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Wagga Wagga Advertis... : 14 May 1892(6)
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- Advertising
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  Advertising : 2393 words view this article
- Divorce in England. A REMARKABLE CASE. THE PLEA OF INSANITY AND THE DIVORCE LAW. | DISMISSAL OF THE HANBURY APPEAL. LONDON, MAY 11.
  Judgment was given to-day in the appeal againt the decision of the Divorce Court in the case of Hanbury v. Hanbury. The case was one in which the wife ...
  Article : 360 words view this article
- COLLUSION IN DIVORCE. STRICT INQUIRY IN UNDEFENDED SUITS REQUIRED. LONDON, MAY 10.
  Lord Justice Sir Henry Lopes to-day declared from the bench that he believed that collusion was practised to a very great extent in divorce cases in which respondents ...
  Article : 95 words view this article
- The Dog Nuisance. WHAT COUNTRY SHEEPOWNERS SUFFER.
  On May 7 an exciting chase after dogs took place at Messrs. Sullivan Brothers' proporty at Alloway Bank, near Bathurst (says the Bathurst Daily Times.) In common with ...
  Article : 335 words view this article
- Advertising
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  Advertising : 195 words view this article
- The Condemned Man Deeming. ABANDONMENT OF THE APPEAL LONDON, MAY 10.
  The firm of London solicitors who were communicated with on behalf of the condemned man, Frederick Bayloy Deeming, with a view to insinuating an appeal to the ...
  Article : 88 words view this article
- THE WARRANT OF EXECUTION.
  The warrant for the execution of Frederick Bayley Deeming on the 23rd inst., was signed on Wednesday by his Excellency the Governor, the Chief Secretary; Mr. M'Lean, ...
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- EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN THE GAOL. DISPUTE BETWEEN MR. LYLE AND THE PRISON CHAPLAIN.
  Whatever the actual facts may be—and the two statements which we print below are so divergent as to exeite little hope in the reader of reconciling them satisfactorily ...
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- THE REV. MR. SCOTT'S STATEMENT.
  The Rev. Mr. Scott's statement, however, differs from that of Mr. Lyle very considerably. He says:—Before I saw Mr. Lyle to-day I complained, both to the sheriff and ...
  Article : 814 words view this article
- A STRANGE BEQUEST. DEEMING DESIRES HIS BRAIN TO BE EXAMINED.
  The extraordinary calmness and deliberation which characterises most of the prisoner's acts are not absent from the decision at which he has arrived, that in the ...
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- THE ACTION OF THE MAYOR OF GRENFELL. SYDNEY, WEDNESDAY.
  At a meeting of the Grenfell Municipal Council last night, the Mayor was asked to explain his action in telegraphing to the Department of Justice, Victoria, asking that ...
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- ATTITUDE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL. LONDON, MAY 12.
  The Times, in an article on the proposed appeal to the Privy. Council in the Windsor murder case, states that the Privy Council will not ihterfere in any way with the ...
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- Fire off Druit-Street. COLLISION BETWEEN FIRE ENGINES. THREE MEN INJURED.
  A FIRE broke out on Monday evening (the Echo says) at Robert Harper's store in Duncan-street, hear Druitt-street. The alarm was given by a patent fire alarm ...
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- Disposing of Surplus Stock ALBURY, WEDNESDAY.
  As a further means of getting over the surplus stock difficulty, the establishment of meat-chilling works at Albury is projected. It is recognised that, with the imminent ...
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- Fight in a Chinese Gambling Den. ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE. | A GENERAL FIGHT. LISMORE, TUESDAY.
  A SERIOUS affray occurred at midnight on Monday amongst a number of Chinamen congregated in Foon Young's store, North Lismore, two being seriously injured and ...
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- Australian Federation. THE TASMANIAN PREMIER IN SYDNEY.
  MR. P. O. Fysh, Premier of Tasmania, who is at present in Sydney, on Monday, met a number of members of the Ministry, and talked over several subjects of intercolonial ...
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- Riverina Farmers' Conference. (From Our Mundawaddera Correspondent).
  The Conference of delegates from Farmers' Unions and from all the farming districts in the Riverina will be definitely held about the 7th June. Several in localities where ...
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- The Schey Charges.
  The evidence taken on Wednesday before the Royal Commission on charges brought by Mr. Schey, M.P., against Mr. Eddy must have been very satisfactory to Mr. ...
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- The Baldwin Engines.
  THE Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the suitability or otherwise of the recently-imported Baldwin engines continued its work on Tuesday afternoon. ...
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- Land Selections. ALBURY. May 12. | Conditional Purohases.
  Geo. H. Hodson, 60 acres, Munderoo Robert M'Micking, 180 acres, Manus Conditional Loases. Geo. H. Hodson, 180 acres, Mimdoroo ...
  Article : 31 words view this article
- HAY. May 5. | Conditional Purchase.
  John Gibson, jun., 420 acres, Berangerine Additional Conditional Purchase. John Gibson, jun. 420 acres, Borangorine Cond[?] Lease. ...
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- Killed by a Fall of Earth. CAMPERDOWN, WEDNESDAY.
  A fatal accident occurred here to-day, whereby a young labouring man named Georgo Cain, aged 22, lost his life and a lad named William Hudson, a messenger in ...
  Article : 272 words view this article
- The Victorian Speakership
  It took nearly an hour to complete the swearing in of the now Victorian Assembly on Wednesday last (the Age says), and after the Chief Justice had bowed himself out of ...
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- The First Zigzag. PIERCING OF THE LAPSTONE TUNNEL.
  THE Lapstone Tunnel, which is intended, when completed to do away with the first Zigzag, on the Western line, was successfully pierced on Wednesday morning when the ...
  Article : 183 words view this article
- Mr. Dibbs's Visit to England. OPINION OF SIR HENRY PARKES.
  Sir Henry Parkes, in the course of an interview with a reporter from the Sydney Morning Herald, said that Mr. Dibbs had gone to England on a fool's crrand. "Whether he ...
  Article : 339 words view this article
- Wagga Volunteer Fire Brigade.
  THE usual monthly meeting of the above was held on Tuesday evening, when there wore present—Captain Connor, 1st-Lieut Mumford, 2nd-Lient. J. Edney, Treasurer ...
  Article : 458 words view this article
- Action Against a Dentist. VERDICT FOR DEFENDANT.
  In the Metropolitan District Court on Wednesday morning Jadge Wilkinson delivered jadgment in the case of Mason v. Harris which has oocupic the attention of ...
  Article : 233 words view this article
- Pastoral Mems.
  Mr. E. Naugton has sold two drafts of fat sheep. Tompson, Manning, and Jeremy, agents. Mr. K. W. Donnelly, Borambola, has sold ...
  Article : 256 words view this article
- Advertising
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Abstract THE Lapstone Tunnel, which is intended, when completed to do away with the first Zigzag, on the Western line, was successfully pierced on Wednesday morning when the

