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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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On Thursday night a largely attended and representative meeting of electors waa held, for the purpose of conside[?] the conduct of Mr. De Courcy Browne, one of the representatives of this district, in regard to the railway to…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →On the 17th the tramway employees who struck began to flock back to work, not having secured that measure of support from the Trades Hall authorities and the Press that they expected…
Continued on Trove, page 415 →A meeting of the Narrabri-Walgett League was held on Monday, at the Imperial Hotel. It was unanimously agreed that the other branches of the league and members of Parliament be communicated with, asking co-operation in the…
Continued on Trove, page 436 →The same deputation requested that the section from Gardiners'-road to collins street, on the Botany tram, should be one penny instead of two pence, as at present…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A meeting of the Cabinet is to be held on Monday, when it is probable that both the disposal of the locomotive contract and the leasing of the tramways will be finally decided…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It was a glossy black hat with a rakish curl in the brim and a high and tapering crown, but otherwise beyond reproach. Still, the manner in which that hat made its appearance was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →SHORTLY after five o’clock on Thursday morning the down express goods train, No. 23, popularly known as the “ newspaper express,” left the Granville platform, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE, This Day.--The inquest held to-day on James Keating, 17, Post Office messenger, who was run over by the train at Malvern, resulted in a verdict of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WEST MAITLAND, This Day.--The Paterson bridge was formally opened yesterday, by Mrs. H. H. Drown, who gave the structure its future designation. The affair…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WEST MAITLAND Saturday.--The new Peterson bridge was successfully opened yesterday in the presence of a good master of spectators. Mrs. H. H. Brown performed the ceremony in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A 50-mille road cycling race from Kyneton to Melbourue, open to members of the Victorian Cyclists Union, took place on Saturday, and was won by R. L. Alderson, of Cariton, with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →YESTERDAY afternoon the City Coroner held an inquest at the Soudan Hotel on the body of Elisabeth Cooper, a young woman who was found drowned yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LITHGOW, This Day.--A man named Stephenson was knocked down by a tram motor near the Adamston crossing last night, and sustained a fracture of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The ceremony of opening the Paterson Bridge was performed on Friday by Mrs. H. H. Brown, who named the new structure in the time-honoured fashion by breaking a bottle of champagne on the centre span. The Hon. W…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,—Kindly permit me to demur to the dictum of your correspondent, who, by his nom de plume, aspires to represent public opinion on the above subject, but who evidently derives his inspiration and writes from a more official…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →What might have been a fearful accident on the railway was happily averted on Saturday morning. A goods train left Penrith for the mountains during the morning, and the train, being a double one, was cut in halves in order to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →BRISBANE, This Day.--The Commissioner of Railways has received telegrams from Mackay and Townsville advising that traffic has been stopped on the Mackay…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →No definite action hat yet been taken by the Government with reference to the leasing of the tramways, and although the matter has been several times before the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PENRITH, Sunday.--The driver of No. 1 goods train from Penrith Mountain saw in front of his engine on the top line of the Emu Zig- sag a large rock which mast have weighed fully…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE trial survey of the extension of the North Shore Hallway to the deep water of Port Jackson, at Cromorne, has been completed but in a conversation that our…
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