Horse Killed on the Railway
Last Saturday as the midnight train was proceeding up the Western line, an unfortunate horse that had stayed from Mr. S. Parnell’s yard came…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1875
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Terrible Railway Accident
Panama, August 10.—One of the most terrible railroad accidents that has ever happened in Chile occurred recently on the Santiago and Valparaiso Railroad. As a train from Valparaiso was passing…
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A large and influential deputation, comprising several members of Paro[?], merchants, capitalists, and including some of the leading residents of the southern districts, waited upon the Hon John Lickey, Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Government Notices. Department of Public Works, Railway Branch, Sydney, October 2, 1875
TENDERS will be received at this Office, until TUESDAY the 12th October, at 11 a.m., from persons willing to Contract for the Supply of 60,000 hard, sound, and well-burned Building Bricks, at Parramatta…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Roads and Road the Trusts. (To the Editor of the Freeman's Journal.)
SIR,—Perfectly aware as I am that your ably-conducted and widely-spread journal is always open to those who wish to right wrongs, by publishing abuses, I do not hesitate for a moment…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Opening of the Railway at Gunning. (Yass Courier.)
A MEETING, attended by about sixty persons, was held at the court-house, Gunning, yesterday. Mr. H. Saxby, J.P., was called upon to preside. The object of the meeting was to arrange for a…
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A DEPUTATION waited upon the Hon. John Lackoy, Minister for Works, yesterday, to nrg[?] upon the Government the necessity for the immediate commencement of the Metropolitan and [?]awarra Railway. There were present…
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THE American papers, especially the technical journals, are just now much exercised with the alleged discovery of a Mr. Keely—a discovery which, if all be true that is stated of it, is certainly the most wonderful that has yet been…
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On the application of several of the residents in the suburbs dosirous of attending Madame. RISTORI'S performonces, it has been decided to POSTPONE the starting of the last Train from Sydney on MONDAY NIGHT,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Government Notices. Department of Public Works, Railway Branch, Sydney, 5th October, 1875
TENDERS will be received at this Office until TUESDAY, the 19th instant, at 11 o'clock a.m., from persons willing to contract for the supply of Five Tons of Copper Ingots, to be delivered at the Railway Store,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Government Notices. Department of Public Works, Railway Branch, Sydney, 5th October, 1875
TENDERS will be received at this Office until TUESDAY, the 19th instant, at 11 o'clock a.m., from persons wiling to contract for the supply of Five Tons of Copper Ingots, to be delivered at the Railway Store,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Proposed Site Por City Railway Extension. to the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—Several positions in Sydney have been recommended AS suitable sites for our city railway station, nevertheless it appears to me that the most eligible piece of land has been overlooked. I refer to that portion of ground lying…
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The view represents the junction of the Bealey and Waimakariri Rivers. At the extreme limit of the Canterbury plains, and near the opening of the Otira gorge, the…
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Not far from the locality depicted as the Bealey Township, on the road from Christ church to the West Coast, is a small hut built by Government for the use of swagmen…
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THE MINISTER FOR WORKS has given his unqualified support to the Illawarra Railway project, and has promised a deputation that he would use every means to secure the consent of his colleagues and of…
Continued on Trove, page 496 →Railway to Shoalhaven
AN influential deputation waited upon the Hon, John Lackey, Minister for Works, at his office, at noon on the 8tn, to present a memorial for the construction of a line of railway from Port Jackson to Shoalhaven,…
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Shortly after 11 o'clock on August 28, a terrible collision occu[?]d on the Midhmd Railway at Kildwick Station, sixteen miles north of Bradford, between the fast train from Scotland and an excursion train returning from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Government Notices. Department of Public Works, Office of Commissioner and Engineer for Roads, Sydney, 6th October, 1875. Gap, St. Leonard's, to Military Road, North Shore
TENDERS will be received at this Office until 11 o'clock of TUESDAY, the 12th day of October, from persons willing to contract for the completion of the following works on the abovementioned road:—…
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