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Railways, roads & transport, 1866

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Colonial Summary Mr. Macleay on Railway Extension

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 17 March 1866 · page 4

IN the Legislative Assembly on the 6th, Mr Lucas moved,—"That, in the opinion of this House, it is absolutely necessary to the present and future welfare of this colony, that cheap…

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Railway Extension

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 24 March 1866 · page 2

THE Legislative Assembly, a majority of twenty to sixteen, have deliberately adopted the resolution of Mr. LUGAS on the subject of railway extension, which not only affirmed…

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Select Poetry. Only a Tramp

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 12 April 1866 · page 4

Only a tramp, squalid and vile, Smoking his pipe on a roadside stile. Soil'd and sullied without and within By many a sorrow and many a sin…

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Colonial Summary. the Wagga Wagga Bridge Company

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 30 June 1866 · page 4

THE claim of the Wagga Wagga Bridge Company to demand a toll for the passage of all persons or stock over the Murrumbidgee River, within two miles of their bridge, was…

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Local Intelligence. the Wagga Wagga Bridge Company

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 7 July 1866 · page 2

THE half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders of the Wagga Wagga Bridge Company was held in the Court House on Tuesday afternoon last. The attendance was very limited. Dr. Morgan was…

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Riverina Railways

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 13 October 1866 · page 2

NOTHING operates more injuriously upon the expanding trade of an inland district, or militates against the development of its internal resources, so much as slow, costly, and uncertain means of…

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