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Mid North Coast · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1882

41 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 2 of 3

Railway Meeting

The Manning and Hastings Advocate · Friday 21 July 1882 · page 2

A VERY well attended public meeting was held at the Protest Hall Taree on Tuesday the 18th instant to consider a draft petition for a railway to connect the…

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The Railway

The Manning and Hastings Advocate · Friday 28 July 1882 · page 2

IN another column will be found a report of a large and influential meeting of the inhabitants of Stroud and neighbourhood, convened to advocate a north coast railway…

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Railway Meeting at Stroud. Stroud

The Manning and Hastings Advocate · Friday 28 July 1882 · page 5

A large and influential meeting of the inhabitants of Stroud and neighbourhood, convened to advocate a north coast railway from the Great Northern line via Port…

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Our North Coast Railway

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 29 July 1882 · page 5

THE matter of a north coast railway, from the Great Northern Railway at Maitland, via Stroud, Gloucester, Manning, and of necessity Port Macquarie, to the Clarence River, is agitating the…

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The Northern Railway

The Manning and Hastings Advocate · Friday 4 August 1882 · page 3

From the tranquil and almost torpid township of Stroud comes the first note of anew railway agitation. Parliament has now sanctioned a south-coast railway, and naturally…

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“Spokeshave” on the Railway

The Manning and Hastings Advocate · Friday 4 August 1882 · page 3

THERE is no doubt as to who “Spokeshave,” the contributor of a silly letter to the Manning River Times, about the Northern Coast Railway, is. And there is no doubt that he,…

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The Press and Our Railway

The Manning and Hastings Advocate · Friday 4 August 1882 · page 2

IT is gratifying to find that the subject of the Northern-coast railway is being earnestly discussed by the metropolitan Press. Elsewhere we have republished an able…

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Railways

The Manning and Hastings Advocate · Friday 11 August 1882 · page 3

We take the following extract from the speech of the Attorney General, at the opening of the railway to Uralla. statistics given will be of great public…

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Important Railway Meeting

The Manning and Hastings Advocate · Friday 18 August 1882 · page 2

A LARGELY attended, and very representative meeting was held, at the Protestant Hall, Tarce, on Tuesday afternoon last, to consider the question of sending a…

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The Railway

The Manning and Hastings Advocate · Friday 25 August 1882 · page 2

IT has been said by opponents of a northern coast railway that it would cost more to carry maize to market by railway than it would by steamer or sailing craft. As a…

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Official Correspondence. Department of Public Works, Roads branch. Sydney, 19th August, 1882

The Manning and Hastings Advocate · Friday 1 September 1882 · page 3

SIR,— I have the honor to inform you that the Secretary for Public Works has approved of a sum of £50 being granted for expenditure by the local officer on the [?]…

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Land Grant Railway in Queensland. Brisbane

The Manning and Hastings Advocate · Friday 8 September 1882 · page 3

THE Government have concluded Messrs. Shaw and Blyth, on behalf of the, Australian syndicate, a provisional agreement for the construction of a land grant…

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The Railway

The Manning and Hastings Advocate · Friday 8 September 1882 · page 2

SOMEWHAT over twelve months ago a public movement was made in this district, in the direction of urging the Government to construct a railway to connect the Northern…

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[?] S U R V E Y P R O M I S E D . Northern Coast Railway, Deputation to Sydney

The Manning and Hastings Advocate · Friday 15 September 1882 · page 4

WE reprint from the Sydney Morning Herald the report of the interview with the Honorable the Minister for Works by the Deputation from the Northern coast districts respecting…

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Railway, Armidale to Trial Bay

The Manning and Hastings Advocate · Friday 15 September 1882 · page 2

IN the Sydney Morning Herald of the 8th Sept. appears a letter from Mr. F. G. Panton on the subject of a railway from Armidale to Trial Bay. We have no disposition…

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North Coast Railway

The Manning and Hastings Advocate · Friday 15 September 1882 · page 2

We publish elsewhere a full account of the proceedings of the deputation that interviewed the Minister of Works, last Friday, on the subject of a railway to connect…

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The Railway Question

The Manning and Hastings Advocate · Friday 29 September 1882 · page 3

There is a bold originality about the New England cum Trial Bay railway scheme that entitles it to consideration, at all events. The chances of the scheme ever coming to…

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Night and Morning: Or, the Tramps Last Rest

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 21 October 1882 · page 1

"There is a voice in the winds that keep blowing to-night. A voice that is sail to hear: It moaneth in anguish, then it shrieketh in fright,…

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Our Railway

The Manning and Hastings Advocate · Friday 27 October 1882 · page 4

So much has been written about the desire of the people of the Macleay and the Clarence to have, and to be satisfied with railways to connect them with New England,…

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Railway Meeting, Wingham 95th Oct. 1882

The Manning and Hastings Advocate · Friday 27 October 1882 · page 6

A MODERATELY well attended meeting took place, at the School of Arts, Wingham, for the purpose of receiving a report from the Deputation lately sent to Sydney to interview…

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