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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
389 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 14 of 20
Sir,âI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 8th instant, urging the issue to Trustees of the '96-7 vote for road Camberwell to Gorangoola…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Public Works Committee has given further consideration to the proposed railway from Moree to Inverell. Two residents of Inverell, Messrs. McIntyre and Burgess, waited upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →SIR,—An examination of the Commissioners report for the last year will show that for the first 100 miles or so, from Morpeth or Newcastle north the charges on the railway for wool are 4½d per ton per…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The 9 o'clock passenger train to Sydney was delayed about an hour at Moss Vale this morning, on account of the paper train breaking down near Burradoo…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The death is announced of Robert J. Sheridan, railway traffic auditor. Deceased joined the service as far back as 1861 when the railway system of the colony consisted only of 73 miles of line and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There is reason to believe that at all times there are men of the line who are working very near their breaking strain. We may in regard tot his mention three well-known instances…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Great progress is being made with the Russian railway across Siberia. 70,000 labourers are engaged in the construction of the line…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Joseph Mitchell (Who was lately reported to have formed an English syndicate to establish from works in New South Wales) and Mr. Price Williams, the railway expert, will sail for Sydney by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WHILE the Governor of Queensland and the Colonial Secretary wero proceeding to the Gympi Show on Tuesday last the train they were in met…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A case against the man Bowden, who was charged with placing an obstruction on the railway line, was heard at Gunnedah this week, when ten witnesses were examined. No witnesses were called…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,—I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 14th instant with reference to the state of the bridge over Dalwood Crook on the road from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—There's an old and very true saying, "give a lie the start and it taken the truth a long time to catch it." I apply this to the one issued over the signature of W.E.Abbott in yours of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Before the Public Works Committee on Tuesday, Mr. C. E. Rennie, Chief Draftsman in the Lands Department, gave evidence with regard to the proposal to establish a line of railway from Moree…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the Jury Court to-day, Joseph Horsefield, ex-tramway guard, recovered a verdict for £100 against the Australian Star for alleged libel…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is reported that 70,000 men are employed in building the different sections of the Siberian railway, the property of tlio Russian Government…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. George Withers, who at one time cut a not very striking figure as a metropolitan member of Parliament, and who left no record in that capacity worth quoting, except in connection with the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A deputation to-day urged the Minister of Works to submit to the Works Committee a proposal for the construction of a railway from Groga to Cudal a distance of 8 miles, at a cost of £16,000. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—In reply to Mr. W. E. Potts on this subject in your issue of the 10th, will you let me ask if there is a public school teacher at Glen Innes; and, if there is, will you let me suggest to your correspondent…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A deputation from the Plattsburg and Wallsend Councils waited upon the Minister of Works to-day and urged that the tramline should be constructed from Plattsburg to Lake Macquarie. Mr. Young in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Reuter's New York correspondent telegraphs on August I:—An excursion train on the Pensylvania Railroad was run into yesterday four…
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