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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
282 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 15
SIR—In a letter that appeared months ago in the Empire, headed as above, I attempted to draw the attention of the railway officals to one of the many instances of annoyance to which parties, especially…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Willshire magistrates appear to participate in the opinion of the public that so terrible a mystery as the murder at Road must never be given up as inscrutable. It concerns us all that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →If the late Edgar Poc had sat down to invent a tale of mystery, he could not have imagined anything more strange and perplexing than the child murder, which for the last nine months has occupied the attention of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—In coming down the Southern road last week, I was struck with the absurd way in which the Government is proceeding in making the roads; the specifications for metalling are for fifteen feet only in…
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Continued on Trove, page 4 →MURDER undiscovered is like, a load on the public conscience, which cannot find relief until the perpetrators of it are discovered and brought to justice. Until this is done inquiry will not…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FURTHER DISOLOBURNES.—Frome, Sunday Evening. November 25th. —Some further details of an important character have come out in connection with this crime within the last two or three days, which it is confidently…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →One of the evils of a high.degree of civilisation is the power and knowledge it gives to vice and the greater consequent struggle,in the "battle of life"between bad and good:Murders have become so rife among…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A MEETING was held last evening at the Juvenile Temperance Hall, Francis street. for the purpose of considering a petition to the Legislative Assembly against railway traff[?] on the Lord's Day. The chair was taken by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE office of Commissioner far Railways vacated by the departure last week of Captain Martindale is now held by Mr. John R[?]e, who also fills the office of "UnderSecretary for Public Works. Although the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ON Friday last, the honorable the Speaker, accompanied by Messrs. O'Brien, Mate, Moriarty, Wilson, Walsh, and 'Morrice, mombers of the Assembly; Captain Howell, Messrs. W. Davis, A.Cunningham, N. S.Powell, Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the troops has much pleasure in publishing the following congratulatory address of his Excellency the Governor-General to the Volunteer forces of New South Wales,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WE may congratulate the Wallsend company on the completion of this their line of railway. and the public —as railway proprietors—on the addition of this valuable auxiliary to the grand trunk line—the Great…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE half-yearly general meeting of the proprators of shares in the Pyrmont Bridge Company was held this day at Lloyd's Chambers. The Honorable George Allen, Esq., presided. The following report was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IT is a curious illustration of the occasional obliquity in the operation of our law that the Attorney General was driven to a purely technical reason for re-opening the inquisition…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE have to record a sad incident in the history of the public works of this district. On Monday evening last Mr. William Chambers Williams, a member of the firm of Pugh and Co. the Government contractors for making…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—adressed you some weeks [?] on the subject of railways,'Ba[?]tanad the impressedin that could throw say great light upon the stta[?]tion, but with the hops that some more ta[?]tapetent person would take up my saleulations point out that[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—In common with many of our townspeople, I have read with disappointment in your issue of the 30th January, that we are to have no bridge over tho Murrumbidgee here. I am not sure that [?]r disappointment exceeds our amusement at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—About the early part of 1856 our railways and their further progress seemed in some danger of suffering a collapee. Their denouncement in an onslaught by a very distinguished professor had arrested the attention of the general public, while…
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