Roads Through School Lands
This morning Mr. E. F. Stubbs introduced a deputation to the Minister for Education, the Hon. F. B. suttoff with the view of preferring a request that public roads might be…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1882
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Railway to Bankstown
A meeting of persons favourable to the construction of a tramway to Bankstown, was held yesterday afternoon at the Temperance Hall, Pitt-street. Mr. Pigott, M.L.A., presided, and explained the route, &c.,…
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We are informed that the Secretary of Public Works, with a view to affording stockowners, stores keepers, and others engaged in industrial enterprises in the district beyond Dubbo, the benefits of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway to Molong. to the Editor of the Sydney Daily Telegraph
Sir,--I am not surprised at the contents of your sub-leader which appeared in your issue of the 24th. April, anent the delay in the construction of the, railway from Homebush to Waratah. But why take…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tramway to Bankstown
A public meeting for the purpose of considering the best route to adopt in constructing a tramway to Bankstonn, was held in the Temperance Hall, Pitt-street, at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. There…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Illawarra Railway. to the Editor of the Sydney Daily Telegraph
Sir,--It is rumoured in this district (Illawarra) that valuators are appointed by the Government to value that part of the district which they intend to take for railway purposes. I, as an old resident in…
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The Rev. Mr. Kenny, with Messrs Johnson and Harmer, interviewed the Minister of Public Works yesterday to recommend that something might be done towards repairing the road lending from the…
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A deputation--consisting of Messrs. R. F. Stubbs, G. Gilliard. J. Jones, and H. Zions--waited upon the Hon. F. B. Suttor, Minister for Education yesterday morning. The deputation…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Public Roads at Long Bay
Yesterday morning a deputation consisting of Messrs. R. F. Stubbs, J Jones, J. Gilliard, and Zions had an interview with the Minister for Justice with reference to a quantity of church and school lands leased by the members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Repairs to New Windsor Road
A deputation, consisting of the Rev. Mr. Kenny, Mr. Johnston, and Mr. Harmer waited upon the Minister for Works, yesterday, to recommend that steps be taken to repair the road leading from the new Windsor-road to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →North Shore Bridge. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—That an ordinary and a railway bridge will both be some day advisable between Sydney and the North Shor[?] is undeniable. This being so, it is best for engineering reasons that they be in one. Such is the plan of the Cha[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Illawarra Railway. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—As the time is now probably approaching when tenders for the above line will be called for, I wish to draw the attention of the railway authorities to the advantage of providing for the opening of the line in, say, five-mile…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Proposed New England Railway
A deputation, consisting of Messrs, See, Murray, and Fergusson, Ms.L.A., waited upon the Minister for Public Works for the purpose of urging the construction of a line of railway from Grail on to the tableland of New England…
Continued on Trove, page 715 →Deputations. Tramway for the North-western Suburbs
A deputation, consisting of M.L.A., Garrard, M.L.A., Mr. Hutchinson (Mayor of Balmain). Mr. Herring (Mayor of Ryde), and Mr, Tornaghi (Mayor of Hunter's Hill), waited upon the Hon. John Lackey (Minister for Works), to urge upon him the desirableness…
Continued on Trove, page 715 →The Bankstown Tramway Movement. to the Editor of the Sydney Daily Telegraph
Sir,--The extent to which self-interest will bias men's minds was shows at yesterday's meeting in the Temperance Hall, to promote the formation of a tramway to Bankstown. Some time since an…
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LONDON, May 1.—The electric railway, connecting Berlin and the suburbs has been opened for traffice It is expected to, be a great success…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Attempt to Overturn Tram
A correspondent gives the following particulars of a dastardly attempt to attempt the tram from Camden to Campbelltown At the 6 o'clock tram from Camden, loaded with some 40 or 50 passengers, was…
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At the Water Police Court this afternoon, a man named Isidor Thomas Ryan was charged with wilfully obstructing the free-passage of a tram in Oxford-street, whilst on a journey from Sydney to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tramway Accident
A serious accident happened last evening on the tramway in Elizabeth-street. One of the guards named Richard Thomas Pier[?]s, while collecting the tickets, was walking along the footboard of the cars…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Burglary at a Railway Station
Last night the railway station at Newtown was burglariously entered, and a sum of about £50 was stolen. There is no clue as to who the perpetrator of the robbery is, but it would appear that the thief…
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