The Railway
THE Armidale people have been giving evidence on the Iaverell-Glen Innes Railway proposal. As was to be expected, the old jealousy of Glen Innes blinded these people to the national interests…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1891
128 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 4 of 7
The Roads
MR EDITOR.—Great complaints are daily made about the Casino division of the Lawrence-Casino road. For some unknown cause this road has been sadly neglected, although some £1500 is upon the…
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MR. EDITOR.—Being in favour of the Alumny Creek bridge, and having the interests of the place and district at heart, I am sorry to learn of it being opposed by some who should be in favour of it…
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MR. EDITOR.—Some time ago a petition was sent to the Minister for Works, asking for a road through the temporary Common. The request was granted, the road surveyed, and since then the…
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MR. EDITOR.—Kindly grant space for just a line or two more on this subject. I wish to state that all the sugar cane grown on the west side of Alumny Creek, also on the upper end of Carrs Creek, was…
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AN accident of an extraordinary nature happened shortly before 1 o'clock on Saturday morning on the railway line near the Burwood station. About the hour stated one of the railway porters…
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MR. EDITOR.—Largely sympathising with you as I do in your attempts to awaken the people of Grafton to a sense of their duty, not only as regards their own partioular rights, but also the rights of…
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THE following contracts have been signed for works on the roads named: — Fiddler's Creek, bridge approach, James O'Brien, £49 2s 6d; Priest's Mill to M'Pherson's Crossing, Hugh M'Pherson,…
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Mr. EDITOR: I think the promoters of the Alumny Greek bridge site made a great mistake in not calling a public meeting to discuss where the proposed site should be, so that it could have been fixed to…
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THE annual meeting held on Saturday was attended by upwards of twenty members, the President (Mr. H. M'Kenzie) in the chair. Correspondence was read from the Department of…
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LAND has been resumed for the following roads, which it has been deemed expedient to open. Parts of road from Cooloon to North Tumbulgum, between the west boundary of C. Skinner's 40 acres, c.p…
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MR. EDITOR.—I apologise for troubling you again on the above subject. My reason for doing so is to show there is a little difficulty as regards resumption of land on the weat side of Alumny Creek, for…
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ONE taking a journey on this road would be astonished at the large amount of traffic that passes along it, and though metalled for some stretches of considerable length, the intervening unmetalied…
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THIS is what Mr. G. Morant Simp[?]on (one of the candidates for Glen Innes) says on railway extension. The railway to Inverell has been dangled before our eyes for 10 or 15 years, and it seems…
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MR. EDITOR.—It seems that G. A. Gray, is still averse to the erection of a bridge over the creek where the petitioners desire it. As the pablic are aware he has tried in correspondence to hoodwink…
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IT is deemed expedient to open the following road, and objections to same, if any, must be lodged prior to 10th proximo—Road on Palmer's Island, up the right side of the Clarence River, from the north to…
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MR. EDITOR.—Kindly allow me space to insert a few lines re the above road. Now, the reasons why I make complalnt are a follows—This road has existed Borne thirty years or more, and leads to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Science Jottings. Written Expressly for C. AND B. EXAMINER. The Gliding Railway
WHEN the project of propelling a train, of carriages by means of a locomotive engine was first presented to the world, the scientific men of that day proved to a demonstration that the thing waa wholly…
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AT last meeting of the Borough Council the following recomendatious were made respectting Mr. Frankel's letter— That Mr. Frankel's request as to the use of…
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MR. EDITOR.—In last Tuesday's Examiner "Justice," writing under the above heading, has not adduced an argument to convince me or any other person that a bridge is…
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