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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1874

37 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 2

Execution of Jarvis for the Obange Road Murderu

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 6 January 1874 · page 5

HENRY VINCENT JARVIS suffered the extreme penalty of the law, within the walls of Darlinghust gaol on Tuesday morning, for the murder of James Muggeridge, carrier, on the Orange and Bathurst…

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Railway From the Clarence to the Tableland of New England

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1874 · page 2

AT a meeting of the Railway League, held at the School of Arts, Grafton, on, Thursday evening last, it was decided that a deputation should wait upon Mr T. Bawden, the M[?]mber for the Clarence. In…

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Original Correspondence the Urara Bridge. to the Editor of the Examiner

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 10 March 1874 · page 6

SIR,—This very fine structure is, I am given to understand, fast approaching completion. Is it not customary upon the opening of similar undertakings to have some kind of coremony or demonstration on the…

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The Clarence and New England Railway

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 24 March 1874 · page 4

IT will be seen in another part of to-day's issue, that the proposed vote of £100,000 on the Loan's Estimates for the Railway from the Clarence River to New England, has been withdrawn, in consequence of the…

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The Clarence and New England Railway

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 31 March 1874 · page 5

IN the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday, upon going into committee of supply, Mr. SUTHERLAND moved the omission of the £100,000 for a line from Clarence River to New England. We copy from…

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Opening of the Bawden Bridge, Urara River

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 7 April 1874 · page 4

ALTHOUGH the notice given was short, that the new bridge erected over the Urara, was to be named and declared publicly open for traffic by the MAYOR OF GLAYTON—Mr. THOMAS FISHER, J.P., acting under…

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Railway From the Clarence to New England

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 14 April 1874 · page 4

IT will be interesting to most of our renders, to learn that the survey of the Clarence and New England Railway line is being steadily pushed forward. One party is at the Big Hill, on the…

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The New England Railway. (From the Murrurundi Times.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 14 April 1874 · page 3

In the discussion which recently took place in the Assembly relative to the item of £100,000 proposed for the Clarence qand New England Railwayy, and withdrawn in consequence of the survey not having been…

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Opening of the "Bawden Bridge." to the Editor of the Examiner

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 21 April 1874 · page 5

SIR,—In your report, which appeared in your issue of the 7th instant, of the proceedings on the occasion of opening the "Bawden Bridge over the Urara," you made a slight error, which was evidently copied, and…

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Nymboy Bridge, Newton Boyd Road. to the Editor of the Examiner

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 28 April 1874 · page 5

SIR,—It is now nearly five yours since the Nymboy bridge wns commenced. Probably not anticipating so much delay in the construction, nor yet so large a traffic on the road, a small punt was placed on the…

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Latest Commercial. Mr. John Bridge's Weekly Report

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 12 May 1874 · page 5

WOOL, AND SHEEPSKISS—My sales being held fortnightly during the winter months, I had no sale this week, and therefore nothing to report. TALLOW.—Under this head I have nothing special to report…

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Accident at the Redfern Railway Station

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 19 May 1874 · page 7

WE have to record the third railway accident which has occurred on the railway within the short period of three or four weeks. The second accident, which occurred but the other…

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Serious Railway Accident at Newcastle. From the Newcastle Chronicle

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 23 June 1874 · page 7

ON Friday morning a very serious accident occurred on the Great Northern Railway, at Newcastle, by which several railway carriages and on engine were damaged and thrown off…

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Opening of the Brisbane Bridge

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 30 June 1874 · page 7

LAST Monday was a great day ub Queensland annals, the new bridge across the Brisbane having been officially opened by his Excellency the Governor, which great ceremony in the…

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Trial Surveys for Railways

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 14 July 1874 · page 5

RETURN to an order of the honourable the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales,dated 18th June, 1874, that there be laid upon the table of the House "A copy of any instruction…

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Porta's Aerial Bridge Ladder. (From the Herald.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 11 August 1874 · page 3

IN an Australian city like Sydney, wherein during the summer months—and especially when hot winds prevail—the peril arising from sudden fires is very great, anything directly tending to lessen such a…

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From San Francisco to New York by the Overland Railway. (From the Herald.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 11 August 1874 · page 7

HAVING recently done the great railway journey from San Francisco to New York, I send, some jottings from my journal that may be of service to the intending traveller, and…

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Casino Bridge. (From the Express.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 18 August 1874 · page 5

ALTHOUGH we daily see timber drawn in for the Ca-ino Bridge a report has gone obroud that the performance of the work has been taken out of the hands of the contractor and that the work is to be…

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The Kempsey and Armidale Road. (From the Macleay Herald.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 25 August 1874 · page 3

HAVING visited the works now in course of progresover what is termed Dry Corner Gap, named by Mr. Duffy when he explored and decided upon this gap in the leading range between the Macleay River and…

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Serious Railway Accident

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 8 September 1874 · page 5

A ver serious accident occurred on Munday afternoon, on the Great Southern Railwayy, at whiteheads Dank, about a mile and a half un the Goulburn side at Sutton Forest station, through a gonda train coming…

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