A Cab and Tram in Collision
A cabman named Richard Vickers was seriously injured last evening through a cab be was driving coming into collision with a tram at Randwick. A lady and…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1896
4,109 stories in Sydney's papers · page 35 of 206
Lillie Bridge Races
A combined novice and professional handicap and two pony races formed the attraction at Lillie Bridge last night Results: 75 Yards Novice and Professional Handicap.—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Britains's Naval Supremacy. Statement by Admiral Bridge. the Defence of the Colonies. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) Auckland
Admiral Bridge has been interviewed by New Zealand Herald reporter, and he talked with great freedom and force on the importance to the colonies of the maintenance of Great Britain's…
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LONDON, March 16.—General Crespo, the President of Venezuela, proposes to borrow 10,000,000f (£400,000) from the German Bank (Deutsche Bank, Berlin), in…
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Attention is directed to the notification of the Parliamentary Works Committee calling for evidence on the subject of the proposed electric tramway along George-street,…
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LONDON, Monday.--General Crespo, the President of Venezuela, proposes to borrow 10.000.000 francs (£400,000) from the German Bank (Deutsche…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.--The railway revenue last week totalled £45,421, showing a decrease of £8331 as compared with the corresponding week of last year. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The City of Melbourne Bank. Inquiry Into Its Affairs. Financing Railway Contracts
MELBOURNE, Monday.--The examination, into the affairs of the City of Melbourne Bank was resumed to-day before Judge Molesworth…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Late Train. To the Editor of the "Evening News."
Sir,—Through your valuable paper I should like to draw the Railway Commissioners' attention to the necessity for a late train on the southern line (say to Moss Yale) on Easter…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →News by Cable. Egypt. The Upper Nile Expedition. Troops Leaving for Dongola. Extension of the Railway. Debate in the Commons. Ministerial Assurances
LONDON, March 17.—The Egyptian Government has made a request for a grant of £500,000 Egyptian (about £512,300) from the Egyptian reserve fond to defray…
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The Railway Commissioners have made arrangements for the steamer General Gordon to proceed on its monthly round trip up the Hawkesbury, as far as Windsor, to-morrow. The train…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Public Works Committee. Proposed Tamworth-manilla Railway
Mr. T. T. Ewing, M.L.A., presided at a meeting of the Public Works Committee yesterday. Further consideration was given to the proposed line of railway from Tamworth to Manilla…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Public Works. The Electric Tram
At the meeting of the Public Works Committee yesterday Messrs. Black, Fegan and Roberts were appointed a sectional committee to visit the district and report on…
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Attention is directed to the notification of the Parliamentary Works Committee calling for evidence on the subject of the proposed electric tramway along George-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Goulbubn-crookwell Railway. Manifesto of the Crookwell Railway League
The following manifesto, "on behalf of ten thousand fellow-colonists, residing in twenty separate districts," has just been issued by the Crookwell Railway League:--…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--An elderly woman named Elizabeth Blade, 75 years of age, was fatally injured to-day at Warrenheip railway crossing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alteration of Railway Curves at Linden
Sunday last was an important and busy day at Linden, that time being selected to connect the rails over the first portion of the new deviation Works there. The up mail train that morning was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Electric Tramway. Inquiry by Public Works Committee
The Public Works Committee met yesterday at the Works Office, Phillip-street, and commenced an inquiry into the proposal to construct an electric tram line from Circular Quay to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Tramways
A SCHEME was laid before the Public] Works Committee yesterday for a double line of tramway along George-street, from Circular Quay to the Railway Station. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fall From a Tram
A clerk named Allan M'Diarmid, 16, residing at Nelson-street, Annandale, fell from a Leichhardt tram while in motion at the corner of George-street West and Newtown-road last…
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