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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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A public meeting was held on the 12th instant, at the Green Gate Hotel, Lane Cove, to take steps to obtain proper railway communication for the district. The residents of the locality attended in considerable numbers, and…
Continued on Trove, page 569 →Section 9 of the Railways Act provides that "copies of the plans, sections, and books of reference of every railway which it is intended to construct shall be from time to time…
Continued on Trove, page 560 →A deputation consisting of Messrs. F. Abigail, M.P., J. Gill, M.P., T. H. Nicholson, Duffy, Melloday, and Edmunds, waited upon the Minister for Works yesterday, to urge him to erect a railway…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A deputation, consisting of Aldermen Shaw, Farr, and Graham, of the Marrickville Council, was introduced by Mr Gibbes, M.P., yesterday to the Minister for Works to ask for a redaction of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →TENDERS for the last section of the Narirne railway (from the Murray bridge to the Victorian border) were, opened in the engineer-in-chief's office this morning. The lowest tender, which…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →AT the Contrai Criminal court, on the 13th, Thomas Goff was charged with indecently assaulting Mary Elizabeth Hooporin a railway carriage, near Culcairn, on January 30 last. Prisoner was conductor of the…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →The Minister of Works has, we understand, decided that the site for the railway station at Wollongong shall be at the junction of Crown-street with the main southern road to Kiama. This is the site…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tenders will shortly be called for in respect of the second portion of the railway extension from Goulburn to Cooma. The section in question is from Bungendore to Michelago…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN the course of his celebrated essay on "The inconveniences resulting from being hanged," CHARLES LAMB pointed out many of the most forcible objections to that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—Your monetary and commercial article of 18th in-stant makes reference to a special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, when the following resolution was sub-mitted:—"That, in the opinion of this chamber, no…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—Although your sub leader in Thursday's paper admits the necessity for the construction of a tramaway to the heights of it Leonards you will pardon are if I say that it might have gone further and urged [?]ge[?]t reasons…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Yesterday afternoon, a deputation consisting of Messrs. Barley and Bibo was introduced to the Minister of Works by Mr. Bruce Smith, M.L.A. The deputation which had been appointed by a public meeting at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The School of Arts, Mowbray-road, North Willoughby, was filled last evening with residents of the locality and district, to consider the question of a tramway and steam ferry to North Shore…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Very early on the following morning Ashby was up and out. He walked over the town in all directions, with a strange, furtive watchfulness in his eyes, as though on the lookout for some one…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In the Legislative Assembly last night, Mr. Wright, in answer to Mr. Proctor, said that Mr. James Roberts, Superintendent of Tramways, was the principal officer of that at branch of the public service. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →About 20 minutes past 1 yesterday afternoon a man, who has not yet been identified, was killed by jumping off the Newtown tram car at the corner of Newtown-road and George-street west while the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—With reference to a letter in your yesterday's issue, regarding the whar[?]ge question, and extension of the railway system into the city, as brought before the public in the resolution submitted at the special meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In answer to questions out by Mr W. J. Ferguson in the Legislative Assembly last night, the Minister for Works state that the railway would probably be opened to Glen Innes in June next…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday morning, Mr Shiell, the City Coroner, held an inquest at the South Sydney Morgue, on the body of Thomas Melody, aged 45, who was found dead in his tent on the Illawarra Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →PARRAMATTA, Tuesday.--a departmental inquiry took place to-day, respecting the railway accident that occurred at the Parramatta railway station late on Saturday (which was so quietly…
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