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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1832

16 stories in Sydney's papers

Downfall of the Family Bridge

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 1 February 1832 · page 2

WE, have the pleasure to lay the following letter before our Readers:— To the Gentlemen, Settlers, and other Inhabitants of Maitland, and its vicinity…

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The Razor-back Road. To the Editor of the Sydney Gazette

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 March 1832 · page 3

SIR, The thanks of the Public and of Government are so justly due to our clever and indefatigable Survevor-General, for the great zeal and extraordinary…

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To the Editor of the Sydney Monitor. Vinegar Hill, Windsor Road, Feb. 29

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 14 March 1832 · page 3

SIR, Conjagal attachment induced me to abandon my relatives and friends in Englandl, and to emigrate to this Colony. Two 'female…

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To the Editor of the Sydney Monitor. Horce's Water Hole, Hunter's River, Old road, April 10, 1832

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 28 April 1832 · page 4

SIR I am a Hunter's River settler, returning name from Sydney, and while my man is boiling a pot of tea at the above cheap hotel,…

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Roads

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 2 May 1832 · page 2

While a contemporary, for what reasons best known to himself, is calling the Governor's attention exclusively to the new road to Argyle, the roads generally,…

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Roads

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 9 May 1832 · page 2

(When a subject is treated of by a correspondent in a contemporary, or when it is discussed in a contemporary himself, which bears strongly on the public good, we…

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Highway Robberies on the Parramatta Road

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 15 May 1832 · page 2

The signal retribution awarded to Donohoe, M [?] Numaral, Dalton[?] and Webber, together with their abettors, would,it was confidently anticipated[?] have the desired effect of restoring tranquillity…

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Roads

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 6 June 1832 · page 2

WE insert the two following letters which we have received on the-subject of Roads. One of the writers speaks of the road from Liverpool to Menangle as being…

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Extracts Continued. Steam Carriages on Common Roads

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 28 June 1832 · page 4

COLONEL TORRENS, A MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE; EXAMINED.—Q. Have you considered the effect which will be produced upon British agriculture, by substituting, on common roads, steam…

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Old Kent Road Easter Races

Hill's Life in New South Wales · Friday 13 July 1832 · page 4

On Wednesday last, the public were highly amused at the Sporting Race-Course, in the Old Kent. Road, by a grand race for two chemises, which was run for by the following sporting fillies…

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Original Correspondence. for the "Sydney Herald." on the Roads, Bridges, and Post Offices on Hunter's River. Hunter's River, July 1832

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 16 August 1832 · page 3

GENTLEMEN.—It gave me much pleasure to read in your well conducted paper, several interesting statements respecting the Roads in Argyle, to which the attention of His Excellency the Governor hasbeen…

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Advance Australia Sydney Gazette. Tuesday, September 25, 1832. "Multa inter sese vario sermone serebant." "And talk, of various kind, deceived the road."

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 25 September 1832 · page 2

A GREAT variety of topics have pressed themselves upon us of late, each deserving long and deliberate notice, but which we are forced to dispose of briefly, to…

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Vauxhall Bridge Company

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 29 September 1832 · page 4

At the annual general meeting of the holders of shares in the Vauxhal Bridge, held at the George and Vulture Tavern, Lombard-street, for the purpose of receiving a report from the…

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Cattle Stealing and Bushranoing. To the Editors of the Sydney Herald. Hunter's River, Old Road, Gibber Gonniere, 12th November, 1832

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 29 November 1832 · page 3

GENTLEMEN—I have been for several years a traveller in the old road from the Hawkesbury to Hunter's River. The distance between the two settlements is upwards of one hundred miles…

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[We copy the following letter, as being if true, worth the Governor's notice.] Cattle Stealing and Bush Ranging. to the Editors of the Sydney Herald. Hunter's River, Old Road, Gibber Gonniere, 12th November, 1832

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 1 December 1832 · page 3

GENTLEMEN—I have been for several years a traveller on the old road from the Hawkesbury to Hunter's River. The distance between the two settlements is upwards of one hundred…

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Roads

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 22 December 1832 · page 2

The Colonists, knowing that the time is arrived when they, and not the British Treasury, pay for the making of the roads of the Colony, very naturally canvas in…

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