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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
251 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 13
MESSRS. LEE AND M'ALISTER COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. The hearing of the charge against Lionel William Lee and Duncan M'Alister of having conspired together to defraud the Railway Department of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Yesterday another fatal railway accident occurred on the main line. An express train to Launceston, went over the iron swing bridge on the Bridge water viaduct, at about 8.15 p.m. The end swing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It has been announced that Messrs C. and E, Millar, the well-known railway contractors, had obtained the contract for the construction of the line between Beverley and…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Another railway accident happened to an express train from La[?] to Hobart. As it was slowly travelling over a bridge water viaduct the fasten…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Friday morning, in the Summons division of the Water Police Court, before Mr. Whittingdale Johnson, S.M., Francis Augustus Wright, Edward Heaton, George R. Bonamy, Henry R. Wilson,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →JOHN PROCTOR, the prisoner who, whilst under sentence of five years' imprisonment for forgery, jumped from a train during transit from Maryborough to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →As I prognosticated, Lee and M'Alister, the first of the defendants in the railway fraud cases who came before the Court, have been committed for trial…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The "District Railway Scandal," as it has been called, has been before the New Zealand Parliament recently. A committee was recently appointed by the House of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →We continue from another page the evidence in the above case:— James Stevenson examined by Mr. Salomons, said that he had been in the employ of Wright,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Intense excitement prevailed in Hobart on Thursday night when the news came that another fatal railway disaster had happened on the main line. The Mercury says the…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →We continue from the Echo the evidence in the above case from the point reached in our last issue:— George Trotter Evans, goods…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The disclosures by Stephenson, who turned Queen's evidence in the wright-Honton case, has caused much comment. Stephenson was in the box all yesterday, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The hearing of the charge against Francis Augustus Wright, Edward Heaton, George R. Bonamy, Henry R. Wilson, Benjamin Windsor, Donald Turner, Henry Hansard, and Edward…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The evidence in the case of the Commissioner of Railways against Wright, Heaton and Co., exhibited little or nothing of particular interest all…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wright and Heaton's case was resumed to-day, and resulted in Wilson and Turner being discharged, on the application of the Crown Prosecutor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One of the curious features of railway building in the United States (remarks the Pall Mall Budget of June 18) is the difference of gauge between the Northern and Southern roads. On the frontier of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The hearing of the charge against Francis Augustus Wright, Edward Heaton, George R. Bonamy, Henry R. Wilson, Benjamin Windsor, Donald Turner, Henry Hansard, and Edward…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Following are the conclusions arrived at by Mr. J. Fincham, Engineer-in-Chief, in regard to the Bridgewater (Tasmania) railway accident:—"That the bridge was in position, but unsecured, when…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The second public meeting of the Cobar Railway League was held last evening at the Council Chambers, the Mayor (Mr. Lewis), chairman of the league, presiding. The…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →THE recent disclosures made with respect to the alleged railway frauds must have burst upon the people like a bombshell. If all that has come out in…
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