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Broken Hill & the Far West · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1900

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The Adelaide Tramways. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide, Wednesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Thursday 11 October 1900 · page 4

A special meeting of the City Council was called for this morning to consider the charges made by Mr. Proud at yesterday's deputation regarding the tramways against…

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The Government and the Railway Commissioners. Police As to Proposed New Lines

Western Grazier · Saturday 13 October 1900 · page 3

From time to time misunderstanding seems to arise in regard to the position of the Railway Commissioners in relation to proposed new lines of railway. In…

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Killed on the Railway. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Monday 15 October 1900 · page 2

Catherine Bradley, 62, was killed at Ascot Vale station by being knocked down by an open carriage door on Saturday…

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The Drought in the West. Effect on the Railway Traffic. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 16 October 1900 · page 2

Speaking at the railway picnic at Orange yesterday Mr. Boberts, district superintendent, said that the traffic on the Western (Bourke) line at presant was the heaviest…

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The Netherlands Railway Company. "Hopelessly Compromised." London

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 17 October 1900 · page 2

Documents found on members of the captured Dutch Ambulance Corps serving with the Boers and submitted to the Concessions Commission at Cape…

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The Tramways. "Work will Begin at Once."

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 17 October 1900 · page 2

THE Mayor a couple of days ago wired to Mr. Cann asking him to remind the Minister for Works that the steam-tramway system had been agreed to on the condition that the…

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The Queensland Syndicate Railways. Determined Opposition. BRISBANE

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 17 October 1900 · page 3

In thebe Assembly last evening the Callide Creek Railway Bill was further considered in Committee. A whole sheaf of amendments[?]to be moved by various Labor members had…

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Electric Tramways Without Overhead Wires

Barrier Miner · Thursday 18 October 1900 · page 4

IN view of the experiments by the London County Council with systems of electric traction without orverhead wires, it is interesting to…

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Political. [By Telegraph.] Queensland. The Callide Railway Bill. "Scenes" in the House. BRISBANE

Barrier Miner · Friday 19 October 1900 · page 3

In the Assembly yesterday evening the debate on the Callide Railway Bill was resumed. The application of the cloture was moved early in the evening sad carried. A…

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The Menindie Railway. Before the Works Committee. Hostile Evidence. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 25 October 1900 · page 2

The Public Works Commission gave farther consideration yesterday to the Broken HillMenindie railway project. Mr. H. M Lachlan, secretary to the Railway…

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The Street Tramways. a Run on the Labor Bureau

Barrier Miner · Thursday 25 October 1900 · page 2

NEVER since the Government Labor Burean was opened in Broken Hill some six or seven years ago has there been such a rush to register names on the unemployed list as…

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The Street Tramways

Barrier Miner · Friday 26 October 1900 · page 2

MR. J. H. CANN, M.P., has received from the Department of Works a notification confirming the information already sent to the MINER that the Broken Hill tramways would…

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The Broken Hill-cockburn Railway. Mr. Cans Before the Works Committee. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 26 October 1900 · page 2

Mr. J. H. Cann, M.L.A., gave evidence yesterday before the Public Works Committee regarding the Broken Hill-Cockburn railway project. He said that it at present…

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Cobar-Wilcannia Railway League

Western Grazier · Saturday 27 October 1900 · page 2

A meeting of the above [?] at the Council Chambers last Wednesday afternoon. Present—Messrs Atkinson, Ralver, Coburn, Dr. Dey, Radleffy, Andrews,…

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Railway Communication

Western Grazier · Saturday 27 October 1900 · page 2

The Legislative Council by a narrow majority, threw out the bill for a railway from Cobar in Wilcannia. We offer no opining as to the route, but there should…

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Our Trans-Continental Railway

Western Grazier · Saturday 27 October 1900 · page 1

Among the first questions to be considered by the Federal Parliament of Australia, when the inevitable defeats in the Constitution Act Fiscal Policy, and…

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Public Works Proposals. The Railway and the Waterworks. The Government Geologist's Evidence. (By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 27 October 1900 · page 4

The Public Works Committee took further evidence yesterday regarding the Cockburn Broken Hill railway project. Mr. E. F. Pattman, the Government Geologi[?] said that…

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A Railway Guard Killed. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Monday 29 October 1900 · page 2

Philip James, a railway guard, was killed between the buffers of two trains at Woodend yesterday…

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Run Over by a Train. WELLINGTON

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 30 October 1900 · page 2

Poe Rene, a well-known Maori, who accompanied the Maori footballers to England, while attempting to board a moving train yesterday, missed his footing and slipped on…

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Overland on a Motor Car. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Monday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 30 October 1900 · page 1

Messrs. Elliott and Hunter leave Melbourne for Sydney to-morrow on a motor car, carrying a message to New South Wales from Sir John Madden and Lord Beauchamp. They…

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