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Sat 14 May 1892 - Wagga Wagga Advertiser (NSW : 1875 - 1910)
Page 6 - The First Zigzag.

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The First Zig7;«g.

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PIERCING OP THE LAPSTONE

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TUNNEL.

Line 2.0.0Fix this textTiie Lnpstone Tunnel, which is intended,
Line 2.0.1when completed to do away with the first
Line 2.0.2Zigzag, on the Western Hoc, vras successfully
Line 2.0.3pierced on Wednesday morning when the
Line 2.0.4men working from each end met and ex
Line 2.0.5changed greetings. This work has be-n
Line 2.0.6attended with considerable difficulties in
Line 2.0.7consequence of bard character of the rock,
Line 2.0.8and the existence of several curves on a heavy
Line 2.0.9steep grade, which has necessitated greatciro
Line 2.0.10being exercised throughout. The tunnel
Line 2.0.11itself is on reverse curves of lu chains radius
Line 2.0.12having transition curves of 30 chains radius,
Line 2.0.13loading on to the intermediate straight j

Line 2.1.0and the fact that th« headings met. s»
Line 2.1.1accurately rebounds greatly to th»j credit of
Line 2.1.2Mr. Wetherby, the Government engineer in
Line 2.1.3ch*r«e The contractor* for the work are
Line 2.1.4Messrs, Proud foot and Co., and i htxy awl.
Line 2.1.5their engineer (Mr. Burt) and their nrianairvtV
Line 2.1.6(Mr Gr*ig) deserve complimenting for the
Line 2.1.7satisfactory manner in which thin tunnel ha*
Line 2.1.8heen put through. Gr<?flt r*:j'oicintf

Line 2.2.0place when a pa^sago wa* rcnde, and cheeis
Line 2.2.1war« heirtily given for the contractor?,'IH*v
Line 2.2.2engineers, and allconcorncd.

Article identifier: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article101860466
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APA citation: The First Zigzag. (1892, May 14). Wagga Wagga Advertiser (NSW : 1875 - 1910), p. 6. Retrieved September 11, 2016, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article101860466
MLA citation: "The First Zigzag." Wagga Wagga Advertiser (NSW : 1875 - 1910) 14 May 1892: 6. Web. 11 Sep 2016 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article101860466>.
Harvard/Australian citation: 1892 'The First Zigzag.', Wagga Wagga Advertiser (NSW : 1875 - 1910), 14 May, p. 6. , viewed 11 Sep 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article101860466
Wikipedia citation: {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article101860466 |title=The First Zigzag. |newspaper=[[Wagga Wagga Advertiser]] |volume=XXII, |issue=2473 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=14 May 1892 |accessdate=11 September 2016 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}