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Northern Rivers · Railways, roads & transport
86 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 3 of 5
IN Sydney up to Wednesday last continued efforts to secure the communication of the sentence of death passed on Williams and Montgomery, were made by Mr. Meagher…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →IN connection with the proposal of the Victorian Government to construct a narrow-gauge railway in Gippsland at a cost of from £600 to £700 per mile…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ACCORDING to the S.M. Herald, the Victorian farmer does not know where his own shoe pinches him, and hence it gives him the advice found in the following paragraph:…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SOME considerable time back we (Clarence Examiner) suggested that the Borough Council might do worse than to purchase one of the then newly invented road…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IF this Government remains in office,' said the Colonial Treasure on Monday to a Herald reporter, "we will deal with these differential railway rates. You may rest assured of that, and we will deal with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following correspondence by Mr. T. T. Ewing with the manager of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company will be read with interest by a large number of people who contemplate cane…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN this issue we publish a statement from the Public Works Department showing the amount expended on the Casino-Coraki road during last year. A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A MATTER of no small interest to country municipalities was brought under the notice of the committee of the Municipal Association at its meeting last week…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—In your issue of the 6th, you publish an official return, which I suppose is intended to contradict my statement RE road works, published in your issue of the 27th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—The position of affairs in the colony at about the middle of last year unfortunately rendered it imperatively necessary that the Government should practice a policy of severe retrenchment. Oue of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following were the lowest of the tenders for road work opened yesterday at this office:— Contract 41-91, Lismore to Gundurimba—M. Scott, £69 5s 6d. 6 tenders…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CHINAMEN have many extraordinary peculiarities, and perhaps one of the most curious is the thoughtful care and attention they bestow on their coffins…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →UNDER this heading Mr. F. G. Crouch, of Casino, in letters to several district newspapers, appears as the champion of Resident Engineers, and endeavours to make a lot of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A MASS meeting of railway employees was held on Sunday to discuss the proposals of the Government for further retrenchment. It was attended by about 2500 men. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE following story, told by an eyewitness to the Rocky Mountain News, is entitled to a place among the instances of intelligence among the lower animals…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE riots iu Chicago last mouth were much more serious than the cablegrams Conveyed to us. Strangely enough. the following incidents occurred on Independence Day, July 4, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE annual report of the Railway Commissioners is one of a most encouraging character, showing what good business management can effect during periods of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THOSE who have had to do with the public money subscribede to carryout…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Grafton Argus states: A further report has been submitted for this proposal as follows: —It appears from Mr. Surveyor Ohalmers' report that there is no new route suggested, but…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A MEETING of the Executive Committee and subscribers to the late Railway Demonstration Fund was held at the Council Chambers on Monday evening for the purpose of receiving the treasurers'…
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