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Broken Hill & the Far West · Railways, roads & transport
350 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 11 of 18
The Boers have exploded the railway in the vicinity of Koetze's Drift and Newcastle. General Baden-Powell in an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THIS proposal is meeting with some opposition in the Council from that class of politician whose brains and ideas never take them beyond Sydney. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY Worker (which, it might he said has not a particularly high opinion of the Broken Hill Municipal Labor party) says regarding the tramways:-" Broken Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The City Council at its special meeting late night declined to pledge its assets and rates for the purpose of raising a loan of £400,000 in connection with the proposed electric…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The inquest on the victims of the Fairfield railway fatality was continued to-day. Evidence was given by several laborers as to the rate of speed of the train; various guesses…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The serious railway troubles which have occurred in Wales are now for the most part over, the strikers' demands for increased wages having been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Silverton Tramway Company's statutory half-yearly meeting was held yesterday afternoon. The chairman (Mr. Blackwood) said that the company was in a satisfactory…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ADAM WILKIE, whose wife has been suing for a divorce in Melbourne, gave, as already briefly indicated, some particulars of a railway contractor's profits during his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The report of the Royal Commission on Railways has been presented to Parliament. The Commission considers that while the Bowen railway should be connected with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A body of Boer scouts cat the railway at Klip River and seized and burnt a supply train of 28 trucks. The Boers also captured 35 prisoners, but…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sidney Augustus Black, an elderly man, fell from a tram at Lonsdale-street yesterday and was killed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This evening the final discussion as to the expediency of the construction of the Cobar to Wilcannia railway comes on in the Legislative Council, and to-morrow…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Boers derailed a train on the Pietersburg line, injuring some men of the West Riding Regiment…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the Legislative Council last night the adjourned debate on the second reading of the Cobar-Wilcannia Railway Bill was continued…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE proper thing, no doubt, is to congratulate Wilcannia upon the virtual passing of the bill for the construction of the Cobar-Wilcannia railway. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The second reading of the Cobar-Wilcannia Railway Bill in the Legislative Council came on for discussion yesterday afternoon, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT seems extraordinary that a scheme so well recommended as the Cobar-Wilcannia Railway extension should have been passed by the Council…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Justice Fardell has granted an injunction restraining the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants and Messrs. Bell and Holmes, the secretaries of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →William Fabey has been positively identified as the man who attempted to commit a criminal assault on a girl in a railway carriage at Box Hill, and who assaulted another at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Daniel O'Donel, miner, working at the Dudley colliery, was riding on the train between Merewether and Newcastle on Saturday when his hat blew off. He jumped…
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