Latest News by Wire. Sydney. Fatal Tram Accident
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 February 1903 · page 3
An elderly woman aged about 70, was run over by a tram in Oxford-street, Paddington, this morning. Her legs were almost severed below the knee, one limb hanging by a, mere shred of flesh. When the…
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Singleton Argus · Tuesday 10 February 1903 · page 2
Mr C. H. Dight, M. P. for Singleton has received a communication from Mr J. Davis, Under-Secretary for Public Works Department, to the effect that borings…
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Singleton Argus · Tuesday 10 February 1903 · page 2
AN old lady named Mrs Tegg. 73 years of age, was killed by a tram in Oxford-street this morning. The [?] went over both legs, nearly seyering…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Very Latest. London, Tuesday afternoon. a Motor Fatality
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 February 1903 · page 3
George Edward Colebrook, an Australian leather merchant, in St. Mary Axe, London, was killed by a motor accident at Eloudon…
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Singleton Argus · Thursday 12 February 1903 · page 2
A FEW Weeks ago it was sugg[?] that there were too many road [?] tenance men in the State, [?] inquiry was made into the matt[?]…
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Singleton Argus · Thursday 12 February 1903 · page 3
A COLLISION occurred at the Murrurundi railway station on Monday evening. An engine which had been sbunted on to the loop Hoe, owing to…
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Singleton Argus · Thursday 12 February 1903 · page 3
MR GEORGE COL[?]EBOOK, an Australian leather merchant of St. Mary's Axe, in the city, has been killed in a motor accident, at Hendon, near…
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The Scone Advocate · Friday 13 February 1903 · page 2
IT transpires that the 500,000 railway sleepers, for the supply of which the tender of Messrs. F W and P. Hudson, of Sydney, has been accepted, are…
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Singleton Argus · Saturday 14 February 1903 · page 3
A SENSATION was caused on board the express trdin from Melbourn to Ade; laide on Tuesday night, when the packing of the engine took fire just…
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The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 14 February 1903 · page 2
A collision, fortunately unattended with ! [?][?] life, or to far M we can learn serious bod[?] injury, although many of the passengers must have suffered a considerable '…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 February 1903 · page 6
Mr. Gordon, Attorney-General of South Australia, in the Australian Review of Reviews explains South Australia's big scheme for constructing a railway on the land grant…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Settlement of a Railway Claim. [By Cable] London
Singleton Argus · Saturday 14 February 1903 · page 5
The Taff Vale Railway Company has accepted [?]23,0000 in settlment or its claim against the Amalgamated Society of the Railway Servants for…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 February 1903 · page 3
The railway revenue for the present month shows an improvement…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 February 1903 · page 3
Along the Sydney railway line, more particularly near the Hawkesbury River, and on the hills above Wyong large fires raged yesterday and last night; and the scene last night, viewed from trains, was one…
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Singleton Argus · Tuesday 17 February 1903 · page 2
Following upon the promise of the Minister for Works to Mr C. H. Dight, M. P., that as soon as the borings were completed and plans for the bridge across…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Letters to the Editor. the Railway Porter's Escape
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 February 1903 · page 4
SIR,—In your report of the 14th inst., re accident to Porter Grennan (not Brennan) at High-street, I would like to point out that I got on the carriage near the brake van, and…
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Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 17 February 1903 · page 2
In response to an advertisement appearing in last Tuesday's CHRONICLE, convening a public meeting for the advancement of the North Coast…
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Singleton Argus · Tuesday 17 February 1903 · page 2
AN Warragul, on the arrival of a Melbourne passenger train on Friday evening, a youth named Reynolds, aged apparently about 14 years, who…
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Singleton Argus · Tuesday 17 February 1903 · page 2
THE Railway Commissioners the notified that, in the drought districts truck lods of wheat will be refused to half special low rates charged for…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 20 February 1903 · page 4
A very enthusiastic meeting was held on Saturday evening last, the Mayor (Jao. Robson) presiding. A Railway League was formed for the purpose of collecting evidence to put before the Public Works…
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