The Hornsby Roads Business
THE report already submitted by the Commission appointed to inquire into the Hornsby roads expenditure discloses facts which must satisfy any impartial…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1889
55 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 3
Our Roads. To the Editor of the "Northern Star."
SIR,—Kindly allow me a space in your journal to bring under the notice of the powers that be the disgraceful state of the road between Mr. Brierley's Hotel and the…
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A TELEGRAM from Vienna, states that the mail train from Vienna to Brunn and Prague barely escaped a terrible disaster. Near to Grussbach Station,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Sleepers for Egypt
TENDERS have been called for at Adelaide by the Government of Egypt for the supply of 500,000 railway sleepers, and communications have been opened up…
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SIR,—I crave space for a few linos to point out the injustice the travelling public are subjected to on account of the roundabout road from Bungawalbin ferry to Woodburn…
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A MEETING was held at Mr. Ewen M'Phee's, North Ann, on the 11th instant in reference to deviation of the northern portion of the Wyrallah Coraki road. There was a fair…
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IF two ships under steam are crossing so as to involve risk of collision, the ship which has the other on her own starboard side shall keep out of the way…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Railway Commissioners
WE are given to understand that the Railway Commissioners intend leaving Sydney for this district on Saturday, 13th instant. Already meetings have…
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IN accordance with advertis[?] a meeting was held at the Council Cham[?]rs on Wednesday afternoon last, for the [?]ose of making due arrangements for the reception of…
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THE carnest advocates of railway extension in this district, and on the Clurence—who have labored so persistently for many years post in the promotion of their cause—should…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The [?]orthern Star. Wednesday, April 10, 1889. Our Railway
IT must strike a person with cosmopolitan knowledge that it too often takes much talking and writing to bring about any practical results in this colony—especially in the…
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A COMMITTEE meeting was held on Saturday evening last, when there was a good attendan[?] The Mayor having taken the chair, [?] minutes of the last meeting were read by [?]…
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IN accordance with programme the Railway Commissioners (Messrs. E. M. G. Eddy. and O. M. Oliver) arrived at Casino, from Grafton, on Tuesday afternoon last, and after receiving a…
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THE Casino 'Express' says,—After the Commissioners had partaken of lunch at Tattersall's hotel, a deputation comprising F. B. Gulley, F. G. Crouch, J. O'Flynn, M…
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AT Ballina last Wednesday the Railway Commissioners were received by the Mayorland Aldermen on the their arrival by steamer from Lismore. The council clerk…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Northern Star. Wednesday, May, 1889. Grafton-Tweed Railway
THE following statement supplied to the Railway Commissioners (Messrs. Eddy and Oliver) during their late visit to this district, has been courteously handed to us for…
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THE 'Tweed River Advocate' gives the following account of the trip of the above gentlemen from Lismore to Southport,— "[?]Leaving Lismore on Thursday morning, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Open Column. [This column being open to all, for the ventilation of grievances or the expression of opinions on public matters we do not hold ourselves responsible for the statements made therein.] Our Roads. To the Editor of the "Northern Star"
SIR,—At the 1st May sittings of our local Police Court a case was dealt with, for an infringement of the Act (drawing a slide along a Government thoroughfare), and to the…
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THE story comes from Cheyenne that a carload of sixty Scandanavian converts to Mormonism while on their way to Utah, in charge of Elders Marvin and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The North Coast Railway
REFERRING to the blocking of the several rivers along the coast last Saturday's Sydney MAIL says:— The present condition of the coast harbours brings up at once the question…
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