Tramway for Balmain
The consideration of the bill authorising the construction of a tramway for Balmain occupied the attention of the Legislative Assembly yesterday. The bill authorises the borough…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1886
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Railway From Moree to Mungindl
Mr. Codins, M.P., introduced to the Minister for Works yesterday a deputation representing pastoral occupants, traders and residents of the town of St. George and surrounding districts,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Employees' Association. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—Mr. White addresses your renders, under date 14th inst., and claims that he and Mr. Schey simply stated the truth to the Minister, when speaking of the Sick and Accident Society. I am glad, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Railway to Mungerie. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir —Referring to the interview which I had, with [?] Minister for Works in reference to the above matter, I beg to call attention to the advisability of our railways being carried through the salthush interior in, as nearly as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Railway Employes
The Minister for Works will to-morrow receive a deputation from the railway employes in reference to a specific charge, that complaints made by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Amalgamated Railway Employees' Association. Deputation to the Minister for Works
A deputation of Railway employes, consisting of Messrs. White, Schey, and Hoyle, waited on Mr. Lyne, Minister for Works,? at noon this morning, in order to furnish…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Salvation "Army." a Frightful Accident. Twenty Persons Trampled by Horses
Twenty persons were injured is a Salvation Army procession in Ipswich (Eng.), lately. The Army had organised what was termed a Special Trades Union Demonstration, and while crossing a narrow bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Employees' Association. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—Please allow me a few words in reply to Mr. Jesse Jacob's letter of the 19th instant, in which he laboriously and painfully atruggles to show that I have misrepresented his society. If this were the case, he has only himself to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Site for Railway Workshops. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—Reading of the struggle going on between Murrurundi and Tamworth as to the location of railway workshops, it struck me that, if the fixing of the site is not to be made a reward for political services, that there is a grand…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Victorian-south Australian Railway. (By Telegraph.)
ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--The official opening of the South Australian section of the intercolonial line of railway will take place on Saturday, May 1, when a special train…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Bridge in Regent-street
On Tuesday morning a deputation of the inhabitants of Redfern waited on the Minister for Works, to ask that a temporary bridge for foot-passengers over the railway in Regent-street might be constructed. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway and Tramway Employees' Grievances. . Deputation to Mr. Lyne
Yesterday Messrs. R. White, W. F. Schey and H. Hoyle, representing the railway and tramway employees, waited on the Minister for Works to bring forward proofs of certain…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Border Railway Station
The Minister for Works has written a minute in reference to the proposed railway station on the Queensland border, at Wallangarra, where the New South…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Lyne and the Railway Men. (Continued From Page 5.)
Mr. HOYLE followed Mr. White, and during the course of his remarks mentioned the case of a man named Lufton, which was now before the Commission…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Employees
A deputation of railway employees waited on the Minister for Works yesterday, to lay before him certain cases where appeals from the men to the Commissioner for Railways, and applications of various kiuds…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Gundagai Branch of the Southern Railway. (From a Correspondent.)
The length of the branch line of railway from the main Southern line to Gundagai is about 32½ miles, and by the judicious placement of stations, platforms, and goods sheds along its course the general demands at least of the present…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Glebe-road Wesleyan Church
The Rev J. Gardiner will preach this morning at 11 o'clock at the Globe-road Wesleyun Church…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Railways
The time-table for the trains during the holiday [?] will be found in our advertising columns. To-day to ordinary time-table for the Parramatta line is cancelled Trains will leave Sydney for Homebush and intermedi[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Accident in South Australia. Five Men Killed. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Adelaide
An accident occurred on the Hergott and Strangways railway works last night, resulting in five men being killed, and three wounded, though not seriously. About 8 o'clock, as an engine with 11 trucks…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Transcontinental Railway Syndicate. (By Telegraph.)
BRISBANE, Thursday.--A letter from Lord Denbigh, chairman of the Australian Transcontinental Railway Syndicate, addressed to Mr. Griffith, the Colonial Secretary of…
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