Glebe Point Bridge
Sir Wigram Allen introduced a deputation consisting of Mr. Field, Mayor of Balmain, Aldermen Dunn, Turner, Lucas, Elphistone, and Graham, to the Secretary for Works this morning,…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1881
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Iron Cove Bridge
Mr. M'Culloch, M.P., with Mr. Farnell, M.P., introduced a deputation consisting of Mr. Herring, Mayor of Ryde, and a large number of residents to argue against the proposal to put a swing span in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Opening of the Nowra Bridge. (By Our Own Reporter.)
Monday last was quite a gala day in the Shoalhaven district, and people from all parts assembled in thousands to witness the ceremony of christening and opening the now iron bridge over the Shoalhaven River at Nowra, performed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Serious Collision on the Railway. Two Engines Smashed
OUR Parramatta correspondent informed us by wire this morning of a collision which occurred dat the Parramatta railway station last night. As the 9.40 p.m. train left the station, and before it had crossed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Government Notices. Government Railways. Coursing Meeting at Woodstock, 5th and 6th AUGUST, 1881
RETURN TICKETS to Rooty Hill at 4s first-class, and 2s 6d second-class, will be issued at Sydney by the 9 a.m. trian on the above dates. From all other stations the ordinary excursion fares will be…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Department of Public Works, Railway Branch, Sydney, 14th July, 1881. OPENING of a Further Extension of hte Great South-western Railway
NOTICE is hereby given that a Further Extension of the Great South-western Railway, from Narrandera to Darlington (386 miles from Sydney), with an intermediate station at Hulong (375 miles from Sydney), will be opened for traffic on the 1st…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Refusing to Pay a Tramway Fare
Yesterday, being the day fixed for the delivery of judgment in this case, the counsel engaged on either side--Mr. Laughlin for the prosecution, and Mr. Pitcairn for the defence--appeared, and asked…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Deputations. Roads, Tramways, and Drainage
The Mayor and Messrs. Hardie, Kippax, and Green, waited upon the Minister for Works yesterday, and asked that the footpath along Hyde Park, in Liverpool-street, should he widened by taking a…
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It having been proposed to include a swing span in the Iron Cove Bridge, considerable opposition has been manifested to this scheme, on the grounds that the work would be useless, expensive, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Glebe and Balmain Union Bridge
The Minister for Works was interviewed yesterday by a deputation from the Glebe, who asked for the construction of a bridge from Glebe to Balmain. Sir G. Wigram Allen, the member…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Deputations. Proposed Swing-bridge at Ryde
A large deputation of the Mayor and aldermen and residents of Ryde, introduced by Mr. M'Culloch, M.L.A., waited upon the Minister for Works in opposition to the proposal to put a swing-bridge in the Iron Cove Bridge, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bridge From the Glebe To-balmain
A deputation, consisting of the Mayor of the Glebe, Mr Field, and Aldermen Dunn, Turner, Liucas, Elphinstone, and Graham, were introudced to the Minister for Works yesterday by Sir George W. Allenn, M. L. A., that they…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Opening of the Nowra Bridge. Nowra
The ceremony in connection with the opening of the bridge at Nowra was performed yesterday, by the lion. John Lackey, Minister for "Works, in the presence of 6000 or 7000 people, who assembled from all parts of the…
Continued on Trove, page 240 →The Newcastle Coal Co. and the Railway Department
A comprehensive paper has been laid on the table of the Assembly, at the instance of Mr. Fletcher, with regard to the rates charged the Newcastle Coal Company for hauling and shipping coal. From the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Government Railways. Coursing Meeting at Woodstock, 5th and 6th AUGUST, 1881
RETURN TICKETS to Rooty Hill at 4s first-class, and 2s 6d second-class, will be issued at Sydney by the 9 a.m. train on the above dates. From all other stations the ordinary excursion fares will be…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Department of Public Works, Railway Branch, Sydney, July 15, 1881. to Contractors and Others
TENDERS will be received at this office, until 11 o'clock on TUESDAY, the 30th August, from persons willing to contract for the execution of the Works on Contract No. 1 of the Extension from Dubbo to Bourke (Bridge over the Macquarie River at…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Oxford-street Tramway
The Mayor of Sydney and Alderman Kippax, Hsrdie, and Green waited on the Minister for Works, yesterday, to ask him to cause Liverpool-street, to be widened, and Oxford-street to be properly metalled. They pointed out that,…
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A deputation, consisting of the following members of Parliament:—Messrs. It. Barton, Beyers, Brodribb, Burdekin, Burns, Cass, Cooke, Cramsie, Cramise, Davies, Farnell, Fergusson, Henson Hezlet, Lloyvd, Loughnan, Lynch, Martin,…
Continued on Trove, page 247 →Murder in a Railway Car
A telegram from London in the San Francisco papers, dated London, June 28, states that when the Brighton railway express train was stopped for the collection of tickets outside of Brighton, yesterday, a man named Arthur…
Continued on Trove, page 238 →Refusing to Pay a Tramway Fare
The remanded case of Andrew Schmidt, charged with refusing to pay his tramway fare from Hunterstreet, Sydney, to Waverley, when called upon by the conductor to do so, was resumed in the Water…
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