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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Railways, roads & transport
97 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 4 of 5
SPEAKING in favour of the Grafton-Tweed Railway, in the Assembly, on the 15th instant, Mr. SEE said: The Clarence is the finest river in the colony, and it has a barbour that can be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following appears in the S. M. Herald as a letter:—As a resident of over 20 years' standing in the Clarence and Richmond districts, kindly permit me to trespass on your columns for the purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A STORY of a pecnliarly sad nature was told at the Quarter Sessions by Ernest Logan, who pleaded guilty to embezzling £20 while employed as a railway clerk at Bathurst. When called up for sentence,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SERIOUS charge was made in the Assembly by Mr. Forsyth, on a motion for adjournment, against oertain officers in the Railway Department. He accused three officers of having given the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE City Railway has been referred to a Select Committee on the ousting vote of the President— 14 voting for, and 14 against. The Nyngan to Cobar line is now under discussion…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IN moving the second reading, of the Government ment Railways Bill the Minister for Public Works in the Assembly on Monday very plainly indicated that the measure will revolutionise the New South…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A SPECIAL sitting of the Central Criminal Court was opened on Tuosday in Darlinghurst, before his Honor Sir James Martin, C.J., to hear the railway fraud cases. The first case was that preferred…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THERE exists at the present time here and elsewhere, a very uneasy feeling as to what course the Upper House will take in dealing with the railway proposals sanctioned by the Assembly. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THERE is a woeful contrast between the financial condition of the Victorian railways and those of this colony. The former are improving and the latter retrograding in about equal ratio. Our…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, THURSDAY EVENING—The Grafton-Tweed line has been referred to a Select Committee, on a division of 17 to 7.— The Glen Innes to Inverell proposal was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THERE will be a general feeling of regret here that the Upper House has seen fit to delay this railway by referring it to a Select Committee. Had members served one and all alike they would have had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Legislative Council in acting in the true interests of the public by refusing to sanction the construction of railways, the paying chances of which are more than improbable,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR.—I trust you will grant me space to reply to a letter, signed "J. T. M'Kittrick, dated Metropolitan Hotel, which appears in the Daily Telegraph of Friday last. The writer of the letter, and Mr. J…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR.—When writing the Sydney [?] on [?] subject, I was well aware that so soon as the paper, reached Grafton interested parties wonld be writing me down at once; consequently I am not at all…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR.—Pardon my intrusion, but I am an old resident of the Clarence, having enjoyed that privilege considerably longer than the gentleman who, with characteristic audacity, has come forth to save the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE formal opening of the Northern railway extension to Tenterfield was performed hy Lord Carrington on Wednesday last His Excellency reached Tenterfield on Tuesday, and was most…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IT is an unfortunate thing that no member of the Upper House sitting at the present time has any personal knowledge of the districts to be connected by the line, the first section of which was recently…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IN moving the approval of the plans, sections, &c., of the Grafton-Tweed line, the Government Representative (Mr. MACKELLAR) said: cThis is the first section, 22 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR.—I, as well as a large majority—indeed I may say the whole of the citizens of Grafton—have been perfectly taken back at the tenor of some letters lately appearing in the metropolitan…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR.—I noticed in your "Facts and Rumour" to-day that several persons have been communicated with in Sydney to advocate our interests, &c., &c. I hear that one gentleman (Mr. R. Stevenson) had…
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