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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
2,081 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 105
"This outline proposal is bardly definite enough to report on. It provides, in clauses [?] and 5, for exemption from duties, taxes, &c.; in clause 2, that the Government shall have the option of taking over bridge in three years,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"In an interview with Sir John Robertson this morning, he informed me that the Government demand the payment of a deposit on the ground that it was possible for me to bring in my bill last session. I was informed at the time…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Yesterday afternoon the Coroner concluded the inquest on the body of Charles Horgan, a brickmaker, who was killed on the line at Rockwood railway station on Saturday last. Evidence having been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Papers regarding North Shore bridge have been: laid before Parliament. Among the correspondence is a letter from Mr. Garbett to the Colonial Secretary (Mr. Stuart), dated 17th instant, in which he makes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following further correspondence relating to the bridge to North Shore was laid before both brauches of the Legislature yesterday afternoon:- "No. 1.—Mr. J. E. Garbett to the Colonial Secretary…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The correspondence between the late Government and Mr. [?]arbett, with reference to the North Shore Bridge, and the memoranda by the Commissioner for Roads and Bridges and the Engineer-in-Chief for Harbours and Rivers, has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A public meeting was held last night to consider the action of the Municipal Council in deciding to memorialise Parliament against the railway being brought into Market-square. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A lady with the historic name of Jane Shore appeared before Mr. Addison, S.M., at the Redfern Police Court yesterday, to answer a charge of stealing a box of wearing apparel, valued at £10, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A deputation consisting of about 20 gentlemen who reside at the Glebe and Forest Lodge, waited this morning upon the Minister of Public Works, to ask that the penny fare charged on the section from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A deputation, consisting of Messrs. Melville, Fletcher, Ellis, and Tighe, waited on the Minister of Public Works this morning to urge the claims of a tramway from Newcastle to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,--In an evening paper of the 16th instant, a letter appeared, written by Mr. Hanley, from Mudgee, re the late fatal tram accident that happened in Elizabeth-street, when…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The tramway system of Sydney and suburbs was, still further extended yesterday by the opening of a new line from Randwick to Coogee. There was no public ceremony on the occasion, the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I understand by Mr. Copeland's answer to the deputation that waited on him yesterday that he considers it would be necessary to reduce the working expenditure of the trams, and that one means he…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Tuesday afternoon the Coroner resumed and concluded an inquest on the body of Charles Horgan, a brickmaker, who was killed on the line at Rookwood railway station on Saturday last. Edwin Andrews,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A deputation, consisting of Messrs. Fletcher, Melville, Ellis, and Tighe, Ms.L.A., waited upon the Minister for Works yesterday, and desired that the Government would cause a tramway to be extended from Newcastle to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A deputation, consisting of Messrs. M'Elhone, Mclville, and Levien, M.L.A., and residents of the Globe and Forest Lodge, waited upon the Minister for Works yesterday to [?]rge upon the hon. gentleman the desirableness of reducing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →About twenty of the residents of the Glebe and Forest Lodge were introduced to the Minister for Public Works yesterday morning, by Messrs. Melville, M' Elhone, and Levien, M.s.L.A., for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FURTHER correspondence relating to the proposed North Shore bridge was laid on the table of the Assembly on Wednesday. The first letter is from Mr. Garbett to the Colonial Secretary (Mr. Stuart),…
Continued on Trove, page 184 →A meeting for the purpose of discussing a. paper on the lion Core Badge," read at the Surveyors' Institute, by Mr. T. S. Parrot, was held last Tuesday evening, at the Sydney Arcade. Mr. E. L. Murray, M.L.A., president of the…
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