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Railways, roads & transport, 1872

41 stories in Riverina's papers · page 2 of 3

Wagga Bridge Company v. HOLLOWAY

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 22 June 1872 · page 4

THIS long pending case came on for hearing at the Supreme Court, on Monday last, before His Honor the Chief Justice, and Messrs. Justice…

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Train's Biography of Fisk

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 6 July 1872 · page 6

THE most graphic account given of the life of James Fisk, jun., was spoken impromptu by George Francis Train—the news of the assassination being handed to him on the…

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The Wagga Wagga Bridge Company v. Holloway. Banco Court. (Before his Honor the Chief Justice Sir Alfred Stephen, C. J., Mr. Justice Hargrave, and Mr. Justice Cheeke.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 10 August 1872 · page 1

THE following is the report from the Empire of the important judgment of their Honors in this case:— His Honor the Chief Justice said:…

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The Bridge v. Free Punt

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 14 August 1872 · page 2

THE judgment of the full Court in the Bridge case, of which a condensed report appeared in our last issue, was given in full in Friday's Herald at the length of some five columns…

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Bridge Company v. Free Punt

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 14 August 1872 · page 4

SUBJOINED will be found the judgment in full in the recent case. In order to obtain a thoroughly complete and uncondensed report, such as the importance of the case…

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Original Correspondence. All communications to this Journal must he authenticated by the name ami address of the writer. No notice will be taken of anonymous communications, and no rejected communication will be returned. the Bridge Case. (To the Editor of the W. W. Advertiser.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 21 August 1872 · page 3

SIR,—As a non-professional man I fail to see any force whatever in the rilling of Mr. Justice Hargrave in the case of the W. W. Bridge Company v. Holloway, and I think…

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News by the Californian Mail. Shocking Railway Accident

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 11 September 1872 · page 4

Belleville, Canada June 22.—The night express went down past this place at 2 20 this morning, fall of passengers, among whom were many ministers of the English Church…

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The Waterloo Bridge Mystery Exploded

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 5 October 1872 · page 5

A STATEMENT having appeared in an Indian paper which has just reached England to the effect that a soldier at Lucknow had told the authorities at the military prison there…

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Our Minor Roads

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 19 October 1872 · page 2

WITHIN the past week we have travelled over some of the minor roads in our locality. Complaints are sometimes made of the nonarrival of the mail coach at its proper hour…

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Correspondence. Deniliquin Railway Extension. (To the Editor of the Express.)

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 2 November 1872 · page 2

SIR—In year issue of Saturday last you have unwittingly. I am certain, done injustice to the efforts made at Deniliquin in favour of getting a railroad made to this plalce from the Murray at…

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The Urana Bridge. (To the Editor of the Wagga Wagga Express.)

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 9 November 1872 · page 2

SIR,— Your remarks respecting the crossing of the Urana Creek, contained in the issue of the Express of 30th ult.. causes me to corrohorate your statement. It is not long since I had occasion to cross…

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Telegraphic. SYDNEY. Thursday, 11.10 a.m. Bridge Company v. HOLLOWAY

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 9 November 1872 · page 2

THE case of the Bridge Company v. Holloway has been settled The connsel for the defence offered to accept a verdict of forty shillings damages The judge certified for the costs to be…

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Wagga Bridge Company V. John Holloway. [Special Report.] In the Supreme Court. Thursday, November 7, 1872. (Before Sir Alfred Stephen, Chief Justice.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 13 November 1872 · page 2

THIS case was brought up on Thursday morning, before his Honor the Chief Justice. Sir W. Manning, Q.C., and Mr. Salomons for plaintiffs; and Mr. Butler,…

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Supreme Court - Thursday, November 7. Banco Court. (Before Sir Alfred Stephen, C.J, and jury of four) The Wagga Wagga Bridge Company v. Holloway

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 13 November 1872 · page 2

THIS was an action which had been instituted to try the right of the Wagga Wagga Bridge Company to a monopoly of tolls across the river Murrumbidgee, within a certain distance on either side…

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Experiments in Road-making in Melbourne by the City Corporation

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 7 December 1872 · page 3

SOME months ago a motion was proposed by Mr. Councillor A. K. Smith that a trial should be made in Flinders-street, between Russell and Spring streets, of fifteen chains…

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Proposed Railway. From Deniliquin to Echuca

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 11 December 1872 · page 3

THOSE who are specially interested in the above project will (says the Pastoral Times) he pleased at perusing the following:— "Sydney, 20th November, 1872…

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The Proposed Denilquin-moama Railway. (From the Sydney Morning Herald.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 18 December 1872 · page 2

THE proposal made by the settlers in the south-west for the construction of a railway from Deniliquin to Moama, is different in its character from any similar proposition that…

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Distressing Railway Accident

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 18 December 1872 · page 4

IN The Daily Telegraph of Wednesday last, it was reported that a boy, unknown, had been carried to the Melbourne hospital suffering from concussion of the brain, in…

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Railway From Adelaide to Port Darwin

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 18 December 1872 · page 4

A PRELIMINARY meeting was hold on Monday the 9th inst, at the office of the Chamber of Commerce, to take into consideration the action which the Colony of Victoria ought…

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Railway Extension to Wagga Wagga

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 21 December 1872 · page 3

Mr. Macleay moved,—"That the House will, on Friday, go into committee to consider an address to the Governor requesting the insertion in the Loan of the railway from…

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