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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport
407 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 21
MR. MELVILLE, M.P., has received a letter from the Works Department, stating, in reply to his personal representations on the subject to a road near the shoots at Waratah,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A large deputation of politicians and merchants waited on the Government this morning to ask that the coal contract for the State railways should be given to the Adelaide…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Lismore-Tweed railway was opened to-day by Mr. Lyne, Minister for Works. A procession, headed by the Lismore Band, representing the various industries of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A FURTHER reply has been received through Mr. Bowes that the Government are short of funds and therefore cannot build the bridge over the Hunter at Morpeth, but will put a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MR. J. D. FITZGERALD wrote to Sir Henry Parkes bringing under his notice a petition praying for the remission of the death penalty in the case of Williams and Montgomery,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon one of the combination tram motors broke down at the corner of Market-street while proceeding from Hamilton to the Newcastle terminus…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Minister for Works has been engaged in the congonial task of formally opening a new line of railway—that from Lismore, and which will be ultimately extended to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →JOHN ABRAHAM LEMON and Alfred Cread, young men, were charged at the Water Police Court this morning with being concerned in uttering £20 worth of forged…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Railway Commissioners are making strenuous efforts to secure for Queensland the railway goods traffic which at present reaches the south-west portion of Queensland from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wednesday.—A shocking railway disaster, attended by enormous loss of life, has occurred in San Salvador, Central America. A passenger…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Thursday.—It is reported that the Board of Trade has decided to enforce a system of 10 hours' work per day for railway signalmen…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SOME time ago the attention of the Railway Commissioners was called through the columns of this journal to the many inconveniences of the electric telegraph office at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The bridge opened yesterday by the Ministers is said to be one of the finest wooden structures in the colony. In the unprecedented flood of March, 1893, the old…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A committee of inquiry into the rule of the road at sea, as regards the screening of side lights, met lost month at the Board of Trade and decided that whereas—having to do with one description of light and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE new long bridge at West Maitland was opened yesterday, and in honour of the event the citizens invited the Premier (Sir George Dibbs) and the Minister for Works (Mr. W…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The railway authorities have arranged for the running of special trains on the Toronto and Maitland lines, and all tickets will be issued at excursion rates. The tram service…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The whole of the available rolling-stock was brought into operation, and during the earlier hours of the morning and evening trams dashed along the city line at intervals…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Centennial Hall was crowded to its utmost capacity to-night by a meeting to urge the remission of the death penalty in the cases of the Bridge-street burglars,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE deputation appointed at the public meeting hold on Friday night in the Centennial Hall to urge the remission of the death penalty in the case Montgomery and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FOR some time past the trams have been conveying parcels to and from Newcastle, and the office attached to the waiting room here is used as a…
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