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1860

• McDouall Stuart reaches centre of Australia.
  

• Burke and Wills set out for Gulf of Carpentaria.
  

• Lands Granted,Shoalhaven html 11 January 1860 (321 words)
  

• The Snowy River Diggings html 10 February 1860 (285 words)
  

• Kiandra Gold-Field html 13 February 1860 (2,327 words)
  

• Gocup Run for Sale html 13 February 1860 (228 words)
  

• Kiandra Gold Fields html 15 February 1860 (89 words)
  

• Road into Kiandra? html 16 February 1860 (100 words)
  

• The Gocup Run for Sale read 16 February 1860 (231 words)
  

• Latest From The Snowy River Gold-Fields html 18 February 1860 (2,839 words)
  

• Monstrous Talbingo Hill html 27 March 1860 (139 words)
  

• News from Tumut html 7 June 1860 (470)
  

• Kiandra Road Meeting html 12 June 1860 (455 words)
  

• Post Office Mail Tenders html 30 June 1860 (130 words)
  

• Government Preparation for Kiandra Gold Fields html 21 July 1860 (3,456 words)
  

• Land Sales html 6 September 1860 (281 words)
  

• Serious Accident To The Sydney Mail at Mullengandra html 1 December 1860 (132 words)
  

• Mourning Brooch Lost or Stolen read 15 December 1860 (105 words)
  

1861

• Title of governor-general abolished.
  

• F. Gregory discovers Fortescue, Ashburton, and De Grey Rivers (W.A.).
  

• New South Wales territory between 129° and 132° E. long. and south of 26° S. lat. added to South Australia.
  

• Anti-Chinese riots at Lambing Flat (N.S.W.).
  

• First Melbourne Cup run.
  

• Western boundary of Queensland shifted to 138° E. long.
  

• Death of Burke and Wills.
  

• Telegraph Station at Tumut read 14 February 1861 (202 words)
  

• Chinese by up Upper Adelong read 23 May 1861 (52 words)
  

• Drowned - Daniel O'Brien  read 23 May 1861 (252 words)
  

• Death – Broughton read 28 July 1862 (34 words)
  

• Bridge at Tumut read 13 November 1861 (30 words)
  

1862

• J. McKinlay reaches Albert River from Adelaide.
  

• McDouall Stuart reaches Chalmers Bay from Adelaide.
  

• Kendall's Poems and Songs published.
  

• First English cricket team visits Australia.
  

• Clearing Snags from the Murrumbidgee for Navigation read 8 July 1862 (393 words)
  

• Call for Papers re "Gocup" and "Gadara" read 23 July 1862 (140 words)
  

• The "Gocup" and "Gadura" Runs read 23 July 1862 (4,006 words)
  

• The Withdrawn Runs (Gocup and Gadara) read 16 September 1862 (87 words)
  

1863

• Intercolonial conference held in Sydney.
  

• Northern Territory placed under jurisdiction of South Australia.
  

• Kanaka labour introduced into Queensland.
  

• Death by Drowning at Gocup read 10 January 1863 (83 words)
  

• Cotton-Growing at Tumut read 4 March 1863 (387 words)
  

• Growth of the Cotton Plant at Gocup read 17 March 1863 (148 words)
  

• Southern Road Works read 21 May 1863 (193 words)
  

• Country Road Works read 21 July 1863 (419 words)
  

• Vaccination read 29 July 1863 (79 words)
  

• The South Gundagai Diggings read 29 July 1863 (412 words)
  

• Highway Robbery at Lacmalac read 26 August 1863 (2,102 words)
  

• Select Committee re Gocup and Gadara read 1 September 1863 (91 words)
  

• Gundagai Bridge Iron Work read 21 September 1863 (53 words)
  

• Robbery Being Armed (Lacmalac) read 30 September 1863 (1,208 words)
  

• Robbery at Lacmalac, Sentences read 30 September 1863 (276 words)  
  

1864

• First manufacture of sugar (in Queensland).
  

• Kanakas employed for sugar cultivation.
  

• English salmon ova placed in Plenty River (Tasmania).
  

