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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
22 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 2
SIR—Meeting the captain of one of the large ships now in harbour, I enquired if he purposed to return; his answer was, I fear I shall; and his objection was, the long detention the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE few days' rain we had last week has cut up the roads surprisingly; and in two or three of the bridges on the Morpeth Road holes have been made…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A few weeks ago there was published in the Mercury the "Report from the Select Committee on Internal Communication;" and more recently the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sealed tenders will be received at the office of the Colonial Secretary, until noon of Friday, tho twenty-fifth of February instant, from persons desirous of advancing the whole or any…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR—Such a company should be formed without delay. In former letters I adverted to the benefits incidentally which our woolgrowers and stockholders would enjoy were this improvement…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A highly respectable and satisfatory meeting of gentlemen yesterday assembled at the Royal Hotel, for the purpose of establishing a company for the purpose of forming a railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A DISCUSSION was raised in the Legislative Council yesterday week, on the guarantee of five per cent. asked for by the recently formed Hunter River…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. MARTIN'S motion for the appropriation, at once, of £100,000 for the permanent construction of the Great Western, the Great Northern, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Wallace, the present chief engineer of the Sydney Railway Company, was induced to come out from England expressly to undertake the conduct of the works; and having had very…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR—As Chairman of the Provisional Committee appointed to carry out the resolutions passed at a meeting held at the Royal Hotel, on the 21st ultimo, for the purpose of forming a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →OUR District Council have been engaged in revising and altering the Cumberland Road Trusts Act, so as to adapt it to the requirements of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—That miserable burlesque on municipa[?] institutions, the Maitland Distric[?] Council, has in no respect shown itself more inefficient than in the management of the public roads of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE discussion which has taken place in Council, on Mr. Campbell's motion for the production of the correspondence which has passed between the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—Those new fledged Solons (query Solans?) the Commissioners of the Maitland Read Trust seem rather early to have commenced an imitation of the conduct of our…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Thursday evening, a public meeting was held at the Crown and Anchor Inn, Morpeth, pursuant to advertisement, to consider the present position of the toll ga[?]e on the Morpeth…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As will be seen by a report in another column, the inhabitants of Morpeth have had a meeting to discuss their grieva[?]ces in connection with the levying of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Chairman of the Maitland Road Trust appears anxious to exclude a repor[?]er from the meetings of the Dis[?]i[?]t Co[?]ncil and Road Trust, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—As several articles have appeared in the Mercury reflecting on the District Council and myself, may I request that the correspondence herewith may be inserted in your next paper.—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The first general meeting of the shareholders of the Hunter River Railway Company, was held yesterday, at the temporary office of the Company, Mort's Buildings, Pitt-street, to receive…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—On perusal of the District Council report in your last issue [?]rved with surprise that a proposal has been made for sub-[?]tating a causeway to supers[?]le the present passage over…
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