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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
43 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 3
The fallowing petition, from sixty-eight inhabitants of Sugarloaf, in reference to the road from that place to East Maitland, was sent to Mr. Burns, M.L.A., for presentation to the Minister of Lands, and, when in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following letter has been received from the Government by the deputation who lately visited Sydney, apprising them that a sum of money had been placed to the credit of the trustees named. The prompt [?]otion of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A meeting of the Maitland Road Trust and District Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Road Trust Office, East Maitland. Present: The Warden (Mr. J. B. R. Robertson), Messrs. Brunker and Whitehead. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Thursday morning the Mayor of East Maitland, with Aldermen Chambers and Wright, had an interview with Messrs. Strachan, Burns, and Wolfe, in the office of Mr. Wolfe, in reference to the expenditure of the special…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT is a common romark that the acquisition of office works a remarkable change in the viows of membors of parliamout. The exalted radical who is over ready when sitting on the opposition…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A GREAT benefit would be secured to the town of West Maitland by the successful carrying out of a proposal made at the last meeting of the Municipal Council, namely, the formation of a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An adjourned meeting was held at Mr, J. Hannell's, on Thursday evening, the 25th instant, at seven p m., in accordance with advertisement to that effect. The chair was resomed by Mr. R. Fenwick, who, having read the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →That in less than six weeks hence, our colony will be spanned from border to border by railway, and that the trade opened up by the navigation of the Murray, the Darling, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An atrecious crime was perpetrated late on Saturday evening, the 9th, in a first-class carriage on the North London Railway, when a Mr. Thomas Briggs, engaged in the banking establishment of Messrs. Hobarts, Curtis,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We have been obliged with a copy of the following communication with reference to the bridge which is to be built over the Hunter at West Maitland:— "Department of Public Works,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A terrible disaster happened upon the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, on 29th June. About five hundred emigrants, mostly Germans, who had arrived at Quebec a few days previously, were forwarded in one mass by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The dreadful tragedy enacted on the North London Railway on Saturday evening, will have served to remind the public that travellers on the line are exposed to many dangers besides those arising from collisions, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A BRIEF report of an interview between a deputation from West Maitland and the Minister for Public Works appears in another column. The information it conveys is in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A public meeting was held at Lochinvar on Monday afternoon, for the purpose of petitioning the Government to proclaim the parish road from Nation's to the site fixed for the punt. About sixteen persons were present…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In reply to Mr. Terry, Mr. Holroyd said that the Government intended to place a sum of £10,009 on the estimates for 1865, for trial railway surveys, and that the line from Bathurst to Mudgee would be entitled to its share. He laid upon the table…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE speech of Mr. Arnold on Thursday week dealt with matters of such grave importance that attention has been to some extent diverted from his remarks upon a subject of less general…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We extract from the S. M. Herald the following report of remarks by Mr. Burns and Mr. Arnold on the subject of the bridge at West Maitland made daring the debate on Wednesday last:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIE—I am directed by the Engineer-in-Chief to forward to you the enclosed maps of the counties of Brisbane, Bligh, Wellington, Durham, and Phillip; and to request that you will examine the country, with a view…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →About one o'clock on Saturday morning, as the down mail from Muswellbrook was coming across that part of the Great Northern Road known as Bowman's Flat, about faur miles from Muswellbrook, two armed and mounted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Francis Muller was arrested at New York on August 24, on the arrival there of the Victoria. What his chances of escape might have been had he sailed from Liverpool, and met with favourable winds, it is needless…
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