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Northern Rivers · Railways, roads & transport
45 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 3
SIR— Your readers will hare received with diverse feelings the-proposals of the Governments RE the North Coast Railway. Some will doubtless view the announcement as a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ATTEMPTS have been frequently made by Captain Erickaon and others, to turn to account the energy of the the solar rays. All these inventors howeyer, have worked with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE following is told of the Auckland Railway. A man was travelling by a suburban line, and had taken his dog into the carriage with him. Just before…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN order to be present at the opening of the bridge just completed by Mr.D. Rankin over Cooper's Creek, on road Bexhill to Williams', your special, with two of three townsmen,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT will be of general interest particularly, to people of the interior districts, to learn that the new light railway trucks (Brown's patent) are an accomplished…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A CONTRIBUTER in the Daily Telegraph writes:—We colonials are not all Frenchmen nor descendants of the French, and therefore cannot be expected to be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A BOLD attempt to throw a passenger from a train for the purpose of robbing if not killing him was perpetrated about a week ago, almost within the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →STRONG effots, it is said, are made sub rose by some persons interested in Lismore, in conjection with the Sydney syndicate that his large properties in the vicinity of what is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IT frequently happens that when a project or a law is first mooted, it is denounced and then derided. When botton has been touched in the matter, reaction ensues, the proposal…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NERVOUS railway travellers (says St. James's GAZETTE) may derive much comfort by studying the figure given in the general report to the Board of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A RUSSIAN trans-Caspian railway, which has now crossed the classic Oxus on a bridge 1,000 feet longer than the Brooklyn Bridge, and is nearing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →JUDGING by the litigation now going on, and the ill-feeling mid annoyance expi eased in many directions, the proclamation and opening-out of new roads in this distiict is not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BEARING upon the above matter, and looking at the large mea of country roads now thrown upon it to innintain, it seems a pity that this Municipality does not take some…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →1. How many miles of railway in the United States? About 156,000 miles; half the mileage of the world…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AT a meeting of the Cabinet, held last week, the railway commissioners to serve with Mr. Eddy were selected, and at a meeting of the Executive Council, held…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AT a meeting of the finance committee of the Sydney committee, Alderman Meeks gave notice of his intention to move at the next meeting-"That this…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A TELEGRAM from Melbourne last Sunday week states that about 11 o'clock on Saturday night the 8.45 goods express train from Warragul to Melbourne ran…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Thursday, August 9th, a permit was granted by the Commissioners at Washington for the construction of an electric railway to the Eckington and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THUS last Friday's Grafton Argus:—The opening of the railway along the sea beach to Kiama, and the arrival, of the new Railway Commissioner, have been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE Clarence Harbour and Railway deputation to-day waited upon the Premier. About 120 were present, including all district members and many…
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