Shocking Railway Fatality
COBAR, Thursday.—A terrible accident happened to a ballast train this morning on the Nyngan to Cobar line, near Mount Bobby, through couplings breaking. A guard named…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1892
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Railway Extension to Grafton. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Grafton
At meetings of the executive committee of the Clarence Railway and Harbour League, held to-day and yesterday, the question of urging railway extension to Grafton was discussed. It was finally decided…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Railway Syndicate. Gigantic Proposals. An Annual Saving of £800,000. LONDON, February 11
A syndicate has been formed for the purpose of securing the control of five leading railways in America, all of them adjacent lines. The amalgamation will result in an…
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GRAFTON, Thursday.--At a meeting of the Railway and Harbor League held to-day it was decided to send a memorial to the Executive Council urging upon the Government…
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Sir,--I must protest against your leading article in to-day's issue in reference to the above. In America cable tramways have been in existence about 30 years and have…
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AT about 11 o’clock on Monday morning three empty trucks broke away by some means from the Carlingford siding, and descending the declivity in the direction of Hornsby, they…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Application for a Road at Castle Hill
AT the Parramatta Quarter Sessions on Monday, before his Honor Judge Wilkinson, Debeney High applied, to his Hone, under William 4, No. 21,…
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LONDON, February 5— Thirty barges lying in the River Oder at Breslau, Prussia, were torn from their moorings yesterday by great floes of drift ice floating down the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Roads and Bridges. Departmental Reports. Damage by Timber Trucks. Faults of Field Officers. Heavy Annual Expenditure
On Tuesday, February 2, the Minister for Public Works received a lengthy report by Supervising-engineer R. E. Jones on the roads in No. 5 division of the colony for the half-year ended…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Roads and Bridges. Depaetmental Reports. Damage by Timber Trucks. Faults of Field Officers. Heavy Annual Expenditure
On Tuesday, February 2, the Minister for Public Works received a lengthy report by Supervising-engineer R. E. Jones on the loads in No. 5 division of, the colony for the half-year ended…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →Collision Between a Fourhorse Drag and a Train. a Narrow Escape. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Melbourne
This morning a collision occurred between a four-horse drag and a contractor's train on the Curdio's River railway line, near Camperdown. The drag, driven by William M'Donald, was…
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EDWARD Pocock, chief clerk in the railway goods sped, Albury, has been arrested on a warrant charging him with stealing the sum of £18 12s 10d, the property of the Crown. The total…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →London Offices, the Sydney Morning Herald, 78 Queen Victoria-street, E.C. (opposite the Mansion House Railway Station). Represented by Messrs. B. S. Lioyd and Co
The office of this journal is now open at the above address. Files of The Sydney Morning Herald are to be seen in the reading-room, and all information impacting…
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The announcement of the proposed amalgamation of several of the leading American railways caused intense excitement on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday…
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KATE MAY (61), Emma Gray and Annie Parker or Ah Moy, vagabonds of many years' standing, were sentenced by Mr. Giles, D.S.M., at the Central to-day, to six…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Government Works Policy. £120,000 TENDERS. Railways and Sewerage Works
THE Cabinet has finally considered the Government public works policy. The Minister for Works intimated that he had tenders on hand for works amounting to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →American Railways. Proposed Amalgamated Control. Excitement on the New York Exchange
LONDON, Thursday Night.--From New York it is reported that it is proposed to amalgamate the control of several of the leading American railways. Already five…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.--At the inquest held to-day on the girl Milly Smith, whose body was found on the railway line at North Melbourne, the evidence showed that the…
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THE following report, on the proposal of Mr. G. Phillips, re the Hills railway and tramway, has been received by Mr. H. Taylor, and banded by him to the committee appointed at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Victorian News. Recoustraction of the Ministry. The Unemployed. Sweating in Helbonrne. Remarkable Lift Accidents. Shocking Railway Accidents. Bell and Davis. General News. MELBOURNE, February 10. the Victorian Cabinet
Matters in connection with the reconstruction of the Ministry are at a stand still. Mr. Munro has agreed to defer his resignation until negotiations for the disposal of the treasury bills are…
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