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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Railways, roads & transport
64 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 3 of 4
THE battle of the tramways is getting fierce. The Parliament agreed, last session, to cover the metropolis with a network of these modern means of communication; and the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AT Tingha, a few days ago, Mr. Murray made his maiden speech as a candidate for the representation of the new electorate of Inverell. In the course of his speech (reported in the Inverell Herald) he said:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FROM the Wellington Evening Post the following details of the terrible railway accident on the Rimutaka incline are taken:—The ill-fated train, consisted of two composite carriages, an ordinary brake-van and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE writer of "Notes from Armidale," in the Uralla TIMES, states in reference to Mr. Dillon's recent speech at Tenterfield --The speech is an unusually tame affair…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE following correspondence has been kindly handed to us by Mr Thomas Page, the hon. sec. of the Clarence and New England Railway Committee:— Grafton, September 27, 1880…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Speaking at Inverell, Mr. R. L. Murray, who is a candidate for that electorate, is reported by the HERALD to have made the following reference to the above proposed railway :--…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MR. T. PAGE, Hon. Sec. to the Clarence New England Railway Committee, has handed to us the following correspondence for publication:-- Grafton, September 27th, 1880…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WHAT is the road to slumberland, And when does the baby go? The road lies straight through mother's arms, When the sun is sinking low…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE approaching marriage of an Albany belle makes public quite a romance. Her intended is clerk in a prominent business house, and, in riding to and from his home on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →OWING to the fact of its being known in Melbourne that a great portion of the clip from Riverina and the Darling will find its way to Sydney this year, and that special arrangements are being made for this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE general principles embodied in the Railway Compunies' Preliminary Bill have met with acceptance in the Queensland Parliament. A praetical interest attaches to the measure, the novelty of whieh, so far as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IF you insert seventy taps in a hogshead, and set them all running, the contents will escape within a time that may be calculated. If instead of seventy, you insert a hundred, of equal size, the process of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN the Orange District there exists a Farmers' Union, called the Spring Hill Farmers' Union, which was formed twelve months ago for the purpose of encouragng mutual assistance among agriculturalists by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE contract for the construction of this railway, which is to unite the vast districts of British Columbia and Manitobia with the rest of the Dominion, has been signed, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A LARGE and influential deputation waited upon the Minister for Works, on the 5th instant, for the purpose of urging upon the Government the claims of the Illawarra district, and praying for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AMONG the investments of the proximate future there are substantial reasons for including tramways. It is an "open secret" in the City of London that a decided effort is shortly to be made to increase largely the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PITTSBURGH October 11.—A terrible accident occurred on Saturday night on the Pennsylvanian Road, near the Twenty-eighth-street crossing, Pittsburg, caused by the neglect of the flagsman to signed a section train…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT a meeting of Mr. G. R. Maclean's supporters at Gilgai (reported in the Inverell Times of the 15th instant), that gentleman strongly advocated the construction of the Clarence-New England line. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A FEW weeks ago we made a few remarks on the proposed scheme of the Queensland Government for the construction of a railway to the Gulf of Carpentaria, by means of grants of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE railway statistics of the colony for the year 1879 are not of a very reassuring charactor. It is true that they show an increase in the length of lines open for traffic of 70 miles, the numbor…
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