Lillie Bridge Combined Handicap
The above event was disposed of in four boats and a final on Monday night. Each bent was closely contested, and the final resulted in a tie between cummins and Holmes, the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1896
4,109 stories in Sydney's papers · page 25 of 206
Municipal Notes. the Forest-road, Hurstville
On Tuesday the Hurstville Council began the repairs of Forest-road, for which a sum of £500 has been granted by Government. The operations comprise the Opening up and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Country. Accident to a Train. an Engine Derailed
LAWSON, Tuesday.--The midday passenger train from Sydney met with a slight accident to-day. In rounding a sharp curve, one mile from Lawson, the front wheels of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Accident on the Railway
LAWSON, Wednesday. — A sight accident happened to the midday passenger train from Sydney yesterday. While rounding a sharp curve, about a mile from Lawson, the front…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The "New South Wales Railway Team
Oat Albury correspondent telegraphs The N.S.W. railway team played a match at Albury yesterday on returning home from their Victorian tour. The visitors won easily on the first innings by 207 runs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Floods in the West. Communication Restored. the Delayed Railway Traffic
The Railway Commissioners received information this morning of the arrival at Bourke of forty-four loaded trucks, being the whole of the goods delayed by the recent washaways on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Scratchings. Moorefield Races Tramway Handicap
Jack o' Lantern Marie May…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Railway Accident on the Mountains. (From Our Correspondent.) Lawson
Another railway accident ocourred to-day. The passenger train from Sydney at 10.15 a.m. became derailed at a mile east of Lawson. It being a steep grade the engine was only travelling slowly, and on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Coal Trade and Railway Charges. No Profit Obtained From Carriage of Coal
Yesterday a Herald reporter made some inquiries at the offices of the Railway Commissioners concerning statements made recently that excessive raliway charges absorbed an undue proportion of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Safe Smashing at Rutherglen. Burglary at a Railway Station. MELBOURNE
The railway booking-office at Rutherglen, in the north-east, was entered by burglars early this morning and the safe blown open, but only 5s in silver and a few…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tramway Employees Votes
In reply to a communication forwarded to the Railway Commissioners by Mr. G. Thompson, the secretary of Sir Henry Parkes's election committee,…
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Communication has been restored on the two western lines. Trains were running yesterday a little late. To-day they will be on time, it is expected, all through…
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BALLINA, Tuesday.--This morning a man named Denis M'Ginlay, engaged at the tip at the northern breakwater, slipped and fell. The wheels of a truck passed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Speed of Through Trams
A communication was received last night by the Newtown Council. In which the Railway Commissioners stated that they bad fully considered the complaints recently made by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cricket. Local Premiership Matches in the Rain Glebe on the Road to Victory. Waverley Bat Disappointingly North Sydney and Central Cumberland Batting Well. Coming Intercolonial Matches—The Australian Eleven—Items of General Interest on Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Brisbane Cricket. Notes from the Cape and Hobartand Other Gossip. Engagements. Local Competition First Grade
University v Central Cumberland, Sydney Cricket Ground. Glebe v South Sydney, Wentworth Park. East Sydney v Waverley, Domain,…
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Mr. Smailes, M.L.A., introduced a deputation from Rookwood to-day to the Minister for Works with the request for assistance to construct a bridge over Platform-street, Rookwood, according…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident to a Milk Train. a Van Derailed
An accident happened to the milk train which left Wollongong at 9 o'clock on Monday night last, and consisted of the engine and tender, a produce track, milk ran laden with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Pearl Disaster. the List of the Missing. the Condition of the Victoria Bridge. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Brisbane
The list of those drowned or missing in the Pearl disaster has been reduced to 24. The name of Mrs. Messenger has to be removed from the list of persons missing, as it has now been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Deputation. Railway Rates on Minerals
A deputation from the recent wining Conference was yesterday introduced by the Minister for Mines, Mr. Sydney Smith, to the Railway Commissioners. The members of the deputation asked that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Moving Collieries. Buildings and Railway in Danger
LONDON, February 18. — Great excitement has teen caused in the arrondisement of Alais, in the Department of Gard, France, owing to the fact that the Gouffre mountain…
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