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THERE is not throughout the whole length and breadth of the colonies a district as extensively settled and largely populated as that of Newcastle which…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1877
113 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 6
Latest Telegrams. Water Supply and Prevention of Floods. Mr. Fieldhouse's Case before Parliament. An Enquiry Promised. Immigration Question. Destructive Fire at Manly Beach. Five Houses destroyed. Damage Estimated at £8000. Trickett v. Rush. The Circular Quay Railway. Fall of Snow. Arrival of 500 Chinamen. 3000 more Expected. Distress at the Palmer. Terrific Gale on the New Zealand Coast. Tidal Wave at Tonga. Arrival of the Ship Darra at Ade[?]aide Case of Small-pox on Board. SYDNEY. Recd. Monday, 8 p.m
In the Assembly this evening, Mr. Parkes, in answer to Mr. Cohen, said that Mr. Clark, hydraulic engineer, was at present engaged upon an enquiry into…
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AN accident occurred on the Great Northern Railway line, yesterday, but which, we are pleased to state, was not attended with results fatal to human or other life. A dray,…
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SIR,—I was gratified to see the other day that one of the objects of the deputation from our municipal council, in waiting upon the Government, was to see if something could…
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WE do not believe there is another district in the entire colony with stronger grounds for complaint, as regards the condition of its public highways, than the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Telegrams. Sir William Jervois's Report on the Defences of the Colony. The Circular Quay Railway Petitions. Charge against the Engineer of the Somereet (s.) Victorian R[?]fle Association. Railway Meeting at Mudgee. SYDNEY, Recd. 8 p.m
Sir William Jervois recommends that Port Jackson and Sydney be defended against naval attack by laid batteries and torpedoes at entrance to harbour. Sydney to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Telegrams Great Mortality Amongst Cattle. Daring Attempt at Burglary. Death of Constable Blair. Woman Killed on the Victorian Railway. Anti-Immigration Meeting. Arrival of Three Ships from London. SYDNEY, Recd. Wednesday, 8.35 p.m
JOHN SULLIVAN, boarding-house manager, of Newcastle, and John Edward Saunders, miner of Bullock Island, are insolvent. Considerable mortality is reported as…
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ON Wednesday night last, between 7 and 8 o'clock a man named John Griffiths, a married man, belonging to New Lambton, was killed by the Waratah Company's locomotive,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Telegrams Lighting Railway Carriages with Gas. Another Libel Action Against the Melbourne "Age" Discovery of Another Quartz Reef at Gulgong. SYDNEY. Recd. Thursday, 10.30 p.m
The foundation stone of a new Public School was laid, in the presence of the Minister for Justice, at Adelong. The Hon. Mr. Hoskins has ordered…
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SIR,—I see by the report of the Hamilton Council that they are going to apply to the Government for a sum of money to complete the New Lambton Road to their boundary;…
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WE notice with pleasure that there is a movement on foot in Sydney for lighting the passenger carriages on the railway lines with gas. Most of the leading…
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A CORRESPONDENT at Wickham sent us the following yesterday:—"A man, whose name I do not know narrowly escaped being run over by a coal train to-day, at the Honeysuckle Point station. the 2.30 p.m…
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[?] indebted to the Commissioner for [?]ays for a copy of the following tele[?] detailing the particulars of a fatal [?] which happened at Goulburn…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Servants' Wages. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR,—In looking over the Evening News of Wednesday, the 20th, I noticed a question asked by Mr. Taylor, in the Legislative Assembly, "What were the wages paid to…
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THE attention of the authorities have been directed to the frequent irregularity in the delivery of northern malls from Sydney, owing to the accidents of weather on the coast. The following arrangements…
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THE Victorian Parliament has settled down to its work in earnest, and among the many matters which the Ministry have signified their intention of dealing with, it the fencing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Proposed Railway via Wallerawang to Mudgee Deputation to the Minister for Works
A DEPUTATION, consisting of Messrs, Jacobs, Turner, Scheley, W. C. Browne, M.L.A's., Thos. Hungerford. E. White, E. Sowman (Mayor of Singleton, J. Fullford, C. Eipper, and J. Lee of West Maitland, waited…
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ON the estimates recently laid before Parliament, the sum of £892,500 is placed for a branch line of railway between Mudgee and Wallerawang, a distance of…
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WE have received the report on the railways of the colony for 1876, annually furnished by JOHN RAE, Esq., A.M., Commissioner for Railways. As usual,…
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THE time table to be observed from 15th August next has been published, providing for the traffic from that date on the further length of twenty four miles to Quirindi a…
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