Wombeyan Caves Road
SIR,—The following facts about the Wombeyan Caves Road, although, known to many, may read partly or wholly as news to some at a time when those same are much talked of…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1900
82 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 1 of 5
The Railway Case
Is will be remembered that on the 14th December a case against Sydney Williamson at the Goulburn Police Court for buying a ticket at an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bowral Free Press Wednesdays January 17,1900. Official Opening of Wombeyan Caves Road
A COMMITTEE meeting was held yesterday (Tuesday) morning when the chairman—the Mayor—announced that Mr. O'Sullivan, Minister for Works: Mr. young, ex-Minister toe works; Mr. Vernon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bowral Free Press Wednesday, January 24, 1900. Wombeyan Caves Road
THE time approaches when the official opening of the new road to the Wombeyan Caves will take place and the success of the function is already assured. The Mayor of Moss Vale has written the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bowral Free Press Saturday, January 27, 1900. Official Opening of Wombeyan Caves Road
A MEETING of the sub com. was held at Mr. Wickham's office yesterday (Friday) morning. There were present the Mayor, who presided, Rev. Stanley Wilkinson, Aid. Drescher, Messrs George, Waters,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Opening of the Wombeyan Caves Road
This function was performed by the Minister for Works, Mr. O'Sullivan, on Monday, 29th inst. The procession started from Moss Vale at 6.30 a m. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bowral to the Wombeyan Caves. The "Duprez" Road. Opened by the Minister for Works. A Memorable Event
THERE have been red-letter days in this district on many previous occasions; but we think we are well within the mark when we say that the opening of the new road from this district to the Wombeyan…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Distribution of Railways
The people of George Stephenson's race have not kept railroads to themselves, but so far they have a long lead of the rest of the world in constructing them. There is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Jocular Railwaymen
Americans are great jokers. Mr. C. Dewey Hilles, of Lancaster, Ohio, has found this out to his cost. Mr. Hilles was formerly a railwayman, but in now engaged in another…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →F.H.S. and the Opening of Wombeyan Caves Road
SIR,—Poor prophet F.H.S. again. Who will ever believe in him any more? Sometime ago he predicted that the opening would be a something fiasco-miserable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bowral Police Court. Thursday, Feb. 8, 1900. Obstructing a Train
Before Mr. R. S. Mackenzie, J. P., William Cookburn, a boy eight years of age, was charged by Constable Gallagher with maliciously placing two stones on the railway line at Bowral with intent to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest News. Sydney, Friday. Railway Accident
Last night at McMillan's Railway Gate, Wellington, a special train knocked down Mr. McMillan and his daughter, both being cut to pieces…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Picture Places in the Hill Country. the Duprez-road. (S. M. Herald, Feb. 6.)
THE " tunnel" is regarded as about the beginning of the " new road" that Mr. O'Sullivan, the Minister for Public Works, had come from Sydney to open, and is about 18 or 19 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Letters to the Editor. The Caves Road
SIR,—Mittagong is a long time making arrangements to open the road? We hear on all hands that they did not join Bowral because they wanted to have their own opening day? When is it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mittagong and the Wombeyan Caves Road
DEAR SIR,—The residents of Mittagong are a long time making preliminary arrangements for their opening of the Wombeyan Caves road. By all appearances…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Robertson Railway
On Wednesday night, in pursuance of an advertisement, a large number of persons interested in the question of connecting Moss Vale and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Robertson Railway Tug-of-War
Thus the Illawarra " Mercury." :—There is quite a tug-of-war developing in connection with the Rober son railway project. Bowral and Moss Vale…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Letters to the Ydstor. The Duprez Road
SIR,—Could you inform me whether anatomists have yet conclusively discovered where the lower lip ends and the chin begins? Likewise, when Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Private Railways That Are Not Toys
Of late years there has been a crass for [?] miniature railways in gardens and drawing-rooms While there models are many of them as beautiful as they are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →How I Escaped from Pretoria. Adventures on the Road to Delagoa Bay. (Morning Post, Jan. 24.)
How unhappy is that poor man who loses his liberty! What can the wide world give him in exchange? No degree of material comfort, no consciousness of correct…
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