Government Notices. Government Railways. Weekly Excursion Train to the Blue Mountains
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 December 1876 · page 3
Onevery SATURDAY MORNING, commencing with the 14th isstant, an Excursion Train will leave Sydney at 7.25 a.m., for the Mountains, calling at the undermentioned Stations, and will return on MONDAY, leaving Mount…
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Evening News · Thursday 21 December 1876 · page 5
At a meeting of the Paddington Municipal Council, held on Tuesday evening, at the Council Chambers—present: [?] Esq., Mayor, in the chair, Aldermen Reddy, Albert, Taylor, Campbell,…
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Evening News · Thursday 21 December 1876 · page 5
Mr. Rouse has declares [?] intention to move resolution in the Assembly the following effect:—(1) That, in the opinion of this House, the importance of the town and district of [?] point of wealth and…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 December 1876 · page 3
Onevery SATURDAY MORNING, commencing with be 14th instant, an Excursion Train will leave Sydney at [?].25 a.m., for the Mountains, calling at the undermentioned Stations, and will return on MONDAY, leaving Mount…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 December 1876 · page 8
ACCUSTOM the dog to its name early, and perhaps, out of reference for the ways of the past, it would be well to yield to the Scottish shepherd's superstition, and call him after a flowing river, "for then ye ken he will surely never…
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Evening News · Saturday 23 December 1876 · page 4
On Wednesday, a man named Peters, a passenger by the coach from Bourke, died very suddenly at Tumberabong[?]. He had been discharged from the Bourke Hospital as incurable. and was going to Sydney for…
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Evening News · Saturday 23 December 1876 · page 4
A slight accident occurred on the Western railway line. A special goods train with sheep from Willomine. came in contact with the rear of the mineral train, as the latter was leaving Hertley Vale aiding,…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 December 1876 · page 8
A special train, for the conveyance of racehorses to Richmond, will leave Sydney at 3.50 p.m., on MONDAY, the 25th instant. Horses for dispatch by this train should be at the…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 December 1876 · page 6
Trains will leave Redfern Railway Station for the Richmond Racecourse, on the above date, as follows:- Return Fares.—Return Fares, 4s— 3s…
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Evening News · Wednesday 27 December 1876 · page 2
An accident of a serious nature occurred on the Great Western Railway line on Saturday night. Alexander Miller, the guard of the train which left Sydney at a quarter-past five, fell between the train and the…
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Evening News · Wednesday 27 December 1876 · page 2
On Friday last, as the mail train left Sydney, on the great southern railway, one of the carriages was occupied by Mr. W. H. Colls, formerly of Yass, Mr. John Lawless, a stranger, a lady who had a baby with her,…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 December 1876 · page 3
EXCURSION TICKETS at a SINGLE FARE for the double journey will be issued at all stations for distances over 20 miles, upon 30th December 1876, and 1st January, 1877, available for return for fourteen days, including day…
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Evening News · Friday 29 December 1876 · page 2
SIR.—The particulars of the above catastrophe, as given in the Herald on the 27th instant, are so far from the real faces of the case that I've [?] (as an eye witness) to furnish more correct details, not with a view of indulging in the…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 December 1876 · page 5
SIR,—Being obliged to return from a short holiday in the country on Boxing day, I can, if you will allow me, offer you samples not only of the police and refined manners of the so-called upper classes here, but also of the honest and…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 December 1876 · page 33
In the live stock market there is nothing of importance to report owing to the in[?]erupious to business incidental to the holidays. Wool— No sales were held this week…
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Evening News · Saturday 30 December 1876 · page 4
On Tuesday night, a man named Edgar, a gatekeeper on the railway line, near Tarrawingee, Victoria, went along the line with a lamp, and this morning his body was found on the permanent way, out in two…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 December 1876 · page 848
THE Queensland Government is the first Australian Government to carry out the principle of selling railway land to pay for railway construction. An extension from Dalby to Roma…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 December 1876 · page 19
MESSRS. Brogden and Sons, railway contractors, of New Zealand, have laid a proposal before the Queensland Government for the construction of railways, as per annexed specification, at £ 3000 per mile…
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