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ATTENTION is directed to Gazette notice inviting fresh tenders for undermentioned work, viz.:— The Construction of Main Bondi Intercepting Sewer. Time for receipt of tenders, 17th April…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The tender of Messrs. Davis, Taylor, and Willmot, for the construction of the above tramway, was accepted during the early part of January, but the work was ret commenced until January 22, owing to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →About 20 minutes to 9 last night a horrible train accident occurred on that part of the line which is adjacent to the Christ Church police station. A young married man named James Falconer, residing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →EXCURSION TICKETS will be issued at all stations on the Western and Mudgee lines to Bathurst, commencing with the mail trains leaving Severtire and Sydney on MONDAY EVENING, the 9th April, and terminating with trains arriving in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NOTICE is hereby given that a Special Train will leave Sydney for Penrith at 10.55 a.m. on the above date, returning from Penrith at 5.45 p.m. the same day. Excursion Tickets will be issued from Sydney at the following…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TENDERS will be received at this office untill 11 o'clock on TUESDAY, the 1st day of MAY, from person willing to contract for excuting the works on the first section of the Southern and Northern Junction Railways, extending from near…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NOTICE is hereby given that in future the charge for Sleeping Berths will be as follows:— Lower berths...... 12s 6d Upper ditto...... 10s 6d…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TENDERS will be received at this Office until 11 o'clock on TUESDAY, the 17th April, from persons willing to manufacture 1500 Waggon Covers from canvas supplied read cut by the Department…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A large deputation from Kiama, Shellharbour, and Gerringong, together with one from Wollongong, urged upon the Acting Minister for Works the necessity and importance of calling for tenders for those portions of the [?]la[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →An accident occupied yesterday on one of the tramlines, which terminated fatally ; and it presents features of an appalling character. As the 7.29 train from botany was just pulling up near the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At about one o'clock this (Wednesday) morning, an accident occurred at the Esk Bank Railway station by which an American imported locomotive was completely disabled. The goods train…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The same deputation, representing Wollongong, and a deputation representing Kiama, Shell-harbour, and Gerringong, comprising leading men of the district appointed at a public meeting held…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SOME two years ago (under the above heading) we urged the necessity that in our opinion existed for the construction of a tramway, or rather for a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →TENDERS, addressed to the undersigned, will be received at this office till 11 a.m. THURSDAY, the 26th of April, for the supply of a cargo of 50 to 80 tons of steam coal for the use of the George's River ferry. The coals to be landed on the wharf at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. H. Shiell, J.P., City Coroner, held an inquest on Saturday on the body of William Falconer (in our first edition erroneously called James Falconer), who was killed by a tram motor on Friday, near the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →EXCURSION TICKETS will be issued at all stations on the Western and Mudgee lines to Bathurst, commencing with the mail trains leaving Nevertire and Sydney on MONDAY EVENING, the 9th April, and terminating with trains arriving in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An inquest was held on Saturday by Mr. H. Shiell, J.P., City Coroner, on the body of a man named William Falconer, who died from the effects of injuries received through being knocked…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A serious accident happened at the Broadford Railway Station this morning; the early goods train was entering the Station when the pointsman turned the train on to a siding instead of into the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir--The recent fatal accident on the tram line suggests to my mind that something should be done to prevent persons getting under the wheels of the motors. At present there is no protection in that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. A. H. Simpson for the plaintiff, Mr. C. J. Manning for the defendants. The hearing of this suit was permitted to stand over for a month, with a view to settlement…
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