Government Grants for Roads
THE Tomki Shire has been notified that the Public Works Department has approved of the payment of £50 for expenditure in constructing the road Tatham to Greenridge…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1908
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Southern Pacific Railway. London
The Government is prosecuting the Southern Pacific Railway and its officials in connection with rebates to shippers; also 108 firms, enjoying special rates…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Servian Press Demands Railway From Danube to the Adriatic. London
While the Sevian press demands the construction of the railway across the Balkan States from the Danube to the Adriatic via Servia, it unanimously protests against the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tramway Association Trouble an Extraordinary Position. Sydney
An extraordinary position was created at the annual meeting of the Tramway Service Association. After some sharp cross-firing in regard to the attendance of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →North Coast Railway
THERE can be no Complaint that the Government is not pushing ahead with the public works of great magnitude which have been taken in hand, says…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway[?] Danube to Ad[?]iatic. London
The Austraian-Hungarian Government has informed Ser[?] that they are prepared to support a railway from the river D[?] to the Adriatic Sea, via Servia…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Northern Star Published Daily. Thursday, February 20, 1908. Increase of Railway Traffic
The rapid expansion of the district railway trame is evident to the casual observer, and is fully borne out by the occasional figures published of the returns…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drainage and Road Making
SIR,-It will please the ratepayers of East Coraki find surrounding district to know that the Hon. 0. A. Lee, Minister for Public Works (true to his promise of last year), has granted the sum of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Water Pipes Over the New Bridge
REGARDING the above the Department has written to the Casino Council, as follows:—"The Minister is prepared to approve of this Department providing the necessary…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Born in a Train. Ade[?]de
While the prosecut[?] in an alleged criminal assault case was travelling to Adelaide by the train she gave birth to twins…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The North Coast Railway
STANDING out prominently among great railway works is, of course, the line which is to further develop the North Coast districts. In a short time armies of workmen…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shocking Railway Fatality
A SAD fatality occured on the Great Northern railway line this morning, when a young married man named Ernest Clarke, a resident of Singleton…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →President Roosevelt Wants Hours of Railway Labourers Limited. London
President Roosevelt has written to the Interstate Commerce Commission the relative importance of limiting the hours of labour of railway employees…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Car New Records. London
[?] new reocrds at Brooklands for 50, 100, and 150 miles, averaging 85 miles an hour…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Twenty Mile Road Race
A cycle road race will be run from Lismore to Alstonville, and back on the 18th March. It is probable there will be large entries for the event…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Improvements at the Railway Station
THE Railway Commissioners have decided to further enlarge and improve the Casino station premises. Mr. J. Barnsley has the work in hand. A kitchen, 20ft. x 17ft., is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Affected. Railway Washways. Farmers Flooded Out. Refugees on Haystacks. Newcastle
Exceptionally heavy rain was experienced at Newcastle, five inches falling in 12 hours yesterday inceassanlty, which flooded the streets, every gutter being transformed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods and Freshes. Hunter Valley Flood. Farmers' Big Losses. Vast Seas of Water. Train Traffic Dislocated. Maitland
At Maitland the Hunter rose to 30 feet, but subsequently fell four feet. The flood waters covered a large area of land, and many farms were inundated…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →State Railways
STATE ownership of railways will soon become a burning question in the United States. Much of the evidence tendered to the Royal Commission on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Manchurian Railway Extension the Chinese Position. London
Dr. Morrison, the "Times" correspondent at Pekin, states that Chinese newspapers urge that if the Japanese contention denying the Chinese the right to extend…
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