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Railways, roads & transport, 1875

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The Wagga Wagga Bridge. Public Meeting

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 8 September 1875 · page 4

A MEETING was held at the Court House on Monday evening for the purpose of taking the necessary stops to urge upon the Government the purchase of the Wagga Bridge…

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Local Intelligence the Wagga Bridge Public Meeting

Wagga Wagga Express · Wednesday 8 September 1875 · page 2

A PUBLIC meeting, convened by the Mayor (Mr. T. Hodson) agreeably to a requisition addressed to him by a number of residents was held on Monday evening last at the…

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Railway Prqgress

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 11 September 1875 · page 4

WHEN speaking at the banquet lately given to him in Liverpool the Minister for Works— Mr Lackey—gave the following statistics as to railway progress in this colony:—As the…

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Another Attempt to Upset a Train

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 18 September 1875 · page 4

ON Tuesday night some dastardly villain again placed obstructions on the first section of the Beechworth Branch Railway, between Tarrawingee and Everton,…

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The Murray Bridge

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 16 October 1875 · page 6

THE plans of the bridge, as drawn out originally, showed openings for waterway of 960ft., and embahkments 2800ft. in length ; but on the borough council…

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Those Horrible Smells. a Sydney Ballad, sung by Mr. Beaumont Road, AIR—Those Beautiful Bells

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 23 October 1875 · page 5

THOSE horrible smells , those horrible smells, Silently , solemnly , tolling our knells, From the Clebe Island and over the flood Waiting the perfumes of slaughter and blood…

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Railway Progress

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 October 1875 · page 4

THE near approach of the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, said to be the first line used for the conveyance of…

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Railway Safety Appliances

Wagga Wagga Express · Wednesday 3 November 1875 · page 4

“AMONG all the matters in which mankind at large have an interest, there are,” said Mr. Bramwell, in his lecture to the British Association last Monday…

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New Wesleyan Church, Brucedale, Junee Road. (Communicated.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 13 November 1875 · page 2

The interesting ceremony of laying the first stone of the proposed new church, at Brucedale, took place on Tuesday last), in the, presence of about 250 persons. It will,…

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Railway Matters. (From the Goulburn Herald.)

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 20 November 1875 · page 8

THE remarks of Mr. Whitton in his speech at the opening of the railway extension to Gunning are worthy of more than passing consideration. We have it on his authority…

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Railway Travelling

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 27 November 1875 · page 4

AT a meeting of the British Association for the advancement of science held last August, Sir John Hawkshaw said that railway travelling was safer than any other, that there was…

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Correspondence. Railway to Gundagai. to the Editor

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 31 December 1875 · page 3

SIR,—Now if ever, is the time to make an energetic movement in the matter of a railway to Gundagai. Everything looks favorable to its being placed in a fair way for accomplishment—at least so far as…

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