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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
95 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 5
WE congratulate our fellow-colonists on the cheering aspect now presented by that great enterprise second in importance only to the discovery of gold…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR—Every disinterested observer of the proceedings at the meeting, held at tbe Royal Hotel, on the 21st instant, for the purpose of establishing a railway between Newcastle and Maitland,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JOHN BULL is not an excitable person, but once excited, his energy has no pounds. Talk to him about a balloon trip to the moon, and he will gravely pronounce the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A word as to the necessity and utility of Railways. Complaints of imposition abound on all sides, and all complaints are futile which are not followed up by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A preliminary meeting of the representatives of the wealth and talent of Bathurst, was held at Mr. Walter Black's Hotel, at the hour of eight o'clock, p. m, on Tuesday, the 26th April, to take into consideration the expediency of forming a Company for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SATURDAY EVENING.—The railway market was well supported, and prices in some cases exhibited a further advance, the final anangement of the account continuing to show a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—When I look around me, and witness the beedless and gross mis-management of the public moneys, I am grieved, and feel every disposition to raise my voice against such waste; I deeply…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR—I am in no way interested in the Newcastle Railway Company, and I see no legitimate reason why the projectors of that undertaking should be debarred full credit for their…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR—There are occasions when great public errors are committed and much public wrong inflicted on the community, without the slightest notice being taken of it, either by the people or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMEN,—I trust to your sense of justice to insert this communication in as prominent a place in your paper as the paragraph in this morning's paper, to which it adverts…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMEN,—I have refrained from noticing several advertisements that have recently appeared side by side in your paper with the prospectus of the undertaking I projected and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE pastoral and agricultural interests appear to be growing up in very healthy and prosperous conditions. Much of the gold digging mania has now been allayed, and the convalescent,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE have this week paid a visit to the railway works, and were highly gratified by the result. Very rapid progress has latterly been made in cutting out the line and filling up the embankments, since the present engineer and contractor have been employed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THURSDAY EVENING.—The railway market was flat during the morning, but there was a tendency to recovery [?]wards the close of business. The shares of the Australian land,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE great difficulties with which the Sydney Railway Company have been contending for several years past are now in a fair way of being surmounted. On a retrospect of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Tuesday, in the legislative Council, Mr. NICHOLS moved for copies of all correspondence which has passed between the Government and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—When a Government guarantees the payment of interest to a private Company, of course the payment must be made out of a general fund drawn from all members of the community,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WHENEVER particular purposes are to be served at the expense of others than those for whom special benefit is intended, mystification is the usual practice of their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →COPY of a Despatch from The Right Honorable Sir JOHN S. PAKINGTON, to Governor Sir C. A. FITZ ROY. No. 68. Downing-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A discussion was raised in the Legislative Council yesterday week, on the guarantee of five per cent, asked for by the recently formed Hunter River Railway Company. Mr. Nichols moved…
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