Royal Road to Billiard Playing
Billiard playing has been-- we think undesirably-- [?] by a Munich professor. The sides of an ordinary billiard table are provided with six…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1903
260 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 13 of 13
North Coast Railway: A Proposal. to the Editor of the M. R. TIMES
DEAR SIR,--The Railway Commissioners, in their faithful fulfilment of their duty to the state have reported adversely to the North Coast Railway. We all wish they…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Rhyme of the Country Road
Oh, the life one leads a tramping, Tramping a country road [?] A-faring in gipsy fashion, With never a gipsy's load:…
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A Cambridgeshire farmer was recently arguing with a French chaffeur. who had slackened up at an inn regarding the merits of the horse and the motor car…
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When our local Progress Committee and the Borough Council urged upon the Government the necessity for covering the decking of the Kempster bridge, they could…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Correspondence. The Kempsey Bridge. to the Editor of the Macleay Chronicle
SIR,—Many of your readers, beside myself, are in doubt as to the object of the coating of gravel now laid upon the deck of the, Kempsey bridge. If it be to compel…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Great Railway Projects. What Enterprise 18 Doing in Three Great Continents
Great railway projects seem to be again the order of the day, though they now make less impression upon [?] world than they did when such…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Lansdowne Road at Sunnyside. Public Works Department, Sydney. 14th Dec. 1903
SIR,--With reference to your letter of the 11th instant, applying for the making of the road from the Coopernook - Rockville road to Lansdowne at Sunnyside, I have the honor to inform you that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Queerest Railway Ever Invented. Five Miles a Minute on a Magnet Train
The mere though of travelling 800 miles an hour is enough to take one's breath away, yet such is the electrifying proposition of Professor…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In a Railway Signal Box
One of the saddest stories in all railway history is that of the Thirsk disaster of November 2, 1892 when, through the mistake of a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Looping the Loop Railway
In India there are many miles of mountain railways which closely resemble the "shoot the chutes" or our…
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A MEETING to protest against the work of shingling the deck of the bridge was held at McQuade's Hotel on Saturday night. There was a large…
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The Works Committee decided to-day by five against two in favour of the North Coast Railway. McFarlane, McGowen, Hawthorne,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →N. C. Railway. P.W. Committee Recommend it. Sydney
The Public Works Committee have resolved, in order to expedite the proposed railway from Maitland to Sooth Grafton, that it be carried out,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Christmas Sketcher. Christmas Railways
IF the Christmas festival was abolished, the railway companies would, so far as their receipts from passengers are concerned, find…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →North Coast Railway. Approved by the Works Committee. Sydney
THE Parliamentary Public Works Committee decided to report in favor of the Maitland to Grafton railway by five votes to two. Messrs. McFarlane, McGowen,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The North Coast Railway. Favored by the Public Works Committee
MR. John Thomson, M.P., received the following wire from Mr. Chas. A. Lyne, Secretary of the Public Works Committee, on Wednesday, 23rd inst.:-- " Railway proposal passed by 5 votes to 2, with a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Longest Railway Tunnel in the World
A most remarkable trouble has been met by the engineers who are digging the wonderful tunnel that runs through the great Simplon…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The North Coast Railway. Conditionally Approved
THE Public Works Committee on Wednesday last closed the inquiry and came to a determination with respect to the proposed North Coast Railway. The committee…
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