The Ashfield Railway Obstruction. Miles Sentenced to Eighteen Months. the Sentence Is Suspended. Sydney, Friday afternoon
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 29 September 1899 · page 3
This morning at the Quarter Sessions, before Judge Rogers, Hy. James Miles, who had pleaded guilty to placing an obstruction on the railway line at Ashfield, was brought up for sentence…
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The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 30 September 1899 · page 1
MR. O'SULLIVAN has issued a minuto to the effect that imperative instructions should be given to road superintendents to order the maintenance men…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 September 1899 · page 15
The Minister of Works (Mt. O'Sullivan) in referring to the proposal of the Government to increase the road vote by £ 25O,OOO, points out that it is merely a restoration of the road vote…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 September 1899 · page 13
The Hon. Secretary of the Branxton District Progress Committee is in receipt of the under-mentioned official communication received by Mr. C. R. Dight, M.P., from the Public Works…
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The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 30 September 1899 · page 4
A deputation representing country municipalities, which was accompanied by Messrs. F. B. Suter, Broker, Hayees, Gormly, H. Ross, and Cruickshack. M's.L.A., waited upon the Minister for…
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The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 30 September 1899 · page 2
THE Minister of Works has written a minute with reference to the rate of wages to be paid to men on various railways which are being constructed…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 September 1899 · page 10
The present season, so far as it has gone, has been a dieastrous one considered from the standpoint of providing traffic for the railways of the colony. Since July 1 last, the sheep stations, etc.,…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 September 1899 · page 11
The Minister of Works made a rather important statement on Tuesday with reference to the proposal to connect the North Coastal dist icts with the New England railway system. The occasion…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 September 1899 · page 4
A deputation, representing the Municipal Council of Moree, was introduced to the Railway Commissioners by the Hon. W. H. Wood on Tuesday, and asked that improvements might be made in the…
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Singleton Argus · Tuesday 3 October 1899 · page 2
The residents of Belford and the surrounding district have been for a long past agitating for a decent thoroughfare to connect Lower and Upper Belford. The…
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The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 4 October 1899 · page 2
The project of bridging the harbor makes haste slowly. There is a good deal of opposition. First there are those that think that the cost of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal Crisis. Orange Free State Troops. the Mountain Passes Occupied. the Boers Aggressive. Efforts to Secure Peace. Mr. Schreiner's Equivocal Administration. an Appeal to America. Train Passengers Nearly Starved. Protection of American Subjects. Natives Looting Charlestown. Insults by Boers. the March on Kimberley. Arrival of the Indian Contingent. War Supplies for Great Britain. London, Oct. 3
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 October 1899 · page 3
Six hundred of the Orange Free State troops have arrived at Harrismith from Bloemfootein. They are proceeding to the Natal border. Other bodies of the Free State forces are occupying the…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 October 1899 · page 3
A goods train ran over a man named William McGrath a short distance from Roma station this morning. The body was fearfully mutilated, the right leg being cut off the lett [?] almost severed,…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 October 1899 · page 3
It has been definitely decided that the George-street electric trams will start running next week…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 October 1899 · page 10
At the Quarter Sessions, Sydney, before Judge Rogers, Hy. James Miles, who had pleaded guilty to placing an obstruction on the railway line at Ashfield, was brought up for sentence…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Night Railways. Mr R.W. O'Sullivan's Promises. (To the Editor of the Singleton Argus.)
Singleton Argus · Saturday 7 October 1899 · page 8
SIR, Mr E. W. O'Suilian, the Minister for Works, made some important statements at a picnic last week relative to the railway policy of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Local and General Items. Cabmen at the West Maitland Railway
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 October 1899 · page 2
STATION,—The Railway Commissioners have caused a farther reply to be sent to Mr. J. Gillies, M.P., in regard to cabmen at the West Mait and Railway Station, in which was enclosed a copy of a letter…
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Singleton Argus · Tuesday 10 October 1899 · page 2
The causeway at Middle Falbrook having been very much damaged by tbe late flood, and thus rendered unsafe to traffic, the residents hare petitioned the Public…
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Singleton Argus · Tuesday 10 October 1899 · page 2
Numerous complaints have recently been mads to the Railway Commissioners that smoking is indulged in by passengers in compartments other than those set apart…
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The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 11 October 1899 · page 2
NUMEROUS complaints have recently been made to the Railway Commissioners that smoking is indulged in by passengers in compartments other than…
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