New Road to Racecourse
WE are happy to see that the office [?] the Newcastle Jockey Club have [?] come to the conclusion that a new [?] really necessary for the purpose of [?]…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1878
188 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 10
Railway Porters on the Continent
A writer in 'The World (London) asks:—Why is it that the railway porter on the Continent is altogether a different being from the railway porter in England?…
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A RATHER nasty accident occurred yesterday, as the 11 30 train was proceeding between Hexham and Woodford platform. A man named Cozens, acting as fireman…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Late Telegrams. Accident During Kiss in the Ring. Dr. Somerville's Departure. Election Intelligence, Baloon Ascent at Ballarat. Gatekeeper Killed on Gipspland Railway. SYDNEY. Thursday, Reed. 7 p m
Mr. Fitzpatrick polled 290 votes against 22 for Mr. Remmington. Joe Thompson, the bookmaker, is reported to have lost £5000 over the…
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AN advertisement in another column, announces, for general information, that on and after Thursday (this day) the railway station at Warrah will be designated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Correspondence. Non Payment of Railway Employees (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
DEAR SIR.—Can you inform us why the wages of the men employed in the traffic department of the Great Northern Railway, were not paid on the 7th inst as…
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THE new road to the Newcastle racecourse is being proceeded with rapidly. The first bridge is finished, and the culvert approaching the course, at the rear of…
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Non-Payment of Railway Employees WE have received a long letter respecting the non-payment, on the 7th instant, of the wages of the men employed in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Railway Station
WE are pleased to notice that very satisfactory progress is being made with the new railway station in this city. The foundations are all laid, and on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland Road
SOME time since the Wickham Council made application to the Government for £1000 to be placed on the Estimates for the repair of that portion of the Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TELEGRAMS. Latest Sydney Telegrams Fatal Balloon Accident Investiture of Archbishop Vaughan. Important Railway Changes. Catholic Bishop for Armidale Dissolution of Victorian Assembly Bumoured. Telephone Experiments in Sydney. SYDNEY
THE balloon ascent, on Saturday night from the pavilion in the Domain, caused the death of a printer named Charles Hardey, and severely injured Professor…
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WE notice that the time mentioned by advertisement in Sydney and Melbourne papers, for tendering for the construction of the first section of the Maryborough…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TELEGRAMS. Mr. Vernon's Case. New Traffic Manager. Changes in the Railway Department. Sir John Robertson Visits Mudgee. Hall Forbes San Francisco Mail Contract. Sale of Railway Tickets Premier refuses to Suspend Immigration. Arrival of Immigrants. SYDNEY. Tuesday, Reed. 10 p.m
A LONG minute of the Hon John Sutherland, upon the case of Mr. Vernon, Traffic Manager, and his views respecting the Railway Department, was published…
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THERE will be only one feeling, and that one of unalloyed gratification at hearing that Mr. GOODCHAP has been appointed to the dignified post of…
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WE perceive by an intimation in the Narrabri Herald, that in view of "matters still more pressing," the Government have not as yet issued any instructions…
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MR SUTHERLAND deserves every credit for the best of intentions in [?]etting himself honestly and fearlessly to work, to grapple with some of the evils which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Detention of the Train
THE mail train from Quirindi last night was detained three quarters of an hour behind time. The rush of passengers was a cause of the delay; there were seventeen extra carriages on…
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THE amount of the successful tender of Cornwell, Mixner, and Co., for the construction of the railway from Wagga Wagga to Albury, is £263,655, and the distance is 77½ miles.—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Frightful Railway Accident. 6 47 p.m
A frightful collision occurred near Penrith, last night, between two goods trains, which were travelling at the rate of thirty or forty miles an hour. Three…
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FURTHER particulars to those published in our ample telegram of yesterday we now extract from the Evening News. Their reporter had an interview with one of the injured men in the…
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