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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1882

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Railway Catastrophies in Victoria

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 December 1882 · page 2

THE succession of railway calamities in the colony of Victoria, through mismanagement, ought to operate as a most impressive warning to the…

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Railway Employees' Wages

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 December 1882 · page 4

IT may be remembered that some few months past a notification was received from the Government to the effect that it was their intention to assimulate the scale…

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Important Meeting of Railway Employees in Sydney. the Wages Question

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 December 1882 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday.—A crowded meeting of railway employees is being held, to-night in the Temperance Hall to consider the rate of wages now paid per day…

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The Hamley Bridge Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 December 1882 · page 3

THE trial of the M'Gree family for murder was continued at Adelaide on Tuesday. The Chief Justice said that on re-consideration he thought there was…

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The Hamley Bridge Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 December 1882 · page 8

ADELAIDE, Wednesday.—The trial of Patrick and Elizabeth M'Gree for the Hamley Bridge murder was continued to-day. The Chief Justice occupied nearly…

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The Hawthorn Railway Disaster. Station Master Thompson and Guard Hunt Committed for Manslaughter

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 December 1882 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—After lasting seven days the Coronal inquiry into the death of W. C. Thomas, who Was killed in the Hawthorn railway accident, was…

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The Transcontinental Railway Project

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 December 1882 · page 3

BRISBANE, Wednesday.—The contract for the construction of the Transcontinental Railway from Charleville to Point Parker, with a branch westward to Cloncurry,…

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Terrible Railway Disaster. a Gentleman Roasted to Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 December 1882 · page 4

THE Scotch expresa, which left St. Pancras (Midland) Station, London, at 9.15 on October 28th, and which is timed to reach St. Enoch's Station, Glasgow, at…

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