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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
233 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 12
SIR,—In your contemporary of yesterday there is an article on railway contractors, I have lately become one of that unfortunate and moch mallgned class known as a small railway contractor. Having some pretensions to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,âIn the Herald of to-day there is an article on railways and railway contractors. Lately I have become one of that unfortunate and much maligned class known as small railway contractors. Having some pretensions to honesty and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →1, No person will be allowed to take his seat in or upon any of the railway carriages, or travel upon the railway, without having first paid his fare, and even passenger on paying his fare will be furnished with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR.—In your report of the speech addressed by Mr. Geoffrey Esgar to the citizens of West Sydney, at the Masonic Hall, on Wednesday last, it is stated that he made use of the following expressions in reference to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →I. No person will be allowed to take his sest in or upon any of the railway carriages, or travel upon the railway, without having first paid his fars, and every passenger on paying his fare will be furnished with a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,—In your issue of this day (28th October) is published the new regulations and railway rates, to take effect from the 1st November next. Judge of my surprise when applying for a season ticket (twelve months) to the station…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—Having had my attention called to your remarks on Mr. Watkins' letter in yesterday's Herald, wherein you state positively that "he alone of the contractors" now engaged by the Railway Department is executing his contract…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—I was surprised to see your editorial remarks on Mr. Wa[?]ns' very sensible, though somewhat egotistical, letter on railway contracters in general and himself in particular; and, as from what has come under my own obsrvation, I…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR—With further reterence to the unconbted ability of resident conractors to constrant railways or any other publice works required in this colony—a snbject upon which I yesterday addressed you at some length—may I…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On Tuesday morning last, about half-past ten o'clock, an encounter with a highwayman on the Northern Boad, about three miles from Uralla, occurred, which, while it lasted, was quite equal to the late affray at the Camp…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →RETURN to an order made by the honorable the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, dated 4th August, 1863, that there be laid upon the table of this House— "A tabular return specifying— (1,) The names of all…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →RETURN to an order made by the honorable the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, dated 4th August, 1863, that there be laid upon the table of this House a tabular return, specifying:…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A MEETING of the shareholders of the Botany Railway Company was held at the rooms of Messrs. Richardson and Wrench yesterday afternoon "for the purpose of considering the advisability of dissolving or carrying on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →YESTERDAY morning, a deputation, consisting of Mr. Leary, M.L.A., Mr. Close, M.L.A.; Mr. Laukey, M.L.A.; Mr. Bell, M.L.A.; Mr. Lu[?]s, M.L.A., Mr. Rap[?]r, M.L.A.; Mr. M'Curtayne, ard Mr. W. Randle, waited…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A NELTING of the shareholders of the Botany Railway Company was held at the rooms of Messrs, Richardson and Wrench, on Thursday, "for the purpose of considering the advisability of dissolving of carrying on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE recent Ministerial changes have had the effect of further postponing the settlement by Parliament of the question as to the manner in which our raliway extensions are to be carried out, and there is at present little prospect…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ON the 13th instant. a deputation. consisting of Mr. Leary. M.L.A.; Mr. Close, M.L.A.; Mr. Lackey. M.L.A.; Mr. Bell, M.L.A.; Mr. Lucas, M.L.A.; Mr. Raper, M.L.A.; Mr. M'Curtayne, and Mr. W. Randle, waited…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I perceivs, by the summary in the morning Herald, that Messrr. P[?]to and Co.'s. agents have sent in a tender for executing forty miles of railway on the Great Sonthern line, up to Goulburn, for a lump sum…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—As you have been kind enough to publish in your valuable columns the report of a public meeting held in the Court-house, Hartley, in April last, on the subject of the extension of the Western line…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—From a paragraph which appears in the Herald of the 26th November 1ss it would seem that the present Government intend to support the proposal for giving the contracts for fature railway extension to Messrs…
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