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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
181 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 10
IN the month of May last, we reviewed in these columns the past history and present state of the Sydney Railway; one of the most important undertakings that has ever engaged public attention and interest in New…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE total receipts of the Liverpool Road Trust for the half-year ending the 30th of June, 1853, was £412 18s. 9½d. This includes a balance on the 31st December, 1852, of £103 7s. 1½d. The total amount of expenditure for the same period was £256 8s. 2d.,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday afternoon the Half-Yearly Meeting or this Company was held in the Long Room, over Mr. Mort's Auction Rooms, Pitt-street. The President, the Hon. F. L. S. Merewether took…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A NUMEROUSLY and very respectably signed advertisement invites a public meeting of the colonists on Friday next, to take into consideration the best means of facilitating the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—I am not acquainted with Mr. Bogue's plans in the matter of Railway enterprise, but to myself their construction, in this colony and Australia generally, appears most simple…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In a paper read at Hull, this week, by Mr. Nelson, the following statement occurs: In the years 1844-7 the distance travelled on railways, by all classes, was 17.7 miles,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →PURSUANT to advertisement, a meeting of mercantile gentlemen and others took place in Mr. Mort's Long Room, Pitt-street, at two o'clock yesterday afternoon. On the motion of Mr. MORT, Sir CHARLES NICHOLSON, Speaker…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Tuesday last the half-yearly meeting of the Sydney Railway Company was held in Mr. Mort's Long Room. The meeting was well attended, and the chair was occupied by the President of the Company F. L. S. Merewether, Esq., M.L.C., who read the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →This magnificent project which was at no very remote period, considered by the New South Wales solons, in Legislative Council assembled, to stand in very much the same light as one of those…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—It may appear like presumption in a person who has not been a year in the colony, to express an opinion on the best mode of advancing its prosperity. But, though the subject, relating as it does to a country of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Allow me a small space in your valuable colums to express a hope that some of our influential friends at the meeting to be held in a few days, for the purpose of forwarding our railway communication,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON the invitation of a numerous and highly respectable list of the citizens of Sydney, a public meeting was hold yesterday afternoon, in the Royal Hotel, for the purpose of taking into consideration the beat means…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR—As I was unwilling to obtrude myself a second time on the attention of the railway meeting held in the Royal Hotel this afternoon, I allowed the minute philosopher, who fancied he had caught me tripping, to enjoy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A public meeting for considering the best means of promoting the construction of Railways throughout the colony, and for taking the preliminary steps for their establishment on an extensive scale, was held yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT would have saved some confusion yesterday evening, if the meeting at the Royal Hotel had either entered more at large, or not so far into the subject of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—Your reporter having cmitted to mention the cause of my withdrawing the resolution I preposed at the meeting on Monday, will, I trust, be a sufficient excuse for asking to be allowed this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—I will trouble you with a few remarks on the subject of the proposed extension of railways, although I did not attend the late meeting which was called to discu[?] this very important question. I am one of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WE affirm, without the slightest fear of exaggeration, that no public body, legislative or otherwise, over sat down in this colony since its first foundation, to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR—Some time since you were pleased to make some pertinent remarks upon the above, and Mr. Pro[?] promised to jusiify his conduct so soon as a new trial motion then pending should…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TWELVE years ago, when American stock was at a serious discount in the London money market, in consequence of the ruin created by the failure of the United States' Bank, a…
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