THE CITY OF SYDNEY. 



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A GLIMPSE OF .SYDNEY FROM DAKLINGHURST. 



and tallow-wood. This new method of road-making is expensive in the first instance, but 

 the economy in maintenance is very great, the wooden roadways proving tough and durable. 



The licensed vehicles are under the management of a Transit Commission. There is 

 one omnibus company, which commands the business on the principal streets ; the 

 accommodation is excellent and the fares are low. On several other roads the omnibuses are 

 managed by private speculators. The characteristic conveyance of Sydney is the hansom- 

 cab, there being only a few two-horse vehicles. These cabs, mostly owned by their drivers, 

 are of excellent quality, equal in general equipment to those of any city in the world. 



Considering the extremely inflammable materials of which many of the Sydney buildings 

 are composed, particularly those in the metropolitan suburbs, the small proportion of fires 



