The Tramway Proposal. No Rolling Stock Available
AT last night's meeting of the Council the following letter was read from the Railway Commissioners:-- " With reference to the Council's letter of…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1902
303 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 15 of 16
That Bridge
A CERTAIN amount of scepticism appears to exist in the minds of some people in this district in regard to the construction of a bridge over the South Arm, at Bellinger…
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IN a telegram received by us from the member for Raleigh, he states: -"The Minister for Works has ordered road works by day labor, in the Nambucca district, to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Tricycle Accident
WHILE doing a trial spin on his new motor tricycle on Wednesday, Dr. Caldwell met with an accident. He was driving the motor at a fast pace along River-street, Maclean, and when…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Queensland Railways
The depressed financial position of Queensland has moved the Treasurer of that State to what seems a very desperate suggestion. In offering his revised estimates…
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The road races run under the auspices of the Lower Clarence Bicycle Club on Saturday afternoon attracted a considerable number of spectators at the finishing post near the Rowing Club shed, despite…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Luxurious Railway Travelling
Railway travelling in Australian saloon cars, says Sir Edgar Collins Boehm in his book, "Over the World," is indeed luxurious. They are beautifully decorated…
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The Minister for Agriculture has received from Mr. Valder, the Commercial Agent ir. South Africa, a copy of general specification of stores and contract form of the Cape…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Unique Railway Station
"In other quarters of the world a railway station is a squalid and detestable spot, a Styx over which we must perforce be ferried in order to migrate from one place to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Attempt to Wreck a Train London
A diabolical attempt was made to wreck the Midland express train in Lancashire. The plot was discovered and frustrated…
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The railway receipts for the past five months decreased £85,000, but the tramway revenue increased by £49,000…
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IN the Assembly, Mr. Briner asked the Secretary for Public WOrks,—(1.) Is it not a fact that many road contracts, tenders for which were received many weeks ago, are…
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During the week several property owners within the railway resumption areas in Grafton received the following notice from the Works Department: "With reference to…
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THE road to Yamba is an excellent one throughout in dry weather, and as the greater part of it is metalled or dressed with shell, it ia a also good in wet weather. But in wet or dry weather…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Tramp Nuisance. Wail of the Householders
There is scarcely a householder's wife in any Melbourne suburb who will not read with sympathetic interest the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Story of the Great North Road. [Prologue.]
What the Tyburn was to London, the Grassmarket was to Edinburgh. It was something more than a street, yet not a square. It was an oblong space…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. John McFarlane. The South Arm Bridge to be Constructed
THE Member writes as follows:—To Mr. D. T. Burt, hon. sec. Maclean and District Progress Association. Dear Sir,—I have much pleasure in stating that a sum for the construction of a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Countess Becomes a Tramp
The Lindsays, Earls of Crawford, in Scotland, at one time affected royal state. They faeld their courts and had their heralds, and three times members of their family…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On a Tramp Steamboat
I once made a voyage from. Sicily In a vessel that turned out to have a cargo of bones, got how or whence, who can tell"? Everything looked charming, for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Retrenchment in the Railways
The Railway Commissioners have notified an intended reduction in the number of employees. Five hundred casual hands are to be dispensed with, thus justifying in part a…
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