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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Railways, roads & transport
24 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 2
SIR,— The Inverell people. I notice,have lately held a meeting for the purpose of urging upon the Government the extension of the Northern Railway to that town, an object very laudable in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AN accident occurred at [?], Ohie on the Lake Shore Railroad, by which seven coaches and all the baggage and express cars were burned, and about one out of every five persons killed. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GENTLEMEN,—Your railway meeting held on the 14th instant, was, in my iden, a perfect farce—very unsatisfactory indeed if you are earnest in your desire to obtain railway communication from Grafton to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR—In reference to a railway between Grafton and Glen Innes, so much has been said on this matter that I feel loth to make reference to it, and, if my name was clear of the question I would have some…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A DEPUTATION, consisting of Mr.H. Bennett, M. L. A. Mr. T. J. Dangar, M. L.A., Mr. W. J. Dangar, Mr. J.J.R. Gibson, Mr. Colin Ross, and Mr.John M'Master, was introduced to the Secretary for Works…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We are strangers in this city, Ned and me And we pranced around on Wednesday, After tea;…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →lN accordance with a resolation passed at the last sitting of the Grafton Municipal Council, a public meeting was held at the.School of Arts, on Wednesday night, to consider the advisability of co-operating;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. MACKESZIE WALLACE has written an interesting account of Modern Russia, and the last London Society in reviewing it, points a moral apropos to the late railway survey:— "Mr. Wallace's initial…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—In the Observer it is stated that Mr. F.W. Chapman was the only member of the Railway Committee who attended at the School of Arts on Tuesday evening. I beg to say there were several members of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR —Two or three years ago, a great deal of agitation went on here, anent the Clarence and New England Railway. All that could be done was done in order to secure the boon of Railway communication…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR —I tried to arrange for a job of work a few days ago but could not agree, the muster saying he could get it done cheaper in a short time as there was a shipload of immigrants coming from America every month…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SHORTLY after midnight on March 25, a sad accident occurred to the Flying Scotchman, as the train is called, Which left Edinburgh between 10 and 11 o'clock, for Newcastle and London. It had about 60…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Monday evening last a public meeting was held at the Temporance Hall to consider the advisableness of co-operating with the inhabitants of the Clarence in the matter of the Claronce-New England Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—By your import of the recent meeting held in Glen lnnes on the above subject, I observe that an offer which I mentioned to Mr A. J. Dodd, to make a rough survey of that part of the proposed route over…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN the course of the debate to on the second reading of the Railway Reserves Bill, Mr Douglass stated that the Government did not contemplate, during the present session of Parliament…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE following important official letter was kindly handed to us yesterday evening by Mr. Bawden for publication:— Department of Public Works, Railway Branch…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—For some time past there has been a dispute between the Ulmarra, Municipal Council and David Watt, of Callagan's Creek, in the municipal district of Ulmarra, about a Government road said to run…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No. 1.—Trial surveys in the Clarence District. Trial surveys have been completed from Moleville and from South Grafton to Glen Innes, from Lawrence to Tenterfield, from Wyon to Casino, and from Iluka…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →" Sir,—Referring to your letter of the 27th June last, respecting the petition of certain residents of Carr's Island, Clarence River, in which they propose to contribute the sum of £100 towards the erection of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—After all there does not yet appear any praetical result of the late railway movement, and I do not see that the fact of the Ministry of the day going out of office is a sufficient reason to stop all our…
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