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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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Yesterday the Public Works Committee, sitting as a Royal Commission, resumed its inquiry into the proposed extension of the railway system of the colony into the city and to the deep waters of Port…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A public meeting was held in Dobbs's Hall last night. The Mayor (Alderman Lucas) presided, and there was a large attendance. The object of the meeting was to advocate the claims of the…
Continued on Trove, page 576 →The necessity for the Hillston railway is again being brought forward by Mr. Carroll, M.L.A., the representative of the district, and on Monday next at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. Barton is not in favor of consolidating the New South Wales debts until a very sound basis can be found. Inclines to the opinion that the railways should not be handed over to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →To-day West Australia will elect its delegates to the Federal Convention. Then the whole 50 delegates will have been chozen, and the way will be clear for the Convention to go into…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the Newtown Court yesterday, before Mr. c. [?]hery, S.M., John Miner, a cabman, was charged, on the information of Inspector Robert Davis, of the Railway Department, with having travelled in a railway…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →MELBOURNE, Friday.--A serious railway accident happened half a mile from Warrnambool last night. While passing a level crossing the engine of a train gave a jump and left the rails,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →WE take the following from the Brisbane COURIER:- Cooltown, March 11. The Mayor of Cooktown yesterday evening despatched the following telegram to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →From Canea come reports of sharp fighting on the heights. The Turkish Governor has requested the Porte to send arms to the refugees.'…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A sensational occurrence took place on Friday evening at Sunbury in connection with a large State school picnic to that place from South Melbourne. There…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, March 14, 5 p.m.—A terrible outrage is reported from Salonica, the second commercial city of European Turkey. While a train conveying 3000 Turkish…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A dinner to celebrate the sixth anniversary of the opening of the Railway Institute took place in the large hall ef the building on Saturday evening. About 100 persons eat down to the spread, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—As a frequent traveller along the New South Head-road to Rose Bay, I would like to raise my humble voice in protest against the action of some of tho Woollahra councillors in attempting to influence…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The sixth anniversary of the opening of the Railway Institute was celebrated on Saturday evening by a dinner which was laid in the large hall of the building by the hall steward (Mr. Dykes). The…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The team of baseball players from Melbourne and Adelaide which is to tour America during the next few months arrived in Sydney from Melbourne on Saturday, and this afternoon they will sail for San Francisco by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BULLI, Saturday.--This morning a set of trucks, loaded with [?] and bricks, broke away at the foot of the South Built incline, and crashing through the gates and points at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following handicaps have been declared for the pony and trotting races to be held to-night at Lillie Bridge:— Lilliputian Handicap (11.2 to 12.0½), 3 furlongs.—Lillian, 10st 9lb; Vera, 9st 6lb; Julia, 8st 7lb; Hernia, 8st 6lb;…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Sunday Night.--A fearful outrage is reported from Salonica. While a train convoying 3000 Turkish troops to the frontier was passing over a…
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