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PACKAGFS intended for campetition at the above Exhibition, and addressed "Secretary Industrial Exhibition Balarat," will be received at all stations up to and on SATURDAY, the 9th February, and conveyed FREE OF…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →NOTICE is hereby given that on and after the 14th January instant, Return Tickets issued at a fare and a half for distances over 30, and not exceeding 200 miles, will is available for return for TEN days, including the day of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →DURING a discussion on a motion of adjournment, moved in the Assembly yesterday afternoon, Sir Henry Parkes made reference to the melaneholy acdident which occurred on the Western Railway last Wednesday night, and asked…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—No doubt you will be inundated with letters on this subject, but I should like to point out that if the staff system had been adopted in New South Wales, this accident would not have occurred. Either with or without the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A RAILWAY accident of a more serious nature, as regards loss of life, than had previously occurred in the colony took place on Wednesday night about ll.10 o'clock on the western line running through Emu…
Continued on Trove, page 142 →WE took occasion, in our last issue, to give the effect of a portion of Mr SUTHERLAND’S minute, which we praised as an evidence at least of a disposition…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE most terrible railway calamity that has yet happened in these Colonies occurred last night (Wednesday) at a spot known as Long Bank, near the foot of Lapstone Hill,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →While the inquest was proceeding at Penrith station, another railway accident occurred, which has resulted in the death of a man named George Benyan, aged 40 years, and unmarried. Benyan…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →SHORTLY after ll o'clock on Wednesday night a through goods down train collided with an up-special goods train at Emu Plains, just at the bottom of the Lapstone Hill incline. The two trains were running in…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →SIR,—I beg you will publish this: J. M'Gann, now of Sparke-street, West Maitland, but formerly 30 years a mechanic in the principal steam engine and railway establishments in England, and inventor of the new…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →THERE is "something new under the sun" in railroads; at least, I have seen no description in any New York paper of what has just been experimentally completed in Massachusetts. A perfectly-working,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—It is not surprising that accidents occur on our railway, and the only strange thing is that they have not occurred more frequently. The reason is obvious. Look along the line from Parrmatta to the western extent, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To-day the Government initiated an inquiry at the Works Office respecting the circumstances attending the late disastrous railway accident at Emu Plains Penrith, and generally into the management…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Saturday afternoon a meeting of the inhabitants of Kogarah was held at the Gardeners' Arms, for the purpose of considering the propriety of urging on the Government the necessity of extending the railway survey from Cook's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The City Coroner, to-day, resumed the inquiry at the Infirmary, respecting the death of a railway employee, named George Bunyan, aged 22 yean, who died in the Infirmary last Thursday, from injuries accidently…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TENDERS are invited for the construction of the first and second sections of the Southern Extension, from Warwick to Stanthorpe, in length respectively 20 miles 28-19 chains, and 20 miles 41-60 chains, in accordance with plans,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TENDERS are invited for the construction of the FIFTH SECTION of WESTERN RAILWAY, from Dulacca to 133 miles, in length 29 miles 20 chains, in accordance with plans, sections, drawings, general…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →All along the railway line the paddocks are swamped, and in several instances loss of cattle is reported. Howes built on low-lying ground are surrounded by water. The permanent way has sustained…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BRISBANE, Tuesday.—The tenders for the first section of the Maryborogh and Gympie Railway have been opened, and are as follows:—Fountain and Co's £109,267 16s 8d, Annear's £96,739 1s 1d…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →PACKAGES intended for competition at the above Exhibition, and addressed "Secretary Industrial Exhibition. Ballarat," will be received at all stations up to and on SATURDAY, the 9th. February, and conveyed FREE OF…
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