Upper South Arm Road
SOME four weeks ago Mr. Briner wrote, ns secretary of the local union, asking that n grant be made to improve the road to upper South Arm. Mr. McLaughlin was successful…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1899
235 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 10 of 12
The Railway
It has been decided to hold a general public meeting at Bellingen School of Arts on Wednesday afternoon, November 22. The meeting will be held at half-past two o'clock…
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A sensation was caused at Tarago yesterday by the actions of a tramp. He rushed into a man named Day's house near the township. Day was away at the…
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SYDNEY, FRIDAY.—Mr. M'Farlane, M.L.A., accompanied by Messrs. Cohen, Hurley, Morgun and Rose, introduced a deputation (Messrs. Glissan and Taylor) to the Minister…
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ON Friday Mr. T. Glissan, Mayor of Ulmarra, and Mr. W. J. Capp, who had been appointed a deputation to wait upon the Minister for Works to urge the construction of the Coldstream bridge,…
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This following tenders were received yesterday: No. 15—Harwood to Woodburn—M. Lynch lowest, £367, 4 tenders. No. 19.—Union Church to Southgate Wharf—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Retaliation on the Tramp
The swagman or tramp of Australia is an idependent individual. His home is on the plain beside a waterhole or billabong. He is indifferent…
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MELBOURNE, MONDAY. — On Saturday evening an attempt was made to wreck a tram-car in Bourke-street West, The car was noticed to bump shortly after passing…
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There are more ways than one (says the YORKSHIRE POST) of spending the summer holiday, and not the least interesting is as an amateur tramp. Two gentlemen, one of whom is a…
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THE NORTHERN COURIER says:—The Bowraville Progress Committee is to be heartily commended for again agitating the question of a tramline for the upper reaches of the Nambueca…
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ON Saturday evening an attempt was made to blow up a tram-car in Bourke-street, Melbourne. The car was felt to bump, and on a search being made on the line a bomb was found. The bomb…
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An armoured train, with a half-company of the Dublin Fusiliers, half-company of the Durban Light Infantry, and ten sailors, passed Chievely, seven miles south…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Transvaal War General Joubert's Condition. Determined Attack on a Train. London, Thursday. Reported Death of General Joubert
A TELEGRAM to the Natal TIMES, received via Delagoa Bay, states that General Joubert was killed in an action near Ladysmith on the 9th instant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Boers Destroy Bridge at Colenso. Preparations for Relief. London
The Boers attempted a closer investment of Ladysmith on the 14th instant, but were repulsed, losing heavily. A messenger from General White reported all…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Crushing Defeat of Boers at Ladysmith. Boers Destroy an Armoured Train. London
Colonel Baden-Powell, with a force of 65 men, moved out from Mafeking at night, and surprised a body of Boers. Many of the enemy were bayonetted as they lay asleep…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Motor 'Bus
The motor car has been with us for about three years, and has even rumbled in Australia, where, by the way, it has caught on "reluctantly." In England, so we are told,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Railway Through the Garden of Eden
If reliance may be placed in the statement that a syndicate has secured a concession to build a railway through the Euphrates…
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In connection with this railway the Legislative Assembly has decided upon the application of the Betterment system as a condition of the construction of the line…
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A public meeting in Bellingen School of Arts on Wednesday afternoon, to continue the railway agitation, was well attended and was very…
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Specifications are on view at the Court-house for the following contracts, for which tenders' are invited. M'Intosh's to Nymboida—From corner of Ryan's…
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