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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
75 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 4
FRANCIS WIBLE SHIELDS called in and examined, states that he has been in the colony since 1843, and that he at present holds the appointment of City Surveyor; that he has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. F. W. SHIELDS being a second time exaamined says, since my former examination I have further considered the subject, and have come to the conclusion, that with our present…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have received by electric telegraph from Dover this morning, a despatch, by which we have news from Milan to the 30th. The King of Sardinia occupied Lodi with 8000 men, and was to be followed by the Duke of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In pursuance of a requisition addressed to me by a number of the respectable inhabitants of Windsor, I hereby convene a public meeting of the inhabitants of the district of Windsor, to be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE total stoppage of trade here, and the isolated state of this borough, as well as the surrounding country, only accessible through it, owing to the absence of any means for vehicles…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SOME months ago (as our attentive readers may remember) we described, from a Blue Book printed by order of the House of Commons, a system of Road…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE are aware—and who is not?—that in this part of the world joint-stock companies are in general disfavour. The events of the last five years have shaken…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMEN,—The publication in your Thursday's paper of the list of subscribers in aid of the survey for this railway, and your observations in favour of this project, naturally call…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE regret to hear so little said for some time back on the important subject of the introduction of Railways into the colony. Was it the mere novelty of the idea that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMEN,—With a great portion of your article on this subject, in your number of the 1st instant, I fully concur; and as to the opinion therein, of the extreme difficulty of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE fact which we had the other day the pleasure of announcing—that a preliminary movement had been made towards the formation of a Railway Company—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ONE of the first acts of the French Minister of Finance after the meeting of the National Assembly was to declare, in his report to that body, that the independent…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →IT should he distinctly understood by the colonists, that the guarantee which the Legislative Council have recommended the Government to grant to colonial…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ONE of the first acts of the French Minister of Finance after the meeting of the National Assembly was to declare, in his report to that body, that the independent existence of great…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE regret to have to state that an accident, through which four lives have been lost, happened on Wednesday to the twelve o'clock [?] express train from Exeter. The engine…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ALTHOUGH, during the last three years, we have zealously advocated the introduction of railways into this colony, we have not done so without a clear…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the end of Burbican is Long Lane, in which street there is a small grocer's shop, with its window well garnished with bunches of candles, red herrings, yellow soap, and tobacco. One…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →GENTLEMEN, —I am not of course opposed to the introduction of railways, but I do not see how, with a population of only two hundred thousand, spread over a territory larger than…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GENTLEMEN,—I am decidedly of opinion with your correspondent A. B. C., that if railways aro to be instituted in this colony, they must be initiated by the Government. They must be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GENTLEMEN,—You have frequently alluded to the facilities afforded by Government towards the promotion of railways in the North American Colonies, and therefore the following…
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