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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1905

684 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 11 of 35

Harmsworth Motor Case

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 6 June 1905 · page 6

Motor-car [?] have been [?] this holiday season, and public [?] is again being [?] to the [?] of some better regulation of this…

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Fatal Motor Car Accident [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 6 June 1905 · page 2

William Horsefield, aged 71, who was run over by a motor car in Oxford-street on Friday last, died in the hospital this morning…

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Harmsworth Motor Case

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 June 1905 · page 4

There has been a remarkable development in the circumstances of the Harmsworth motor-car case. Mr. Hildebrand Harmsworth's Spanish chauffeur, [?] Cornalbas, has been…

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Fatal Tram Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 June 1905 · page 3

The coroner held an inquiry to-day into circumstances connected with the death of John Blackmore, as the result of a fall from a tram, and returned a verdict of…

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Wool & Produce Sales. John Bridge & Co's Report

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 June 1905 · page 2

SHEEP SKINS.—Exceedingly strong competition. Further hardening tendency manifested. HIDES.—Intense demand for…

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The North Coast Railway

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 9 June 1905 · page 2

An advertisement which appeared in our last issue shows that Dungog is at last making a move in regard to the railway. The (Mayor) Aid Alison…

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Harmsworth Motor Case. Sensational Development

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 June 1905 · page 4

THERE has been a remarkable develop merit in the circumstances of the Harmsworth motor-car case (says a London correspondent.) Mr…

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Tram Accidents

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 June 1905 · page 2

THE frequency of tram accidents, and the large sums which have to be paid by the public, through the Railway Commissioners, in respect of them continue to…

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The Bridge Works

Singleton Argus · Saturday 10 June 1905 · page 4

Very good progress now continues to be made with the works of the new bridge across the Hunter River, connecting Singleton with Dunolly Fresh…

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Letter to the Editor. Repairing Roads

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 June 1905 · page 6

Sir,—I have been in many parts of the Commonwealth, and have seen many roads repaired, but I must give the East Maitland Council the cake for manner they carry…

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St. Paul's Parish. Opening of St. Andrews Church, Bishop's Bridge

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 June 1905 · page 9

To the Anglican residents of Bishop's Bridge, Friday was on occasion of great rejoicing and thankfulness, for it marked the opening of the new and handsome brink church of St. Andrew's…

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Our London Letter. (From Our Special Correspondent). Booming Canada.-the Exodus of Emigrants.-are Alien Immigrants.- Unmixed Evil?-their Thriftiness in the United States. -Motor Buses and Electric Trams.—inscrease of the Word's Armaments.—aus— Trala and Canada and the Navy—how English School Teachers Are Paid. London, May 4, 1905. The Savlation Army and Immigration

Singleton Argus · Saturday 10 June 1905 · page 6

I know Canada pretty well, and I know Australia very well, and I have no hesitation in saying that Australia is far ahead of Canada as a field for…

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Harmsworth Motor Case

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 10 June 1905 · page 6

There has been a remarkable development in the circumstances of the Harmsworth motor car case. Mr. Hildebrand Harmsworth's Spanish…

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Special Cheap Railway Excursion

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 10 June 1905 · page 2
Also in Singleton Argus

The Railway Department announces in this issue particulars of special cheap excursion train to Sydney on Friday, June 23. The fares will be at the cheap rates of…

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Deep Creek Bridge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 June 1905 · page 3

John McNulty and M. Murphy are the lowest equal tenderers for the construction of a timber beam bridge over Deep Crock, at £355. There were 13 tenders…

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Tram Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 June 1905 · page 3

Two trams collided to-day near Botany. appears one tram made an emergency Stop to avoid a vehicle, when the other came up behind and crashed into it. As a result of…

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Letter to the Editor Repairing Roads, Etc

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 13 June 1905 · page 4

Sir,— Re Cyclist's remarks on East Maitland and its roads, &c., I wish to than him for nothing so far as the cake is concerned. East Maitland secured that year…

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Late News by Cable. London, June 12. Train Ethergrams

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 13 June 1905 · page 3

Ethergrams between express trains on the Chicago-St. Louis line have been successfully tested over distances of 50 miles. It is expected that the sending of such messages will…

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Railway Meeting

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 13 June 1905 · page 2

If numerically speaking the meeting held in the Oldfellow's Hall on Saturday night last in connection with the North Coast railway, was not so successful as the of…

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