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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1858

18 stories in Murray's papers

Lament of the Wodonga Bridge. To the Editor of the Border Post

The Border Post · Saturday 2 January 1858 · page 2

SIR,—I was once the pride of all the neighbourhood, and travellers far and near sung my praises, for I carried them safely over; and although to place me…

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The Waterloo Bridge Murder

The Border Post · Saturday 6 February 1858 · page 3

The surmises and conjectures to which this shocking affair has given rise would fill the whole of this sheet if reported as we find them detailed in…

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Opening of the Railway at Campbelltown

The Border Post · Saturday 15 May 1858 · page 2

THE opening of that portion of the Great Southern Railway which has recently been conducted between Liverpool and Campbelltown took place yesterday, amid the noclamations…

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Roads and Railways

The Border Post · Wednesday 19 May 1858 · page 2

THE late formal opening of the so-called “Great Southern” railway from Sydney to Campbelltown, and the approaching ceremony of turning the first [?] of the Melbourne and…

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The Bridge Across the Murray

The Border Post · Wednesday 11 August 1858 · page 2

IT IS really [?] to note the tremendous difficulties which [?] the prosecution of public works in the interior, even in cases where such works are admittertly of…

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The Bridge Across the Murray

The Border Post · Saturday 14 August 1858 · page 2

It will be remembered that some short time since, a petition was adapted by the inhabitants of Wodonga, praying His Excellency to impress upon the Executive Council the necessity for the…

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Railway Extension

The Border Post · Wednesday 18 August 1858 · page 2

A new light has at length burst upon the Governmental vision, and ministers are beginning to discover that they can make no better bid for popularity than by at once…

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Local Intelligence. Bridge Across the Murray

The Border Post · Wednesday 15 September 1858 · page 2

In the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales on the 3rd., Mr G. MACLEAT moved, ”That an address be presented to the Governor-General, praying that his Excellency will be pleased to…

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Colonial Intelligence. Dreadful Murder on the Main ROAD.(From the Ballarat Star.)

The Border Post · Wednesday 15 September 1858 · page 4

On Saturday morning the public of Ballarat were apprised that during the night previous, a fearful murder had been committed. At about six o’clock that morning, a miner was…

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The Roads and the Mails

The Border Post · Wednesday 29 September 1858 · page 2

IT will readily be guessed from the absence of New South Wales news in the inner page of to-day’s paper, that something has gone wrong with the mails. That such should be…

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Originalcorrespondence, the Roads and the MAILS.(To the Editor of the Post & telegraph.) Gundagai. October 2nd, 1858

The Border Post · Wednesday 6 October 1858 · page 2

SIR,—I for one mutt thank you for your leader on “Roads and mails,” in last Wednesday’s issue. Constant agitation may perhaps do something to mend matters. However my object in troubling…

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The “Constitution” and the Sydney Road

The Border Post · Saturday 23 October 1858 · page 2

AN article appears in Wednesday’s Constitution, hearing reference to the proposed expenditure on the public roads in the Ovens district, which, if allowed to pass unnoticed…

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Local Intelligence. the Plank Road.— Public Meeting at Wodonga

The Border Post · Saturday 23 October 1858 · page 2

On Thursday, a public meeting was held at Waite’s Wodonga Hotel, for the purpose of taking further steps to ensure the formation of a roadway between Wodonga and the…

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The “Constitution” and the Plank Road

The Border Post · Wednesday 27 October 1858 · page 2

Our contemporary has published a reply to the article appearing in Saturday’s Border Post, and his remarks tend to show that he does not exactly understand the point at…

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Local Intelligence. Public Meeting —District Courts —Road Expensiture

The Border Post · Wednesday 3 November 1858 · page 2

Yesterday afternoon a meeting was held at the Court House, for the propose of impressing upon the Government the necessity of establishing a District Court in Albury and…

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Local Intelligence. the Plank Road

The Border Post · Saturday 13 November 1858 · page 2

The following is the reply of Dr. Murphy to the communication from the Chairman of the late meeting at Wodonga, enclosing resolutions adopted in reference to the plank road :—…

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No Bridge After All

The Border Post · Wednesday 15 December 1858 · page 2

If the erection of a bridge across the Murray were not such a very serious matter involving [?] the safety of property to an [?] extent and also impossible to…

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The Land on the Sydney Road

The Border Post · Wednesday 22 December 1858 · page 2

Our readers will be aware that for nearly three years the people of Albury have been petitioning for the sale of the land on the Sydney-road, situated in the environs of the…

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