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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
223 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 12
The system by which our railway carriages have hitherto been lighted has never reflected much credit upon our Raliway Department, and complaints have constantly been made of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"The Boulogne correspondent of The Times writes under date June 3:— "A bold robbery was effected between 2 and 3 a.m. on Saturday from the train conveying…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fat Cattle at both sales this week were dearer. Bullocks, £8 to £11; cows, £5 10s to £9. Beat quality on Thursday were worth quits 30s per 100 lbs. Fat Sheep too were dearer, ewes, 8s to 10s 6d;…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The annual report of the Commissioner for Railways (Mr. John Rae) for the year 1876 was laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon. The report, which bears…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MR RAE'S report for 1876 on the construction and working of our railways is in some respects a less striking document than the report issued last year, and embracing the four years from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Thursday forenoon a deputation composed of gentlemen from the northern district waited upon the Hon. Jas. Hoskins, Minister for Works, at his office in Sydney, to put before him the claims of the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A PERUSAL of the following spe[?]h made by Mr. Hoskins on the evening of January 9, of this year, in opposition to Mr. Rouse's proposal to go into committee to consider of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Considerable interest was excited in town on Wednesday last when it become known that the Engineer-in Chief (Mr. J. Whitton), was about to make an official inspection of the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A DEPETATION, consisting of Messrs. Jacobs Turner, Scholey, W. C. Browne. M.L.A's Thos, Hungerford. E. White, E. Bowman (Mayor of Muswellbrbok), J. Fullford, C…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CONSIDERABLE interest was excited in town on Wednesday last when it became known that the Engineer-in-Chief (Mr. J. Whitton), was about to make an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stations.—There is fair [?]uiry just now for favorably situated properti[?] but a general rainfall must come before anything like confidence can be restored…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →We are favored by Mr. A. H. Jacob, M.L.A. for the Lower Hunter, with the following official correspondence, for public information. We suppose the Morpeth Railway will never get fair…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →As our readers know, the twenty-four miles of railway extension, between Murrurundi and Quirindi, will be opened for traffic on Monday next. There will be no special trains from Newcastle or Maitland,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The intended opening of an additional twenty-four miles of railway te Quirindi on Monday has made necessary the issue of a new timetable. A[?] may be expected, the short distance added has not required…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wool was again in active request, every line commanding good competition. The lots offered were however nat important, and prices cannot be taken ns a guide to the market. Scoured sold at 16d to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday, the additional twenty-four miles of the Great Northern Railway, which have at last been completed out of the contract for the extension to Tamworth, were opened for public traffic. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE most important event in has been our lot of place on record the most important in the history of the northern districts, of the colony, or in the history of the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →If we overlook for a moment the time which has [?]lapsed between the opening for traffic of the last extension of the Great Northern Railway, and the completion of the twenty-four…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[?]w that one hundred and forty-four miles of the Great Northern Railway are open for traffic, [?] becomes the duty of some one to ascortain whether or not there are sufficient means at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →We are favored by Mr. H. H. Brow[?] M.L.A. for the Paterson, with copy of the following official correspondence, for public[?]information. [COPY.]…
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