Waratah. the Tramline
So far there has not been much delay in the matter of preparing for the extension of the tramline to Mayfield. The route is being surveyed, and several consignments of rails…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1900
518 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 26
Newcastle Agricultural Society. Suggested Tram Extension. Preparations for the First Show
Since the Government has intimated its willingness to make a grant of £500 to the Newcastle and District Agricultural, Horticultural, and Industrial Society, everything…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Railway Strike in West Australia
The result of the strike of railway employees in West Australia justifies Mr. Plesse's estimate of its importance. It will be remembered that the cause of final…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Methuen Making a Railway
LONDON, Thursday.—Lieutenant-General Lord Methuen, in command of the division near Modder River, is making a railway along his front in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cairo to Khartoum Railway
LONDON, Thursday.—The first train from Cairo has arrived at Khartoum…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Destruction of a Bridge. a Boer Force Isolated
LONDON, Saturday. — Drenching rains have fallen, and the flooding river has destroyed the bridge near Inhlawe Hill, thus isolating Boers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Buller Advancing. a Bridge Seized. the Tugela in Flood
LONDON, Friday.—General Sir Redvers Buller on Thursday advanced from Springfield, occupied the south bank of the Tugela River at Potgieter's Drift,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Bridge Captured by Buller. the Country Northward Open
LONDON, Saturday.—Potgieter's North Zwartkop bridge, which has been seized, consists of a ferry-boat worked by wire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Toronto Matters. Meeting of Road Committee
A meeting of the Toronto Road Committee was held at the Pictual Tea Gardens Toronto, on Saturday evening, Mr. Casley, vice-President, in the chair,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Local Land Board. a New Road to Cardiff
A meeting of the Local Land Board was held at the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday morning. The president, Mr. Vernon, was in the chair, the other…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Bridge Over the Tugela
LONDON, Tuesday Morning.—A new bridge over the Tugela River was built on Wednesday. It took Three weeks to bring out the material in sections from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →What a Siege Train Is
The announcement was recently made that a siege train was being mobilised for service in South Africa. A siege train is the name applied to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Colesberg Road Bridge Destroyed. French Operating
LONDON, Tuesday.—Major-General J. D. P. French shelled and wrecked Colesberg-road bridge, in order to embarrass the retreat of the Boers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another Armoured Train
LONDON, Tuesday.—The fourth armoured train has left Durban for the front…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Siege Train for the Front
LONDON, Wednesday.—A siege train is being organised at Sheerness, and will concentrate at Capetown…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Tramp
Thus the "Academy":—"What is it that so brutalises the men that go down to the sea in sailing ships[?] All that poets, and even ordinary persons find in the mother and lover of men, the sea,' has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Sydney Letter. the Going Away of the Troops. — a Glimpse From Lady Mac-quarie's Chair. — Died Under Chloroform. — Another Tram Victim. — the Dirtiness of Sydney. — Ten Little Nurses. — Mixed Bathing. Sydney
Never has Sydney witnessed such a sight. The sending away of the first Contingent was tame to it. Long before the luncheon hour the people began to teem into the city…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Broadmeadow-adamstown Tramway Extension. Visit of Mr. J. Creer
Mr. Joseph Creer, Superintendent of the New South Wales Labour Bureau, visited Newcastle yesterday with a view to selecting from the registered unemployed of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Waratah. Early Train
The good news that the Railway Commissioners had granted the early morning train to leave Waratah for the city at 7.40 a.m. was received with pleasure here yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Siege Train for Pretoria
The train which has been specially constructed for the siege of Pretoria is to be manned by companies drawn from the southern and western…
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