The fifth regular meeting of the Branxton District Progress Committee was held in the School of Arts last week. The president and vice-president being absent on shire ...
Article : 349 wordsA railway disaster, resulting in loss of life and injury to several passengers, occurred shortly before midnight at Exeter, a station on the Southern line, about 90 miles from ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 276 wordsOn behalf of the owners of Kundle Kundle estate, near Cundletown, Mr. Armstrong, of Sydney, submitted the property to public auction on 10th inst., when only a few blocks ...
Article : 92 wordsJohn Godwin a miner, aged 39, was killed at Abderdare colliery, about 8 o'clock on Monday. Godwin was working in a cut-through when a quantity of coal fell from ...
Article : 65 wordsWork on the railway line is fairly brisk, though most of us think it is expensive (writes the Stoney Creek, correspondent of the "Port Macquarie News"). I notice ...
Article : 102 wordsIn the local police court on Friday morning George Riley proceeded against Thos. P. Moran for assault. The trouble, it appeared from the evidence, arose through ...
Article : 246 wordsThe accident occurred in rather a simple manner. The goods train officially known as number 12 was due at Moss Vale at about 20 minutes to 12 o'clock, but was running a ...
Article : 408 wordsA Gresford correspondent writes to inform us that the Commercial Banking Company, of Sydney, Limited, have opened a a branch at Gresford. Tuesday last ...
Article : 146 wordsA farewell social was tendered to Mrs. J. Lacey by her Greta, friends on the 11th instant in the Masonic hall. After a well-prepared supper, by the ladles, had been ...
Article : 383 wordsIntense interest has been aroused in railway circles at Bowral by the statement made by Driver Irwin, of the Temora mail that the "down distant end." signal was ...
Article : 804 wordsA fire broke but in the drapery store of Mr. H. E. Corrie at Dungog, but it was discovered before it got a good hold. Before an entrance could be effected and a hose got ...
Article : 96 wordsOn Saturday last the death occurred in the Scone Hospital of Mr. William Cumberland, a very old resident of Aberdeen and district. The immediate cause of ...
Article : 163 wordsThe late Mrs. Elizabeth Clarke, one of the victims, left her home at Islington Newcastle, on Friday afternoon, for the purpose of spending a holiday at Harden till Easter. She ...
Article : 99 wordsWhilst out riding on Sunday, Miss E. Boyce of Glendon Brook met with an accident through her horse falling and throwing her to the ground. She sustained painful ...
Article : 154 wordsAn exceptionally sad case [?] Heaver family, of Parramatta, who were going to Cootamunda to bury one of their number. Mr. John Heaver was taking his ...
Article : 562 wordsSpecial despatches from Buenos Ayres describe. Mr. Theodore Roosevelt's 5000-mile tramp in Argentina and difficulties in motor travel with which readers of the ...
Article : 403 words"Exeter station at three o'clock this morning presented an awful spectacle." This was the remark made by a passenger by the train bound from Temora to Sydney. "when ...
Article : 435 wordsGloucester is still progressing. This week a start was made with the new premises for the City Bank, and the contractor for the Commercial Bank buildings will commerce ...
Article : 101 wordsOnly three weeks have gone since the glorious rains passed over our picturesque district, and in that comparatively short space of time, a wonderful transformation ...
Article : 173 wordsThe oil company's works have been practically idle for about twelve months, but on Wednesday last were re-started, and the manager, Mr. V. B. Grey, expects to have 250 ...
Article : 235 wordsSince the beneficial rains of the past fortnight the face of Nature has completely changed. The brown and dry surface has become green and pleasant to look upon, and ...
Article : 111 wordsThe railway disaster at Exeter proves to be the most terrible accident ever recorded in the annals of the New South Wales railways. Latest reports show that 14 ...
Article : 189 wordsTamworth cricketers and members of the sporting community (says the Tamworth Observer") generally will be extremely sorry to hear of the sudden demise of Mr. Thomas ...
Article : 127 wordsThe quantity of coal shipped at Newcastle during the week for places, beyond the State was 125,964 tons the proportions being 66,824 tons for Commonwealth and New ...
Article : 451 wordsIn reference to a telegram from Melbourne giving details of the mental breakdown of Sydney Jeffreys, wireless operator with Mawson's expedition, who resides in Toowoomba ...
Article : 155 wordsExtraordinary escapes from sudden death characterised the tragedy. One man and his wife escaped with a slight shock, while Mr. and Mrs. Minnis on the opposite seat ...
Article : 161 wordsMr. Arthur William Curtis, who died at Cowra during last week, as the result of falling from a balcony while in a somnambulistic state was well-known by many of ...
Article : 179 wordsA number of passengers who were in the Exeter smash were in Coulburn to-day. Mr. G. I. Scott, manager of the local branch of the Australian Bank of Commerce, occupied ...
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury (NSW : 1894 - 1931), Sat 21 Mar 1914, Page 12
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