Road Singleton to Brandy Creak. Public Works Department, Sydney, 5th May, 1807
Singleton Argus · Saturday 15 May 1897 · page 5
Date of letter under, reply:—18th February last, from the Secretary to Trustees, road Singleton to Brandy Crook. Subject:—Asking for a special grant of…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 May 1897 · page 13
Advantage was taken by the Commissioners of their recent tour of inspection of the Southern line to have a conference at Albury with Mr. Mathieson, the Victorian Railway Commissioner, in…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 May 1897 · page 5
A terrible railway disaster has occurred in Rockonhaf, in Russia. A train was derailed and wrecked. One hundred soldiers were killed and 60 injured…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 May 1897 · page 5
A man whose name is at present unknown was kncoked down and run over by a goods train about ono o'clook this morning between Granville and Merrylands. He was walking alongside the line,…
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Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 18 May 1897 · page 3
A train was derailed at Rockenhof, Russia, and 100 soldiers were killed and 60 injured. From returns received from the…
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Singleton Argus · Wednesday 19 May 1897 · page 2
Direct news has at lougth been received of the arrival of Dr. and Mrs Read in the Old Country in good health. The doctor has not lost any time in visiting his native,…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 May 1897 · page 3
A train containing 1000 German soldiers was derailed to-day near Gerolstein, in Rhenish Prussia. Nine soldiers were killed on the the spot, and 85 others were seriously injured…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 May 1897 · page 4
The Railway Commissioners, with a view to affording assistance to pastoralist and others during the continu[?]nce of the drought, have arranged that where the grass and water in any stock district…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 May 1897 · page 3
One of the results of the conference between the New South Wales and Victorian Commissioners at Albury appears in Tuesday's Gazette in the shape of tun following new by-law:—"The special rates from…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 May 1897 · page 4
Also in Singleton Argus
The Railway Commissioners, with a view to affording assistance to pastoralist and others during the continuence of the drought, have arranged that where the grass and water in any stock district…
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Singleton Argus · Wednesday 26 May 1897 · page 4
A new Royal train of six carriages is now in course of construction at Swindon, and its elaborate internal and external decoration is engrossing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Appointment of Trustee. Department of Public Works. Roads under Trustees. Sydney May 18th 1897
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 26 May 1897 · page 3
Sir,—I am directed to inform you that in accordance with your recommendation of the 7th May last the Secretary for Public Works has…
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Singleton Argus · Wednesday 26 May 1897 · page 2
A FATAL accident occurred on Saturday night near Ironbark Creek to James Henry Rees Williams, employed as a night watchman during the erection…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Singleton-Jerry's Plains Railway. Department of Public Works, Sydney, 21st May, 1897
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 26 May 1897 · page 3
Sir.—I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of a letter of the 14th inst., presented by you, from Mr John Hayes, Secretary of Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BRITISH & Foreign News The following extracts are taken from files by the English mail:— Old Railway Trains
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 26 May 1897 · page 4
An old engine-driver calls attention to the ago of some of our trains. One of the oldest in the country, is the 8.34 a.m. local from West…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 29 May 1897 · page 13
It is notified that it is deemed expedient to open and make the several parish roads mentioned below, viz:—Road from the Raymond Terrace-Stroud Road, within M. Henderson's (now the Melbourne…
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Singleton Argus · Saturday 29 May 1897 · page 4
A meeting of the committee and others interested in the proposed railway from Singleton to Jerry's Plains is to be held in the Oddfellows' Hall at 11 o'clock to-day,…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 31 May 1897 · page 3
A meeting of the committee and others interested in the above proposal was held in the Oddfellows' Hall on Saturday morning to consider some correspendence received, and the Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Collapse of a Railway Bridge near Hamilton. Goods Traffic Entirely Suspended
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 June 1897 · page 2
Owing to heavy rains falling in the Newcastle district yesterday and last night, and the consequent flooding of creeks and drains in the neighbourhood of the Great Northern Railway line, the bridge…
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