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Railways, roads & transport, 1890

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THE Wagga Wagga Advertiser. Tuesday, February 4, 1890. Our Railways

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 4 February 1890 · page 2

IT is satisfactory to learn from the Commissioners' report that under their management the railways are giving increased returns. The increase for…

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Temora Railway Sectional Committee

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 5 February 1890 · page 3

THE first sitting of this committee on the railway question was held on Saturday at the court-house, Cootamundra, the members present being Messrs, F. T. Humphery,…

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The Proposed Railway From Cootamundra to Temora

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 7 February 1890 · page 2

ON Saturday the Sectional Committee of the Public Works Committee held their first meeting to collect evidence on the proposed railway from Cootamundra to Temora. The members…

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Temora Railway. Sectional Committee at TEMORA

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 8 February 1890 · page 5

The Sectional Committee, consisting of Messrs. Henry Copeland, and E. W. O'Sullivan, M.L.A's, and H. Humphery, M.L.O. appointed by the Public Works…

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The District Road. (To the Editor of the Wagga Advertiser.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 11 February 1890 · page 4

SIR,—The public and the local road contractore are at a loss to learn if this district has a Road Superintendent. A gentleman supposed to be the latter, called tenders for…

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Battle with Train Robbers

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 14 February 1890 · page 4

A BAND of train robbers boarded the south bounds Santa Fe passenger train at Berwyn, ten miles north of here, one night, and when the train stopped at the station at 11 o'clock two of…

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Peculiar Railway Accident in America

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 20 February 1890 · page 4

THE American papers contain an account of a singular accident which occurred on the previous day on the New York, Susquehanna, and Western Railroad. A coal train of 26 cars…

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Overheard in a Train to the Mountains

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 22 February 1890 · page 2

HE: What was that Mrs. Skindeg said about poor Markham? She: Oh, something frightful. He drinks like a fish; she knows for certain that he…

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Gazette Notices. Reserve From Sale for Railway Purposes

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 22 February 1890 · page 3

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, directs it to be notified that, in pursuance of the provisions of the 101st section of the Crown Lands Act…

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Fearful Railway Accident in Victoria. Seven Men Killed—nine Injured. Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 4 March 1890 · page 2

ABOUT 7 o'clock last evening, an engine, driving before it a truck belonging to Neil M'Neil, contractor on the Penshurst and Korost line of railway, came into collision…

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THE Wagga Wagga Advertiser. Saturday, March 15. 1890. Proposed Upper Murray Railway

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 15 March 1890 · page 2

SOME time ago attention was drawn to the activity that was being displayed by the residents of Albury in agitating for the construction of a line of railway…

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Temora Railway

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 15 March 1890 · page 7

YESTERDAY the business set down for the Public Works Committee included a motion to the effect that the proposed railway from Cootamundra to Temora be carried out…

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THE Wagga Wagga Advertiser. Thursday, March 20, 1890. the "Albuey Banner" and the Upper Murray Railway

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 20 March 1890 · page 2

The article we republish this morning from the Banner is another proof of the earnestness that is being displayed in the agitation for the Upper Murray…

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Proposed Upper Murray Railway (From the Albury Banner.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 20 March 1890 · page 3

IN view of the large settlement that has taken place on the valley of the Murray above Albury, the question of affording the up-river people some means of renching a…

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Railway Excursion to The Rock on Easter

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 22 March 1890 · page 2

FOR some considerable time it has been the intention of the managing committee of the schools in connection with St. Michael's Church to give the children attending those…

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Cootamundra-temora Railway

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 22 March 1890 · page 9

THE Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works met on Tuesday afternoon, Present—Dr. Garran, M.L.C. (in the chair), Messrs W. J. Trickett, F. T. Humphery,…

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The Coota:-temora Railway

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 22 March 1890 · page 2

THAT the Cootamundra-Temora railway line is now assured may safely be said, having passed successfully through two critical stages, the…

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Shocking Railway Accident

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 29 March 1890 · page 4

A YOUNG man named Robert Orr, 20 years of age, living at Goulburn-Street, Yaraville, was the victim of a terrible railway accident on Wednesday evening. As the 6.30 down…

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Road Matters

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 2 April 1890 · page 2

We have pleasure in publishing the following correspondence regarding road work in this constituency, which is being attended by Mr Barnes…

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Extraordinary Railway Prosecution

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 3 April 1890 · page 3

A PECULIAR prosecution of a stockbroker for an alleged breach of the railway rugulations came on for hearing, the Age says, on Tuesday. The defendant, Alexander V…

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