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Railways, roads & transport, 1894

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Anarchists Attempt to Destroy a Bridge. London

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 29 June 1894 · page 2

Anarchists have attempted, with dynamite, to destroy the bridge at Montlucon, France…

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Opening of a Bridge Across the Thames. London

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 July 1894 · page 2

The new tower bridge across the Thames was formally opened by the Prince of Wales on Saturday…

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Objections to a Road. to the Editor of the Shoalhaven Telegraph

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 4 July 1894 · page 2

SIR,—Some time since some of the residents of Cambewarra petitioned to have a road opened to Moree, and as the road where surveyed would do me a very serious injury, I objected to it and…

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Public Roads Within Municipal Boundaries

Moruya Examiner · Friday 6 July 1894 · page 4

A matter of no small interest to country municipalities was brought under the notice of the committee of the Municipal Association at its meeting last week. The Uralla…

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A Train Derailed. London

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 10 July 1894 · page 4

A train ran off the line at Bibbca Spain, whereby 12 persons were killed and 16 injured…

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Cut to Pieces by a Train. Sydney

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 10 July 1894 · page 4

The remains of a man have been found out to pieces by a passing train close to Mount Druitt station…

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Latest Cablegrams. the Railway Strike in America. Serious Disturbances. Strike Extending. London

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 10 July 1894 · page 4

The disturbances at Chicago, arising out of the railway strike, have assumed large proportion. Fighting has taken place with lost of life and destruction to…

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Scats at the Table. The train stopped at a mail station

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 11 July 1894 · page 4

On the guard crying out "Fifteen minutes to dinner," the passengers, of whom there happened to be a large number, rushed into the dining apartment and took their seats at…

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The American Railway Strike. London

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 13 July 1894 · page 2

Debs, president of the Railway Employees Union, America, has been arrested for conspiracy, and Howard, vice-president, and Killiber, secretary, have been…

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American Railway Strike. London

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 July 1894 · page 2

Embroglio Phelan, one of the railway strike leaders in America, has been sentenced to six months imprisonment. Indians strikers wrecked a train by…

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State Owned Railways

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 4 August 1894 · page 1

SOME weeks ago we published some notes, of an interview with Sir Thomas M‘Ilweraith, Premier of…

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What May Happen to a Family in New South Wales. a March of 150 Miles. a Painful Scene on the Road

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 11 August 1894 · page 1

THERE have just arrived at Jaspers Brush a man his wife and three children, who have just completed a tramp of 150 miles in order to obtain work. They came from the other side of…

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Affecting our Roads. (To the Editor)

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 August 1894 · page 2

SIR.—It has been my [?] to [?] over bush roads in this colony for upwards [?] 40 years, but I must say I base rarely [?] with such an atrocious highway as that…

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State-owned Railways

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 15 August 1894 · page 4

UNDER date June 2 the Times Canadian [?] has the following on S tate-owned railways:—Public opinion in Canada, again, has gone…

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Did He Fall or was He Pushed? a Railway Station Case

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 22 August 1894 · page 3

AT the Police Court yesterday, before Messrs. Fraser, M'Ilwraith and Green Js.P, Joseph Scarlet, an employee of Mr. B. M'Ternan, proceeded against James Richards, of Mr. R. T…

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Carriage of Produce on the Railways. Sydney

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 31 August 1894 · page 2

Parcels of poultry and dairy produce, not exceeding ninety pounds, will be carried on the railways, one hundred miles, for one shilling. Proportionate reductions…

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The South Coast Railway. Reduction in the Freight of Butter

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 1 September 1894 · page 4

OUR readers will no doubt remember what was reported of the interview which took place between the Commissioners of Railways and the Mayor of Kiama (M. N. Hindmarsh, Esq.) a…

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Unravelled Knots Ii. the Tramp

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 8 September 1894 · page 3

IT does not take a very keen observer to notice that during these last eighteen months or two years, a great number of men seem to be on the move along the main roads of the colony…

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The Tarraganda Bridge

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 September 1894 · page 2

THIS grand structure is to-day thrown open for public use, a long period having elapsed since the first start was made with its erection…

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A Railway Accident. Fireman Killed.the Driver Seriously Injured. Sydney

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 21 September 1894 · page 2

About five o’clock this morning a railway collision occurred between Hamilton and Waratah, resulting in the death of one man and the serious injury of three others, A…

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