Umaralla Bridge. (To the Editor of the Manaro Mercury.)
The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 26 March 1870 · page 5
Sir,—Having occasion, a few days ago, to call at the Cooma Post Office on business connected with that department. I was rather surprised to observe posted outside a written notice stating that tenders would be received for repairs to…
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The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 2 April 1870 · page 4
WE have often heard residents of thin district speak of the improbability, or impossibility, of , having a branch line of Railway from Goulburn to Cooma. On the 2nd of February last a Select…
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The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 30 April 1870 · page 8
UNDER the heading of "Mr. John Smith visit, the Assembly." we find the appended extract, giving some description of a carrier's life, re recounting the mode in which a "drop o' the…
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The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 30 April 1870 · page 6
IF any of our readers want to teach a horse the common trick of picking up a handkerchief, Once-a-Week says let them proceed as follow:—Spread on sawdust a while cloth…
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The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 21 May 1870 · page 7
OUR Goulburn contemporary, the Herald, in commenting upon the proposed reduction of railway trams, is, we think, somewhat at fault in his argument. Certain it is, that he is very desirous of the welfare of the…
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The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 2 July 1870 · page 3
SIR.—I avail myself of Tour open columns, in order that I may call public attention to the deplorable state of the above road, and give an instance of the manner cavalier in which our…
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The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 16 July 1870 · page 8
WHETHER it be the result of a letter which recently appeared in our columns on the subject of the above named road, or from a desire on the part of our representative to do some good for his…
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The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 6 August 1870 · page 6
THE following account of Mr. R. W. Thompson's road steamer was read by Professor Archer at the recent meeting of the British Association. We quote from the report of it…
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The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 3 September 1870 · page 4
THE Bairnsdale Shire Council have, as we learn from the Mitchell [?] Herald, recast their estimates. The following works are to be undertaken, and their…
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