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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
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That your committee have examined the solicitor for the bill and, other witnesses, and that the preamble, as verbally amended, having been proved to the satisfaction of your committee, they considered the clauses and the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →GENTLEMEN— Be so good as to advocate our cause for the repair of this road. Our bridge lies in a paddock some 20 or 30 yards from its proper place, having been floated there by the late rains. On Sunday last our clergyman was driven only a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting of the Provisional Committee of the Maitland and Morpeth Railway Company, was held on Monday evening, at the office of Mr. W. H. Mullen, West Maitland—the chairman, Mr. Benjamin Lee, jan., presiding…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A meeting of the Maitland Road Trust was held at the Court, house, East Maitland, yesterday, for the purpose of considering a communication from the Auditor General Members present —Mr. J. B. R. Robertson, Warden; Messrs. Wilkinson,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tenders will be received at this Office, until noon, of Tuesday, the 28th of May, from persons willing to contract for the execution of the following works on the Great Northern Road:…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The heavy and almost incessant rain that has fallen during the last two days must, with the experience of previous floods, have prepared the public to expect another stoppage of railway communication. This…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Notice is hereby given that the line of parish road from Cundletown to the Tinonee and Wingham road, mentioned in the Government Gazette of the 28th August last. No. 139, has been formally marked and opened by the proper officer, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A highly interesting cricket match came off at Belford, on Monday, the 20th instant, between eleven of the Great Northern Railway Club—a recently formed club, that has the honor to number among its members…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The session of Parliament has terminated without [?] decision being arrived at as to the mode in which further railway extensions are to be carried out. The question has, on two or three occasions, been cursorily debated in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Notice is hereby given, that the line of Parish Road from Anvil Creek to Stanhope, with a Branch Road towards Glendon Brook, mentioned in the Government Gazette of the 3rd of November. 1857, No. 181, has been formally marked and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A publie meeting was held at Mudgee, on the 18th inst., as already mentioned, to petition the Government in favor of the construction of a tramway or railway from Mudgee to the Hunter River, to connect with the Great…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We find in the Empire the following letter. It certainly presents a formidable array of calculations against horse tramways, and in favour of cheap locomotive railways. But the question occurs, has the practicability of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WE fear that many of our up-country readers will be greatly disappointed, with the tenor of the following information, which we take from the Herald's mail summary of Friday—a source…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMEN—Knowing your willingness to report our local grievances, will you kindly allow me to call the attention of the "powers that he" to the disgraceful, and almost impassable, state of the Sugar [?] Road…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Th[?] numerous buildings every where springing up, the many improvements that are being made by the Corporation, the number of the population, the increasing commercial enterprise, and the annual amount paid for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The weekly meeting of the Provisional Committee of this Company was held on Saturday last, at the Company's office in Morpeth. The Chairman, Mr. Benj Lee, junior, occupied the chair. A communication was read…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →His Exeellenoy the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Connoil, 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…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WE are rather surprised that hitherto there has been no movement made in the Hunter towns, to support the endeavours the Mudgee people are making to connect their district with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following letter has been sent to Mr. J.B.R. Robertson, the Warden, by the members of the Maitland Road Trust, requesting that gentleman to resign the Wardenship of the Maitland district, in consequence of an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A preliminary meeting was called on Thursday last, and held in the Court-house, to consider what st[?] should be taken to co-operate with the inhabitants of Mudgee…
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