Notification of Proposed Resumption of Lands for Road
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 July 1896 · page 39
It is proposed to resume certain lands for roads under the 42nd section of the Crown Lands Act of 1839 (53 Victoria No. 21). Should any person desire to object to the action proposed to…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →Berrigan to Finley Railway. Sydney
The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 31 July 1896 · page 2
At a meeting of the Public Works Committee this afternoon, the report of the sectional committee on the proposed railway [?] Berriganth Finley…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Berrigan-finley Railway. the Sectional Committee at Finley
The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 31 July 1896 · page 2
On Wednesday the 22nd inst the Sections Committee of Public Works proposed to Finley to take evidence about the proposed light railway and were accompanied [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Collision. 30 KILLED, 20 Injured. London, July 27
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 July 1896 · page 26
A terrible railway accident has occurred at Delhi, in India. Two trains came into collision with most disastrous results, 30 persons being killed and 20 severely…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →The Uganda Railway. Bill Read a Second Time. London, July 28
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 July 1896 · page 26
In the House of Gammons last night the bill providing for the construction of a railway from Mombassa to the Victoria Nyanza was read a second time by a majority of…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →The Proposed Steel or Iron Tramway
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 July 1896 · page 37
Mr. John Woodland, as clerk of works of the Wodonga Shire Council, was recently directed to prepare a report on the proposed steel or iron tramway along the Albury road to the Murray…
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The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 July 1896 · page 29
Relative to the proposed steel and iron tramway, the Wodonga Shire Council passed the following resolution:—"That this council desires that the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Jerilderie-berrigan Railway
The Pastoral Times · Saturday 1 August 1896 · page 4
Notwithstanding the assurance of the Minister for Public Works, in answer to a question put by Mr Hayes, that the contractors of this line would be kept to contract time or fined in default (says…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Berrigan - Finley Railway
The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 7 August 1896 · page 2
The Finley farmers, being [?] with the report of the Sectional Committee in postponing the [?] of the proposed fine railway for a year, held a special…
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The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 August 1896 · page 37
The Public Works Committee on Wednesday took the evidence of Mr. H. Deane, the engineer-in-chief of the railway construction branch, upon the proposal to construct a line of railway 366…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →General News. Berrigan and Finley Railway. Visit of the Sectional Committee. Tuesday, July 21
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 August 1896 · page 8
John Jones, sen., farmer, of Berrigan, said: Live three miles from the township have 640 acres purchased land, and 640 acres leased; have 1000 acres under…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →An Indolent Tramp
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 August 1896 · page 28
A large number of "tramps" have passed through Coonamble lately looking for work, principally shearing. One individual recently called at a station not…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →A Railway Stowaway
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 August 1896 · page 28
A young man named Robert James Copperhill was charged recently at the Newtown police court with having travelled on the railways without first…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →The Beira Railway. London, August 3
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 August 1896 · page 26
The people at Umtali, in Mashonaland, close to the border of the Portuguese colony in East Africa, are urging that the further construction of the railway from Beira, on…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Railway Collision. 42 KILLED; 80 Injured. London, July 31
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 August 1896 · page 27
A terrible railway accident has occurred at Atlantic City, in the State of New Jersey. An exoursion train, crowded with passengers, was run into by another train, the…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →On Tee Roads
The Pastoral Times · Saturday 8 August 1896 · page 1
[?] road winds onward long and white, [?] curves in many coils, and crooks [?]eckoning finger down the height ; [?] calls me with the voice of brooks…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Deniliquin and Moama Railway Company. Forty-fourth Half-yearly Meeting
The Pastoral Times · Saturday 8 August 1896 · page 3
The Forty-fourth Half-yearly Meeting of the Shareholders in the D. and M. Railway Company was held at the Deniliquin office on Tuesday last. The Hon. George Simmie, M.L.C. (Victoria), the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →By Electric Telegraph. the N. S. W. Railway Revenue. Sydney. Friday, August 7
The Pastoral Times · Saturday 8 August 1896 · page 3
The report of the Railway Commissioners for the year ending June 30 is published, and, notwithstanding the unfavourable season last year, the railways earned £1,268,529 over and above the working…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Tramp Question
The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 12 August 1896 · page 4
Massachusetts has undertaken an experiment towards a solution of the tramp question. It has purchased 2000 acres of cheap but improvable…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Riddles
The Corowa Free Press · Friday 14 August 1896 · page 3
THE following letter appeared in last Thursday's Argus:-- Sir,--About two weeks ago an advertisement appeared in your columns,…
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