Road Contractor's Reminder
TENDERS for road work, as follows, close at Inverell on 14th inst. :- Inverell to King's Plains. Inverell to Emmaville…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New England · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1890
31 stories in New England's papers · page 1 of 2
The Glen Iunes-Inverell Railway and Rival Routes
"FLANEUR," in the Freeman's Journal, writes -- A few days ago an inspired par. in the Sydney D. T. drew attention in jubilant terms to the fact that our two Public Works Examiners, Messrs…
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THE excessive rain caused a disastrous railway accident on the Blue Mountains on Tuesday. No 23 down goods train, which leaves Penrith at 1 p.m., toppled over the bank near Bell station (late…
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THE following tenders are invited by the Tenterfield Road Superintendent, to close noon next Friday:-- Contracts 20 and 21, road Tent Hill to…
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SOME time back we referred in this column to Mr. A. S. Hamand, a Civil Engineer of high standing in the mother country, whose evidence--submitted to the Public Works Committee in respect…
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IN the Water Police Court on Thursday, before Mr. Addison, S.M., Solomon Joseph, proprietor of the Tamworth News, was charged with that he did on March 18, 1890, print a certain slanderous…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Clarence Railway and Harbor League
UNDER the auspices of the Clarence Railway and Harbor League a public meeting was held in the Theatre Hall, Grafton, on Wednesday night, attended by 400 persons, the Mayor presiding, and…
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AT the recent meeting of the Clarence Harbor and Railway League Mr. Thomas Page, in moving the second resolution, is reported to have said :--We protest against the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Railway Accident near Bathurst. SYDNEY, Friday Night
A FEARFUL railway accident is reported from Bathurst. A mixed train broke away from the engine about four miles from Bathurst, and ran back with fearful speed, colliding with a goods…
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NOTHING illustrates better the perfervidum ingenium Sevtorum (says Truth) than the singular career of Mr. William Arrol, the contractor for the Forth Bridge, opened on Tuesday by the Prince…
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We wish our readers to understand that we firmly believe in the authorised Glen Innes- Grafton Railway line, and that what we now write is not in any way inimical thereto…
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The news that a terrible railway accident had occurred had Farley spread like wild tire through the district on Tuesday, and the almost eagerness to know the full particulars was being…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Clarence - New England Railway Proposals
There appears in the last issue of the 'Sydney Mail' a letter on the subject of the Clarence-New England Railway proposals by a perfectly unprejudiced correspondent, who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Byron Bay. "The New Basis for the Northern Railways."
THE report of the Committee of Public Works upon the Byron Bay Breakwater was completed upon the 15th April, and is a very full and exhaustive statement of the proposed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Inverell-glen Innes Railway
ON Tuesday afternoon, the Mayor of Inverell, accompanied by a majority of the Aldermen, waited upon the Railway Examiners--Messrs. S[?]arr and Price--at the Royal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Poetry. the Men Who Miss the Train
I loaf aroun' the deepo jest to see the Pullman scoot, An' to see the people scamper we'en they hear the ingin toot…
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THE discussion in the Assembly on Wednesday night on the expediency of a railway, from Grafton to the Tweed calls attention to a very remarkable state of affairs, which…
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OUR contemporary (the Inverell Times), under the head of "Valedictory," despairs of Inverell ever getting a railway, and takes leave of the subject in the following sarcastic terms:--"In view of…
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SIR.--In your issue of the 26th July I noticed a communication from Mr. F. A. Wright, in reference to a grant of money he had obtained for a road running from Glencoc through my land. Now,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Editor's Column. (While giving insertion to Correspondents' letters, we do not necessarily endorse their contents.) Mount Mitchell Road
SIR,--In your issue of August 12 appears a letter fill signed " Finlay M Innes," in which the writer complains about the " scandalous waste" of public money that is now being spent on the road leading…
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