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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1882

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Railway Meeting at Tenterfield

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 7 March 1882 · page 3

FROM the Tenterfield STAR of Wednesday we learn that a public meeting was held for the purpose of forming a League, having for its object the securing of a line of railway from the seaboard to Tenterfield…

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Grafton Railway Committee

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 10 March 1882 · page 3

A MEETING of the committee was held on Monday afternoon last, Mr. D. Beatson (Mayor in the chair: and 13 other members were present. The minutes of the previous meeting having been…

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Carr's Creek Bridge

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 13 March 1882 · page 2

AT the request, of the residents in the residence in the neighbourhood the new bridge recently erected by the Government to connect Carr's Island with the Borough was formally opened on Friday afternoon last by Alderman T. Page…

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The Clarence-new England Railway

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 18 March 1882 · page 2

MR John See has kindly furnished us with a copy of a letter on the above subject, recently addressed to a gentleman in town, from which we extract the following:—…

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Clarence and New England Railway. to the Editor of the Clarence Examiner

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 21 March 1882 · page 2

SIR,—The time has now arrived when all North Grafton property-holders, who do not desire to see their freeholds ruined, must come forward and raise their voice. So sure as the general body of North…

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The Progress of the Railway Survey

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 24 March 1882 · page 2

THE following reliable particulars of the progress being made with the survey of the Grafton-Glen Innes Railway will no doubt be read with the utmost interest by our renders :--…

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The Railway Delegates. to the Editor of the Clarence Examiner

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 25 March 1882 · page 5

SIR,—So the gentlemen calling themselves delegates from Grafton, have arrived at Glen Innes. Since they started I have heard the question asked throughout the town, have these gentlemen gone to Glen…

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Grafton-glen Innes Railway. Progress of the Survey

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 25 March 1882 · page 6

THE following reliable particulars of the propress being made, with the survey of the Grafton-GLen Innes Railway will no doubt be read with the utmost iterest by our…

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Clarence New England Railway. Glen Innes

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 25 March 1882 · page 5

THE Conference opened this afternoon. Present: The Mayor (in the chair), Messrs. J. H. Munro, Hawdon, Hayley, Nome, See; E. Grover, S. W. Burridge, H. M'Rae, F. Utz, T. M'K[?]trick. The…

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A Miller's Opinion on the RAILWAY

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 27 March 1882 · page 4

WHAT a railway line from Grafton to Glen Innes and westward would do. Mr. Wearne writing in the Inverell ARGUS "points out--This district has now hundreds of thousands of acres of good agricultural land…

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Clarence-new England Railway

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 28 March 1882 · page 3

IN responding to the toast "Visitors," at the Tenterfield Pastoral and Agricultural Society's banquet, Mr C. E. Hogg, in the course of his remarks, said he had been given to understand that a few remarks on…

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Clarence-new England Railway. Glen Innes

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 28 March 1882 · page 3

The Conference concluded its sittings on Saturday, by the adoption of a petition to the Minister for Works, pointing out the urgent necessity for the immediate construction of a railway between the…

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The Railway Conference

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 31 March 1882 · page 3

THE Conference of Delegates from several districts held last weak in Glen Innes was well attended, and the unanimous feeling of the various representatives as to the best route to meet…

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Clarence-New England Railway. Meeting at Casino. [From Our Own Correspondent.]

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 1 April 1882 · page 6

A LARGELY-ATTENDED meeting was held in the School of Arts on Wednesday evening, 22nd instant, for the purpose of urging upon the Government the thorough examination and survey of the Tenterfield and North…

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Railway Conference at Glen Innes. (From the G. I. Examiner.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 1 April 1882 · page 8

The first Conference in connection with the GraftonInverell Railway was held in the Music Hall, Glen Innes, on Friday, 24th March. As it was not generally knowu that the public would be admitted, the…

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The Railway Conference at Glen Innes. Friday, March 24, 1882. [Continuation of the report in Argus, of Friday, March 31.]

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 3 April 1882 · page 4

Mr. BAWDEN suggested at the evening sitting of the Conference some scheme should be brought up for the establishment of branches of the League. During his visit to inverell he found the majority of the people…

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Political Versus Business Railway Making

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 7 April 1882 · page 4

WE are very willing to believe that the intention and desires of the Minister for Mines in the trip northwards, now undertaken by him, are of strictly business like character. The Minister has a notable…

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The Grafton-glen Innes Railway

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 10 April 1882 · page 4

The information published in our last issue, touching the progress of the trial survey of the Grafton Glen Innes Railway or, more correctly writing, the [?] section of the Great West…

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The Railway Question

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 10 April 1882 · page 3

REFERRING to Mr. Murray's M. P., recent visit the Inverell ARGUS states:--We, however, thank him for inducing both Dr. Renwick and the three other gentlemen who accompanied him for paying us their late…

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Correspondence. [The Editor does not hold himself responsible for opinions expressed by correspondents.] Grafton and New England Railway. to the Editor of the Clarence Examiner

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 11 April 1882 · page 2

SIR,—In reply, a few days since, to Mr C. H. Fawcett, M.P. and Mr F. G. Crouch, Mr Lackoy, the Hon. the Minister for Works, statert that "the railway surveys would be completed, and the country…

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