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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
63 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 4
"Whereas it is sometimes necessary to open roads through enclosed lands in cases where the erection of fencing on both sides of such roads would injuriously affect the value of such lands or where the convenience of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Tuesday afternoon a public meeting of the inhabitants of Murrurundi and the district was held at the Murrurundi Court-house. The attendance was good, and comprised many of the more influential residents of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As the facts respecting the Government railway policy will so soon be made known, it would be but a waste of time and space to enter now upon a discussion of the subject on a basis of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →According to advertisement, a public meeting was convened on 28th instant, at the Royal Hotel, Denman, to take into consideration the advisability of petitioning the Government for a direct road to Muswellbrook, by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—I should have torwarded you a report of the road meeting held at Denman on the 28th ultimo, but did not wish to perpetuate the ill-feeling which seems to have been engendered by a minority of the residents here, but as the incorrect…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Government railway scheme is now before the country. The first step towards carrying it into effect is to obtain the sanction of Parliament to a loan of three millions; and Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday forenoon, June 29th, a very dreadful accident occurred near Warrington. The 1023 train from Liverpool to Birmingham and London left Bank Quay station at 11.25, taking up several passengers, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We are told by the leading Sydney journal that Mr. Martin's idea is said to be "that when the Southern Railway has reached Narrendera (on tbe Murrumbidgee) or thereabouts, a branch should diverge northwards…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A correspondent at Scone has obliged us with the following reply, received from the Secretary for Public Works, to the petition from Scone, urging the speedy extension of the Northern…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WHILST the earlier measures introduced by the present Government passed with little more than a show of discussion, the later developments of ministerial policy have been more than…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE House has consented to go into committee on the railway loan proposal by a majority of 32 to 23; but-that has not settled the question. We are greatly mistaken if the majority that has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Armidale papers of Saturday last contain full reports of the proceedings at a public meeting held at Armidale on Wednesday afternoon, September 18, at the Court-house, for the purpose of considering what steps…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following extract from a Parliamentary Paper just published shows the proposed classification of subordinate roads in the Northern district, under the Department of Public Works, Roads Branch, provided for in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—The Government have before the country a Land Bill—for opening up the country, as they say,—but the discussion of which need not take plaoe, in my opinion, until good roads are made throughout the colony; in fact…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE railway question is still under discussion in Parliament, and unsound views upon at least a portion of it are still put forward with much point and persistence. Mr. Martin, for instance, in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Whilst Mr. Martin's great scheme of railway extension under notice, the following outline (from the Adelaide Observer) of a railway scheme now before the Parliament of South Australia has a special interest:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—I hoped that this vexed question would have been allowed to rest, as a large and influential meeting of the inhabitants of Denman and the surrounding districts adopted a petition praying for a specified road from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SOME surprise may be felt at the answer given by Sir. Byrnes on Thursday evening to a question by Mr. Forster, namely, that the loan of one million just authorised to be raised for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The New York correspondent of the Times gives an unpleasant sketch of railway travelling in America. He says that the mismanagement of the principal lines grows worse every year, that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A peculiarly shocking murder was committed on the morning of September 3. For some time past a man named Louis Bordier, aged 35, a native of Bord[?]ux, and by trade a…
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