An Ice Bridge
The grandest sight in the park is beyond the falls of the Yellowstone. I have never seen, but have frequently read, of the beautiful sight presented by the falls of Niagara in winter and of the wonderful…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1886
251 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 8 of 13
Our Sydney Letter. the Railway Frauds
As your Sydney telegraphic correspondent wired you on Tuesday last, the case against Wright, Heaton, and Co. and employees was concluded in the Water…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Attempted Criminal Assault in a Railway Train
On Monday evening last a most determined at tempt was made to commit an outrage upon a young lady in a railway carriage while on the journey from East Maitland to Morpeth. Fortunately the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Maitland Mercury. Thursday, August 12, 1886. the Railway Bill
IT is to be hoped that wiser counsels than they have yet followed will prevail with Ministers, and that they will abandon their purpose to create a new portfolio. Outside…
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June 28 was an important occasion in the history of the Dominion of Canada—the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway across the entire breadth of the Dominion,…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Railway and Tramways Report for 1885
Last night the Hon. W. J. Lyne laid upon the table of the Legislative Assembly the report of the Commissioner for Railways for 1885 on the railways and tramway of New South Wales. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Glen Innes-Inverell Railway. Opposition Meeting at Uralla. (By telegraph to the Herald. Uralla
The largest and most representative meeting ever held at Uralla took place to-day, the Mayor presiding. The following resolutions were passed: "That this meeting strongly protests against the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railway Fruads. (By Telegraph). SYDNEY
IN the Water Police Court to-day, the charge of defrauding the Railway Department, preferred against PermeVan. Wright and Co., was postponed…
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MR. Gould in the Assembly on Wednesday, 11th August, asked the Secretary for Public Works,—(1.) It is a fact that a rule has recently boen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence. the Proposed Absurd Alteration in the Train Time Table. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR.—With your permission, I would confirm your observations as to the inconvenience which would be felt by many travellers, especially ladies and children, if the proposed changes in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miscellaneous. $10,000 Worth of Diamonds. By The Tramp
ONE day after I had been hanging around Chicago for several weeks as a gentleman of leisure a policeman ran me in as a vagrant. Next morning the Judge heard my story, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Legislative Assembly. Railway Employees
IN the Assembly on Wednesday last, Mr Gould asked the Secretary of Public Works the follwing questions, the answers to which are also…
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As several important changes in the running of the mail trains, and the time of departure of steamers from Sydney are in contemplation, we have thought…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another Alleged Railway Frauds Case. (From the Herald)
On Friday morning the adjourned case of alleged fraud in the representations of wool weights to the railway authorities by the forwarding Company trading as Permewan, Wright, and Company, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →our Sydney Letter. [From Our Own Correspondent.] Sydney, Monday. the Railway Frauds
THOSE indiscriminate railway fraud cases! One at last is not deemed worthy of further investigation, for at the Water Police Court this morning that brought…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Maitland Mercury. Thursday, August 26, 1886. the Railways Bill
CONSIDERING that Ministers find a difficulty in keeping a quorum of the Assembly for the discussion of such grave matters as the land-tax and the income tax, the prospect…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alleged Frauds on the Railway Department. (From the Echo.)
The hearing of the charge of conspiracy to defraud the Railway Department in respect to the carriage of wool brought against John Permewan, Thomas Permewan, James Steers, and James…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Original Correspondence. Railway Time-table. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—Noticing you have invited expression of opinion on the proposed alteration of the mail train up country, I certainly think it will be a very great benefit to all places north of Murrurundi at least…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Tramp's Appeal
He was a frowsy, blear-eyed tramp, Who smelt like the catarrh; 'I'was strange he were so sad a look While standing at the bar!…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railways and Aboriginees
FROM Hansard we take the following report of Mr Gould's speech on Thursday the 19th, In reference to our railways and the treatment of our [?]:- Mr. Gould did not…
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