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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1860

24 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 2

The Adelong Creek Bridge

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 8 February 1860 · page 2

The last pile of the bridge now erecting over the creek, at the crossing-place, was driven last week. The event was celebrated with the usual hilarity at the Home…

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The Great Southern Road. To the Editor of the Yass Courier

The Yass Courier · Saturday 17 March 1860 · page 3

DEAR SIR,--Every journalist might to raise his pretest against the execrable system of road-making (involving a most shameful waste of money). pursued in this country…

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The Southern Railway Extension

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 17 March 1860 · page 2

THE southern portion of the works contracted for by Messrs. Peto and Co., commences at Campbell town, thirty-four miles from Sydney, and terminates at Picton, a distance of nearly twenty miles. At a…

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Local Intelligence. Road to the Snowy River

The Yass Courier · Saturday 7 April 1860 · page 2

A PUBLIC MEETING was held at Yass on Monday last at tho Globe Hotel, to devise means to open a road to the Snowy.-River Goldfields va the Murrumbidgee, it being a…

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The Hume Bridge

The Yass Courier · Saturday 21 April 1860 · page 2

WE have much pleasure in calling attention to the satisfactory intelligence convoyed to us by our telegram from Sydney, received yesterday, which states that a…

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Local Intelligence. the Road to Kiandra

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 16 May 1860 · page 2

A MEETING was held on Monday afternoon at the Yass Hotel, for the further consideration of the steps to be taken towards the formation of a road from this…

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Local Intelligence. the Road To, Kiandra

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 30 May 1860 · page 2

YESTERDAY, pursuant to advertisement, a public meeting was held at the town hall, to consider the expedience of memorialising the government with respect to the projected road to Kiandra…

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Colonial Extracts. Road to Kiandra

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 2 June 1860 · page 4

A SPECIAL meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was convened for Monday afternoon at three o'clock, for the purpose to determining on the best line of road to Kiandra to be…

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Local & General Intelligence. Road to Kiandra.-- Public Meeting

The Yass Courier · Saturday 2 June 1860 · page 2

An impromptu meeting was held at the Royal Hotel on Wednesday afternoon for the purpose of further discussing the subject of the proposed road from Yass to…

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The Road to Kiandra. To the Editor of the Yass Courier

The Yass Courier · Saturday 2 June 1860 · page 3

SIR,-- As the people of Yass wish to know the nearest and best route to Kiandra, I beg to call their attention to the following remarks:--…

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The Road to Shoalhaven

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 16 June 1860 · page 4

THE papers respecting the road from Goulburn to Shoalhaven, moved for by Mr. Garrett, have been printed. The first is a letter from the and…

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Road to Rockley

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 20 June 1860 · page 2

Several men are at present employed on the repairs of the road between Bathurst and Rockley, and from what we can learn, the job is likely to be as good a one as the money voted by the…

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Great Western Railway. Apprehension of the Contractor for Stopping the Line

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 7 July 1860 · page 2

THE public will learn with considerable surprise and no less dissatisfaction that the extension of the Great Western Railway as far as the Blacktown Road, upon which it was advertised that trains would yesterday commence running was not then…

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Road From Nelligen

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 14 July 1860 · page 2

ROAD FROM NELLIGEN.—Mr. J. B. Wilson M.L.A., has received a petition for presentation to the Government, signed by 620 residents of the district of Braidwood, praying for the immediate…

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ROAD-MAKING. To the Editor of the Yass Courier

The Yass Courier · Saturday 14 July 1860 · page 3

SIR, -- Permit me to direct your attention to a new invention in road-making. This nineteenth century is said to he fertile in inventive genius, and it were a pity that…

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The Taemas Road to Kiandra. To the Editor of the Yass Courier

The Yass Courier · Saturday 28 July 1860 · page 3

SIR. I observe an article in the Goulburn Chronicle of the 25 th instant, referring to some report of Mr. Crane on the road to Yass vid Taemas and Weejasper now…

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Original Correzpondence. the State of the Roads. To the Editor of the Yass Courier

The Yass Courier · Saturday 8 September 1860 · page 3

SIR,--Much necessary interest is being taken in the formation of the new road from Yass to Kiandra; but the road between Gunning and Yass seems to be quite…

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The Road to Kiandra. To the Editor of the Yass Courier

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 12 September 1860 · page 3

SIR,--I observed in perusing your issue of the 5th inst., some remarks on the road to Kiandra via Boamblo. Mr. Calvert remarks that parties proceeding by that…

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Brindebella Road. To the Editor of the Yass Courier

The Yass Courier · Saturday 29 September 1860 · page 2

SIR,-- I left home on the 25th to see the road from Dr. Ayde's crossing place, as far as Brindebella. That afternoon 1 made to Mr. M'Donald's, say 19 or 20 miles, and I…

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The Brindabella Road. To the Editor of the Yass Courier

The Yass Courier · Saturday 6 October 1860 · page 3

SIR,-- Having seen my name in the Yass Courier of the 22nd instant, I beg leave to state that I have given no person any authority to use it, and entirely contradict…

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