Railway Execurtions
The following letter has been sent to the Goulburn Herald:âWhen one reads of the many trikps and excursions by rail and water our sydney friends…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1899
157 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 1 of 8
A Railway Sensation. Two Ladies Assaulted
SINGLETON, Monday Afternoon. — A sensational case occurred on the Brisbane mail train this morning between here and Quirindi, the facts…
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During the gale an extraordinary railway accident occurred in Llanfairfechan, Carnarvonshire. North Wales. At a point where the line runs close…
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There is no telling what romance lies hidden in the heart or any man among the thousands that throng the city streets. Back of the most forbidding exterior the…
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That part of the Goulburn-Wombeyan road between. Richlands and the Caves (says Goulburn Herald) has long been a great obstruction to traffic because of the sleep grades and generally bad location of it…
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Two now reasons are advanced why the road from Bowral to Burragorang should be made, viz., the silver mines at the Peak which employ a hundred men, and only need a…
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That part of the Goulburn—Wombeyan road between Richlands and the Caves (says Goulburn Herald) has long been a great obstruction to traffic…
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Thus Bowral’s correspondent to the “Daily Telegraph”:—Residents of the Upper Burragorang are anxiously expecting some results from the…
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In Australia the tramp or "sundowner," as he is called, is a privileged person. As compared, too, with his British prototype, he is also a man of property…
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[?] Monday A[?] [?] The express train from Mons to [?] into a standing train at…
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SIR,—During the past couple of years I have had occasion to travel a good deal on the above road, and have been not a little surprised to find a road in such a dilapidated condition in a thickly populated…
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THE new road now being constructed between Bowral rind the Wombeyan Caves has been completed up to within about five miles of the Caves. The main camp is now at the Caves…
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In districts where the population is thinly senttered iver a large ares it is difficult to arrange for the instruction of children in the rudiments of…
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The engine of the express train from Mons to Brussels, with 800 passengers, ran into a standing train at Forest station, a suburb of Brussels, during a fog, and several of the…
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Another use has been found for kerosene—to lay the dust and prevent mud accumulating on bad roads Ah American engineer began using the oil…
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The Railway Commissioners announce by advertisement that an excursion train at cheap fares will be run on 23rd March, to enable country residents to visit the…
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A TELEGRAM from Part Elizabeth, South Africa, dated January 19, to the Natal "Mercury" says: —On Tuesday night, a respectable coloured woman, Katie Madola, with her infant child, got aboard…
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Albury, Monday .—A piece of quartz used for road metalling purposes was picked up in the street at Henty yesterday, and found to be deeply…
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A public meeting, over which the Mayor (Aid. A. Stephens) presided, was held at the Bowral School of Arts on Saturday evening, for the purpose…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bowral Free Press Wednesday, March 29, 1899. N. S. Wales Railway Ambulance Corps. Bowral and District Branch
THE Bowral end district branch of the above corps gave a practical exhibition of their work in the Bowral School of Arts on Saturday evening last; There was only a fair attendance, probably owing to the…
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