Pitt-street Tramway Bill
THE following is a copy of the Bill, which Mr. Arnold yesterday gave notice of motion for leave to introduce into the legislative Assembly:â 24TH VICTORIE, 1861…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1861
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The Tramway in Pitt-street
TO THE EDITOR OF THE EMPIRE. SIR,âObserving that the Secretary for Works has given notice of the introduction of a Bill for the construction of a tramway along Pitt-street, I beg to forward you two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gundagai Bridge. To the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—I shall feel deeply obliged by your granting me space to make a few remarks on the debate arising on Mr. Macleay's recent motion for the construction of a bridge across the Murrumbidgee at Gundagai…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Great N[?]rthern Road. to the Editor of the Empire
SIR.—From time immer norial John Bull has enjoyed the glorious privilege of paying taxes, with the consolation of goumbling at them, and the the[?] hereditary trangmission of qualities is very propanly borne out in this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pyrmont Bridge Company
THE half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors of shares in the Pyrmont Bridge Company was held on the 28th January, at Lloyd's Chambers. The Hon. George Allen, Esq., presided. The following report was made by the directors, and was unanimously…
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The question of railway extension has not yet engaged the attention of the Legislature this session, but the Minister for Works has promised shortly to submit to the Assembly the Government scheme for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Models of Mr. Bell's Patented Railway
YESTERDAY a number of gentlemen interested in railway extension, attended at the new reading-room at the School of Arts. Where some models illustrating Mr. Bell's recent invention in railway construction were exhibited. Mr. Bell was present and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Banco Court. Before his Honor Mr. Justice Wise and a jury of four Bell and Another V. Commissioners for Railways
This was an action for injury done to the racehorse, Mainstay, belonging to the plaintiff, on the 1st September last, by a colliston on the Great Southern Railway, at Homebush…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Train and STREeT RAILROADS
MR. TRAIN gave a lecture on Tuesday night, at Greenwich. After a variety of amusing illustrations, many of them from his personal experience, he said in reference to these…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Management. To the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—Will it be believed in any city in the world having railway communication, excepting in Sydney, that a stranger may rove the length and breadth of the metropolis, in the vain search of finding a public…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Our Railways. To the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—In resuming the subject of our railway progress, I propose to enquire how it is that after having spent, in the last five years, the sum of two and a half millions sterling on the rail and common roads,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bell and Another V. the Commissioner of Railways
This action, brought to recover compensation for injuries sustained by the colt Mainstay on the morning of the last Champion Knee, through an accident on the Great, Southern Railway, was tried on Tuesday and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Railway Management." to the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
SIR,—Under the above heading, "Citizen" complains in your issue of this day that after trying in vain at the post and telegraph offices, neighbouring stationer's shops, and all sorts of other places, he could not obtain…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Facts
THE Times, in a leading article, suggestively puts in one view many facts as to the capital and business of the railway companies:— The capital stock of Consols is at this time about…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tramways Versus Railways. To the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—Pray allow me to say a few words on the roads, railroads, and projected tramroads. I promise to waste no time and space in depicting the dreadful state of things which now exists in this colony…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Proposed Roads and Bridges
YESTERDAY afternoon a public matting of persons interested in the construction of roads and bridges to connect the north sids of the Parramatta River, with Sydney via Glebe Island and Pyrmont, wis held at Gould's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gundagai Bridge. to the Editer of the Empire
SIR.—Having lately observed several letters in the public journals, on the subject of Mr. Maclesy's motion for the "[?]erection of a bridge over the Murrumbidge at Gundagai," I much desire to call attention to one or…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Railway Murder in France. (From the Times' Correspondent.)
M. PPINSOT, who was so barbarously murdered on We Inesday night in a firat-class carriage on the Strasburg Railway, was appointed a judge by Casimir Perie in the year 1830. At the revelution of 1848 he was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Our Railways. To The Editor of the Herald
SIR.—It is very desirable that the public in general and members of Parliament in particular, should be acquained with the cost of construction and actual worthing of the railways in New South Wales…
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A MEETING of freeholders and others interested in the carrying out of the tramway down Pitt-street was held yesterday afternoon, at the Metropolitan Hotel, for the purpose of taking steps to oppose that measure. About fifty…
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