Illawarra-Robertson Railway
Wollongong, Saturday—The Public Works Committee sat at Dapto to-day to hear evidence regarding the proposed Illawarra Robertson railway…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1900
82 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 4 of 5
Train the Eyebrows
Take the eyebrows away, and how provokingly insipid some faces become. The closer the eyebrows to the eyes the greater the amount of intelligence in supposed to…
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Mr. John Harper, the Chief Railway Traffic Manager, on the 31st ult., gave evidence before the Public Works Committee as to the financial prospects…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bowral Free Press Saturday, September 29, 1900. Our Roads
MUCH could be written about this all-important subject, but at this stage our intention is not to deal at length on the matter. Many of our roads are in a more or less broken up condition, and would cost…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Railway Accident. Goulburn
A young men named Charles Murray while carrying a bag and walking along the railway line this morning, met the paper train on a narrow bridge…
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Bathurst, Monday.âActing Ganger John Hanns, while riding from George's Plains to Perth this morning on a tricycle, was cut to pieces by a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Fatality at Homebush
A sad railway fatality occurred at Homebush at 6.30 a.m. on Sunday, the victim being a porter named Joseph Herbort Schofield (22), unmarried, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Misconduct of Railway Navvies
The attention of the Minister for Works having been directed to the alleged drunkenness prevalent among some of the men working on a new…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Bridge of Coffins
A BRIDGE of coffins was made by the British troops during the China war of 1860, on their march to Pekin. A few days after the taking of the Taku forts the onward march of the British soldiers was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Collecting Tram Fares
THE Leeds corporation have been so pained, by the leakage of fares on their trams (says the Sheffield Daily Telegraph) that they are about to adopt a ticket machine so…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Humors of Railway Travelling
AMONG the many stories concerning railway travelling which Mr. Grundy tells in the "Temple Magazine" is one which concerns our American cousins. "The Americans are very proud of their railways, but in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Illawarra-Roborison Railway
In the course of his speech at the Koome bangnot on Friday evening, the Minister for works made op[?]oial reference to the proposal Illawarra…
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TENDERS for the North Shore bridge were opened on Wednesday. Of the twenty-two, designs estimates [?] from £600,000 to nearly £3,000, 000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Pitt-street Tram of 89 Years Ago
Now that it has been decided by the Government to construct a tramway along Pittstreet from the Circular Quay to the Redfern railway station, it is interesting to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Local and District. Road Tenders
We wish to draw the attention of contractors and others to an advertisement in our business columns calling for…
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The Railway Commissioners recognise that provision will hive to be made to meet the large railway traffic in connection with the Commonwealth celebration, and for come…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Official Correspondence the Caves Road
MR. W. McCourt, M.P., has received the following letter, which he has forwarded for publication:â Sydney, 8th Nov., 1900…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Robberies in Toorak-Road
Three highway robberies, with violence, took place in the Toorak-road, South Yarra, between 11 and 12 o'clock on Sunday night. The thoroughfare…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Robertson Railway
NOTWITHSTANDING the united efforts so persistently put forth several months ago by the Bowral and Robertson district residents to enforce on the Government the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Gangs
IN answer to a question in the Assembly recently respecting the gang system on the roads, the under-secretary for works stated that the gangs have beats or circuits which in many instance…
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