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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1874

8 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers

New Use for a Railway Tunnel

The Australian, Windsor, Richmond, and Hawkesbury Advertiser · Saturday 24 January 1874 · page 5

A NICE young Californian was returning home from an eastern trip and as he gazed from the window of the car, thinking of her who was to meet him at the depot, now but…

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Central Criminal Court. Monday. Before his Honor Sir James Martin, Chief Justice. Mr. W. J. Foster appeared as Crown Prosecutor. Windsor Road Rape Case

The Australian, Windsor, Richmond, and Hawkesbury Advertiser · Saturday 28 February 1874 · page 7

John Savage, John Olson, Francis Hackett, and Thomas Barker were placed in the dock to stand their trial, for that they, on the 2nd of November last, on the Windsor Road, in…

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Subordinate Roads Under Trustees

The Australian, Windsor, Richmond, and Hawkesbury Advertiser · Saturday 4 April 1874 · page 8

THE following is the classification and proposed distribution of the Parliamentary grant for 1874 for roads in the Hawkesbury and Penrith district, Western road, near St…

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The New Bridge. (To the Editor of the Australian.)

The Australian, Windsor, Richmond, and Hawkesbury Advertiser · Saturday 20 June 1874 · page 5

SIR,—I have been informed that it is contemplated by the friends of Mr. John M'Quade to have, if possible, the new bridge called after that persons name. To be…

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M'quade's Ass, and the New Bridge. (To the Editor of the Australian.)

The Australian, Windsor, Richmond, and Hawkesbury Advertiser · Saturday 4 July 1874 · page 5

SIR,—Balaam's Ass once spoke, justifying to some extent the utterances of another donkey in your contemporary of Saturday last, under the heading of "M'Quade Bridge,"…

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The Richmond Bridge Company

The Australian, Windsor, Richmond, and Hawkesbury Advertiser · Saturday 11 July 1874 · page 2

THE half yearly meeting of the shareholders the above Company, took place at Mrs. Seymores', Black Horse Inn on Monday last. John Ducker Esq., J. P. occupied the chair…

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The [?]Inaugdration of the Bridge. (In Memoriam.)

The Australian, Windsor, Richmond, and Hawkesbury Advertiser · Saturday 18 July 1874 · page 5

The harvest's gathered is, the barns are full Of golden corn; a silence beautiful Is on the furrows, where the slumbering grain Waits the awakening spring-time; Scene and…

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Opening of the Bridge

The Australian, Windsor, Richmond, and Hawkesbury Advertiser · Saturday 8 August 1874 · page 5

A PUBLIC meeting was held in the School of Arts on Wednesday last, to consider what steps should be taken to get up a public demonstration upon the occasion of the opening of the bridge…

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