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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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An inquest was held on Friday afternoon in the Prince Alfred Hospital by the City Coroner concerning the death of a train conductor named James Cardiff, who expired in that institution from the effects of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →James Cardiff, a tram guard, met with a fatal accident on the Newtown road about half past nine last Wednesday night. When near Queen-street, the tram collided with a spring…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →EXCURSION TICKETS to Dubbo will be issned at Mudgee, Byrock, and intermediate Stations on the 4th, 5th, and 6th May, available for Return until MONDAY, 11th May…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The reconnaissance in force which was intended to be made to-day, mainly with the object of capturing Osman Digna, has been abandoned. The New South Wales Infantry…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The plaintiff sought to recover from the Commissioner for Railways as nominal defendant £200 damages for it juries sustained through an accident caused, as alleged, by the negligence of a driver…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →In the afternoon the death of the tram-conductor, James Cardiff, was the subject of inquiry by Mr Shiell, at the Prince Alfred Hospital. Mr West, solicitor, attended to watch the proceedings on…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A company has been started in New York, with a capital of 440,000, to build "navigable trains of air-ships," in accordance with the designs of an inventor who has already seventy-eight patents is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The 6.30 p.m. tram for Randwiok yesterday [?] into and killed a fine horse. The accident happened near the Moore Park sheds, and greatly disconcerted the passengers, who were detained at the scene of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Woman named Sarah Weir, about forty-five years of age, was leaving a tramcar, near Charing Cross, Waverley, on Sunday night, when she fell headforemost. The unfortunate woman was picked up…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. M. H. Stephen, Q.C., Mr. Salomons, Q.C., and Mr. C. B. Stephen, instructed by the Crown Solicitor, moved on behalf of defendant for a rule nisi for a new trial in the above action, which was tried on the 12th and 13th…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—I observe in daily papers that the Government have for Rome time been desirous to arrange with municipalities to take over the management of the main roads passing through their respective…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →TENDERS will be received at this Office until 11 o'clock on FRIDAY, the 8th May, from persons willing to contract for the supply and delivery of 1600 cubic yards of WHITE METAL, for Rocky Point and Forest roads…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I do not think there is any country where the contasts of roadmaking are so great as in France. Here are to be found the most splendid roads and the most detestable streets and pavements in the world. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An inquest ma held Tuesday in the Charing Cross Hotel, Waverley, by the City Coroner, concerning the death of a woman named Sarah Weir, who expired on Monday from the effects of injuries received…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →There is great excitement over the appointment of assistant locomotive superintendent. It may be recollected that out of the large number of applicants about a dozen remained for the final…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →EXCURSION TICKETS TO CAMDEN will be issued at Sydney and Moss Vale, and intermediate stations, by all trains on the 7th and 8th MAY, available for the return journey until the 11th May…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr Shiell, the City Coroner, held an inquest on the body of the unfortunate woman Sarin Weir, who met her death through falling from a Waverley tram to Sydney, Deceased was seated near the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Attention has lately been drawn to an invention by a Mr. Webb in the use of "compound engines," which he hat patented, and the right to which he is willing to allow this colony on receiving a royalty…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—Having endeavoured to prove that the class of truck used on the railways in this colony for carrying coal is not the best adapted for that work, especially on the Western line, inasmuch as the weight of the truck used is excessive,…
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