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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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The following is an official statement from the Railway Commissioners with regard to the matter:- "With reference to the 'crisis' which is said to have occurred at Newcastle owing to the alleged action…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The general strike of coaltrimmers at this port, which was declared in support of the shipping companies as a protect against the action of the Railway Department in levying heavy fines for the delay of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Shanghai correspondent of the "Times" states that a Belgian syndicate has acquired two-thirds of the shares in the concession for a railway from Canton to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Work on the Tumut Railway has been commenced. The first portion started is at South Gundagai, towards Adelong Crossing. Several local men have found employment,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Shanghai correspondent of the "Times" stakes that a Belgian syndicate has acquired two-thirds of the shares in the concession for a railway from Canton to Hankau. This…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The railway commissioners intimated yesterday that they had received a letter from the secretary of the Painters' Union, regarding the rates paid to painters in the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The question of extending the railway to Hillston has on several occasions been discussed by the Public Works Committee, more particularly in connection with other inquiries. At…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Committee resumed the adjourned debate on the motion by Mr.Watson, seconded by Dr. Garran--"That in the opinion of the committee it is not expedient that the proposed railway from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →DENILIQUIN, Tuesday.-- The fifty-third half-yearly meeting of the Deniliquin and Moama Railway Company was held this morning. The directors' report stated that the traffic returns for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Residents along the district served by the North Shore railway line, and more especially those in tho vicinity of St. Leonards and Artarmon, have a subject of complaint in the girder,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A deputation from Strathfield was introduced to the Railway Commissioners yesterday morning by Messrs. Taylor and Archer, Ms.P., and asked that an entrance to the railway platform…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The next excursion to Adelaide, Mount Gambier, and Broken-Hill will leave Sydney on Monday, 11th inst., when return tickets will be issued at £6 first-class, and £4 second-class to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The boy arrested for shooting a railway employee at Granville from a passing train now gives his name as John Herbert Ross, and says his mother lives in Bathurst-street, Sydney. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mails to hand from China contain the following respecting the progress of events in China:-- Some Chinese assert that the capacity of the Empress has been so much discredited in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday Morning.--The Shanghai correspondent of "The Times" states that the Belgian Government has acquired two-thirds of the shares in the Hankau-Canton…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—In addressing your on the subject of railway traflic I do so more to show how the present system in some ways operates against the general interest of the people rather than with a wish to complain of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Minister for Works is expediting the surveys and prepaiations for starting a number of new lines of railway in order to find employment for men now out of work. Within a brief period he hopes to be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tenders are to be invited to-morrow for the first section of 27 miles of the Gladstone-Rockhampton connection, commencing at Gladstone. The date for receiving tenders will probably be about two…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A woman, apparently between 50 and 60 years of age, who has not yet been identified, was run over by a goods train at a crossing near Wahroonga Station, on the North…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The organ of the Amalgamated Railway Servants has been mulcted in a thousand pounds damages for accusing a railway superintendent of drunkenness…
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