which had left Hare-field punctually to time, and which is…

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Railway Extensions

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 3 June 1903 · page 2

THE Government are being urged to-day to press on with the work of constructing the railway extension from the Temora junction to Barellan; and…

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Lunatic Races a Train—and Beats It

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 4 June 1903 · page 2

A young man named Watson, of Fairview (Vic.), who has been behaving in a strange manner for the past few days, was sent to the Sunbury Asylum on Monday. A few days…

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Unique Railway Calamity

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 4 June 1903 · page 4

A calamity unique ia the world's railway history has occurred in the United States, whre the tracks of the Southern Pacific Railway round the northern end of the…

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Connecting the Southern and Western Railways

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 4 June 1903 · page 2

A large and representative meeting of settlers, farmers, and residents between Forbes and Young was held at Bimbi on Saturday to consider the advisability of…

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Railway Waiting Rooms

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 4 June 1903 · page 2

It would be keenly appreciated by persons travelling from Wagga by the express trains during the winter months if a fire were kept burning in the waiting room at the railway…

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The Clear Hills Railway Proposal. (From Our Correspondent)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 4 June 1903 · page 3

A meeting of the Urana Progress Association was held on Monday night, in the Public Hall. Present—Dr. Macllnight (chairman), Messrs. J. B. Wood, J, Trainer, T…

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Cobar to Wilcannia Railway Route

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 4 June 1903 · page 2

The Railway Commissioners, when referring to recent visits of inspection over the lines, have generally been able to report very favorably of the country passed…

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The Condition of the Lower Lachlan Districts. Continuance of Tee Drought. Railway Communication Before Conservation

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 5 June 1903 · page 2

THE following is the report of an interview with Mr. J. G. Carroll, M.P., appearing in last Friday's issue of the Sydney Morning Herald:—…

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To School by Motor-car

Coolamon Echo · Friday 5 June 1903 · page 2

Parisians are sending their children to school by motor-car nowadays; at least, the ‘Siecle’ tells us that the motor-car has been experimentally in use for that…

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Thrashed in a Train a Queenslander, Resents an Insult

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 6 June 1903 · page 6

On April 16 a cable was published giving an outline of an incident in the Harwick express, when it was stated a Queenslander thrashed a Dutchman for…

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Indian Affairs. a Railway to Tibet. London, June 2

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 6 June 1903 · page 6

Indian telegrams report that the Chinese resident official in Tibet has advised the peoplo of that country to settle their com meroial difficulties with India in a friendly…

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