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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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Walter Burke (21), a laborer, was brought up at the Newtown Court, charged with assaulting a tram conductor named William A. Greig, and also using indecent language. Accused was in a tram-car at Em[?]nore…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The secretary to the Railway Commissioners (Mr. H. McLachlan) says that the bushfires have destroyed about seven miles of railway fences south of Wagga. Some of the culverts…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On Thursday, through a tramp carelessly leaving a fire near Mr. J. J. Taylor's residence, Pennant Hills Road, a grass fire was started. Its soon ran along the fencing as far as Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"One Who Knows" writes:âI do not think many of your readers have for some time past travelled the Bunnerong-road to the Coast Hospital at Little Bay. If once they went, never…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cooper drove into Sydney at 8 miles an hour. He returned by a road 2 miles longer at 10 miles an hour, and found that the return journey had taken 12 minutes less than the drive…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Federal members will have to blame something else than railway travelling for any nerve troubles which may manifest themselves. The current issue of the N.S.W. "Railway Budget…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Tramway Department has made an analysis of the traffic on the trams on December 24, Boxing Day, December 31, and New Year's Day, This shows that 2,171,000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It stands to the credit of the Railway Commissioners that during the disastrous drought they acted very generously to pastoralists and settlers in connection with the carriage of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,—I was somewhat amused at "Pater's" letter in your issue of 30th ult, complaining because the Railway Department refuses to convey free of cost his children to any High…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The handicaps in connection with the January carnival, which opens on Saturday night next at the Cricket Ground, were declared yedterday by the official handicapper of the League of New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The workds committee of the Balmain Council recommended on Tuesday that Mr. Jonathan Wiley be informed in reply to his letter of December 15, 1904, that the council had no objection to offer to his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Saml. F. Payne, aged 21, a draper, while riding a bicycle along Albert-st, East Melbourne, this morning, came into violent collision with a motor car in which were seated…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Inquiries made at the Railway Department this morning elicited the information that the tram traffic during the holidays established a record. On Christmas Eve, Boxing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Samuel Payne, draper, Bourke-street, while riding a bicycle in East Melbourne collided with a motor-car and was thrown violently. He was taken to the hospital, and found to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The North Sydney Council recently approached the Railway Commissioners by letter on the, subject of having a shelter placed; at the corner of Young-street, at Circular…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Railway Commissioners left last night for Melbourne to attend the conference with the Victorian commissioners on the question of competitive rates. A strong effort is to be made…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Railway Commissioners refer to tho disfigurement of the electric tramway poles by billposters. A considerable annual expenditure has to be incurred in keeping the poles clean and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A meeting of the Automobile Club of be held to-night at Usher's Hotel, to consider the advisability of holding a gymkhana at an early date and to discuss the Dunlop reliability run, to be held from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →During the late drought the Railway Commissioners dealt liberally with the Inland producers, and they have lost no time in responding to the necessities of the present occasion. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The first week of the new year has seen the clearance of a fair quantity of the "held over" wools at priced satisfactory to growes a firm private demand…
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