John Bridge's Weekly Report
WOOL.—The season now being nearly over, and as our market has improved all round, the late now being brought forward will command full value.I will a good sized catalogue next week…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1882
1,314 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 66
The South Head Road
We understand that some correspondence has been commenced between the Government and the South Head-road trust, with a view to the surrender by the latter of the control and management of the important…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Glebe Tramway
The following communication from the Secretary for Works to Sir George Wigram Allen has been received with reference to resolutions carried at a meeting at the Glebe Town Hall for the purpose of ascertaining…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tramway Talk
EVERY school boy knows that British rule in Emerald Isle has always been, and is at the present time, an utter failure. The English people have been forced to acknowledge after…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Deputations. Tramway Terminus
Yesterday, a deputation consisting of the Mayor of Sydney (Mr. John Harris), with Aldermen J. Davies, John Young, A. Dean, Hardy, Butcher, and Wadsworth, had an interview with the Hon. Minister for Works, in reference to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Parramatta Tramway
It will be remembered that during the last session of Parliament the Parramatta Tramway Bill was passed, and Mr. Charles Jeannerette, the enterprising proprietor of the Parramatta River…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Deputations. the Tramway Terminus
A deputation from the Sydney Municipal Council, consisting of the Mayor (Mr. J. Harris), Aldermen Davies, Dean, J. Young, Hardie, and Butcher, waited upon the Minister for Public Works…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Steam Tramcars
Some interesting experiments with steam tramway engines have been made on the Walton tramways, near Liverpool, says the Home News, in the presence of Major-General Hutchinson,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Junee Railway Station
A WAGGA WAGGA correspondent sends the following information regarding the Junce railway station and refreshmont room:—"This morning the first refreshments were supplied to passengers per down…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →Report of the Railway Rates Board
SIR,—I am indeed pleasod to find yon again supporting our farmors in the mattor of railway froights on agricultural produce. A careful perusal of the evidence taken before the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Deputations. Tramways and Water Supply for Camden
LAST Friday the Hon. Mr. Lackey, Minister for Works, received a deputation from Camden, consisting of Messrs. H. C. Dangar, T. Garrett, and Kidd, Ms. L.A., and Messrs, Lakeman, Ferguson,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Redfern Tramway
A meeting was on Monday night convened by the late Mayor of Redfera (Patrick Stanley, Esq.) at the Town Hall, in accordance with a requisition signed by a number of the ratepayers "to protest against the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Railway Horror. Shocking Accident
New York, January 13.—The Chicago express train, south bound, leaving Albany at 2.40 o'clock this afternoon, with many members of the Legislature on board, was run into by the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Railway Rates. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—In one of your issues last week appears the statement of Mr. M. Bowen, of Orange, and the Commissioner's reply as follows:—"The rate for wet hides may be too low, but that is no tangible ground of complaint to be urged by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rowdyism on the Tramways. to the Editor of Tub Sydney Daily Telegraph
Sir,--On Saturday night, by the last tram to Waverley, a groat number of passengers were on board, and among them at least half a hundred of the extreme larrikin class. These specimens of our…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Proposed Tram Fare Reductions. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—It is an ungrateful to ask to have to express dissatisfaction about that which is proposed as if public benefit. I desire, however, to point out that the announced reduction of half fares on the tramways for children under 12 years…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Deputation. Ashfield Railway Crossing
Yesterday, a deputation, consisting of Mr. W. H. Pigott, M.L.A.: Mr. Henson, M.L.A.; the Mayor of Ashfield, Dr. Haylock, and some other gentlemen, waited on the Hon. Minister for Works for the purpose of urging…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Apprentice's Leap. a Story of London Bridge
Sunset over London, on a fine summer evening in the days of "good Queen Bess;" tall, quaint old houses, with peaked roofs and countless gables standing up on every side, and the Thames lying in the midst like a broad sheet of gold,…
Continued on Trove, page 259 →The Border Railway Question
According to appointment a conference was held at the Public Works' office yesterday between representatives of the Victorian and New South Wales Governments, in reference to the connection…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Kent-street Tramways. to the Editor of the Sydney Daily Telegraph
Sir,--So we are to have a tramway down Kent-street, thence to the Circular Quay. What I Are we to regard tramways to be an improvement on omnibuses for passenger traffic?--and that in some…
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