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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
149 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 5 of 8
SIR,—I beg leave to call attention to the way public money is granted for roads in this district to a select few. An annual grant for roads under trustees is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Greek patriots have long earnestly desired a railway to connect Athens with the principal towns of the Peloponnesus, or Morea, and the past week (says the London Daily…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Recently some gentlemen in West Maitland interested themselves in procuring signatures to a petition to Mr. Higgs, the traffic manager of the Great Northern Railway, asking him to arrange, it possible,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →OUR columns to day [?] the report of a railway meeting at Dubbop, following up that at Walge[?] at which [?] was decided to invite the various local [?] interested to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The meeting of the Dubbo Railway League was held last night, in the Town Hall. In the absence of the Mayor, Alderman Miller occupied the chair, and stated that the meeting had been called to show our…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IT is amusing to notice the efforts made at Mudgee to secure the connexion of Walgett with Sydney by that route. Unfortunately for the advocates of that forlorn hope,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Standard's correspondent at New York gives the following account of the fatal dive from Brooklyn Bridge :—"It had been announced for several days…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN the case Adams v. Commissioner for Railways, the jury gave the following answers to specific questions left for their decision :—I. Were the culverts…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WEST MAITLAND, Thursday-A meeting of members of the Narrabri-Walgett Railway League was held in the council chambers, West Maitland, this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AFTER nearly three weeks' hearing, the action Adams v. the Commissioner for Railways was brought to a conclusion on Thursday last, and resulted in a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An influential depution waited on the Minister for Works to-day to advocate the construction of the proposed Narrabri to Walgett railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Tuesday, according to an arrangement, a large and representative deputation waited on the Hon. F. W. Wright, Minister of Works, at his office in Sydney, to elicit from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The fine iron bridge over the Namoi River at Gunnedah has been completed at a coat of about £20,000. One of the most energetic and earliest agitators for the construction of this important public…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Department of Public Works, Office of Commissioner and Engineer for Roads, Sydney, 14th July, 1885.—Sir, —Referring to your letter of the 19th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Department of Public Works Office of Commissioner and Engineer for Roads, Sydney, 14th July,1885.—Sir, —I have to acknowledge the receipt of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Department of Public Works, Office of Commissioner and Engineer for Roads, Sydney, 14th July, 1885.— Sir,—I have to acknowledge the receipt…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A terrible story comes from Philadelphia about a lunatic who, being armed with revolvers, overawed a whole train fully 100 miles on the Wabash railway between Kansas city and Chicago. On the arrival…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Department of Public Works, Office of Commissioner and Engineer for Roads, Sydney, 14th July, 1885.— Sir,—I have to acknowledge the receipt…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great progress is being made with the railways of the Argentine Republic, the work of construction being pushed forward with all possible speed. A new section of the Andine…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →A most important step has been taken towards the material consolidation of the Empire by the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway. That great work, connected as it is with the railway systems of…
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