Road Grant
Mr. M‘Court, M.P., has been informed by the Minister for Works that he has approved of the sum of £85 being expended upon the road from Colo…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1901
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Passenger Train Alterations
Commending on Sunday, 6th ins[?] the following alterations have been made in the passenger train service from Bowral: —Express to Sydney (Sundays and…
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When the up mail train from Berry to Sydney, on the South Coast line had reached Heathcote on Saturday morning some of the passengers reported that a man named George…
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According to a return presented to the Legislative Assemby on Wednesday by the Treasurer, 18 passengers were killed upon the metropolitan tramway service…
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An official communication has been received by Mr. M’Court, M.P., stating that the Works Department has approved of a special grant of £100…
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At a late hour on Saturday night, a man named Robert H. W. Holmes. aged 48, was killed by a steam tram in Botany-road. Waterloc. Holmes…
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The following communication has been received by Mr. McCourt, M.L.A., and forwarded for publicartion:—public Works Department, Sydney, 6th Nov. 1901:—Sir,—With reference to the letter dated…
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A request was made to the State Minister for Works on Wednesday from Dungog residents, introduced by Mr. Bennett, M.L.A, for a sum of…
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Mr. George Frost, who has just arrived home from the Wombeyan Caves, was spoken to yesterday by our representative regarding the state of the road. But it is the same old story,…
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A largely signed petition was forwarded to the Minister for Works last week, urging that the newly-opened road from A.K.O. Co.'s tramway crossing on the Wanganderry road to…
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The ever troublesome Gib Hill road, the one stumbling block between Mittagong and Bowral, still stands forth in all its majesty, towering high in apparent…
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The many readers of this journal will doubtless be interested in learning the views put forward by a prominent Mittagong resident, regarding the Wombeyan…
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Adelaide, Sunday.—The most serious railway accident which has happened in South Australia for many years occurred yesterday morning near the…
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The Railway Commissioners are going to repaint the Hawkesury Railway Bridge, which, by the way, is the largest structure of its kind in the…
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The northbound overland express train on the Southern Pacific was hold up by two masked men 15 miles south of Eugene at 3 o'clock on the morning…
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The berth knocker but does not refer to a human. It is a slang term for a cooling draught, a few drops of which adroitly sprinkled in a person's drink will…
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In the early days of the colony, before the construotion of the railways, when all the passenger and goods traffic for the interior had to go by road, every resident would know more or less of the road from…
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At the meeting of the Mittagong municipal council on Wednesday night the Mayor (Ald. Mealing) road a letter which he had received from the Hon…
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Mrs. Green: “Oh, my dear! That magni[?] watchdog you brought [?] yesterday is gone.” Mr. Green: “Eh! Did he break the…
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PASSENGER trains arrive at Bowral from Sydney:—11.47 p.m. daily, Saturdays excepted 7.37 a.m. (Paper Train) daily, Sunday excepted 11.12 a.m., Saturday only…
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