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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
215 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 11
SIR,âIt is now eleven months since Handle and Gibbons failed in their contract on this line and seven months since the Legislative Assemble voted the sum of £1514 to the workmen on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has been pleased in pursuance of the Act of Parliament 22 Victoria No. 19 to approve of the undermentioned By-laws, made by the Commissioner for Railways…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ONE of the most [?] that probably ever disgraced this country was perpetrated late on Saturday evening, July 9, in a first-class carriage of a passenger train on the North London Railway, when Mr. Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →AN strocious crime was perpetrated late on Saturday evening, the 9th, in a first calss carriage on the North london Railway, when a Mr. Thomas Brigge, engaged in the banking establishment of Messrs. Robarts, Curtus,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—THE enclosed letter to the Taranaki News has been sent to me by the manager of the New Zealand Insurance Company. As it seems to be of some importance, perhaps you will be good enough to give it a place in your shipping column…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE fol[?]owing particulars respecting the conduct of Franz Müller (the supposed murderer of Mr. Briggs), both before and after the murder, are taken from the London Daily Telegraph:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The railway going public of London, and indeed of the whole country, haye been panic stricken bye horrible murder, which on Saturday. July 9th, was committed upon the North London Railway. A…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Montreal Telegraph contains the following account of the shocking railway cat[?]strohe on the Grand Trunk Railway:—"The Neckar sailed from Hamburg on the 11th May, with five hundred and thirty-eight souls, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE number of crimes which have recently been committed in railway carriages is beginning very naturally to alarm the public; the more so that there is an obvious reason why…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has been pleased, in puraaanoe of the Act of Parliament 22 Victoria No. 19 to approve of the undermentioned By-laws, made by the Commissioner for Railways,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE imposition of the Border Duties has brought the South- Western provinces more prominently before the public. Our Victorian neighbours have completed…
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Continued on Trove, page 8 →ONE of the most [?] crimes that probably ever disgraced this country was perpetrated late on Saturday evenings, July 9 in a first-class carriage of a passenger train on the North London Railways, when Mr. Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE dreadfal tragedy enacted on the North London Railway on Saturday evening, will have served to remind the public that travellers on the line are exposed to many dangers besides those arising from collisions…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →One of the most atrocious crimes that probably ever disgraced this country was perpetrated late on Saturday evening in a first class carringe of a passenger train on the North London Railway, when Mr Thomas Briggs…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—The Minister for Works is no doubt very clever, and like many more very selver men, he has evidently got a notion into his head that he is a sort of "Admirable Crichton," fit for anything, and au fast at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A DEPUTATION, appointed at a public meeting held at Wollongong last week with, reference to a proposed railway from Bulli to Wollongong, waited yesterday morning on the Minister for Works, for the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →WE copy from the Montreal Evening Telegraph, of 1st July, the latest particulars of the sad calamity at Belocil Bridge, on the Canadian Grand Trunk Railway, by which eighty five persons were killed, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A CONTINUANCE of fine weather during the past month has enabled the works upon the railway extensions to be carried on without much interruption. The works on some of the contracts are extremely heavy, and the progress…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →YESTERDAY morning a deputation, consisting of Mr. Haworth, M.L.A., Count Zlotkowski, and J. W. Wilshire, Esq, waited upon the honorable the Mintster for Works for the purpose of presenting a memorial which…
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