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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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LONDON, February 22, 3.40 p.m.-The Newfoundland Government has agreed to transfer the railway and telegraph systems of the colony to Mr. R. G. Reid, the eminent…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SLOWLY and wearisomely the Federal Convention is getting through, its allotted task. More than a month has passed now since it began finally revising the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The railway question threatened to-day to be almost as perplexing to the Federal delegates as was the matter of finance. This, perhaps, is a mild way of putting the case. There are…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Yesterday afternoon the Public Works Committee started the inquiry into the expediency of construct ing a line of railway from Maitland to Taree. This is the first section of the North Coast railway to…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →At the Darlinghurst Sessions yesterday afternoon Mr. R. H. Levien appeared before his Honor Judge Backhouse and made a personal explanation in reference to the case of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Government of Newfoundland has agreed to transfer the railway and telegraph systems of the island to Mr. Reid, a very large contractor…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The Convention was all day and all the evening considering clause 95 of the bill which prevents a Commonwealth or a State from giving preference to the ports of one…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The railway from Bogan Gate to Condobelin, an extension of the line from Parkes to Bogan Gate, will probably be opened on 1st of March. The new tine is 39 miles in length…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At yesterday's meeting of the Public Works Committee, the Inquiry with regard to the expediency of constructing a railway from Maitland to Taree was commenced. Evidence was given…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →PERTH, Tuesday.--Barratt, the victim of the Drake's Brook railway accident on Thursday last, is still in a precarious condition, but hopes are entertained of his recovery. Goldsworthy,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the weekly meeting of the Metropolitan Transit Commission yesterday. Mr. William Martin, who represents the licensees on the board, drew attention to the congestion of the traffic in Devonshire-street…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Federal Convention delegates yesterday got to close quarters again over the railways question, and some smart talking was indulged in, mostly by Messrs. Reid and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The commissioners have received tenders for the annual supplies required by their department during the coming year. The tenders were divided under sixty-two heads, embracing the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, February 23.-Heavy snowstorms have occurred in the west of England. Many trains have been snowed up. LONDON, February 23, 3.40 p.m.-A heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A public meeting was held at Gilgundra for the purpose of forming a railway league to advocate the construction of a railway line from Coonumble to Dubbo, via Balladoran, Curban, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Newfoundland Government has agreed to transfer the railway and telegraph systems of the colony to Mr. R. G. Reid, the eminent contractor of Montreal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A heavy snowstorm has been experienced at Montreal, Canada. So heavy was the fall that railway traffic was suspended…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the meeting of the Transit Commission to-day Mr. Martin drew the attention of the board to the number of trams which drew up in Devonshire-street, opposite the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →As announced yesterday, the Bogan Gale to Condobolin Railway, an extension of the Parkes and Forbes lines, will be opened for traffic on the 1st of next month. The line is 39 miles 22…
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