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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
162 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 9
SiR,—Can you inform me the reason why the Government do not repair the main roads when the weather is fine, instead of bustling about them when the weather is wet, and when we are going knee deep, and our drays…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—The Minister for Works has taken so much pains to render the abattoirs, and all matters cannected therewith, so thoroughly oppressive and tyrannical that I must again beg permission to use your…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—The news that reached us six months ago, of the Legislative Assembly having passed the sum put on the Estimates by Government, viz., six thousand pounds (£6000), for the erection of a bridge across…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Seeing that £300 is to be spent between Campbelltown and Menangle, and £300 between Menangle and Picton, for the repairs of the so-called roads, what I want to know is, into whose hands is this…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE Select Committee of the Legislative Assembly, appointed on the 20th November last, " to inquire into and report upon the circumstances connected with the resignation of Mr. Quodling, late Inspector of Roads in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Permit me, through the columns of your valueble and widely-circulated paper, to ask you, or any of your numerous readers, if you or any of them can kindly inform me, when the Railway contractors, or Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DRAFT PROGRESS REPORT, AS CORRECTED AND ADOPTED. THE select committee of the Legislative Assembly, appointed on the 26th November last, "to inquire into and report upon the circumstances connected with the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A PEW days after our last monthly Summary was issued the Pitt-street tramway was opened for traffic, and having now a month's experience of its working, we are enabled to report as to the result of the experiment. Its oparation was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →DURING the past month a portion of the Great Western extension, contracted for by Sir M. Poto and Co., has been opened for traffic. The first port of the line between Blacktown and Penrith having been for some time in a forward…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—To describe this pass is impossible. It must be seen to be understood; and to any person who thinks himself devoid of feeling, let him drive gently over it in my whitechapel, and he will soon find his mistake…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IN all the splendour of Aladdin's palace the Magician could suggest something which was wanting to its perfection, and could render its owner inquisitive and supremely uncomfortable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ADVERTING to the recently published project of Mr. James Chslmers, for connecting England and France by what he calls a "Channel Railway," the Times of 9th November remarks:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—I am aware that for years past a large sum of money has been exponded by Government in employing men under a commissioner, to try te recever the naked sand hills near Sydney, in the vicinity of the western side of the Military…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders took place yesterday, at the Company's Office, on the Pyrmont Bridge, when the following report was unanimously adopted. The Twelfth Half-yearly Report by the Directors of the Pyrmont…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →I HAVE just witnessed two brilliant victories obtained for the benefit of the Italian cause, and these are the achievements, not of regular troops or volunteers, but of warriors with the pickaxe…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Monday last, Mr. John Lucas. M.L.A., opened the now bridge which has been constructed over Black Creek, on the Rocky Point Road—a work very much required in that locality, it being hitherto quite impossible to effect a passage…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An ordinary meeting of the shareholders of the [?]land and Morpeth Railway Company was held on Monday afternoon, at the Company's offices Morpeth, [?] to advertisement…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders took place on the 10th instant, at the Company's offices, on the Pyrmont Bridge, when the following report was unanimously adopted:—…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →WE have pleasure in recording the indications of the approaching completion of the three railway extensions contracted for by Sir M. Peto and Co. Last month we reported the opening of a portion of the Western line as far…
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