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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Railways, roads & transport
64 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 4
SIR,—My attention has been drawn, and no doubt also the numerous passers-by, to the fact that the Government bridge (called Susan Bridge) is, after every ordinary thunder or other rains, almost flooded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE electoral districts of Tenterfield, New England The Gwydir, and The Clarence contain a population equal to about one-thirteenth of that of the whole colony of New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE bridge on which the most complete land catastrophe that ever occurred took place a few days ago (not one of those in the submerged train having escaped) is thus described in a piper by Mr Gilkes, in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IT is not satisfactory to hear members of Parliament giving it as their personal experience that there is a great waste of money in connection with the expenditure of the vote for minor roads…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →[?] innovation which has forced itself into fabour so speedily and completely as the tramway has done. It had been vetoed by the town council, and frowned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE most awful railway accident which ever occurred in Scotland took place near Dundee on the night of the Monday after Christmas, when al portion of the famous Tay Bridge, together with a crowded train…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—The great connecting link between the whole of the roads of the Northern districts known as Princestreet is again a quagmire, and with every prospect of a wet winter a like probability of it remaining in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—As a general election must be held before twelve months, either under the present Act, or under the more just provisions of the Bill at present under consideration in our Legislature; I think that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN the course of Mr. Dillon speech the other day, in response to numerous cries about the railway, he said, (as reported by the Inverell Herald):—He knew that their main want—without which they would not…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON the 7th instant a meeting was held in the Largs School of Arts "to take into consideration the disadvantage caused to the farmers by the Government doing away with the bus companies and constructing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT is curious to see the hot contention just now raging between the two interested factions as to whether the northern trunk line of railway shall be continued to that great metropolis,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—I would suggest that the Secretary should call a meeting of the Railway Committee, in order to consult on what steps it would be most beneficial to take in order to bring under the notice of the member for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Through you journal I would call the attention of the Lord Mayor and aldermen of Grafton to the Mary-street bridge approaches, which are very dangerous and demand immediate attention, unless the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →RECENTLY efforts have been made by the good people of Singleton and other towns to in induce the people of New England, to aid them in an agitation to secure railway extension into…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A part of the ill-fated train which went down with the Tay Bridge in December last has turned up at Norway. While some fishermen were engaged in hauling up their nets an extraordinary object met…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →COMPARATIVE STATEMENT showing what Would be the relative cost of conveyance of goods by rail to and from Newcastle and Armidale, 262 miles, on the one hand, and to and from Grafton and Armidale…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN appaling calamity happened on the South Pacific Coast Railroad on Sunday afternoon, May 23, by which sixteen persons were killed and forty others badly wounded or slightly bruised. It is the second…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE voice of the locomotive is now daily penetrating towards the Moonbi ranges, in the immediate vicinity of which it is expected to be heard inside of eight weeks. On the temporary rails Messrs. Amos…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SOME important alterations (says the Melbourne Age) have been made in the rates charged by the Railway Department for the carriage of wool from the Western District and from New South Wales. The change is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Brooklyn Bridge, which is now nearing completion, spanning the arm of the sea which sparates New York from Brooklyn, is without doubt the boldest undertaking in the…
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