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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
69 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 4
WE invite the attention of our readers to the report (in our supplement) of a public meeting held in Mudgee last week, to forward the proposed movement in favor of a railway to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The meeting convened by the Mayor, in obedience to a requisition from the inhabitants of Mudgee, took place at Readford's Maitland Hotel, Market-street. Mudgee, on Wednesday evening, 4th July instant Shortly after…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →This body met yesterday at the Court-house, Eas[?] Maitland, pursuant to adjournment. Present—the Warden, and Messrs. M'Laughlin and Wilkinson; the Warden in the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This body met on Thursday, at the Court House, East Maitland, pursuant to adjournment. Present—the Warden, Messrs. Brunker, M'Loughlin, and Wilkinson. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →We have been favored with the report of a road meeting at Tomago, and with a copy of correspondence with the Government. On the 20th instant a meeting of the inhabitants of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Great Southern line between Liverpool and Campbelltown is still closed for traffic, the embankments having been injured in several places by the recent heavy and incessant rains. Yesterday being again…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE effect of " gold rushes," and of the discovery of new gold fields, seems likely to prove very beneficial to the colony, not so much directly as indirectly. The Snowy River expected…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tenders will be received at this Office until noon of Tuesday, the 9th day of October next, for the supply of about 700 tons of metal for Grass-tree Hill, on the Great Northern Road. Specifications may be seen, and further particulars obtained,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tenders will be received at this Office, until noon of Tuesday, the 30th day of October next, for the following works on the Great Northern Road:- Contract 2—Clearing, drawing, excavating rock and, earth,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tenders will be received at this Office, until twelve o'clock on Tuesday, the 30th October next, from persons willing to contract for the erection of a Watch House at Lake Macquarie Road. Tenders to be endorsed, "Tender for Watch House,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE rejoice in being able to lay before our readers a confirmation of the statement made on Wednesday last by Mr. Dickson, to his constituents, that a sum was to be placed on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMEN—My attention has been drawn to a letter signed by J. N. Brunker, one of the District Council which appeared in yesterday's Mercury; and in reply to the first statement, relative to the unpaid grant, I have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This body met on Wednesday, the 19th; present—the Warden, Messrs Brunker, M'Loughlin, Wilkinson, Callaghan, and Walsh; the Warden in the chair. The balance at the bank was declared to be £3…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Note.—The time within which tenders can be received for the above work has been extended to noon of Tuesday, the 13th day of November next…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A public meeting of the inhabitants of Maitland (East) was held at the Mechanics' Institute on Monday evening, for the purpose of considering the propriety of petitioning Parliament with reference to the proposed branch…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMEN—Your arguments contained in a leading article some few days since, in favour of the extension of the Great Northern line of Railway to Morpeth, although strong and unanswerable, should have embra[?]ed another and equally strong…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WHILE we regret very much that there has been any occasion for a formal Opposition to the prayer of the petition for a railway to Morpeth, already presented to Parliament, we cannot…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An adjourned public meeting of the inhabitants of East Maitland was held at the Mechanics' Institute, on Friday evening, to consider the petition to be sent to Government with reference to the proposed line of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wa think the country generally will gladly welcome the substitution of tramways for the far more costly railways, if a practicable and practical scheme for constructing them has been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have been favored by the Morpeth Committee recently appointed on this subject, with the following report, as the expression of the feeling of the people of Morpeth, on the subject of the recent unfortunate…
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