Progress Report on the Railways
The following progress report of the Commissioner for Railways for 1885, was laid on the table of the Assembly on Tuesday night by the Minister for Public Works, Mr…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1886
251 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 13
Stock Traffic on the Railways. (By telegraph to the Herald.) Bourke
A meeting of persons interested in the carriage of live stock was held at the Royal Hotel, Bourke, last evening, for the purpose of taking into consideration the means of…
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On Saturday afternoon the new bridge erected across Mulbring Creek in the neighbourhood of Mount "Vincent near the boundaries of The Hunter and East Maitland electorates was opend for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Opening of the North Shore Cable Tramway. (From the S. M. Herald.)
The formal opening of the North Shore Cable Tramway was performed on Saturday last by his Excellency the Governor, in the midst of great rejoicing had demonstrations of pleasure on the part…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farmer. The Hunter—How to Breed, Rear, and Train it
OF the many manly sports for which Englishmen are famed, there are none which take precedence of hunting. Participated in by all degrees of men, it brings all classes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Narrabri-Walgett Railway. [By Telegraph From Greville's Company] Sydney, Friday evening
A large and influential deputation waited upon the Minister of Works to-day with a view of urging upon the Government the extension of the northwestern railway from Narrabri to Walgitt. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Dungog Railway Meeting. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—In your issue of Saturday, 22nd inst, a correspondent (evidently not jour own), writing under the heading of "Dungog," makes some palpably misleading statements with reference to…
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Yesterday afternoon a collision occurred on the Great Northern line at Allandale between a special train on its way to Narrabri with boats, in anticipation of a flood, and the up goods train. The effect…
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The following (says the Herald) is an abstract of the report and finding of the board appointed by the Commissioner for Railways to inquire into the circumstances…
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A COLLISION took place last evening near Allandale on the Great Northern line. From particulars to hand it appears that whilst the special train which left Newcastle at 4 p.m…
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We print from the S. M. Herald the changes effected by the new time table which has been arranged for the northern railway system, and elsewhere" make some remarks respecting it. The…
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IN view of the depressed state of the traffic on the various lines, and the consequent felling-off in the railway receipts, the officers of the department have for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Murderous Assault in Simpson's Road, Melbourne. (Argus, May 31.)
A more cold-blooded and mysterious outrage has seldom been chronicled in Melbourne than that which was enacted on Saturday night within a few feet of one of the busiest of the suburban…
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It is almost needless for me to say that we have had a glorious rain, which was very much wanted for the crops and also for our tanks and water-holes, as the water was fast disappearing from them. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On the Road to Kimberley. (By telegraph to the Harald.) Townsville
The steamer Victoria arrived here at 3 o'clock this afternoon, after a tolerably fine passage. The average rate of steaming was about eight knots per hour throughout. For the first three days the…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Route of the North Coast Railway
The Manning River Times of June 2, writing on this subject, says:—A North Coast Railway, taking either Morpeth or West Maitland as the starting point, would run through splendid country all…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sunday Railway Travelling. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—In last Tuesday's Mercury I observe your leader headed "More official blundering." At first sight, not caring to know what the blunder was, I did not read it, but to-day on…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →The Henry Electric Motor
An exhibition of the Henry Electric Motor was recently given in Kansas to the members of the Press, on the fair ground tracks of the Port Scott Railway. Mr. Henry has…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Original Correspondence. Sunday Railway Trains. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—I thank you for giving a place to my note On the above named subject in your Saturday's issue and must ask you to favor me again. Yesterday I heard a sermon on the unjust judge…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Railway from Glen Innes to Tenterfield
A correspondent at Dundee writes to the Uralla, and Walcha Times, under date June 6, as follows:- This section of the Northern line (Glen…
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