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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport
41 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 3
IF the returns kept by our customs authorities be correct, 11,453,402 lb. of New South Wales wool, valued at £569,231, crossed the Murray in 1876 at Albury, Howlong, and Corowa, to find its way to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fat Cattle.—A good many were yarded this week, and good qualities ruled up to27s per 100 lbs, while middling and inferior were much cheaper in proportion…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Monday evening a lecture on the above subject was delivered in the Wesleyan lecture-hall, Goulburn, by the Rev. Henry Youngman of Adelong. There was agood attendance. The chair was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is an old saying, "praise the bridge that carries you safety over," but suppose you don't reach the structure, but instead travel down another way the end of which is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE have received a copy of the report of the board of land and works for the year ending 31st December, 1877, on the subject of Victorian railways. It will be noticed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"THE force of wind in the motion of sails may be applied also to the driving of a chariot, by which a man may sail on the land, as well as by a ship on the water,"…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. Daniel's survey party are at work contiguous to Queanbeyan. The route surveyed by this party is that from Goulburn, via Tarago, and approaches Queanbeyan some…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT is to feared that the minds of officials are too often bounded by the narrow limits of officialism. That to which they have been accustomed—that which is the rule of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—For many years past the good people of Illawarra have been importuning the government to build a line of railway connecting their district with the metropolis. The Question was again opened on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE fifth manual festival in connection with the locomotive drivers and firemen of the railway department was commentated last Saturday evening by banquet in the Redfern town hall. The number of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WOOL.—The catalogues are beginning to assume respectable dimentions, and on Wednesday and Thursday some good lines were offered, but not a large proportion were sold,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We are informed that for a few miles out of Queanbeyan the Gundaroo road is in a very bad state indeed. What with stumps, crab-holes, and half-washed away cause-ways,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We are informed by a gentleman who is a large stockowner in this district, that Gunning railway station, so long without the accommodation that its situation as the Monaro…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Since the death by accident of Mr Cullen who filled the useful post of maintenance man for some miles along the main road from Queanbeyan towards Cooma, his duties have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fat cattle.-On Monday the yards were well filled, but prices were maintained-say 20s to 22s per 100 lb; on Thursday the numbers being more moderate, prices were fairer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fat Cattle.—On Monday prices ruled low, and on Thursday, although bidding was much brisker, the best pens of the best possible quality did not realize over 20s per 100lbs…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fat cattle were lower this week at both sales, good 700lb bullocks L6 10s, and for best pens 18s to 20s per 100lbs is the market price, whilst inferior lots are decidedly lower…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Gunning and Queanbeyan mail coach and bags were very nearly coming to grief on Wednesday last after passing through the gate on the Canberra road which devides the jer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr Vine, the gentleman charged with the trial survey for railway purposes, from the town of Gunning to Queanbeyan, has executed executed his work in the most satisfactory…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WOOL.—The arrivals during the week have been very large, and some large clips of good quality have been submitted, and sold at auction, or privately, immediately…
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