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Illawarra · Railways, roads & transport
19 stories in Illawarra's papers
SIR—After reading your report of the meeting held at Lysaght's for the above purpose, can any single person question the necessity—the urgent necessity—of the Municipal Act being put in operation at this end of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To leave the junction of the Roads every Sunday, at 6 a.m. and reach Kameruka at 2 p.m., and Bega at 3.30 p.m. And, on return, to leave Bega every Tuesday at 6 p.m. Kameruka at 8 a.m.: and reach the Junction of the road that afternoon in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—The superiority of the latter over the former useless Act, bits been so often before the public and determined, since the advent of the new Act, that it would be useless to go into the general question. But, our own…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Monday afternoon last, after three adjournments, at Lysaght's Fairy Meadow Hotel, according to the announcement, a meeting of "the inhabitants within the boundaries of that part of Illawarra proposed to have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At an adjourned meeting respecting the Araluen Road, held to-day at Mr Long's, Shannon View Hotel,—W. S. Caswell, Esq., P.M., in the chair, It was proposed by Mr P. Flanagan, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—I have been filled with surprise and regret at finding that a petition, praying that the old line of road to Wollongong may not be proclaimed a Pariah Read, has been handed about for signature. To myself, individually,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We perceive, by a short notice in the Illawarra Mercury, that steps are about be taken, at long last, to render the above road really and profitably available!!!…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Instructions have been given by the Surveyor-General to proceed immediately with the survey of the new line of road between Goulburn and Shoalhaven…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN the article headed as above, which appeared in our issue of the 23rd inst, copied from the Goulburn Chronicle, we beg to correct some misrepresentations which are likely to mislead the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—I beg to enclose a copy of a letter I addressed to D. W. Irving, Esq., on the 24th May last, for the purpose of refuting a statement that appears in your in your paper of Thursday last, as having been made by Mr MacCabe, at a political meeting held at Kenny's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR.—We are told that life is no more than a dramatic scene, in which the here should preserve his consistency to the last. Now, I was forcibly reminded of the truth of this remark, on perusing an article in your issue of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →While the people of Shoalhaven appear to be fully alive to the importance of opening up the proposed line of road between Goulburn and the navigable waters of the Shoalhaven River, and are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The total earnings of the Great, Southern: Railway for the week ending 6th August, 1859, amounted to £869 7s. 10d., and the total number of passengers carried to 5,634…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—In the beginning of the month of March, a public notice win put up at nil the public places in Ulladalla, inviting tenders for clewing the road from Narrawalla to the township of Ulladalla, supposed to be five miles and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR.—Will you allow me the space of a fow lines in your columns, to direct the attention of the recently elected Trustees to the peculiarly dangerous and disgraceful condition of some of our (se-called) bridges. Three or four years acquaintance with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr Garrelt presented a petition from the proprietors of the Keira Coat Mines praying permission to introduces a Bill empowering them to construct a Tramway from the above Mines to the Wharf at Wollongong…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Kaffra Azzyat malleable iron girder beam bridge across the River Nile, on the Egyptian Railway near to Alexandria, was opened to the public on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The most dreadful disaster that over happened in America took place the night before last, shortly before twelve o'clock, about two miles east of South Bend, Indiana. The train, consisting of six cars, was totally…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following is the Draft Bill now before Parliament, to authorise the completion of a Tram Road from the Mount Keira Coal Mines to Wollongong Harbour:—…
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