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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
95 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 5
From the recent debate on roads, we learn that the Government purpose patching up the present system of road management (rather mismanagement) at an increased expense of perhaps £200…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The country has lost something by the retirement of the Delby Government. Had it not been for the adverse sentenced on Mr. Disraeli's budget, her Majesty's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The application of James Irvine, of Jamberoo, for a road, was refused, in consequence of terms of the Road Act not having been complied with by the applicant in his notice. Messrs. Holroyd and Stephen appeared to oppose the application. Attorneys, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →RETURN to an Address from the Legislative Council of New South Wales. dated 31st May, 1853, praying that His Excellency the Governor General would be pleased to cause to be laid…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →COPY of a letter from W. C. WENTWORTH, Esq, M.L C., to the Hon, the COLONIAL SECRETARY. Sydney, May, 1853…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The men of Maitland are more than usually dull, on account of the quashing of their races by a clique of Jay Pease. The Jockey Club have determined not to be bullied, and so resolved to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Having occasion since I wrote to you to mount my road hazk, just after the heavy rains, and take a journey some twenty-five miles or so up the Great Southern Road, I think I can, without…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Returning from my excursion up the Great Southern Road, I found it impossible to take the shortest way home, as the surface of the clay hills had become so rugged, haring been baked…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →GENTLEMEN,—Have you heard that it is the intention of some honorable members of the Legislative Council to move for a new site for the bridge, when the £2000 now down on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We yesterday said that the Railroad is "progressing satisfactorily this way. We learn that by Monday next, sufficient of the superstructure of the bridge over the Charges river will be…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR—It was on the 28th April, 1770, when Captain Cook, for the first time, landed in New South Wales, in that beautiful Bay, to which, from the large number of plants collected there…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE have before us a Report which is well worthy of consideration in this colony —the Report of the Provisional Committee of the Melbourne and Geelong Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PURSUANT to public notice, a general half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in this Company was held yesterday, in Mr. Mort's long room, Pitt-street, for the purpose of receiving…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pursuant to advertisement, the General Hulf-Yearly Meeting of this Company was held yesterday afternoon, in the Long Room of Mr. Mort's premises, Pitt-street…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The general half yearly meeting of the Sydney Railway Company was held on Tuesday last, at Mr. Mort's Rooms, Pitt street. The chair was occupied by Mr. Charles Cowper, president of the Board who read the report, from which it appeared that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. NICHOLS, in moving that leave be granted to bring in a Bill for the making, managing and upholding the public roads in the police district of Maitland, in the counties of Northemberland…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, speaking of the objects proposed in the Guage of Railway Bill, when that measure was before the Council on the 6th instant,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SATURDAY, the 16th April, 1853, must be a memorable day henceforth for ever in the annals of India,—memorable as the greatest of battles, and surely more glorious, for peace…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The 'Lockpor (R.S.) Journal" says that labourers are busily employed in pushing the Niagara Suspension-bridge to completion. In remarking on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MY DEAR SIR—Recent occurrences have thrown such an uncertainty upon the legal position of political refugees pesiding in England, that our honour as well as the instinct of…
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