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Railways, roads & transport, 1850

65 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 4

RAILWAYS. (From the Morning Chronicle, August 1.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 November 1850 · page 3

We else where print the Report of the Railway Commissioners for the year 1849—a document which, when viewed with reference to the magnitude of the economical and social…

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The Peabody Correspondence. Letter the Sixth. From the same to Anthony Lafayette Steiveller, of Haarlem (near the Bridge), county and state of New York

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 30 November 1850 · page 7

FRIEND ANTHONY. -- You are a philosopher, not one of those slovenly, careless old fellows who take a delight in mixing a drop of acid in every pleasure which this world affords its children -- not a man who tells us, with a tone like that of an oracle, that…

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The Great South Road. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 December 1850 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—The present state of the great Southern Road offers so many obstacles to the ready transit of our produce, that attention has been directed to ascertain the fact whether any…

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The Southern Road

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 December 1850 · page 3

The following memorial to the Governor, praying for the erection of a bridge over the cataract at Broughton's [?]ass into East Bargo, so as to avoid the dreadful Razorback, was presented to His Excellency by a…

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Great South Road. Per favour of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 December 1850 · page 2

GENTLE PUBLIC—I have some property in the south country, and consequently much interest that the best lines of communication between Sydney and Goulburn, as well for the…

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