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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1865

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

Open Column. Railways for Riverina. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, per favor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 19 August 1865 · page 3

SIR,—The public mind of New South Wales may not. at present be in a very fit state to treat calmly any great projects for the benefit of all. The finances of the oniony occupy so much attention, and are the object of so much…

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Railways in Riverina

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 2 September 1865 · page 2

It is gratifying to find our Sydney contemporary, the [?] with the views so frequently expressed in the Pastoral Times, of the advisability of extending the railways throughout Riverina…

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Railway Extension

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 9 September 1865 · page 3

THE Sub-committee at Deniliquin met on Tuesday afternoon and adopted the following Draft [?]etition :— [?] the Honorable the LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF…

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Open Column. Rail and Road. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 16 September 1865 · page 3

SIR,—I would call your attention to the high price of carriage between Echuca and Deniliquin, which is caused in a great measure by the scarcity of feed. How is this heavy lax on our goods to be remedied?…

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Railway Extension

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 30 September 1865 · page 2

THE Railway Extension Committee has, we perceive, called another public meeting in reference to this subject. it is proposed to lay before the Legislative Assembly a statement of the…

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The Railway Meeting on Tuesday. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 30 September 1865 · page 3

SIR,—I would urgently recommend my fellow townsmen to attend at, and co-operate with, the meeting at the Masonic Hall on Tuesday night next. It is lamentable to see in this fine country, such a…

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Public Meeting. Railway Extension

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 7 October 1865 · page 2

[?] to notice a public' meeting was held in the [?] on Tuesday evening last, for the purpose of [?] a petition to the Legislature, praying that the House would take into its favourable…

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The Railway Meeting. [From the Empire.]

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 21 October 1865 · page 3

THE petition from Deniliquin and the surrounding country; which appears in another column of this issue, and which is to be presented to the Legislative Assembly at an early date, is worthy of…

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On the Road. October 25

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 28 October 1865 · page 2

IF we want to know the value of rain, we must travel along the highways of Riverina and keep a horse on what he picks up as he goes along. The country from the Edward to the…

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The Railway Petition. (From the Sydney Morning Herald.)

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 28 October 1865 · page 1

WHILE we are struggling slowly to get our Great Southern Railway completed as far as Goulburn, the residents at the extreme end of the projected line are petitioning to have the…

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On the Road

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 4 November 1865 · page 2

MY contribution of last week was, as you know, written hurriedly and to save the post; it was written too after a journey of fifty miles when the thermometer was 95 in the shade at 9 p.m. I had not…

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The Railway

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 4 November 1865 · page 2

It is gratifying to find that the question of extending the Murray Railway to Deniliquin is exciting more than local interest. Our metropolitan contemporaries have devoted leaders to…

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On the Road No. III

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 11 November 1865 · page 3

IN taking my leave of Wan sand la township have two or three matters of importune!; to refer In. first is the question of water supply, the prospects the township people for the summer lock ominous,…

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On the Road. No. IV

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 25 November 1865 · page 3

IT does not require that we should draw very largely upon the imagination to enable us to judge of the future of this part of the country, now being reclaimed—I mean the Old Man Plain. Five or six…

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Railway Extension From Echuca to Deniliquin

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 2 December 1865 · page 1

THE following letter is handed to us for publication, and will be read with pleasure by those who take an interest in the above subject:— Direct Western Railway Office,…

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On the Road. the Town of [?] Con[?]

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 9 December 1865 · page 2

Those who have, travelled over the Old Man Plain in the, old times, before the two innkeepers’ had settled down here, must at this time of day cover the difference. It was a long pull of fifty…

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