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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1878

28 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers · page 1 of 2

Brown Mountain Road

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 27 February 1878 · page 3

A MEETING was held on Nimityb[?] on Monday to agitate for the immediate opening of the Brown Mountain rout. Mr. David Bell has received…

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Railway to Cooma

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 2 March 1878 · page 4

[?] surprised at the [?] the Bra[?]wood people in not making some movement towards getting the proposal railway extension in the…

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Railway to Cooma

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 13 March 1878 · page 2

A CORRESPONDENT writes to the Goulburn Herald of Saturday last:— We are glad to notice that Mr. Surveyor Daniels and his staff have…

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Lands Resumed for Roads. Department of Lands, Sydney, 25th March, 1878

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 20 March 1878 · page 3

NOTICE is hereby given that in accordance with the provisions of the 15th section of the Crown Lands Acts Amendment Act of 1875, his…

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Railway to Cooma

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 30 March 1878 · page 4

A PUBLIC meeting, called by Mr. R. Maddrell in accordance with a requisition to him to that effect, was held at Doncaster Hotel. Bruidwood, on…

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Queanbeyan Railway Meeting

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 6 April 1878 · page 4

THE correspondent of the Southern Argus writes:— A public meeting was held at the Court House, Queanbeyan, on Friday afternoon week, for…

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Roads and Selections

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 24 April 1878 · page 2

In Sydney, in exparte George Watt, a motion was heard to make absolute a rule nisi for a prohibition to restrain the Police Magistrate of…

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Roads No. 78-829

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 4 May 1878 · page 3

Gate No.299. Applicant—James Litchfield. Description—Gate (not less than 11 feet wide) on the northern extremity of a…

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Nithsdale and Jinden Road

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 11 May 1878 · page 4

THE inhabitants of Kraw[?]rrce, Fairfield, and Jinden, and the numerous farmers on what should be the road complain that although they respectfully p[?]titioned…

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A Taranaki Railway

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 11 May 1878 · page 4

FEARS have often been expressed that our New Zealand railways would not bo sufficiently patronised, but if we are to take the patronage accorded on Monday…

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Killed on the Railway

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 25 May 1878 · page 2

A MAN of the name of W. Prenderghast, who has been for some time a ponter on the Darling Harbour branch line, left Sydney by the 6.30…

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A Bull Attacks a Railway Train

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 29 May 1878 · page 3

ON Thursday week the mail train from Newcastle to Murrurundi, when Massing through the Scone district, is said by the Times to have been…

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A Fight in a Railway

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 1 June 1878 · page 3

THE Chelmsford Chronicle states that some Russian sailors, who numbered about a half a dozen, left Harwich for London at five minutes past…

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Draft Bill What married [?] decined dedicted roads INTITULED. An Act to regulate the Allenation Occupation and Administration of Crown Lands in

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 26 June 1878 · page 3

WHEREAS it has become necessary that better provision should be made for the disposal by sale or lease and for the dedication and reservation of Crown Lands IS. All roads market or shown or in dicated as roads on any office plan of subdivision made ander the authority of the Minister at any time since the…

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Railway from Yass to Cooma

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 7 August 1878 · page 3

The construction of a railway to Cooma from some point on the Great Southern line appears to be a matter decided upon by the Government,…

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Railway to Cooma

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 21 September 1878 · page 4

MR. DANIEL'S survey party are at work contiguously to Queanbeyan. The route surveyed by this party is that from Goulburn, via Tarago, and approaches…

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Braidwood Road to Cooma

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 28 September 1878 · page 4

A PUBLIC MEETING was at the Court House on 19th instant, called by Mr. R. Maddrell, J.P., in accordance with a requisition to him signed by a number of…

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Road. Braidwood to Cooma

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 2 October 1878 · page 3

THE following letter has been forwarded to Braidwood Dispatch for publication:— Department of Public Works,…

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The Effects of the Railway

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 26 October 1878 · page 3

THE table of railway [?] rates is a document full of interest, when road in the light of history, as it shows how advantageous to the colony are…

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Roads No. 78-2030

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 30 October 1878 · page 4

Gate No. 374. Applications, Messrs. Brooks Brothers. Description—Double gate (not less than feet wide), across road in use from Cooma to Jindabyno, at fence…

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