The Secret of Monkswood Waste. CHAPTER I. on the Tramp
"Are we almost there, Joe? I am dead beat—I can not go further. Yonder are the lights of Leamington—lot us rest there." The man looked round at the piteous cry…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1899
669 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 15 of 34
Parsons' Creek Bridge
The residents of Bulga, Narkworth, Putty, and other parts of the district, who asked some little time ago that a bridge be erected over Parsons' Creek, will be glad…
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The frame work of the additions to the local railway engine shod has been erected, and the roof of the old building has been stripped of its ancient shingles and given…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Letter to the Editor. Road-making and Mr. Marr
SIR,—On the 15th inst. a letter appeared in your paper on the above subject, signed "Another Traveller," who had not the moral courage or instinct of a man to sign his name and residence…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Supposed Case of Suicide. Man Cut to Pieces by the Brisbane Mail Train. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
WHAT Seems to be a determined case of suicide occurred on the railway line at Honeysuckle Point last night, when a seaman named Arel Rossman from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stores for the Railways
The work of the Stores Department in the railway service, which has to deal with the supply of the multifarious articles in use on the lines, does not come prominently into notice, but it…
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Several persons have made complaints to us respecting the actions of some unknown people in dumping loads of rubbish down along the public roads. Along the…
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A novel experience in the running of trains on the New Sough Wales Railways occurred to the mails train from Brisbane on Friday morning, when owing to an excessively heavy…
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The work of the Stores Department in the railway service, which has to deal with the supply of the multifarious articles in use on the lines, does not come prominently into notice, but it…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Original Correspondence. (To the Editor of the Weekly Mercury.) the Narrarri-walgett Railway
SIR,—Allow me to present you with another brick to throw at the heads of those who are responsible for obstructing the very necessary extension of the railway from Narrabri to Walgett…
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A novel experience in the running of trains on the New South Wales Railways occurred to the mail train from Brisbane on Friday morning, when owing to an…
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Mr C. H. Dignt, M.P., has received the following official letter from the Department of Public Works :—" I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Robbery at a Railway Station. a Sydney Lady the Victim. Albury
A passenger by the Melbourne express named Mrs. McMaster, of the Empire Hotel, Sydney reported to the police this morning the loss from the ladies' room at Albury railway station of a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Improving Railway .[Grades An Extensive Project in Hand. Wili Cost £55,000 and Employ 2000 Men
SINCE the Railway Commissioners have been in power, radical alterations have been made on all lines in the way of reducing heavy grades. There…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An English Railway Proposal
A committee has been formed of influential men at Liverpool and Manchester which proposes to construct a railway to connect Liverpool and Manchester in a journey lasting twenty minutes, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Chicago Tramps
Eight or ten of them, men and women, were having a picnic out in Douglas Park the other day. The women were just "laying the things" and preparing for supper,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Railways and the Labor Bureau
SOME time since serious complaints were made to the Minister for Labor by men from the Labor Bureau, sent to work on the northern deviation work,…
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SINCE the Railway Commissioners have been in power, radical alterations have been made on all lines in the way of reducing heavy grades. There still…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Great Railway Proposal. LONDON
A committee of Liverpool and Manchester Merchants propose a mono-railway, on the Behr system, to connect the two cities, a distance of…
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