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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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The Adelaide Racing Club's Foundation Meeting was held at Victoria Pork in fine weather. There was a good attendance. Results:- Unley Welter, 7f.—Mr. H. V. Hunt's Green S[?]l,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →DUBBO,—A trip from Dubbo to Orange at the present time shows that the wheat harvest in Dubbo and Wellington districts has been a good one; that there is a serious shortage…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—Despite the efforts of the tramway authorities, the overcrowding trouble still continues on Randwick, Coogee, and Little Coogee trams on race days. Although an extra…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The officials of the Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Service Association are dissatisfied with the delays in the sittings of wages boards under the railway group. No…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The railway strike in Durban has been declared off. Yesterday the strikers, to the number of 460, marched in procession to the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A taxi-cab, No. 16, owned by Frederick Vincent Murrey, of 23 Goodhope-street, Paddington, was being driven across Pitt-street to Bridge-street this afternoon, when a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →What might have developed into a serious inconvenience was averted the other night by the "nous" of a passenger in the theatre tram that usually discharges a crowd of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →JACKSON, Michigan, Monday.--Five persons were killed and twenty injured in a collision which occurred to-day between a Michigan passenger train and a freight train, three miles…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ALBURY, Monday.--Samuel Murray, a guard who has retired from the service of the New South Wales railways after 40 years' duty has been presented with a gold watch by his fellow…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →NEWCASTLE, Monday.--The Great Northern motor cycle annual reliability trial took place to-day, the course being from Newcastle and back, via Dungog, Paterson and Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Among the latest recruits to society flyers are Lady Fitzwilliam, Lady Eldon, Mrs. Winston Churchill, and the Duchess of Santona, who is often in London in the season. Smart…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Counsellor [?] at the last meet meeting of the [?] Council that the engineer [?] for the opening of the Land[?] and that tenders…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In the first year of operation of the Forth Bridge, from March, 1890, to March, 1891, there crossed over the Forth Bridge, Scotland, 37,610 trains, of a total weight of 9,941,612 tons. In…
Continued on Trove, page 55 →At the meeting of [?] Shire Council. Councltier Role moval— "That the use of sandstone be [?] for the repairing on the Peat's Perry-road."…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →While a train was crossing Clarendon-street railway viaduct to-day, Reginald Allen, aged 36 years, a letter-sorter, fell from one of the carriages on to the footpath, a distance…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The wealth of timber in New South Wales has only been measurably appraised since the forests have been sensibly diminishing. How many thousands of pounds' worth of valuable timber has been "offered up" in smoke it would be very hard to say. Although some waste is still going on in clearing operations, it does not prevail to nearly the same extent as in days gone by. Now every forest within reasonable distance of rail or navigable water is, being exploited for useful purposes, and under the administration of the Department of Forestry steps are being taken towards ensuring a continuance of supply. The North Coast districts are celebrated for their timbers, and from them most of the early supplies of cedar, now practically exhausted, so far as localities near ports are concerned, were obtained…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →In his report into the condition of the city services, laid upon the table at last night's meeting of the City Council, the Lord Mayor refers to "the variegated and piebald conditions…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At last some finally has been arrived at by the Woollahra Council in reward in the watertog of the streets by mechanical [?]. Several months ago tenders were invited for the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →While following his occupation of a newspaper vendor a boy named Baden Struce, 13, met with a shock's president near Rose-street. Forest Lodge, this morning having his right…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The wonderful advance made in commercial motor vehicles during recent years is all concentrated in a remarkable potrol-electric road train that has just been landed in Melbourne…
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