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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Railways, roads & transport
147 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 5 of 8
Is looking over the Public Works Committee's reports and the appended evidence in relation to our Railway and Harbour works, we are impelled to the opinion that the whole truth has not been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →OUR contemporary (the Inverell Times), under the head of "Valedictory," despairs of Inverell ever getting a railway, and takes leave of the subject in the following sarcastic terms:—"In view of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR.—The proposals now before Parliament for the construction of a line of railway from Lismore to the Tweed in substitution of the original proposal of a line of railway from Grafton to the Tweed…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →BITTER complaints reach as from all conditions of travellers who have to follow tho Grafton road in either direction. The driver of the mail coach finds it all he can do to keep to time, owing to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A VERY LARGE and enthusiastic public meeting was held in the Mechanics' Institute, Maclean, on Tuesday evening, in connection with the above project, there being over 150 persons present…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE Railway Commissioners are busy at work in a new direction. In inviting tenders for renting the various refreshment-rooms on the Southern, Western and Northern lines, they are stipulating…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BELOW we reprint a very interesting description of what is certainly "A Remarkable Railway Line" in Victoria. This line, it will be seen, is only come 15 miles in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE following correspondence has been sent by the Member for Grafton (for Mr. M'Farlane) to Mr. Goodger, relative to the above:— Department of Pubilc Works,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A MEETING of the Executive Committee was held on Wednesday. Present—Messrs. T. Bawden (in the chair), Munro Maurice, Davies, Varley, Rothschild, Hockey, M'Intosh…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. BRUCE SMITH moved the second reading of Grafton to Tweed Railway Bill; it was proposed to limit the line, as recommended by the Public Works Committee, to Lismore, and not carry it on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THESE gentlemen, who have been deputed to inspect several routes of proposed railway lines in the Northern districts, arrived at Grafton on Thursday evening from Armidale, and were yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SPEAKING to the second reading of the Bill dealing with the above proposal, Mr. DANGAR objected to the withdrawal of the proposed line between Lismore and Grafton, and he…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ANENT the discussion on the Ministerial Railway proposals in Victoria, some interesting details respecting the ganges and average cost per mile of the railways of some of the colonies have been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN looking over the Hansard report of the debate on the second reading of what was the GraftonTweed Railway Bill, we have met with many surprises. Some of them it may not be out of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE regular meeting was held on the 26th. Present—Messrs. W. Cowan (in the chair), D. M'Gill, J. Livermore, J. Hayes, T. M'Intosh, J. Kemp, C. Ellis, J. Mulquincy. J. Walsh, S. Ellem,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR—I noticed in your last Saturday's issue that the application for a high-level bridge at Swan Creek has again been refused, at which I am not surprised when reading the report sent in by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SEVERAL cases have recently been heard at the local Police Court in which road contractors were sued by employes for money owing for labour in assisting to carry out their contracts. The liability…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Railway Extension question is one that is troubling our Victorian neighbours equally almost with ourselves. It appears that 4000 miles of railway have been asked for. Of this the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR—There has been so much written bearing on the disgraceful state of the roads in this district, that I reluctantly write you on the matter. At the same time we see the money voted for this work…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE rejection by the Legislative Council of the Goulburn-Crookwell railway proposal is scarcely to be wondered at. The proposal submitted by the Assembly to the Public Works Committee was the…
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