Bridge From Sydney to North Shore. to the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 April 1878 · page 5
SIR,—The want of a bridge across the harbour, to connect the North Shore with Sydney, is admitted by all. If the whole of the North Shore were to be created by law into one large Borough, of not less area than from eighty to one…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 April 1878 · page 5
SIR,—When I sent you my letter advocating a trial survey of the proposed line from Wollongong via Mount Keira to the railway station at Douglass Park, I was not at all aware that I was suggesting a route in opposition to any pet…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 April 1878 · page 10
This train will run West on SATURDAY, the 6th instant, to Bowenfels, leaving Sydney at 8 a.m. The Treasury, New South Wales, 14th March, 1878…
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The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 6 April 1878 · page 6
John Connaier, on remand, was charged with having committed the above offence. Mr Collins, the prosecuting stationmaster, who had laid the information said…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 April 1878 · page 10
Return Tickets, £8 10s each, will be issued from SATURDAY, the 13th to 22nd April, available for return for one month. NOTICE is hereby given that arrangements have been…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 April 1878 · page 10
NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned Trains will stop at Macdonald Town Platform to set down and pick up passengers, viz:— Trains leave Syd Trains depart Trains depart from…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 April 1878 · page 10
NOTICE is hereby given that the necessary repairs to the line having been effected, goods will be conveyed direct to Cootamundra as heretofore…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 April 1878 · page 440
WHEN Sir Hercules Robinson commented some years ago at Bathurst upon the slow progress the colony was making with its railways, he gave expression to opinions…
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The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 6 April 1878 · page 3
THE following letter received from the Department of Public Works this week by Mr Taylor, M. P., has been handed to us for publication :—“ Sydney, 27th…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 April 1878 · page 31
A telegram received from Rochester says:—The Rev. Frederick Davis, of Manor House, Northfleet, was this morning summoned before the magistrates at Rochester, on a charge of having…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 April 1878 · page 31
An extraordinary general meeting of this company was held on January 21, at the offices, 113, Cannon-street, Mr. George Sheward (chairman of the company) presiding. The chairman said that…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 April 1878 · page 2
NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned Trains will stop at Macdonald Town Platform to set down and pick up passengers, viz.:— Trains leave Syd-[?]Trains depart Trains depart from…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 April 1878 · page 2
Tickets at a single fare for the double journey will be issued at all stations to all stations, from THURSDAY, the 18th, to MONDAY, the 22nd April, both days inclusive, available for return for ten days, for distances up…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 April 1878 · page 2
TENDERS will be received at this Office, until 11 o'clock on TUESDAY, the 9th April next, from persons willing to contract for supplying 750 Cushions, for Second-class Carriages, on the G. N. Railway…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 April 1878 · page 5
SIR,—I should not have thought it necessary to trouble you with another letter in reply to Dr. Jenkins' of the 3rd instant, in to-day's Herald, had not that gentleman stated that his ideas about a railway from Mount Kiera to the…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 April 1878 · page 2
TENDERS will be received at this Office, until 11 o'cloik on TUESDAY, the 9th April next, from persons willing to contract for supplying 750 Cushious, for Second-class Carriages, on the G. N. Railway…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 April 1878 · page 5
SIR,—I have read with much pleasure the account in to-day's Sydney Mail of the great success of the "Coal Cliff Company." The fact—that they can load a vessel with 250 tons of coal in two hours, and deliver the same within…
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Evening News · Wednesday 10 April 1878 · page 2
A fetal railway occurrence took place last night at the level crossing about 50 yards from the Burwood railway station. About twenty-five minutes past 5 o'clock a man, name unknown. hurrledly passed…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 April 1878 · page 7
NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned Trains will stop at Macdonald Town Platform to set down and pick up passengers, viz.:- Trains leave Syd- Trains depart Trains depart from…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 April 1878 · page 5
SIR.âOnce more am I obliged to answer another letter of Dr Jenkins's in this morning's issue Dr Jenkins evidently thinks that he has settled the point of the value of the coming Illawarra Railway by quoting…
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