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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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YESTERDAY morning, a deputation appointed at a meeting held last week at Redfern with reference to the removal of the Botany Road toll-bar, waited upon the Minister for Lands. The following gentlemen constituted the deputation:—Mr. Alderman…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR—Your list act has been to discharge nearly all the road overseers employed on the roads of the oolony. I think you ought to have paused are you took this step, as great cantlon required to be exercised in so important [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ON Tuesday morning, a deputation appointed at a meeting held last week at Redfern with reference to the removal of the Botany Road toll-bar, waited upon the Minister for Lands. The following gentlemen constituted the deputation:—Mr. Alderman…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. G[?] asked the Secretary for Public Works —1. Have the Government any objection to lay on the table of this House, a copy of the memorials, petitions, or other correspondence, if any, which have led to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—You are, perhaps, unaware, although you ought to know that the lata road overseers, dismissed by you without a day's notice, were obliged, on their appoint, ment, to find two draught horses and travelling cart,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR.—Allow me the privilege, as a friend of the working man, and an old subscriber of your valuable paper, to say that I was never more surprised in my life, when at a meeting of the unemployed on the Racecourse several…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A PUBLIO meeting was held last evening at the Hall of Temperance, for the purpose of showing the grievous privations endured by the workmen on the Great Southern and Western Railways. About one hundred and fifty…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR—The late Ministerial [?], the new tariff, and the financial def[?] and how to meet it, have during the past two month[?] so thoroughly monopolised the attention of the Legislature and the country, that other public matters[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—From the very condensed report of the meeting held at the Temperance Hall, some f[?]couracies have crept in, and I beg leave to correct them, as they would be very injurious to my character were I [?] [?]t them pass unnoticed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—In the ventilation of the queation of railway contracts, the main question on which hangs the whole structure, has not, I conceive, baen brought forward, and that is the absolute necessity ofreceiving cash security from small…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR,—From the very condensed report of the meeting held at the Temperance Hall, some inaccuracies have crept in, and I beg leave to correct them, as they would be very injurious to my character were I to let them paas unnoticed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A PUBLIC meeting was held on Tuesday at the Hall of Temperance, for the purpose of showing the grievous privations endured by the workmen on the Great southern and Western Railways. About one hundred and fifty…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—We beg to say that we adhere to our former tender, sent in on the 2nd December, 1862, for leasing the Great Southern and Western Lines of Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—We hereby offer to amend our tender sent in for leasing the Great Northern Railway on the 2nd December, 1869, and instead of the sum of £905 (nine hundred and five pounds), we offer the sum of £1100…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following are the material portions of a return to an order made by the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, dated 28th July, 1863—That there be laid upon the table of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—We do hereby propose to lease the Great Northern Railway from Newcastle to Singleton, a distence of forty-nine miles, and from East Maitland to Morpeth, a distance of two and a half miles; together with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—We do hereby propose to lease the Great Southern and Western railways of, New South Wales, from Sydney to Ploton, a distance of fifty-four miles, and from the junction at Parrsmatta to Penrith, a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—I hereby tendor for, leasing the Southern and Westurn Railways, rolling stock, machinery, tools, workshops, goods, sheds, stations, and all buildings and other property appertaining thereto. In conformity…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—I beg to tender for leasing the entire of the lines of Government 'Railways, as per Government Gazette of 30th April, 1861, and July 18th, 1862, taking upon myself the entire responsibilities therein specified;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—We do here by propose to lease the Great Southern and Western Railways of New South Wales, from Sydney to Picton, a distence of fifty-four miles, and from the junction at Parramaita to Penrith, a distance of twenty…
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