The Lismore Bridge
As our readers will see there is no provision apparently made upon the Estimates just laid before the Parliament for an additional sum of money to carry on the above work,…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1881
22 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 2
Transcontinental Railway
A preliminary report has already been received by the Queensland Government from Mr. Robert Watson, the distinguished Victorian railway engineer, who has been engaged to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest Telegrams. [From the P.t.a.] Lismore Bridge
The following Telegrams have been handed to us by his Worship the Mayor,— To C. H. Faweett, Esq., M.P. LISMORE March 24…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Northern Star. Lismore, March 26, 1881. Railway From Lismore to Tenterfield
THE Honorable Mr. Lackey, the Minister for public Works, in proposing the Loan Estimates the other night, said "there was one estimate which the Government felt bound to…
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IT is satisfactory to find that while we bid fair to pass through the ordeal of a mild attack of the Railway fever now so prevalent that one of our main wants at the present…
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THE Melbourne 'Daily Telegraph' says the age gigantic engineering enterprise has not wholly passed away, and in proof refers to the Panama Canal[?] a proposal to cut a parallel…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Railway
JUDGING, by the, papers to hand, our Clarence River friends are greatly exe[?]cised over the omission of the proposed railway from Grafton to New England from the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Northern Star. Lismore, April 9, 1881. Railway Schemes
IT is well known to those who watch the course of events in these colonies (such as journalists) that too many of the schemes shadowed forth for the public benefit, are so…
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THE meeting called for Monday evening last, at Dean's Assembly Rooms for the purpose of urging upon the Government the necessity of having the proposed Lismore and Tenterfield…
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IT is reported that the enterprise of an individual explorer has discovered a route for a railway from Grafton to New England which offers advantages superior to those possessed…
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EITHER the intelligence that the people of Queensland are meditating a railway to the Gulf of Carpentaria, or some progressive impluse has taken hold of the South Australians,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Open Column. To the Editor of the "Northern Star." the Railway Question
SIR,—At the risk of sharing in the abuse so unsparingly heaped upon you, [?] will venture a few remarks on the great National Railway policy of your contemporary. What…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cape Byron Railway. to the Editor of the Brisbane Courier
SIR,—I read with astonishment, not unmixed with positive terror, the letter from Mr. James Barrie, of Lismore, in your issue of Saturday. Mr. Barrie. I believe, has been…
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A STRONG spirit of railway enterprise (ob serves the 'Australasian') is taking possession of the public mind throughout Australia. It is fostered, if not developed, by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New England and Coast Railway. to the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—Now that the great excitement consequent on the recently declared railway policy of the Government has somewhat subsided, the claims of many fully satisfied, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Byron Bay as a Port and Railway Terminus. to the Editor of the 'Brisbane Courier.'
Sir,—Permit me a few words in reply to a letter which appeared in your columns from Mr. A. Meston, characterising the proposed railway route from Tenterfield via Tabulam,…
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A BRISBANE Telegram in the Legan Witness of last week, says.— This morning a large representative and influential deputation of residents from the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Railway
IT will be seen by a telegram in another column, that the advocates of the Byron Bay Scheme have scored a point, seeing that a party has been ordered to survey the…
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PURSUANT to advertisement, a meeting of the members of the Richmond River Railway League was held at the Council Chambers, on Saturday evening last. There was a good…
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WESTERN Star of Saturday says:—"A special train arrived on Thursday evening bearing General Fielding and his staff, as also the full equipment nessary for the flying survey of the…
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