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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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The agitation that has been carried on in three of the capital cities of Australia for a better train service appears likely to bear fruit. On Saturday last a telegram from Adelaide was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Mathieson, Railway Commissioner for Victoria, arrived by express train from Melbourne at midday yesterday, having come to Sydney to confer with the Commissioners for this colony in relation to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ALBURY, Friday.—About a month ago the mall train left Albury for Sydney without the staff, and the oversight has been the subject of departmental inquiry, which resulted in five of the employees…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Royal Commission resumed its inquiry to-day as to the expediency and best methods of extending the railway system into the city. Mr. E. Maxted, manager of the Benevolent Asylum, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday morning the City Railway Commission, which is presided over by Mr. T. T. Ewing, M.L.A., and which consists of the members of the Public Works Committee, examined Mr. Norman Selfe,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Air. John Mathleson, the Victorian Railway Commissioner, is at present in Sydney for the purpose of conferring !with Mr. Eddy and his colleagues on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A new scheme for the extension of the railway into the city was yesterday laid before the Royal Commission which is inquiring into the expediency and best methods of carrying out this object. The new…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BRISBANE, Thursday. -- A number of clergymen waited on the Railway Commissioner this morning, and requested him to revert to the former system of granting passes to recognised…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ALBURY, Thursday. -- An oversight in connection with the local railway has been attended with serious consequences to five of the employees concerned, all of whom are well-known…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The question of railway federation has already cropped up at the Federal Convention. South Australians, certainly, favor that addition to the functions of the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The handicappers have completed their task of handicaps the men entered for the Granville Bicycle Club's opening road race, and the handicaps have given general satisfaction…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,—I notice that several of the Progress Associations on the above line are separately advocating for an improvement on the present service. No good result can be attained by…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →This Company can supply 2,000 Tons of Coal per Day. Shipments are made at the Government Cranes, Newcastle, and by Steamers alongside Ships in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Railway Commissioners announce a special cheap excursion to Menangle, Bowral, Moss Yale, Goulburn, Yass Junction, Harden, Murrumburrah, Cootamundra, Junee Junction, Wagga Wagga…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To a stranger, one of the most striking peculiarities of the city of Sydney is the many unemployed men lounging about the parks and Domain. G. A. Sala, in one of his Parisian letters, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Public Works Committee met at noon yesterday in its capacity of a Royal Commission upon the question of the extension of the railway system into the city. There were present Messrs. Ewing…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Works Committee sat again yesterday as a Royal Commission to consider the best means of bringing the railway into the city. Mr. Maxted was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A greengrocer, whilst driving along Darling-street, Balmain, yesterday was run into by a tram going in the same direction. The force of the impact…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →One benefit of the motor car movement is (says the London "Dally News") that it has given a stimulus to invention in all matters relating to street vehicles. The improved street omnibus…
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