Suicide in a Tramcar
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—A middle-aged woman named Kate Knight created a sensation on a tramcar last night by taking poison. She got on the car at the corner of Brunswick and Gertrude…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1893
3,617 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 181
Hurstville Railway Fatality
An inquest was held at Prince Alfred Hospital Monday relative to the death of the man Clement Hill, who died in the instigation on Saturday night from, the effects of injuries received…
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COWRA, Tuesday.-After the accident at Wattamandara the passengers, 16 in number, were transferred to another train and landed at Cowra. None of them were seriously injured…
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The traffic on all the tram lines yesterday was large. It is estimated that the takings amounted to about £900, or something like £30 less than on New Year's Day last year. This is attributed to the…
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From a railway man's point of view the traffic yesterday, considering the boisterous weather, was extremely satisfactory. Although the returns do not show such a large number of passengers as a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Construction in the Congo. Chinese Labour Imported. London, Jan. 2
Six hundred Chinese have been imported into the Congo Free State, West Africa, to construct a railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Railway Accident on the Blayney Line. Escape of the Passengers. the Inquest on Driver Willloughby. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Cowra
There were 16 passengers in the train which met with the accident yesterday near Wattamandara, the majority being for Cowra. All escaped serious injury, though several are suffering from contusions…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Political Railways. the Groom Libel Action. Expenditure of Borrowed Money. LONDON, January 2
The Australian files containing the evidence in the libel action brought by Mr. Groom, M.L.A., against the proprietor of the Melbourne AGE, in connection with the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Railway Accident. Inquest on Willoughby. COWRA
Mr. J. T. West, District Coroner, held an inquest yesterday on the body of James Willoughby, the driver of the train. Mr. Sid Webb, of Bathurst,…
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President Paul Kruger, of the Transvaal, who is a candidate for re-election, will be opposed by General Joubert, the Commandant-General of the forces…
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THE Railway Commissioners will leave Sydney to-day on a tour of inspection over the western line. They will be absent some two or three days…
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The gangs of men who were on Sunday put on to work at the wreckage of tho accident which occurred on that day on the Harden-Blayney line, between Koorawatha and…
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The articles from the pen of Mr. Charles Ormsby Bruce, recently published in our columns, dealt clearly and exhaustively with a subject of more than…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Among the Ponies. the Warwick Farm Meeting. Lille Bridge Ponies—A Queensland Galleway—Class Trotting Postponed for the Present—General Notes
Notwithstanding the extra attractions lately in the horse-racing line provided by the Summer meeting at Randwick, the pony and galloway business has secured…
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At the Redfern railway terminus this morning, owing to holidays and wet weather, the supply of forage forward was unusually email, only eight trucks in alL Buyers were in good attendance…
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A meeting of the sub-committee appointed by the council to consider the tramway agreement between Mr. Maxwell Bury and the council was held at the Balmain Town Hall on December 29…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Victorian Railways. Loose Management. Expenditure of Borrowed Money. LONDON, January 3
The FINANCIAL TIMES condemns Mr. Speight, the late Chief Commissioner for Railways in Victoria, for what it calls his loose management of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South Australia. the Missing Railway Papers
ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--Mr. C.C. Kingston, M.P., intends to leave for Melbourne by the express to-morrow afternoon. He will be absent for a week or 10 days…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Victorian Railways. Comments by the Financial Times. Mr. Speight Condemned
LONDON, Tuesday.-- The Financial Times, in an article which discusses the railway policy of Victoria, condemns Mr. Richard Speight, the late Chief…
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On account of the heavy rain which fell yesterday, the bicycle handicap and pony races which were to have taken place at the Lillie Bridge Grounds last night were postponed until to-night…
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