General News. Railway Returns
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 March 1888 · page 651
The traffic which took place at the railway station at Harden during 1687 formed the subject of a return which was last week placed before the Legislative Assembly. From this it appears that during that…
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The Australian Star · Saturday 24 March 1888 · page 8
AN inquest was held this afternoon, at St. Vincent's Hospital, on the body of Michael Neylon, 45, who was killed by a tram motor yesterday in Oxford-street…
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The Australian Star · Saturday 24 March 1888 · page 8
In answer to a request from Mr. Thomas Walker, M.L.A., the Commissioner for Railways, in the absence of the Minister for Works, promised to sec that the…
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 24 March 1888 · page 3
Sir,--At the public meeting held in the Centennial-hall, St. Leonards, with reference to bringing tbe North Shore railway to the deep waters of the harbor, the gentlemen who spoke…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[Copy of original.) F. W. Slacken, Esq., Mayor oi East St. Leonards. Re proposed extension of Great Northern Railway, from Gore-hill to the waters of Fort Jackson
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 24 March 1888 · page 3
St. Leonards. Dear Sir.--In connection with the above mentioned subject, about which we had a conversation this morning, I have jotted down as briefly as possible the outline of a scheme for the proposed extension of the…
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 24 March 1888 · page 6
An inquest was held "before the City Coroner at St. Vincent's Hospital yesterday on the remains of a man named Michael Naylon, who was killed by a tram in Oxford-street on the…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 March 1888 · page 32
It now seems to bo only a question of time as to when the use of horaes for drawing street cars will be abandoned, at all events in large cities. The processes which, on general principles, should be…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 March 1888 · page 16
A new light railway iruok, called the "Brown" truck, and having some novel features of construction, is illustrated in this issue. Two of the wheels on one side of the truck have on their inner sides a…
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The Australian Star · Monday 26 March 1888 · page 5
YA[?]S, This Day.--It has been decided to have a demonstration here on April 14 on the opening of the Taemas bridge over the Murrumbidgee. The members of the…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 26 March 1888 · page 5
YASS, Saturday.--An enthusiastic meeting was held to-day at the council-chambers to make arrangements for a demonstration at the opening of the new bridge at Bloomfield, on the…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 March 1888 · page 8
An enthusiastic meeting was held to-day, in the councilchambers, to make arrangements for a demonstration on the occasion of the opening of the new bridge at Bloomfield over the Murrumbidgee, near Yass, on the 14th April…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 March 1888 · page 9
On Saturday morning last Mr. J. E. Bowden, the district coroner, held an inquest at the Parramatta Hospital, touching the death of John Throwden, better known as John Taylor, monumental mason, Rookwood, who was…
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The Australian Star · Monday 26 March 1888 · page 5
MELBOURNE, This Day.--A tram collided with a water cart at the intersection of Swanston and Collins-streets. James Woods, the driver of the water cart, was…
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The Australian Star · Monday 26 March 1888 · page 5
THE Minister of Mines has received a progress report from Mr. David, geological surveyor, on his examination of the coal measures between Teralba and…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 26 March 1888 · page 5
MELBOURNE, Sunday.--On Saturday a tram car at the intersection of Swanston and Collins street collided with a watercart and knocked the driver, James Woods, off, the wheel of the…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 26 March 1888 · page 3
An inquest was held at the Parramatta District Hospital on Saturday, before Mr. J. E. Bowden, Parramatta Coroner, on the body of John Throwden, alias Taylor, who was killed…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 March 1888 · page 5
The circumstances attending the death of a man named Michael Naylon, 45 years of age, who was run ovor and killed by a tram in Oxford street, Darlinghurst, on Thursday afternoon last, were further investigated by the City…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 March 1888 · page 8
Sir,—Being a resident of Summer Hill and compelled to travel to Sydney on Saturday last, I proceeded to the station at 6 o'clock with the intention of catching the 10 minutes past 6 train…
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The Australian Star · Tuesday 27 March 1888 · page 5
ADELAIDE, This Day.--As many as 54 applications have been received for seats on the Board of Railway Commissioner. Several of them were from the other…
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The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 27 March 1888 · page 3
Sir,--I see by a recent issue of The Daily Telegraph that the Government have at last decided to do justice to the residents of this district by constructing a tramway to Ryde…
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