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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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Yesterday, at two p.m., the Commission appointed to Inquire into the late explosion met, purauant to adjournment, in the reading-room of the Exchange. Mr. Spain, attorney for Wolfen and Co., said: Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE final meeting of the three special commissioners—the Hon. A. Campbell, Professor Smith, and Captain M'Lerie—to take evidence relative to the recent explosion in Bridge-street, was held on Thursday afternoon in the Reading-room…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A COMMISSION, consisting of the Hon. Alexander Campbell, M.L.C.; Professor Smith, of the Sydney University; and Captain M'Lerie, Inspector-General of Police, commenced an inquiry, on Friday, 9th instant, into the cause…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ordered by the Legislative Assembly to be printed, 20th March 1866. Colonial Secretary to Board of Inquiry Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, 9th March, 1866…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →AN elaborate report on the railways of the colony has just been presented to Parliament by Mr. RAE, the present Commissioner for Railways. When Captain MARTINDALE was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THERE is very little of importance to chronicle in regard to the extensions of our trunk lines of railways this month. The three extensions are being carried out as fast as the nature of the country through which the lines will pass will…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Gentlemen—I have the honour to inform you that, at a meeting of the Executive Council, held this day, you were appointed a Board to inquire into the origin and causes of the explosion the occurred in certain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →So rapidly has the Arconum to Conjeveram Tramway been constructed, that it is probable many of our readers in this Presidency, and all of those in Bengal and Bombay, are ignorant of the fact that the pioneer line of the Indian Tramway Company is now…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SUBJOINED are extracts furnished by Mr. Fitzgibbon with reference to the working in Norway and India of the narrow gauge adopted in Queensland. The Norwegian Government have constructed, and have in full…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,—My attention has been directed to a statement made in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly by the Hon. James Byrnes, Secretary for Public Works in your colony, reflecting in no measured terms, upon the narrow gauge system of railways…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. LUCAS recently asked the Secretary for Works "whether it is the intention of the Government to carry out the resolution of the House arrived at as far back as 1863, in reference to Members of Parliament 'riding on a railway car' for nothing." Mr. Byrnes's reply was to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →GENTLEMEN,— I have the honour to inform you that, at a meeting of the Executive Council, held this day, you vere appointed a beard to inquire into the origin and causes of the explosion that occurred in certain buildings in Bridge-street, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,—My last lotter has been honoured, it seems, with the perusal and attention of your correspondent "Sydney", and in consequence be has thought proper tofavour the public with another epistle in which he…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Knowing that your columns are always open to a fair and impartial exposition of public opinion, I am confident you will readily grant me room for the following remarks. You will casily perceive news paper correspondence is not in my line;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE select committee of the Legislative Assembly appointed by ballot on the 28th of November last "to consider and report upon the experiment of the tramway along Pittstreet, and the expediency of continuing or removing the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The select committee of the Legislative Assembly appointed by ballot on the 28th of November last "to consider ami report upon the experiment of the tramway along Pittstreet, and the expediency of continuing or removing the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →On Monday night the mail-coach from Campbelltown to Wollongong, and also the mail-coach from Wollongong to Campbelltown, were both stuck-up at the Louden River station on the Wollongong Road, by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →As the road to "poor farming" is not generally understood, although it is crowded with travellers, we throw up the following landmarks form the Springfield Republica, for the common benefit:…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MR. PUNCH congratulates the city and the country that one of the most unmitigated nuisances of Sydney has been effectually suppressed. The legislature of the country has resolved upon taking up the tramway in Pitt-street. One of our leading thoroughfares will be no longer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lucern may be considered as the head of the Alpine line proposed to connect Switzer-land and Italy by way of the celebrated Mount Saint Gothardr. It is at Lucern that…
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