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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
196 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 10
SIR—It has been by the free and full discussion of all questions regarding the moral, social, and material improvement of communities, that decided progress has been made in the true knowledge of these subjects. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A MEETING was held one Thuesday,,12th instant, at Mr. Thomas Breman's, White Horse Hotel, Narrellan, for the purpose of petitioning the Government to establish a branch line of railway from the main line to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR—Knowing your readiness to expose any public nuisances, I beg to request the favour of your inserting, in your widely circulated journal, the following particulars…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An accident of a very painful nature occurred on Friday afternoon last, on the line of railway, near Liverpool, resulting in the death of a labourer named Daniel Murphy, and in personal injury, more or less serious, to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SOFALA, August 7th.—As there is no royal road to learning, so is there none to the gold-fields. We must begin at the beginning, and take care we don't stick in the middle, lest we come to an untimely end, if,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A public meeting was held on Tuesday, the 12th instant, at Mr. Thomas Brennan's, White Horse Hotel, Narrellan, for the purpose of petitioning the Government, to establish a branch line of railway from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—At a meeting of the Philosophical Society of New South Wales, held in the course of the present month, a paper was read by Mr. Pennington on the means of constructing railways, and in the course of his remarks,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR—The inhabitants of St, Mary's and Rope's Creek are perfectly content to allow the personalities and senseless sarcasms of the " Voice from Penrith," in the Empire of the 7th instant, to pass unnoticed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—Permit me to avail myself of the publicity your journal affords to call the attention of the Government to the state of the Clyde Road. Of the vital importance to the Southern districts, of its completion, I…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →This was an action of ejectment, for a house and allotment of land in Clarence-street. Mr. Isaacs appeared for the plain tiffs; and Mr. Broadhurst and Mr. Dalley for the defendant…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Monday afternoon a meeting of the inhabitants of the County of Argyle, convened by the Returning Officer (F. R. L. Rossi), was held in the Court-house, for the purpose of expressing the opinions of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—Most men in taking up their pen in reply, are actuated by adverse feelings. I do so to second the very sensible letter of "Portorius," that appeared in your publication of the 7th instant, in support of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On Monday afternoon a meeting of the inhabitants of the County of Argyle, convened by the Returning Officer (F. R. L. Rossi, Esq.), was held in the Court-house, for the purpose of expressing the opinions of the district on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An inquest was held, on Saturday last, before the Coroner, Mr. C. B. Lyons, on view of the body of Daniel Murphy, who met his death on the Railway line, on the previous day. A man named Joseph Hepper, was in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A public meeting was held on Thursday last, at the Armidale Court-house, at two p.m., fer the purpose of taking into consideration the report of the Short Road Committee, appointed in May last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A public meeting was held ou Thursday last, at the Armidale Court-house, at two p.m., for the purpose of taking into consideration the report or the Short Road Committee, appointed in May last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Once more I beg to intrude on the space you have deemed my observations worthy of occupying in your columns, and on this occasion I propose to accept the controversy on the conditions and bases of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A GREAT deal has been of late written and spoken with reference to the Murray Railway; we, therefore, by way of variety, invite the attention of our readers to the present position of the tramway question. We…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Florence Nightingale bringa a report that a terrible railroad accident had occurred at Panama, by which upwards of a hundred lives were lost and a great number wounded, the catastrophe having been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—You mention in the leading article a few days ago your inability to lay your hands "upon any letter in which cheap railways will prove failures." The enclosed letter on the subject of cheap railways…
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