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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
228 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 12
Sir,—Not being a member of Parliament, or the relative of one, I am induced to crave your indulgence in allowing me to put certain questions to the Hon. Secretary for Works, instead of having them asked in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A PECULIARLY shocking murder was committed on the morning of September 3. For some time past a man named Louis Bordier, aged 35, a native of Bordeaux, and by trade a currier, has resided at No. 3, Millstead-terrece…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SINCE the Parliament determined last month to authorise the raising of a loan of £1,000,000, for the purpose of completing the lines already sanctioned, the subject of railway extension, so far as the Parliament is concerned, has been allowed to drop. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE Hon. the Colonial Treasurer, yesterday, brought in the following bill, to enable the Government to[?]aise a loan for railway purposes:— Preamble…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Preamble. Whereas it is expedient to authorise the Government to borrow the sum of one million pounds for the purpose hereinafter specified Be it therefore enacted by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Hon. the Colonial Treasurer, on Tuesday, brought in the following bill, to enable the Government to raise a loan for railway purposes :—Preamble…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hark to the sound of the starting bell, As blithely rings its warning online, The steeds have taken their first short spin And now for the battle to begin,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—The inhabitants of the country districts, and particularly those of New Sheffield, Mittagong, and Berrima, are complaining bitterly of the proposed increase of rates to be charged by the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—The time table, which was some time since published with such a flourish of trumpets as the one designed to meet the convenience of the suburban residents, and which was to last three years, and by its…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A PUBLIC meeting was held at the Royal Hotel, Sutton Forest, on Saturday, 30th November,—Mr. Henry Badgery, J.P., in the chair. The following resolutions were carried[?] —I[?] Proposed by Mr. CHARLES L. NICHOLSON, seconded…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A MEETING was held at Mr. Pike's Inn, at Eastern Creek, on 2nd instant, to take into consideration the insufficient supply of railway trucks. There were about one hundred persons present, more or less interested. The meeting was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A meeting was held at Mr. Pike's Inn, at Eastern Creek, on the 2nd instant, to take into consideration the insufficient supply of railway trucks. There were about one hundred persons present, more or less…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—Noticing in your Monday's issue a letter stating the inhabitants of the country were complaining of the increase of rates to be charged by the Government on the Great Southern Railway, I may also state the clamour is no less…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,—The new Railway Fare Table is now in operation, and from all I have been able to gather from those with whom I have conversed, is likely to give greater dissatisfaction than any table ever yet issued since the introduction of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The line of railway which has been in the course of construction for the last eighteen months over this pass, and which follows in the main the great road of the First Napoleon, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A MEETING was held at Mr. Pike's Inn, at Eastern Creek, on 2nd instant, to take into consideration the insuflicient supply of railway trucks. There were about one hundred persons present, more or less interested. The meeting was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A PUBLIC meeting was held at the Royal Hotel, Sutton Forest, on Saturday, 30th November,—Mr. Henry Badgery, J.P, in the chair. The following resolutions were carried—1. Proposed by Mr. CHARLES L. NICHOLSON, seconded…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A public meeting on the above subject was held at Penrith on the 5th instant. Mr. J. T. RYAN, M. L. A., occupied the chair, and in opening the proceedings pointed out the unreasonableness…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—Although it is a thankless and, oft times, invidious task for a private individual to put himself forward as the exponent of a public wrong, still, when an abuse becomes so monstrously and oppressively…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—The attention of the authorities is called to the state of the bridge by which the Liverpool Road crosses the Great Southern Railway, and to the prolonged sufferings of that portion of the public who have the misfortune to be…
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