Terrible Railway Accident in Melbourne. (Telegram in Herald.) Melbourne, Tuesday, 11 a.m
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 1 September 1881 · page 3
This morning, when the early express train from Brighton was approaching the Jolimont crossing, a wheel struck the chair of the railway, upsetting the carriage from the line and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Daring Train Robbery
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 3 September 1881 · page 3
Kansas City, Mo., July 16.—Information has been received here by an incoming Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific train of a daringly planned and successful train robbery…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Denman Bridge. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 3 September 1881 · page 2
SIR,—In the last issue of your journal I observed with regret the loss by flood of the Denman bridge, and correspondence consequent thereon from Denman. Your…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Northern Railway Connexion
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 3 September 1881 · page 3
A meeting of the Northern Members of the Legislative Assembly, convened by Mr. Brunker, M.L.A for East Maitland, and Mr. J. P. Abbott, M.L.A. for Gunnedah, was held on Wednesday evening last in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Railway Accident in Melbourne. Further Particulars. (Telegram to Echo.) Melbourne
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 3 September 1881 · page 6
The official reports of the accident furnished to the Minister show that it was attributable to the breaking of the tire of the front wheel of a first-class smoking carriage…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Railway Accident in Melbourne. (Telegram in Herald.) Melbourne
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 3 September 1881 · page 4
Melbourne has all day been in a state of great excitement over the terrible railway disaster. Nothing that has happened for a long time past has absorbed so much…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Railway and the Show
Singleton Argus · Saturday 3 September 1881 · page 2
The [?] [?] to [?] the following official letter [?] returns, showing the numbers of [?] traveling by rail to the show of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railway Discover in Victoria. Melbourne
Singleton Argus · Saturday 3 September 1881 · page 1
ON visiting the news of the railway accident the morning. It was [?] that the debris had been [?] removed, and there remained no [?] whatever [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Railway Disaster at Melbourne. (By telegraph to S. M. Herald.) Melbourne
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 6 September 1881 · page 7
As was expected, the injuries to Mr. Elmslie Stephen terminated fatally, and he succumbed at 6 a.m. to-day. It was a singular coincidence that the deceased was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway Rates on Farm Produce. (By telegraph to Herald.) Penrith, Thursday night
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 6 September 1881 · page 7
A public meeting, to consider the advisableness of presenting a petition to Parliament in favour of a reduction of railway freights on farm produce was held in the Temperance…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Second Sheet to The Mailand Mercury. Saturday, September 10, 1881. Our Railways
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 10 September 1881 · page 4
ALREADY we have given the recapitulation affixed by Mr. Goodchap to his railway report for 1880. We may profitably take out some other figures of the report…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Progress of the Railway Extension to Uralla. (From the Uralla and Walcha Times, September 7.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 10 September 1881 · page 3
The environs of Uralla are again being studded with tents, numbers of the Messrs. Amos's men having arrived in town during the past week, and taken up their quarters in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Melbourne Railway Disaster. (By Telegraph to the S. M. Herald.) Melbourne
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 10 September 1881 · page 3
The inquest on the remains of the Rev. H. H. Garrett, Mr. F. F. Bailliere, Mr. Jamieson, and Mr. G. M. E. Stephen, all of whom were killed in the recent railway accident, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Connecting Railway. Deputation to the Minister for Works. [By Telegraph From Our Own Reporter.] Friday evening, recd. 9.7 p.m
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 10 September 1881 · page 4
A deputation of twenty-four Members of Parliament waited on Mr. Lackey to-day, to ask that the Northern connecting line should fork at Cooranbong to Waratah and East Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tramway Accidents. (From the Echo.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 September 1881 · page 6
The following is a return of the number and nature of accidents to life and limb which have occurred on the Government tramways from September 28, 1879, to August 15,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Northern Railway Connexion. Proposal for a Forked Line. Deputation to the Minister of Works. [From Our Own Reporter.]
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 September 1881 · page 2
On Friday last a deputation comprising twenty-four members of Parliament waited on the Minister of Works, at his office, to ask him to submit a proposal to Parliament…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Maitland Mercury. Thursday, September 14, 1881. the Connecting Railway
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 15 September 1881 · page 4
WE had no purpose to return to this subject so early, feeling satisfied that the deputation to the Minister made out an excellent case in favor of a junction at East Maitland. But the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Connecting Railway
Singleton Argus · Saturday 17 September 1881 · page 1
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Continued on Trove, page 1 →Large Railway Locomotives
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 22 September 1881 · page 4
Recently we mentioned that a railway locomotive of very large size having been built lately in the United States, the first of ten to be built for that line, it had run its…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Original Correspondence. the Homebush to Waratah Railway Deputation. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 22 September 1881 · page 2
SIR,—The deputation of influential gentlemen, comprising a large number of our New South Wales Parliament, amongst whom were many members of the metropolis as well as…
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