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Northern Rivers · Railways, roads & transport
88 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 4 of 5
A FEW weeks ago a question cropped up in some correspondence which appeared in our columns relative to the Department urging the contracters to push on the work of this section, and now the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The great Siherian railway, which will more [?] connect Europe with the teeming millions of China, Japan, and Eastern Asia, will be commenced this spring. The total…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"A walking tour? No, it's not in my line, old man." Such were nine out of ten answers received from those of, my friends, whom I…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE following important correspondence received by the Mayor has been handed to us for publication, aud is deserving of the widest publicity in the part of the district to which it…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE notice by an exchange that the residents in another part of tho district, on account of the almost impassable state of the roads, and their, inability to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr.BRUCE SMITH, the Colonial Treasurer, said upon the table of the Assembly a return showing the value and quantity of railway plant and material imported…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A FEW nights ago (says the Bathurst Free Press) one of the employees at the Kelso Railway Station received a rude shock to his nerves on discovering that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IN another part of to-day's issue we publish a letter received from Mr. J. M'Furlane having reference to the above road, by which it will be seen that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →EXPECT the contractor for the railway to be under way in, say, a fortnight…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IT seems a very strange thing indeed that the efforts of the Woodburn people, which have been most persistent for some years, to have a proper and well…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. S. ALLINGHAM (late Allingham and M'Lean) runs the above livery stables, where he has every accommodation for horses and vehicles, and lets out. for hire saddle horses and light vehicles of all…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. A. RAE, M. P. in a letter to the S. M. Herald says:—"The Narrandera bridge, in which the "dummy" bolts were used, spans the Murrumbidgee River near the town of Narrandora, and is [?] wooden…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To everyone there seems now unreasonable delay in the acceptance of a tender for the extension of the railway to Mullumbimby, which tenders closed just two months ago…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I crave space for a few words relative to the road between Mr. Newell's and the punt at Wyrallah. A drain is dog across the public road which is now about seven or eight feet wide, and in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN pursuing the statement of amounts expended on roads and bridges in the Woodburn district, we notice that the sum of £126 has been expended on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DANAHER'a tender, for railway construction to Mullumbimby ia to be accepted on Monday next. [From B. B. Nicoll, Esq., M.P.]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN Parliament on Thursday Mr. Dibbs asked the Colonial Treasurer (without notice) whether, in view of the fact that a paper which he laid upon the table this evening showed that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON one of the German railroads a switchman was approaching the points in order to turn the advancing train in a contrary direction, when, turning his head, he saw his child…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ON one of the German railroads a switchman was approaching the points in order to turn the advancing train in a contrary direction, when, turning his head, he saw his child…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AN innovation in railway travelling, so far as the Continent is concerned, is about to he tried in Switzerland. In the Jura there is a large village, or small town, of 6000…
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