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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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A public meeting was held this evening, in the School of Arts, to urge on the Government to have a permanent survey of the Grafton-Tweed Railway carried on with all possible despatch. The meeting was presided over by the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,--In a conversation with the respected member for the Glebe, Mr [?] Chapn[?], I was glad to learn that the Minister for Works had decided to reduce the tramfares on the Leichhardt and other…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An enthusiastic and largely-attended meeting took place at Walgott on Monday evening, the 1st instart, for the purpose of taking into consideration the advisability of strengthening the hands…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →GRAFTON, Monday,--A public meeting was held this evening in the School of Arts, convened by a requisition to the Mayer signed by over 90 residents. The Mayor presided, and there was a very…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The ceremony of driving the lost rivet in the above took place on Monday afternoon by Mr Hugh Taylor, M.P., assisted by Mr. Neil Stuart, J.P., in the presence of a large concourse of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE ceremony of fastening the last rivet in the new iron bridge over the Parramatta River, the foot of Harris-street, was performed on Monday afternoon by Mr. Hugh Taylor, M.P…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. I.E. Ives, the newly elected member for St. Leonards, accompanied by Mr. M'Ma[?]on, the Mayor of Victoria, [?] upon Mr. G. R. Dibbs, at [?] residence. Emu Plains, on Monday, with reference to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A public meeting was held last evening, in the School of Arts, to urge on the Government to have a permanent survey of the Grafton Twee…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An important minute from Mr. Wright, the Minister of Works, on the question of reducing tram fores, was submitted to a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday and approved. It virtually brings the tram fares…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →With reference to the Notice of the Commissioner for Railways dated the 23rd day of March last, relative to the taking of certain lands required for the purpose of making a rail-way between Sydney, Wollongong, and Kiama, part 4, being a distance of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Special Passenger Train will leave Sydney for Liverpool at 11.20 a.m., returning from Liverpool at 5.5 p.m. FARES: First-class............ 4s…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At a meeting of the Cabinet Council held yesterday the question of the tram fares was brought under notice by the Minister for Works, who submitted the following minute to his colleagues:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In respect of the tramway fares, the Minister for Works has barked back, and the present schedule is to be abandoned. According to the published report, the trams were ran at a great…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The universal dissatisfaction with the existing rates of fares en the tram lines will soon become a reminiscence of an impolitic and costly change, for yesterday the Cabinet adopted a scheme by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A guard named Buckley, on the South-Western railway at Murphy's Creek, was engaged in shunting on Monday when he got his left foot clasped by check rails which he had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →EXCURSION TICKETS to Goulburn will be issued at all Stations by FRIDAY'S MAIL TRAINS, and at Stations distant not more than sixty miles from Goulburn by ALL Trains on FRIDAY, the 12th instant, available for return until Monday,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—Your sub-leader in to-day's issue re the Wagga Wagga to Tumbarumba railway opens up a subject which cannot fail to obtain the serious consideration of members at the next meeting of Parliament, as well as draw the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Special Paasenger Train will leave Sydney for Liverpool at 11.20 a.m., returning from Liverpool at 5.5 p.m. FARES: First-class............ 4s…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—I have read, in your issue of this morning, the news that the Commissioner of Railways is about to reduce the tram fares, and the alleged reason for this is that the trams do not pay…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir-- The proposed alteration of tram fares will afford very little benefit to the majority of the rest. dents of Paddington who now use this mode of conveyance…
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