Road Extension
A deputation consisting of Messrs. Hutchison, Wheeler and Wiltshire, Ms.P., and representatives of the St. Peters, Alexandria and North Botany Borough Councils, waited upon…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1889
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Glenmore-road Quarry
A deputation, consisting of members of the Paddington Municipal Council, introduced by Alderman Brown, waited upon the Minister for Lands yesterday morning in reference to the quarry in the Glenmore-road. It…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Roads in the Ryde District
A deputation, introduced by Messrs. J. R. Linsley and Ritchie, Ms.L.A., and comprising the Mayor, exMayor, and aldermen of the municipality of Ryde, waited on the Minister for Lands yesterday morning, to ask…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A Road to a Goldfield
Messrs. O'Sullivan M.P., Dickie and Beauregard waited on the Minister for Lands yesterday for the purpose of urging the necessity for resuming land on Molonglo Flat for making…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Castlereagh Road. To the Editor of the Nepean Times
Sir,—In you issue of the 16th inst, there appears a report of the Penrith Municipal Works Committee under date of March 11th, in which the following information is given to the Council: "Your…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Late Tram Accident
The cause of many narrow escapes, if not of accidents, on tramcars might very easily be done away with if the following idea were adopted. The desire to get home often overcomes prudence,…
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A meeting of the City Railway Extension League was held on Friday afternoon, when it was announced that the Minister for Works had consented to receive a deputation in support of…
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THERE is no reason why any duly responsible company or body of men should not be allowed to ran a tramway for the conveyance of passengers along the principal streets in Sydney. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Railway Commissioners
WALGETT, Friday.—The Railway Commissioners, Messrs. Eddy, Fehon. and Oliver, and District-Superintendent Robinson, arrived here on Thursday from Narrabri, on a tour of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Proposed Tramway From Leichhardt to Five Dock
ANY amount of speculation has been rife recently, relative to the inexplicable delay in carrying out this tramway. It was amply demonstrated months ago that it was prise. The Minister for Works in the last Parkas Administration wrote a minute directing the line in be made, conditionally on the owners of land en route giving the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Iron Cove Railway—visit of the Commissioners
WITH the political war going on and the even balance of parties, it is impossible to say very much about progress in tho matter of this projected railway. Our…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Smoking on the Trams. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—I hope you will allow me through the medium of your valuable paper, to state a grievance of mine and a great many others. The matter I wish to refer to is the permitting of the tramway authorities to allow…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Proposed New Tram System
The City Council have, spent two or three sittings in the consideration of a bill to authorise the New South Wales Tramway Company to construct tramways in the city. The clauses were all got through at a meeting on…
Continued on Trove, page 600 →QUEENSLAND. The Cairns Railway
BRISBANE, This Day.--The survey of the third section of the Cairns railway will be completed in a week, after which working plans will be prepared and tenders called…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Arrangements. Cheap Excursion Trains
IT is intended by the Railway Commissioners to renew the experiment which was so successfully tried on Anniversary day by running special cheap trains from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Normanton-Clonecurry Railway
BRISBANE, This Day.--A deputation, consisting of Messrs. Palmer, Hodgkinson, and Little, members of the Assembly, waited upon Mr. Nelson to-day to urge on…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—Early on Saturday morning the goods train which leaves Geelong for Melbourne at about 1 o'clock met with an accident. The train, which consisted of fifty-two…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Serions Tram Accident
MELBOURNE, Saturday.—An elderly man named Thomas Williams, residing at Northcote, fell off a tram at the corner of Gertrude and Nicholson streets this morning; the car going over him. He…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Killed by the Tram
On Monday last a magisterial inquiry was held in Sydney concerning the death of Henry Alfred Currie, a painter, 38 years of age, residing at Waterloo. It appeared from the evidence that…
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