Cable Trams
Mr Bruce Smith mentioned in the Assembly last night that the Government scheme of cable trams would be submitted to Parliament for reference to the Public Works…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1889
473 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 19 of 24
Original Correspondence. the Government Grant and the Pitnacree Road. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
Sir,—Being one of your readers, one cannot fail to have seen that most of the original correspondence of late that appeared in the columns of the Mercury bore the character of fault finding. From…
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Reading, Pa, August 13.— Late at [?] 15 tramps jumped on the Reading [?] coal train below this city, near [?] where two of the railway…
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A casualty which looks very much like determined suicide occurred at Newcase last night. A young man named E[?] observed a man whom he could not iden[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I "Be just and fear not." The Singleton Argus. Wednesday, September 25Th, 1889 Railway Rates
ONCE more serious protests are being made against the unfair system on which railway rates are framed. Sydney journals are at last taking up…
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A TRAIN of empty waggons from the West Burwopd Colliery was running into town towards Newcastle on Monday, when the door of one waggon in…
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A man named Joseph M'Combe, who walking along the railway track at [?] Adelaide last night, was knocked down by passing train and cut to pieces…
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THE Rockhampton correspondent of the Brisbane Courier states that a serious accident happened at the railway station on Tuesday evening. About 5 o'clock…
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A YOUNG Scotchman, Mr Donal Cameron, of Glasgow, in company with Mr A. Bowman, a native of Newcastle on-Tyne, has arrived in London, having…
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Sheepskins.—We cleared a small catalogue of sheepskins to-day at full rates. Butchers' skins rated between 58d and 67d for large and 46d to 57d for medium, 6d to 12d for pelts. Station skins…
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Opossum Skins.—70,613 offered. We offered and sold 32,784 as against 37,829 by the other eight sellers combined. Owing to short supplies and with a very much stronger demand ruling values…
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The following table will come into force on Oct. 1: Improved services have been made between Sydney and the North. With regard to the Sydney to Newcastle, Morpeth, Maitland, and Singleton,…
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ON and after Tuesday next a new time-table will come into force on the G. N. railway, and the changes affecting this district are as follows:—…
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THE new railway bridge erected over the Firth of Forth in Scotland has been completed. It is the greatest work of its kind in the world. Its main feature is the…
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THE institute for railway employees which the Commissioners propose to build will cost about £2500. It is intended for the railway workmen as a place where they shall…
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JAMES MATHEWS, lately working as a porter at 6s per day, or thereabouts, at Darling Harbor Railway Station, lately received a surprise which may cause…
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THE Palmerston to Pine Creek railway in the Northern Territory was completed to-day. The building of this new line has cost no less than £1,086,000…
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A RAILWAY accident took place at 2 o'clock at Quirindi on Saturday afternoon on the northern side of the Quirindi railway station. A train, in charge of Thomas Garter (driver)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road Mending Extraordinary. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
Sir,—As it is only through the medium of the Press that some wrongs can be amended, I must trouble you to publish the mode of road repauing which pertains around our little township, Hinton,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Our Railways. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
Sir,—Will you kindly find space for the following:—A great many like myself are put to much inconvenience, and hope that Mr. Eddy and his Traffic Managers may find there is great cause for…
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