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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1859

14 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers

Wellrgton Road and Ironhabrk

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 16 March 1859 · page 2

UARIN, ROBBERY.— Between five and half-onst six clock p.m on the 9th instant a daring robbey of gold and other valuable property to the amount of up wards of 200 was…

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The Bathurst Free Press "Magna Est Verites Et Parevaletes." Saturday, April 16, 1959. the Sydney Evening Mail and the Railway to Bathurst

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 16 April 1859 · page 2

OUR readers will have learnt from, the preats of the late Parliamentary proceedings which has appeared in this, jourpal, that on Friday the 1st of April the…

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First Notions About Railways

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 18 June 1859 · page 4

Men think nothing now-a-days of getting into a railway carriage and travelling a hundred miles before noon, or three hundred before supper, going…

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The Bathurst Free Press "Magna Est Veritas Rt Preyalkbit." Wednesday, July 6, 1859. Our Roads

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 6 July 1859 · page 2

Our columns have so frequently teemed with complaints relative to the miserable state of the rood between this place and the Metropolis, aud the result has hitherto…

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Turning the First Son of the Pen[?] Railway

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 13 July 1859 · page 2

July 6th.—This" morning a communication was received from the Government, enclosing plans, &c, of the railway extension from Black Town to Penrith. About half-past two o'clock…

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Original Correspondence. We do not identify ourselves with the opinion of our Correspondents. Vale Road. To the Editor of the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 30 July 1859 · page 2

SIR,— Noticing a communication in your issue on Wednesday last in reference to the disgraceful state of this leading inlet to Bathurst, and per[?]…

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The Vale Road

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 3 August 1859 · page 2

A meeting was hold on Saturday last, at Hood's Inn, next to Crilly's Mill, to consider tho necessity of petitioning the Legislature in reference to the repair of the southern outlets of…

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The Bathurst Free Press "Magna Est Veritas Et Prevalebit." Saturday, August 20, 1859. Our Roads

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 20 August 1859 · page 2

THE public attention has lately been directed in a very prominent manner to the present disgraceful state of the roads and thoroughfares in this District, and steps…

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Thomas Holt and Another Henderson. Robert Fitzgerald, (For Nepran Bridge Company) v. SAME

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 3 September 1859 · page 2

To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald,. SIR,—For the general benefit and upon public grounds, I enclose an extract from Home News of December 19th, 1856 (page 831), which…

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The Carco[?]r Roads. To the Editor of the Pathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 22 October 1859 · page 2

SIR,—On approaching King's Plains from Bathurst on my way to the Lachian, I arrived at the conclusion that the public money [?] by the Legislature for the repair of the road…

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The Sydney Road

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 9 November 1859 · page 2

The following letter appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald and the Empire of Friday last, and affords reasonable grounds for believing that an…

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The Bathurst Free Press. "Magna Est Veriras Et Prvalesir." Saturday, November 12, 1859. Carriers on the Roads

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 12 November 1859 · page 2

VERY frequent complaints have readied us relative to the serious injury and annoyance in which storekeepers and cithers lire exposed, in consequence of…

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The Bathurst Free Press. " Magna Est Aertes Pit Rvaledit." Saturday, November 19, 1859. a Railway for Bathurst

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 19 November 1859 · page 2

TAE charges effected in England by the introduction of railways are so great as to astonish the world, and in a colony like New South Wales we can hardly form…

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Attempt to Overturn the Rail Way Train.—most Infamous Pro Ceedings

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 30 November 1859 · page 4

Alexander M'Donald and John Wallace were on Saturday and (by romand) on Wednesday brought before the Bench by Inspector Harrison, who deposed that…

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