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Northern Rivers · Railways, roads & transport
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SIR,—Roferring to my speech in the Albert Theatre, in your issue of last Wednesday, you report me to say "That the reason for closing the road was: In the first place, it had been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As is usual in the wet seasons in these.Northern, districts, our so-callod roads are found asdly wanting,' and from the Macleay to the Twead River nothing but complaints are hedrd from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Government are endeavouring to come to an understanding with the Governments of Victoria and South Australia, in order to offer greater facilities to foreigners to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the risk of wearying our readers we again reiterate that there is no part of the colony as badly off in the matter of Roads as the Richmond, and more…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LOOKING at the present wretched state of the roads in this district, we think the suggestion thrown out by our Sydney Correspondent, of applying to the Government for the use of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR HENRY PARKS, in reply to Mr. Melville asking if it were his intention to take any measures to connect St. Leonards with Sydney by a bridge over the harbour, said that so far…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE note that the gentlemen composing the Railway League, in Grafton, have again taken up the subject of Railway Communication with the Metropolis, by pabtiatirng in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN an article on the Canadian Pacific Railway in the Quarterly Review for March, attention is called to its importance as a strategic line; for, with a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AN adjourned mooting of the committee of this institution was held on Tuesday evening last when there were present, Messrs. W. Yabeley J.P., President, in the chair, Capt. Storey, H…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR.—Will you allow me space in your journal to call attention to the utter neglect to which the immediate district of Coraki is subject in the matter of road and street repairing. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—A short time ago a paragraph appeared in your paper referring to the bad state of the road between Coraki and Codrington, when you stated that the road superintendent and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—I see by the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD of the 23rd instant that Mr. Burns, Treasurer, for Mr. Sutherland, Minister for Works, answered a number of questions asked by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Herald, 30th Instant, says,—An influential deputation to the Minister for Works, in reference to the railway from Grafton to the Tweed, and Glen Innes to Inverell, waited…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →JUDICIAL utterances are always entitled to considerable weight, and the public utterance of the Police Magistrate, at the Court of Petty Sessions held here on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I do not know how many may suffer like myself, but certainly matters must be altered or road work or other contracts under the Roads Department will be a very uncertain thing to…
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Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SPECIAL, general meeting of the members of this institution was held on Monday evening last to consider an offer of Mr. Arthur Yabsley's as to a settlement of the financial…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Friday morning last the much postponed deputation in reference to the railway from Grafton to the Tweed, and from Glen Innes to Inverell, waited on the Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE tocsin of Separation has been sounded more or less loudly from the far-reaching western plains beyond Inverell, the rich mineral and agricultural districts between…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A LARGE and enthusiastic meeting was held at the Council Chambers Lismore on Saturday evening last; the Mayor presiding, when the following resolutions were carried…
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