Memoranda on the Northern Roads
Between Warwick and Drayton there is very little traffic; along the whole distance the country is nearly a level—wide plains, with an occasional ridge between them, relieve the scene…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1853
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The Sydney Railway Company. To the Editor of the Empire
SIR—In this day's issue I find a paragraph hended "The Sydney Railway Company," in which it is stated that a communication was made by me, "at the desire of an officer of the Government,…
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Grafton on the Clarence, Grafton South, or Grafton North; graft on it what you will, or far better, all you can, and the place is curable of vast improvements; then Grafton will become all…
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A communication much nearer and more direct than formerly, has been lately opened between the Heads of the Richmond River and the Logan, in the Moreton Bay district. James Gleanie,…
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A MOST extraordinary proceeding with respect to the Railway Company, on the part of the Government has come to light during the last few days. The matter had been talked about some time…
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STEWARDS.—Jno. Lackey, Esq; Jno. Perry, Esq; J. T. Ryan. Esq. WE challenge the memory of the oldest inhabitant" to dispute our presence at…
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It will, no doubt, be interesting to many of the readers of the BURY POST who have relatives and friends in Australia to know that, almost by the time we have our railway communication complete to Bury St. Edmund's, the first line of Australian railway…
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THE Select Committee of the Legislative Council, for whose consideration and report the above-Bill was referred on the 30th August, 1853, have agreed to the following Report:—…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Roads. To the Editor of the Empire
SIR—I have been waiting patiently to see if either the Government or private enterprise were going to take any steps towards improving the present wretched roads into the interior. Neither…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Inauguration Fete of the Geelong Railway. (Abridged from the Geelong Advertiser.)
THE flush of day, and the flush of hope—the dawn of morn and a new epoch—in good sooth, a Red Letter day in the Kalend of Victoria. Over the Bellerine hills peeps the propitious…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Road From the Ovens to Melbourne. (From our own Reporter.) Melbourne, October 2, 1853
The country immediately on this side of Spring Creek, on the road to Melbourne in chiefly of the granite formation, and for the most part rugged and ster[?]e. On deseen ling one of the numerous…
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I STOon on the bridge at midnight, As the clocks were striking the hour, And the moon rose o'er the city, Behind the dark church tower…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Road Tolls.—public Meeting at Morpeth. (Abridged from the Mailland Mercury, October 29.)
On Thursday evening, a public meeting was held at the Crown and Anch[?]r Inn, Morpeth, pursuant to advertisement, to consider the present position of the toll gate on the Morpeth…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Road to Mount Alexander. (From our own Correspondent.) Bendigo, October 20th, 1853
Having just arrived at this place, I send you some remarks upon the road and the country between this and Melbourne, togother with such few items of information, relative to Bendigo itself, as…
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THE first general meeting of the Shareholders of the Hunter River Railway Company was held yesterday, at the temporary office of the Company, Mort's Buildings, Pitt-street, to…
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'They are coming towards the bridge; they will most likely cross by the rocks yonder,' observed Raoual, 'How, swim it ?' answered the Frenchman; 'monkeys would rather go into fire than water. If…
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The first General Meeting of the shareholders of this Company was held on Tuesday at the temporary offices of the Company, Mort's Buildings, Pitt-street, to receive the Report of the Provisional Committee and elect Directors and Auditors for the…
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WE last week visited the Sydney Railway Works, and were highly, gratified with the progress which has been made on different parts of the line since last we visited it. At the present time, there are three hundred men, and eighty five…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Manufacture of Railway Cars in America. (From the New York Tribune, July 3.)
The advantages of railway travelling over all the old systems of locomotion are so evident, that it required n much less intelligent people than the American to…
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