Government Notices. Department of Railways, Sydney, March 16, 1887. Government Railways. Hawkesbury Races. Thursday, 31st MARCH, and SATURDAY, 2nd APRIL
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 March 1887 · page 3
HOLIDAY EXCURSION TICKETS will be issued to WINDSOR, CLARENDON, and RICHMOND, at all stations from MONDAY, the 28th March, until SATURDAY, the 2nd April, available for return until the 4th April…
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The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 March 1887 · page 4
One of the members for Bourke (Mr. Wilson) yesterday introduced to the Minister for Works a deputation from Cobar, who came to lay before Mr. Sutherland certain statements and…
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The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 March 1887 · page 5
T[?]RARA, Tuesday.--A public meeting was held at Nowra this afternoon in reference to the extension of the railway from Kiama to Jervis Bay, when Messrs. H. G. Morton, W…
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The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 31 March 1887 · page 4
In the Legislative Assembly last night Sir Henry Parkes moved in committee :-- That it is expedient to bring in a bill for the management of the railways and tramways of New South…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Metropolitan District Court. Wednesday. (Before his Honor Judge Dowling and a jury of four.) HOWN v. the Sydney Tramway and Omnibus Company
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 31 March 1887 · page 7
In this action the plaintiffs were Frederick Henry Howe and Madeline Kathleen, his wife, residing in Sydney, and the defendants were the Sydney Tramway and Omnibus Company, Limited. The case for the plaintiffs was that…
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The Daily Telegraph · Friday 1 April 1887 · page 4
In answer to questions put by Mr. Hawthorne in the Assembly last night, the Minister for Works said it was proposed to introduce the system of running certain trams to be termed…
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The Daily Telegraph · Friday 1 April 1887 · page 5
ADELAIDE, Thursday.--Mr. Ritzo, who represents the English syndicate, which has entered into an agreement with the Western Australian Government to construct a line of…
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The Daily Telegraph · Friday 1 April 1887 · page 5
MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The second annual conference of the Railway Employes' Association was held to-day, the press being excluded. The half-yearly general meeting was held…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Metropolitan District Court. Thursday. (Before his Honor Judge Dowling and juries of four.) HOWN V. the Sydney Tramway and Omnibus Company
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 April 1887 · page 4
The hearing of this action was continued from the the previous day. The plaintiffs were Frederick Benry Howe and Medaline Kathleen, his wife, residing in Sydney, and the defendants were the Sydney Tramway and Omnibus…
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Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 2 April 1887 · page 5
About 2 o'clock on Saturday morning a fire was discovered in a two-storey brick building on the Western-road near the Iron Cove Bridge owned and occupied by Cornelius Walsh as a…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 2 April 1887 · page 688
The task of the Colonial Secretary in introducing a measure for improving the administration of the railway system is greatly simplified by the necessity which every one feels to exist for reform. It is…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 2 April 1887 · page 700
A deputation of residents of Cobar waited upon the Minister for Works on Tuesday, with a view to causing the construction of the railway from Nyngan to Cobar to be proceeded with. Tenders had baen accepted for…
Continued on Trove, page 700 →Important Arbitration Case. O'bourne and [?] V. Commissioner for Railways Claim of [?]
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 April 1887 · page 6
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 April 1887 · page 9
Messrs A. Cameron, A. Kethel and Fraser Martin, Ms.P., introduced to the Minister for Work? yesterday a deputation from Kiama, whose object was to ask that the Kiama…
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 April 1887 · page 9
The same deputation then requested that the Kiama line might be extended to Jervis Bay, The district through which the railway would pass was a very rich one…
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 April 1887 · page 5
For several years the question of the breaks of work in the railway and tramway workshops and in private establishments has been a grievance to the employes. They complain that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Arbitration Case. £100,000 Damages Claimed
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 April 1887 · page 10
An arbitration case was commenced yesterday, the sittings being held, for the sake of convenience, in the Jury Court, between John O'Rourke and James M'Sharry, as plaintiffs, and the Commissioner for Railways as…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 April 1887 · page 10
Two deputations waited upon the Minister for Works yesterday with reference to the extension of the Wollongong and Kiama railway line. The first deputation, which was introduced by Mr. Angus Cameron,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Victorian Railway Service Association. Speech by Mr. Speight. (By Telegraph)
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 April 1887 · page 4
MELBOURNE Sunday.--The third annual banquet of the Victorian Railway Service Mutual Association was held on Saturday evening when about 120 members and delegates…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 April 1887 · page 6
The City Coroner, Mr. H. Shiell, J.P., held an inquest yesterday at the South Sydney morgue, touching the death of a man named John Pascoe, a miner, about 35 years of age, who met with a fall on Friday last while engaged in…
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