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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Railways, roads & transport
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SIB,—In a late issue of the Examiner appeared a leading article commenting on our railway meeting, of the 19th ultimo. That it was written to damage our cause is very apparent; but in the writer's…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ONE individual, at least, has been so obtuse as to miss the point of our remarks in reference to "Railway advocacy at Lawrence," or is professedly so, for the purpose, probably, of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—You failed to refute any of my arguments re the railway from Lawrence to Tenterfield, and the inference is that they cannot bo controverted; but your want of argument causes you to lose your…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR.—Will you kindly publish she enclosed correspondence. I think the public—especially the agricultural portion—should have the benefit of the sound, practical, common sense expressed in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Masonic Hall in St. Leonards was crowded to excess on Monday evening, by an audience which numbered about eight hundred persons. The meeting was called…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR.—As our authorities in Sydney are about constructing a line of railway from the Tweed, the boundary river between Kew South Wales and Queensland, to terminate at Grafton, tho chief…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON December 28, 1879, the Tay Bridge was blown down during a violent gale, and curiously enough the anniversary of the disaster in 1885 was so stormy that the operations of the contractors for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE largest public meeting ever held in Inverell toot place in the Masonic Hall, on Monday night, in connection with the railway agitation for a line from Glen Innes to Inverell. Nearly four hundred…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE Assembly we are glad to see has had the good sense to reject Mr. NEILD'S motion which was the first step towards suddling the country with a large expenditure for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ADELAIDE, Tuesday.—Mr. W. J. Peterswald, Commissioner of Police, states that, with regard to the recent railway accident, every thing-went well until about 4 miles beyond Mount Lofty, when we felt…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SORRY as[?] we should be to say or do anything which would delay the starting of this line, which is expected to do so much for Grafton and the district, we cannot, =…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DURING the year 1885, a further sum of £2,909,715 was expended on account of capital, increasing the gross expenditure to £24,902.972, Of this sum, £21 839,378 have been expanded upon lines in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR.—I notice by a letter which has been written since your leader appeared suggesting an alteration route where the Grafton Tweed Railway enters the town, that your views do not find favour with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN discussing the Temporary Supply Bill, in the Assembly, on Tuesday, Mr. Abigail asked if the sum £100,000 for the railway to Tenterfield was an amount in excess of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—When the Alumny Creek road was taken out of the hands of trustees to be classed as one of the minor roads, we expected that under Government control a great improvement would be made, seeing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A VERY large and influential deputation, introduced by Mr. J. H. Young, M.L.A., waited upon the Minister for Publia Works, for the purpose of urging upon the Government the necessity of taking…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A DEPUTATION introduced by Mr. J. H. Young, M P., and consisting of Messrs. Abbott, Abigail, Burns, Brunker, H. H. Brown, Butcher, Creer, W. Clarke, Cass, Davies, Dawson, Ewing, Fletcher…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE, WEDNESDAY.—The Fingal branch of the railway to Hobart was opened yesterday by the Governor of Tasmania. A special train, conveying the Ministerial…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →HOBART, SATURDAY.—The inquest on the driver Bradshaw was concluded on Friday, when a verdict of accidental death was returned. The jury also oppressed the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE hearing of the first of the alleged railway fraud caaes, namely that of Lionel "William Leeland Duncan M'Alister, charged by Mr. Goodchap, the Commissioner for…
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