The Maitland Coalmines. Restoring Railway Services
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 26 May 1913 · page 4
Through passenger traffic from the coalfield towns to Maitland was restored yesterday, when the full service was run on both lines. Needless to say the restoration of the traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Correspondence. Re Upper Hunter Road. (To the Editor of the Scone Advocate.)
The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 27 May 1913 · page 2
SIR,—Will you allow me space through your valuable paper to say a few words in regard to our Upper Hunter roads? Having read in your paper a letter from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railway and the Recent Transhipment of Passengers
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 27 May 1913 · page 4
By advertisement in this issue, persons who were engaged in the conveyance of passengers, mails and luggage, between High-street station and Farley and the North Coast line…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest News by Telegraph. Sydney, Tuesday afternoon. Railway Requirements
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 27 May 1913 · page 5
At the conclusion of a Cabinet meeting to-day the Treasurer stated that the Chief Commissioner of Railways had asked the Government to purchase a number of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Car Fatalities. Berlin
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 27 May 1913 · page 5
A motor car containing six persons dashed into closed gates at a level crossing at Itzchoe at midnight. A passing train came into collision with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Narrow Escape. Railway Collision Averted
Singleton Argus · Tuesday 27 May 1913 · page 2
A disastrous railway collision was narrowly averted on Saturday night by the officer in charge of the Come railway station…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thrilling Adventure. a Blazing Aeroplane. London, May 27
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 28 May 1913 · page 5
Mr. Pizey, with Mr. Fellowes as a passenger ascended at Salisbury Plains yesterday to a height of 1200 feet in a Bristol biplane…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Loss on the Railways
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 28 May 1913 · page 5
The Treasurer states there will be a loss on the working of the New South Wales railways this year for the first time in a decade owing to the employees' wages having been increased…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Collision in Auckland. Miraculous Escapes. Auckland (N.z.)
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 28 May 1913 · page 5
A sensational collision occurred on the bridge near Auckland this morning between a goods and passengers train. The third…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Found in a Warehouse Railway Man Sent Gaol
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 29 May 1913 · page 3
"At the Newtown Police Court on Wednesday Mr. Barnett, S.M., gave his reserved decision in the case of Bertram Albert Paget, 24 years of age, a railway employee, who had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Minimbah-morisset Railway. Deputation to Cessnock Shire
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 29 May 1913 · page 7
A deputation of members of the Cessnock Progress Association, comprising Messrs. J. D. O'Sullivan (President), J. B. Ferguson (secretary), J. S. Dach, in conjunction with…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Serious Railway Accident Collision Near Auckland. (By Cable.) Auckland
Singleton Argus · Thursday 29 May 1913 · page 2
A collision occurred this morning between a goods and a passenger train at Newlyn Bridge, 10 miles from Auckland…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Problems
The Scone Advocate · Friday 30 May 1913 · page 4
Also in Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser
THE coming of the petrol motor has accelerated progress and created problems in many directions, but no administrators have been more harassed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Search for Polar Expedition. Motor Boat Party. Berlin
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 30 May 1913 · page 5
A telegram from Archangel states that several wealthy men were organizing a motor expedition to Nova Zembla to search for Lieutenant Seedown's polar expedition…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Construction New Policy
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 30 May 1913 · page 5
Speaking to a deputation representing the residents of the Stockinbingal district on Thursday, the Minister of Works (Mr. A. Griffith) hinted at a new railway construction…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Minimbah-Morisset Railway
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 30 May 1913 · page 4
The desired construction of a railway from Minimbah to Morisset was mentioned at a meeting of the Cessnock Progress Association on Wednesday evening, and it was decided that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Problems
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 31 May 1913 · page 7
The coming of the petrol motor has accelerated progress and created problems in many directions, but no administrators have been more harassed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Recent Flood. Road Damages in Cessnock Shire
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 May 1913 · page 11
The Cessnock Shire engineer. Mr. C. F. Lindeman, has made a partial inspection of the flood damage in B and C ridings of the shire, and he estimates roughly that £2500…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →North Shore Bridge Recommended by Works Committee. (By Telegraph.) Sydney
Singleton Argus · Saturday 31 May 1913 · page 4
The Public Works Committee has recmmended the construction of a bridge to connect Sydney with North Sydney, on the contilever system, from Dawes'…
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