The Governor on This Roads
IT may be considered almost an act of injurstice to the Governor-General to take an excoption to his address to the Legislative Council, for there is so much of good…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1855
175 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 9
Geelong and Melbourne Railway
The following letter, originally addressed to the Editor of the Geelong Advertiser, has been for warded to us with a request that it might be inserted in our columns:…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Colonial Railways. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
SIR,—Having on a previous occasion addressed you on the above all-important subject, I am tempted, once more, to write you, after seeing the speech of his Excellency at the opening of the Legislative Council,…
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The half-yearly general meeting of the directors and shareholders of this company was held on the 5th instant, in the large goods shed at the terminus in Flinders-street, Mr. William Nicholson, M.L.C.,…
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Sm—I have been driving along this road occasionally for ny weeks past, and my attention has been called to the wretched state the whole line of road is in; some two miles from Parramatta…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The First English Railway. (Front Hogg's Instructor for February,)
THE development of the railway system of intercommunication has effected a more rapid and stupendoug change in the relations of mankind and the prospects of civilization, than the world has ever before…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railways and Telegraphs. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
SIR,—The leading article of your paper of this day (Tuesday, June 12th), will, I trust, palliate my apparent egotism in reverting to the subjects, but the gratification it has afforded me to find that in so…
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IN our last we briefly alluded to the dilapidated state of some of the bridges along the roads in the immediate vicinity of the town of Wollongong, and we would now offer a few further remarks on…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Windsor Road. To the Editor of the Empire
SIR—A short time since I called attention to the deplorable condition of the roads loading to Windsor, The rains that have fallen recently were not sullicient to make the roads bad, but the constant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →RAILWAYS. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
SIR,—The writer on this subject in the University Magazine has proved his ideas to be so disproportionate to the age in which we live, that every one regards his Rip Van Winkle notions as absurd; at the same…
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ON the formation of this description of road we copy two letters which appeared in the Evening Mail (London paper), and for which we are indebted to a correspondent. The first is written by J. Morison,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Mail Service on the Southern Line of Road. To the Editor of the Empire
SIR—Will you allow me, through the columns of the Empire, to call the attention of the Postmaster-General to the fact that a number of the inhabitants on the Southern line of road are subjected to the whims and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Hunter River Railway. (Abridged from the Maitland Mercury of Saturday.)
LAST Tuesday was an auspicious day for the [?]inhabitants of the Hunter. It was not simply that the first sod of the second contract piece (between Hexham and Maitland) of the Hunter River Railway was cut,…
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A lecture, of which the following is a report, was delivered before the Mechanics' Institution, at Goulburn, on Friday last, by Thomas Woore, Esq., on the general subject of railways:…
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IT would be a great convenience to the House, and effect considerable saving of the public time, if his EXCELLENCY'S Government would put the Legislative Council in possession of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wednesday. Guage of Railways Act Repeal Bill
The Governor-General's Message being read; the Colonial Secretary moved that the Bill be read a first time. The Attorney-General seconded the motion. After a trifling discussion the Bill was read a first time, and the second reading…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Council Papers.. Sydney and Hunter River Railways. (Completion of tho purchase of stock, &c., and Report of Railway Commissioners.)
The Colonial Treasurer to the Colonial Secretary, reporting on the purchases of the Sydney and Hunter River Railway Companies' properties. Revenue Branch, Colonial Treasury,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Council Papeks. Sydney and Hunter River Railways. (Completion of the Purchase of Stock, &C., and Report of Railway Commissioners.)
The Colonial Tronsuror to the Colonial Secretary, reporting on the purchases of the Sydney and Hunter River Railway Companies' Proportion. Revenuo Branch, Colonial Treasury,…
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IN accordance with the request contained in the Address of the Legislative Council, dated 11th July, the Governor-General will take immediate steps to procure from England a person competent to take general…
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THE following excellent résumé of the operations of the railway and description of the country are taken from a report áddressed to Messrs. Peto and Brassey by their chief engineer. It may not be out of place…
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