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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport
28 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 2
The train which [?] Melbourne at eight a.m. had arrived opposite the you Yang Mountains, about twelve miles from Geelong, when some of the passengers noticed something wrong and immediately after the train was seen to be off the rails. This took place…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We notice in the Government Gazette of the 6th of Oct. that the administrators of the Government, with the advice of the Executive Council, have resolved to open and make a parish road from Hinton to Raymond Terrace…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Road Trust Act duly provides that when the Commissioners get into legal responsibilities, one of their officers shall sue and be sued for them, but when they get into moral and social…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting of gentlemen was held on Monday afternoon, at the Fits Roy Hotel, to consider the subject of erecting a bridge over the Hunter, so as to connect the Counties of Northumberland and Hunter. An hour…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Whereas, by an Act of Council, [?] William IV., No 19, certain powers were vetted in the Governor of New South Was, and the Collector of Internal Revenue, and a fund was created for repairing the roads of this colony, and whereas by another Act of Council…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ONE of the leading features of the Cowper programme was the establishment of an extensive reform in our present system of road-making. There is no denying but that our public highways…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The debate in the Legislative Council yesterday, on the motion for the second reading of the Gawler and Kapunda Railway Bill, was one of the most animated of the session. We have no doubt the report of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The extent of railway now (1856) completed in Great Britain and Ireland is 8054 miles. These lines have cost £286,000,000. There are more than fifty miles of tunnel…
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