The Appalling Railway Accident in Ireland
The following dreadful narrative of the accident on the Great Southern and Western Rail[?] way in the previous week is given in the Leeds Mercury of the 15th October:…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1854
17 stories in Hunter Valley's papers
Sydney News. Railways in Australia
The Herald and Empire of Tuesday report fully the proceedings at a public meeting, held at the Royal Hotel, on Monday, for considering the best means of facilitating the construction…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland Mercury. Saturday, February 11, 1854. the Railway Movement
IN our last article, after briefly reviewing the present mode of aiding the construction of railways in the colony, and the several suggestions brought…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney News. Hunter River Railway Company. (From the S. M. Herald, Feb. 9.)
Yesterday a half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders in the Hunter River Railway Company was held at their office. Mr. Charles Kemp, Chairman of the Company, presided…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Election of Road Commissioners. To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury
Sir—On the second day of May next, two members of the Maitland District Council will retire by rotation, but they will be eligible for reelection—or the electors have power to nominate…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Mercury. Saturday, April 22, 1854. Election for Road Commissioners
IT has been well observed by a correspondent that the coming election for District Councillors is a matter of considerable practical importance to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Mercury. Wednesday, June 7, 1854. the Grant in Aid to the Maitland Road Trust
THE Maitland Road Trust, at their last meeting, decided on appealing to the Government to place on the Estimates for 1854 a sum equal to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Mercury. Wednesday, July 5, 1854. the Furth[?] [?] [?] [?] to the Sydney Railway Company
THE "further assistance" asked for by the Sydney Railway Company is another loan of £150,000, and a guarantee of 5 per cent. per annum on a second…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Mercury. Saturday, July 29, 1854. the Railway From Newcastle to Maitland
IT will doubtless be matter of considerable interest to our readers to learn the progress the Hunter River Railway Company are making in the important…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Gallant and Successful Expedition. Hango Roads, May 23
Our cruisers in the Baltic, and especially in the Gulf of Finland, are not allowing the oysters to accumulate upon their bottoms. The Arrogant has been detached from the fleet for a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Details of the Bombardment of Hango. (From the Daily News.) Hango Roads, May 25
We are at this moment under the batteries of Hango. The fleet, or at least that portion of it now present with the commander-in-chief, arrived here on the 20th instant, and anchored…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Mercury. Wednesday, November 22, 1854 Roads and Railways
THERE are very few members of the Council for whom we have so high a respect as for Mr. Charles Cowper; he is not only a man of considerable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Council Paper. Final Report from the Select Committee on Roads and Railways
The Select Committee of the Legislative Council appointed on the 27th of June last "To inquire and report what measures should be adopted to improve the existing roads, and to provide for the general…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Council Paper. An act to amend the Maitland Road Trust Act, 1853. (17th Victoria, No. 16.) [Assented to 7th Nov., 1854.]
Whereas by an act of the Governor and Legislative Council of New South Wales, passed in the seventeenth year of the reign of her present Majesty, Queen Victoria, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Maitland Mercury. Saturday, November 25, 1854. Roads and Railways
MR. COWPER is anxious to see one million of the funds of the colony devoted to the increase of its resources —by carrying railways from Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Legislative Council. THURSDAY, Nov. 29, 1854. [We resume, by abridgment from the Herald and Empire, the report of Thursday's proceedings from the point at which our correspondent's report closed, as published in Saturday's Mercury.] the Government Railways Bill
The COLONIAL TREASURER moved the second reading of this bill, the object of which was to facilitate railway extension throughout the colony, and to place their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Government Gazette. Tuesday, December 12. ROADS
His Excellency the Governor General has been pleased to appoint David Charles Frederick Scott, Esq., to be Surveyor of Roads for the Western Road from Parramatta to Bathurst…
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