The Gigantic Progress of Railways
Railways are messengers of civilization, peaceful locks tending to bind countries in tics of closer intercourse; as guarantees of peace, they protect; from war. They are…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1845
54 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 3
English Extracts. Fall of Yarmouth Suspension Bridge.—upwards of 100 Lives Lost
ONE of the most calamitous events which ever befel this town, or any other in this district of the kingdom, has just transpired, and has spread lamentation and grief throughout the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Council Papers. Report From the Select Committee on the Bridge Over the Yarra Yarra
THE Select Committee of the Legislative Council, appointed on the 17th September, 1845, "to consider the estimate for the erection of a Bridge over the Yarra Yarra River,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pigeon Shooting at the Old Bay Horse, Parramatta Road
On Saturday last a Match came off in the paddock opposite Mrs. Avery's house, and though the attendance was by no means numerous, a select circle (with one…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →English Extracts. Railway Measures. (From the Morning Chronicle.)
THE "private business" of Parliament, this session, involves the Legislature in an inextricable labyrinth. Members are overwhelmed by the avalanche of railway bills, besides the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The South Roads. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald
GENTLEMEN,—Several letters have appeared in your paper lately on the above subject, and amongst them one signed "Parco," which is chiefly in abuse of Mr. James Macarthur. I…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Council Paper. Report From the Select Committee on Russell's Nepean Bridge
THE Sub-Committee of the Legislative Council, appointed on the 9th September, 1845, to consider "A Bill to enable William Russell, Esq., of Regentville, in the county of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Board of Ordnance and Railway Jobbing. (From the Morning Chronicle.)
MR. HAWES'S court martial, in a select committee of the Commons, to be nominated this evening, has excited much painful interest in political circles. The…
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FEW documents have ever proceeded from the Parliament of more curious character than one that has just been laid before the House of Commons on the proposition of Mr. Gibson…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Parish Roads' Act. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald
GENTLEMEN,—In one of your recent papers observed the advertisement of an intended of several apparently valuable country pro[?] ties, by the hammer, in consequence of [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Board of Ordnance and Railways [The following is the conclusion of the Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed to enquire into charges preferred against the Directors of the Board of Ordnance, by the Directors of the South Eastern Railway.]
Your committee having given this summary of evidence which was brought before them, proceed to state to the house the conclusions to which they have come, both with reference to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pilbrow's Atmospheric Railway
Experiments, on a model on a very large scale, on which a carriage, in which a lady or gentleman was whirled along at a prodigious rate of speed, were yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Correspondence. the Papal Railway; Or, Purgatorial Petitions
THE intercourse between Purgatory and his Holiness the Pope has been so much increased of late years, that a consultation has been held by the Cardinals and others interested, as to the policy of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Bridge of Sighs
One more unfortunate, Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death!…
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