North Coast Railways
Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 25 November 1899 · page 2
The Sydney Mail states that with the two parties of surveyors on the Grafton-Glen Innes line, the necessary sections will be completed in six months. The Mail understands that the present Minister for…
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The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 28 November 1899 · page 3
TENDERS closed yesterday at Maclean for three road contracts, two of which had previously been submitted and had not been taken. On this occasion there were a number of competitors for the work…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Coonamble Railway
Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 28 November 1899 · page 4
The recommendation of the Public Works Committee that the railway to Coonamble should start from Dubbo was on Wednesday adopted by the House. Not, however,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Russia on the Pacific and the Siberian Railway
Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 28 November 1899 · page 3
" Vladimir," the anonymous author of "Russia on the Pacific, and the Siberian Railway," hopes that he will be thought a Russian. We…
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The Raleigh Sun · Friday 1 December 1899 · page 2
MR. E. F. RUDDDER, of Coramba, writes as follows :—I received a letter from the Under-secretary for Lands, which I attach. I would like to explain that I strongly urged the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Monster Railway System
The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 1 December 1899 · page 3
HERE are some interesting figures and facts—the latest published—concerning the London and North Western Railway Company. It has a capital of £117,000,000, and a yearly revenue of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Hero of the Armored Train
Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 2 December 1899 · page 4
Captain Nesbitt is the officer who was in command of the armoured train captured at Kraaipan, a place forty miles south of Mafeking. The driver of the train tells the story…
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The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 4 December 1899 · page 3
The Boers attempted to destroy the bridge over the Tugela bridge but were gallantly defeated. Pontoons have been despatched from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Disaffection Spreading. British Forces Under Arms. a Transport Wrecked. Tugela Bridge Destroyed. Ladysmith "All Well." London
The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 8 December 1899 · page 4
At the battle of Modder River the Boers were very strongly entrenched on both banks, and also on an island in the middle of the river. The fighting was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Free Passes
The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 8 December 1899 · page 4
IN the Assembly Mr. Af[?]leck moved for leave to bring in a bill to amend the Government Railways Act of 1888, section 27. He said that sub section A of section provided that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Railway Question
The Raleigh Sun · Friday 8 December 1899 · page 2
ARMIDALE Chronicle publishes the following letter received by Mr. Wilson, M.P., from the depnrtment:—"With reference to your letter of November 10, and to persistent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Railway wanted to the Coast. [Armidale Express, December 5]
The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 8 December 1899 · page 4
IT is satisfactory to see that in consequence of the persistent representations made by our member, Mr C. Wilson, M.P., to the Public Works Department…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Coast-Tableland Railway
Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 9 December 1899 · page 2
The Armidale Express writes: It is satisfactory to see that in consequence of the persistent representations made by our member, Mr. C. Wilson, M.P., to the Public Works Department as to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Correspondence. Grafton-lismore Railway
The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 11 December 1899 · page 2
SIR,--The announcement made that the Railway Commissioners are to be in Grafton on Tuesday next to enquire into the merits of the above line has caused the question to be asked…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The City Railway
The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 12 December 1899 · page 4
Also in Clarence and Richmond Examiner
THE Minister for Works was waiting patiently in the Legislative Assembly on Friday evening to submit a proposal for the basis of the city railway the (extension of the Redfern station),…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The George-street Tram
Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 12 December 1899 · page 4
At last this tramway has been opened for traffic. The event took place on Friday. Very wisely the Railway Commissioners decided that there would be no opening…
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The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 15 December 1899 · page 3
IN connection with the building of the railway lino through tho Souden, the following account in given of this crucial teat between British and American manufacturing facilities:—Further…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Guyra-coff's Harbor Railway
The Raleigh Sun · Friday 15 December 1899 · page 4
FROM the Hillgrove Guardian of December 2 we clip the following, which appeared in the Guardian's lending columns :—We learn from THE RALEIGH…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Railway Agitation
The Raleigh Sun · Friday 15 December 1899 · page 2
MR. W. M. STEVENSON, of Guyra, writes to us as follows :-" I see by your paper you have had a successful meeting re the railway from the tableland. I may stale I am and…
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