Stoney Creek Bridge
Our readers will peruse the following with much pleasure: Maitland, 2nd April, 1860. Gentlemen—At the request of the Warden, Mr. Portus, I beg…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1860
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Stoney Creek Bridge
The following correspondence has been forwarded to us:- To the Editors of the Maitland Mercury. GENTLEMEN—The following letter has been received…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railway Disputes. (From the S. M. Herald, April 3.)
Our readers have been well aware that for a long time past there has been a state of cronic quarrel between the Railway Department and the agent of Messrs. Peto, Brassey, and Betts. The consequence has been that the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Roads
ON Wednesday the Assembly passed the items proposed for the roads and bridges, on the Estimates for the present year, 1860. It is no April, and the roads take long to dry up after…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ROAD. Department of Lands, Sydney, 21th April. 1860
Notice is hereby given, that the line of parish road from Scone to Page's River, and towards the Upper Hunter, mentioned in the Government Gazette of the 7th October. 1859 (No. 203), has been formally marked and opened by the proper…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Great Northern Road. To the Editors of the Maitland Mercury
GENTLEMEN—I have observed a great deal written in your journal about roads and money voted by the Legislature for the repair of the three great trunk lines of road throughout the colony, that a superficial observer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Injury to the Great Southern Railway. Suspension of Traffic
The almost unprecedented heavy fall of rain, which has occurred in the last few days, is evidenced in the extensive damage resulting on the Great Southern Railway. The roadway of this line has not simply given…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Late Rains. the Damage to the Railway. (From the Herald, May 1.)
A farther inspection of the condition of the Southern Railway has shown the damage done by the late rains not to be of so formidable a character, or requiring so long a time to repair, as was at first estimated. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →State of the Roads
By the courtesy of Mr. Crane (of Messrs. Crane and Roberts, the proprietors of the American line of coaches), who arrived in town from Goulburn yesterday, we are put in possession of information by which we are enabled…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Construction and Maintenance, Great Northern Road. 1St District. Department of Public Works, Sydney, 27th April, 1860
Tenders will be received at this office, until noon of Tuesday, the 29th day of May next, for clearing, forming, draining, gravelling, and maintenance, according to specifications, at the following places on the first division…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Unemployed. the Northern Railway. (From Tuesday's Empire.)
Mr. Wilcox, in his examination at the bar of the house on Friday last, stated that good workmen on the Northern line earn from 8s. to 10s. per day, and that he should be glad to take three or four hundred of the unemployed of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To Contractors and Others.—stoney Creek Bridge. Department of Public Works, Sydney, 22nd May, 1860
Tenders will be received at this office, until noon of Tuesday, the 19th of June next, from persons willing to contract for the erection of a bridge over Stoney Creek, near Maitland, on the road from Maitland to Wo[?]ombi…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Railway Extension to Goulburn. (From the S.M. Herald, June 2.)
In an anticipation of the large traffic which is likely soon to be created on the southern road through the concentration of a large population on the Kiandra diggings, the agent for Messrs. Peto, Brassey, and Betts has offered…
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We beg to call the attention of the Government to the following letter. Such neglect does not often occur, we presume, or we should have many such letters sent to us for publication:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Friday, June 8, 1860. Opening of the Great Nohthehn Railway to Lochinvar. Department of Public Works. Sydney, 7th June, 1860
Notice is hereby given, that it is proposed to open the Great Northern Raliway, for public traffic, as far as Lochinvar, on the 2nd July next. The time table and scale of charges will be published hereafter…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ROAD. Department of Lands, Sydney, 11th June, 1860
Notice is hereby given, that the line of parish road from Stroud to Gloucester, mentioned in the Government Gazette of the 4th November last (No. 225), has been formally marked and opened by the proper officer,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ROAD. Department of Lands, Sydney, 26th June, 1860
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) from Raymond Terrace to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney News. Railway Construction. (From the S. M. Herald, June 28.)
The following resolutions, founded upon the evidence lately taken before the bar of the Legislative Assembly, have been placed on the business paper by Mr. Parkes, and will come on for discubsion this afternoon:…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Great Northern Railway
The extension of the Great Northern Railway from West Maitland to Lochinvar, which was virtually opened on Wednesday last by the Chief Commissioner of Railways, was opened for public traffic yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Government Gazette. Tuesday, July 10, 1860. Construction and Maintenance.—great Northern Road.—1st District. Department of Public Works. Sydney, 9th July, 1860
Tenders will be received at this office until noon of Tuesday, the 31st instant, for de ring, forming. draining, and ballasting, according to the specifications,' at the following places on the first district of the Great…
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