Eddy Railway Orphanage Fund
THE recently appointed board of management of the fund have decided to obtain on estimate of a building suitable for a home for the orphans of deceased railway servants and to…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1899
574 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 8 of 29
The Cape to Cairo Railway. London, May 2
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer, stated in the Rouse of Commons last night that the Government had declined the proposal of Mr. Cecil Rhodes to make a guarantee…
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An excursion train travelling from Rochester, U.S A., to Lake Ontario was derailed. Twelve passengers were killed and 40 injured…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Few Words Respecting the Sale of Return Halves of Railway Tickets.— the Pros and Cons.— What Is Fair and Just, and What the State Can Well Afford.—decision of the Supreme Court of the United States
IT is well-known that the railway commissioners of New South Wales have a by-law, under tht provisions of which any person not duly…
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Mr. T. ASHE, porter at Goulburn for some time, is transferred to Dapto, and is succeeded here by Mr. V. McJannett in the office of Mr. E. Milne district traffic inspector…
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TWENTY-FOUR riders took part in the fire mile road race on the Windellima road on Saturday afternoon. The handicaps had been considerably reduced from the previous one, but notwithstanding…
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MR. ROSE is informed with regard to his application urging expenditure upon the road from Kialla towards Middle Creck at a hill near Mr. Butt's, that according to a letter received…
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A meeting of the tramway committee was hold at the Town Hall on Monday afternoon. Mr. A. E Sendall was voted to the chair. A number of petitions to the Minister for Works asking for an…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Members of the United Victorian Railway Service Association held a social evening at the Athenæum Hall last night in celebration of the rejection…
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THE beginning of next year should see the accomplishment of the desire of railway servants to erect a lasting memorial to the late Chief Commissioner, Mr. Eddy. The form that the memorial…
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MR T. ASHE, porter at Goulburn station, has been transferred to Dapto, and Mr. V. McJannett, of the district inspector's office, takes his place Inspector Yates, of the loco, department, is on a…
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COMMITTEE met in the Town Hall on Monday; Mr. A. E. Sendall in the chair. Petitions requesting th minister for works to have an estimate of cost and a report on the…
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A DEPUTATION, consisting of Messrs. W. H. Riley, A. E. Sendall, E. C. Bryden, A. Barrett, and P. K. Clark, waited on Mr. J. Ashton, M. P., at the Town Hall yesterday morning in reference to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →To the Relief of Readers This Article Is Not on Federation!—about Gardens at Railway-stations and Other Means of Beautifying Them.—how the Goulburn Station Might Be Made "A Thing of Beauty and a Joy for Ever."—a New Station Here Is Only a Question of Time.—the Notice of the Commissioners Solicited
IT appears that the railway commissioners are desirous of seeing stations beautified and so made pleasing resting spots for the eyes of weary…
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Travellers on the N.S.W. railways often deplore the absence of floral and [?]liage cultivation such as would transform the arid and ugly-looking stations into balling-spots of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tram Accident in Oxford-street
AN accident, resulting in serious injury to two men, occurred in Oxford-street about 5.45 on Thursday evening. The 5.35 Crown-street tram had just left the College-street stopping place, when…
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An extensive display of Ambulance work and exhibition of the use of improvised material.. will be given in the Elite Rink, Slone-at., on Friday next by the Goulburn branch of the…
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TENDERS to close on Saturday next are called for in this issue for contract 4398-9, road Wheeo P.O. to Gunning and contract 4498-9 road Laggan to Binda…
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An appalling collision occurred on the Philadelphia and Reading railway near Exeter, United States. A train containing excursionists, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Collision in the United States. London, May 14
A disastrous railway collision has occurred at Exeter, in New Hampshire, United States. A train from Reading, Pennsylvania, ran into the Philadelphia express, which was stationary at Exeter…
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