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GOSFORD, Thursday.--One of the largest and most influential meetings ever held in Gosford took place at the Royal Hotel this evening for the purpose of making arrangements for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →KIAMA, Thursday.--A large and influential public meeting to protest against the Government proposal to erect the railway station at the Public Cemetery, a mile outside the town of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. W. V. Read, traffic manager, and Mr. Cowdery, engineer for existing lines, have recently been inspecting the railways with a view to the discovery of landslips or places…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The inquest was continued yesterday at the Darlinghurst Courthouse. The examination of Mr. Edward Laughry, travelling locomotive inspector, was continued and the whole of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A deputation from Bowral, introduced by Mr. M'Court, M.L.A., urged upon the Minister for Works yesterday the desirableness of the Government erecting a bridge over Merrigang Creek (in the Bowral municipality), the cost…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. M'court introduced a deputation from Bowral to the minister for Work-yesterday, to ask that a bridge might be constracted over the Merrtland Creek, [?] In flood time horses…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A deputation consisting of Messrs. Fitzgerald. [?] and [?] M. P. Black and [?] waited on the Minister for Works yesterday to ask for a [?] to be constructed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →PICTON. Friday.--A young man named Shields was charged before the picton Bench to-day with throwing stories at a mailtrain last Saturday night at Harvey's Crossing, near…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A deputation from Mudgee and Muswellbrook, accompanied by Messrs. Wall, Haynes, Black, and Fitzgerald, Ms.L.A., waited upon the Minister for Works yesterday to present a numerously signed petition in favour of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Anniversary tea-meeting and concert took place last Thursday in the school-room, Birchgrove Road, and was the most successful but one in the history of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, July 7.—Tenders for the Melbourne Tramway Trust Loan of £200,000, at 4 1/2 per cent., were opened to-day. The total subscriptions amounted to £660,000. Tenderers at £106 3s…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. Kircaldy's evidence was continued. If the air connection was incomplete at Hornsby, the train could not have left that station, because some of the brakes must have been hard on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE evidence elicited at the inquest in the [?] part of last week and early this week was of an unimportant nature except that winch went to show that the connection of the brake pipes was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →MR. Waddell asked the Minister for Public Works on Tuesday what were the causes which prevented a decision being come to with regard to the construction of the Cobar railway…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →The arbitration proceedings in the case of O'Rourke and M'Sharry v. the Commissioner for Railways, in which the plaintiffs claim £100,000 for work done and damages in connection with the construction of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In view of the recent determination of the Government as announced in the House, respecting the Nyngan-Cobar railway, a large and influential meeting was held last evening at the Cobar Council—chambers, Mr. Toy, the Mayor,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The inquest on the body of William Henry Hankin, who died of injuries received in connection with the railway disaster at the Hawkesbury on the 21st ultimo, was resumed yesterday morning at the Darlinghurst Courthouse…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tenders were opened to-day for the 4½ per cent. loan of £200,000 placed upon the market by the Melbourne Tramway Trust, the minimum price for which had been fixed at…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →On the 1st instant a large and influential deputation waited upon the Government for the purposing of urging on the construction of a line of railway from Young to Dubbo. The deputation, which was introduced by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 81 →The tender of Mr. Edward Pritchard for the construction of the railway from North Shore to Pearce's Corner has been accepted by the Government The amount of Mr. Pritchard's tender is…
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