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Northern Rivers · Railways, roads & transport
108 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 4 of 6
DURING the visit to Inverell of Mr. W. J. Lyne, Minister for Public Works, and Mr. See Colourful Treasurer, a deputation of 100 squatters, farmers and commercial men waited on Mr. Lyne and presented…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Sectional Committee (Mr. E. W. O'Sullivan, M.L.A., chairman, Mr. J. C. Neild, M.L.A., and Mr. C. Collins, M.L.A.) appointed by the Parliamentary Public Works Committee to inquire into…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following evidence was taken at Grafton on Saturday:— T. Bawden, resident of the district 52 years and District Inspector of Stock, took a deep…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE Minister for Works and Colonial Treasurer last week visited Inverell, Glen Innes, and Armidale, and at latter place met the Minister for L[?]s. On Wednesday at Glen Innes, prior…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ON Monday, 24th [?]it., the Sectional Committee of Public Works held evidence in Casino as to the advisableness of constructing the above line of railway. Present—Mr. E…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Sectional Committee resumed the taking of evidence in the above matter at the Court-house on Monday at 9.45 a.m. The first witness called was G. W. WEST, Inspector of Conditional Purchsases,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A RAILWAY system not entirely new, and not entirely without some grounds of argument, is the suggestion from Lismore via Coraki to Maclean on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SPECIAL preliminary meeting of intending sugar cane growers along the railway line, Byron Bay to the Tweed, which was attended by representatives from the various, centres along the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE following evidence was taken at Coraki:— Mr. W. Yab[?]ley said that if a railway was to be constructed as a connection between the Clarence and Richmond Rivers, he would favour a route…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following is the remainder of the evidence taken here on Monday last:— Robert Campbell, farmer, at Byron Creek, examined by the Chairman, deposed[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AT the turning of the first sod of the Cootamundra-Temora railway, Mr. Lyne in a speech delivered on the ground said: "They undoubtedly had some railways…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE Brisbane Courier has the following article on this subject:— " Thanks to the courtesy of Mr. E. W. O'Sullivan, chairman of the Sectional Committee of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Tenterfield Star says:—The evidence taken by the Sections Committee on the Richmond has gone no uniformly in favor of a line from Lismore…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THERE were 20 tenders sent in for the fourth section of the Lismore-Tweed Railway from Mullumbimby to Murwillumbah, Messrs. Wilcox and Firth being the lowest. The several tenderers and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MR. J. C. NEILD, who was here recently as one of the Sectional Committee, while addressing his constituents this week, commented upon the Government programm[?] for next session so far as that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →S[?],—In anticipation of the opening of the above railway the Commissioners have published their scale of charges for carrying sugar-cane to the mill. Being under a delusion that their railways…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE extract, which we give in another column, from a return furnished by the Railway Commissioners of non- puying railway lines in this colony, has a special interest to all the North Coast district…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Worcester Gazette says:—The New York, New Haven, and Hartford road will probably be the first steam railroad in the world to substitute electricity for steam on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WE notice with pleasure that Mr. John Moran, the well-known contractor, is pushing on towards completion the forming and metalling of his extensive contract on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE are very much astonished to learn from the contractor that the specification for the foot-bridge, now commenced alongside of Fawcett bridge, only provides for this…
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