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

Railways, roads & transport, 1869

57 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 3

The New Road Steamer

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 9 January 1869 · page 2

THE advantages of drawing load on common roads by steam instead of horse power are, under certain circumstances, so great that efforts have been frequently made…

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Wool Stuck on the Road

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 13 January 1869 · page 2

WOOL STUCK ON THE ROAD.—The Manaro Mercury says:—We are informed that teams laden with wool are stuck on the mountain, and a carrier loaded with goods for this town was offered full carriage to…

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Goulburn and Taralga Road Trust

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 3 February 1869 · page 2

A MEETING of parties interested in the above subject took place on Saturday, the 30th ultimo, at Mrs. Jeffrey's Taralga Hotel, Taralga, and was very numerously attended, there being not less than a…

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Goulburn and Taralga Road

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 10 February 1869 · page 2

A MEETING of persons interested in the expenditure of the money voted for repairs of the above road was held at the Edinburgh Castle Inn, Taralga-road, on Saturday. The attendance was very thin…

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Railway Charges for Cattle

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 17 February 1869 · page 4

A DEPUTATION, comprising Mr. Morri[?], M.L.A., and Messrs. Whitehead and H. S. Badgery (of the firm of Badgery Brothers), waited upon the Hon. J. Sutherland, minister for works, on Wednesday…

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Opening of the Railway to Goulburn-public Meeting

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 17 March 1869 · page 2

ON Monday afternoon a public meeting called on requisition to the mayor was held in the hall of the mechanics' institute for the purpose of considering the best means of celebrating the opening of the…

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The Gundaroo Road. to the Editor

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 27 March 1869 · page 5

SIR,—I beg once more for a small apace in your valuable journal to expose a public grievance. Last year some £259 was placed by government in the hands of three trustees for the purpose of repairing…

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The Railway Demonstration. to the Editor

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 27 March 1869 · page 5

SIR—In your report in to-day's issue on the railway demonstration committee my name is placed upon the ball committee l Allow me to express my willingness to support the banquet or any treat for…

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The Collector and Gundaroo Road. to the Editor

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 3 April 1869 · page 3

SIR,—Allow me a small space in, your valuable paper in reply to Mr. A. Fraser's letter concerning the above road. I beg to inform that gentleman there are only two trustees living at or near Collector…

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Cheap Railways for Australia

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 10 April 1869 · page 2

THOUGH the introduction of the Victorian loan of £2,000,000 has been postponed, the arrangements for It are completed, and before our next number is published it will probably…

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The Braidwood Road

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 14 April 1869 · page 4

THE Present wet weather has given us a foretaste of what we may expect to experience in the condition of our roads during the approaching winter if we are visited by…

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The Collector and Gundaroo Road. to the Editor

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 14 April 1869 · page 3

SIR,—I beg once more for a small space in your valuable journal. I have been waiting anxiously expecting a reply to my first letter from one of the so-called trustees; but the only reply that has yet…

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The Roads. to the Editor

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 21 April 1869 · page 4

SIR,—In several of your late issues letters have a peared from Mr. Fraser, Mr. Moran, and Mr. Mc Auley, relative to the roads and the money that has, or ought to have, been expended on them…

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The Collector and Gundaroo Road. to the Editor

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 24 April 1869 · page 4

SIR,... The £7 per mile Granted annually in for the repair of the road from Breadalbane Plains to Gundaroo; and the same amount is granted from Gundaroo to Queanbeyan on the mail…

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The Elephant and the Railway

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 1 May 1869 · page 8

A correspondent writing to the Indo-European Correspondence from Monghyr, under date the 21st Instant, states that a very serious…

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Railway. to the Editor

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 5 May 1869 · page 2

SIR,—The movement to give éclat to the opening of the southern railway to the metropolis of the south is highly creditable to the promoters, and there can be little doubt but the interior towns will regard the…

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The Road to Manaro

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 15 May 1869 · page 3

ON the 27th of this month an event will be celebrate with rejoicing by the people of Goulburn, in which the people of the Queanbeyan and Manaro districts are in no…

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Correspondence. Opening of the Railway to Goulburn To the Editor of the Yass Courier

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 25 May 1869 · page 3

SIR.-- Would it not be well for the Yass gentry to call a meeting by circular for the purpose of learning what number of tickets Yass is likely to require for the banquet demonstration on the 27th…

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Opening of the Great Northern Railway Extension to Musclebrook

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 26 May 1869 · page 2

HIS Excellency the Earl of Belmore, with the Countess and su3, let Sydney by the Australasian Steam Navigata Company's steam-ship Coonanbara, on Tuesday evening, a eleven, at eleven o'clock,…

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Correspondence. the Great Southern Railway. Per favour of the Yass Courier

The Yass Courier · Friday 28 May 1869 · page 3

THE residents in the Southern districts cannot but feel gratified that the iron-horse has at length reached the metropolis of the South. Progression is the rule of the world at the presents day; and…

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