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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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The deputation appointed at the recent public meeting held at Ryde for the purpose of advocating the construction of a railway connecting the Great Northern line with Sydney, and coming by a direct route from Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A deputation, consisting of Mr. J. Macpherson (Mayor of Waverley), Messrs. J. Green, T. B. Walker, W. Cary, C. K. Mooro, W. Druitt, R. Sands, R. Rome, the Hon. W. Grahame, and others, waited upon the Minister for Works,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A petition from the residents of the Narrandera district has been presented to the Legislative Assembly. The petitioners submit that they have long and anxiously looked forward to direct communication with the metropolis, but…
Continued on Trove, page 550 →THE problem of modern days is not how to build vast cities, but rather as to the mode of conveying the inhabitants from point to point of the city when budded. Every year this problem is more and more forcing itself…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ON Tuesday, the 3rd September, another portion of the Great Southern Railway, which is to connect the capitals of New South Wales and Victoria before long, was opened between Junee and North Wagga with a large…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MUDGEE, Monday.—In answer to an influentially signed requisition, the Mayor has called a public meeting for Wednesday evening, to petition the Ministry to place money requisite for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is definitely arranged that the public demonstration, in connection with the opening of the railway extension to the town of Tamworth, will be held on the15th instant. His Excellency Sir Hercules…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On the motion of Alderman Young the Municipal Council has accorded permission to the Sydney Omnibus and Tramway Company to lay down specimen tramway rails, in George-street, from the north side…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CHARTERS TOWERS, Monday.—A deputation on Friday waited on Mr. S. W. Griffiths, asking that Mr. Ballard be employed to supervise the construction of the railway from Townsville. Mr. Griffiths…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The election of the mayor takes place to-morrow; the candidates are Mr.Storey and Mr. Meares, and the results is very uncertain.——There were several small fires…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—Your correspondent, "William Alison, jun., J.P." writing on the above-mentioned subject, says, at the close of his letter, "Before Brisbane and Ipswich were united by rail, not only a daily line of steamers plied up and down…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NOTICE is hereby given that on and after 7th October, 1878, the undermentioned Suburban Trains will stop at Stanmore Plat[?]orm to set down and pick up passenger, viz.:- From Sydney at 6.30, 7.30, 9.7, 10.30 a.m., 12.30, 2.30, 5.0, 5.35,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sir,—I wish to point out an injustice which came undes my notice last week, and by so doing I hope to prevent others being misled like myself. In the Herald of Tuesdays, October I, the following notice appeared:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ever since the Government abolished the tolls on the Newtown-road find proclaimed the thorough fare a main road, there has been very little money spent on the road. Before this the trustees…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NOTICE is hereby given that on and after 7th October, 1878, the undermentioned Suburban Trains will stop at Stanmore Platform to set down and pick up passengers, viz.:- From Sydney at 6.30, 7.30, 9.7,10.30 a.m., 12.30, 3.30, 5.0, 5.35,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Below is a copy of the petition recently forwarded to Sydney by the Hay Municipal Council, for presentation to the Minister for Works, in favour of an extension of the South-western Railway to Hay, by way of Narrandera:—…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The barque Helen Anjier has recently received (says an American journal) at New York, a shipment of railway material, for the New South Wales Railway Company, comprising seven 54ft tarn-tables…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NOTICE is hereby given that on and after 7th October, 1878, the undermentioned Suburban Trains will stop at Stanmore Platform to set down and pick up passengers, viz:- From Sydney at 6.30, 7.30, 9.7, 10.30 a.m., 12.30,2.30, 5.0, 5.35,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A public meeting, convened by requisition to the Mayor of Sydney, wm to have been held last evening at the Temperance Hall, Pitt-street, to take into consideration the question of a circular suburban…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday, a deputation, consisting of Mr.. Copeland. M.L.A.; Mr. Barbour, M.L.A.; Mr. Bennett, M.L.A., and Mr. Richardson (of Armidale), waited upon the Minister for Works, and urged that…
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