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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1889

310 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 11 of 16

Road Improvements

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 17 September 1889 · page 4

SPECIFICATIONS are on view at the Court-house for the following road contracts, for which tenders have been called- Newton Boyd road: At Mulligan's Flat, approaches…

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Railway and Harbor League

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 17 September 1889 · page 2
Also in Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser

AT a special meeting of the Executive Committee held yesterday, there were present-Messrs. See, Waterhouse, T. and C. Page, Bawdon, Davies, Maurice, M'Kittrick, Rothschild, Lipman, and Munro. It…

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Railway Construction in N.S. Wales. No Railway Project to be Reported on this Session

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 21 September 1889 · page 3
Also in Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser

QUITE a new light apparently has been cast upon Railway construction in New South Wales by the evidence given before the Public Works Committee respecting the Goulburn-Crookwell Railway by Mr…

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The North Coast Railway. No IV

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 21 September 1889 · page 3
Also in Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser

THE possibility of this country having to defend its shores from hostile invasion, however much it may be ridiculed by some people, is a matter which should not be lost sight of in considering the…

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Echoes and Opinions. Reserves Along Railway Routes

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 21 September 1889 · page 4
Also in Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser

A CORRESPONDENT of one of the metropolitan papers has been very lavish in his laudation of Mr. BRUCE SMITH for his action ia reserving land along routes proposed for railway exploration…

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THU Clarence and Richmond Examiner. (ESTABLISHED 1859.] Saturday Morning, 21St September, 1889 Authorised Lines of Railways

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 21 September 1889 · page 4

THE discussion anent Railways which ensued on Mr. RYRIE'S motion for adjournment, presents some interesting phases. The discussion, originating in the refusal of the MINISTER FOB WORKS to…

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The Minister and our Railway

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 21 September 1889 · page 8

SIR.—Such an unwarrantable, and therefore unfair, statement as that of Mr. Brace Smith's, the Minister for Works, to the people of these districts, through their Parliamentary representative—that the…

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THE Clarence and Richmond Examiner. [ESTABLISHED 1859.] Saturday Morning, 21St September, 1889 Authorised Lines of Railways

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 21 September 1889 · page 4

THE discussion anent Railways which ensued on Mr. RYRIE'S motion for adjournment, presents some interesting phases. The discussion, originating in the refusal of the MINISTER FOR WORKS to…

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Clarence Railway Construction and Harbour Improvement League

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 24 September 1889 · page 2
Also in Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser

A MEETING of the Committee was held yesterday. Present—Messrs. Bawden (in the chair), Waterhouse. Page, Munro, Rush, Maurice, Lipman, M'Kittrick, Rothschild, C. Page and Davies…

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Facts About Colonial Railways

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 24 September 1889 · page 4
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AT a meeting of the Public "Works Committee held on Tuesday Mr. Walter Shellshear, resident engineer in the Railways Department, was the first witness examined. He…

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A Water Railway

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 24 September 1889 · page 4
Also in Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser

THE Paris correspondent of the 'Daily News' gives an account of the so-called "Chemin de Fer Glissant," or " Slide Railway," which was tried on the Esplanade des Invalides within the Exhibition on…

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The Minister for Works and the Guyra-South Grafton Railway. to the Editor of the Herald

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 24 September 1889 · page 4
Also in Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser

SIR.—I notice by this morning's paper that the Minister for Works has had all the lands on the route of the proposed line of railway between Guyra and South Grafton reserved for railway purposes,…

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