These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.
Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
56 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 3
On Saturday a meeting was held at East Maitland, pursnant to advertisement, for the purpose of adopting measures to ensure the opening for public traffic of the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →As we have recently gone so fully into a consideration of the evils arising from local jealousies, we need only now express renewed regret, that sensible…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →We have received from Mr. Moore, Warden of Brisbane Water, the following letter, demanding the name of tho writer of a communication published in the Mercury some weeks…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The minutes of the previous meeting wore read and approved of. The balanco at the bank was declared to be £68 12s. 4d. A letter to the Clerk from the Secretary of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The period at which tho contract for the completion of the raliway will expire is now rapidly approaching, and we have heard many doubts expressed, not only by individuals, but also by various Journals as to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following facts in connection with railways are taken from a lecture by R. Stephenson, Esq., M.P. Mare rails are laid down than are enough to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →GENTLEMEN—From the time when Agricola first formed South Britain into a Roman province to the present day, the first step towards the development of the mineral and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →His Excellency the Governor General has been pleased with the advice of the Executive Council, to appoint Robert Barrington Dawson, [?]quire, to be Surveyor of the Western Road…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We are all familiar with the phenomena of coyness, as exhibited by maidens towards young men, and it seems a natural and proper feeling for sensitive…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There's a wondrous bridge, my lady, In the softest clime I know, Where with sweetest breath of balsam, Winds of Spring eternal blow…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A public meeting was held on Thursday last, at the Armidale Court-house, at two p m., for the purpose of taking into consideration the report of the Short Road Committee, appointed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following is a copy of the official reply to the petition to his Excellency the Governor General, on the subject of the extension to Singleton of the Hunter River railway, adopted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the Maitland Mercury at Thursday, 14th instant, we remark a letter signed "Observer," commenting on, and cavilling at, an article on the Railway which appeared in our issue of the 29th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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 of the parishes through which it passes,)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Further return to an order of the honorable the Legislative Assembly, dated 8th August, 1856, for— "(1.) A return, showing the total amount…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The following reply has been received to the petition to the Governor General praying that the Hunter River Railway may be extended without delay to West Maitland. It is, as will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In reply to Mr. WEEKES, Mr. COWPER said the Government had not sanctioned the increase of railway fares to Liverpool, tbe Railway Commissioners having power to fix them and alter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE continuous progress of the Hunter River Railway for this year is now, as our readers will see, secured. But evidently the various members for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE have again read over carefully the railway debate in the house, on the 17th instant, and it seems to us that some public demonstration of feeling in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE unaccountable unwillingness of the railway surveyors in this district to give the press any information as to the direction of the various trial lines they…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →