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Riverina · Railways, roads & transport
53 stories in Riverina's papers · page 2 of 3
SIR,—Among the schemes of railway extension announced by Mr. Lackey, there are two which must at onco strike everyone who knows anything of the country as wasteful…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Having road your leader a short time since respecting the railway freights from Albury to Wagga Wagga, I wrote you stating that to my positive knowledge there…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following extract from the Times originally appeared in the Colonies and India:—"The colony of Queensland seems likely to be the first to put into practical execution the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A SINGULAR story connected with tho Tay Bridge calamity is told by the correspondent of a Dundeo paper, as follows:— A gentleman, whose name there are…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE following correspondence has been handed to us for publication by the Secretary of the Progress Committee:â "Wagga Wagga, February 23, 1881…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following letter has been addressed by "Farmer" to the Tumut Times:— Sir,—I notice by late papers that the sum of £218,000 has been voted in the Assembly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE following very sensible letter has been addressed by "Farmer to the Tumut Sir,—I notice by late papers that the sum of £218,000 has been voted in the Assembly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THERE was a tolerably good muster at the public meeting held at Wallendbeen on Wednesday night last, with the object of allowing the electors and the representatives…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CONTINUING our report of the railway meeting held at Wallendbeen last week, we publish below Mr. Pinkstone's reply to the speech of Mr. W. J. Watson:—…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ARRIVAL OF TRAINS, AT WAGGA WAGGA FROM SYDNEY.—Passenger Train (Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays) 10.5 p.m. Goods, 4.25 p.m.; Pick-up Goods, 12.45 p.m.; Mail (daily, Mondays excepted),…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A PUBLIC meeting in connection with the above was held on Wednesday evening, the 8th inst., at Dowell's Royal Hotel, Wombat. It was expected that a number of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →'I WANT to know whether your paper is ru in the interests of a favored few, or pro bone public ? Thus said a visitor to the Free Press…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Build your engine houses hero, Where Murrumbidgee is so near; Displaying beauty, in silent pride, In its perpetual wave to the ocean tide…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A PRELIMINARY meeting was held on the 21st instant at McKay 's Hotel, to consider the advisability of urging the Government to construct a tramway from Gundagai to Tumut, via…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A VERY successful public meeting was hold on Monday evening last at McKay 's Beehive Hotel. The large room was filled with all the leading townspeople and many of our most influential…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A PUBLIC meeting was held in Hodgson 's Assembly Hall, Adelong, on Tuesday evening, for the purpose of requesting the Government to construot a tramway from Gundagai to Tumut…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A terrible accident occurred this morning to the Brighton express train. When the express was approaching Jolimont, the axle of the engine broke, and several of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THIS event took place on Thursday, and was attended without much ceremony, no member of the Government being present. The train was the ordinary mail train, which left the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A DEPUTATION, consisting of the Hon. J. Hoskins, M.L.A., M. Myers, M.L.A., and Messrs. E. G. Brown, N. Emanuel, W. B. Marks, B. Molineaux, and W. Menlove, waited upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE question which is occupying the attention of people here, through the vigilance of the people of your town, has been taken in hand in an earnest and thoughtful spirit by…
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