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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1882

89 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 4 of 5

Railway Meeting

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 8 July 1882 · page 3

THE railway meeting convened to hear address from Messrs C. Lee and E. A. Whereat, delegates from Tenterfield, was held on Monday evening, in the Theatre Royal. At the hour named, the theatre…

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Correspondence. [THE Editor does not hold himself responsible for opinions expressed by correspondents.] North Grafton and Tenterfield Railway Question. to the Editor of the Clarence Examiner

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 15 July 1882 · page 3

SIR,—The North Grafton and Tenterfield Railway Petition was brought to me this morning for signature—I was pleased to observe that it is aheady numorously, and influentially signed.—I was always…

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The Border Railway

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 18 July 1882 · page 3

IN the debate on the Addresses in the Queensland Legislative Assembly on the occasion of the opening of Parliament. Mr S. W. Griffiths, leader of the Opposition, in the course of his remarks on railway…

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Monster Railway Meeting at Inverell

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 18 July 1882 · page 3

ON the 6th instant, one of the largest, most influential, and unanimous meetings we (G. I. E[?]amener) have ever attended was held at Inverell, in the interest of the Grafton-Western Railway. The Mayor (Mr T…

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Railway Policy of the Government

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 18 July 1882 · page 2

IT seems, from what Mr Lackey said at Cobar, the Government do contemplate an extension of railways on a scale no less ambitious and no less enterprising than the Victorian Government. The Minister of…

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Tenterfield and North Grafton Railway. (Abridged from the Star, July 15.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 22 July 1882 · page 3

ON Wednesday evening last a public meeting of the residents of Tenterfield was held in the School of Arts to give a hearty welcome to Messrs C. A. Lee and E. R. Whereat, the delegates appointed to…

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Public Meeting. the Railway Question Again

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 22 July 1882 · page 8

A VERY large meeting was held at the Theatre Royal on Tuesday evening, the objects of the meeting being to afford the delegates at the late railway Conference at Glen Innes an opportunity of replying to…

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Railway From the Tableland to the Coast

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 5 August 1882 · page 3

PERHAPS no question of such vital importance, not only to New England but to the whole colony has raised such a storm of party feeling as that of the route of the proposed railway from the tableland to…

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Railways in Turkey

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 8 August 1882 · page 4

AUSTRIA and Germany (remarks the Pall Mall Gazelle) wish very much to get hold of the railways in European Turkey, and to connect them with their own lines…

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Correspondence. THE Editor does, not hold himself responsible for opinions expressed by correspondents.] Late Railway Meeting. to Thh Editor of the Clarence Examiner

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 8 August 1882 · page 3

SIR.—I think I should be not keeping faith with our North Grafton friends did I not give some reply to the allegations made by the Glen Innes delegates at the late railway meeting. Many may charge me…

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The War of Railway Tariffs

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 12 August 1882 · page 3

RESPECTING the utterances of Mr Bent, the Australasian of August a says:—We sincerely hope that our neighbours in the adjoining colonies, and especially in New South Wales, will not consider that the…

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Clarence-New England Railway. [From the Inverell Argus]

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 19 August 1882 · page 3

IT would be an injustice to implicate the Grafton public in the scenes enacted by some of those who composed the meeting held a week or two ago, in that town, in connection with railway matters. The…

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Tram Collision in Sydney

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 19 August 1882 · page 3

ON Friday morning a tram collision, involving serious injury to several passengers, occurred at the Elizabeth and Liverpool street junction. The tram leaving Randwick at 7.56, containing a fair…

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Railway Connection Between the Capitals of the Colonies

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 2 September 1882 · page 9

IT has been pointed out as a somewhat remarkable circumstance (observes the South Australian Register), that the late Mr Justice Boothby, as long back as the year 1854, projected a scheme for the…

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Railway Deputations. Sydney

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 9 September 1882 · page 4

Messrs Murray and Fergusson M's.L.A., introduced a deputation to the Minister for Works to urge the desirability of a railway direct from Grafton, through Glen Innes, to open up Inverell and the west country,…

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The North Coast Railway

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 9 September 1882 · page 6

MR. G. PILE in a letter to the Herald, writes:— The country which would be henefited by the construction of the above line of railway, comprises those districts extending from Maitland to the…

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The Clarence and New England. Railway

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 9 September 1882 · page 6

WE give, for what it is worth, the following letter, addressed to the editor Maitland Mercury:— I enclose a form of account sales for some hay sent to Sydney from Wingen, which shows the rates…

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Queensland Land Grant Railway

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 12 September 1882 · page 3

SUBJECT to parliamentary approval, the Cabinet have accepted the offer of Messrs Shaw and Blyth, on behalf of the Australian syndicate, to construct a land grant railway from the…

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The Armidale to Trial Bay Railway

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 23 September 1882 · page 3

Is a letter to the S. M. Herald, T. G. Panton, (Sydney) as president of the Macleay Railway League, writes:—In the first place we would say that if the Government decides that there shall be only one line…

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The Grafton, Glen Innes, and Inverell Proposed Railway

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 30 September 1882 · page 8

IN a letter addressed to the S. M. Merald, Mr. Myles M'Rue writes:— I have a large interest at stake in the colony and the construction of a railway, by the route indicated,…

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