Casino-Lismore Railway. SYDNEY, Friday Night
THE Casino-Lismore Railway Bill passed the Committee of the Assembly without amendment…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1900
315 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 8 of 16
Expenditure on Roads and Bridges
ON the Temporary Supply Bill the Minister for Public Works obtained a sum of £500,000 for roads and bridges in anticipation of the annual vote for the current year. In order that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Boer Waf. Kruger Orders Concentration at Lydenburg. Burghers Disregard His Entreaties. Baden-powell Hard Pressed. Over 3000 Boers Surrender, Boers Derail Another Train. London
TWELVE hundred more Boers have surrendered to General Hunter, who expects that fully 4000 men and three commandants will lay down their arms…
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MR. G. N. GRIFFITHS, of Casino, in a letter to a Sydney paper against the Grafton-Casino line, says:— "Lismore is likely before long to wrest from Grafton this superiority, JUST AS MACLEAN…
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SIR,—If my memory serves me right, reference has previously been made in your journal to this requirement (editorially), and I think it a matter for regret the subject has not been followed up in other…
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SIR,—The idea of applying tho closure to railway agitations by demanding construction on the betterment principle is unique so far as New South Wales is concerned. That it will dump the ardour of many…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Boer War. Harrismith Occupied British 30 Miles East of Middleburg. Hamilton Driving Delarey Back Attacks on the Railway. Rustenberg Relieved. British Converging on Machadorp. London
General French is reconnoitering 30 miles east of Middleburg without meeting with any organised resistance. The prisoners taken by General Hamilton…
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Tram Elevated Railway Tram Vehicles Pedestrians Bicycle Path Pedestians Vehicles Footpath…
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When moving the second reading of the bill authorising the construction of the railway, Mr. O'Sullivan, the Minister for Works, said: This bill authorises the construction of a line of…
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IT is the fashion to say that the Public Works Committee is entirely useless, except as a means of lining the pockets of certain self-sacrificing members of…
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COMMENTING on the proposed construction of the Lismore-Casino section of the North-Coast railway the R. R. EXPRESS says:--"Here then at last is…
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TENDERS are invited for the first batch of contracts for the year 1900-1901 in Maclean district, as under:— No. I—Maclean via Tyndale to Brauhgrove—199…
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Intense interest is excited among engineers by the investigation of a scheme which, if it were once adopted and proved successful in. any degree…
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The electric tram is an undoubted convenience, but no one is quite satisfied that it is a harmless one. Up to date it has killed about a dozen people, and injured a number…
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SIR.--Now that this railway has passed the Works Committee would it not be judiicious to hold a public meeting for the purpose of urging on the Minister for Works…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War in China. Chinese Government Desire Safety of Foreigners. Want Them to Leave Peking. Advance on Peking. Allies Demand a Clear Road to Rescue the Ministers. London
THE Chinese Council is urging the Powers to instruct the Ambassadors to proceed from Peking to Tientsin, but the Powers decline to do so until tho road is safe…
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Specifications are on view at the Court House for the following contracts:— Gear's to Coval Lane and Deep Gully road—1379yds formation, 1257yds metalling and blinding, 62[?] chains…
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Casino has merged conspicuously into prominence, and of late has been one of the most frequently named towns on the Richmond River, Reason, the railway…
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The electric tram is already known in Australia. In England they have the electric train. Two or three railways of this kind are already in full working order in London,…
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Friday's Herald contains a letter written by Mr. J. C. Wilcox in reply to Mr. G. N. Griffiths on this line. Mr. Wilcox deals with the inconsistency of Mr. Griffith's assertions,…
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