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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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A large and influential deputation, representing the city of sydney and ever twenty suburban municipalities, interviewed the minister for Works at noon today, in accordance with the determination of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TENDERS Will be received at this office up to noon on MONDAY, the 21st April, 1879, for the Construction of a Line of Railway between the Port of Fremantle and Guildford, being a distance of 20 miles or thereabouts…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SUPPLY OF RAILWAY ROLLING STOCK FOR FIVE YEARS, ENDING 31ST DECEMBER. 1883.—TEN— DERS will be received at this Office. until 11 o'clock TUESDAY, the 14th January next, from persons willing to contract for,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A pleasing presentation in recognition of long services and genial hearted good conduct is about to be paid to Mr. William Sixemith, commnnly called "the father of railways," because he was the first engineer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TENDERS are invited for the construction of the Second Section of the Maryborough and Gympie Railway, from 22 miles 40. chains to 39 miles 70 chains, in length 37 miles 30 chains, in accordance With plans, section, drawings, general conditions, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday morning a deputation, consisting of the Mayor of Sydney (Mr. C. J. Roberts) and a majority of the Mayors and aldermen of the suburban boroughs, waited upon the Hon. Minister for Works in reference to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Another deputation, consisting of Mr. Holborow., (Mayor of Ashfield), Alderman Clissold, and Mr. Beames (Council CIerk), of the same borough,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →TENDERS will be received at this office up to noon on MONDAY, the 21st April, 1879, for the Construction of a Line of Railway between the Port of Fremantle and Guildford, being a distance of 20 miles or thereabouts…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sir,—Permit me through your columns to call the attention of the railway authorities of their Permanent Way Deprtment to a very absurd and inconvenient innovation whi[?] has recently been effected at the above-named…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A deputation, consisting of Mr. D. Holborow (Mayor of Ashfield), Alderman F. Clissold (Ashfield), Mr. H. Moses, M.L.A., and Messrs. J. Miles, J. Walton, J. Bartlett, W. O'Ragan, and J. Shilling, waited upon the Hon. J. Lackey…
Continued on Trove, page 68 →A very large and influential deputation, consisting of the Mayor of Sydney and a majority of the mayors and aldermen of the suburban boroughs, waited upon the Hon. Minister for Works (Mr. Lackey) on Wednesday, with a…
Continued on Trove, page 68 →A deputation, consisting of Mr. D. Hol[?]rrow (Mayor of Ashfield), Ald. F. Clissold (Ashfield), Mr. H. Moses, M.L.A., and Messrs. J. Miles,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IN pursuance of a requisition, signed by Messrs. James Merriman (Mayor of Sydney), Lindsay G. Thompson (Mayor of Burwood), George Kiss (Mayor of Randwick), John Macpherson (Mayor of…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The visit the Hon. John Woods, Commissioner for Public Works in Victoria, to New South Wales, had reference chiefly to coal, and contracts with his Government, Mr. Woods first visited Newcastle,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FIVE YEARS, ENDING 31st DECEMBER. 1888.— TENDERS will be received at this Office, until 11 o'clock on TUESDAY the 14th January next, from persons willing to contract for the supply of Rolling Stock (other than Locomotives) required…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TICKETS at Excursion Rates will be issued at all stations distant over 50 miles, to Sydney, on FRIDAY, the 17th instant, and at all other stations on SATURDAY, the 18th instant, available for return, for distance over 15 miles, for one week…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The operations of the Road Department, though rarely heard of except when fault is being found, have been for the last decade covering the colony with a network of roads; the alienation of the land and fencing of runs,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TENDERS will be received at this office up to noon on MONDAY, the 21st April, 1879, for the Construction of a Line of Railway between the Port of Fremantle and Guildford, being a distance of 20 miles or thereabouts…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →TICKETS at Excursion Rates will be issued at all stations distant over 50 miles, to Sydney, on FRIDAY, the 17th instant, and at all other stations on SATURDAY, the 18th instant, available for return, for distanceover 15 miles, for one week…
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