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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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GENTLEMEN,—In your issue on Wednesday, the 20th instant, under the held of Legislative Council, your reporter writes—"Brisbane Water. Mr. Nichols presented a petition from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IT is a remarkable proof of the wealth of England that there was paid into the Court of Chancery in England, under the standing order 33 and 39 A, on account of Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE duties of the Goods Department, which forms one of the most important establishments at Camden station, may be very briefly elucidated. It appears from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—I have received your Despatch No. 154, of the 14th July last, transmitting a copy of an address of the Legislative Council of New South Wales, and a Report of a Select…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN order that no mistake may exist by any description of the terms on which the Government is willing to aid the construction of railways by private enterprise in India, we subjoin…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE ep[?]ations preparatory to the introduction of railways into this colony have [?] been going on for three years; and [?] wish it could be added that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THAT it is their duty to do so, and that in having left their construction and management to the enterprise of private capitalists, Governments have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SUPPLEMENTARY Report from the Select Committee on the Sydney Railway Bill. THE Select Committee of the Legislative Council re-appointed on the 18th July, 1849,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE railway movement has now advanced another stage towards the realization of its important object. The Select Committee of the Legislative Council,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMEN,—As an im[?]on seems to be entertained by some parties, that the proceeding yesterday at the Sydney Police Office, respecting the election of trustees of the Cook's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →[?] of a Committee of the whole Council, except the Governor, appointed by His Excel[?]cy on the 24th August, 1849, to consider and report upon a proposal to form a Company…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A shocking murder, the particulars of which are of a most distressing nature, was perpetrated on the night of Friday, the 19th instant, in a hut in the parish of Liberty Plains, on the Parramatta Road…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,--It seems that the destinies of this mighty island must be still swayed by such narrow-minded policy as is only adapted to the government of a little island of the size of Pinchgut--most ominous name! The Railway Bill has passed, yet there is no…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THIS great engineering achievement was accomplished "on Wednesday evening. The operations commenced on Tuesday morning. The scene, as early as six o'clock, presented a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Sydney Railway Company are making another step towards the object for which they were incorporated. In compliance with the forty-fifth section of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMEN,—I have heard it suggested by several shareholders that the names of parties willing to become Directora should be published as early as possible, so that every…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →YESTERDAY, a meeting of the shareholders of the Sydney Railway was holden at the offices of the Company, in Elizabeth-street, for the purpose of electing directors, in pursuance of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The general principles by which Mr. SHEILDS was guided in the choice of the route described in our article of yesterday, are stated in his Report in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting of the shareholders of the Sydney Railway Company, called by advertisement in the Government. Gazette and other Sydney newspapers in terms of the Act of Council, was held at the Company's offices in Elizabeth-street, on Tuesday, the 13th instant,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"The Directors of the Sydney Railway Company held their first meeting yesterday, when Mr. Charles Cowper, M.C., was elected President and Manager, with a salary of £600 per…
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