Fawcett Bridge Approaches. the Question of Payment
At Monday's meeting of the Lismore Council a letter was received from the Works Department staing that of the proposals of the Council to allow the £75 due…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Northern Rivers · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1907
686 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 8 of 35
Railway Marting at Alstonvill Alstoville to Lismore.—ballina to Booyong
A meeting, convened by advertisement, was held in the Agricultural Hall, Alstonville, on Friday evening, "re Railway Alstonville to Lismore." There was an…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wealthy Tramp. Starvation with L1,200. Left to Relieving Officer
Nobody over thought that Mrs. Charlotte Spiers, an old woman of 74, who for years had wandered about Hampshire, was any better off than the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A London Scene. Three Shops Undermined. Tram Service Stopped
The "Daily News" of 8th February reports:— Had a small earthquake happened, the three houses that have partially…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Unused Public Roads
A RATHER peculiar position has just been created by a pronouncement of the Crown Lands Department to the effect that it could not see its way clear to allow Shires…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Casino Show Train Bungle
A large number of Clarence River residents who visited the Casino Show on Thursday had an experience which, in all probability, will deter most of them from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Evans River Road
IN justice to the residents of Evans River and the hundreds who visit that popular resort weekly during the summer months we have again to bring the state…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Omnibus Slang. Wildly Classical
With the motor omnibuses there has come a new "slang" language. It has evolved from the brains and tempers of drivers and conductors…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Motor-car. Some of Its Uses
"Toot, toot, toot!" went the horn of the big motor car as it thumped along the road. But old Farmer Giles, who who was very deaf, walked on quietly…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Another Alpine Tunnel. New Railway Line Planned to Pierce the Bernese Alps
Consul Keene writes from Geneva that since the Simplon tunnel has been opened to traffic the subject of the lines of access to the new…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Broken Head Road
Very strong complaints reach us from Broken Head in regard to the road from Byron Bay. Some heavy machinery has been taken out there lately for gold…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Our Kyogle Budget. Opening of Horseshoe Creek Bridge
LAST Wednesday opened here with such glorious weather that only a person devoid of energy could stay indoors, if there was any possible chance of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Towards the Ideal Motor
An Italian inventor, named Dobelli, has thought of a very ingenious method of saving a large percentage of power in petrol motors which up to now is lost with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bullock on the Railway
A BULLOCK caused a great deal of excitement on the railway between Burwood and Strathfield last Monday, holding up the traffic for about 10…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Proposed Road-making Plant
At the Terania Council meeting on Thursday, the President (Cr. Greene) in dealing with a letter from a firm of engineers regarding a steam traction engine and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gate on Hanging Rock Road
Councillor Missingham. at Thursday's meeting of the Terania Shire Council, during the morning said he saw in the "Star" on Monday that the gate prefiously…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Those Motor Cars
ON Monday, while Mr. J. Perry, sen., and his wife were ascending the hill at the 10-mile, Tenterfield road, a motor car, without warning, whizzed round the corner and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tenterfield to Casino Railway
THE project for connecting the northern rivers coastal districts with the main northern line has been before the public of N.S. Wales for upwards of twenty…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coastal-Tabeland Railway
IN the course of a well-written article in the "Glen Innes Examiner," on the above subject, the brightness of which is only dimmed by our old…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Road Work. Tintenbar Shire
At a meeting of the Tintenbar Shire Council on Monday the following tenders were accepted for road work within the Shire:— Road, Jesswoo'gen to Uralba. M. Mackay,…
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