How the First Road over the Blue Mountains was made
OLD colonists know that the first roads in New South Wales were made by prisoners who worked in irons, or "iron gangs." In those days a long sentence prisoner…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1887
106 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 5 of 6
The Grafton-Inverell Railway. Ministers at Armidale
THE Daily Telegraph says:—The members of the Government who are en joying themselves and tickling the ears of deputations in New England had another enthusiastic…
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OUR railways are a drag on the general taxpayer as it is, and if Sir Henry Parkes means that this should be increased for the farmer's benefit he will require to re-arrange not only…
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THE Commissioner for Roads writes the following, minute:—Applicants might be informed that there are one thousand miles of road in the Richmond electorate, that all are stated by those who nee…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Gooda Train on Fire
SYDNEY, FRIDAY.—A goods train, after leaving Redfern for up country this morning, took fire while crossing orer the new bridge at Petersham, supposed to have been…
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A VERY important deputation of the leading merchants of Maitland interviewed Mr. John Haynes, the membor for Mudgee, on Thursday, for the purpose of eliciting an explanation from that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Clarence and Richmond Examiner. [ESTABLISHED 1859.] Tuesday Morning, 13Th September, 1887. Large Towns Without Railways
ON the return of the PREMIER and three other Ministers to Sydney last week, after a week's tour in the "Western and Southern districts, there appeared a paragraph in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Extension in the Northwest
THE question of railway extension is one that should be carefully watched by every intelligent citizen, with a view no less to preventing useless exponditure upon lines promoted by the efforts of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Clarence and Richmond Examiner. [ESTABLISHED 1859.] Tuesday Morning, 20Th September, 1887. Railway Rates Anomalies
WHAT Mr. HAYNES, the member for Mudgee, has been telling the people of Maitland, of the anomalies of railway rates in tue north, is notting new. The thing has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Disaster in America. 100 Kllled—200 Injured
A REUTER'S telegram from New York says:—A telegram from the scence of the terrible accident on the Toledo, Peoria, and Western Ballway Bays that the disaster surpasses in its apalling extent any…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railways and Tramways of the Colony
THE Railway Commissioner's report on the railways and tramways of the colony for last year was presented to Parliament. The report shows that the total amount of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Completion of the Northern Railway
MR. LEE, M.P., and Alderman Moses (Mayor of Tenterfield) had an interview with Sir H. Parkes in reference to the opening of the northern line of railway to the Queensland…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Darling Harbor Railway Terminus
THE returns of the goods traffic which centres at Darling Harbor terminus exhibit a great increase and point to the fact that with regard to the wool trade this port is going…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Peate's Ferry Railway Accident
IT has recently been decided by the Government, on the recommendation of the Commissioner for Railways, to offer compensation to the widow of the late driver Wilson, who was killed in the Peate's…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Road and Bridge Work
WE notice that plans and specifications are to be seen at the Court-house for a number of works for whioh tenders are invited. Amongst them are the following:—On Grafton-Armidule road, extension…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railways of the Rival Colonies
THE annual report of the railways of New South Wales was issued the same week as the report of the Victorian department There is a great contrast between the two…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The New Railway Bill
IN the Legislative Assembly a bill to make better provision for the management of the Government railways was introduced by the Premier, and read the first time. The bill…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. Copeland and our Railway Tariffs
IN his recent address to the electors of Armidale, Mr. Copeland made a radical proposal in respect to our railway system, He said "It would not be a bad idea to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Railway Policy
AN article from the Melhournc Argus headed "The railways of the rival colonies," which appeared in the Examiner of the 23rd October, seems to deserve very serious…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Conveyance of Merchandise on Railways
A RATTIER startling statement was made by tho Premier in the Assembly on Friday with respect to the present rates for the conveyance of merchandise by the railways. He…
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