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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1859

36 stories in Murray's papers · page 2 of 2

The Right Railway in the Right Place

The Border Post · Wednesday 3 August 1859 · page 2

Another link in the chain of direct overland railway communication between Melbourne and Sydney is now in progress of formation. Last week, His Excellency Sir Henry Barkly…

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The Wanganella Road. to the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin Telegraph · Thursday 8 September 1859 · page 3

SIR,—We observe in your issue of yesterday a letter from Mr. D. O’Sullivan, of Morago, relative to the road through our station, in which he states that “a township is marked out and…

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Wahgunyah Bridge

The Border Post · Wednesday 21 September 1859 · page 2

A public meeting, attended by forty persons, interested in the erection of a bridge at Wahgunyah, was held on Saturday, the 11th September, at the Wahgunyah Hotel, to receive the report…

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The Murray Bridge

The Border Post · Wednesday 21 September 1859 · page 2

Seldom if ever, has anything been so muddied as the matter of the erection of a bridge across the Murray at Albury. Three years ago, public attention was first drawn to this…

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Original Correspondence. the Murray BRIDGE.(To the Editor of the Border Post)

The Border Post · Wednesday 21 September 1859 · page 2

Sir,—In reply to some statements made by Mr Roper, and published in your issue of the 7th inst, I beg to say that Mr. Miller is not my agent, neither did I have any hand or part in the meeting…

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Original Correspondence. the Murray BRIDGE.(To the Editor of the Border Post)

The Border Post · Saturday 1 October 1859 · page 2

Sir,—In your last Wednesday’s paper you alluded to the fixed site for the proposed bridge across the Murray as not being the best that might be had convenient to the town, giving…

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The Murray Bridge. (To the Editor of the Birder Post)

The Border Post · Wednesday 5 October 1859 · page 2

Sir,—On reading an article in your paper lust Saturday, signed a “ Working Man,” (but savors more of a land jobber,) commenting on the two sites for the proposed…

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Original Correspondence. the Bridge SITE.(To the Editor of the Border Post)

The Border Post · Wednesday 12 October 1859 · page 3

Sir,—I hope you will be so good as to publish the following answers in reply to the questions and remarks contained in a letter of last Wednesday’s papers signed an Observer…

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Original Correspondence. Roads and Bridges. (To the Editor of the Border Post.)

The Border Post · Wednesday 19 October 1859 · page 3

Dear sir,—Knowing your [?] at all times to lay before your [?] the fullest information with respect to [?] ma[?]rers, you may perhaps deem the following not…

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Bridge at Deniliquin

The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin Telegraph · Thursday 24 November 1859 · page 2

CONCEIVING that we could not do the public in these parts a greater service, we called attention to the Bridge question in two of the earliest numbers of this journal…

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The Bridge Question

The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin Telegraph · Thursday 8 December 1859 · page 2

TO-MORROW (Friday), the, above matter comes before the public of Deniliquin and the surrounding country, in a meeting convened by the Police Magistrate, Ito be held…

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Bridge Over the Murrumbidgee at Wagga Wagga

The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin Telegraph · Thursday 8 December 1859 · page 2

LIKE ourselves, the residents of Wagga Wagga are busily engaged in devising measures for constructing a bridge across the Murrumbidgee. Their great public meeting on the subject is…

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Colonial. the Main Southern Road

The Border Post · Wednesday 14 December 1859 · page 2

The third report of Captain Martindale to the Hon. the Secretary for Lands mid Public Works has just been printed. The first portion of the report is devoted to Railways, then…

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Local Intelligence. Bridge Over the Edward, at Deniliquin

The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin Telegraph · Thursday 15 December 1859 · page 2

A numerous and influential meeting of the residents of the district was held on Friday last, at the Court House, to consider the propriety of immediate action in reference to building a bridge…

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The Bridge Meeting

The Pastoral Times and Deniliquin Telegraph · Thursday 22 December 1859 · page 2

THE late feting, on the Bridge question terminated somewhat satisfactorily The Committee to whose care the subject has been confided is strong in numbers, and…

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Railway Communication with - Kilmore

The Border Post · Saturday 31 December 1859 · page 2

A provisional prospectus of a railway company to be called the “Great Northern Railway Company”, has been sent to us this week and. at the first glance. the scheme proposed…

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