Railway Meeting
ON Monday evening last a public meeting was held, in the Town Hall Armidale, to petition the Government relative to the proposed extension of the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1879
20 stories in New England's papers
Tales and Sketches. a Tramp with the "Tuque Bleue." (From the Canadian Illustrated News.)
"Now, Katie, isn't it a shame?" said Grace, rushing into the parlour. "Joe and Gus have gone off for a snow-shoe tramp, although they promised to come and practise those duets with us."…
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IT turns out that France gains something by the Berlin Treaty after all and that her protectorate of Syria, supposed to be a nominal concession, will prove of substantial value. French…
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Into the city is now in a fair way of becoming un fait accompli; at least matters with reference to it have so far advanced that a bill embodying the scheme is now before the Government and there…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railways 1St the North. (To the Editor of the Inverell Herald.)
SIR,—I see by late papers that Messrs. Amos Brothers are the successful tenderers for the construction of the line of railway from Tam worth to Uralla; and…
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JUDGING from the tortuous nature of the country over which the trial surveys have been made with the view of bringing the Great Northern Railway into Armidale,…
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THE United States Hotel is one of the largest summer caravansaries at Long Branch. When Messrs. Laird and Van Cleaf, the lessees of the hotel, closed the…
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Messrs. Amos, Broa., the contractors for the Tamworth-Uralla section of the extension to Tenterfield, evidently have no intention of letting the grass grove under…
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INTENSE excitement was occasioned in this city yesterday, by the tidings that a party of 43 immigrants from the East, and bound hither, were coralled the day…
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THE Utah Mountain Echo, of the 4th June, says:--Intense excitement was occasioned in this city yesterday, by the tidings that a party of 43 immigrants from the East, and bound…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Correspondence. Railway to Armidale. To the Editors of the Armidale Express
GENTLEMAN—Inhere have been for the last three months so many flying and contradictory reports in reference to the above matter,that there were few people in the…
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A SERIOUS accident occurred (says the Warwick Examiner') at the tunnel, on the Stanthorpe line of railway, on Thursday, August 28, by which one man met…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Railway and an Observer. To the Editors of the Armidale Express
GENTLEMEN—Before replying to the letter of An Observer, like many others, I "want to know" the answers to the following questions…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. John Moore, J.P., and Railway Agitation in Armidale. I Palmam qui meruit ferat. "Oat of thine own month will I judge thee." To the Editors of the Armidale Express
GENTLEMEN—"A wise man," it is said, "doubts of everything." Perhaps it was some such maxim that dictated the innocent inquisitiveness of my last letter…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →CORRESPONDENCE. [Our columns are open to all for the free discussion of public affairs, but we do sot identify ourselves with, nor hold ourselves responsible for, the opinions expressed by correspondents under this head.] Mr. John Moore, J.P., and Railway Agitation. To the Editors of the Armidale Express
GENTLEMEN—I think I proved in my last letter to the satisfaction of most people, that up to a very recent date Mr. John Moore had opposed the Railway to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Proctor and Railway to Armidale. Audi Alteram Partem." To the Editors of the Armidale Express
GENTLEMEN—There lived in Maitland, some 30 years ago, a well-known Auctioneer, an honest and respectable man enough in every way you would take him,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Serious Railway Accident. (From Monday's Newcastle Herald.)
WE regret having to record a very serious mishap that occurred yesterday to the excursion, train which was on its return journey to Newcastle with a large number…
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A RETURN train to Newcastle, conveying the railway employees from their holiday picnic, met with an accident at New Freugh, on Monday night, 20th inst. The accident caused the greatest…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Clarence and New England Railway. (From Friday's E. News.)
THE Hon. John (Sutherland, M.P., this morning introduced to the Minister for Works a deputation of gentlemen interested in the welfare of the Clarence and…
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MANY attempts have been made to apply, the motive power obtained from electricity to the working of locomotives, but no satisfactory result was obtained. However, a step forward…
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