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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport
28 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 2
MR. PIDDINGTON moved, on the 30th ultimo, for copies of all correspondence between His Excellency the Governor and the Commissioners of the Maitland Road Trust, upon the subject of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following petition has received a great many signatures. It was signed hy the majority of the members of the District Council on Monday last. We have alluded to this subject before, but deem it our duty to bring the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Wednesday evening a public meeting was held at Mr. Hewson's Union Inn, Honeysuckle Point, for the purpose of discussing the propriety of the contemplated encroachment on the market reserve by the Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THIS most important subject, more deeply affecting the interests of the colonists, perhaps, than almost any other, has been passed over by the Government in the most unsatisfactory manner…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Cowper, as chairman, brought up a third progress report from, and laid upon the table the evidence taken before the select committee on the Sole Commissioner of Railways Incorporation Bill, appointed on 19th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. HAY with much gravity informs the House that, now the horse is stolen, the Commissioners will lock the stable door,—that heneforth they will not first allow mischief and waste to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THIS body met on Monday at Mr. Chambers' office, East Maitland. The Warden not being present, Isaac Gorrick, Esq., was called to the chair, Messrs. Borthwick and Walsh…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AMONG all the improvements of modern days we know nothing more beneficial or important to the development of commercial relations, or the general advancement of civilisation, than the establishment…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. George Macleay asked what the Government intended to do in the matter of the bridge proposed to be thrown over the Murray at Albury, seeing that the Government of Victoria have returned no answer to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have great pleasure in publishing in our columns a letter from Mr. Hay, which, hy its just and even generous charities, " covers a multitude of sins" of which his department theretofore…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MONDAY wan a grand day—if not for the actual demonstration and, at least, in the effect, that the work which it witnessed will have an the future wellare of this, the Garden of Australin…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A public meeting, convened by advertisement, was held yesterday, Monday, at the Royal Hotel, "for the purpose of memorialising the Government on the present management of the railway, or of taking any other…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Among the matters which have recently attracted attention may be mentioned the importation into the colony of one of those locomotive machines, recently patented in the mother-country, under the designation…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Commissioners for illwars incorporated by an Act of the Governor and legeslative Council of New South Wales, do thereby notice, that they latend after the expiration of for days from the publication…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"We were early in expressing our views on the absurdity involved in originating the Northern Railway by laying down the line from Newcastle to Maitland, instead of from Morpeth to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE have new blood in the District Council—is there a likelihood of our obtaining better roads? We confess our expectations are not of a very sanguine nature, nor do we imagine there is any…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE have much pleasure in giving publicity to the following correspondance:—Sydney, 2nd way. 1857. Dear Sir—When at Maitland I found considerable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We shall not attempt to describe the deep sensation which was excited last night among all classes, when the fearful intelligence ran through the city that an accident had happened on the Toronto and Hamilton Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →More rails are laid down than are enough to from a belt of single iron rail round the globe. the extent of railways now (1857) completed in Great Britain and Ireland is 8,054 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This body met on Monday, the 24th instant. Messrs Pertus, Close, and Brown attended. Mr. Portus being called to the chair. Mr. Chambers reported that he had had an interview…
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