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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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Sir,—It must be very satisfactory to the promoters of our tramway scheme to see that it is proving so great a financial success, the best proof that it is appreciated by the general community. I am, however, at a loss to know why…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WOOL.—No sales held this week. SHEEPSKINS sold very freely at an improvement on recent prices; fair quality at 5d to 6½, pelrs 3½d to 4d. TALLOW was in active demand at up to £26 10s for…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A DEPUTATION, consisting of the Mayor (Mr.J. C. Sharp) and aldermen of Canterbury waited on the Secretary for Works last Friday, to complain of the state of the road loading from Ganter bury-road to…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →A serious disturbance took place last night at Newcastle West, country Limerick. An attack was made on a train in which were three policemen escorting Mr. Wm. E. Croker, agent to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The tenders for the second section of the Bundaberg and Mount Perry line were opened yesterday. The lowest was that of Henry Jubb for £117,343, or £5425 a mile, exclusive of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yesterday morning a deputatlion, numbering about twenty-five business people and others interested in Oxford- street, accompanied by Messrs. Burdekin, Proctor, Abigail, Dillon, Melville, and Brodribb, Ms. L.A., and the Hon…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →In 1878 the question of the transcontinental railway again became a subject of public interest. At a conference of the Australian colonies, held in Melbourne, on the 9th May, the following resolution was…
Continued on Trove, page 824 →The Minister for Works was yesterday waited upon by a large arid influential deputation, who presented a petition to him in favour of the continuance of the present tramway system, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A deputation, consisting of Messrs. Angus Cameron, M.P., the Hon. J. Lewis, the Hon. J. Lucas, and Davies, M.P.; W. Clarke, M.P.; F. Abigail, M.P.; Aldermen Palmer, Dean, Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Mayor of Sydney (Mr. J. Harris) and Aldermen Dean, Hardie, Moore; and J. D. Young waited on the Secretary for Works last Friday to complain of the state of things existing in connection…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The vigilance committee recently appointed at a public meeting at the Glebe anent the question of a tramway to that suburb, and who were entrusted with the task of watching the insterests of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The approach of another public holiday causes all to regard with a certain amount of apprehension the result of the crowding of the tramcars. Latterly the increased traffic has been each as to render…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—I beg to call your attention to the overcrowding that is now of duly occurance on the Paddington and Waverley line of trams, and should like to inquire whether the Government have any right to put travellors to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At 6 o'clock on Sunday morning it was discovered that the ticket-office at the Stanmore railway station had been broken into during the previous night by thieves, who had prized open…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Daniel Macquarie, the well-known contractor, was driving a horse and baggy along Botany-road yesterday afternoon, and when near the Halfway. House he was driven into by a spring[?]art going in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At about 5 o'clock yesterday evening Eliza Triton, the wife of Alfred Triton, a wood dealer residing at Alexandria, on the Botany-road, was knocked down and killed on the spot by a passing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There was an unusual amount of passenger traffic on the railways and tramways, but the arrangements were so effectively carried out that not a single hitch occurred on either description of line. The traffic returns of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,--Will you please insert the enclosed letter I forwarded to Mr. Lackey on the 28th April, with reference to the important question of city tramways, and oblige JOHN LAWLER…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A deputation, consisting of Mr. D. O'Connor, M.P., Mr. A. Cameron, M.P., Mr. W. F. Martin, M.P., Mr. Abigail, M.P., Alderman Palmer, and a number of residents of Pyrmont and West Sydney,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Mayor of Petersham (Mr. W. H. Paling) with Aldermen Cubitt, Hughes, M'Gill, Barell, and M'Mahon, waited on the Secretary for Works this morning, to ask for some improvements to a road in…
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