Interview with Mr. Walker. Favourably Impressed with the Scheme Recommended. the Railway Question Discussed. Gradual Consolidation of Public Debts
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 April 1897 · page 6
Mr. J. T. Walker, the New South Wales delegate who considers he was returned to the Convention mainly because of his financial knowledge, found himself by some adverse fate upon the Judiciary…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 April 1897 · page 6
Also in The Daily Telegraph
Mr. Eddy says he hopes to be able to leave for Melbourne on Friday, reaching Sydney on Monday or Tuesday. He explains that the report of the conference of the Railway Commissioners on the…
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The Australian Star · Friday 9 April 1897 · page 2
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works decided yesterday afternoon the fate of the proposal for a railway from Moree to Inverell. A…
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The Australian Star · Friday 9 April 1897 · page 6
The City Railway Commission took further evidence to-day with regard to the proposal for extending the railway into the city and to the deep waters of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Federation and the Railways. to the Editor
The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 April 1897 · page 6
Sir, -- Having followed very closely the proceedings of the Adelaide Convention, it is evident that on the above subject that body and the Finance Committee have failed to find a…
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The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 April 1897 · page 4
The Public Works Committee yesterday concluded its debate upon the proposed railway from Moree to Inverell. Mr. Roberts had moved, and Mr. O'Connor had seconded, "That, in the…
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The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 April 1897 · page 6
Sir. -- In the account of my city extension railway scheme, published to-day in "The Daily Telegraph," I am made to propose an overhead tramway to cross King-street and Phillip-street, etc…
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The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 April 1897 · page 4
Mr. Oswald M'Master was further examined before the Royal Commission sitting on the city railway extension proposals, yesterday, with reference to the scheme which he submitted on…
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The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 April 1897 · page 4
The Minister for Works, Mr. J. H. Young, accompanied by a large number of members of Parliament, left last evening by the 6.15 train for Narrabri, to open the line from that station to…
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The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 April 1897 · page 6
At 12.47 this morning the M.F.B. received a call to a fire in the goods department at the Redfern railway station. The fire had broken out in some drums of tar, which were stored ready for…
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The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 April 1897 · page 4
The Premiers of New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia, who are at present in Adelaide, issued a combined minute to their Railway Commissioners yesterday to inquire into…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 April 1897 · page 18
A deputation consisting of Messrs. O'Sullivan, Wright, Perry, Brown, M'Donald, Affleck, Rose, Ball, and Kelly, Ms.L.A., waited upon the Minister, for Works on Monday to urge an increased…
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Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 April 1897 · page 19
A CABLE was received from Colombo on Tuesday announcing the safe arrival at that stage of their journey of Mr. and Mrs. John Bridge and their daughter. Mr. John Bridge, who had "run down"…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →The New Culvert, Castlereagh Road. To the Editor of the Nepean Times
Nepean Times · Saturday 10 April 1897 · page 6
DEAR SIR,—As a ratepayer and regular user of the above, I would like to draw the attention of my fellow townsmen to the substantial (?) foundation put under the…
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Evening News · Saturday 10 April 1897 · page 5
MOREE, Saturday.—The new line from Narrabrl to Moree, 417 miles from Sydney, was officially opened by the Hod. J. H. Young, Minister for Works, yesterday. The railway has been in use…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Finance Committee. Power to Take Over the Railways. Inter-state Commission Recommended. Regulation of River Traffic
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 April 1897 · page 10
The Finance Committee sat for nearly three hours this afternoon, and brought its labours to a close. Consideration was Riven to the question of the abolition of preferential rates and otherwise…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 April 1897 · page 5
Sir,—As a resident of Sydney for more than half a century I am impelled to protest against the adoption of any scheme for bringing the railway to the Circular Quay which would cause the destruction of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Narrabri-moree Railway. Official Opening Speech by the Minister Tor Works. the Public Service Board. (From Our Special Reporter.) Moree
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 April 1897 · page 10
After an agitation extending over 10 years, the residents of Mor[?] to-day saw the formal opening of the Narrabri-Mor[?] railway, which connects them with Sydney, 417 miles distant. The Minister for…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 April 1897 · page 7
The Railway Commissioners announce that for the convenience of holiday-makers a special cheap excursion will leave Sydney on Monday next at 4.20 p.m. for Southern main and branch line…
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