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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
1,797 stories in Sydney's papers · page 49 of 90
Mr. Fawaett, H.P., introduced a deputation to the Secretary for Works this morning to support the prayer of a [?]ition presented previously, asking for a special grant for a road from Ballina to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir Patrick Jennings and Mr. Cass, M's.P., introduced a deputation, consisting of Messrs. Macalister and Alexander, from Warren, to the Secretary for Works this morning, to ask for the construction of a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another accident of a serious nature occurred on the tramway line this morning, and one which it is feared will have a fatal result. A man named Samuel Schumacker, a Swiss, who has been in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The inquest on the late Hon. George Oakes was resumed yesterday afternoon. William Evans, fireman in the Tramway Department, deposed that he drove motor No. 21, running between…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A deputation from the Mudgee district, introduced by Messrs. Terry, Byers, and Buchanam, M's.p., waited on the Secretary for Works this morning to ask for the establishment of a railway platform of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The City Coroner [?] an inquest at his chambers, yesterday, with respect to the death of the Hon. George Oakes, M.L.C., who died in the in[?] about 8 o'clock the previous evening, from the effects of injuries which he…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,—If the subject is not already exhausted, I should like to say a word in referance to "cow-catchers," for our tram [?]. That there is a great need for them—[?], that it is ab[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The same deputation then laid before the Secretary for Works the matter of the necessary works on Pyrmont Bridge-road, to which attention had been drawn some time since. Two officers of the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Sir Wigram Allon introduced a deputation consisting of Mr. Field, Mayor of Balmain, Aldermen 'Dunn, Turner, Lucas, Elphistone, and Graham, to the Secretary for Worka last Friday,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →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 13 →A deputation, consisting of Sir P. A. Jennings, M.L.A., Mr. Cass, M.L.A. Mr. A. Alexander, and Mr. P. Macalister, waited upon the Minister for Works, for the purpose of urging the construction of a road or tramway to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A deputation, introduced by Mr. Fawcett, M.L.A., waited upon the Minister for Works, for the purpose of requesting the construction of a road from Ballina to the Brunswick River, by way of the Tintinbur Mountains, a distance of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Minister for Works was called upon yesterday by a deputation, introduced by Mr. Fawcett, M.P., who asked that a road should he formed from Ballina to the Brunswick River, by way of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →[?] corner a favour on a large number of your up-country readers, by calling attention to the exorbitant charge made by the railway authorities for sheets as they term it-to wit, 2s 6d per day for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. J. F. Hagerty, of Paddiugton, writes :-I beg to ask leave of a small space in your most valuable paper, direction the attention of the tramway anthorities to the danger attached to the speedy travelling…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New York, June 28.-Details of a terrible accident on the Morelos Railway, in Mexico, last Friday night, have been received. The train, drawn by two locomotives, and carrying a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,-It is gratifying to learn that the western farmers held a few evenings ago a highly satisfactory meeting, for the purpose of impressing the powers that be with the necessity for at once…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Samuel Schumacker, who was takes to the Infirmary suffering from the effect of injuries received by being knocked down by a Waverley tramway motor yesterday morning, died in one of the wards…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The hon. members for Mudgee—Messrs. Terry, Beyers, and Buchanan—accompanied by the Rev. Mr. Stewart and other residents of the locality, interviewed the hon. Minister for Works yesterday with reference to the construction of a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →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 Macquario River at…
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