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New England · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1891

81 stories in New England's papers · page 3 of 5

A Bear Takes Charge of a Goods Train

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 August 1891 · page 4

ROCHESTER (New York), June 4.--There is a large and vigorous hear at Ontario' Beach, a suburban resort, who is the subject of much tender solicitude just now. The proprietor of…

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News by Yesterday's Express Train

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 21 August 1891 · page 5

IT seems hardly likely that there will be any lace of candidates for the vacancy caused in the representation in Parlisment of the Central Cumberland…

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News by Yesterdays Express Train

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 25 August 1891 · page 4

LONDON, August. 20.—Baron Nor[?]th murdered a woman with whom he lived in Leipzig, and afterwards committed suicide…

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News toy Yesterday's Express Train

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 28 August 1891 · page 5

CHAS. S. Wilkinson, Government Geolologist, died at his residence, Burwood, on Wednesday morning.—He was born in 1840; in 1876 he was elected F.G.S., and…

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The Differential Railway Rates

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 28 August 1891 · page 4

MR. Copeland, in the Assembly, the other night in referring to the differential railway rates, made the following remarks:—"There is one little matter I should like…

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News toy Yesterday's Express. Train

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 1 September 1891 · page 5

LARGE quantities of bones of extinct New Zealand animals have been found at Enfield, near Oamaru. They include 120 thigh bones of moas…

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Diabolical Attempt to Wreck a Train

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 1 September 1891 · page 4

A FEW nights ago (says the Batkurst Free Press) one of the employees at the Kelso Railway Station received a rude shock, to his nerves on discovering that the points on the line had been…

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Women on the Railway

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 1 September 1891 · page 2

UNDER this heading a paragraph has appeared in the Queen of May 16, when it mentioned that one woman only is employed in England as a booking clerk…

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The Tableland-Clarence Railway

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 1 September 1891 · page 3

IT was intimated a short time back fey the' Member for this electorate, through this journal, that he was pushing on the Guyra survey This was thought by some persons at the time…

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News by Yesterday's Express Train

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 8 September 1891 · page 4

The Melbourne express doe in Sydney at midday on Saturday, met with a mishap near Picton. The train was being run in two divisions, and part of the second one…

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New England Railway Wants and Grievances

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 8 September 1891 · page 5

AN ex-New Englander writes to the ' Freeman's Journal:-- The people of Armidale are, in common, with many other important centres in New…

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News by Yesterday's Express Train

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 15 September 1891 · page 5

IT is satisfactory to learn (says Saturday's E. NEWS) that the young lady (Miss M'William), who mysteriously disappeared from the Hotel Metropole some weeks…

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The Grafton Western Railway. Some Facts and Figures for Armidale Business Men

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 15 September 1891 · page 3

SOME 25 years ago a movement was initiated in Grafton, having for its object a system of railway construction, which would bring the whole of the New England and Tableland district into easy…

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News by yesterday's Express Train

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 18 September 1891 · page 4

THE Election Qualification committee reported in the Assembly, on Wednesday night, that owing to irregularities on the part of the presiding officer at Bulli and…

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News by Yesterday's Express Train

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 25 September 1891 · page 4

THE case against Mr. J. P. Howe, M.L. A., for causing, by means of false pretences, the sum of £690 to be paid by the Australian Mercantile Loan and Guarantee Go…

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News by Yesterday's Express Train

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 September 1891 · page 5

A BATCH of Salvationists was brought before the Ballarat (Vic.) Police Court on Saturday charged with breaches of the municipal by-laws in marching through the…

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Grafton-Western Railway

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 September 1891 · page 2

MR. HAYNES' reference to the geographical advantages of the port of Grafton in respect to Northern New South Wales, is but the reiteration of what we have been stating for the past 20 years…

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News by yesterday's Express Train

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 2 October 1891 · page 5

MR. Howe, M.L.A., and Mr. James Miller, late directors of the Australian Mercantile Loan and Guarantee Coy. Limited, were charged at the Water…

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News by Yesterday's Express Train

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 9 October 1891 · page 5

AT the Criminal Court, Sydney, on Wednesday, Dr. R. Brinton, under committal on several charges of theft from boardinghouses, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced…

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News by Yesterday's Express Train

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 October 1891 · page 5

A LITTLE girl named Minnie Eyles, five years of age, and residing with her parents in Walke-streets, Croydon, died at her home on Saturday morning. On the…

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