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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1833

17 stories in Sydney's papers

To the Editor of the Sydney Monitor. Windsor Road, Parramatta, Jan. 26

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 9 February 1833 · page 2

SIR, Having but lately arrived in this Colony and taken up my residence in Parramatta, I have taken the I berty of addressing you for…

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Wooden Rail-ways

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 23 February 1833 · page 2

" RAILWAYS.—It seems worthy of inquiry, whether timber might not be very advantageously substituted for iron, in many places, in the formation of artificial roads At the…

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The Road Case

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 13 April 1833 · page 2

One of the most intelligent men in this Colony, one of the jarv in the recent or rather still pending road case (Se[?]pill v. Lethbridge), informs us, that our report of…

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English Miscellanies. Liverpool and Manchester Railway Monopoly

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 18 April 1833 · page 3

In the act of incorporation, the company is contemplated chiefly as proprietors of a rail-road, who were to receive toll from such part of the public as might become carriers upon it; and in…

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Overseers of Road Gangs

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 1 May 1833 · page 2

THE Overseers of the gangs at Razor-black, we learn from good authority, which we will furnish if required, are in the habit of rewarding (as they choose to call it) their…

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The Maitland Family Bridge

The Australian · Friday 19 July 1833 · page 1

It i a singular coincidence, that at the very moment when the claim for compensation, made by Messrs. Dumaresq, was being heard before the Council, the bridge…

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Break-neck Bridge. To the Editor of the Sydney Gazette

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 July 1833 · page 3

SIR, Permit me, through the medium of your journal, to point out to the Surveyor of Roads and Bridges a certain thing on the left as you spproaoh…

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Roads

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 17 August 1833 · page 2

Messrs. Hotel Savage, and S. Stephen waited upon the Governor with a Petition signed by about 120 Settlers, (among which are three Members of Council and a good…

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The Family Bridge

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 24 August 1833 · page 2

THIS Darling jot, commenced in violation of the law, conducted by extortion, and terminating in the disgraceful falling of the bridge, is all but wound up! The following…

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Maitland Family Bridge

The Australian · Friday 30 August 1833 · page 2

HAD the question, which has lately been decided in the Council by a vote of £500 to the Messrs. Damaresq by way of compensation for the loss of tolls at Maitland…

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ROADS. To the Editors of the Sydney Herald

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 5 September 1833 · page 2

GENTLEMEN,—It may not be amiss to intimate through your valuable Journal, that the Settlers of this district were led to believe, that the road from hence to Bong Bong would have been opened by…

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Schedule Referred To. (A.) Schedule of Roads to be kept in Repair at the Public Expense

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 19 September 1833 · page 1

The present road from Sydney to the South Head of Pott Jackson by Belle Vue, &c. The Western road from Sydney by Parramatta— Emu—Mount Vittoria—and Honeysuckle Hill to…

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The Government Road Gangs. (From a Correspondent.)

The Sydney Herald · Monday 7 October 1833 · page 2

The Bathurst Mountain Road Gangs are in the most desperate state of Insubordination. No drays can pass the road unmolested; fat cattle are constantly…

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Maitland Family Bridge

The Australian · Friday 25 October 1833 · page 2

We had intended to leave the good and substantial "Family Bridge," and the vote of our excellent Council thereupon, to the consideration of the Honorable E. G. Stanley, without further…

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Sale of House and Premises at Black Town, on the Richmond Road. Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, 18th Nov. 1833

The Sydney Herald · Monday 25 November 1833 · page 4

AT twelve o'clock on Thursday the ninth day of January next, 1834, the Collector of Internal Revenue will put up to Auction, at the Police Office, in Sydney, the House and…

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Road Gangs. to the Editor of the Sydney Monitor

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 21 December 1833 · page 4

SIR, AT this season of the year, the [?] are accommodated with men for the [?] drawn form the local Gange [?] to the respective Police courts to which they apply…

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Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, 16th Dec. 1833. Bridge Over Paddy's River

The Sydney Herald · Monday 23 December 1833 · page 4

PERSONS willing to contract for the construction of a Wooden Bridge, across Paddy's River, where the new line of road crosses it, and near the Inn called the "Jolly Millers," the…

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