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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
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Newspapers declare that the Baghdad railway is only possible if Great Britain consents to a large increase of Turkish customs and grants the railway a postal subsidy to the amount of £245,000 now paid…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Following are the handicaps for the Eight-mile Road Race, to start from Allison's Commercial Hotel, Largs, at three p.m., on Saturday, 25th inst.:—M. Selling scratch, R. Sparke 10sec. A. Jones…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir Thomas Sutherland, chairman of the P. and O. Company, says the Baghdad Railway will never beat the Peninsular and Oriental Company's thirteen day service to Bombay…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The German-Asiatic Railway Company has been incorporated with a capital of £500,000. Its nominal object is to construct Chinese State railways…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Times, in a leader this morning, says that it is almost inconceivable that Great Britain should have entertained the proposal to participate in financing the Baghdad railway. There will be no…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The smallest railway in the world connects the little watering-place of Atami with the town of Yoshihama, Tokio. It is 20 English miles long and of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. A. J. Balfour, the Prime Minister, stated in the House of Commons last night that the Government had lately considered an alternative proposal designed to secure international control throughout…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The German Emperor has sent a German official, who was formerly studying the possibilities of the proposed Baghdad railway, to investigate American methods of colonising the land along the great…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Thursday last Sir Edmund Barton, Prime Minister of the Australian Commonwealth, arrived at Singleton by the mid-day train from Mus…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AN unprecedented flood occurred. here last night, parts of the town being three feet under water. There has been many narrow escapes…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Benguella railway, costing two millions sterling, has been underwritten. The capital is entirely British; Portuguese capitalists are applying for shares…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Uganda railway is now practically finished. All the steel viaducts for the railway, including the 27 bridges from the United States, have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Frank Brennan was accidentally killed at the train station at Yass last night. He was about to leave for Sydney, when he fell on the rails, and was run over by a train. Deceased was Master of Arts…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In reference to some comments that we made in a recent issue re-echoing a general complaint because of the apparent inactivity of the Railway Department in the matter of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WHEN the mail train arrived AT Cooma on Tuesday it was reported that Ethel [?]yde, aged 13, daughter of Mr Albert Hyde, of Bombala, had died just after…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MR PEANK BEENNAN was accidentally [?] at the tran station at Yass last. right. He was about to leave for Sydney, when he fell on the rails, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →French financiers associated with Germany in desiring to make the Baghdad Railway are demanding increased control and are thus threatening the whole scheme…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Though nothing definite is known, it is generally understooT that the railway unions will adhere to their determination not to sever their connection with the Trades Hall; and that, should the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TO-DAY is the third of the days given by the Victorian Government to the executive officers of the unions of the railway to decide whether they will withdraw from their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE, Thursday Morning.—There has been no change in the position-between the Government and the railway servants in regard to…
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