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Railways, roads & transport, 1874

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Wagga Bridge Company's Act

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 23 September 1874 · page 5

A SUPPLEMENT to the Government Gazette of the 6th December, 1861, contains the Act of Parliament incorporating the Wagga Wagga Bridge Company, a somewhat lengthy…

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Encounter in a Railway Carriage

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 26 September 1874 · page 4

A serious case of assault has been heard at the Cuckfield Police court, in which Mr Jeremiah Farrow, a well-to-do farmer, from Old Newton, Stowmarket, Suffolk, was the…

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Bad Roads. (To the Editor of the Advertiser.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 7 October 1874 · page 2

SIR,—Through the medium of your widely circulated paper, I wish to draw the attention of the Municipal Council of Wagga to the disgracefully bad state of that portion of…

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Appalling Railway Accident. (European News.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 21 November 1874 · page 4

Our of the most appalling accidents which over occurred has taken place on the Great Eastern Railway between Norwich and Brnndall. A train carrying mails leaves Great…

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Original Correspondence. Railway Dangers. (To the Editor of the Advertiser.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 25 November 1874 · page 3

SIR,—You have road, no doubt, accounts of the recent terrible accidents on the Groat Eastern Railway In England. If I understand the cause of the collision by which so many lives were lost, it was the…

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New Railway Time-table

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 12 December 1874 · page 6

WE understand that a new time-table for the Soothers and Western Railways will be brought into operation about the middle of this month. In answer to question asked…

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