The Road to Lake Maquarie
THE road between the city and Lake Macquarie, one of the finest watering places, surrounded with the most beautiful scenery in the Southern Hemisphere,…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1884
330 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 17
Felling in of the Maitland Road at Tighe's Hill. the Long-expected Come at Last
OUR Tighe's Hill correspondent writes that at last the main Great Northern land at Tighe's Hill, has caved in through being [?] destincly undermined for coal. He states that during Thursday night a…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—S. G. Dawson, commission agent, has obtained a verdict for £200 agent the Commissioner for Railways for injuries sustained by him by being…
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SYDNEY, Saturday.—A truck of hay belonging to a good train caught fire near Petersham last evening, but was soon put out. About four tons of hay were…
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YESTERDAY men were employed erecting two fences across the Maitland road, where it had caved in through being undermined. To prevent further traffic, one of these…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A Mrs. Carruthers met with an accident while alighting from a tram, and died yesterday…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The railway from Glen Innes to Armidale will be examined by the Engineer-in-Chief next, week prior to the opening. He will also examine the…
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SEEING that you have opened up this subject in your leading article of Saturday last, and while coinciding with you in every sentence, it may not be…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The recent dismissal of tramway guards has been confirmed by the Minister for Works…
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SIR,—In looking over your Saturday's issue, I was surprised at reading that the Maitland road at Thighe's Hill had fallen in. The long expected had come at last, and I hurried down to have a look, but found it…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Mudgee extension from Capertee opens on Monday next…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—A train on the Western Railway ran off the rails near Salisbury, and was precipitated into the river. Five persons were killed, and…
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THE D.T. of Wednesday last has the following remarks upon the above:—A portion of the Great Northern Road, situated at Tighe's Hill, a suburb of…
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SYDNEY. Friday.—The Evening News states that the eight o'clock train from Newcastle to Singleton will be discontinued, and the seven o'clock Sunday…
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SIR,—Would you kindly insert the following correspondence, which I am egotistical enough to think may not be devoid of some interest to your readers.—Yours…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The intended inspection of the Great Northern Line by the Minister for Works has been postponed, owing to the illness of the Hon. Mr…
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ARRIVED at the Lake, we partook of Luncheon in the primitive structure of an early settler; but as it would be ungenerous of me to discant upon this…
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ADELAIDE, Saturday.—Owing to an accident- on the railway works between Nairne and Callington, Robert Willner was struck while busting by a huge rock, and his right…
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YESTERDAY morning a deputation from the Hamilton Municipal Council, consisting of Aldermen Curley, Williams, and M'Kean, waited upon Messrs. Fletcher and Ellis,…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The survey of the railway from Sydney to Newcastle cost £4355…
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