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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1837

12 stories in Sydney's papers

Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, January 10, 1836. ROADS

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 January 1837 · page 4

HIS Excellency the Governor with the advice of the Executive Council, having deemed it expedient to open and make a certain Parish Road from the Township of Muscle Brook…

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The Great Fire Near London Bridge

The Sydney Monitor · Monday 23 January 1837 · page 3

The strictest inquiries have failed in ascertaining the origin of this frightful conflagration. All that is known with certainty is, that the flames were first seen…

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Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, 21st March, 1837. Stone Bridge, Maitland

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 March 1837 · page 4

TENDERS will be received at this Office, at twelve o'clock, on Monday, the 10[?] of April next, for the erection of a Stone Bridge over Wallis Creek, Maitland…

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Chain Bridge, at Penrith

The Sydney Monitor · Monday 8 May 1837 · page 3

WE have seen the drawing which has arrived from England, to Sir John Jamison, of a Chain Bridge, proposed to be constructed acro[?]s the river at penrith, some…

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Extracts. the Late Horrible and Mysterious Murder in the Edgware-road

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 29 June 1837 · page 4

The announcement in the papert on Sunday that a head, supposed to be that of the ill-fated female whose trunk was discovered on the 28th ult in the Edgware-road, had been found on the previous day in…

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Government Gazette. Wednesday, July 12. Anno Octavo Gulielmi Quarti Regis. No. 1. By His Excellency Major General Sir Richard Bourke, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath, Captain General and Governor in Chief of the Colony of New South Wales and its Depeden[?], and Vice-Admiral of the same, with the Advice of the Legislative Council. "An Act for regulating the appointment of the "Surveyor of the Town of Sydney, and for trans"ferring to other Persons certain powers hereto"fore vested in the Surveyor-General of the "Colony of New South Wales, and in the "Surveyors and Assistant-Surveyors of Roads in "the said Colony."

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 July 1837 · page 4

WHEREAS, by an Act of the Governor and Legislative Council of the Colony of New South Wales, passed in the fourth year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled,…

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Roman Baths. National Tepid and Cold Swimming Baths, near the Marsh Gate, Westmi[?]ster Road

The Sydney Monitor · Monday 24 July 1837 · page 4

These Baths, occupying the entire spaces of the late Lambeth Market and the adjoining grounds, to the extent of three quarrels of an acre, all roofed in, by far…

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Petersham Bridge

The Sydney Times · Saturday 12 August 1837 · page 3

INSTEAD of eternally abusing the Governor and the Surveyor of Roads, as some of our contemporaries delight in doing, because the roads and bridges are not in such a…

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Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, 8th August, 1837 Surveying and Road Parties, &C

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 August 1837 · page 4

TENDERS will be received at this Office, on Wednesday, the 30th August, at Twelve o'clock, for the supply ef Rotiona of Provisions and Forage to Surveying and Roa 1 Parties,…

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Law Reports. Central Criminal Court.—monday, April 10. the Edgware-road Murder

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 24 August 1837 · page 4

THE COURT.—Notwithstanding the misnomer, the murder having benn comme[?]d Camberwell, and not in the Edgware-road, [?] the place in which the remains of the miserable H[?]…

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The Roads

The Australian · Friday 8 September 1837 · page 2

THE state of the public roads between Sydney and Parramatta, and the unsafe state of many of the bridges, han been frequently brought under the notice of…

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Roads and Bridges. To the Editor of the Sydney Gazette

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 16 November 1837 · page 3

SIR, Through the medium of your journal, I respectfully beg leave to call the attention ofthe proper authorities to the…

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