Telegrams This Day the Hunter River Agricultural Show. the Case of Kabat. the Intercolonial Tariffs Bill. the Fitzroy Iron Mining Company. Committal of a South Australian M.P. for Perjury. the Adelaide Elections. Exodus of Labourers in the Northern Territory. the Railway Rates. Malay Prows at Trepang Bay. Cannibalism at Port Darwin. West Maitland. Tuesday, 12.29 p.m
Evening News · Tuesday 8 April 1873 · page 2
The Hunter River Pastoral and Agricultural Show opened to-day under the most favourable auspices, the weather being delightful, the exhibits numerous, and a prospect…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Festiniog Railway. (From the Times, December 25.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 April 1873 · page 7
THE resources of the Festiniog Railway have lately been increased by the addition of a second Fairlie locomotive of the type of the "Little Wonder;" and by some new rolling stock intended to accommodate…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The New Railway Goods Sheet. to the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 April 1873 · page 6
SIR,—Through the operation of the railway goods rate sheet, which came into force on the 1st instant, and raised the carrying charge for flour nearly fifty per cent. or 8s. 5d. per ton, being from Goulburn and Bathurst 28s. 4d. per…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Rates. to the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 April 1873 · page 6
SIR.—The Minister for Works is reported to have said in reply to the deputations that waited on him in reference to the increased charge for flour by railway, that "/So far from injuring the free selectors it would have the effect of…
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Sydney Punch · Thursday 10 April 1873 · page 9
Lady: WOULD YOU OBLIGE ME WITH A GLASS OF WATER? Guard: WATER!--THERE'S THE BUCKET, MA'AM…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Euphrates Railway. London, April 5
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 April 1873 · page 466
The House of Commons rejected a motion in favour of the Euphrates Valley Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 466 →The Rangitata Bridge
Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Wednesday 16 April 1873 · page 16
This structure, which may be said to have been formally opened when Mr. Blair, C. E., and his party drove across it in August last, is said by the Timaru Herald to be the first…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 April 1873 · page 7
THE following is the principal clause of the bill to enable the Government to raise a loan for railways, introduced by the Colonial Treasurer into the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday:—"It shall be lawful for the Governor, with the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →New Zealand Roads. London, April 23
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 April 1873 · page 5
The New Zealand Roads Act Amendment Bill has received the Royal assent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Telegrams This Day Kabat Committed on Another Charge. Arrival of Italian War-ship Garibaldi. New Water-pipe Iron Foundry. Maize Firmer. Adelaide Wheat Weaker. Bathurst Assizes. the New Rush-near Forbes. Railway Survey, Yield of Gold in Queensland. Earthquake at Melbourne. Gas Explosion. Man Buried Alive. [Per Anglo-australian Press Telegram Agency.] Melbourne, Friday, 8.26 p.m
Evening News · Saturday 26 April 1873 · page 2
Kabat has been committed for trial on another charge of altering acceptances. The Italian frigate Garibaldi has arrived, after a stormy passage from New Zealand…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Railway Accident in America
Empire · Wednesday 30 April 1873 · page 3
AMERICAN papers of the 12th February, landed at Qu[?]enstown, contain the following particulars of the dreadful disaster that occurred near Scrubgrass, the last station on the Alleghany Valley Railroad. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Railway Romance. (From the Post Mail Gazette.)
Empire · Thursday 1 May 1873 · page 3
THE latest advices from America announce that the Mexican Railway has at last been opened in its length of 300 miles from the city of Mexico to its seaport of Vera Cruz. Will any one write the history of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Purchase of Irish Railways. London, April 30
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 May 1873 · page 5
In the House of Commons, Mr. Ion T. Hamilon the member for the county of Dublin, brought forward a resolution to the effect that in the opinion of the House it was expedient that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Terrible Railway Accident in America
Evening News · Saturday 3 May 1873 · page 3
AMERICAN papers of the 12th February, landed at Queenstown, contain the following particulars of the dreadful disaster that occurred near [?] the last station on the Alleghany Valley [?] It was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wentworth Funeral—railway Trains. To the Editor of the Evening News
Evening News · Saturday 3 May 1873 · page 2
SIR—Do not the railway authorities intend, by "Excursion or cheap trains," to facilitate the attendance of the country people, who may desire to do honour to Mr. Wentworth's remains on Tuesday next? If so, is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Telegrams This Day Sentence of Richard Nash Suez Mail Service. the New Governor of Adelaide. Execution of Borhun. Gippsland Railway. Mize Rising. Charge of Embezzlement. South Australia and the Suez Mail. Latest Commercial. &c., &c., &c. [Per Anglo-australian Press Telegram Agency. Melbourne. Friday, 8.21 p.m
Evening News · Saturday 3 May 1873 · page 2
30,000 bushels of wheat have been sold at 6s per bushel. Richard Nash, formerly Colonial Storekeeper and secretary for Railways has been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Government Purchase of Railways
Freeman's Journal · Saturday 3 May 1873 · page 12
No public question lias ever been mooted in this country that has elicited so strong and so unanimous an expression of opinion as that of the purchase of Irish Railways by…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Suburban Railway Traffic. to the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 May 1873 · page 8
SIR,—As a new Commissioner of Railways is now being appointed, and it is not unlikely that there may be some alteration in the Railway time table, allow me to offer few suggestions respecting the suburban traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Railway Romance
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 May 1873 · page 21
THE latest advices from America aanounca that the Mexican Railway has at last been opened in its length of 300 miles from the city of Mexico to its seaport of Vera Cruz. Will any one write the history of the…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →The Railway to Yass
Evening News · Monday 5 May 1873 · page 3
THE following is the report of the Enginecr-in-Chief to the Commissioner for Railways, with respect to the extension of the Great Southern line of Railway from Goulburn to Yass:—…
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