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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
725 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 33 of 37
Insect pests and noxious weeds are standing topics of discussion amongst settlers of the Singleton district. Little groups of farmers are never at a loss for a subject to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Rev. Father Bridge, of Parramatta North, was subjected to an extraordinary assault in a railway carriage this morning. He was travelling from Parramatta to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fire occurred in a train between St. Petersburg and Moscow yesterday owing to spontaneous combustion among consignments from abroad. Mail packets valued at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Billiard playing has been—we think undesirably—[?] fied by a Munich professor. The sides of an ordinary billiard table are provided with six…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →We would direct attention to an advertisement which appears in another column of this issue with respect to certain lands proposed to be resumed, aud roads deemed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A most remarkable trouble has been met by the engineers who are digging the wonderful tunnel that runs through the great Simplon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →COLONEL George Fitzherbert Browne, D.S.O., formerly Military Attache to the British Legation at Pekin, estimates the cost of the Siberian…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We note that Mr George Dowling, Rainway Station-master at Newcastle, is about to retire from the service on the 17th inst. Mr Dowling was formerly Station-master…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A train robbery is reported from the north of Johannesburg. While a train was ascending an incline between Petersburg and Nylstroom an armed gang entered the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Illinois trains collided at Kentwood, Forty persons, including 39 negroes, were killed, and three whites and 20 negroes injured…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two persons were each fined £10, with costs, in Sydney, for selling railway tickets without authority…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Public Works Committee took further evidence on Tuesday afternoon, in regard to the proposal to construct the North Coast Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →REPORTS from country districts have recently been published, showing that with the splendid crops in various parts or the State the caterpillars…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A man who was acting as gold escort to the Nyistroem train has confessed that the robbery on Nev. 13 was pre-arranged. Ho was to throw out the specie at a certain…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Oh, the life one lends a-tramping, Tramping a country road! A-faring in gipsy fashion. With never a gipsy's load;…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Cambridgeshire former was recently arguing with a French chaffeur, who had slackened up at an inn regarding the merits of the horse…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Public Works Committee on Tuesday proceeded with the further consideration of the expediency of constructing a line of railway from Maitland to South Grafton…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Thirty-two workmen wore killed in a collision on the Chieage-St. Louis railway, near Tremont…
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