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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
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Return in reply to questions asked by the Honorable the Member for Newcastle (Mr. Fletcher), in the Legislative Assembly, on the 10th February, 1881…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The express train on the International and Great Northern Railway stood in the depot at Houstan, Texas, last Thursday, waiting for the hour of starting, which was to be at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE following is from the Melbourne Daily Telegraph:—Mr. Adams, of the Albury Banner, wrote to the Victorian Railway Department a few days ago,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →It may be interesting to point to some facts connected with this extension. The contract was let on the 29th May, 1879, and the date by which it is to be completed is the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Melbourne Daily Telegraph reports that as the 9.45 train from Brighton arrived alongside the platform at the Hobson's Bay station on Sunday night, a Miss Isabella…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A message was read from his Excellency the Governor recommending to the consideration of the Assembly estimates of expenditure on account of public works for 1881, proposed to be provided for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A PROPOSITION to spend nearly three millions of public money on a railway should be backed by irrefragable proof that national considerations warrant the outlay. The basis…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR.—I see by the report, in yesterday's issue ot the Mercury of the proceedings in Parliament, on Wednesday last, the 16th inst., that the Government proposition to construct the railway line connecting the North with Sydney, in to run from Waratah…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney, Wednesday.—In the Assembly last night, the Minister for Works, (Mr. Lackey) explained that the connecting line between Sydney and the North would be the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MR. W. NOWLAND, of Rosedale, Camberwell, supplies us with the particulars of an easy and practicable route for the connecting railway. The route suggested commences…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN the Assembly on Wednesday the estimates provided for by loan were tabled. and included for railway extensions £5.581,600: for harbours and rivers navigation, £130,000;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following is a summary of the proposed expenditure on the subordinate roads of the colony under trustees for the present year:âNorthern Roads, 840 miles, £10,823; Western Roads, 547…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →With regard to the estimate for the construction of a railway to connect the Great Northern Railway with the Great Southern Railway (95 miles) some interesting…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WE give elsewhere the remainder of Mr. Lackey's statement of the Government railway policy. Already we have commented on his choice of Waratah, as the point for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. LACKEY continued:—The next line he would refer to was that from Sydney to Wollongong and Kiama, 68 miles, at a cost of £1,020,000. This line had been under public notice for a great number of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WITH regard to the estimate for the construction of a railway to connect the, Great Northern Railway with the Great Southern Railway (95 miles), some…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. Levien moved the adjournment of the House, in order to draw attention to the conduct of certain magistrates. These magistrates had been called upon to revise the jury list, and out of 181 they…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A paper recently issued with respect to the railway proposals of the Government shows some interesting particulars with regard to the districts affected by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following are the arguments used in a petition to Parliament which was presented on Tuesday night against the extension of the Great Northern Railway line to Homebush, and in favour of it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We give the following full report of the very able speech delivered by Mr. Brunker, M.L.A., on Tuesday night on the railway policy of the Government. The report is from our special reporter…
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