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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Railways, roads & transport
34 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 2
ON Friday evening last a meeting was held in the Town Hall, Armidale, for the purpose of pressing on the Government the necessity of using more energy in the matter of pushing forward the railway extension…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Wednesday, June 28, the Legislative Assembly went into Committee of Supply for the further consideration of the Loan Estimates. The sum of £1,999,000 was proposed under the head of railways…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →William Duggan lost 3 head. Mr R. E[?] had about 1000 bushels of maize in his barn; the water was in about two feet, but since the flood the barn has burst. The water having gone, the corn will only…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A VERY numerously and influentially attended meeting was held at the Temperance Hall, on Monday evening, for the purpose of memoralising the Government to make the road from Glen Innes to Grafton fit…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE are glad to notice the arrival in Brisbane, by the last Torres Strait's mail, of Mr. G. H. Royce, one of the partners of the Fairlie Engine Company, London, who has come out to arrange for a trial of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—In your issue of the 5th instant appears a report of a meeting held at Southgate for the purposo of obtaining a road along the banks of Alumny Creck…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE have much pleasure in publishing the following letter from the Under-Secretary for Public Works (John Rac, Esq.), to Mr. Bawden, by which it will be seen that the Department has acted with very great…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following petition is being signed for presentation, through Thomas Bawden, Esq., M.P., to the Honourable the Minister for Works:- "Grafton, 18th August, 1876…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A DEPUTATION, consisting of Mr R. P. Abbott, M.L.A., Mr James Watson, M.L.A., Mr. R. A. Lewis, Mayor of Glen Innes, and several other gentlemen waited upon the Minister for Works on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →RAILWAYS OF NEW SOUTH WALKS: Report on their Construction and Working, from 1872 to 1875 inelusive, by JOHN RAE, A.M., Commissioner for Railways. Sydney: Thomas Richards,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE ancient Greeks were frequently heard to express it:—"The gods help those who help themselves." This is a great truism, and bears a peculiar application to the inhabitants of this town and district…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR.—As one citizen among the crowd, I have felt rather surprised at the complete oblivion into which apparently the railway agitation, that once raged so fiercely in Grafton, has fallen of late; and have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN the Queensland Legislative Assembly, in the debute on the, Railway Reserve Bill, Mr. Tyrel, member for Carnarvon, rose and said,— " He could not allow the measure to pass to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A TERRIBLE accident occurred on th night of the 30th October in the Royal China Theatre, San Franicisco, by which a large number of Chinamen were killed and many scriously, if…
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