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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Railways, roads & transport
130 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 7
Mr. EDITOR—I read with astonishment, is a recent issue of your journal, a letter with reference to the above subject and in reply to one signed by "Resident" appearing in your columns, wherein the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MR. EDITOR.—I must again crave space to reply to a "Resident," who is still cowardly enough to shoot-from behind a hedge; and also to Alderman Walz. With respect to a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IT is proposed to resume land for part of road from Tumbulgum to Cooloon via Bilumbil Creek and Sebastopol, between A. Parrish's 40a. and Isabella E. M. G. Mark's 45a., with branch between…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Railway question, though at times brightened by a gleam of light, is just as frequently overclouded with the gloomiest prospects. We allude particularly to the North Coast line. Just at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AT the Executive Committee meeting of the League on Thursday (Mr. T. Bawden presiding) the following petition was adopted, on the motion of Mr. Page:—…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ON Wednesday the local [?]and Board had under consi[?]tion three cases in which roads passed through the lands of the applicants. One of these, James Winter, applied for permission to enclose the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WE learn from the Member (the Hon. John See) that the survey of the Guyra-South Grafton line is complote, but the estimate is not yet ready. The line commences about two miles north of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WHEN the present Railway Act was passed and the management of the railways handed over to a Board of Commissioners to be dealt with upon commercial, or substitution for political, principles,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MR. B. P. STOKES, in a letter to the Freeman's Journal, says it appears that the ardour of those interested in the construction of railways is not damped by the dulness of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE senior member for Glen Innes (Mr. Wright) communicated with the Department of Public Works relative to the Grafton Glen Innes line. Mr. Wright states that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THERE are 25,000 horses employed in the metropolitan carrying trade, the value of which is a million and a quarter, and it costs £800,000 a year for food alone, Mr. Gordon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →APROPO of the correspondance between Mr. F. A. Wright, M. L. A. and the Department of Works relating to a more careful survey and estimate of the Grafton—Glen Innes railway, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A TELEGRAM from Lismore states that 50 men, being "unemployed" from Sydney, had arrived at Lismore and could not find work, and that there were plenty unemployed in the district. Enquiry at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE question of whether a practicable road could be found between Coraki and Maclean has at length been decided. On the 4th inst. Mr. Surveyor Burgess in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MR. EDITOR.—I have noticed through your columns several, complaints about the disgraceful state of Dobie-street. Without any doubt, it is a disgrace to the Council to allow a thoroughfare to remain in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SPECIFICATIONS are on view at the Courthouse for the inspection of tenderers for the following road contracts:— Kelly's-Coff's Harbour road, south of Oakey…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ROADS declared for public traffic—Road between the Tintenbar-Ballina road, between W.H. Chilcott's 40a and G. H. Roberts' 40a, parish Ballina. Port of road from Grafton to the Bellinger, within…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Sydney Morning Herald's American letter contains the following interesting reference to what is being done by the Great Lake cities to connect them as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, THURSDAY.—The Public Works Committee met yesterday, when the first work considered was the Inverell-Glen Innes Railway. Evidence in regard to the routes was given by Mr. Barling,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE historical statement upon Railway construction submitted by Mr. DEANE, Engineer-in-Chief for Railways, to the Public Works Committee, in relation to the Glen Innes'-Inverell railway, was…
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