The Main Road. (To the Editor of Herald & Advocate
Sir.—Having read your paper of the 11th inst, and seen a paragraph relative to the New Road between Hamilton and Lambton, where it states that Mr. Evans…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1877
113 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 6
The Extension of Railways to the Borders
IT has been decided, of late years, by all classes of statesmen, philanthropists, and political economists that railways are not only the best but the cheapest…
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Athletic Sports was held on Thursday last, at Denman, in connection with the driving of the first pile of the Denman Bridge, and was most…
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ON Wednesday last a locomotive engine and a heavy train of waggons, full of coal, was thrown off the Minmi Railway Line, and sustained a great amount of damage,…
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SINCE the commencement of the main road through Bullock Island or Onybigambah, the work has been pushed ahead with considerable energy, and, in a…
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A sad instance of the danger arising from carelessly driving herds of cattle through the main streets of a district occurred on Friday last at Pollocks-ford…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dangers of the Hamilton Road. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate)
SIR.—Will you be kind enough to allow me through the medium of your valuable journal to call attention to the slovenly and dangerous condition of the above…
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THE Sandhurst correspondent of the Argus gives the particulars of a disastrous railway accident, fortunately unaccompanied with loss of life, which…
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THE passengers by the 10.45 express on Friday, from Lime street, Liverpool, to Chester, to catch the Irish mail, were alarmed, as they were slowly rounding…
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AN inquest was held yesterday afternoon, at the Naval Brigade H[?] (before F. J. Shaw' Esq, J.P., District [?]roner, and a jury of twelve), on the dead b[?]dy of an infant which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Approach to Bullock Island Bridge. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR,—In answer to a letter which appeared in your journal last week, signed "Observer" I beg to inform him and those ratepayers doing business with the inhabitants of…
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THE ceremony of driving the last bolt in the railway extension was performed on Saturday by the Mayor, Mr. T. Dalton at the invitation of Messrs. Mason and…
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A PUBLIC MEETING of residents of the Brookstown division of the borough, was held on Tuesday evening, at Mr. R. Reay's Railway Hotel…
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On Easter Monday cheap excursion tickets will be issued at one penny has penny per mile, at and to all station available for return for four days,…
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The railway authorities deserve every credit for the capital arrangements made for conveying the large number of holiday seekers from and to Maitland, Wallsend,…
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The Dunedin Guardian of March 19 says:—A race for ten miles between a horseman and locomotive is something rather unusual. The passengers by the…
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AN inquest was held at 8 p.m., at the City Wine Vaults, Scott and Newcome streets, before Mr. Shaw, J.P., District Coroner, respecting the death of Robert…
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On Friday exactly a hundred trains were despatched from the Rattray-street station, Dunedin. DUNEDIN RACES.—Mr. David Proudfoot, at…
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WE think that the death of ROBERT MAY, formerly a shunter at the Newcastle terminus, should not be allowed to pass unnoticed; neither that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Late Railway Accident. (To the Editor of the Herald and Ad[?]ocate.)
SIR,—In to-day's issue there appears a leading article headed "The late railway accident," in which my name is pretty freely used, great stress being placed on…
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