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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
175 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 9
DEAR MR. Empire—Spare me, if you please, a little nook in your paper, whilst I express to the world—and who in this part of the world does not read the Empire —the frightful state of alarm I and many of my friends…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →As long as the colonists of the principal settlements of Australia were under the idea that they possessed an untold surplus capital, or, if not a capital, a credit in Europe which would enable them to raise any sum of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR—I, as a citizen, and a resident of Pyrmont for the last fourteen years, should like te be informed if it is true that a barricade or bridge is about to be formed from the Market Wharf to Pyrmont. If it be so…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR—Truly would you appear to be in the position of the man and the ass, who, according to the fable, attempted to please everybody, if you acted as parties of opposite sentiments require. Your correspondents, in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR—Would you have the goodness to allow a small corner in your journal for the following query, which if correctly answered by any of your readers, will afford needful explanation upon a matter deeply affecting the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR—I was not a little amused by the contents of a letter which appeared in your issue of Saturday, from a correspondent who subscribes himself "A Mercantile Clerk." From the general character of his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE very important question of the medloinal effect of travelling by railway hu lately engsged the attention of the meat eminent physicians; and it ia some satisfaction to know that those who are said proverbially to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →BIR,—As far as lay in my power I have always been a strenuous advocate of railways and tramways, but I protest against the desecration of the Sabbath by the Railway Commissioners, and I beg you will use your…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR—I have read the letter signed N. N., in your issue of the 18th, and perfectly agree with him as to the necessity of keeping Sunday holy, but he does not offer any means to enable the great mass of the people to do…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Much having been said and written on the above subject, I have been induced (from the idea that the arguments used by your several correspondent have been all one-sided) to trouble you with a few remarks…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IT may be remembered that, on the occurrence of the accident by which a portion of the Parramatta Railway Tunnel at Chippendale gave way and fell in, a select committee, consisting of ten members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WE believe there are four petitions to be presented to-day to the Legislative Council in favour of the erection of this useful structure, namely, from Pyrmont, the Glebe, Sydney, and Australuian Steam Navigation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The subjoined is a copy of a petition to be presented this day to the Legislative Council, from, a number of the citizens resident at Pyrmont, who are desirous that the proposal to construct. a bridge, across the harbour,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In accordance with an Address from the Legislative Council of New South Wales, dated 17th July, 1855, praying that his Excellency Sir William Denison, would be pleased to cause to be laid upon the table…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—Your correspondent G. C, in the Herald of the 22nd, has undertaken to show good reason why the Sunday trains should not be interfered with, he argues that, if a legal enactment be not obtained to put…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →BUT for local squabbles this colony might have earned the honour of being the first to introduce into Australia that mighty modern agent of civilizition—the railway. Had the project of the Adelaide City and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE bill initiated last session to incorporate the Pyrmant Bridge Company, and referred to a select committtee, which recommended its postponement, in order that it might be more thoroughly considered, will no…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Last month it was rumoured that the Railway Commissioners intended to do away with the omnibuses, which had become a grievance, in consequence of the manner in which they were overloaded, but that…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE day following that on which our last summary for England was issued (26th September) the event of all others which will hereafter he pointed to as marking the onward progress of New South Wales took…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An extraordinary Meeting of this Company took place at the Railway offices, Geelong, on Friday last at 11 o'clook in the forenoon, to consider the undermentioned propositions, pursuant to requisitions submitted to the…
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