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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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The Peerless Club held a nine miles road race on Saturday over the Parramatta-road course. The start and finish was at the top of Taverner'-hill, Leichhardt[?] There were 37 competitors. The following is the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Cape Colony is issuing at £93 10s a loan of £1,000,000, bearing interest at the rate of 3 1/2 per cant. The money is to be devoted to irrigation and railways…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sixteen children were trampled to death and 40 others more or less seriously injured as the result of a stampede that occurred yesterday afternoon during a cinematograph…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Australian exporters whose market lies partly in the English and Scottish provinces would receive some indirect benefit from a general resort by the British railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Walter Mackley, who confessed to having attempted to derall the Adelaide express on the morning of December 14, at Horsham, made another written…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Edward Smith, a laborer, residing in Darling- street, Rozelle, was knocked down by a tram while crossing the line in Darling-street on Saturday. At the Balmain Hospital it was found…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The "Figue Eight" railway at Coogee continues to draw largo crowds. The railway is open to both afternoon and evening, and the excitement of the trip enhances its popularity…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →RIVERSTONE, Monday.--An unknown man, about 28 years of age, was found lying on the Windsor-road, about two miles from Riverstone, yesterday, in an unconscious condition…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,--Would you allow me to ask when the Government intends to redeck and otherwise renovate the bridge over the Nepean, at Penrith? This bridge has carried both railway and road traffic for about 40 years,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,--For some time past a good and useful work has been in progress, viz., widening New South Head-road, Rushcutters' Bay. Cannot those in authority do a similar work on the opposite side at the Darling Point corner,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BRISBANE, Monday.--The Railway Commissioner has received information from the north to the effect that traffic has been suspended on the Ayr tramway, owing to portions of the line…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway and tramway men occasionally find exceptional calls made upon them in the course of duty. A case in point occurred at the waverley…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON. Monday Evening.—In an Interview, Mr. W. H. Taft, the United States Secretary of War, in answer to an interrogation, said he was strongly opposed to Government control of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →E. S. Turner was proceeded against at the summons division of the Water Police Court for driving a motor car at a rate faster than eight miles an hour on December 30…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WHEN we began the campaign for the reduction of railway freights, it was with a clear understanding of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This club has decided to run a handicap race at the Sports Ground on the 22nd instant, in conjunction with the N.S.W. Cyclists' Union. Entries have been received from old riders, and some close finishes may be…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Yesterday (says the London "Evening Standard and St. James's Gazette" of December 11) a successful attack upon the world's record for distances of 60 miles and 100 miles, as well as those for one and…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A platelayer in the employ of the Commonwealth Oil Company, named Donald Stewart, aged 35, met with a painful accident while going to work at Wolgan about 7…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In answer to questions put to him at the Republican Convention that has been summoned to nominate a candidate for the Presidency, Mr. W. H. Taft (United…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At the Waverley tramway sub-section last Sunday the attendant in charge saw a brown snake a few yards away. The snake seemed to be taking an intelligent interest in his…
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