The New Railway Timetable
WE are now in receipt of the new Railway Time Table for the Northern and North-Western lines, published as a supplement to the Government…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1888
350 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 18
District News. Cessnock. (From a correspondent.) Railway Meeting
On Friday evening last a public meeting was held at Mr. Jones' Hotel, for the purpose of discussing the "Wollombi railway proposal and furthering the object aimed at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The New Railway Time Table
Following, from the new time-table, which took effect from Monday, Jan. 16, are the arrangements for traffic on the railway between Sydney and Brisbane, and between Newcastle and north-western…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Great Indian Railway Bridge
The completion of a remarkable engineering work in the shape of a railway bridge across the Ganges is thus referred to by the Times of India, of December 23:—"The formal opening last week by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Leasing of the Tramways
The Cabinet yesterday decided to lease the tramway service for a period of twenty or thirty years, one of the stipulations being that a new and better…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →George Francis Train becomes an Associate Editor
The last issue of the Weekly Record of Sussex, King's country, N.B., has the name of George Francis Train as "associate editor," at the head of its columns. Its leading article is a five-column…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →District News. [From Our Various Correspondents.] Paterson. Opening of New Bridge.—public Meeting
Being requisitioned by a number of the residents of the district, the Warden called a public meeting, to be held lost evening, for the purpose of taking stops to signalise the opening of the splendid bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cessnock. the Railway Movement
On Friday evening last, as arranged, a public meeting was held at the Cessnock Inn, for the purpose of selecting deputies to wait on the Minister with reference to the Wollombi railway proposal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The New Railway Time Table
Following, from the new time-table, which took effect from Monday, Jan. 16. are the arrangements for traffic on the railway between Sydney and Brisbane, and between Newcastle and north-western…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Colonial Appeal Case. a Sydney Tramway Accident. the Commissioner for Railways V. BROWN
This was an appeal to the Privy Council from an order of the Supreme Court of New South Wales of Nov. 20,1885, making absolute a rule for a new trial in an action brought by the respondent against…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The New Railway Time Table
Following, from the now time-table, which took effect from Monday, Jan. 16, are the arrangements for traffic on the railway between Sydney and Brisbane, and between Newcastle and north-western…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Original Correspondence. the Nabbabri-walgett Railway. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—With your permission I will drive another nail in the coffin of the Merriwa-Cassilis-Coolah railway fraud; and will endeavour to show the legislators, the Press, and the people that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Railway Train Blown Over
In a telegram from Wellington, appearing in the Otago Daily Times of January 20, is given an account of the blowing over of a railway train. The telegram states that a heavy gale had been raging…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Singleton Police Court. Tuesday, February 7Th, 1888. (Before Messre. J. N. Brooks, P.M. G. T. LODER R.H. Mathews, and Dr. Road, J's.P.) Obsoene Language
Colin Marshall (through Mr H. V. Howe, who appeared for him) pleaded guilty to two charges of obscene language. He was tided £2 add 11s 6d costs for one case, and £1 and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Original Correspondence the Cassilis—walgett Railway. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—In your issue of the £8th instant appears a letter from the pen of Mr. John Cartwright on the above subject, which would not be worth answering were it not that his wild exaggerated statements…
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'Yes, Sir! the boy there, though but five years old and not knowing a dash from a dot stands upon the company's piiy-roll as telegraphic-operator, at fifty dollars per…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In a Western Railway Depot
Whenever I feel blue and disheartened," said a struggling attorney recently, I always go to the depot and watch the gentlemanly and sauve man in blue who has charge there…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Roads in the Wollombi Electorate
We have received from Mr. R. Stevenson, M.P. for the Wollombi, the following official communication, which we publish for the information of persons interested in the roads referred to therein:-…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Road Merriwa to Breeza
We are asked by Mr. T. G. G. Dangar to print the following official letter: Department of Lands, Sydney, 2nd February, 1888…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Narrabri-walgett Railway. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—In the Narrabri-Walgett railway we have a just cause to advocate, and will eventually succeed, despite the opposition which may spring from people who advocate railway routes of merely…
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