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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
209 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 11
THE criminal class seems within the last week or two to have been bent on driving to an extreme the question,— whether crime can be traced to an absolute turpitude in human nature which must be driven out by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR,—on Monday weak I broke one of the springs of my [?] [?]pel [?] on passing the cut on the parramatta Road, opposite the Univ[?]—300 yards from the city[?] The morning I had two [?]nearly farmed off [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IT was stated a few days since in our Parliameo[?]y report, that the Minister for Works had laid on the table of the Assembly the plan and sections of the line's surveyed for the extension of the three…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE autumn excursion sea[?] rarely passes over without a batuh of serious railway [?]ccidents. But we have [?]eldom to record one in all respects so disestrous, accopanied with such a sacrifice of life, and such extensive,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SOME time back we gave an illustration of a steam-carriage which was driven from Buckingham to Windsor Castle. A similar one has been been for the Earl of Caithness, with which his lordship, accompanied by Lady…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →POPULAR histories of England always expatiate with pecnliar emphasis on, the.discoveries or inventions assignable to particular eras, and perhaps there are no passages in such…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SOME time back we gave an illustration (of a steam-carriage which was driven from Buckingham to Windsor Castle. A similar one has been built for the Earl of Caithnest, with which his lordship. accompanied Lady…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Southern districts lying between the coast and the great dividing range have again been visited by a flood scarcely less disastrous in its consequences than the floods of April and July, For same days past, as our…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Sir,—In reply to your note of this morning— inquiring of me whether the land was ever taken up before survey in New Zealand, and whether any inconvenience arose from the same—I beg to inform you…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ALTHOUGH the question of railway extension is, as far as regards its consideration by the Legislature, at present in abeyance, owing to the dissolution of the Assembly, the necessity for the adoption of some…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE following are some details of the plans of the proposed extensions of the three trunk lines of railway to Goulburn, to Bathurst, and to Muswellbrook, recently submitted to Parliament:—…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →SIR—I seen a paragraph in your paper of this day's issue, stating that "one-third of the piles of this structure were driven." Now, Sir, I passed the work in question last evening, and the number of piles driven were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following are some details of the plans of the proposed extensions of the three trunk lines of railway to Goulburn, to Bathurst, and to Muswellbrook, recently submitted to Parliament:-…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Having lately travelled from G.u burn to Cowra. I am therefore in a position to give my opinion on the better of the two roads from Reid's Flat to Cowrs. As the road from Goulburn to Reid's Flat on the Lachlan is…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. LUCAS addressed a meeting of the electors of the district of Canterbury, last evening, at the Waterloo, Retreat Inn, Botany.road. Owing to several other meetings taking place the same evening in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SRI,—Allow me to point the attention of the Woollahra Municipal Council to what appears a most extraordinary infringement upon the path way of the turnpike road in Rushcutter's Bay. A brick two-roomed house is being run up and somes to where the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Will you be good enough to allow me through the medium of your journal, to draw the attention of the police or other authorities, to the reckless and dangerous manner in which the carease butchers drive their carts over the Pyrmont Bridge,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—It is almost useless to try and stir to activity the sleepy, indifferent, or helpless powers that be, to put in repair our main southern road, and to fit it for the heavy traffic it is required to bear. But the road is now in such…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Within the last fortnight Birkenhead has been the scene of an interesting and important event, illustrative of the progress of modern locomotion—namely, the inauguration of the first street…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This was an application moved by Mr. Windeyer, for a prohibition to restrain the Commissioners of the Campbelltown Road Trust from cutting down growing timber on the applicant's land. The facts were these:—…
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