Lillie Bridge Races
The Lillie Bridge races fixed for to-night have been stated in error as postponed until Wednesday night. The postponement, it is authoritatively stated, is until…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1893
3,617 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 181
The Northern Floods. Great Destruction of Crops. Reported Deaths by Drowning. The Water Going Down. A Scene of Desolation -- Landslips -- Impassable Roads -- A Trip Up the River. GRAFTON
The flood boat from Southgate, which came to town yesterday, brought word that in that rich district the destruction of crops was worse than in 1890, inasmuch as that in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Floods in Queensland. the Waters Rapidly Subsiding. Railways Damaged, and Traffic Suspended. People Famishing. a Perilous Trip. the Devastation at Ipswich
LONDON, February 20.—The Queensland Floods Relief Fund amounts to £2000. Sir G. Baden-Powell, Dr. Hale (formerly Bishop of Brisbane), Colonel French, Sir…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Flood Waters Slowly Subsiding. Wokk of Cleansing the Steeets. Distribution of Relief. Railway Traffic Still Suspended. Ipswich in a Terrible State. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondents.) Brisbane
The flood waters are now slowly subsiding, and some of the submerged streets are again appearing as dry land, though a large portion of the city and suburbs ia still under water. The East…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Menindie Tramway Bill. Broken Hill
At a special meeting of the council to-night warm discussion took place on the action of Parliament in further postponing the Menindie Tramway Bill. It was felt that the line would afford employment to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Midland Railway Issue of Debentures. London, February 20
A meeting of the shareholders of the Midland Railway Co., West. Australia, was held to-day, when a motion confirming the resolution agreed to at a meeting of the…
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The Railway Commissioners have made arrangements for special cheap tickets to be issued by trains leaving Sydney at 8.25 and 9 a.m. on Thursday and Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Accident at Como. Three Men Slightly Injured
An accident happened to a goods train on this South Coast line on the Sydney side of Come early yesterday morning. The train, which was bound from Sydney to…
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The Minister for Works yesterday received several messages from the Clarence and Richmond districts with reference to damage done by the floods of those rivers to…
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Messrs. Melville and Scott, Ms.L.A., have been advised as follows by Mr. M'Lachlan, Secretary to the Railway Commissioners: Gentlemen,— I With reference to the question of the issue of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Queensland Floods. Brisbane and Suburbs After the Second Deluge. the Botanical Gardens. the Distribution of Relief. the Damage to the Railways. the Fitzroy River Rising. Rockhampton Again Threatened. Expressions of Sympathy
LONDON, February 21.—The London committee of the Queensland Floods Belief Fund has received £3000, including £200 from Mr. W. K. D'Arcy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Ocean-street Tramway. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—So much has already been said and written about the reckless disregard of public safety displayed in the construction of the cable tramline to Ocean-street, that it seems almost useless to add to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods in Queensland. the Floods on the Mary River. the Flood Waters at Brisbane Rapidly Subsiding. Work of Cleansing the City. Practical Sympathy of the Governor. Serious Landslips on the Railway Lines. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Special Commissioner.) Gympie, Feb. 17
Another morning of flood and rain as I look out of my hotel window into the greyness of the early light. Everything seems wet. The earth is soaked and the heavens contain an apparently…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →American Railways. Excitement in Wall-street. London, Feb. 21
There was intense excitement in Wall-street, New York, this morning among financiers, owing to the fact that a receiver had been appointed to take the revenues…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Midland Railway in Western Australia. London, Feb. 20
Meetings of debenture and share holders in the Midland Railway Company of Perth, Western Australia, have been held. The directors' proposal to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sparks From Railway Trains. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—You deplore in your leading article to-day the amount of mischief caused by burning coals ejected by train engines setting fire to different parts of the country they travel through. The remedy is…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Railway Shares. Extensive Sales in New York. London, February 21
Owing to extensive "bearing" operations 1,500,000 shares of the Philadelphia-Reading railway have been sold on the New York Stock Exchange. Receivers have been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →American Railway Shares. the Excitement on Change. London, February 21
The receiver appointed in connection with the Pennsylvania and Reading Rail road Co., in consequence of the manipulation of shares on the New York Stock…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Action Against a Railway Contractor. a Boy Sues for Damages
In the District Court yesterday Judge Wilkinson heard the case of Harold Clarence Renny Goddard v. Oswald M'Master, contractor for the North…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →West Australia. the Midland Railway Company
LONDON, Monday Night.--A meeting of shareholders in tho Midland Railway Company of West Australia was held today, at which the motion agreed to by a…
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