Maitland Mercury. Saturday, March 6, 1847. the Roads
DURING the late wet season, the disadvantages of bad roads have been brought home so forcibly to the minds of all who are concerned either in…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1847
17 stories in Hunter Valley's papers
Maitland Mercury. Saturday, March 13, 1847. Wallis's Creek Bridge
THE Maitland District Council, with a praiseworthy attention to the interests of their constituents, and to those also of the inhabitants of the upper districts,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Monopoly. (From the Atlas.)
For the last session railways formed the great and most urgent legislative question. The Corn Laws might have stood over another year, or even till a dissolution of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Extracts. Rules and Regulations for Railways. (From Punch.)
The French government has published a royal ordonnance, fixing the regulations that are henceforward to be observed by all railway companies in working their lines. As it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →British Extracts. Adventures of an Express Train
On Tuesday night, at six o'clock, the express train on the York and Newcastle Railway left Darlington, being about an hour and a half behind its usual time, having been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Grants of Land for Railway Purposes. Copy of a Despatch from the Secretary of State to His Excellency Sir Charles A. Fitz Roy. Downing-street, 26th February, 1847
SIR—I have received your predecessor's despatch, No. 98, of the 19th May last, relative to the construction of railways in New South Wales, in which you enquire how…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Mercury. Wednesday, August 18, 1847. the Bridge Over Wallis's Creek
AS the repairs to the bridge over Wallis's Creek, which the Colonial Architect was directed by the Governor, some two or three months ago, to have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local News. Wallis's Creek Bridge.—public Meeting
On Saturday a public meeting was held in the Court-house, East Maitland, to consider the expediency of addressing the Governor relative to the erection of a new bridge over…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Original Correspondence. the Road Through Black Creek. To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury
SIR—Your Singleton correspondent alludes in your last publication to the state of the road across Black Creek, in a manner by no means flattering to the Maitland District…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Mercury[?] Wednesday, September 1, 1847. the Wallis's Creek Bridge Petition
WE are sorry to say that the petition to the Governor, praying his Excellency to place on the Estimates a sum of money for the erection of a new…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Mercury. Saturday, September 25, 1847. the Report on Roads and Bridges
The Committee appointed "to inquire into, and report upon, the state of the public roads and bridges, and the best mode of keeping them in repair,"…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Mercury. Wednesday, September 29, 1847. the Roads Bill
THE Roads Bill has shared a fate very common to measures introduced at the tail-end of a session. On the motion for its second reading, on Friday last,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Council Papers. Report From the Select Committee of Roads and Bridges
The Select Committee of the Legislative Council, appointed on the 22nd May, 1846, and re-appointed on the 18th May, 1847, to inquire into and report upon the state of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →British Extracts. Frightful Accident on the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway. (From the Shipping Gazette, May 2[?].)
CHESTER, MONDAY NIGHT.—An accident of a most dreadful and alarming description has this evening happened on the above railway, by which a considerable number of lives…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Extracts. Railway Travellers. (From the Man in the Moon, for June.)
THE FIRST-CLASS PASSENGER.—He arriveth perchance in a carriage; at all events in a cab. He hath much luggage, and payeth money from a silk purse glittering with steel…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Short Road From Sydney to Maitland and Newcastle. [From a Correspondent.]
Although a work of the greatest importance to the inhabitants of the Hunter is now in progress, no notice has been taken of it by them; and we believe that very few are even aware of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local News. New Line of Road From Maitland to Sydney
Our townsman, Mr. Peter Green, having recently proceeded to Sydney on horseback and returned, by the route described lately by a correspondent of the Mercury, (with…
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