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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
215 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 11
THE wisdom of allowing railway companies to regulate their lines as they please, without insisting, at least, upon obvious precautions for the safety of the public, has been again illustrated by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TENDERS were three weeks since called for contract No. 7 on the Great Southern extension, which will carry the railway into the town of Goulburn. The length of the line will be twenty-six miles twenty-seven chains, and it is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The police authorities are stil making investigations with a few to the clearing up of various obscure points connected with the robbery and murder of Mr Thomas Briggs, on the might of the 9th of July, on the North…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—I am directed by the Engineer-In-Chief to forward to you the enclosed mape of the counties of Brisbane, Bligh, Wellington, Durham, and Phillip; and to request that you will examine the country, with a view to the construction of horse railways…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—Among the by-laws, of which a copy is posted at every station, there is one to the effect that smoking will on [?] account be allowed in other carriages than such as are set apart for that pnrpose, &c., &c. But this regulation is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AMONG plants useful to man, some have virtues that require a good deal of industry and experience to find out and apply; for that which is quite a serious fault in a plant for one purpose may, by judicious…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN the Legislative Assembly yesterday Mr. Dalgleinh asked the Secretary for Works the following questions, which were replied to by Mr. Wileon:- 1. When Captain Galton gave up the commission for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR—I am not a crotchetty man, and therefore not over sensitive to the frailties of mankind; but I feet boned to complain of one or two abuses which came under my satin; while travelling on the Western line on Saturday last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR.—It has occurred to me that perhaps the liberal offer mady by the Government of South Australia, with the view of promoting railway extension, may induce some of the ca[?]talists of New South Wales, or other…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—On reading the observations which appeared in to-day's Herald, in reference to railway extension, it occurred to me that perhaps the liberal offer made by the Government of South Australia with the view of promoting the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A MORNING contemporery publishes a letter, signed "George Irwin," and dated "Serpentine Avenue, Dublin, August 9th," in wich an attempt to made to clear up…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →FRANCIS MULLER was arrested at New York, on August 24, on the arrival there of the Victoria. What his chances of escape might have been had he sailed from Liverpool and met with favourable winds it is needless to discuss. Both…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—As I have been informed by several mersbants and other persons, who take an interest in the question of the importation of rails, that it would be more sadefactory to have a comparison of an invoice of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has been pleased, in pursuance of the Act of Parliament 22 Victoria, No. 19, to approve of the under. mentioned By laws, made by the Commissioner for Railways…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE following paper has been issued in Launceston, by the league for the promotion of a railway in Northern Tasmania. NORTHERN RAILWAY LEAGUE PAPERS. "[?] with truly—There are three things which make a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—On the 29th December, 1863, Mr. John Whitton, the Engineer-in-Chief for Railways, made this answer to a question put to him by myself as a member of the select committee on the disorganised state of his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FRANCIS MULLER was arrested at New York, on August 24, on the arrival there of the Victoria. What his chances of es[?]pe might have been had he sailed from Liverpool and met with favourable winds it is needless to discuss. Both…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE statistics of the Mint for 1863 shew that the operations for the year consisted in the reception and reissue of 493,332 ounces of gold of the value of £1,908,526. Four-fifths…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE Government have accepted the tender of Messrs. Cain and Bloomfield for Contract No. 7 on the Great Southern extension. This line will be twenty-six miles twenty-seven chains in length, and will carry…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE special correspondent of the Spectator. at New York, writes at some length advocating the adoption; of the American system of aaloon carriages as the best means of security against the outrages which have been recently…
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