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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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A meeting is being held in the School of Arts here for the purpose of considering the advisability of having a railway from Richmond to Kurrajong. Mr. Alexander, the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WHILST walking along the railway line near Burwood station this morning a fettler discovered the dead body of an unknown man lying at the side of the rails. The victim's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is more than twenty years since the people of Sydney began to agitate for an extension of the railway from the terminal station at Redfern into the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Some alterations are at present being made to the tramway waiting sheds at the corners of Elizabeth and Liverpool streets. The buildings are not being pulled down as some people seem…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Railway Commissioners have accepted the tender of Messrs. Taylor and M'Clure, at £7218 16s, for tho construction of flood openings on the Western railway, near Bourke. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The report of the Railway Commissioners for the past quarter is nearly ready. It is expected that the report will show a most favorable result as regards the railway earnings for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A deputation, headed by Mr. Lees, M.P., waited on Mr. Bruce Smith (Minister for Works) yesterday, to ask for a trial survey of a line of railway from Penrith to Luddenham,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A deputation from the Municipal Council of Ashfield waited upon the Railway Commissioners yesterday, with regard to the proposed alterations at the local station in connection…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wednesday Night.--Further outrages are reported on the part of the men on strike on the Caledonian Railway, in Scotland. This morning it was discovered…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The Railway Commissioners have received the fall reports respecting the accident at Diggers' Rest on Sunday by which the rear portion of a goods…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ADELAIDE, Thursday.--Messrs. J. L. Parsons, A. M'Donald and J. W. White, members of the Legislative Assembly, have been appointed to inquire into and report upon the construction of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In a recent issue of the TOWN AND COUNTRY JOURNAL a paragraph appeared from our Liverpool correspondent headed " A dirty train." The result of its publication has been as prompt as satisfactory:…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →From a return prepared by the Works Department it appears that from February 1, 1890, to January 30, 1891, 86 bridge contracts were advertised by the department. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AT the Water Police Court this morning, before Mr. Giles, S.M., a young fellow of respectable appearance named James Wilson or Charles Jones was charged with having…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →When the Public Works Estimates were before Parliament last session, Mr. Bruce Smith explained that he had made considerable alterations in the Roads Branch of the Public Wor[?] Department. The Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →During last session, when the estimate were under discussion in the Legislative Assembly, the Minister for Works said that he had made considerable alterations in the constitution of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The report of the Railway Commissioners for the quarter ended December 31, 1890, was issued by the Railway Commissioners yesterday. First, it deals with the state of the traffic, which is as follows:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. S. E. Lees, M.L.A., introduced a deputation consisting of Mr. T. R. Smith, the Mayor of Penrith, Rev. G. Brown, Mr. J. H. Noble and Mr. T. J. F. Cadden appointed by a public meeting, held in Penrith,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A murder was committed shortly before midnight on Sunday at Clifton Hill. It appears that a domestic servant named Stella Louisa Marks, aged 24, was engaged to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Early yesterday a fettler named Riley found a man, whose name is unknown, lying dead on the railway line near a signal post about 100yds on the Sydney side of the Burwood…
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