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A boy named Henry Craig, while alighting from a railway carriage on the platform at Ashfield on Thursday, fell between the carriage and the platform, and sustained severe injuries. It is believed that his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Messrs. Pigott, Stephen, ana Moses, Ms. L.A., and a number of other gentleme waited upon the Minister for Works yesterday to advocate the extension of the tramway system to Canterbury Mr. Pigott read the following letter,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →NOTICE is hereby given that on SATURDAY, the 24th February, and each Saturday thereafter, the Tourist Train leaving Sydney for Moss Vale at 7.55 a.m. will run through to Goulburn, returning from thence at 5.25 a.m. each Monday, and connecting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FRESH TENDERS will be received at this office until 11 o'clock on TUESDAY, the 18th March next, from persons willing to contract for erecting a Waiting-shed and Cottage at Triangi, at about 330 miles from Sydney, on the extension from Dubbo to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A deputation consisting of the Mayor of Ashfield, Mr. Mark J. Hammond, and a number of leading residents, waited yesterday morning upon the hon. the Minister for Works, for the purpose of bringing under his notice the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. Cass, M.L.A., and Mr. Polio, Mayor of Coonamble, came to ask the Minister for Works that a trial survey should be made at once of the railway extension projected from Dubbo to Coonamble…
Continued on Trove, page 378 →A public meeting, convened by the Mayor, in response to a requisition from a number of ratepayers and residents of Kiama took place in the Temperance Hall last night. It was held for the purpose of taking…
Continued on Trove, page 358 →An accident occurred on the Glebe Point tramway yesterday. It appears that about 6.30 a.m. a dairyman named Thomas Rigby, residing at Glebe-street, near Cowper-street, was driving his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,--How much longer are travellers on the Waverley tram line going to put up with the inadequate accommodation provided ? The line was the second started and the last to be completed, and now…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,--It is some time now since we were told officially that tramways are not returning 2½ per cent., and yet nothing has been done to render them more remunerative, nothing to enable the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A deputation, consisting of Messrs M. J. Hammond, Mayor of Ashfield, A. H. Jacobs, W. Henson, F. E. Norwood, John Mills, J. S, Whitney, and Alderman A. Brown waited upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A deputation was introduced to the Minister for Works by Messrs Pigott, Stephen, and Moses, M's.L.A.. to urge the extension of the tram line from Marrickville to Canterbury. There were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,--Now that the "cat is out of the bag," and it has been admitted that the Government tramways are, financially speaking, a--to put it mildly--non- success, and the fares will have to be raised. I would…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Decanville system of light railways for passenger and goods traffic was brought under the notice of the Hon. the Minister of Railways on Wednesday afternoon by Mr. Clement Van der Velde, C.E., who…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →A GREAT sensation was caused here on Saturday evening, by the passenger train which was due at 3 o'clock not arriving until 5. It transpired that the engine had got off the line at sharpand…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →A deputation, headed by Mr. Pigott and Mr. Moses, M's.L. A., representing the people of Five Dock, waited upon the Minister of Works to urge the necessity of extending the tramway now in course of construction…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Attention is directed to Gazette notice inviting tenders for undermentioned work, viz.:— Time for Receipt of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday afternoon an open-air meeting of residents of Leichhardt and Petersham was held at Leichhardt for the purpose of urging the necessity of continuing the tram line along the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NOTICE is hereby given that on SATURDAY, the 24th February, and each Saturday thereafter, the Tourist Train leaving Sydney for Moss Vale at 7.55 a.m. will run through to Goulburn, returning from thence at 5.25 a.m. each Monday, and connecting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A public open air meeting of the ratepayers of Leichhardt and Petersham was held on Saturday afternoon, at the corner of Marion and Norton streets, Leichhardt, for the purpose of adopting a…
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