Singular Escape of a Train
A PASSENGER train from Manchester to Accrington narrowly escaped from being wrecked near Accrington on Sep. 26. A goods train left Accrington, and when it…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1892
113 stories in New England's papers · page 1 of 6
News by Yesterday's Express Train
NEW wheat is 4s. 10d. per bushel in Sydney. A conference between the tailors on strike and the employers was to have been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Editor's Column (While giving insertion to Correspondents letters, we do not necessarily endorse their contents.) Our Roads and their Management
SIR,--Will you allow me to make a short discourse about our roads and the system on which they are worked ? If there is one thing more than another which shows the want of a Local…
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I shall never forget my first view of the mining village. Imagine a great number of tittle shanties all of the same pattern, unpointed and grimy with coal-dust, scattered…
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AS the outcome of a conversation in reference to a case at the police court, between a solicitor and Constable Arthur, heard by Stipendiary Magistrate Addison,…
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SIR,--I notice in your issue of to-day a long letter from Mr. J. W. Partridge, of Wellingrove, in which that gentleman indulges in rather a vicious attack on me personally as officer in charge of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Editor's Column. (While giving insertion to Correspondents letters we do not necessarily endorse their contents.) Our Roads and their Management
SIR,--Under the above heading, I notice some remarks by your correspondent " J. W. Partridge," and beg to explain, in reply to his remark referring to there being as he supposes, "three gates allowed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →News by Yesterday's Express Train
IN reference to refund of rents of pastoral holdings, calculations have been concluded in 105 out of the 600 or 700 cases, which have to be dealt with. The total…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Correspondence. Mr. Inglis and the Inverell-guyra Railway To the Editors of the Armidale Express
SIRS—I am told by a valued friend that a report is being busily circulated through the northern and western parts of New England that I am violently opposed to…
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IN compliance with instructions from the Imperial Government minute guns were fired from all British Naval ships and forts on Wednesday afternoon at the time…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Whistles
The railway whistle, in which to many seems only on indiscriminate maker of noise, a weapon which the engine-driver wields in sheer delight of torturing good folks, cars, is…
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THE Victorians won the Intercolonial Cricket Match by one innings and fifteen runs. A severe shock of earthquake was felt…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Correspondence. Mr. Inglis on the Guyra-inverell Railway. To the Editors of the Armidale Express
DEAR SIRS—I do not intend following Mr. William Moore, of Guyra, through all his rambling tirade of abuse appearing in your late issue on the above subject…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Contributor. Equalising Railway Rates for Produce
IT has frequently occurred to the writer of this communication how it was that those wishing to obtain seats in Parliament never adopted what ought to be popular measure with the long distance from…
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THE Goulburn Wealeyan district meeting has forwarded a petition to the Government asking it to discourage gambling. The Premier of New Zealand has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Grafton-western Railway
WE are pleased to see by the Grafton EXAMINER that our neighbors there are urging on the Premier the advisability of pushing forward a number of pressing public works and it is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Panic in a Theatre. Nine Children Trampled to Death
A TERRIBLE panic took place at the Theatre Royal Gateshead, England, on Saturday night, December 26, resulting in nine children and one man, being crushed to death in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News by Yesterday's Express Train
A CONFERNCE of the Labour members, promoted by the Trades and Labour Council, with the view of re-unitiug the Parliamentary Labour Party, was resumed on…
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ON Tuesday evening detectives arrested Herbert Solway, at one time junior partner of a fashionable firm of solicitors—Fisher, Ralfe, Solway, of King-street,—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Clarence System of Railways
THE awakening of the Railway League will prove at least that that important body was not dead, but only sleeping. The slumber has evidently done its members some good…
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