Proposed Grafton- Tweed Railway
MR. EDDY and Mr. Oliver, two of the railway commissioners, will go north, by steamer, to Grat'ton on Saturday for the purpose reporting on the proposed…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1889
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Proposed Ashfield-Druitt Town Tramway
A deputation, accompanied by Messrs. Wheeler, Hutchison, and Wilshire, waited upon the Minister for Works to urge that a tramway should be constructed between…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.--A sad accident is reported from Hamilton. Two brothers named Colics were smothered in a cutting on the railway line and buried for two hours. One was…
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PICTON, Thursday.--A sad accident occurred St the railway viaduct to-day. An assistant- guard named Foreman, on the return express goods, fell off the breakvan over the viaduct,…
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GRAFTON, Thursday.--The executive committee of the Grafton-Tweed rail nay have made arrangements for a deputation to meet the Railway Commissioners on their arrival at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Waratah Roads
Mr. Melville, M.L.A., introduced a deputation from the Waratah council yesterday, with reference to the roads running through the municipality, which were stated to be in a bad state of repair in consequence of…
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Mr. Edmunds (Mayor of Adamstown), waited upon the Engineer-in-Chief for Roads and Bridges yesterday, with reference to the road from Hamilton to Lake Macquarie. He pointed out that the Government had…
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Mr. Thornton (Mayor of Lambton), accompanied by Mr. N. Melville, M.P., waited on Mr. Bennett (Commissioner for Roads) on Friday, and submitted to him the condition of the main…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Fatality at Princes Bridge
MELBOURNE, Thursday.-An inquest was held at the Morgue to-day, on the body of James Roche, who was killed in a railway accident at Princes Bridge. The Coroner, in summing up…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Prairie Fire in America. a Railway Train in a Terrible Fix
London, April 10.— A terrible prairie fire has been raging in the territory of Dakota, in the United States. A train from Nebraska entered the burning…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A Train Collides with a Waggonette
MELBOURNE, Friday.-On Thursday night a waggonette, containing six passengers, collided with a goods train near Palls Bridge, where the unprotected railway lines run from Flinders to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Danger on the Rocky Point-road
On the conclusion of the interview held yesterday with the minister fir Public Instruction in reference to the Arncliffe Public School, an informal meeting was held at the Department, at which the four members for the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Wool and Produce Trade of Sydney. No. 1. Mr. John Bridge's New Wool Warehouse, Darling Harbour
FOR years past it has been obvious to those most familiar with the Australian wool trade that Sydney is destined to enjoy the honour of becoming the principal centre for the disposal to the world…
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LONDON, April 12.-The New Zealand Midland Railway Company is about to issue £745,000 worth of 5 per cent, first mortgage debentures, the minimum for which is fixed at 92 1/2…
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COOTAMUNDRA, Friday.-The Cootamundra Railway League met on Thursday night, at the Council Chambers. Mr. W. A. Byrne presided. Messrs. H. A. O'Donnell and Fred. Pinkstone were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ashfield to Druitt Town Tramway
Mr. Wheeler, M.L.A., accompanied by Messrs. Wilshire and Hutchison, Ms.L.A., introduced a deputation of the Mayors and aldermen, of Enfield, Strathfield, and Canterbury, and…
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A special meeting of the Balmain Borough Council was held last night. There were present—the Mayor (in the chair) Alds. Brodie, Swan, Easton, John Clubb, George…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Railway Commissioners and the Minister for Works
THE visionary loop-line between St. Peter's and Liverpool has burst like a soap babble under the scrutiny of the Railway Commissioners, who have thus…
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