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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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The Minister for Works states that he has been unable to induce the Chief Commissioner for Railways to take over and run the third section of the Norht Coast railway between…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Yesterday a motor car, belonging to Mr. James Ward, was destroyed on Governor's Hill, through the engine back firing into the carburettor during the changing of the gear…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →It is expected that the work connected w[?] the ele[?]on of the suburban rail[?] will be begun in May or June. It is anticipated that before the middle of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mr. J. M'Kensey (Acting City Coroner) yesterday recorded a vordict of accidental death in the case of Denis O'Brien, 45. a labourer, who died at the Sydney Hospital on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Claims have been filed by the New South Wales Railway Traffic Employees' Association for heaving before No. 3 board of the railways group. The hours asked for are 48 per…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →While Henry Murray, 60, a labourer of the Model Farm, Randwick, was driving a cart in Bunnerong-road Randwick yesterday, his horse took fright at some passing tram…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Louis Gordon Holmes, 21 years old, son of Dr. L. S. Holmes, had a miraculous escape from a serious accident this morning. He was motoring by himself in the hills, when…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Leichhardt Council resolved last night, when a jailer on the matter from the Annandale, Council was read, to join with the Ashfield, Petersham, Balmain, Annandale, and…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →An end-on collision between two trams occurred at Doncaster-avenue, on the Kensington line, yesterday evening. A number of passengers in both cars were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Leonard Lukin (24), a tramway linesman, residing at Canterbury, while working yesterday morning on the overhead wires at the Tempe tram sheds, Cook's River, accidentally came in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Shortly after 11 o'clock last night a man fell off a moving tram in George-street, between Liverpool and Bathurst streets. His head struck the woodblocks, and he was picked up…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In view of the sitting of the Wages Board shortly the New South Wales Railway Traffic Association has prepared claims for consideration. The union has appointed a sub-committee…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Public Works Committee yesterday entered upon its consideration of the proposed line from Warren to Quambone, with an alternative route from Gilgandra via Collie to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On December 29 last a laborer named Denis O'Brien, 45 years of age, attempted to cross George-street, at Goulburn-street, when one tramcar was going towards Circular Quay and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--A British syndicate, which owns oil fields, has been formed with the object of selling cheap petrol to motorists…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →GOULBURN, Monday.--A touring Talbot motor car, the property of James Ward, was totally destroyed, by fire this morning. Ward was driving it to Marulan, and was negotiating a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Leichhardt Council has received a claim for £50 from the Strand Picture Show, Parramatta-road, as compensation for damage to films owing to the flooding of their offices on Friday last, when, it is stated, the storm…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Within the past few days a quiet, unassuming young man has been noticed limping along Market-street with the aid of a stick. To the stranger it is evident, by the many hearty…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The attention of the City Council'has been called by Judge Docker to the dangerous condition of Ithaca-road. In a letter read at tho meeting of tho works committee of the…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →There are [?] to be many bricklayers, mas[?] and other operations in the building trade out of work. That the slump in this [?] if such [?] is only temporary…
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