Railway Merchandise and Live Stock Rates
THE Government GAZETTE published on the 23rd should be of considerable interest to persons doing business with the railways, inasmuch as the supplement consists…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1890
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Cost of the Northern Railways
SPEAKING in the Assembly last week, Mr. Bruce Smith said that the line from Grafton to Lismore, a distance of 79 miles, would cost £10,800 per mile,…
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IN the Legislative Council on July 31, Mr. W. H. Suttor moved the second reading of this bill in a sparse house and its further consideration waa adjourned till August 6…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Richmond to the Tweed Railway [By a Visitor.]
WHEN the project for extending the railway system of Victoria into Gippsland was mooted. Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, in the Parliament of the colony mentioned, declared that the scheme…
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SEVERAL cases have recently been heard at the local Police Court in which road contractors were sued by employes for labour in assisting to carry out their…
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A LARGELY-ATTENDED meeting of the above was held at the Oddfellows' Hall, on Monday evening, 4th instant, Mr. W. Yabsley, J.P., presiding…
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SOME three months ago Messrs P. Scarr and E. B. Price, engineers of the Public Works Department, were appointed by Mr. Bruce Smith, as examiners of public works…
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SATURDAY'S Clarence Examiner has a leading article on the above. It says:—There is nothing, perhaps, which induces settlement in suitable localities so much…
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THE report of the Examiners (Messrs. Scarr and Price) has been sent to the Minister for Works. The result of their investigations may be learned from the…
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THE Daily Telegraph thus refers to this project:—This line if constructed will form an important link in the future North Coast railway, which will probably…
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SIR,—Knowing the extents the Road Superintendents are run after and bothered about the multitude of impassable roads in those districts, it is with a fooling of diffidence I…
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A RIVERINA squatter says—Instead of agitators the present arrangements between the employer and the employes and causing work to be more scarce than…
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The Lismore-Tweed Railway Bill passed the Upper House, by 17 to 13 votes. The Federation debate was continued…
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THE road horse par excellence is a beast of medium size, which can draw a light carriage at the rate of seven miles an hour all day without tiring himself or his driver. He…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Aorthern Star. Saturday, 6Th September, 1890. the Railway in the Upper House
THAT some opposition, to the Lismore-Tweed Railway would be offered in the Upper House we fully anticipated. The technical objection that the original proposal of a line from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Parliament of N. S. Wales. by Telegraph. Lismore-Tweed Railway. the Debate. Sydney
Mr. SALOMONS raised a point of order in effect that the whole Bill was absolutely illegal, inasmuch that the original Bill-had-been-altored from Grafton to Tweed Railway, to Lismore to…
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IN the Assembly on the 3rd instant, Mr. Salomons resumed the debate on the second reading of the bill to authorise the construction of a railway from Lismore…
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A FRIEND on the Richmond River writes to us as follows:—"I have contended from the first that we should push this matter as a link of another line. The…
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THE Lismore-Tweed Railway Bill passed the third reading in the Legislative Council by a majority of 21 to 14…
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MR. SUTTOR moved that the Bill be read a third time. Mr DANGAR regarded the work as impolitic and injudicious. An enormous expenditure would…
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