City Railway Extension. Mr. M'master's Scheme. a Double Subway to North Shore
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 April 1897 · page 7
Mr. Oswald M'Master yesterday submitted to the Public Works Committee, sitting under the presidency of Mr. T. T. Ewing, M.P., as a Royal Commission on the proposals to extend the…
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The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 April 1897 · page 7
LISMORE, Tuesday. -- A crowded public meeting was held in tbe council-chambers yesterday evening in connection with the movement advocating the extension of the Lismore-Tweed line…
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The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 April 1897 · page 6
Sir, -- I would suggest the following scheme as a settlement of these two questions: -- Fill in sufficient of Sydney Cove to make a railway terminus, taking in the wool warehouses on the eastern…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Federal Convention. Last Night's Proceedings. Sir George Turner's Little Joke. Doings in Committee. The Surplus Revenue. Control of the Railways. Commissioners Examined
Evening News · Thursday 8 April 1897 · page 6
ADELAIDE, Thursday Morning.—At last there is some reasonable indication of the early dose of the secret committee stage of the convention, and next Monday or Tuesday the new Draft Bill for the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Federal Convention. Strife Between the Larger and Smaller States. the Question of Money Bills. a Western Australian Ruse. Work of the Finance Committee. Examination of Railway Commissioners. Question of the Federal Capital. (From Our Special Reporters.) Adelaide
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 April 1897 · page 5
The strife between the larger and smaller States grows keener every day. The delegates of the smaller States on the Constitution Committee being in a majority of three to two are simply voting…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 April 1897 · page 5
At the close of the afternoon sititng of the committee Mr. M'Millan said: "We have examined the Railway Commissioners chiefly in regard to the question of providing in the constitution against the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Uniform Railway Gauge. an Important Conference Arrange Views of Federal Delegates. What the Railway Commissioners Think
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 April 1897 · page 5
The presence of the Railway Commissioners in Adelaida for examination before the Finance Committee has drawn general attention once more to the great question of a uniform railway gauge for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Federal Convention. a Railway Conference. The Committees at Work. The Constitutional Committee-- The Finance Committee-- Prospects of Completion of the Bill. ADELAIDE
The Australian Star · Thursday 8 April 1897 · page 6
When the Convention met this morning petitions from the Church of England in Australia and Tasmania in favour of the recognition of God in the…
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The Australian Star · Thursday 8 April 1897 · page 6
The commission appointed to inquire into the best scheme for extending the railway into the city and to the deep waters of Port Jackson took further…
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The Australian Star · Thursday 8 April 1897 · page 8
A report has been received by the Minister for Works from the Railway Commissioners with regard to the proposed railway from Singleton to Jerry's…
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The Australian Star · Thursday 8 April 1897 · page 8
The official opening of the Narrabri to Moree railway will take place tomorrow. A large Parliamentary party will leave Sydney this evening to take…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →City Railway Extension. Dr. Quaife's Scheme the Supreme Court Buildings
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 April 1897 · page 3
Dr. F. H. Quaife submitted a scheme for the extension of the railway into the city to the 'Public Works Committee (sitting as a Royal Commission on the subject) yesterday…
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The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 April 1897 · page 4
The Public Works Committee gave further consideration yesterday to the proposed Moree to inverell railway, the debate being resumed upon Mr. Roberts' motion that it is expedient the…
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The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 April 1897 · page 4
The Railway Commissioners have reported to the Minister for "Works on the proposed line of railway from Singleton to Jerry's Plains, a distance of some 22 miles. Mr. Young says that the…
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The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 April 1897 · page 4
Mr. J. H. Young, Minister for works, leaves town this evening by the northern mall train, to open the Narrabri-Moree railway. He will probably be accompanied by quite a shoal of…
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The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 April 1897 · page 4
At the last meeting of the Willoughby Council three tenders for the reconstruction of the Flat Rock bridge, over which the proposed tramway to Willoughby is to pass, were opened, but as…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 April 1897 · page 5
The Minister for Public Works has received a communication fiom the Minister for Public Works in New South Wales stating that the tender of Messrs. J. B. and W. Farquharson has…
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Evening News · Friday 9 April 1897 · page 5
The inquiry by the Royal Commission as to the expediency and best methods of extending the railway system into the city was resumed to-day; Mr. Ewing, M.L.A., presiding. Mr. J. Stinson, Mayor…
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Evening News · Friday 9 April 1897 · page 5
The question as to the expediency of carrying out the proposed railway from Moree to Inverell was further considered by the Public Works Committee yesterday. Several members…
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Evening News · Friday 9 April 1897 · page 5
NARRABRI, Friday.—The Ministerial train left here this morning for the purpose of officially opening the Moree line. Mr. J. H. Young, the Minister for Works, who performs the opening ceremony…
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