The Harlem Tramp. He Entertains the Barkeeper
"That's what I like to see—a good fire; it looks like blooming hospitality. But it would greatly add to my present hospitality if I had a little of that stiff that breaks up…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1886
2,680 stories in Sydney's papers · page 20 of 134
Intercolonial Railway Traffic. ALBURY
Intimation has been received to the effect that the now arrangement for the conduct of the intercolonial railway traffic will come into force on March 1. All interchanges of live stock will take place at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tasmanian Railways. HOBART
Mr. H. C. Stanley, Engineer-in-Chief of Queensland, and Mr. A. Zeal, M.L.C., of Victoria, arrived this evening to take part in the Public Works Commission regarding the construction of railways. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Intercolonial Railways. From Adelaide to Melbourne in Eighteen Hours. Adelaide
The approaching completion of the intercolonial railway is causing the Commissioner of Public Works to devote considerable attention to the probable traffic arrangements. Nothing has yet been definitely…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Bars. an Inquiry. Bathurts
The allegations made in the ladies' petition recently presented to Parliament, in reference to the danger to which, it is said, the public are subjected on account of the licensing of the sale of liquor at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway to Gundagai. GUNDAGAI
The official opening of the railway to Gundagai will take place next month. The date has not yet been decided. An influential committee is now arranging for the demonstration, which is expected…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Refreshment Bars. (By Telegraph.)
BATHURST, Tuesday.--Two railway employees, occupying responsible positions in the department, have been commissioned by Mr. Goodchap to visit all the stations on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Extension to the National Park
The Department of Railways is using every endeavor to complete its arrangements for celebrating on March 1 the extension of railway communication as far as the National Park. It…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Gundagai Railway
GUNDAGAI, Tuesday.--The official opening of the railway to Gundagai will take place next month, the date not being decided. An influential committee is now arranging for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tram Accident in Hunter-street
The sudden curve at the intersection of Phillip and Hunter streets on the tram line has always been considered somewhat dangerous, and on more than one occasion…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Changes
On Monday next, March 1, a new railway time-table will be brought into force. The express train to Melbourne will leave Sydney at 5.15 p.m. instead of 5 p.m., arriving in Melbourne at the same time as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Terrible Railway Fatality. a Man Mangled to Death
On Thursday evening, as a train was being driven on the Wells-street side of the railway bridge, near the Eveleigh station, the attention of the driver was attracted by a dark suspicions-looking…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alterations in Railway Timetables
Advantage has been taken of the opening of the Illawarra Railway to Waterfall, 24 miles from Sydney, on the 1st proximo, to make the following alterations in the passenger train service of the various lines:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Killed on the Railway Line
A young man, about 18 or 20 years of age, was killed shortly after 7 o'clock last evening on the railway line,about 20yds. on the Sydney side of the Wells-street bridge, close to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →North Shore Railway Meeting. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph
Sir,--An my attempt at the above mentioned meeting to amend a resolution was rendered abortive by the action of the chairman, I desire (with your permission) to explain the position I…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Roads Around Newcastle. NEWCASTLE
The main road between Newcastle and Lambton has been in an execrable condition for a long time, especially for those persons who require to " 'busit." These miseries, however, are now litoly to be…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Natural Bridge of Virginia
The natural bridge is one of those few filings that neither words nor painting can adequately describe. It is a real bridge of nature's own architecture and fashioning, and fulfils the rarely united qualities of massiveness,…
Continued on Trove, page 430 →ROADS and Bridges—misunderstood Taxation. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—You have exactly hit the right principle of effecting retrenchment, viz., through local government. The patriotic majority in each of our rural districts would cheerfully accept same, on the understanding that every…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Death on the Railway
An old man named Hugh Griffiths, emplayed on the Great Western Railway line at Parramatta, died suddenly on Thursday morning last. He was working…
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