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Northern Rivers · Railways, roads & transport
59 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 3
SIR,—On reading the report of the Railway Meeting held on last Saturday night, it struck me as singular that not a single individual was present from outside the town to address the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SPECIAL meeting of the committee of this institution was held on Tuesday evening last, for the purpose of taking into consideration the best method of selling the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE DAILY TELEGRAPH states:—" Hon. members representing country constituencies which were promised railways by late Governments have become particularly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THe Brisbane Courier says:—"The question of the site of the changing station for the Queensland and New South Wales railway systems has been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE following remarkable letter appears in the Clarence Examiner,' of the 14th instant, —Sir,— Actuated by that spirit of compromise and desire for unity, which I sought…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE 'Evening NEws' of the 12th instant, says,— The construction of roads in the Richmond River district is one of those things the necessity for which is admitted by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE following extraordinary article appears in the Grafton Argus of the 13th instant: —Allegation having from time to time been made as to the ownership of large blocks of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →RECOUNTING the story of the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway is the unfolding of a romance. To obtain an adequate idea of the prodigies wrought in this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Saturday last as arranged, a public meeting was held at MR. Jarman's Hotel, for the purpose of agitating the construction of the Grafton Tweed Railway. It had been agreed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE letter from Mr, T.Bawden, copied from the Clarence Examiner,' in our last issue, and the article from the Grafton Argus,' in this issue, shows that some of the leading…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A GUARD on the tram line opened fire to a representative of the Evening News, and during the conversation he said:— Well, yes, the Parliamentary tramsmen…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—Your issue of the 6th instant contains a foreibly written article upon the ever ready subject of "Our Roads," and so universal and notorious is the neglect of this first and most…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE most sensational evidence given on Monday at the inquest on the deaths resulting from the Windsor railway accident it was that given by R. R. Cameron,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—Permit me through the medium of your valuable journal to place before the public the following facts. For many years the road between Coraki and Casino had many deviations…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following was the finding of the jury in this case:— They found, in the first place that Mr. E. S. Parkes, Mr. Bunting, and Mrs. Foster were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Kindly allow me space to make a few remarks concerning the road between Coraki and South Codrington. I consider it is a standing disgrace to the public of Coraki that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Evening News' says,—One of the most [?]errible railway accidents which it has been our painful duty to. chronicle, occurred on the Homabush-Waratah railway line…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A TELEGRAM in the S. M. HERALD says:— During the day the tide has fallen considerably, and disclosed the tender lying on its let side immediately outside the engine, without its…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As bearing out what we have stated as to the necessity that exists for really earnest legislation, we have much pleasure in drawing attention to the really practical business…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IF everything goes well, the Manitoba Railway.Company will, accomplish the greatest feat in railway construction in 1887 ever attained, even in the United States, the…
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