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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
39 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 2
We have been favoured from the Public Works Department with a return of the passenger traffic upon the several railway lines during the Christmas week. The return shows that the opportunities afforded of holiday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DUNMORE BRIDGE—On Tuesday last we visited the bridge works now in progress at Dunmore, and found that during the fine weather which succeeded the late floods much progress had been mude in the construction…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Thursday afternoon, the 5th instant, the trustees named by the Morpeth Flood Relief Committee, to expend, on the reid from East Maitland to Hinton Ferry via Hinton, the £600 received from the Government, at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MR. MARTIN, in the speech read by the Governor-in-Chief at the opening of Parliament, set forth the views of his Ministry on the subject of railway extension, showing that in their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In referring, the other day, to the question of railway extension, we adverted to the experiment dow being tried in Queensland, where, in order to lessen the cost of construction, we see…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"WE observe in the Gazette of Tuesday last an advertisement in which the Commissioner for Railways calls for tenders from persons willing to contract for the collection and delivery of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The accident was caused by a native clerk, Sreera Maloo Naido, leaving a trolly (in which he had been pushed along by two coolie boys) on the line. The accident happened at six. The trolly was not seen till the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →About nine o'clock on Tuesday morning, one of the hay-sheds on the farm attached to Walli House, near the Victoria Bridge, was discovered to be on fire; Mr. William Clift happening to look out from the back verandah…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →RATHER more than a month ago, whilst writing on the subject of cheap railways, we gave a summary of the condemnatory reports upon the Windsor and Richmond line by the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Parliamentary right of inquiry by select committee is, without doubt, one of our most valuable checks upon the corrupt or negligent administration of public affairs; but the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—Please allow me through your exto[?]sively read columns to direct the attention of those concerned to the present state of the above structure. Some time back a tender for building a bridge over…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following polition for a branch railway from Muswellbrook to Mudgee, bearing 258 signatures, has been printed by order of the Legislative Assembly:— To the Honorable the Legislative Assembly of New South…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Exactly two months age a letter of admonition was, by command of the Queen, addressed to the principal railway companies, exhorting them to greater care of the public safety. A month passed away before this letter…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday, Mr. MARTIN asked the Secretary for Works, " Whether any communication was received by the Government, by the last mail from England, from Captain Mayne, in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Subordinate Roads under the Department of Public Works, Roads Branch, provided for on the Estimates for 1865. The amount per mile proposed to be expended on each…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting of the Maitland Road Trust and District Council was held on Monday afternoon. Present—The Wardon, and Councillors Scholey, Mitchell, Whitehead, Brunker, and Noble. The minutes the previous…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A bill to amend the laws relating to roads other than main roads, was introduced into the Assembly by the Secretary for Lands, on Wednesday, the 17th May. The preamble sets forth that it is expedient to make better…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The attention of residents in the townships of Breeza, Gunnedab, Carroll, Gulligal, Narrabri, Wee Waa, Walgett, and Moree; and people residing upon the Mooki, Upper and Lower Namoi, Thalaba, Mehi, Boomi, Upper…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dr. LANG has put upon the notice paper of the Assembly two motions of considerable importance, inasmuch as the object of both is the more speedy development of the resources of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Towards the close of the sitting at the Bow-street police court, yesterday afternoon, an intimation was received by the Chief Magistrate, Sir Thomas Henry, that Miss Constance Kent, accompanied by the Rev. Mr. Wagner, of St. Paul's,…
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