Taxes to Trammel Trade
The Directors of the East India Company have given out their intention of imposing a system of stamp duties in the three little emporia in the Straits of Malacca—Penang…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1852
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Scientific Road Making. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald
GENTLEMEN,—If the public wish to observe the above principles fully developed, let them go to the top of Petersham hill, nearly opposite the mansion of Elswick, and they will see…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Original Correspondence. Scientific Road Making. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald
GENTLEMEN, One of the methods carried out in the Sydney Trust Road is worthy the attention of other raod makers. I allude to the system of putting dry mud over the blue metal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Northern Roads. (Communicated.)
THE highways to up the country are nearly past all passing, and may be characterised as bridges impassable and roads impassable. As the clown says in the farce, there never was such times; or, such…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The First Running of a Railway Locomotive in India. (From the Bombay Telegraph, February 24.)
THIS event took place in Bombay island yesterday morning. A gentleman who was present at the interesting scene has thus described it to us in a note:—…
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MR NICHOLS rose to move, "That an address be presented to his Excellency the Governor General, praying that his Excellency will be pleased to cause to be laid upon the table of this…
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GENTLEMEN,—In a country, destitute as this is of navigable rivers, or the advantages of constructing canals, as in England, America, &c., the question of roads and railway convoyance…
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ON Monday last, the 21st instant, the new bridge erected by the Colonial Architect was formally opened for the use of the public by Major Crummer, the police magistrate. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TUESDAY. The SPEAKER took the chair at half-past three. the Railway Company
Mr. HOLROYD moved, "that a Select Committee of eight members, exclusive of the mover, he appointed to inquire into the progress made by the Sydney Railway Company in the construction of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THE Sydney Morning Herald. Thursday, June 24, 1852. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." the Railway Motions
THE present Session of the Legislative Council has opened with several attacks upon the Sydney Railway Company. First—Mr. HOLROYD, on the 11th…
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Mr. MURRAY moved, pursuant to notice, "that an Address be presented to his Excellency the Governor- General, praying that his Excellency will be pleased…
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We are happy to state that the attempt to establish races annually in this locality has been successful. The meeting on Thursday, although hurriedly got up, with hardly sufficient notice,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Roads. to Dr. Douglas, M.L.C., (By favour of the Sydney Morning Herald.)
SIR,—Considering that your attention to our roads would be more successful and beneficial, if your project for their improvement were modified by Mr. Fitzgerald's recommendations,…
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IT is impossible to enumerate the multifarious sources of opposition which this undertaking has had to fight against since it was originally set afoot; but one of them is so very conspicuous that…
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For his own part he thought the Government had already done a great deal too much for the Railway Company, and he believed the result of the enquiry which would…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bell's Life in Sydney Saturday, July 3. 1852. The Rail Road
THAT Mr Charles Cowper, and his friend Mr President Kemp—the former the Manager of the Railway Company, and the latter the President, and one of the…
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AN Article under this head which appeared in last week's paper commenting on the conduct of certain members of Council, relative to the recent motions in Council in connexion with the Sydney Railway,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Original Correspondence. As the People's Advocate, our columns will be open to all parties but we by no means identify ourselves with the opinions of our correspondents.] Sydney Railway. To the Editor of the People's Advocate
SIR, -- In your leading article of last Saturday, headed " The Sydney Railway," I observe the following passage: -- "This, therefore, shews that we are correct in saying that there is a faction in the Council, who will, at every hazard, oppose the Railway, even at…
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IT is about eight or ten years since the project of starting a Railway was proposed, and discussed by Dr. Lang, when, as a matter of course, he was well laughed at by some persons, who,…
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[?]DAY, pursuant to public advertisement, [?]f-yearly meeting of the Share[?] of this Company was held at [?]yal Hotel. The chair was taken…
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