Road Contracts
TENDERS were opened yesterday for the following works in Maclean district:—Contract No. 6, Harwood to Wddoburn, 5 tenders, lowest T. J. Bloomer, £325. No. 7, Harwood to Woodburn,…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1902
303 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 12 of 16
Daring Train Robbery
A DARING and successful train robbery occurred at Marcus, on the Chicago, Burlington, and Q[?]noy railway. five milen north of Savanna, about midnight on August 5 (says a telegram from Mount…
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THERE is but little doubt, says the Sydney NEWSLETTER, that the motor cycle will prove the most useful form of automobile for travelling on Australian roads. It is not such comfortable…
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At the meeting of the Armidale Chamber of Commerce on Monday Mr. E. Lonsdale, M.P., made a lengthy report in reference to Mr. Kennedy's recent exploration of the…
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Giving evidence before the Works Committee yesterday with regard to the Tenterfield-Casino railway, Mr. Meagher, M.L.A., said there was not…
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MR KENNEDY has submitted a report of an exploration from Armidale to junction with the Guyra-Coff's Harbour survey in regard to the proposed line of…
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THE Public Works Committee yesterday examined Mr. W. A. Manning, of Grafton, on the Guyra-Coff's Harbour railway proposal and other North…
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The following report of an exploration from Armidale to junction with the Guyru-Coff's Harhour survey, by Mr. Kennedy, of the Railway Construction Department, in regard to the…
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"BACK BLOCKS " writes as follows to a Sydney daily:-As a country-man now in Sydney, and a many years' reader of your useful journal, will you allow me to give my opinion on the proposed…
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Mr. Editor.—In reply to "Correspondent's" defence of the Brushgrove Progress Association, I may point out that there are many matters of the class I mentioned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →That Terrible Motor Car Accident
A little while ago a cablegram was received announcing the happening of a terrible motor car accident in which Mr. C. L. Fair and his wife were killed. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"The Examiner." Established 1859. Published on TUESDAYS and Saturdays. Grafton: 7Th October, 1902. the Roads Vote
There is authority for the statement that "the way of the transgressor is hard." A more original remark is that between the ways of many transgressors and the ways…
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THE famous East River Bridge, which connects New York with Brooklyn, is Unequal to the strain of traffic which it has to bear. It is the longest…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Lightning Train
There's a train that travels at lightning speed through the valleys of Day and Night, And strong men shudder and pale in the rays of its head-lamp's livid light;…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Expenditure on Roads
Mr. O'Sullivan, in reply to Mr. Carruthers, said that the actual expenditure on the roads of the State from the revenue during the year 1900-1901 was £602,010 for…
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The rate of fatal motor accidents in France is absolutely bewildering. Old shepherds going home are smashed to pulp, rheumatic old ladies trying to cross the village…
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"Engineering" has an article which gives some interesting details as to the conditions which brought about the system of railway consolidation in the States. It…
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THE South Australian Government is embarking on the biggest land grant railway scheme ever launched in Australia—the competition of the transcontinental railway between Adelaide and Port Darwin (says…
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Motor cycling is the new pastime of wellto-do English and Continental people. The credit of initiating, it belongs to the French, as does that of motor car riding…
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