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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
215 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 11
Opportunity was taken of the visit of the Hon. G. R. Dibbs, Colonial Secretary and Acting Minister of Works to this district, on Saturday last, on his way to open the Great…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The opening demonstration was much the same as all similar affairs. There trains brought visitors to-day, and one arrived with about 200 passengers about…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—It seems a singular phenomenon in this age of progress and invention that the road superintendents of to-day are just the same as they were twenty years ago, with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On Tuesday, the extension from Armidale to Glen Innes of the Great Northern Railway, was officially opened by the Acting Minister of Works, the Hon. George R. Dibbs. Departing from the custom…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yesterday afternoon a united meeting in connection with this above movement of the Maitland Executive Committee and delegates from the Ge[?] [?]al Committee at Newcastle was held in the Council…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yesterday forenoon the Executive Committee in connection with the movement for obtaining a railway from Narrabri to Walgett, met in the Council Chambers, West…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Last evening a meeting of the general committee in connection with the above movement was held in the Council Chamber, West Maitland, under the presidency of the Mayor. The Executive…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Wednesday evening a meeting of the general committee appointed by the publi[?] meeting in Weat Maitland, to obtain the extention of the North-western railway from…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →THE Acting Minister of Works, moved by the letters of " N.S.W." in the Engineer, has made public the departmental reply to Mr. Garvan's March speech. That reply is so…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We have received a copy of the paper laid on the table of the Assembly on Tuesday, by Mr. Dibbs, having reference to a statement made in March last by Mr. Garvan, to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A SERIOUS [?]ram accident occurred in Oxford street to-day by which two persons were rendered insensible, and several others were injured or terribly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →On the morning of Tuesday the 2nd instant it was intimated that our worthy roads superintendent, Mr Arthur Doyle, was about to be transferred to another district, and before night on the same day it became…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →For the Mudgee railway opening the Ministerial train left Sydney s little after 6 with a large number of ladies and tbe Ministerial party, consisting of the Premier, Mr. Dibbs (Acting Minister of Works), and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A telegram from uralla in the S. M. Herald says a large and infl[?]ntial meeting was held there on Tuesday afternoon to protest against Mr. Dibbs' utterance at Glen Innes in reference to railway to Inverell. The Mayor presided, aad the meeting was…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The construction of railways in Canada has been very rapid since 1870. In that year there were only 2,497 miles open for traffic; in June 1882, this had inereased to 8,069 miles, and in the last eighteen…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FROM a return laid upon the table of the Legislative Council the other night by Mr Dalley, certain information is gained respecting the cost of the tramway…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At the Shrewsbury Agricultural Show a small motor was shown, for domestic or other uses, either for pumping water or to furnish power, which, as described, seems a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HIS Honor Judge Wilkinson was occupied the greater part of Tuesday and Wednesday hearing an application made by Peter Sattler for an accomodation…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →GOVERNMENTS that do not want to lose prestige with the Parliament and the country ought to be very careful not to let too many Cabinet secrets leak out,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I wish to draw attention through the medium of your jouraal to the novel manner ia which the money has been expended on the roads in the Wollombi district of late…
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