Differential Railway Rates
The establishment of differential railway rates necessarily results in numerous anomalies which perplex both the makers of the tariff and those those consignments…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1906
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Letter to the Editor. Differential Railway Freights to Morpeth
Sir,—A short time since I had to get a dumping press from Sydney, consisting of a number of packages of castings, forgings, and timber, weighing about three tons, for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cheap Railway Excursion
The Railway Department advertises the running of an excursion train to Sydney and intermediate stations at the specially low fares of 14d per mile…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Tramway Proposal. a Large and Enthusiastic Public Meeting
One of the largest and most enthusiastic public meetings ever held in West Maitland assembled at the Town Hall last evening, for the purpose of urging upon the…
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Below we give the full text of the petition recently presented to the Legislative Assembly by Mr. R. Davidson, M.L.A., and signed by over 500 residents of the Macleay River…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Tramway Meeting
Between June and November of 1904 the Public Works Committee took evidence and considered the advisability of the construction of a tramway from East to West Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Killed by a Tram
A fatal tram accident happened at Circular Quay this afternoon, when a man. who has not yet been identified, was knocked down by a train. His body got under the coweatcher…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Road Wanted
Mr J. Teddiman, of South Singleton, brought before the notice of the Progress Association on Monday night the necessity of constructing a road of…
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Mr R. J. Houston; aged 45, and an agent for an English firm of manufacturers, was run over by a tram at Circular Quay this morning and killed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →John-street Railway Crossing
At the usual monthly meeting of the Singleton Progress Association, on Monday night, attention was drawn to the inconvention…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No "Bridge" at AInwick Castle
It is an open secret that the Queen is as fond of bridge as the King, but she dislikes playing for anything but nominal stakes…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In a Tramcar
A clergyman who has just returned from a tour in the North of Ireland narrates an amusing incident which occured one day in a tramcar…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Future of the Motor-boat
Count Recope, a great admirer of the motor-boat, writes with enthusiasm of its future in the "London Magazine," As he truly says, the…
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The "Pall Mall Gazette" supports the suggestion of the "Standard" for the formation of a Volunteer Motor Boat Organisation for accounting and patrolling purposes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor-car Tragedy. Hospital Matron Killed. on a Lonely Road
A fatal motor-car accident occurred at Ewhurst, near Hastings, about five o'clock yesterday afternoon, a car belonging to Messrs Skinner, of Hastings,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →[?]Ees in a Railway Station. Terrified Porters
A swarm of angry bees caused a scene of wild commotion at Burgess Hill Hailway station, in Sussex, the other morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Letter to the Editor. Differential Railway Rates at Morpeth
Sir,—In your leader of yesterday you say " It would be manifestly unfair to charge people ten times as much for carrying them for their goods 500 miles as for carrying them 50…
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Work on the Collarendabri, Walgett, Bardlan (extension), and Bogan Gate to Bullo[?]nev railways is in full swing, and the Minister of Works states that both the Bogan…
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Sir Charles Metcalfe, who is about to return to South Africa in connection with the opening of the Broken Hill section of the Cape to Cairo Railway, has made the following statement to a representative of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor-Cycle Accident
Whilst riding his motor-cycle along the East Maitland road yesterday morning, Mr. Gus Ferguson, manager of the Massey-Harris Cycle Agency, had the misfortune to meet with an accident of a very…
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