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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
215 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 11
A DEPUTATION, appointed at a public meeting held at Wollongong last week with reference to a proposed railway from Bulli to Wollongong, waited on Tuesday morning on the Minister for Works, for the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A CONTINUANCE of fine weather during the past month has enabled the works upon the railway extensions to be carried on without much interruption. The works on some of the contracts are extremely heavy, and the progress…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway communication between Melbourne and the Murray was suscessfully accomplished on saturday last, and the journey from the southern to the northern boundery of Victoria has become but a six or seven hours…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MY own name is a very common one, and would afford as little satisfaction to the reader in the way of identity as did that of a certain hospitable stranger whom I once met with in a railway…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →YESTERDAY the official inspection of the branch line of railway from Blacktown to Richmond took place, preperatory to the formal opening of the line to the public. By the nine o'clock train the Hon, Arthur Todd Hoiroyd,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ENQUIRIES having been made as to when tenders will be called for the remaining portions of the railway extensions that have been approved of by Parliament, we have satisfaction in stating that contracts on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Minister for Works was yesterday morning waited upon by several gentlemen residents of connected with the Clarence and New England districts, for the purpose of presenting petitions from the above…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Government has just bestowed on Sir Rowland Hill a substantial acknowledgment of his services in improving the postal system of this country, in the shape of a grant of £20,000, in addition to his retiring…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—I must beg permission fer the insertion in jour journal of a few remarks, touching the notice given in the Herald of 30th ultimo, respecting the intended doings of our railway officiats, if they can only get the money…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE Minister for Works was on Tuesday morning waited upon by several gentlemen residents of or connected with the Clarence and New England districts, for the purpose of presenting petitions from the above…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR.—I will feel obliged by our inserting the following; —I enclose my card, as "a guarantee of goodfaith." I wish to follow up the remarks of your correspondent in this day's Empire, about the bridge promised for West…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE number of crimes which have recently been committed in railway carriages is beginning very naturally to alarm the public; the more so that there is an obvious roason why men who are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →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 undermentioned By-laws, made by the Commissioner for Railways,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Monday evening last a public meeting was held on the Square, opposite the Hoyal Hotel, for the purpose of agitating the question of a Railway to the west. The weather was exceedingly boisterous, being very cold and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →OUR engraving represents the scene of the opening skirmish in the Border Customs war—a battle, fortunately, of words only. The Bridge is the property of Mr. Hopewood, the well known proprietor of the hotel bearing his name, situated on the banks…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →ON the afternoon of the 21st of August a special report was received from Inspeetor Tanner, the chief of the detective police at Scotland-yard, London, stating that he bad safely arrived by the City of Manchester steamer at New York, in company with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—It seems to be generally admitted that the pregress of railway extension, in New South Welge, is very slow indced, and one portion, which has occupied a long time is the branch from the Great Western Line, and bearing…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →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 8 →ON the afternoon of the first of August a special report was received from Inspector Tanner, the chief of the detective police at Scotland-yard, London, stating that he had safely arrived by the City of Manchester steamer at New York, in company with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →" WHITE passing time has almost caused the Waterloo Bridge mystery to be forgotten, even on the immediate scene of i's occurrence, information has gradually been collected at a place distant from it by thousands…
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