Stopping a Mail Train
The Mobiles, acting on Garibaldi's instructions, full in every direction upon convoys and foraging parties of the enemy. A correspondent says:—"I have lately…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Illawarra · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1871
12 stories in Illawarra's papers
Toll-bar on the Bulli Road in the North Illawarra Municipality. To the Editor of the "Illawarra Mercury."
SIR,—Our Chief Justice, on his journey to Illawarra from the metro[?] saw nothing worthy of notice by way of architecture till he arrived at the commencement of the Northern Illawarra…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Metal. (To the Editor of the "Illawarra Mercury.")
SIR,—By an advertisement in the Mercury of Tuesday last, I see the Wollongong Municipal Council are inviting tenders for the delivery of stone at the gaol from the quarry in Cliff street, and also from Mr…
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At twenty-four minutes after 10 o'clock on Monday night, February 6 a special train, or "wild cat," as such are called in rai[?]read phrase, laden with petroleum oil, in tanks and barrels, passed the station of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Local News The Mount Keira Road Conference
The two bodies, consisting on the part of Central Illawarra, of Aldermen Graham (the Mayor), and Brown, and on the part of North Illawarra, of Aldermen Armstrong, Anderson, and Brennan…
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As a general rule inventions of utility are but slowly recognised ; they have to grow into fame by force of their own merits, and without the impetus of any great patronage. The action of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mount Keira Road. to the Aldermen of the North and Central Illawarra Councils
GENTLEMEN,—Having waited long, not weeks nor months, but years, for you to give this said road a consideration; the taxes falling near due, we the inhabitants wish to know whether we are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Railway Accident
AN accident of a very painful and fatal character occurred on the night of the 28th at the South Yarra Railway Station, Melbourne. So far as we have been able…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mount Pleasant Road. (To the Editor of the "Illawarra Mercury.")
SIR,—I notice that you state in you report of the last meeting of the North Illawarra Municipal Council that Alderman Armstrong then asserted that £35 of the ratepayers money had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Storming of the Bridge of Neuilly
The London Times Versailles correspondent writes:—I saw the action from the glacis of Valerien, At 3 o'clock the artillery opened fire, Valerien throwing fourteen and twenty eight…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Street and Road Formation
WE reprint the following letter from the Herald:— SIR,— A writer in your issue of yesterday, on the "rounding" of streets or roads, as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mount Keira Tramway. (To the Editor of the "Illawarra Mercury.")
SIR,—Mr William Robson, junior, from whose letter I have extracted so much already, but, nevertheless, to which I must give some more attention, says—"When the tramway was…
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