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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
442 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 23
[?] of Mr. Hordern in your issue of yesterday is causing considerable amusement. Most people ask, has that gentleman been asleep, like Rip Van Winkle, during the inst few years and so, become, as it appears, quite [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—As one considerably interested commercially and the owner of valuable freehold property at the southern end of the city, I wish to raise my voice against the expenditure of public money for railway extension further into the city,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Surely Mr. Hordern cannot be serious in his opposition to city railway extension, or why does he give such reasons as are a source of amusement to everyone else? For instance, can it be urged as an argument that,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In this paper I propose to call attention to what has been done in America, in the way of improve monts in methods and processes of miningâin the improved apparatus and appliances employedâto give data…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →THE South Australian Chronicle reports that on Monday afternoon, May 31, Mr. J. Harvey, J.P., held en inquest at Salisbury, on the body of a man named Henry Burnett, or Barnett, which had bean found on…
Continued on Trove, page 757 →SIR,—Having had my attention called to Mr. Hordarn's letter on railway extention, by two letters in to-day's paper, I beg to offer a few suggestions on the subject like Mr. Hordern, I object to the proposed extension,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE hydraulic motor represented in our illustration is intended to run one or more sewing machines, or other light machinery, and may be used in any house provided with a regular water supply. The apparatus…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN CHRONICLE reports an inquest on the body of a man named Henry Burnett, or Barnett, which had been found on the north line of the railway. The jury, laving been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—In your issue of to-day is a paragraph informing the public that the report of the Board upon the railway bars supplied by the Park Gate Ironworks was that the rails were of very inferior quality, and that if they were laid…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following extracts from the reports of two great English railway companies will be instructive and encouraging as regards railway construction in this colony:—…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →DURING the past week the frightful state of the roads has been such as to interrupt the usual regularity of the mails from Orange and Forbes. The mails from the latter, which were due on Sunday, did not arrive until Monday evening,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An officer of the Railway department is making surveys and taking levels in the streets of Sydney along the proposed route for the railway from Bedfern to the corner of Castlereagh-street. By extending the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tickets at a single fare will be issued on SATURDAY, the 19th instant, from all Stations beyond Parramatta and Parramatta Junction to Sydney; and, on the 21st and 24th instant from all Stations to Sydney; available for return…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I have seen a great many letters on the above subject, but not one of them, in my opinion, touches on the best and most economical or direct. I have had it in my mind for years. It should start from the present terminus…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN CHRONICLE reporta an inquest on the body of a man named Henry Burnett, or Barnett, which had been found on the north line of the railway. The jury, having been…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →SIR,—It is, I think, a realized fact that during the past year or so an instinctive desire has been awakened in a large proportion of the dwellers in this rapidly-increasing metropolis for the enjoyment of a purer and more bracing…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MR. J. F. Wakely, of Newtown, offers the following suggestions for the extension of the railway into the city of Sydney. They are accempanied by a plan showing the proposed route. Mr. Wakaly says:—…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →NOTICE is hereby given that on and after the 24th instant all Firawood for Sydney and Redfern will be delivered at Darline Harbour. TO LEMON GROWERS, &c.—TENDERS required…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tickets at a single fare will be issued on SATURDAY, the 19th instant, from all Stations beyond Parramatts and Parranatta Junetion to Sydney; and, on the, 21st and 24th instant from all Stations to Sydney; available for return…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I REACHED the little Welsh town of Abermaw one boisterous afternoon in autumn at about four o'clock, after a long tramp over the mountains. Abermaw, as its name implies, is situated at the mouth of the river Maw, which, here forms…
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