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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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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 Beurke (Bridge over the Macquarie River at…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →TICKETS at excursion rates will be issued at all stations to Clarendon from the 26th till the 29th August (both days inclusive). available for return far distances of 150 miles and under until the 30th August, and for distances over 150 miles until the 12th…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →TENDERS will be received at this Office until 11 a.m., on TUESDAY, the 13th day of September next, from persons willing to contract for the supply of the following Small Stores for the year 1882 for the Government Railways, in accordance with the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →A deputation was introduced to Mr. Lackey on the 19th instant by Mr. H. H. Cooke, M.L.A., amongst whom were the following members of the Legislative Assembly:—Messrs. R. Barton, Dr. Ross, Combes, Bodel, Vaughn, Cass,…
Continued on Trove, page 375 →A curious project is on foot in connection with the well-known baths of La Raillere, in France. The hot sulphur springs which constitute the attraction of the neighbourhood are high up on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →America seems as if it desired to emulate even the horrors of England. No sooner is the Lefroy case reported than the following crops up in the United States :--" in a train on the Hannibal and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Information was received which led Police-inspectors Jarvis and Swanston to visit a house at Stepney, the information being to the effect that a person resembling Lefroy, and whose…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The popular fallacy that two parallel lines never meet is now thoroughly exploded. The tram-cars which run parallel to each other are continually meeting, besides colliding with cabs, old women, and butchers' carts, which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A mysterious occurrence was reported on June 27 to the Brighton police. Mr. Arthur Lefroy, of 4, Cathcart-road, Wallington, Surrey, stated to the police authorities at the Town Hall that…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →A DEPUTATION of residents in the neighbourhood of Cook's River, and in the district between it and Sydney, was introduced to the Secretary, for Works last Friday by Mr. Pigott, M.P;, to protest against…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →A deputation introduced by Mr. Cooke, M.P., with Messrs. Bodel, Murray, Andrews, Myers, Cass, Davies, B. Barton, Byers, and Dr. Ross, M.'sP., waited on the Secretary for…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →LONDON, August 24.—A discovery has been made which leads to the belief that the destruction of the Birmingham railway station was about to be attempted…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →TENDERS will be received at this office till 11 a.m. TUESDAY, the 30th instant, for carting about 600 cable yards Road Metal from Paddington Barracks on to the Milltary Road, Botany. Tenders to he addressed to the undersigned, and to state price per…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TENDERS, addressed to the undersigned, will be received at this office till 11 a.m. FRIDAY, the 2nd September, for the Supply of two Sets of Guides for Wire Rope for Steam Punts. Specification may be seen at this office…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—The inhabitants of the Northern districts may. fairly point to the present interruption to the transmission of mails from Sydney as affording a very strong argument in favour of the establishment of direct railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TICKETS at excursion rates will be issued at all stations to Clarendon from the 26th till the 29th August (both days inclusive), available for return for distances of 130 mailes and under until the 30th August, and for distances over 130 miles until the 12th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TENDERS will be received at this office till 11 a.m. TUESDAY, the 30th instant, for carting about 600 cubic yards Road Metal from Paddington Barracks on to the Military Road, Botany. Tenders to be addressed to the undersigned, and to state price per…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TENDERS will be received at this Office until TUESDAY, 13th September, 1887, at 11 o'clock, from persons willing to contract for the following annual Supply of Stores for the year 1889, for the Government Railways, in accordance with the conditions…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TENDERS, addressed to the undersigned, will be received at this office till 11 a.m. FRIDAY, the 2nd September, for the Supply of two Sets of Guides for Wire Rope for Steam Punts. Specification may be seen at this office…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A TERRIBLE accident occurred this morning to the Brighton express train. When the express was approaching Jolimont, the axle of the engine broke, and several of the carriages fell over…
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