The Maitland Road
Mr. Thos. Hungerford, M.L.A., in company with Mr. T. W. Hogue, council clerk, Wickham, waited upon the Chief Commissioner for Roads last Friday, respecting the sum of £150 promised some time since…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1880
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Pitt-water Road
The same Minister was waited upon yesterday by the Mayor of Manly (Mr. Hdder). with Messrs. Heyes and Barker, who asked the Government to put in repair that portion of Pitt-water-road, running…
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Yesterday morning Mr. S. M. Swift, of Liverpool Plains, was introduced to the Minister for Mines by Messrs. Bowman and Badgery, his object being to induce the Minister to give consideration to the necessity of keeping open travelling…
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Messrs. Hilder (mayor of Manly), Aldermen Haves, and E. W. Barker attended on Mr. Lackey, at his office yesterday, as a deputation from the Manly municipality, to request the Government to…
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Mr. Alfred Hilder, Mayor of Manly, and Messrs. Barker and Hayes, aldermen of the same municipality, waited on the Minister for Works yesterday. The object of the deputation was to direct Mr. Lackey's attention to the…
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Mr. Bowman, M.L.A., and Mr. Badgery, M.L.A., introduced to Mr. Baker, yesterday morning. Mr S. M. Swift, a squatter, residing at Liverpool Plains. Mr. Swift's object was to urge Mr. Baker…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Tay Bridge Disaster. Report of the Diver
THE following is the report of one of the divers sent down to examine the wreck of the train in the bed of the river:— "The depth of the water was 18 or 20 feet. In…
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Professor Grant, of the Glasgow Observatory, writes as follows to the Glasgow Herald, December 29:—"Sir,—The storm with which Scotland was visited on Sunday, the 28th instant, and which, alas! will be…
Continued on Trove, page 456 →Tram Motors and Cars. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—As one who has in the old country taken considerable interest in tramways. I cannot help expressing both surprise and regret at the statements made by the Minister for Public Works (Mr. Lackey), in the Assembly,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →REVIEW. The Railway Guide. By authority. Sydney: Thomas Richards, Government Printer. 1879
Really we shall never be able to estimate what the Exhibition has done for us. Future historians will have to pass over the great mass of benefits which the people of New South Wales have received through…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway Cattle Yards at South Wagga
Mr. H. S. Badgery, M.L.A. (of Pitt, Son, and Badgery), introduced Mr. Minchin (of Wilkinson, Graves, Minchin, and Lavender, Sydney, Wagga, and Hay), who came to ask the Minister for Works on behalf of the squatters of the Wagga…
Continued on Trove, page 443 →Street Railways in San Francisco
A correspondent of the O[?]ago Daily Times contributes the following information to that journal with reference to the street tramways of San Francisco:—"I think I may fairly claim that street railroads built San Francisco. If it…
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The Minister for Public Works on Friday received a deputation, composed of a number of residents at Balmain and neighbourhood, asking for the construction of tramways as a means of transit for the people…
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The Commissioner for Railways (Mr. C. A. Goodchap) returned to Sydney yesterday from a tour of inspection on the Great Northern Railway. After settling a few important and pressing matters…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tramways on the Brain. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—I gather from Mr. Webb's speech in the House the other night that this epidemic is fearfully prevalent amongst hon. members, and, as it is likely to produce terrible results to the community at large, as a guardian of the public health…
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A meeting was held at the School of Arts, North Willoughby, yesterday evening, for the purpose of considering the desirability of bringing St.Loonard's and North Willoughby into closer connection by…
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WELLINGTON, Tuesday.—The rails are laid within three miles of the station, and will be at the cattle yards this week. Work is being pashed forward very fast, and it is thought that the…
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Sir,—I wish to ask a question of some of your readers in reference to the above nuisance—which undoubtedly it will be. Already I have to go considerably out of my way to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Tuesday, March 9. The SPEAKER took the chair at half-past 4 o'clock Railway Locomotives
Mr. LACKEY informed Mr. Cameron, for Mr. Macintosh, that three locomotive engines had been specially tested on the Western Railway during the present year, but that the test bore no relation to the…
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SINGLETON, Friday.—A large and influential meeting was held last evening at the Mechanics' Institute, in reference to the proposed point of junction between the Great Northern and…
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