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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Railways, roads & transport
174 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 4 of 9
A " BUMMER!" The meaning of that word has given Mr. JINKS and I no end of trouble. We searched our old dictionary over and over, without success; but at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A DEPUTATION from Glen Innes and Inverell districts waited on the Colonial Secretary yesterday, to urge the construction of the line of railway from Glen Innes to Inverell…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IT is very gratifying to notice that the Macleay Chronicle has taken a broad and comprehensive view of the Railway to the Tableland question. In a recent sub-leader on the Sydney Echo's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE notice that tenders are invited for a number of road contracts in this district, and specifications for the same may be seen at the Court-house. THE GRAFTON-FERNMOUNT ROAD is to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A LARGE public meeting was held at Harwood this evening, the Mayor of Maclean in the chair. The Chairman spoke at some length of the injustice of the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Public Works Act, sub-section I of section 13, provides that " every such proposed work should in the first place be submitted and explained in the Legislative Assembly by some member of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Armidale people are interesting themselves very much over the question of Railway extension to Inverell. It is feared that the sole cause for this lively interest lies not so much in a desire to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IN the Assembly on Tuesday, Sir HENRY PARKES said he knew it was the desire of the hon. members that he should lay before the House what extension of railway the Government had decided upon, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE deputation which waited on the Premier to urge the advisability of placing the the Inverell-Glen Innes line in competition with the Guyra and Kentucky proposals…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MR. W. E. ABBOTT, of Wingen (brother of the well-known politician) and who visited this district a few months ago, writes as follows to the Maitland Mercura:—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE new-born infant seems "Monarch of more than he surveys." From the ablest physician to the smallest child able to run on a message; all are ready to minister to his wants, with the best…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. EDDY, who has been appointed Chairman of the New South Wales Railway Commisson, has had 20 years experience of the management of English railways, and for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A MEETING of the Provisional Committee was held on Tuesday evening. Present—The Mayor (in the chair), Messrs. H. Maurice, D. Beatson, T. Bawden, J. M'Donald, T. T. Seller, W. H. Waterhouse, J. H…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE last hour of the session in the Assembly was almost a fitting conclusion to the absurdities of the past ten months. There was a redeeming point or two, it is true, in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A CORRESPONDENT in the Glen Innes Guardian, reviewing the recent meeting held at Armidale in support of the Guyra proposal, writes.—"Most of the speakers admitted they did not know what to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR.—There appears to be among some people an idea that persons who advocate Land Nationalisation ought not to advocate railway construction. I am as strong a Nationalist as any, but I certainly…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →As the North Coast Railway, from Maitland to the Tweed, is excluded from the list of those lines which are to be submitted for the consideration of the Committee of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THERE is a line of railway from Blayney to Murrumburrah constructed, it was alleged at the time, to relieve the traffic on the Western line between Blayney and Sydney. Blayney is 172 miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE capital invested in British railways is over 820 millions sterling. In Germany the railway capital cost is stated to be 465 millions; in France, 462 millions; in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MATTERS in regard to the railway agitation have quietened down somewhat since the Premier made the announcement that the claims of Glen Innes would be fairly…
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