Tramways and Street Monopoly
A public meeting, under the auspices of the Trades and Labor Council, was held last evening in the Town-hall to protest against the streets of Sydney being handed over to any person or…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1890
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Fatal Accidents. (By Telegraph.) a Railway Clerk Drowned
ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--Mr. Andrew Rennie, chief clerk for forwarding goods in the Railway Department, was drowned whilst bathing in Torrens Lake today…
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Somo excitement was caused at the Temps railway station shortly after 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon by the discovery of a broken rail within a short distance of the bridge. The…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday.--The annual meeting of shareholders in the Tramway Company, held yesterday, adopted the report recommending the conversion of the present system into the…
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An accident of n somewhat serious nature occurred on the branch line to Richmond yesterday. The down train from the Blacktown junction connects with the western train…
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Sir,--Will yon kindly afford me sufficient space to add a few words to the weighty remarks appearing in your issue of the 27th ult. on above subject. The fact that I am a…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The cable on the St. Kilda and Toorak tramline was broken this moraing by some miscreant shifting the points. The break caused a delay of three and a half…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday--The Minister for Railway. accompanied by the Railway Commissioners, has gone to inspect the proposed extension of the South Coast line to the border…
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A well-attended public meeting, presided over by Mr. T. Fraser, J.P., Mayor of Shellbarbor, was held in the Carrington-hall, Albion Park, on the 27th ult., for the purpose of urging the…
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A new point has arisen in connection with the Bullock Island Bridge. At the meeting of the Public Works Committee Mr. H. M'Lachlan, secretary to the Railway Commissioners,…
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CONOWINDRA, Thursday.—Messrs. Rice, Finn, and Dyburn, on behalf of the Canowindra Railway League, gare evidence before the sectional committee of the Public Works Committee at…
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There is a great deal of anxiety and worry at the present time over two rival railway routes to Parkes and Forbes, via Molong, and via Cudal, the residents of each of the last named places…
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An electric underground railway, from the city to Clapham, has been tested, with a successful result…
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Sir,—Will you kindly allow me to correct one or two statements contained in your report of our collection of Monday last. It should have been stated we hoped to realise £300 instead of £300 hud been realised;…
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A large number of pens from Windsor and Richmond went last night the scene of the wreck of the passenger train. The [?]ition in which the engine lay gave evidence of the [?]row escape of Driver Ritchie…
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THE Railway Commissioners have gone to Penrith to-day for the purpose of making an inspection, and attending to several matters of local interest…
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Sir,--I read with some interest, and a good deal of amusement, "Citizen's" letter on "The Sydney Trams" in your issue of this evening. Your correspondent puts the…
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JUNEE, Thursday.--A young man named George Rose, a native of Cootamundra, in the employ of the Railway Department, met with a very nasty accident this…
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THE Railway Commissioners have still under their consideration the proposal to build 20 new tram cars. The tenders for these cars have already been called, and the matter…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Law. Supreme Court. Thursday, March 6. IN EQUITY.--(Before Mr. Justice Owen.) Balmain Tramway Contract
Coonan r. Borough of Balmain.--The further hearing of this suit, particulars of which have been already published, was continued. It is one in which W. T. Coonan, Sarah…
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