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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
38 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 2
SIR.—Allow me to suggest, through the medium of your widely circulated journal the preference of a floating bridge over that of a steamer, in communication with the North Shore from Sydney. With a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. EDITOR,âThis song ought to be the most popular song of the country; nay more, it ought to be the national anthem. For, tell me, where can you find a road better adapted for all purposes,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I perceive that in your last Saturday's number you have copied from The Herald a letter signed R. B, recommending the formation of a Company to establish a communication…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TO THE EDITOR OF THE COLONIST,—SIR,—perceive that in your last Saturday's number you have copied from. the Herald a letter signed R. B., recommending the formation of a Company to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Most of our readers are aware that a company has been formed in England, called the "South Australian Railway Company," with a capital of £25,000, in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A public meeting for establishing this Company was held at the School of Arts yesterday afternoon, agreeably to advertisement, James Barker, Esq., in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The desolate range of chalk hills, just beyond Dunstable, seems, from a very early period, to have been a kind of land-debateable," of honest men and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We supported the proposition made by Mr Brindley, the Naval architect, for the formation of the Company which hassince been established, from a firm conviction, founded on a knowledge…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—The impression that has gone abroad that the Governor objects decidedly to the chains being laid down across the harbour, for the Floating Bridge to traverse by, is erroneous. At the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. EDITOR,—Through the medium of your columns I have to request you will insert the following remarks, in the hope they may attract the attention of the government…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It being expedient that an act should be passed for the making, repairing, and keeping in repair of parish roads throughout the colony, and the act, 6th William IV., No. 11, being insufficient for such…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I.—Whereas, by an Act of the Governor and Legislative Council of New South Wales, passed in the fourth year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Permit me to intrude on your columns, relative to the "doings" of the Directors of this company. Every body knows that I was the founder of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HIS EXCELLENCY'S District Police Bill, which was thrown out by the Council the other day, contained provisions not only for the maintenance of Police…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Taking the position that I have done in proposing a Towing Company for the waters of Sydney, and as it is some little time since my first proposition appeared in the Monitor, it will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR, Let me draw public attention to the efficiencies and capabilities of a Floating Bridge. in comparison with the craft or Ferry Vessel proposed by the Directors;—they can judge for themselves—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—It was gratifying to me to read the paragraph in the Monitor of the 3rd instant, relative to the FLOATING BRIDGE at Portsmouth. There is an error however, which, as the projector…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Herald informs us, contrary to all the reports we have seen of the debate on this bill, that when the question relative to voters was mooted " the Governor said, that he thought the right of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The first work of the colonist, said Benjamin Franklin, "is to cut a road and establish a newspaper." Colonization has, to use an American phrase, "gone-a-head"…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →To MESSRS. MILLER. D. C. G.; MITCHELL, M. D; BERRY, M. C.; BROWN, J. P.; BARKER, HASLINGDEN, J. E. MANNING, NICHOLSON, JEFFREY, MOSSMAN, STROKES,…
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