The Road Contractor
In the Full Court on Wednesday a motion was moved to make absoluto a rule nisi for a writ of prohibition, directed against G. F. Scott, P.M., and Theophilus Connor, of…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1898
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A Slow Train
ARTEMUS WARD was travelling a slow-going Southern road soon after the war. When the conductor was punching his ticket, Artemus remarked:…
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SIR,—As a consistent and enthusiastic advocate of light or "pioneer" lines of railway, to develop the at present dormant agricultural and other resources of this vast and…
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THE determination of the members of the reorganised Progress Association at Woodburn to endeavor to have something done to remedy the deplorable condition of the…
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"J.C." IN the Express writes:—Whenever the question of building a line of railway from Coraki to Casino and thence up the Valley of the Richmond is mooted, there…
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SIR,—In your last issue Mr. Craigie writes a long letter on the above subject, and says he was always "consistent and [?]" in its adoption. I would ask that man where…
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WHEN George Stephenson proved that the locomotive engine could be made the most powerful agent in the industrial progress of England, there was a rapid extension of the…
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TENDERS for various road contracts, were opened here, yesterday by the Roads Engineer, and the following were the lowest offers:— Contract No. 6997-8, Synott's to Funuell's. T. Allen, £237 7s 3d;…
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THE agitation for railway extension, which has of late become conspicuous in the towns of Lismore and Casino, marks another step in the pathway of progress,…
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THE city cry of " Put.'em on the land " is constantly heard in these days of free ports and starving citizens, but it does not count for much. The climate of…
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THE Vienna correspondent of the London DAILY MAIL, writing on September 28, sates :-"Father Stojalowski, the well—known Galician agitator, and member of…
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M.CHILKOFF,the Russian Minister of Communications,is reported to have stated that when- the Siberian railway is opened throughout its entire length, the tour of the world…
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A PUBLIC meeting was held at Tenterfield last Friday to consider what steps should be taken to bring before the Government the necessity of completing the railway extension from Lismore…
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THE RIGHT Rev. Leighton Coleman, Bishop of Delaware, had gone through numerous and extraordinary adventures no country roads in the gard of a…
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The following were the [?] the tenders opened at the Court-horse yesterday for road contracts [?] by the [?] Roaden Superintendent…
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