The Bulli and Campbelltown Road
IN view of the very considerable traffic that has risen between Bulli and Coal Cliff owing, to the increase of population at the latter place, it becomes necessary that the road…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1880
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John Bridge's Weekly Report
Fat Cattle.—The yarda were fairly filled at both sales this week, and pricon were maintained, say 14s 6d to 15s 6d per 1001bs for fair and best beef…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tree Cutting on the Bulli Road
Cutting down these saplings and young trees on the Bulli Road, as mentioned by the Illawarra Mercury looks like an act of Vandalism such as this colony is only…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New South Wales Railways
Last Monday was the 25th anniversary of the opening of the first railway in this colony, and we may add, in Australia. The event being one of peculiar interest to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Metropolitan and Illawarra Railway
The following is a copy of a draft memorial to be submitted to the railway meeting on Friday evening next:—To the Hon. John Lackey, M.L.A., Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Illawarra Railway
THE several committees which, during the agitation of two or three years back, were formed in various parts of the district for the promotion of the Metropolitan and Illawarra…
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Immediately after the Agricultural Society's meeting at Dapto, on Wednesday evening, a meeting of the Dapto Railway Committee was held to appoint delegates to proceed on a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Metropolitan and Illawarra Railway. Meeting at Wollongong
The public meeting in connection with the Metropolitan and Illawarra Railway movement, advertised in last issues, was held at the Council Chamber, on Friday evening last, the room being…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Illawarra Railway
On Saturday, the Suburban Telegraph (published at Newtown) said:—The shortsighted policy of past Governments in delaying the construction of the Illawarra…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Wanted. (To the Editor of the "Illawarra Mercury.")
SIR,—The interest of a large number of people whom the matter concerns is my only apology for asking your insertion of these few lines. As yon are aware, the inhabitants of Five Island…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Illawarra Railway
THE meeting which had been called for Wednesday, the 20th instant, in connection with the subject above named, but which lapsed by reason of the unfavourable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Illawarra Railway
IF the renewed agitation on behalf of the Illawarra Railway could be regarded as a concurrent movement with that on behalf of the Central Market and Cooperative…
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The public meeting in connection with the above took place at the Council Chamber on Monday evening last. James Colley, Esq., J.P., was voted to the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Deputation. the Illawarra Railway
A NUMEROUS and influential deputation waited upon the Hon. John Lackey, Minister for Works, yesterday, for the purpose of urging upon the Government the claims of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Illawarra Railway
A numerous and influential deputation waited upon the Hon. John Lackey, Minister for Works, yesterday, for the purpose of urging upon the Government the claims of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Illawarra Railway
[THE following is the Herald's report of the luncheon at the Exchange Hotel which followed the interview of the Illawarra deputation with, the Minister for Works. We…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railway Movement
Nothing under the circumstances could well have been more satisfactory in regard to the Illawarra Railway movement than the interview of the deputation with the Minister for Works, on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[Substantial Copy.] "Botany-road, Redforn, Nov. 16, 1880
"Dear Mr. Greenwood,—The statements made by me last night at the Masonic Hall, on undoubted authority, relative to the bad faith of Sir Houry Parkes, in connection…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Illawarra Railway Movement
When a Minster says a project has "his warmest and most enthusiastic advocacy," and that Minister is member of a strong Government, it may fairly be assumed that the project will be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railways of the Colony
THE returns of the revenue and expenditure in connection with the railways of New South Wales are thus commented upon in a recent Echo—"The other day…
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