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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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Following the grand example the railway men have set in their struggle against slavery, the employees of most of the commercial houses have quit…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Northern Suburbs are rapidly becoming famous for slatherumwacking between members of the travelling public and men in the employ of the Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →LONDON, Sunday.—Mr. de Haviland, who is attached to the staff of the Army Balloon Works, carried passengers in steady flights on an aeroplane from Farnborough to Laffan's…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →NEWCASTLE, Monday.—The mall train ran over and killed Frederick Herbert at Fassifern to-day. Herbert resided at Fern-street. Islington, and has left a wife and eight children…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →This afternoon the Local Government Association waited on the Chief Railway Commissioner with regard to carriage of gravel and metal for road-making purposes. It was asked…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BULLI, Sunday. -- During Thursday and Friday very few men went to work at the mines owing to the heavy rain. No such rainstorm has been experienced here since the gale that caused the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. de Havilland, who is attached to the staff of the Army Balloon Works, carried passengers in steady [?]ights on an aeroplane from Farnborough to Laffan's Plain…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A rather peculiar accident happened to George BroAvn, of Homebush, this morning. Being a passenger by a goods train in order to catch the express to Sydney, and evidently…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →HOBART, Sunday. -- An attempt was made to wreck the mall-train from Launceston to Hobart this morning. In a cutting at the Botanical Gardens a large stone, weighing about…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A dastardly attempt was made yesterday morning to wreck the mail train from Launceston to Hobart. A huge stone had been placed on the line near the Hobart Botanical…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →All yesterday the Manly to Spit trams were crowded to their utmost capacity, to the afternoon hundreds of North Sydney and Mosman residents attempted the trip, but a great…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following appeared in a recent issue of the Rylstone paper:—Mr. Sol Hayward purchased several springers at a sale in Mudgee last week, and desired to truck to Rylstone…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN, Arthur writes:—The Spit to Manly tram promises to be as unqualified success. But if it is it will not be an account of the tramway authorities not in spits of them. First…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The letter from Alderman Leitch Mayor of Redfern which we published recently, showed that that borough has really a very good case against the Railway Department in regard…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →CAROOAR, Monday.—Some time ago the Inspector to the Carcoar Pastures Protection Board brought under notice the fact that rabbits were breeding at a rapid rats in some…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A spring under some of its masonry caused the bursting of a reservoir of a capacity of 250,000 cubic metres at Huelva, in the south-west. The accident occured…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The railway companies whose men are now on strike offer an increase of wages which will cost them £80,000, the innauguration of a nine hours' day, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The amateur Australasian championships of the New South Wales Cyclist's Union are fixed for February 22 and 27. The opening night will be on a Wednesday, and the meeting will conclude on a Monday night…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →On Saturday afternoon a shearer named James Mack (45) was run over on the railway line near Cleveland-street tunnel, Redfern, and fatally injured. When picked up by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →While traversing his length yesterday morning Ganger Harker at 6.25 found the dead body of Guard Thomas Wasson lying alongside the railway line, 2½ miles from Orange, at mileage…
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