Railway Agitation
TUESDAY'S EVENING NEWS contains the following sub-editorial article :—The idea of constructing a line of railway to connect the Manning and the Hunter Rivers, which…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1895
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Road Contracts
The following tenders were the lowest of those opened at the Lismore Roads Office yesterday:— Contract 24-95-6, Lismore to Gundurimba—T. Sexton, £56 5s 4d. Eleven tenders…
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A PUBLIC meeting was held on Monday evening at St[?]kton, to discuss what steps should be taken to urge upon the government the necessity of constructing the North Coast Railway. The chair was…
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THE S. M. Herald in a leader referring to the meeting held at Stockton last week writes:— "There are elements of uncertainty about this, but unfortunately for the public finances there is…
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THE S. M. Herald in a leader referring to the meeting held at Stockton last week writes:— "There are elements of uncertainty about this, but unfortunately for the public finances there is no…
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THE Chief Commissioner for Railways, Mr. Eddy, states that when Mr. P. B. Ellwell, Electrical Engineer of the Railway Department, who has just returned from a visit to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway to Casino. a Forward Movement
WE have so frequently urged the importance of connecting Casino and the Upper Richmond with the deep waters of the river at the natural shipping port of Coraki that,…
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IN face of nil they have had to contend with for so many yearn in getting produce and goods to and from the ocean steamers, it is inexplicable to us how some of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Minister for Works on Railways v. Roads
SPEAKING to a Herals reporter, the Minister for Works (Mr. J. H. Young) expressed mach regret at the action of the upper Hose in rejecting the Darling Island Railway Bill, and also the Goulburn…
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INFORMATION reached the Blayney police on Friday night that a desperate encounter had taken place in the train while proceeding from Cowra to Blayney. It was stated…
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THE following correspondence from the Public Works Department, and the Railway Commissioners' report,appear in the R.R. [?]: — "Office of the Railway Commissioners of N.S.W.,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Train the Child."
" Nursery stock!" " Nursery stock!" That's what you hold in your a[?]s when you rock That little baby of yours to and fro…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Northern Star. Wednesday Morning, 11Th December, 1895. The Visit of the Railway Commissioners
THE occasion of the visit of the RAILWAY COMMISSIONERS, the…
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A PUBLIC meeting was held at the Council Chambers on Wednesday evening last for the purpose of considering the proposed Railway extension to Casino, and determining what steps should be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Boy [?] Out a Train
AN extraordinary incident in reported as having occurred last Wednesday night as the mail train was descending the incline near Gresham. About 4 a.m. on Thursday some…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Visit of Railway Commissioners. Interviewed by Townsmen
ON Tuesday evening the Railway Commissioners, Messrs. E M. G. Eddy and C. N. J. Oliver, were interviewed by a deputation of citizens, who took advantage of the Commissioners' visit to the town…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An Australian Bush Road
THIS is a bit of typical Australian bush scenery taken in the famous Shoalhaven district, from which part not a few of our farmers in the Northern districts came, in search of farms, The scene a portion of road leading from Berry to Nowra, through the famous Coolangatta estate. The fences, bush, and roadside, smothered in ferns and undergrowth, are truly Australian, although it must be sadly confessed that all Australian roads are not in the good order which the one depicted was the photograph was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Subsidising the Railways.—A Protest
SIR.—While there is much force in the arguments used by you, in advocacy or approbation of the Premier's proposed to subsidise our railways by an annual grant…
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