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Northern Rivers · Railways, roads & transport
32 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 2
SIR,—The inhabitants of Lismore, were somewhat excited a few days ago on receipt of the news, that surveyors had been sent to mark the permanent railway line from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MYSTREY is always attractive, and the cable tramway, to those who do not know'' how it is done," is a most mysterious affair, and quite as puzzling as the principles of many…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE are glad to see that our Ballina friends have taken up the above matter, and have inserted the thin end of the wedge by meeting and discussing the advisability of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR— In reference to the proposed roads, from Casino, to the Tweed, via Hanging Rock, and f rom Lismore to the via Mathe sons Gap, I wish to make a few statements,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By way of changing the subject I may as well attempt to sketch the scenes witnessed by those who'use the celebrated Iron Horse, now a favorite mode of locomotion in every…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,-Having noticed in your issue of the 19th a correspondence from Dunoon, which I read with pleasure to see and to hear that, there is such a class of men in a small midst…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As might have been expected, the Deputa tion of Members of Parliament that waited upon the Minister for Works, last week, in reference to the above work, were very…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HOBART, SATURDAY.—The inquest on the driver Bradshaw was concluded on Friday, when a verdict of accidental death was returned. The jury also expressed the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,— I was always under the impression that all tenders for road works, should be advertised in nearest local paper, and thus give ell contractors an equal chance of tender…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE hearing of the charge against Lionel William Lee and Duncan M'Alister of having conspired together to defraud the Railway Department of divers sums of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE well-written letter from a " PoorFarmer,", appearing in our issue shows that the above subject is attracting some attention is the minds of farmars and others…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A number of gentlemen met yesterday at the School of Arts, in response to a circular issued by the Mayor, to consider the advisableness of taking some further…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE recent report of the Commissioner for Railways is eminently suggestive of the direful loss to the country through centralization and the neglect to open…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DEAR SIR.—Will you kindly allow me space in your valuable paper to insert a few lines concerning the road on the east side of Bungawalbyn Creek, from the ferry crossing;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THREE years ago (says the HOME NEWS) no one knew where the Pacific terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway was to be placed. Vancouver was the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR.— The apparent apathy which seems to pervade the community, over the cominsncement of the railway, must be due to a false security altogether unwarranted in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We do not know whether it is the fault of the people, the fault of the Road Superintendent, or the fault of our Members that so little money has been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT must be the earthquakes. Those terrible [?] upheavals that turned part of New Zealand upside down and then, knocking at the door of australia as they went along,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A LARGE and influential meeting was held in the Protestant Hall on Monday night, to take steps to have the plans of that portion of the Grafton-Tweed railway line between Lismore…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The railway authorities at Melbourne received a report on Saturday morning to the effect that an attempt had been made to wreck a train on the Geelong…
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