Pyrmont Bridge Company
THE seventeenth half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders of this company was held yesterday, the Hon. George Allen in the chair. REPORT…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1864
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A Main Road to Tenterfield. (From the Clarence and Richmond Examiner.)
THE adjourned public meeting, to petition the Government for a grant for a main line of road from Grafton to Tenterfield, was held at the School of Arts on Tuesday evening last. At the hour named for the…
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His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has been pleased in pursuance of the Act of Parliament, 22 Vict., No. 19. to declare and determine that the following Rates shall be collected on the Great…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Victorian Railways. (From the Yeoman and Acclimatiser, July 23.)
THE report of the Board of Land and Works relative to the Victorian Railways for the year ending December 31, 1863, presents a more favourable state of things than we had…
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SIR,—Cetain trustees—to wit, three megistrates—have been appointed to superintend the money grants for no dess than three [?]rosds here—the Braldwood [?]oad, as fer as the Nerriga river, the Uliadulla road, as far as…
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A DEPUTATION, appointed at a public meeting held at Grafton on the 19th ultimo, to petition the Government for a grant for a main "ne of road from Grafton to Tenterfield, waited yesterday…
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A DEPUTATION, appointed at a public meeting held at Grafton on the 19th ultimo, to petition the Government for a grant for a main line of road from Grafton to Tenterfield, waited on Wednesday…
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We beg to direct the attention of railway travellers in general, and drowsy ones in particular, to the Government Gazette has just announced the astounding intlligence that Government have accepted a "tender for cutting…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road Through the Old Burial Ground to the Editor of the Empire
SIR,—The subject above named is one on which much has been said, but which, of late, has evidently been forgotten, [?]lthough of every practial importance, The original design was to connect Clarence-street with the…
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His Excellency the Governor, with the adivce of the Executive Conncil, has been pleased in pursuance of the Act of Parliament, 22 vict., No., 19, to declare and determine that the following Rates shall be collected on the Great…
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TENDERS were on the 16th instant received for o[?] No. 3, on the Great Northern Extention,âa length of fifteen miles, continu[?] the railway from Liddell to Muswellbrook. Six tenders were sent in, and the lowest was that…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tram Car Irregularities. to the Editor of the Empire
SIR.—I have been to frequently inconvenienced by the irr[?] of the [?] at I shall feel obliged by your allowing me, through your columns, to call the attention of the contractor to the subject. The evil must be…
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TENDERS were on the 16th instant received for contrac No. 3, on the Great Northem Extension,—a length of fifteen miles, continuing the railway from Liddell to Muswellbrook. Six tenders were sent in, and the lowest was that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Nathan Rothschild. (From the Railway News, June 13.)
**** After the battle of Waterloo, the career of Nathan was eminently prosperous. He made money even in speculations that turned out bad, such as the English loan of twelve millions, for which he became…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On the Road to Siberia. (From the European Times, June 13.)
THE following is an extract from a letter which has been received by the relations of a young Polish gentleman who has been banished to Siberia by the Russians:—…
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A FEARFUL accident occurrel last night on the Smith Western Railway. One of the trains returning from the Ascot races heavily laden with holiday makers, ran into another train at the Egham station, destroying two…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Railway Department Again—more Mistakes and Loss to the Colony. to the Editor of the Empire
SIR,—Having great regard for truth and justice in every sense of the word; and knowing your willingness to up hold the same and give publicity to any wrongs that have been committed, has induced me to ask for a small space…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Payment of Railway Labourers on the Great Southern Railway. to Th Honorable Arthur Todd Holroyd. Per Favour of the Empire
SIR.âIt is now eleven months sinee Randle and Gibbon failed in their contract on this line, and seven months since the Legislative Assembly voted the sum of £1514 to the workmen on sesount of the ten per cent,…
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THE career of Nathan, after the battle of waterloe, continued to be emiuently prosperous. He mede money even in speculations that turned out bad, such as the English loaz, of twelve millions, for which he became…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wayside Wa[?]fs on the Road to the West. W. I. and Pacific Steamship Boli[?] At Sea, April 18th, 1864
IN [?] N., longitute 27·30 W., on a calm evening, I perceived several small speeks on the water on either bow and ahead. In a few minute the ship was up with two of them, and as they turned over in the ripple from the ship's bow I saw they were…
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