Bungawalbin-new Italy. a Road Wanted
A MATTER that should receive prompt attention is the defining and opening of a road from Bungawalbin Creek to New Italy, as at present there is no defined track, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Northern Rivers · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1896
50 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 3
A New Railway Route to the Tableland
THE Clarence Examiner says: Amongst the suggestions for the examination of new routes, the latest is one from Mr. Robert Layton, of Brentwood, South Grafton. The route he, suggests is via Nymboida,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Northern Star. Saturday Morning, 8Th February. 1896. Minor Roads Votes
THE bare figures published by us a few weeks ago, giving a statement of the expenditure on road—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Northern Star. Wednesday Morning, 23Th February. 1896. The State of the Roads
ALTHOUGH our district roads may appear to advantage under the conditions of continued…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cane-Borer train New Gu[?]nea
IN a previous issue (the Cairns Post writes) mention, was made of the fact that Mr. H. Tryon, Government E[?]tomologist, had returned from New Guinea with a large humber of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Construction in America
ACCORDING to the Railway Age, railroad construction in the United States reached last year a tower point than in any of the last 20 years ; in fact, in only two…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Admiral Bridge on Britain's Naval Supremacy
ADMIRAL Bridge has been interviewed by a New Zealand Herald reporter, and talked with great freedom and force on the importance to the colonies of the maintenance of Great Britain's…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The North Coast Railway
REPLYING to a deputation which waited upon him, while in the Manning district last week, Mr. Young said he was just as much in favour of introducing this line of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dreadful Railway Accident
AN Adelaide telgram to the S. M. HERALD states:—A terrible railway accident occurred Sunday night about 11 o'clock at the Grand Junction crossing of the main north line and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Exciting Encounter in a Train. A Prisoner Attacks a Warder
WARDER ARMSTRONG, of Darlinghurst Gaol, had an exciting encounter last Saturday afternoon with a prisoner who sought to escape from his custody. The man, whose name is Hereford,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tramway Amenities
A SPIRIT of common sense and conciliation has apparently taken possession of the Tramway Department. For years tho object appeared to be to cause as much…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Important to Road Contractors
THE Roads Branch of the Department of public Works has issued a circular to Road Superintendents containing certain instructions with the view to suppressing reckless…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Grafton Glen Innes Railway
REFERRING to the agitation for railway connection from Grafton to Glen Innes, the Armidale Chronicle says; The first and fatal objection to this route is that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The South Arm Bridge
The request for the building of a bridge over the South Arm of the river to supersede the antiquated, antideluvian, process of crossing the stream at present in vogue is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tenterfield-Lismore Railway. Pabilc Meeting to be Called at Tenterfield
CONSEQUENT upon our (Tenterfield Courier) reference in last issue to the advisableness of taking steps to re-open the agitation for the construction of a line of railway from Tenterfield to Lismore, the matter…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tko Coraki-Ballina Road an Important Proposal
BY a letter received from a resident of the lower river, we learn that Mr. Perry, M.P., in response to a petition from residents of Broadwater and locality, is endeavouring…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lismore to Tenterfield Railway. Agitation at Lismore
A PUBLIC meeting convened by the Mayor was held at the Council Chambers on Wednesday evening, for the purpose of bringing under the notice of the Government the urgent necessity for the immediate…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Cheap and Novel Bridge
A CHEAP and novel footbridge is described in the LEADER, made over the Ovens River by Mr. Hodgens, who owns land on each side. Two wire ropes, each formed of five…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Matters
IT is pleasing to note the unanimity that prevails in the district in the matter of petitioning the Government for the completion of the connecting link between the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Northern Star. Saturday Morning, 27Th June, 1896. the Railway Movement
THE course adopted in the present railway agitation to form a League with the…
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