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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
2,081 stories in Sydney's papers · page 66 of 105
Sir,—I request your publicity to inconveniences that travellers by tramway have to suffer. On Saturday I took a trip to Botany, and wishing to return by the 6.39 tram, I waited at the Post-office, Botany, for its arrival; there…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ATTENTION is directed to Gazette Notice inviting Tenders for undermentioned work, viz.:— Supply of 50 sets suction pipe joints and foot-valves for tanks— Teme for receipt of tender, 14th August…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Attention is directed to Gazette Notice inviting Tenders for undeimentioned works, viz.:— Time for Receipt of Tender…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TENDERS will be received at this Office until 11 o' clock on TUESDAY, the 14th August next, from persons willing to contract for the Erection of Station Buildings, &c., at Arnaliffe, Illawarra Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TENDERS will be received at this office until noon on Wednesday, the 3rd October next, for the construction of a Line of Railway between the terminus of the Launceston and Western Railway at Deloraine and the River Mersey at Formby, a distance of 37…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A deputation, introduced to Mr. Thomas Garrett, M.L.A., waited upon the Minister for Public Works this morning, and asked for the extension of a light railway or tramway from Moss Vale to Robertson…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A lane deputation, consisting of several members of Parliament and a large number of delegates from the Inverell and Glen Innes districts, was introduced to the Minister for Public Works this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TENDERS will be receive at this office up to noon of WEDNESDAY, the 26th day of September next, for the Construction of the Third Section of the "Eastern Railway to york, a distance of forty-eight and a-half miles, or theleabouts…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—I noticed in yoaterday's Herald a letter on the above, and I think while the question is mooted a word would not be out of place. If "Sufferer" is only a casual visitor to Botany and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,—The paragraph in to-day's Herald, touching the proposed railway from Richmond to Walterawong is inaccurate, in one important particular where you state that Mr. Lloyd, the surveyor, had expressed a doubt about the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A public meeting on the railway question washeld in the Sohool of Arts this evening. There was a very large attendance, and the metting was most unanimous. The Mayor presided. The first resolution, moved by Mr. C. A…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A large deputation, introduced by Messrs. Mitchell, Abigail, and Garrard, Ms.L.A., waited upon the Minister of Public Works last, Friday, in reference to widening and repairing the bridge on the…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Messrs. Farnell and Proctor, Ms.L.A., introduced an influential deputation on the 20th instant to the Minister for Works, from Walcha, for the purpose of urging upon the Minister the propriety of constructing a branch railway or…
Continued on Trove, page 185 →The Minister for Works received a deputation on the 20th inst., introduced by Mr. J. P. Abbott, M.L.A., from certain residents of the Gunnedah district, who presented a petition signed by 400 inhabitants, praying for the opening of a road…
Continued on Trove, page 185 →A deputation, introduced by Mr. Abbott (Minister for Mines), waited upon the Minister for Works last Friday, and urged upon him the desirability of opening a road from Quirindi to Coonoobaraba, in…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Too thoroughly habituated all her life to luxury in drees, the Princess Romanoff had chafed under her recent endeavour to submit to a Puritanic oblivion of the toilet. Towards the end of her…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the Oxford Hotel last night, Messrs. Murray. Forguson, and Withers. M.'sL.A., entertained the delegates from Inverell in connection with the [?] railway from Glen Innes to Inverell. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Yesterday afternoon an accident of a serious nature occurred on the Botany tram line. A man named William Henn, 23 years of age, was driving a lorry laden with, casks of ale and porter, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The battle of the railway routes has been resumed in earnest, the gauntlet having been thrown down by a writer on railway matters, under the well-known nom de plume, of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →TENDERS will be received at the Office until 11 o'clock on TUESDAY, the 30th October next, from persons willing to contract for the Construction of the Works comprised in the third (3rd) section of the Illawarra Railway, from about 32 miles…
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