Road Expenditure
THE following letter from the Department of Public Works in reply to criticisms on the road expenditure, which appeared in our morning contemporary, has been handed to us for…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1900
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Electric v. Steam Trams
THE Railway Commissioners are taking in hand the work of the conversion of the steam tramways of Sydney into the electric system. The cost, however, is likely to be far greater than…
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Yesterday 107 tenders were opened for 18 contracts, the following being the lowest. The total amount of the tenders reaches £2130 3s lld. No. 37, Glen Innes road, H. Johnson, £225; 5…
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ON Saturday afternoon last a public meeting at Coffis Harbor discussed, amongst other matters the proposed railway from the tableland to the coast. The meeting was one…
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The expediency of bringing the railway to the shores of Port Jackson has been allowed by everybody. Also, it has been allowed for forty years. The stumbling block has always been the route…
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Some weeks ago this journal was supplied with information relative to the schedules for minor roads in the Clarence. Bellinger, Richmond and Tweed districts, and taking that information as a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Gratton-Casino Railway. (From the "R.r. Express," Casino.)
A comparatively harmless interview at Myrtle Creek recently, between delegates respectively from the Grafton Chamber of Commerce and the Casino Railway Leagne has aroused the attention of our…
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WE are informed that a largely attended and enthusiastic public meeting was held at the hall at Don Dorrigo on Wednesday evening, the commendable object, being to form a…
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Mr. Editor.—We would feel obliged if you would bring the following facts before the notice of your fellow-citizens. We have just returned from a trip to Solferino, and never…
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SYDNEY, FRIDAY.—The Public Works Committee, yesterday, opened an inquiry as to the expediency of constructing a line of railway from Grafton to Casino…
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THE following report on an application to open a road through Portion 99, parish of Eaton, is to hand per favor of the Hon. John See. The land is owned by Thos. Morrissey, who is opposed to…
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The Public Works Committee opened an inquiry as to the expediency of constructing a line of railway from Grafton to Casino. Mr. Hickson, Under-Secretary of the…
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By yesterday's steamer three members of the Public Works Committee arrived in Grafton for the purpose of taking evidence regarding a proposal that had been referred to the…
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Motor car races. That's what the League of Wheelmen are going to give us on the Agricultural ground on the 5th, 8th and 12th of next month. Motor car racing, though…
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Mr. Deane, Engineer-in-Chief, Railway Construction Branch, continued his evidence on Friday before the Public Works Committee, The estimates which had been given as to…
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ACCORDING to Ian Maclaren, the great conditions of success in England are to be a fairly stout man, to look wonderfully wise, to have a sonorons flow of commonplaces, never to give…
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TENDERS for road contracts in the Bellinger district were opened by Superintendent Crouch on Monday last, as under :-Contract 54/99-1990, North Arm to Beach, 11 tenders,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Tugela Bridge. the World's Record Broken by a British Firm
A world's record for bridge-building has been made by the Patent Shaft and Axletree Company, Limited, in connection with tho war in South Africa. As soon…
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THE Public Works Sectional Committee commenced taking evidence on Tuesday at Grafton in reference to the proposed railway from Grafton to Casino. A. Lobban, Inspector of Schools, gave evidence,…
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ON Monday the Sectional Committee--Messrs. Trickett, M.L.C. (Chairman), Watson and M'Farlane, Ms.L.A.--arrived on the Clarence to enquire into the Grafton to Casino railway…
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