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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
54 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 3
GENTLEMEN,—May I ask through the medium of your wide spreading journal, if the public have any remedy against Her Majesty's Government, for not fulfilling their contract with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GENTLEMEN,—Amidst the greatest distress— bullock teams in deep holes—the whip lashing the poor brutes—the drivers uttering horrid imprecations on the awful state of the road at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE road from Parramatta to Sydney is so bad in places, that it is literally impassable, and people are compelled to travel in the neighbouring fields. There are holes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMEN,—[?]I find, by reference to Plunkett's Australian Magistrate, pages 134 and 135, that a roak may be made by necessity. The dollowing are the particulars:…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The desperate state of the roads becomes daily the cause of the increasing complaints of every one, who has the misfortune of being compelled by his necessities to travel upon them; and also perhaps in as great…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,--Blackstone and fools like him aver, that good government is the price given for the allegiance and loyalty of the people…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OVER and over again have we directed the attention of those in authority to the state of this road, and without effect. A fooling of sensitive jealousy appears to actuate both…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FROM every quarter, north, south, west, and even east, we hear an universal voice oft complaint as to the state of the roads, which all agree to be appalling to attempt…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE District Council, on last Wednesday, brought to a close the long protracted business of the Duck River Bridge; this question has, owing to a variety of causes, been carried through a considerable number of meetings,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. COWPER, in pursuance of notice, moved that an address be presented to His Excellency the Governor, requesting that His Excellency will be pleased to direct that there…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE adopt the advertising method in approaching this important subject, in the anxious hope that M'Adam or some other Colossus will be induced to stretch his legs hitherward in aid of our miserable thoroughfares. All parties…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MURRAY of Murray has withdrawn his motion on movement, and wisely. The Council, instead of presenting the "nothing stirring but stagnation" appearance of last session, resembles now a huge checquer-board played upon by living figures. First,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →THE ATLAS says, that the last Act of Parliament for New South Wales, in constituting District Councils, and placing the roads under their jurisdiction and control…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMEN,—Let me call your attention to the fact, that there is at the present moment upwards of a million sterling deposited in the Banks of the colony which returns no interest…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE wretched state of the public roads of the Colony, in many parts almost impassable, and these, moreover, the thoroughfares along which the greatest traffic has necessarily to be carried on, is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The public sources of intelligence, contemporeneously with the publication of the names of the parliamentary committee appointed to report on the applicability of the atmospheric principle to railway…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald, GENTLEMEN,—Although I am a rate-payer at Pyrmont, I have not sufficient influence among the civic authorities to enable me to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—In the constitution of roads, as well as other, works of engineering, the greatest credit is not, as a matter of course, due to him, who produces the best kind of road…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. GENTLEMEN,—In your report of speeches by members of our Legislative Council, relative to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Great North Pole Railway, forming a junction with the Equinoctial Line, with a branch to the Horizon. Capital--two hundred millions; Deposit--threepence. Directors at the North Pole--Jack Frost, Esq…
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