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Railways, roads & transport, 1882

36 stories in South Coast's papers · page 2 of 2

Another Tram Accident

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 1 July 1882 · page 4

THE Evening News thus speaks of the recent sacrifice of a child's life by the street slaughter house :—" Again have we to record another terrible and…

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Another Tram Accident

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 1 July 1882 · page 4

THE Evening News thus speaks of the recent sacrifice of a child’s life by the street slaughter house :—“ Again have we to record another terrible and…

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Original Correspondence. The Railway to Shoalhaven. to the Editor of the Shoalhaven Telegraph

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 20 July 1882 · page 2

SIR,—It was gratifying to me, as it must have been to many of your readers, to notice that a move has at last been made to get the railway extended to Shoalhaven; and it is much to be…

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The Monaro Railway. (To the Editor of the Herald.)

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 22 July 1882 · page 4

SIR.—Deeming the above subject to deserve more attention than is ordinarily accorded to it. I would ask leave to bring its importance before the public through…

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The Monaro Railway. (To the Editor of the Herald.)

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 22 July 1882 · page 4

SIR,—Dooming the above subject to deserve more attention than is ordinarily accorded to it I would ask leave to being its importance before the public through…

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The Railway for Shoalhaven

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 3 August 1882 · page 2

ACCORDING to announcement, a public meeting was held at the Court-houso, Nowra, last Monday, at 2 p.m., for the purpose of appointing a deputation to wait upon the Minister for Works…

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Bega District Railway League

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 16 August 1882 · page 2

A MEETING was held at the Commercial Hotel, Bega, at 3.30, on Tuesday. Mr. Manby in the chair who stated that both the local members were in favour of the project, and…

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MISCELLANEOUS. The "Illawarra Mercury" on the 'Shoalhaven Railway

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 17 August 1882 · page 4

Now that the permanent survey for the Illawarra Railway is nearing Kiama, the point to which Parliament has sanctioned the construction of the line, it is high time that a trial survey…

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Railway Extension Meeting

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 17 August 1882 · page 2

ON Saturday afternoon last a public meeting was held at the School of Arts, Milton, having been convened by the Mayor, through a numerously signed requisition, for the purpose of…

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Special Telegraphic Intelligence. the Railway Trial Survey Deputation. the Application Granted. Sydney. Friday, 4 p.m

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 24 August 1882 · page 2

THIS morning Mr. Roseby, Dr. Tarrant, Mr. Garvin, Mr. H. Clarke, Mr. W. F. Martin, members of the Legislative Assembly, and the Hon. J. Marks, M.L.C. with Mssrs. J. M'Arthur, J…

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Short Road to Wealth

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 26 August 1882 · page 2

I’ll tell you a plan for gaining wealth Better than banking trade or leases, Take a bank-note and fold it across, And then you will find your money…

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Tramway to Braidwood (To the Editor of the Moruya Examiner.)

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 4 November 1882 · page 2

SIR, —I perceive the good people of Braidwood ate agitating for a railway, or tramway to connect, them with the iron bound world. Let us join issue with them and…

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Serious Railway Collision

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Saturday 18 November 1882 · page 2

THE following are the particulars of the Bathurat railway disaster:—As the 3.30 a.m. mail train was coming round the curve into the station yard it ran into the…

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Original Correspondence [Our columns are open to all, but we do not in any way identify ourselves with the opinions expressed by correspondents.] Eden and Bega Railway, and Shipping Monopoly. To the Editor of the Bega Gazette

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 29 November 1882 · page 2

SIR,—In consequence of the Eden land sales, I took a trip by coach to Tathra, and by steamer thence to the grand port of Eden, returning to Bega by the same…

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Railway Rates and Fares

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 30 November 1882 · page 4

IN view of the late reductions made in the passenger fares and charges for goods on our railways, the members of the Board appointed about twelve months ago to…

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Original Correspondence. "A Bridge Agin his own Door." to the Editor of the Shoalhaven Talegraph

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 21 December 1882 · page 2

SIR,—Mr. Roseby, in his speech on the hustings, made use of the above as applicable to myself and for which I ought to be grateful, insinuating that through his influence I had…

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