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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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STROUD, Sunday.—On Saturday morning the member for Gloucester, Mr. R. Atkinson Price, drove from Dungog to the Barnes Creek bridge, on the Dungog-road, for the purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A man named John Thew, a railway employee, was killed at Rookwood Railway Station yesterday morning, Thew was shunting a train, when his foot slipped and he fell on the rails. The wheels…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A deputation representing the Redfern, Alexandria, and Waterloo Municipal Councils waited upon the Railway Commissioners this morning, and asked that the twopenny section on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A meeting of all those municipal bodies interested in the extension of the city railway will take place in the vestibule of Sydney Town Hall on Friday, May…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. John Mathieson, the new manager for railways, who arrived in Melbourne on Saturday from Brisbane, called on the Acting- Commissioners of Railways this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mrs. Abigail Smith, who was knocked down by a Redfern tram and seriously injured, as reported in our first edition, died at the Prince Alfred Hospital this…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The usual fortnightly meeting of the above council was held last night. The Mayor (Alderman Shute) presided, and there were also present:--Aldermen Archer,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A shocking fatality occurred at the Rookwood Railway Station yesterday morning, when John Cuthbert Thew, a railway porter, aged 44 years, had his head severed from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A railway porter named John Cuthbert Thew was run down by a truck on a siding at Rookwood railway station yesterday morning and killed instantaneously. The truck was loaded, and had just been disconnected…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →About 8.80 a.m. yesterday as Mrs. Abigail Smith, an old resident of Redfern, was proceeding across Regent-street from Marian-street to Botany-street, she was knocked down by a tram (motor No. 20),…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →GRAFTON, Monday.—It came out to-day during the functions which Lord Hampden attended that this is the first time a Governor has visited Glen Innes for over 25 years, the last preceding…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Monday.—Mr. Mathieson, the newly appointed manager of tho Victorian rail- ways, was shown over tho railways and offices today, and had an interview with the Premier. He…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GLEN INNES, Monday.—The visit of the Governor to Glen Innes has had the effect of attracting people from all quarters of the district into the town. The hotels seem full of sheepowners and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The above handicap attracted a fair number of peds on Saturday night, three novice and two professional heats being run in the first round, and the final going to M.A. Conroy…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On Saturday afternoon the Redfern Club held a ten-miles Road Race over the Botany-Bun[?]rong course, which was in rather a rough condition, and the difficulties were added to by a dust storm…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE first of the two-days' meeting at Canterbury Park takes place this afternoon, special trains leaving Bedfera for the course as follows:—Horae-boxes, 12.20…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The city coroner held an inquest at Prince; Alfred Hospital yesterday afternoon, on the body of an elderly woman named Abigail Smith, who was knocked down and fatally injured by a tram…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works yesterday took farther evidence regarding the proposed railway from Nevertire to Warren, Mr. H. Deane, Engineer-in-Chief…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →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 Nevertire to Warren…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—A perusal of your article in the Herald of this date upon the various routes suggested for a line of railway connecting Broken Hill with Sydney leads me to observe that you have omitted all mention of…
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