Impounding Stock on Railway Lines
SIR,—I noticed in your columns some few weeks ago a complaint of stock trespassing on the Railway line, but this does not seem to have been remedied, for cuttle are still being allowed…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1899
65 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 3 of 4
Road Contracts
THE following fondera were tho lowest for contracts opened at the Conrt-honso on Monday:- Contract ll. Lismore to Gundurimba—T. Allen, £89 13s. Eight tenders…
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THE following road tenders have been accepted:- Ballina to TenterfieldâD. Kersane, Casino. £242…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Road To Success
As incessant drops of water With persistent, tiny blows, Beat down the rugged mountains, And dissolve the deepest snows…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Eradication of Noxious Woods. Cleansing the Public Roads
A deputation representing conntry municipalities, which was accompanied by Messrs. F. B. Suttor, Brunker, Haynes, Gormly, H. Ross, and Cruickshank, Ms.L.A., waited upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Northern Star. Wednesday Morning, September 27, 1899. the Railway to the Tableland
THE change of Government has given another shuffle…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coast-Tableland Railway Line. the Rival Routes. Claims of the Guyra-coff's Harbor Route. Government Anxious to Select the Best. Sydney
A deputation of residents interested in the Gunyra-Goff's Harbour railway route attended at the Department of Public Works this morning to wait on the Minister to urge the claims of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Colonial Secretary at Grafton Railway to the Tableland
THE Hon. John See, Colonial Secretary, speaking at Grafton last week, said Mr. Lyne indicated that the Government intended to prosecute a vigorous policy with respect to public works…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Northern Star. Saturday Morning, September 30, 1899. Straying Stock on the Railway Line
SOME of the parties fined at the Police Court on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →North Coast and Tableland Railway. Ministerial Action Promised
A DEPUTATION from residents in the North Coast districts interested in the construction of a railway from Guvra to Coff's Harbour, as a means of connecting the coast and…
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THE following were the lowest tenderers for work for which tenders closed on Monday:- Contract 26, road Bexhill to Monticollum, Alfred Duffy, £14 Is 6d. Five tenders…
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THE following were the lowest tenders opened here on the 9th instant for road works:- Contract 33, Bexhill-Montecollurn road to Eureka-Dorroughby road—C. G. Duffy, £56 9s…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Transvaal. British Troops Being Hurried Northward. Martial Law Proclaimed in the Transvaal. the Boers Have Destroyed an Armoured Train Mafeking in Danger. Capture of Trains and Gold by the Boers. Boers Refuse a Fight. 9000 Troops Leave England. London
President Kruger, in the course of a cablegran of thanks for sympathy from the United States, said that if the Transvaal was compelled to be come a British possession the price of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Light Railway Wanted
Now that the advisability of opening up the colony by the construction of light railway lines, which will more fully develop agricultural areas, has become an article of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Light Railways. Comments by the Minister for Works. Reply to the Chief Railway Commissioner
MR. E. W. O'Sullivan, the Minister for Works, has had his attention directed to some remarks reported to have been made by Mr. C. Oliver, Chief Commissioner…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Clauence-Richmond Railway the Coraki-maclean Route
DEALING with the question of railway connection between the Clarence and Richmond Rivers, the CLARENCE ADVOCATE in a leader in a recent issue says:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War. an Armoured Train
THE long promised and much talked of armoured train, built to patrol the northern railway, at last made its appearance on Tuesday, September 26. when it was pulled out of the works at Salt…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Testing the Armoured Train
Telegraphing on October 7 the Mafeking correspondent of the Cape Times says:—The armoured train left this afternoon for patrol northwards, and consisted of one steel-plated…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wreeking a Bridge. Novel Use of Electricity
WHEN the old wooden bridge over the Wabash river at Clinton, Ind., fell with a crash last week a new use was demonstrated for electricity. A novel…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Transvaal War. Dr. Reitz Threatens to Put Jo Death British Officers Held As Prisoners. Boers Attack an Armoured Train. the British Outnumbered. a Withering Fire. 100 Men Missing. Defeat of the Boers at Ladysmith. Brilliant Night Attack by Colonel Baden-powell. Indirect Evidence That Joubert Is Alive. London
The British forces at Estcourt are short of artillery. The Boers are now nearer to Estcourt, and hope to be able to cut off railway…
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