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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
2,051 stories in Sydney's papers · page 45 of 103
BRISBANE, Wednesday.-A petition, numerously signed, was presented to the Queensland Minister for Works yesterday against the proposed railway from Rockhampton to Port Alma. a deputation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, June 11.—The plans and tenders for the railway bridge on the Waratah-Homebush line, New South Wales, have been referred to Sir John Barlow, lately President of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,--I would like to draw attention to the foal and filthy state of the Pyrmont Bridge-road from the Market- street Wharf to the Glebe. This portion of the road is not kerbed, nor even guttered, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,--I left the back sums of Redfern to get the pure air of the suburbs, thinking I would be accommodated by the Government to get to work by the train. I walked to the Burwood station on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Great inconvenience and loss are s[?]tained by storekeepers, miller, and consigness here by the inadequacy of the trucking accommodation at the Murrumburrah siding, Loaded trucks are…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →For several weeks rumors have been rife that the Government seriously contemplated A radical reform of the tramway system. In fact it was asserted that it intended to sweep away altogether the present…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →EXCURSION TICKETS to Goulburn will be issued at all Stations by FRIDAY'S MAIL TRAINS, and at Stations distant not more than sixty miles from Goulburn by ALL Trains on FRIDAY, the 12th instant, available for return [?] Monday,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TENDERS will be at this Office up to 11 a.m. on the dates mentioned hereunder, for the Public Works, &c., specified in the following schedule:— Nature of Works or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Special Passenger Train will leave Sydney for Liverpool at 11.20 a.m., returning from Liverpool at 5.5 p.m. FARES: First-class............ 4s…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—Now that the above subject is a general matter of interest, I would like to make a suggestion or two. On the Adelaide tram-lines all purchasers of one dozen 3d. tickets get the same for 2s. 6d., or at the rate of 2½d. each—a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A meeting of the committee appointed to make arrangements for the formation of the above corps was held at the Oxford Hotel last evening. it was stated that lists had been prepared and sent out to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,--At last, after a fair trial, the Government have bad to cry " peccavi," and return to the former tariff of tram fares almost inviolate, adapting the old familiar maxim, slightly altered, "cheap fares are the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →So far the information as to the designs and tenders received in England for the Hawkesbury Bridge seems to justify the action adopted in not proceeding upon the departmental plans and estimates. Of the…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →In the action brought by Messrs. M'Bride and Co. against the Brisbane Municipal Corporation to recover £5000 damages for obstructing the navigation of the Brisbane River by refusing to…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Yesterday afternoon the Colonial Secretary received the following telegram from Colonel Richardson, dated Albany, Jane 12:— Veterinary-Surgeon Willows died of enteric fever…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →N.S.W. CYCLISTS' UNION.—The adjourned annual meeting was held on Monday evening last at the Exchange Hotel, Mr. Jas. Martin in the chair. It was hoped that all personal feeling had been worked out at the previous…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →The tenders for the construction of the railway bridge over the Hawkesbury, on the Homebush-Waratah line, New South Wales, have been referred to a committee of experts,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The London TIMES correspondent in the Soudan reported:—The construction of the railway is a curious and interesting: sight. In advance ia a picket of cavalry, while far off on either side the videttes…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—Having recently picked up a paper in which is inserted a long letter signed "Observer" on the above question, and comparing bis remarks with She map before me, and my knowledge of the country…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A meeting of the progress committee last night, when resolutions, to be discussed at a public Meeting to be held on the instant with reference to the…
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