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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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Two deputations, who numbered 20 persons, and embraced several members of the Legislative Assembly, waited upon the Secretary for Public Works yesterday to urge upon that gentleman the desirableness…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A deputation from Glen Innes was introduced to the Secretary for Public Works, yesterday, by Messrs. W. J. Fergusson and R. L. Murray, Ms.L.A., to urge upon the Minister the desirableness of constructing a railway…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dr. John Weir has fully explained the nature of the proposals he makes in behalf of the American Syndicate for the construction of cable tramways in Melbourne. The Syndicate has a capital of 9,000,000 dollars, and…
Continued on Trove, page 431 →The Minister for Works was waited upon on the 1st instant by a deputation consisting of Messrs. R. B. Smith, Copeland, and Proctor, Ms.L.A., and Messrs. Panton and Moore, to ask for a rail way to be constructed from Armidale to Trial Bay, through the…
Continued on Trove, page 429 →Messrs. Murray and Fergusson, Ms.L.A., introduced a deputation to the Minister for Works, to urge the desirableness of the construction of a line of railway direct from Grafton, via Glen Innes, in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SAY, what is't that's up with our Premier Parkes ? Has he gone ' off his chump' with the troubles and carks Of office ; or what is the reason, at all, That he's thrown his consistency over the wall ?…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr, Forster, M.P., introduced a deputation to the Minister for Works on Friday to urge on him the desirability of at once calling for tenders for the railway from Cootamundra to Gundagai. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Messrs. R. B. Smith, Proctor, and Copeland introduced a deputation to the Minister for Worics on Friday, to urge the advisability of a railway from Armidale to Trial Bay through the Macleay…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →THH views of the America syndicate represented here hy Dr. John Weir have been made public. The proposal is to construct cable tramways similar to those of San Francisco. The…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →LONDON, September 4.—News has been received of a terrible railway accident which took place on, Saturday in the Grand Duchy of Baden. It appears that an excursion train, very…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Sir,—Allow me to call attention through your columns to the small miseries which we, at Randwick, suffer through the unpunctuality of the trams at this race time. On Tuesday last 1 and other residents were ready to go home…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Brewarrina Progress Committee is preparing a petition for signature by the residents of the district, and subsequent presentation to the Minister of Works, urging the Government to expedite the railway works. The branch line is nearly finished, and the nearest point at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—Some people are lucky enough to get a tram timetable. I wanted one for Waverley on Snturday, but could not get one, so took a copy of the one at the Elizabethstreet office, but found on Sunday evening that this cannot…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The adjourned inquest upon the body of the lad William Charles Smart, five years of age, who lost his life through being run over by a train at the Petersham railway crossing on August 29, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the Water Police Court on Monday, Mr. Marsh. S.M., punished two young men of the Larrikin type for misbehaviour on the trams. It appears that on the 6 o'clock Waverlev tram Frederick Connors and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,—With some degree of amusement I have read in your issue of the 5th instant, that most uninue [?]le "W. R. Stone, Mayor of Forbes," and am g[?] he [?] Mayor of Forbes, that there may be no doubt as to hi[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The successful tenderers for the construction of the first section of the Illawarra railway-a distance of 23 miles 13 chains 30 links-are Mesers. C. and E. Miller, the well-known Victorian contracting…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Employes in the traffics branch of the Railway Department complain that they have heard nothing of the petition they forwarded to the Commissioner for Railways some weeks ago, asking for an increase of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Messrs. Lunny and Jones waited on the Secretary for Works on Friday morning, asking for a branch. road from Kervis-road, Rookwood, to be repaired. Mr. Lackey promised to bring the matter under the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Mitchell, M.P., introduced a deputation from the Newtown Town Council to the Secretary for Works, on Friday morning, to call attention to the state of Newtown-road. The deputation poulted out…
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