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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Railways, roads & transport
411 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 4 of 21
IN the appeal of Matthew Buchan Jamieson against the decision of the Bourke Land Board that the reserved road along the south boundary of W. R. Johnson's homestend…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We learn through official sources that owing to the decision of the Minister for Works, Mr. E. W. O'Sullivan, that 2s per day should be held back from men working…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A rory large and inflaental deputation, representative of many towns on the Western line, waited on the Railway Commissioners on Tuesday to urge the necessity for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Immediately after the mooting reported on our front page, on Monday night, the men on strike formed a strike committee and appointed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Monday last the men engaged on the Cobar-Peak railway decided in a body to cease work as a protest against the decision of the Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Tuesday night a monster meeting of men engaged on the Cobar Peak railway was held in the Council Chambers. The meeting arose out of the decision of the workmen to go on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →My absence from Ford's bridge, paying a visit to the Pera Hore Settlement, precluded me making a report of how Easter Monday was deilt with in the way of enjoyment at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Compressed air as a motive power for tramway cars seoms to be successfully applied in New York and Chicago. We learn from the Street Railway Review'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →For 1100 vacancies in the railway vice there were 12,653 applicants…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IN connection with the parliamentary train to Melbourne for the festivities, the New South Wales authorities have suggested Saturday, May 4, as a suitable date for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It having come to the ears of the Mayor, Aid Hogan, that there was to be a deviation in the Cobar-Peak railway, and that same was now to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have received the following letter, dealing with the above, for publication:—Public Works Department, Sydney, 22nd April, 1901.—Sir,—With reference to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The most exciting topic for the past few days has been in reference to a comet visible on Wednesday at dawn, just above the [?]on, east by north-east, respecting which I…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During the past nine months tramways carried an additional 214,028 passengers, being an increase of 45½ per cent. For the three quarters of the financial year, the revenue from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THROUGH some extraordinary bungling by the department a hitch has occurred in connection with the Cobar-Peak railway…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →For the three quarters of the financial year the revenue of the State railways show an increase of over £277,000. The tramways for the past nine months carried…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The enterprising and progressive men who compose the firm of Shakespeare and Co., furniture makers, undertakers and embalmers, and monumental masons, have never…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Tuesday evening a public meeting was bold in the Council Chambers to discuss the two alternative routes for the Peak railway, the one being…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →'THIS bomb' -- pointing to an exceedingly formidable looking missile of the Orsini type--' was found underneath the seat of a railway carriage in a London to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A strike has occurred among the men employed on the Byrock- Brewarrina Railway, owing to the compulsory thrift policy of the Minister…
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