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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
85 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 5
GENTLEMEN—I trust you will allow me to bay a few words to the working men who have been persuaded to sign the above petition: I think I will convince them they have done an injury to themselves without…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A public meeting was held at the Mechanics' Institute, East Maitland, on Tuesday evening, for the purpose of considering a letter from Mr. Dickson respecting the erection of a telegraph office, and the removal of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE rejoice to observe by the abstract of the Estimates, published in Wednesday's Empire, that the Government have complied by anticipation with the request of the inhabitants of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMEN—The Government having anticipated the wishes of the public meeting recently bold at the Northumberland Hotel, by placing a sum of £6,000 on the Estimates, to meet the cost of erecting a bridge over the Hunter, at West…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Bridge Committee met again on Tuesday afternoon, at the Northumberland Hotel, and adopted a petition, prepared by Mr. P. Hutchison, as agreed at the provious meeting. It was also determined that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In consequence of the petition recently sent to the Legislature in opposition to the Morpeth and Maitland Railway, the following petition in support of the bill has been drawn up, and is now in course of signature. We…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GENTLEMEN—If I am rightly informed there is at length some prospect of a Bill being introduced by the Government, recognizing the claims of settlers through whose laids Parish Roads are being made, to some sort…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →GENTLEMEN—Understanding that a few of the leading citizens or Morpeth have, during the lost three or four days, visited this place, in order to elicit some information respecting the anti-railway petition, perhaps you will extend towards myself…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Northern road, which for some years past has been com paratively free from the presence of bushrangers—so free, in fact, that the Government have allowed the mails to be carried without the protection of a guard—has at last been the scene…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting of the Maitland Road Trust was held in the Court-house, East Maitland, on Tuesday, the 29th inst. The ohairwas taken by the newly appointed Warden, Bourn Russell, Esq. The other members present were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE are scarcely aware how the general public in this neighbourhood feel on the question of the proposed railway, policy of the Government for 1862. Latterly we have heard pretty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. ARNOLD'S speech on the railway policy [?] the Government, on Wednesday, is one of the best and most statesmanlike of his we have seen, judging from the report in the Herald…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This morning, as the 3.30 train left the station, a number of horses were on the railway line, which galloped along until they came to the first culvert, where they stopped en masse, and before the engine could be stopped it came into contact…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The railway debate ended ratber ingloriously for the Opposition. A division of 43 to 17, in favour of the Ministry, could hardly have been reckoned upon even by the most ardent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE SELECT COMMITTEE of the Legislative Assembly, for whose consideration and report was referred, upon the 3rd instant, "the Bill to incorporate the Maitland and Morpeth Railway Company;" and to whom were referred, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →If the evidence taken by the select committee on the Morpeth and Maitland Railway Company's Bill were republished in the newspapers, the public would be surprised to find how bitter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. WISDOM, on behalf of the Chairman, brought up a report from the Standing Orders Committee, having reference to a petition presented by Mr. Piddington, against the Maitland and Morpeth Railway, the signatures to which had been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the S. M. Herald of Tuesday is published a circular issued by Mr. A. C. Fitzgibbon, C.E., Engineer and Manager to the Dun Mountain Copper Mining Company, Nelson, New Zealand, containing the description of a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE enquiry by a select committee if the Assembly into the performance of contracts on the Northern Road, granted on Tuesday, will be a public benefit. The past career of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A public meeting was held in the town hall, Mudgee, on the 20th, on the subjcet of the construction of a line or hores railway from Mudgee to the Great Northern line. The hall was crowded to excess. The Mayor presided…
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