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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport
548 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 28
Rents have been increased, in the Waratah Municipality by, in all something like £400 this year, and still there is not a vacant house, though…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Toronto people received the news of the Minister for Works inviting tenders for the construction of the bridge, required in connection with…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"J.P.G." writes:—I beg that you will allow me a little space to bring under notice the disgraceful condition of that part of Hamilton-road approaching the Sacred…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The complaints of late given utterance to regarding matters of railway policy have been far from few. Those who make them have a right to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Tuesday.—Fifty of the Boers, under Commandant Trichardt, hoping to capture provisions, undermined the railway line near…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The inquest on the body of Herbert Henry Darnley, one of the victims of the Sydenham railway disaster, was continued yesterday, before…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The pay-Saturday passenger, or marketing train, as it might also be called, has proved itself a boon to Dudley, and many residents,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Before the case against a man named Bigge, "trading" under the name of Starkey, it was currently believed that a man when he wanted to open a current account…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The City Coroner resumed his inquest yesterday into the death of Herbert Henry Darnley, who was killed in the railway disaster at Sydenham…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.—The Boers derailed a train at Wilge River, about 40 miles east of Pretoria, on the Delagoa Bay railway, on Monday night, but a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The regrading of the line at Cardiff has drawn a number of men here, and tents are to be seen everywhere, the men employed being camped around and near the present…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Think of a wave of thick black mud sweeping over miles of country, completely burying houses and tearing up trees by the roots. That is what happens when…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The road superintendent (Mr. Grant) is effecting great improvements on this much-used road. About half way a certain officer left a nasty little hill. This has been out down…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Friday.—The British troops guarding the railway siding, which is being constructed at Tientsin by Mr. Kinder, have been strongly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday.—Dr. Morrison cabling on Saturday says that the Manchurian Convention, practically installing Russia in Chinese…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Why," asks the "Chicago Railway Age," "should not railway passengers he shipped by the pound as well as other freight? What is the justice in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Tuesday.—The Boers have wrecked twenty-one trains since the British have occupied Komatipoort…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wednesday.—The underwriters not the Mount Derrick railway are prepared to deposit £10,000 as a guarantee to provide £1,500,000 if the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Government is repeatedly falling in over the electric trams. They pay well, and they need to, as since they first started running the Commissioners must have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The bridge record, held by a British firm, has been beaten—by another British firm, by the despatch of a new steel bridge to Lagos, from Liverpool…
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