Railway to Lake Tanganyika
Civilisation marches apace in the interior of the Dark Continent. The railway and telegraph are being rapidly pushed forward from the four coasts…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1899
596 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 30
A Railway Complaint. Sydney
A great deal of dissatisfaction is expressed by tobacco-loving railway travellers at the action of women in invading those compartments set apart for the adherents of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A French Loan. for Colonial Railway Construction. Covered Thirty-six Times
LONDON, Monday.—It is stated that the French loan, the floating of which was recently authorised by the Chamber of Deputies, to defray the cost of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →District News. Toronto. the Road Movement
A meeting of the Toronto Progress Association took place on Friday evening last. The chair was occupied by the vice-president (Mr. Casely), who, in opening the meeting,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Tramway to Belmont. a Renewal of the Agitation Contemplated
As the result of a large meeting held in Newcastle at Mr. H. H. Lang's rooms in April, 1894, the Government was urged to sanction the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Visit of the Railway Commissioners. Arrangements for To-day
The Railway Commissioners, Messrs. Oliver, Fehon, and Kirkaldie, who are to inspect local improvements and receive deputations to-day in Newcastle,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Railway Commissioners in Newcastle. Inspection of Local Improvements. Deputation From the Newcastle Council
According to arrangements the Railway Commissioners and the departmental officers accompanying them left their sleeping carriage at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railway Journey From Sydney. Complaints by Passengers
Several complaints, many of them well founded, have reached us of the unsatisfactory manner in which passengers to Newcastle by the northern mail trains are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Railway Commissioners' Visit. Improvements at the Dyke. New Lines of Local Railways
In addition to the matters reported elsewhere, the Railway Commissioners, while in Newcastle yesterday, decided to make a back road at the Honeysuckle Point goods…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Railway Passenger's Grievance
Sir,—I have found it compulsory to write, a few lines for this journal in regard to the way some passengers are subjected to annoyance by others in our railway…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Sydney Letter. the New Governor. Australian Missionaries in China. Mr. Reid's Exhibition of Vanity. Women on the Top of 'Buses and Elsewhere. No Cost to the Treasury, Gentlemen. the Albury Federal Bridge. the Cricket Match N.S.W. V. Vic. Sydney
There was quite a flutter in the society dove-cots of Potts Point and Darling Point yesterday, and all on account of a four-line cable announcing the Governor's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rhodesian Railways. an Imperial Guarantee
LONDON, Friday—Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary for the Colonies, has agreed to Mr. Cecil Rhodes' request for a guarantee upon the cost of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ocean Tramps and the Men Who Sail in Them
Go to one of the shipping offices when a sailing ship is "signing on," writes "A Merchant Seaman" in the "Pall Mall Gazette," and watch the skipper's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Sydney Letter. Do We Eat Too Much Meat? Benefit for Good "Ned" Gregory. Mr. Sleath at the Police Court. Sydney Trams and 'Buses. a Hundred Spurious Sovs. a Month. the Sydney Florists and Dr. Murray. the Newcastle Bathing Fatality. New South Wales V. Victoria. Sydney
Dr. Muskett alleges that Australians eat too much moat, and not to be beaten, Dr. Hodgson asserts that they don't eat enough Thus instend of wisdom coming from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Plattsburg. Sandgate Road
For the past few years the local municipal authorities have been agitating for the crossing at the intersection of the Co-operative Colliery railway and the Sandgate-road to be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Chinese Northern Railway. the Dismissal of an Official
LONDON, Tuesday.—The Chinese Government has not yet agreed upon an impartial investigation in to the circumstances attending the dismissal of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Sydney Letter. an Execrable Practice. Electric Versus Steam Trams. Young Men Who Are Old Men. Also Old Men Who Are Young Men. the Anniversary Handicap Fatality. Foundlings and Their Keepers. the Promotion of Lady Bertie. the High Doings Under Lord Carrington. Sydney
A common but execrable practice lately is to publish the names of candidates for leading positions. It is a sound rule that an application for a billet, great or small,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Durham Colliery. Connecting the Railway Line
With a view to increasing their already extensive trade, the Scottish Australian Mining Company is preparing to draw coal for market from the Lombten B pit—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Special Road Grant
The Hon. J. N. Brunker, M.P., has received the following letter from the Under-Secretary and Commissioner for Roads:—"Sir,—With reference to previous…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →American Waggons on the Caledonian Railway
An innovation is about to be introduced (says the "Financial Times") by the Caledonian Railway Company in the working of mineral traffic in the United Kingdom…
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