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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport
40 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 2
SIR — The dilapidated state of the above bridge is certainly a disgrace to civilisation, and unless the necessary repairs are made to it noon, we will, in all probability, hear of serious accidents taking place at it. As the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Tuesday last Mr. R. Stewart, one of the members for East Sydney, moved the following motions in the Legislative Assembly:— "1. That it is the opinion of this House, that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Weeks moved the resumption of the Cook's River Road Lighting Bill. After some discussion, in which Mr. Darley, who had not before spoken, supported the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A friendly game of cricket between eleven of the Albion Club (the leading club in West Maitland) and a similar number of employees of the Great Northern Railway, principally…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR- As the Government Estimate have just passed for the payment of the railway officials at Newcastle, I beg to call your attention to the two accidents that have lately taken place on the Northern line. Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir James Ferguson, the new Governor of South Australia, in a recent speech, made the following remarks :— On the subject of cheap railways in the colonies—" I am convinced…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Train, who has been for many months a prisoner for debt in Ireland, has obtained his release, and sailed for America. Before his departure, he published the following, as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR— Your having inserted two letters of mine, showing that you are not indebted to your Members for practicable improvements, but that they have opposed them ; nor can anything bo shown…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR— Railways are admitted to be the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon a country, increasing the wealth, prosperity, and civilisation of the people, but the above advantages are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR— "A Voter for Tighe," in his letter in your contemporary of April 17, states that Mr. Tighe did not illegally use the Government property and set the law at defiance for his own purposes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We beg to remind our readers that to-morrow (Wednesday) is the day set apart for the opening of what is known as the Musclebrook extension of the Great Northern railway, that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The great event of to-morrow—the opening by his Excellency the Governor, Lady Belmore, and the members of the Government— of the Musclebrook Extension of the Great…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday morning his Excellency the Governor, Lord Belmore, with Lady Belmore, and all the moulders of the Administration, arrived hero by the steamer Coonanbara, en…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →After a most vexatious delay of nearly six years, tho Great Northern railway line has at last been opened for traffic as far as the pretty little town of Musclebrook, a distance…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Channel may be crossed above by means of a bridge, upon it by steamer, and beneath by a tunnel. A fourth mode proposed is that of going neither above, upon, or below,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In our report of tho dinner in connection with ihu opening of the Great Northern Railway to Musclebrook, on Wednesday last, we were only able (for want of space) to give the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE question of the propriety or expediency of lowering the fares on the different railway lines in the colony, is one that is continually cropping up in various quarters, but up to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Great Southern Railway to Goulburn was opened by his Excellency the Governor, on Thursday last, the 27th instant. The day was observed as a holiday, and a public…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →From a notification issued by the Minister for Works, it appears that his Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has determined that the following…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting of the proprietors and residents interested in Whyte's paddock, otherwise called the Railway Village, was hold in tho large room of the Royal Hotel, Blane-street, on the evening…
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