The Steam Road-roller
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 September 1874 · page 329
A TRIAL of the steam road roller, lately imported by the Municipal Corporation of Sydney, was made on Tuesday afternoon, in presence of the Mayor and aldermen, the Hon. Minister for Works, and many other citizens…
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Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 September 1874 · page 4
THE Chicago Tribune has rightly designated Rochefort as the French edition of George Francis Train; but this remark suggests some melancholy reflections on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Premier at Hay. Queening of the New Bridge. Hay
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 September 1874 · page 335
THE Premier left Deniliquin at daylight on Saturday morning, and arrived here early in the afternoon. He was met three or four miles out of town by the Mayor and principal inhabitants of the town; and among the procession of…
Continued on Trove, page 335 →The Right Railway Policy
Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 September 1874 · page 11
ONE of the most important subjects upon which our politicians will very shortly have to legislate is that of railways. To an American first visiting New South…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 September 1874 · page 18
DURING Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (June 21), the Great Western Railway Company converted its southwestern lines from the broad to the narrow gauge. The work bogan at daybreak on Friday morning, and…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 September 1874 · page 21
YESTERDAY (Friday) afternoon, about half-past 5 o'clock, there was another accident on the Great Northern Railway line, at Newcastle. A man named James Fuller, in the employ of Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Telegrams This Day. Later English News Per Mail Steamer Alexandra Via Tohees Straits. Disraeli Announces England's Intention to Annex Fiji. Prince of the Asturias to Be King of Spain. £15,000 a Year Granted to Prince Leopold. P. AND O. Company Bargaining to Use Suez Canal. Dreadful Railway Collision.— Nineteen Killed.—thirteen Injured. English Shipping for Australia. Wool Market Firm and Active. English Markets, &c, &C. Cable Message [Reuter's Special Telegram.] London, via Singapore, September 12
Evening News · Monday 14 September 1874 · page 2
Received in Sydney, September 12,6.8 p.m. The Ministerial journals of Berlin state that the incident at Gutaria, when the Carlists fired upon a German gunboat, which replied by sending…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 September 1874 · page 5
A terrible, collision has occurred on the Great Eastern-Railway-line, by which nineteen persons were killed and thirty injured…
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Empire · Monday 14 September 1874 · page 3
DURING Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (June 21), the Great Western Railway Company converted its southwestern lines from the broad to the narrow gaugo. The work began at daybreak on Friday morning, and…
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Evening News · Tuesday 15 September 1874 · page 3
DURING Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (June 21), the Great Western Railway Company converted its south-western lines from the broad to the narrow gauge. The work begin at daybreak on Friday morning, and…
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Evening News · Wednesday 16 September 1874 · page 2
Also in Empire
OUR Melbourne telegram of Friday stated that the police caught three boys placing stones on the Hobson's Bay railway, with the intention of tipping the train over. The Argus says…
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Empire · Wednesday 16 September 1874 · page 3
A serious case of assault has been heard at the Cuckfield Police-court, in which Mr. Jeremiah Farrow, a well-to-do farmer, from Old Newton, Stowmarket, Suffolk, was the complainant, and…
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Evening News · Thursday 17 September 1874 · page 3
A serious case of assault has been heard at the Cuckfield Police-court, in which Mr. Jeremiah Farrow, a well-to-do farmer, from Old Newton, Stowmarket, Suffolk, web the complainant, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Opening Oe the Bridge at Windsor
Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 19 September 1874 · page 18
THE inhabitants of Windsor celebrated, with great eclat, the opening of the bridge over the Hawkesbury which connects their town with the agricultural district of Wilberforce. The day was observed as a general holiday, and the…
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Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 19 September 1874 · page 13
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 19 September 1874 · page 372
A terrible collision has occurred on the Great Eastern Railway line, by which nineteen persons were killed and thirty injured…
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Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 19 September 1874 · page 18
AN effort has been made within the last few years to induce the survivors of the various aboriginal tribes to abandon their migratory mode of life, and to adopt more civilized habits. Reserves have been formed in various parts of…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Skipton Jacky Jacky and His Tribe at the Opening of the Beaufort Railway
Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 19 September 1874 · page 17
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 September 1874 · page 27
A serious case of assault has been heard at the Cuckfield Police-court, in which Mr. Jeremiah Farrow, a well-to-do farmer, from Old Newton, Stowmarket, Suffolk, was the complainant, and…
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