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Southern Highlands · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1893

72 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 1 of 4

How to train the Boys

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 7 January 1893 · page 8

Speaking at Wagga recently Mr. Anderson, Director of Agriculture, said that if he were asked to say how he would try to keep the boys on the farm and make them love…

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The Road to Success

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 7 January 1893 · page 6

Men and women have ceased to succeed in a hurry. Occasionally there will be an exception, but the instances are very rare. The secret of successful careers is the…

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How to Train the Boys

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 11 January 1893 · page 2

SPEAKING at Wagga recently Mr. Anderson, Director of Agriculture, said that if he were asked to say how he would try to keep the boys on the farm and make them love agriculture as a calling and stick to the…

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Public Meeting for the Kangaroo Valley Railway

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 11 January 1893 · page 3

On Thursday evening last a public meeting was held in the National Hall, Kangaroo Valley, for the purpose of advocating a branch line of railway from Berry to the…

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Bowral Free Press " Do at adversaries do in law: Strive mightily, but cat and-drink as friends." Wednesday, Jan. 18, 1893. Notes on Current Topics, Railway Passenger Rates

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 18 January 1893 · page 2

THE dweilers and tourists on the southern and western lines are at a disadvantage as compared with those on the coast lines where competition, with sea…

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Striay Notes. 4—Railway Tourist Routes

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 18 January 1893 · page 2

As a general rule never travel, by rail at night, if you want to see the country. If the journey be a long one go as far by day and stay all night for the next train,…

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Strange Death of a Tramp from Starvation

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 18 January 1893 · page 2

News reached Moss Vale on Saturday evening that a man was dying on the road near Paddy's River. As Constable Russel is away on sick leave Constable Anderson…

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Proposed Electric Tramway. (To the Editor of the Serutincer.)

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 25 January 1893 · page 3

Sir,—The hint that you have given in last issue to the trustees of the Fitzroy Waterfalls, might be taken by those interested in the construction of a line of…

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Kangaroo Valley. Proposed Railway—berry to Kangaroo Valley

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 4 February 1893 · page 5

About three weeks ago I forwarded a report of a public meeting held in the National Hall, Kangaroo Valley, in advocacy of the above. At that meeting it…

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Bad Roads

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 25 February 1893 · page 2

WHAT we are to do for roads since the Government has set up in the economical line does not appear, and the late run of bad weather has done great harm in many…

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A Railway Porter's Apology

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 8 March 1893 · page 4

AT a local railway station a few days ago, a porter, going off duty, was met by a lady who requested him to carry her luggage into the waiting-room. Instead of…

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Madman Takes Possesion of a Railway Signal Box

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 25 March 1893 · page 3

On Thursday night about seven o'clock information was given to the local police (says a contributor to the Nepean Times) that a man named Alfred Thompson, an…

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Terrible Railway Accident near Goulburn—Two Men Killed

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 12 April 1893 · page 2

Our Bundanoon correspondent writes:—A terrible catastrophe occurred on the railway line near Boxer's Creek on Sunday morning last, whereby a young man named…

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Overhead Bridge

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 15 April 1893 · page 2

A BOWRAL Ratepayer writes the following sensible letter to the Southern Mail, and we need scarcely say that with Ratepayer's suggestion we entirely agree:—…

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The Hydraulic Railway

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 15 April 1893 · page 6

The hydraulic railway is a novelty attracting much attention at Paris just now. It is the development of an old project of Girard, the well-known French hydraulic engineer…

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Rose-street Bridge

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 26 April 1893 · page 3

ON Monday evening the council opened the tenders for the erection of a foot-bridge in Rose-st.; but on account of a letter having been received from Mr. H. O. Button the…

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A Luxurious Train

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 6 May 1893 · page 6

MESSRS. BROWN, MARSHALL, and Co., Saltley, have, the Birmingham Daily Post says, just built a new train for the Peninsular and Oriental Company, to run between…

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Moss Valle Council. Conclusion of last meeting:— Re Lackey Road

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 13 May 1893 · page 4

Alderman Taylor with permission moved that a deputation from the council co-operate with the deputation of the townspeople who are to wait on the Minister for Public Works on May 18th re…

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Proposed Railway to Robertson

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 13 May 1893 · page 4

On Saturday last a meeting was held in the Robertson School of Arts to consider the question of asking the Government to have a survey made of a light line of railway to Robertson. At…

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No Royal Road to Journalism

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 20 May 1893 · page 8

There is no royal road, but there is a road to the inside and a road to the outside. The inside road is only possible to those who are, as it were, born in the purple—i.e, if…

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