The Roads Again
IT is always a disgusting subject when we have to recur to the matter of roads in the Richmond District, and more especially the highways bordering on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Northern Rivers · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1891
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Road Obstructions
As announced in a letter in our last issue from Mr. J. H. Crummer, R.E., Woodburn, to the Bungawalbin Progress Association, the obstructions on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →European Roads
AN American traveller, after his Return from Europe writes us follows and what he says is very applicable to Australia:—The first thing that strikes the traveller through the country in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railways and Impproved Values to Land
THE extract given by us last issue in reference to the "betterment principle" in estimating the value of land resumed for railway parposes on the Culcairn-Corowa [?] line has a special…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Railway Commissioner Eddy
A FEW days ago the S. M. HERALD'S London Correspondent cabled to the effect that the Caledonian Railway Company had offered Mr. Eddy,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Road Making in the Richmond River District
SIR.—Any stranger travelling through the Richmond River district:— say on any of the roads along or across the numerous Hats after a heavy shower of rain—would…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Dismi[?] of Queensland Railway and Telegraph Officials
IN the Queensland Parliament Mr. B[?]llow moved a motion for copies of all correspondence, &c., relating to the dismissals of railway and telegraph employees on the central…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Extension of the Lismore-Tweed Railway
THE following correspondence; 'addressed to. Messrs. Ewing, Niooll, and Perry.appears in the Tweed Advocats: Public Works Department,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Northern Star. Wednesday, 22Nd July, 1891. the Railway Works
THE writer "H.P." who, in his letter in to-day's issue, unburdens his mind with so much candour, and so naively tells us "I am one of those unfortunate individuals who do…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Open Column. [This column being open for the expression of opinions [?] public matters we do not hold ourselves responsible for the statements made therein.] To the Editor of the Northern Star. the 'Star' and the Grievances of the Railway Workmen
SIR,—In your issue of the 18th instant you have taken exception to the statements I have made in the Evening News and Australian Workmen, in mentioning the wages, rate, number of unemployed,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Russian Railway Project
To[?]ay a railway across thousands of miles of desert is (says the 'ST. JAMES'S GAZETTE,') especially when that desert is Siberia, an engineering achievement of which any…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Chief Commissioner For Railways
FOR some time past Mr. Eddy, the Chief Commissioner for Railways, has been periodically prostrated through overwork. In the hope that a rest would act as a restorative, the Chief Commissioner several…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Coraki-Maclean Road
SOME considerable time ago an agitation was started with a view of obtaining a survey between Coraki and the Richmond and Maclean on the Clarence River,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tenders for Railway. Sydney
THE following tenders were received for the construction of the second section of the LismoreTweed Railway (contract No. 3):— Murphy, Kirk, and Hopkins, £195,788; J. and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sugar Cane Growing along the Railway Line
A MEETING of the committee who have taken up this matter, was held at the Council Chambers on Wednesday afternoon. Present — His Worship the Mayor, Messrs. J. B. Kelly, G. Larkin, E…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ship Railways
It is more than probable (says Iron) that the Egyptians were in the habit of transporting overland across the Isthmus of Suez, and tradition records that 23…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Open Column. [This column being open for the expression of opinions of public matters we do not hold ourselves responsible or the stataments made therein.] To the Aditor of the Northern Star. Erection Sugar Mill on Railway Line
Sin,—Somb of the farmers along the line of Railway, who are willing to compete for the prizes offered by the "Committee for the erection of sugar mill on Railway Line," but who have never…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railway Report
The Annual Report of the Railway commissioners lately furnished is so satisfactory, as compared with previous ones, that a brief summary of it will be found…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Resumption
MR. STEVENSON (for Mr. Lyne) asked the Secretary for Public Works,—In view of the dissatisfaction expressed and the alleged unfair pressure of the valuations made along the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Coraki-Casino Road
IN residing the doings of the Casino Municipal Council we notice that a motion was carried for the purpose of calling tenders for a let of draining on…
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