Original Correspondence. TRAM-ROADS
COUNTRYMEN AND CITIZENS—How long will you lay dormant? How long will you neglect doing what is essential for your future prosperity? Is not Port Hunter the second port for…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1851
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Original Correspondence. Wollombi.—the New Road, or Milson's Line. To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury
SIR—Presuming that a few notices of our prospective route to the metropolis may not be unacceptable to the general reader, or at least to the many interested in its construction, I…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Railway Company. (Abridged from the S. M. Herald, Feb. 13.)
The half-yearly meeting of the Sydney Railway Company was held yesterday, at the Royal Hotel, Mr. Charles Kemp, the President, in the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The New Bridge Over Wallis's Creek
Some time since we mentioned that much of the timber for the new bridge over Wallis's Creek, between East and West Maitland, had been brought in, and that it was hoped the new…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Mercury. Saturday, August 9, 1851. the Roads
FROM a correspondence between the Colonial Secretary and the Warden of the Maitland District, published in our last number, it appears that no portion…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Government Gazette. Tuesday, August 5, 1851. Roads.—william River
His Excellency the Governor-General, with the advice of the Executive Council, having deemed it expedient to open and make a parish road to be maintained at the expense…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Original Correspondence. Foot-bridge Across the Hunter. To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury
SIR—Active measures being now in progress for the erection of a new bridge over Wallis's Creek, the present may be considered a not unfitting time for calling the attention of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence. the Road From Maitland to Mudgee. To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury
SIRâBusiness, as you are aware, having required me to travel from Maitland to Mudgee, by way of Merton and Merriwa, I have forwarded to your address a few observations on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Government Gazette. Tuesday, September 2, 1851. to Blacksmiths and Others.—iron-work for Wallis's Creek Bridge
Tenders will be received at the Colonial Secretary's office until noon of Monday, the 15th September, from persons willing to contract for making the bolts and iron-work required for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland Mercury. Saturday, November 8, 1851. the Northumtberland and Hunter Roads Bill
THE bill introduced into the Council by Dr. Douglass "for the managing, making, and upholding of the public roads in the united counties of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Mercury. Wednesday, November 19, 1851. the Roads
THE government have withdrawn their Western Road Trusts Bill for the present session. The objections urged against it, in and out of Council, were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Mercury. Wednesday, November 26, 1851. Bridge Speculations
PRIVATE speculation in public bridges is on the increase in the colony. In the session of Council held last year an act was passed empowering…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Legislative Council. [Owing to the non-arrival of a steamer on Friday last, we were unable in our last to give the Council proceedings to later date than Tuesday, and the report of that day went no further in the Sydney papers than the close of the debate on Mr. Cowper's railway motion. We have now therefore to give the remainder of Tuesday's proceedings, and those of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, and from the length to which they run can only give them in a very brief shape; the first three days principally abridged from the S. M. Herald, and Friday's given from the Empire.] Tuesday, December 2, 1851. Penrith Nepean Bridge Bill
On the motion of Mr. DARVALL, this bill was read a second time. To be committed on Friday. NATIONAL EDUCATION…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland Mercury. Wednesday, December 24, 1851. the Roads
THE recommendations embodied in the "Report from the Select Committee on the Great Leading Thoroughfares of the Colony" have been agreed to by the…
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