Fitzroy Falls Road
Sir,—In reply to the letter dated 12th July last, presented by you, from Mr. P. F. Hart, Ulster Park, Yarrunga, drawing attention to the condition of the road from…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1899
157 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 6 of 8
Roads
THE metropolitan press, or rather a section of it, is making merry over the promised vigorous roads, policy of the new administration. The sarcasm is out of place. It's about time the roads of the…
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Bowral’s correspondent to the “Telegraph” says :—'The road to [?] caves has now almost been completed, and within the next three weeks will…
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The Minister for Works in referring to the intention of the Government to [?] the road vote by £250,000 points out that it is merely a…
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In connection with Mr. Reid's criticisms on the proposal of the Government to increase the road vote Mr. O'Sullivan points out that the…
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THE railway commissioners have notified their readiness to take over the George-street electric tramway as soon as the engineer-in-chief for railway construction is in a position to certify that the work…
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A deputation, representing the municipal council and residents of Camden, was introduced to the Railway Commissioners on Thursday by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Robertson Railway. To the Editor
Sir,—In view of the recent change Government it would seem that tho present time is an opportune one for bringing before the Minister for…
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On Thursday last, Mr. Alex. Camp bell, M.P., introduced a large deputation from the Wingecarribee district to urge the construction of a line of…
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EARLY on Wednesday morning a party of leading Bowral residents (viz., Rev. E. S. Wilkinson, Messrs. A.P. Duprez, S. W. Hodge, Stanley How and, Kirton (photographer), left Bowral by the new…
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Our roads are a constant source of interest, worry, and amusement. And not only to those who travel on them, although being bogged in wet weather…
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Truthful Bowral persistently misrepresents matters regarding this road. It is well known that the road from Bowral as petitioned for has been refused, and that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bowral Free Press Wednesday, October 18, 1899. Road Bowral to Wombeyan Caves. Taralga's Misrepresentations
THE Taralga correspondent recently wrote as follows to the Goulburn Post "THAT GATE."—The Bowral Free Press is concerned, or professes to be, about the present…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Transvaal War. Boers Looting Townships. Destroying Railways. Skirmishes at Mafeking and Kimberley
The Boers have looted the townships of Ingogo and Ingagane, in Natal, robbing Rand refugees, including Basuto natives…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tom's Rambles Round Bowral. Bowral, Monday, Oct. 9th, '99. No Snow — Bowral Looks Well — Advertising Bowral—Visitors Arriving—The Water Supply— Gets Desperate—Writes Poetry—Asks for the Big Scheme—Our Great Grandchildren will bear the Burden—Boer War and Cemetery Trouble—City and Robertson Railways
DEAR JIM.—You ate anxious to know if we are having any more snow here. Not at present, thank you, although we do not know what a day will bring forth. Bowral and district are looking well, beautiful in…
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The Natal railway at Ingagne has been destroyed by the Boers to prevent an armoured train passing over the line…
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THE Bowral correspondent of Monday's Evening News writes:—" Indignation is expressed in Bowral at the statement of the Mittagong Progress Committee that ' Bowral will never have any direct road to…
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WE are quite willing to allow the public to judge as to which is the more degrading—a paper that refuses to let the Mittagong Progress Committee (not Mittagong, but an irresponsible committee that does…
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Sir,—In fairness to the Mittagong Progress Committee it should be known that the committee did not ask for a railway from Mittagong, neither has…
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F.H.S. says he has no dispute with the Free Press. It is a matter of indifference to us whether he has or not. The Free Press is independent of the judgment of so irresponsible and meddlesome a…
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