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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1873

76 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 4 of 4

Railway Extension to Yass

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 12 August 1873 · page 2

A MEETING of the full committee appointed at a public meeting of the inhabitants (called by the convener, Mr. Laidlaw) was held at the Courthouse on Friday afternoon, for the purpose of…

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Argyle and Georgiana Roads Association

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 14 August 1873 · page 3

—Agreeably to appointment, the committee of the association had an interview on Tuesday evening with the Hon. the Ministers for Works and Lands upon the subject of the proposed…

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The Roads of the Colony

The Yass Courier · Friday 15 August 1873 · page 2

THE following letter has been forwarded to the honourables the Minister for Works and the Minister for Lands by the Argyle and Georgiana Roads Association. It will be soon that it…

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Railway Extension to Yass

The Yass Courier · Friday 15 August 1873 · page 2

DURING his stay in Yass the Hon. the Minister for Public Works, accompanied by the Hon. the Minister for Lands, went over, as near as it could be discovered, the proposed lines as…

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The Wollondilly Bridge

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 16 August 1873 · page 4

ON the arrival from Yass of the ministers for lands and for works on Tuesday night, the former gentleman was waited upon by appointment by a number of the committee of the Argyle and Georgiana Roads…

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Railway Extension to Yass

The Yass Courier · Friday 22 August 1873 · page 4

THE public of this town and district have reason to feel grateful to the Goulburn Herald for the very able manner in which that journal -- the oldest and one of the best in the Southern…

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Explosion of a Locomotive Boiler, and Total Wreck of a Goods Train

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 26 August 1873 · page 4

ABOUT half-past eleven on Wednesday morning, the engine attached to the goods train, which left Geelong for Ballarat at 11 a.m., blew up with a tremendous explosion when…

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Ye Rival Engineers; Or, Ye Newe Railway Line

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 26 August 1873 · page 2

IN last Saturday's Sydney Punch there is a two-page cartoon, representing a tournament, with Mr. Parkes as judge, and Messrs. Sutherland and Farnell as referees. On one side there is a…

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Four Railway Accidents

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 27 September 1873 · page 6

THE first occurred at the Wigan station, on the London and north-western line, about a quarter-past one o'clock on August 2. The Scotch express train, consisting of two engine,…

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An Excursion-train Out in Two

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 1 November 1873 · page 2

ANOTHER fearful railway collision happened this morning, by which at least three persons have lost their lives, and many have been injured, it is feared fatally. The…

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Railway Extension to Yass

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 9 December 1873 · page 2

IN accordance with advertisement, the members of the Railway Sub-committee met on last Friday afternoon, at three o'clock, at the Court-house, Yass, to receive a further report from Mr…

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Railway Extension to Yass

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 10 December 1873 · page 4

IN accordance with advertisement, the members of the railway sub-committee met on last Friday afternoon, at three o'clock, at the court-house, Yass, to receive a further…

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Tramways and Railways

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 20 December 1873 · page 2

SOME months ago a very useful article by Mr. J. W. Grover, a member of the institute of Civil Engineers, was published in the Quarterly Journal of Science, and as the…

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Execution of Jarvis, for the Orange Road Murder. (From the Evening News.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 25 December 1873 · page 4

HENRY VINCENT JARVIS suffered the extreme penalty of the law within, the walls of Darlinghurst gaol, on Tuesday morning last, for the murder of James Muggeridge, carrier, on the Orange…

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Railway Excursion to Glenrock

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 27 December 1873 · page 2

YESTERDAY, Boxing-day, the oddfellows of Goulburn had a railway excursion to Glenrock, the object being to supplement the funds for building an oddfellows' hall in the city of Goulburn…

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Select Poetry. an Old Road

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 30 December 1873 · page 4

A curve of green tree-tops, And a common wall below, And a winding road, that dips and drops, Ah me! where does it go?…

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