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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
1,111 stories in Sydney's papers · page 34 of 56
TENDERS will be received at this Office, until 11 o'clock on TUESDAY, the 2nd September, 1879, from presens willing to contract for constructing the works on the proposed Railway from Juncc to Narrandera, being a length of about 61 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TENDERS are invited for the constitution of the Second Section of the Northern Railway, from 15m. to 35m., in length 20m., in accordance with plans, sections, drawings, general conditions, and specifications, which may be seen at the Office of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TENDERS are required for Re-planking Peach-tree Creek Bridge, Main Western Road, Penrith, Specifications may be seen at Court-house, Penrith, and Court-house, Parramatta. Tenders must be delivered to Clerk of Petty Sessions,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—The blessings of paternal Government are considerable, and it is a pity that grumblers like " Victorian " should not be contented. It may possibly be the rule in Victoria for people to help themselves; but in Sydney we…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,--It is surprising that so many engineering surveyors and civil engineers now in this colony should allow the recent statement of the Secretary for Works as to the alleged difficulty in procuring competent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →TENDERS are invited for the construction of the Second Section of the Northern Railway, from 15m. to 35m., in length 20m., In accordance with plans, sections, drawings, general conditions, and specifications, which may be seen at the Office of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. Hungerford, M.L.A., accompanied by some local residents, interviewed the Colonial Secretary, on Fciday, and asked that the road from Newcastle to Lake Macqnario might be repaired, as it was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On the 18th instant Mr. Wisdom, M.L.A.; Mr. Burns, M.L.A.; Mr. Jacob, M.L.A.; Mr. Johnstone, M.L.A., and Mr. H. H. Brown, M.L.A., waited on the Minister for Works relative to the reimposition of tolls on bridges and…
Continued on Trove, page 148 →A deputation waited on the Minister for Works, and urged that a higher classification should be given to the road between Lake Macquarie and Newcastle. At present only £7 per mile was paid for its repair, and it was reduced to such a…
Continued on Trove, page 148 →“Far along From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder.” “ Height after height they slowly won ;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Intense excitement was occasioned in this city yesterday, by the tiding that a party of 43 immigrants from the East, and bound hither, were coralled the day previous in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The excavations for the tramway line extend to the corner of King and Elizabeth-street, and the rails are laid as far as St. James's Road. The work is proceeding very much faster, now that the iron are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The contractors are making rapid progress with clearing for the Fremnntle railway line. Another ship-load of rails has armed from London. Church Synod…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Five respectable looking men were charged yesterday, at the Water Police Court, by constable White with having assaulted him. On the 25th instant, about half-past 9 in tho evening, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—It seems to me strange that your correspondents " Victorian" and "Rip Van Winkle" should not make themselves properly acquainted with their subject before addressing you. " Victorian " seems to think that, by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,--I am very glad that a brother chip, signing himself "E. S." in a letter appearing in your journal of the 24th instant, has contradicted the statements made by the Secretary for Works as to the alleged…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A frightful murder was committed here this morning. Mr. Thomas Finlayson, the well-known Secretary for the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company, went into the oyster saloon at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A correspondent writes:-Immediately after leaving Sydney we come through a cutting, with the University paddock above us to the right, and a little further on is a viaduct, which was slightly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A deputation, consisting of Messrs. W. Roylance, W. J. Harris, J. Harkness, T. White, and T. Thomas, of the Trades and Labour Council; Messrs. D. Morrison and J. Henderson, engineers; G. Melville and J. Holder, pattern…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HAYWARDS (Alameda county), June 28.--A terrible accident happened to-day at the new bridge which is being built oyer the San Lorenzo crock, at the end of a street in this town. The carpenters were on top of…
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