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Sir,—Allow me a short space in your valued columns on this subject. As a private citizen I have been much interested in this subject since it was first brought under the public notice…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Board of Public Works met on Tuesday to receive tenders for various works. Seven tenders were received for the proposed light railway line from Nyngan to Cobar. The contract commences at 378m. 9c. 381. from Sydney, and…
Continued on Trove, page 429 →It will be remembered that in November last some material alterations were made in the running of trains on the Great Northern Railway. Up to that time a train left Newcastle daily at…
Continued on Trove, page 440 →The system of propelling tramways by electricity, which it is proposed to obtain authority to adopt in Brisbane, is the Julien electric power. It is claimed for this system that no alteration will be…
Continued on Trove, page 440 →Mr. M'Culloch, M.P., yesterday introduced to the Minister for Works a deputation from Hornsby. It was accompanied by Messrs. V. Parkes, Ives and Frank Farnell, Ms P. They…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Minister for Wonts yesterday received a deputation from Macdonaldtown, introduced by Mr. Hawken, M.P., who asked that the fares on the suburban line should be reduced to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE, Friday.--Sir Henry Parkes arrived here from Deniliquin shortly before 6 this morning. During the forenoon be waited on Mr. Speight aud tho other Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BREWARRINA, Saturday.--This afternoon a large party of townspeople assembled at Cato Creek to witness the opening of a bridge over that stream. The ceremony was performed by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TENDERS will be received at this Office until 11 o'clock on THURSDAY, the 3rd March, from persons willing to contract for Supply of Bluestone Ballast or Spaswls (6000 cubic yards)…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sir,—The Newtown-road, from George-street West to Bligh-street, has been a stock nuisance for dust or mud for yours, which has become intensified by the wonderful increase of traffic during the last 10 months. To alloviate…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The ceremony of opening the Cate Bridge was performed this afternoon with much eclat. A large number of townspeople, including many ladies, were present. A procession fully half a mile long was formed and marched to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Unprecedentedly heavy rain fell along an extensise tract of the southern line last night, resulting in a very serious washaway about a mile and a-half an the Sydnev side of Illube. The appearance of the line where the mishap has…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The report of Mr. Mackenzie, civil engineer, employed in the survey of the railsvay line from Coombing, near Carcoar, to Borenore, is published, and the plans are on view. The engineer adopts the Borenore permanently surveyed line…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ADELAIDE, Monday.--Mr. Charles Millar, of Messrs. Millar Brothers, contractors, left on Saturday for the Northern Territory in connection with the Pine Creek Railway. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ALBURY, Sunday.--Sir. Henry Parkes had another interview with Mr. Speight on Saturday when the various matters perviously under consideration were again discussed. Mr. Speight…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The railway traffic-manager, Mr. N. V. Read, yesterday received the following telegrams from the traffic inspector at Illabo, on the southern line, which have been courteously…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TENDERS will be received at this Office up to 11 a.m. on the dates mentioned hereunder for the public works, &c., specifled in the following sehedule— Nature of Works and Supplices…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →From what has been published of the interviews which Sir Henry Parkes had with Mr. Speight and the other Victorian Railway Commissioners, it will have been seen that the system of railway management in Victoria is very…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Mr. Richardson, of the New South Wales Railway Department, has consulted the Victorian commissioners as to whether as arrangement could not be made…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →What appears to have been an attempt to wreck a train was made early yesterday morning on the South Brisbane line. The engine-driver felt the engine jolt heavily Over some obstruction, and on stopping the…
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