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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
15 stories in Sydney's papers
GENTLEMEN,—Seeing that the gentry of Woolloomooloo have been so often accomodated by periodical supplies of men and materials to keep their carriage-drive in a state…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMEN,—I heg, through the medium of your valuable journal, to call the attention of Colonel Barney and the authorities to the broken and consequently dangerous state of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR--.Allow me through the medium of your valuable Journal, to enquire, whether, in the event of the Rev. A. W. Wallis wishing to join the Church of Rome, the Archbishop will provide him with a gown…
Continued on Trove, page 909 →GENTLEMEN,—I would suggest to the Balmain folk the expediency of a floating bridge in preference to a steam punt, as the safest and most certain line of communication between…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →PRESENT,—J. Johnson, Esq., M.D.; J. Coates, Esq., and G. Cooper, Esq. Theophilus Ileale, Esq., (of the firm of Heale, Sinclair, and Co.,) appeared to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE were to proceed in the first instance by steamboat: and as it is usual to sleep on board, in consequence of the starting hour being four o'clock in the morning,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A road, connecting the fine district of Illawarra with Sydney, has just been discovered and marked out by the Serveyor-General, in connexion both with the Dam on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GENTLEMEN,—Under the above head, I have, as your late M'Leay correpondent, written several communications, stating that a new line of road had been discovered from New…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GENTLEMEN,—Through the medium of your widely circulated journal, would you be pleased to give us the information, how we, the settlers and farmers of this colony, can…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Let us travel over all the countries of the world, and wherever we shall find no facility of travelling from a city to a town, or from a town to a hamlet-- we may pronounce the people to be barbarians."…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE chief stumbling-block in the way of the District Couucils—the necessity of raising by assessment one-half of the Police expenses—has now been removed,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WESTMINSTER CHAPEL, HORSEFERRY ROAD.—Last Sunday the annual sermon was preached here in behalf of the chapel and schools, by the right rev. Dr. Morris, who stated that twenty-nine years…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GENTLEMEN,—I avail myself of your usual kindness, feeling assured you will not allow any one to put down you voice, where public grievances and wrongs Are sought to be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. COWPER presented a petition from the inhabitants of the counties of St. Vincent and Murray, praying that the council would appropriate from the colonial revenue the amount of one-fourth of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DUBLIN, AUG. 21.—A preliminary experiment of the principle upon which the atmospheric railway is to act was made on Saturday, and it answered in every respect…
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