Railways
THE steadily increasing traffic on the Victorian Government Railways is highly encouraging to believers in the locomotive. For the year ending December 31st, 1865, the total returns amounted…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1866
20 stories in Murray's papers
Bridge the River. [From the [?] Advertiser.]
WE have published letters received from three correspondents and have had several others on the proposal we made to erect a bridge over the [?] at Hay. The desirability of…
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THE proposal to extend the Murray railway to the of Riverina has now been before the public for twelve months, and within a few weeks we may expect to hear the opinion of the…
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A PUBLIC MEETING, numerously and influentially attended, was held at the Court-house Hay, on Tuesday, the 13th. Henry Shiell, Esq., P.M., read the…
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THE subject of railway extension throughout the colony received very fair ventilation in the Assembly last week, and the general tone of the debate was very hopeful to country districts…
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WE would call the attention of our legislators to the necessity for better provision being made for stock roads to market. In Victoria it is too late to do much, as there the land bordering on the…
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The parents of Constance Kent have raised an action of damages in the Court of Session against the Daily Review, a newspaper published in Edinburgh, for a “ false and…
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WHAT is being done about the projected railway to Deniliquin is a question we have heard asked pretty frequently of late. It is gratifying to know that public interest on the subject is thus…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Communication for the Ovens and Murray Districts. Important Deputation to the Government. [From the O. and M. Advertiser.] Melbourne, May 30
The delegates appointed at the recent Great Railway Conference, held in the Town Hall, Beechworth, to-day waited upon the Government, at the Treasury, Melbourne, to urge…
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We extract the following communication on the above subject from the O. and M. Advertiser:— “SIR,—Permit me through the medium of your widely-circulated journal to draw the attention of…
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SIR,—Something must be done to keep our roads in repair, or else it will be almost impossible to bring a load of wood into the town or drive out without an accident. The road to Gerogery is in a frightful state,…
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IT is now no longer a matter of uncertainty respecting the extension (long talked of) of the Railway from Echuca to Deniliquin, as public opinion seems to have confirmed the absolute…
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The length of this line may be taken at 45 miles. My estimate per mile is £4000, including all the engineering, works, together with rolling stock and stations…
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A movement is on foot in Riverina for an extension into that territory of our Victoria trunk railway. A petition for the continuance of the line from Echuca to Deniliquin has been…
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THE three committee [?] people have charged with the project of a railway from [?] to Deniliquin have taken their departure for Sydney. They will give evidence before the legislative Committee…
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A good deal of agitation lies been going on lately in respect to the dangerous condition of the road from Albury to Burrum[?] by the way of Lesterâs Gap, where a few hundreds of pounds being spent…
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A special meeting of the Railway Committee was held at the Royal Hotel, yesterday, at one o’clock. This meeting, which had been convened for the purpose of receiving Thos. Robertson’s, Esq., report of…
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WE have printed in another column Mr. D. G. Jones’ explanation of the reasons which induced him to leave Sydney without giving his evidence on the above subject before the Parliamentary…
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The following is Mr. D. G. Jones’ statement, in explanation of his returning without giving evidence:— My return to Deniliquin from Sydney, without fulfilling my mission, whither I had gone as a…
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NOTWITHSTANDING the bickerings and jealousies, plots and counterplots, in the Railway Committee formed at Deniliquin, the cause which they have, or ought to have, in view is…
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