Letters to the Editor. Differential Railway Rates at Morpeth
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 October 1906 · page 2
Sir,—I notice in your issue of the 11th instant that Mr. Carruthers, replying to Mr. Gillies, said that "differential rates were not in operation on the Northern railway line."…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 October 1906 · page 5
Evidence before the tramway inquiry concluded to-day, whon Mr. Lawton, president of the Union, gave evidence. In reply to questions, he said he knew there were some…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 October 1906 · page 5
A railway collision, attended with loss of [?] is reported from Epernon, France. A [?] engine came into collision with a passenger train leaving a siding in the town…
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Singleton Argus · Tuesday 16 October 1906 · page 1
The Wandong (Vic.) railway Station was the scene of a sensational robbery a few nights ago. The train was due to pass through the…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 October 1906 · page 2
Following were the lowest tenders opened at the courthouse, East Maitland, to-day, for the undermentioned road works in the district:—Glenoak to Martin's Creek, George…
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Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 19 October 1906 · page 3
The Board of Trade published to-day (says the "London Globe" of 6th March) the report of Lieut.-Col. P. G. Von Donop, R.E., as the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Victims of Bridge. Girls at the Card Table. Father Vaughan's Strong Indictment
The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 19 October 1906 · page 6
The prodigal in Mayfair was the subject of father Bernard Vaughan's sermon at Farm street yesterday (22nd July). A guileless, giddy youth, he said…
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The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 19 October 1906 · page 6
An optimistic report has been presented to the Pan-American Conference at Rio de Janeiro on the great project for a Pan-American…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 19 October 1906 · page 2
The Minister for Works has introduced the bill for the construction of the tramway from East to West Maitland. This tramway should greatly help in promoting the progress of…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 19 October 1906 · page 3
An enthusiastic public meeting, organised by the East Greta Progress Association in furtherance of the proposed tramway construction scheme from Maitland to the…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 October 1906 · page 5
The report of the Railway Commissioners for the quarber ending 30th September last shows that the total receipts were £1,054,619. being an increase of 57,612, on the…
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The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 20 October 1906 · page 8
The Railway Commissioners have devoted a considerable portion of the surplus to the reduction of rates and freights. They are still, however, making fish of one section of railway…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Russian Affairs. a Prince's Suicide. Wholesale Trials. Fearful Railway Disaster London. Friday afternoon
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 October 1906 · page 5
Prince Mesohersky, a friend of the Czar. committed suicide in a Moscow train, apparently fearing assassination by Revolution-aries On a visiting card found on him were…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 October 1906 · page 4
Many people are under the delusive notion that if the Government resumed the East Greta railway the way would be paved for a satisfactory improvement in the passenger…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 October 1906 · page 6
General satisfaction will be felt her [?] Legislative Council rejecting the [?] was in intended to give the Railway [?] sioners power to close level crossing…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 October 1906 · page 4
The metropolitan journal which is giving a thorough intelligent advocacy to the proposal to provide railway facilities to the extensive and rich coastal districts lying between…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 October 1906 · page 5
Judge Holt presiding in the United States [?] Court. New York, fined the Central [?] company £21,600, for granting 9 to the American sugar Trust, and…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 October 1906 · page 3
At the ponce court this morning [?] Goulder was proceeded against for having caused grievous bodily harm on an aged woman named Elizabeth Briscoe, of Oxfor 1-street…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 October 1906 · page 3
A report supplied by the Railway Commissioners in reply to the representations of a deputation which waited on the Chief Secretary (in the absence of the Premier), on…
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Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 23 October 1906 · page 2
The "Herald" continues strong in its advocacy of the North Coast Railway, On Friday it published a telling second article from the open of its…
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