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New England · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1891

81 stories in New England's papers · page 1 of 5

Indecent Assault in a Railway Carriage

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 16 January 1891 · page 7

AT the Tamworth Sessions the other day, Michael Muigivan was arraigned on a charge that he did on the 6th November last, at Werris Creek, assault Ada…

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Trambs

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 January 1891 · page 3

RACES. GOOD fields. CAPITAL sport anticipated. DELIGHTFUL summer weather…

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The Inventor of the Railway Ticket

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 January 1891 · page 1

Take a sheet of pasteboard as large as Hyde Park, cut it up into slips an inch and a quarter wide and two and a quarter inches long, and you will have rather loss than the…

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The Peak Hill Road Murder. Prisoner Hansen Makes a Confession

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 30 January 1891 · page 3

THE prisoner, Lars Peter Hansen, who is now in Dubbe Gaol, committed to take his trial at the Circuit Court, in April next, for the wilful murder in September…

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Glen Innes-inverell Railway

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 February 1891 · page 2

SATURDAY'S Inverell ARGUS contains the following sensible remarks on the above subject :--As the Public Works Committee will shortly appoint a sectional committee to…

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Railway From Glen Innes to Interell

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 10 February 1891 · page 4

WE are in receipt of the following information from our senior member—Mr. Henry Copeland:—The following minute paper has been…

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Grafton-Western Railway

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 10 February 1891 · page 2

MR. SURVEYOR LITTLE, accompanied by his staff, arrived in Glen Innes from Molong last Tuesday for the purpose of making a trial survey of the country interlying between Red Range and…

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Printing a Newspaper with a Ste[?] Road Roller

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 February 1891 · page 4

AN incident occurred on November which showed a fertility of resource worthy, of the Arizona Kicker. It appears that, owing to an accident at the gasworks, the town of…

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Railway Readers

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 February 1891 · page 2

A contemporary recently sated that a French medical practitioner has been collecting statistics with regard to those of his patients who complain of nervous affections,…

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Assault in a Railway Carriage

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 10 March 1891 · page 7

AT the Cheshire Quarter Sessions, at Knutsford, on Wednesday, Jan. 14, Henry Shard, 25, labourer, was indicted for causing grievous bodily…

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The Smallest Railway in England

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 March 1891 · page 7

THE town of Burton-on-Trent can boast of many things besides Peerless Beer. Its rail way arrangements for the beer traffic, as exemplified…

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A Train Full of Soldiers Wrecked

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 April 1891 · page 7

AN incident occurred, to a train on the Union Pacific Railway, at Irving, U.S.A. It was an extra train composed of seven coaches and twenty-five stock cars, and…

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Terrible Railway Accident. a Collision in a Tunnel

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 April 1891 · page 3

A telegram sent from New York to the San Francisco papers Feb., 29 says: A horrible accident occurred early this morning in the…

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Lynching a Murderer. Sensation at a Railway Station

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 April 1891 · page 3

AN extraordinary tragedy took place lately at Salina village, Boulder County. A railway freight conductor of the local line,…

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The Railway Question

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 April 1891 · page 2

RAILWAY communication with the sister town of Inverell now appears to be within measurable distance, and the advocates of the Glen Lanes connection, who have so long and so faithfully…

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Glen Innes-inyerell Railway. the Sectional Committee in Glen Innes

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 May 1891 · page 2

MESSRS. Garrard, O'Sullivan, M'Court, and Trickett, the sub-section of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, arrived by train on Friday afternoon, and on the following morning at…

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The Inverell-Glen Innes Railway and Byron Bay Question

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 May 1891 · page 2

IN reading the report of the evidence given by Mr. Barling, Under-Secretary for Public Works, in respect to the Inverell-Glen Innes Railway, there are few persons but will be struck with the…

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The Railway Question

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 May 1891 · page 2

THE evidence adduced by the members of the Sectional Committee from some of the leading citizens of Glen Innes was not only most pertinent to the question of the desired…

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Queensland As a Market—in the Light of the Inverell Railway Scheme. To the Editors of the Armidale Express

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 8 May 1891 · page 3

DEAR SIRS—In asking you for space in your paper for a few remarks upon the above subject, I can only plead the importance of the question, and not any…

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Proposed Railway to Inverell

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 8 May 1891 · page 7

WE publish in this issue, and shall continue to give from time to time, the minutes of evidence taken before the Parliamentary Standing Committee of…

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