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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
458 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 17 of 23
Notwithstanding what may have been said to the contrary, the Railway Commissioners assert (says the Herald) that the re-laying and re-ballasting of the railway lines by contract will not materially…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A DEPUTATION from the Hunter district waited upon the Minister for Works on Thursday to ask for the construction of a low level bridge at Dalwood over the river…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—I am directed to inform you that in accordance with your recommendation of the 5th instant, the Secretary for Public Works has approved of the appointment of Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A CORRESPONDENT of the London Daily Graphic gives a sketch of one of the most daring attempted robberies on record. It was an endeavour to rob the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir.— Referring to the letter forwarded by you from Mr D. Beattie, of Gouldsville, complaining of the bad state of the road from the Singleton and Jerry's Plains road to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,— Referring to a letter which has been received from Mr W. J. H. Durham, of Singleton, respecting the state of the road from Minimbah to Warkworth, I am directed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,— Referring to the letter forwarded by you from Mr F. Assimus of Campbell's Creek, urging that a grant be made for expenditure on the road recently surveyed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At his office, in Sydney, on Thursday afternoon, a deputation which had journeyed from the Hunter, approached the Minister of Works to urge upon him the inconvenience to which a large section of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,— Referring to your letter of the 31st May last respecting the state of the river crossing at Glendon on the road from the Main North Road near Black Creek in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Railway Commissioners have been severely criticised in some quarters for their determination to let out certain works hitherto done under the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Although the last meeting of the shareholders in the Deniliquin and Moama Railway Company was of the usual brief and humdrum character, so far as the general business was concerned, the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Some three months ago (says the Herald) Messrs. P. Scarr and E. B. Price, engineers of the Public Works Department, were appointed by Mr. Bruce Smith, as examiners of public works proposals, to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A scheme for the construction of an international railway through Africa, from Algeria to Cape Town, has been submitted to M. Ribot, the French Minister for Foreign…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A DEPUTATION from the Railway and Tramway Employees Association waited upon the Railway Commissioners to-day in reference to the notices of dismissal served upon 600…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AFFAIRS in connection with the South Wales railway strike, are becoming very serious. Not only is the traffic almost at a Standstill, but the men are now restoring to acts of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SOLDIERS are kept in readiness l[?]t they might be required during the straggle between the railway companies controlled by the Vanderbills and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE express train which left Sydney on Wednesday night for Melbourne narrowly escaped a serious collision with the mall train for Sydney on Thursday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"It's only a tramp!" the bearers said, As they carelessly turned away, And spake with a just of the unknown dead; Then the corridors echoed their heavy trend,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A public meeting was held on Monday evening last at Brown's Hotel, Cessnock, for the purpose of taking into consideration the present dangerous and impassable state of the Wollombi-Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →CONSIDERATE Mr. Spence will be content for the present with the moral support of the railway servants in the shearers' struggle. Only as a last resort will be require them to…
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