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

Railways, roads & transport, 1904

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The Proprietary Tramway. a Conference Prob[?]ble, [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Thursday 4 February 1904 · page 2

It is now deemed propable that a conference of representatives of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company and the Silverbon Tramway Company will…

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The Proprietary Tramway [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Thursday 4 February 1904 · page 4

The Melbourne Age this morning says:—It appears than what is greatly needed jest now to office a settlement of the freight difficalty between the…

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A Train Wrecked. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Saturday 6 February 1904 · page 2

A train was wreaked near Halifax, in Yorkshire, yesterday. The carriages separated from the locomotive and fell over an embankment 80ft deep, Two passengers…

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The Proprietary Tramway To-day's Confernece [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Friday Afernoon

Barrier Miner · Saturday 6 February 1904 · page 1

The conference between the directors of the Broken Hill Proprielery and the Silverton Tramway companies was held to day as arranged…

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The Street Trams

Barrier Miner · Monday 8 February 1904 · page 2

THE number of passengers carried by the Government street trams last week was 24,927…

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Knocked Down by a Tram. SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Monday 8 February 1904 · page 2

Oliver Denison, 11 years of age, was knocked down by a tram yesterday and had both arms broken and his skull fractured…

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The Proprietary Tramway. Conference of Directors. (By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 9 February 1904 · page 2

The decision, it any, arrived at yesterday at the conference of the Broken Hill Proprietary and Silverton Tramway companies has not yet been…

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The Proprietary Tramway The Adjournment Conference. [By Telepragh.] Melebourne, Monday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 9 February 1904 · page 1

The adjourned conference between the Broken Hill Proprietary and Silverton Tremway companies is proceading. Any desision to-night is…

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The Tramway Employees' G[?]i[?]ances. Deputatio[?] to the Premier. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 10 February 1904 · page 2

A dep[?]tation from the tramway employees of the city yesterday afternoon asked the Premier to inquire into and arrange certain grievances…

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The Proprietary Tramway The Conference. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 10 February 1904 · page 2

Correspondence is still proceeding between the Silverton Tramway and Broken Hill Proprietary companies on the question of freights…

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The Proposed Tramway. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Thursday 11 February 1904 · page 2

No definite announcement respecting the negotiations between the Silverton Tramway and the Broken Hill Proprietary companies is expected…

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Daring Train Robbery. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Friday 12 February 1904 · page 2

Six members of an international gang of robbers last night boarded the Brussels-Paris express train and robbed the postal carriage of 400,000 [?]…

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Silverton Tram Freights. Decision of the Conference. A Decided Reduction. Tramway Declares a Dividend. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Saturday 13 February 1904 · page 2

The Argus says with regard to the conference between the Silverton Tramway and Broken Hill Proprietary companies on the matter of freights that both sides decline to…

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Railway Amd Tramway Men a Federal Union. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 17 February 1904 · page 2

A conference of Railway and Tramway Associations yesterday decided to take steps to federate amalgamated societies in the States…

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Railway to Cloncurry. The Premier Unsympathetic. [By Telegraph.] Brisbane

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 17 February 1904 · page 2

Mr. John Orr, M.L.C. and Mr William Knox, M.H.R. of Melbourne, yesterday afternoon had an interview with the Premier, Mr,…

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Silverton Tramway Rates

Barrier Miner · Thursday 18 February 1904 · page 2

THUS the Age on the settlement of the railway freights trouble:— "The apprehensions of a section of investors have been set at rest by the…

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The following appeared in yesterday's Second Edition:— the War. Russian Supplies Seized, Siberian Railway Confused Movements of the Japanese Fleet. Russian Gunboat Captured German Friendship for Russia. [Reuter's Messages.] London, Tuesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Thursday 18 February 1904 · page 4

The Japanese have seized at Nagasaki, a Japanese port, the steamer [?] cargo of canned goods, shipped at San Francisco for the Russians at…

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Cobar-Wilcannia Railway

Western Grazier · Saturday 20 February 1904 · page 2

Mr. Marshall, the railway engineer in charge of the party now marking the permanent alignment of the Cobar. W[?] railway, paid this town a visit…

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A Big Camel Train

Barrier Miner · Monday 22 February 1904 · page 2

YESTERDAY [?] at about ahlfpast 3 o'clock two lung brains of camels laden with wood threaded their way In from the backountry and set their…

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2nd Edition Miner Office, 3 P.M. the War Another "Communique." Siberian Railway Cannot be Guarded, The Manchuria's Cargo, [Reuter's Messages] London, Sunday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Monday 22 February 1904 · page 4

The Viedomistt, a leading St. Peter[?] burg daily, p[?] has a remarkably frank Communique, which states that the Sib[?] railway cannot be guarded…

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