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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
62 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 4
Notice is hereby given, that it is intended, after the expiration of forty days from the publication hereof in the Government Gazette and one Sydney newspaper, to make and complete that portion of the Great Northern…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →His Excellency the Governor-General, with the advice of the Executive Council, having deemed it expedient to make a deviation in the line of parish road, from Clarence Town to Dunmore punt, where it runs through the lands granted to, or…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →His Excellency the Goveror-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), from the great north road, near…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following communication and enclosures, sent us by Mr. Borthwick, possess a strong interest, not in East Maitland only, but in every other town now intersected, or likely to be interceded, by the line of railway:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A p blic meeting was held, on Saturday evening last, at Audrew's Terminus Hotel, to frame a petition for enquiring into the mismanagement of the Great Southern line of railway. Mr. David Bell, J.P., was unanimously…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →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 parish through which it passes,) from Stroud to Gloucester,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A meeting of the Maitland Road T[?]st was held in the Court House, East Maitland, yesterday. There were present the Warden (Mr. W. Knox Child), and Messrs. Patrick Wa[?]h and Joseph Eckford…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The contract for railway construction undertaken by Messrs. Peto, Brassy, and Betts, is being carried on in a very Vigorous and enterprising manner. Large shipments of materials required for railway work have been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Notice is hereby given, that it is intended, after the expiration of forty days from the publication hereof in the Government Gazette and one Sydney newspaper, to make and complete that portion of the Great Northern Railway from West Maitland to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This was a suit, by rule nisi, for specific performance, which was instituted so for back as 9th October, 1858, and was now before the Primary Judge by consent. Mr. Gordon appeared in support of the rule, and Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The operations of railway construction in this colony during the past month present little occasion for remark. The contracts undertaken by Messrs. Peto, Brassey, and Betts are being carried out with creditable energy, large quantities of railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A correspondent of the Nea York Tribune says:— "Some months ago, there was living in Virginia a negro woman fifty years of age, named Katy. She had been married, and, so long as her husband lived, was faithful…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tenders will be received at this office until noon of Tuesday, the 22nd November next, for forming, ballasting, and building culverts at Lochinvar, and for supplying metal at Liverpool Gap, according to specification and general conditions of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Melbourne and Murray River Railway, the most important of the Government Victorian lines both as regards the extent of country to be traversed and the portions of the interior with which it will open a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No eligible tender having been received for the above, notice is hereby given, that fresh tenders will be received at this office until 12 o'clock, on Tuesday, the 29th November next, from persons willing to contract for the construction of a Bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →GENTLEMEN—The Stoney Creek bridge is my theme, and a more disgraceful, dangerous, and dilapidated structure was never written upon—dangerous in the extreme; and yet those who cross it, endangering…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tenders will be received at this Office, until Tuesday, the 3rd January, 1860, at noon, from persons willing to contract for the supply of 41,000 ironbark or pure box sleepers, or for any portion of the same, not being leas than 4000…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →As a good deal of misapprehension appears to exist in respect to the lands taken for railway purposes, we beg to the attention of the proprietors of such lands to the Government Railways Act of 1858, which meets…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tenders will be received at this Office until noon of Tuesday, the 17th day of January next, from persons willing to contract for the construction of a bridge over Sandy Creek, on the Northern Road, between Muswell Brook and Aberdeen…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tenders will be received at this Office until noon of Tuesday, the twenty-fourth day of January next, from persons willing to contract for the construction of a bridge over the Macdonald River at Bendemeer, on the Northern Road…
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