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Railways, roads & transport, 1877

28 stories in South Coast's papers · page 1 of 2

Commercial Intelligence. Mr. John Bridge's Weekly Report

The Shoalhaven News, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Saturday 3 March 1877 · page 3

FAT CATTLE this week seld. at not over 21s to 23s per 100lbs for best pens, although the supply was not excessive, [?]d prospects would indicate higher prices. Fat sheep were dearer,…

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Commercial Intelligence. Mr. John Bridge’s We[?]kly Report

The Shoalhaven News, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Saturday 10 March 1877 · page 3

FAT cattle [?]emain steady with a tendency to higher prices. Fat sheep are very scarce, and would now command high prices ; the market is, however, glutted with very inferior stock,…

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Subordinate Roads

The Shoalhaven News, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Saturday 17 March 1877 · page 2

THE following are the proposed distribution of vote on Estimates, under officers of the Roads Department for 1877 :— Road from The [?] and Illawarra Road,…

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Subordinate Roads Under Trustees

The Shoalhaven News, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Saturday 17 March 1877 · page 2

PROPOSED distribution of grant for 1877. Road from Campbelltown to Appin, 10 miles, £150 Road from Wollongong and Kiama Road, to…

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Commercial Intelligence Mr. John Bridge’s Weekly Report

The Shoalhaven News, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Saturday 17 March 1877 · page 2

FAT cattle [?] at from [?] per [?] down, the market being at the same time well supplied a fact that may be [?] to unfavourable winter [?] which [?]…

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[?] Road [?] Twenty-five Years of Australian Life

The Shoalhaven News, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Saturday 31 March 1877 · page 1

Though [?] sunshine [?] And life [?] of sorrow; Faint is the heart that God [?] The [?] will shine again to-morrow,…

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Comm[?]rcial Intelligence. Mr. John Bridge’s Weekly Report

The Shoalhaven News, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Saturday 7 April 1877 · page 2

Since my last report our coast districts have been favoured with a very copious rainfall and all over the [?] has [?] generally, which [?] affect the value of stock and…

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LINES Suggested upon a ramble on the new road, over the Cambewarra Mountain

The Shoalhaven News, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Saturday 26 May 1877 · page 2

SWEET and calm the charms of nature, Smiled around, as forth we strayed Mong the wild [?] the [?] played…

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A Bridge of Styx

The Shoalhaven News, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Saturday 9 June 1877 · page 2

“By my troth,” said Edmund Yates,” they are merry fellows in the Town Council of Galway ! A plan was laid before that body at its last meeting for the erection of a new…

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Roads and Bridges

The Shoalhaven News, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Saturday 16 June 1877 · page 2

THE following is the propos[?]d distribution (by Mr. Hoskins) of Special Grant for Roads and Bridges to be submitted in further additional Estimates, 1877, as far as the Coast is…

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Science. Novel Hydrauli[?] Railway Locomotive

The Shoalhaven News, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Saturday 16 June 1877 · page 2

A NEW mode of travelling has lately been invented, which the inventors claim to be applicable to any mining country where [?]umes exist, or which may be used wherever…

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The Illawarra Railway Again

The Shoalhaven News, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Saturday 16 June 1877 · page 2

IN a return to an Order of the Honorable the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, dated the 16th January, 1877, That there be laid upon the Table of this House,…

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Commercial Intelligence. John Bridge’s Weekly Report

The Shoalhaven News, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Saturday 30 June 1877 · page 2

Hides are in good demand. Ordinary parcels of light hides are worth from 3¼d to 4d; horse hides 3s 6d to 7s 6d ; calf 1s to 3s ; yearlings 3s to 6s; kangaroo, if large and well skinned…

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Commercial Intelligence. John Bridge’s Weekly Report

The Shoalhaven News, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Saturday 7 July 1877 · page 2

TALLOW.—An improvement in thin market is noticeable, and I quote best beef 34s to 35s 6d, medium 32s to 33s 6d, mutton 36s 6d to 37s 6d. My catalogue on Friday contained about…

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Bridge at Greenhills

The Shoalhaven News, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Saturday 21 July 1877 · page 2

To the honorable the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, in Parliament assembled. The Petition of the undersigned Inhabitants of the Municipal District of Nowra, and of…

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The Railway Strike in America

The Shoalhaven News, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Saturday 28 July 1877 · page 3

There has been some desperate fighting at Petersburg, in Virginia, America. The regulars were dispatched to restore order. The militia defeated the rioters, and hold the town with…

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John Bridge’s Weekly Report

The Shoalhaven News, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Saturday 8 September 1877 · page 2

TALLOW, at my sale this week, was in demand, at recent prices—beef, say, 35s, and mutton 37s for shipping parcels. Hides, too, were in improved request, but prices were nearly the same,…

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Commercial Intelligence. John Bridge’s Weekly Report

The Shoalhaven News, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Saturday 6 October 1877 · page 2

FAT CATTLE this week wore rather dearer again, hut permanent improvement is not to be expected at present. Fair to good pens sold at 21s to 24s per 100 lbs…

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Wanted to Know When the Train Left

The Shoalhaven News, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Saturday 13 October 1877 · page 2

MR. FINKER[?]Y lives two miles from the Town Hall. He has been talking of going out of town on a visit, and Saturday morning was the day set to go. Friday evening…

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The Cambewarra and Moss Vale Road

The Shoalhaven News, Broughton Creek and Ulladulla Advertiser · Saturday 13 October 1877 · page 2

LAST eek, Thomas M. Richards. Esq., While [?]on a visit to Sydney, waited upon the Minister for Works, and presented a petition numerously and influentially signed by the inhabitants of…

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