After Ten Years. The Railways Under Commission
To-day the Railway Commissionershave beer in office for 10 years. In this time very great progress has been made. The mileage…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1898
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Railway Employes. Their Work Promotes Longevity
The chief accountant of the Railway Department has furnished some information with reference to the mortality of the staff during the…
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Sheldon Bros.' tender has been accepted for a bridge over the Hunter River at Glendon…
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We learn by wire yesterday that the Government Tender Board had accepted the tender of Sheldea Brothers for the erection of the proposed bridge across the…
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" That is where they let down the rope to the boy. He jumped from that little ledge you see way up there—that, bird just flew past it!—and caught the rope as it swung toward…
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Mr C. H. Dight, M.P. has received the following communication from the Department of Public Works, Sydney dated October 18th:—"Sir,—I am directed to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Concessions. the Commissioners' Decision. Sydney
The Railway Commissioners, in the course of their reply to a deputation which interviewed them last week, state they cannot make any father reduction in the rates for carriage of starving stock. They…
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A body of Chinese soldiers attacked and wounded several English engineers on the railway works in connection with the line from Hankow to Pekin…
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THE Premier paid a visit to the Dural district on Saturday, and some of the enthusiastic residents, with an eye to possible local improvements, seized…
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A large and influential deputation interviewed the Minister of Works to-day and strongly advocated the city railway extension via Hyde Park. Mr. Young promised to submit the question to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wednesday, Oct. 26th. (Before Mr F. B. Treatt, J.p.) Travelling Without a Railway Ticket
At the local police court yesterday, before Mr F. B. Treatt J.P. William Ferris and Charles Clifton appeared in custody, on a charge of travelling…
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AN accident which will in all probability terminate fatally happenedearly on Tuesday morning on the railway line between Awaba and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Starving' Stock. The Railway Commissioners in Reply. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
The Railway Commissioners have given their reply to the deputation which waited upon them lasT week in reference to the rates for starving…
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THE decision of the Scone Bench last Friday, in the case Bakewell v. Boland, is one of considerable importance to road contractors. It is known that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To-day's Sporting News Cycle Road Race in Maitland
The road race run this afternoon along East Maitland Road, Wallis Creek Road, and Trappaud Road was won by Bert Solling, Dave Roberts being second, and McClelland third…
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An accident which will in all probability terminate fatally happened early on Tuesday morning on the railway line between Awaba and Fassifern. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →He Was a Railway Porter
A thin man, with a distressing cough, was inspecting some portmanteaus and trunks in front of a West End shop the other day, when the proprietor of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Years off Railway Progress
To-day marks an important epoch in the railway system of New South Wales. Ten years ago to-day the present system of controlling the railways by Commissioners was…
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Today ten years have elapsed since the present system of controlling the railways by commissioners was inauguarated. During that period a considerable amount of progress has taken…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →To-day's News by Wire. Sydney. a Fall From a Train
A boy named William Woods was attempting to alight from a train before it had come to a standstill at Ashfield railway station this morning, with the result that he was thrown on to the platform…
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