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South Coast · Railways, roads & transport
38 stories in South Coast's papers · page 1 of 2
SHEEPSKINS were in excellent demand at 6d to 8½d for fair parcels, and 3d to 5d for pelts and inferior lots. Tallow remains steady at recent prices, viz. beef, 31s to 33s; mutton 32s to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—In your paper of last week appeared a letter under the signature of “Saxnia” in reference to which I will, with your permission, make a few brief remarks…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Would you allow mo to make some further remarks respecting additional correspondence that has appeared in the News in connection with the above road…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CATTLE and Sheep.—Under this head a decided improvement can be reported, best bullocks are wanted at £8 to £10 per head and cows £6 to £8. Sheep are rather plentiful but sell freely at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SHEEPSKINS, were in rather better demand. Tallow remains very firm for both trade and shipping parcels, I cleared my catalogue of about 80 casks at the following figures:—Mutton 35s…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—I see by your issue of the 10th instant, a letter bearing the signature of “J. M. Murphy,” in which be applies the term “ignorance” and “foul-play” to me in reference to his statements…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—In your, issue of Saturday last there appeared a letter from Mr. H. Head, commenting on mine of the fortnight previous; with reference to the Cambewarra Road: As Mr. Head,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following is a copy of the Memorial to the Government, as submitted to the public meeting, held at Wollongong. yesterday evening, of which, notice appeared in Saturday’s issue of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I would have been willing, as Mr. Fraser suggested, to conclude a truce on the above subject, if it had not been for some remarks made that gentleman implicating others in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WOOL : This weeks, sales passed off quietly. Quotations of last week may be taken here. Sheepskins : The same remarks apply here clean long-woolled skins being in good demand at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—I regret having again to crave leave to occupy a small space in your columns I had hoped my friend, Mr. Head, had buried, the war [?] and had [?] and was now [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I see-a letter in your issue of the 6th March, signed “P[?] Pro [?] making some reflections on me, but to which I would not take the trouble of replying were the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Having heard the question asked several times of late, what became of the petition that about twelve months ago was going round for signatures asking the government to erect a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following letter from the Department of Public Works to James Warden, Esq., the member for Shoalhaven, having reference to the proposed bridges over the Bomaderry Creek and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—On my way to Terrara this morning I saw some men employed on the road from Terrara to the Nowra and Greenwell Point Road. It is to be hoped that the Trustees will not neglect…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In has frequently been contended and argued that the coat of haulage of coal by railway exceeds that of sea carriage where such is available in fact, that the use of steam colliers or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Bill introduced in tho Legislative Assembly, by Mr. PILCHER, to legalise the Bale of fermented and spirituous liquors at the railway station in this country, is a question, in our…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FROM returns just published, it is shown that the sum of £10,517 has been paid by the various Governments (from the public purse, we presume), as compensations for accidents and loss…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following is a copy of the Petition from Shoalhaven against the sale, of intoxicating liquors in railway refreshment rooms, which was ordered by the Legislative Assembly to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool, and -skins at this week’s sales were in great request, and for the small lots submitted prices showed an advance on the rates that have [?] during the last twelve or eighteen month…
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