• Death of an early Settler in N. S. W, Mrs. Anderson read 21 January 1864 (142 words)
  

• Murrumbidgee Correspondent read 23 January 1864 (764 words)
  

• Insolvency - John Archer Broughton read 16 March 1864 (34 words)
  

• Stuck Up by Morgan, the Bushranger read 9 April 1864 (61 words)
  

• Report on Reservations Upon Runs in Tumut District read 7 May 1864 (271 words)
  

• The Land Laws and The Calumniators Thereof read 18 May 1864 (1,964 words)
  

• Vindication of the Present Land Acts read 23 May 1864 (1,517 words)
  

• To the Editor -Gocup and Gadara Runs read 24 May 1864 (487 words)
  

• To the Editoer - The Gadara Run read 2 June 1864 (1,288 words)
  

• The Fitzroy Iron Works at Mittagaong read 20 August 1864 (978 words)
  

• Bushranging – Death of Sergeant Parry read 23 November 1864 (263 words)
  

1865

• Gundagai Bridge Construction Begins read 20 January 1865 (88 words)
  

• Southern Road Works read 22 February 1865 (191 words)
  

• Casting at the Fitzroy Iron Mines of first Gundagai Cylinder Section read 28 February 1865 (237 words)
  

• Gundagai Bridge Spans Shipped from England read 21 March 1865 (74 words)
  

• Reservations on the Gocup and Gadara Runs read 10 May 1864 (1,493 words)
  

• Murrumbidgee Bridge Update read 10 May 1865 (108 words)
  

• Death of Charles Robert Warby read 20 May 1865 (46 words)
  

• Destructive Fire at Lacmalac read 22 May 1865 (300 words)
  

• Small Compact Steamer Built by Mr. Jenkins, at Nangus read 22 May 1865 (270 words)
  

• Lacmalac Arson Trial read 29 May 1865 (1,831 words)
  

• Henry Hilton appointed Agent for the Empire read 19 June 1865 (33 words)
  

• Local Enterprise – Tobacco read 17 July 1865 (72 words)
  

• Death of the Aboriginal King of Tumut Tribe read 12 August 1865 (85 words)
  

• Thomas Halloran of Lacmalac has Paid his Interest read 7 September 1865 (118 words)
  

• Marked Tree Line Needs Attention read 5 October 1865 (126 words)
  

• Mr. Jenkins's Steamer Nangas Heading to Hay read 9 September 1865 (80 words)
  

• Navigation of the Murrumbidgee read 22 September 1865 (557 words)
  

• Legislative Assembly – Murrumbidgee Questions read 8 November 1865 (228 words)
  

• James McCallum of Gracetown read 7 December 1865 (47 words)
  

• Bush Fires deliberately lit at Gocup 14 December read 1865 (524 words)
  

• Bush Fires Deliberately Lit? (Initial report reprinted in Sidney paper) read 23 December 1865 (198 words)
  

1866

• Aboriginal Gathering at Tumut read 26 January 1866 (197 words)
  

• Free Selection at Gundagai read 30 January 1866 (87 words)
  

• Obituary - several read 8 February 1866 (775 words)
  

• Diptheria Deaths read 22 February 1866 (187 words)
  

• Tumut, Deaths From Diphtheria read 26 February 1866 (109 words)
  

• The Navigation of the Murrumbidgee read 3 March 1866 (510 words)
  

• Sticking Up Near Tumut read 2 April 1866 (400 words)
  

• Little Progress with Gundagai Bridge read 23 May 1866 (59 words)
  

• Sticking Up at Bombolee read 21 June 1866 (448 words)
  

• Thomas de Castro, a Butcher in Tumut read 28 July 1866 (368 words)
  

• More Sticking-Up in The Tumut District read 4 August 1866 (490 words)
  

• Gundagai Bridge Works Slow read 13 August 1866 (70 words)
  

• Gundagai (From our Correspondent) read 11 October 1866 (284 words)
  

1867

• Intercolonial conference held, at which Parkes suggests a confederate union.
  

• First Victorian protective tariff in operation.
  

• Gold discovered at Gympie (Q.).
  

• Publication of Gordon's Sea Spray and Smoke Drift.
  

• Duke of Edinburgh visits Australia.
  

• Murrumbidgee Bridge Ironwork Completed read 21 February 1867 (525 words)
  

• Opening of the Gundagai Bridge read 29 August 1867 (141 words)
  

• Tumut Literary Society read 14 September 1867 (269 words)
  

• Long Approach to Gundagai Bridge Commenced read 23 October 1867 (95 words)
  

• Speech by Mrs. E. G. Brown at Opening the 'Alfred' Bridge read 23 October 1867 (433 words)
  

• Cost of Tolls Too High for the New Gundagai Bridge read 21 December 1867 (855 words)
  

1868

• Transportation to Western Australia discontinued.
  

• Kanaka labourers act passed in Queensland.
  

• Tricks upon Travellers read 15 February 1868 (248 words)
  

• Prince Alfred Shot read12 March 1868 (102 words)
  

• Estate of Henry Hoad read 6 June 1868 (61 words)
  

• New Bridge over the Murrumbidgee at Gundagai read 20 April 1868 (213 words)
  

• Northern Approach to Gundagai Bridge Progressing read 22 May 1868 (75 words)
  

• Legality of Crossing the River by the Old Ford read 16 May 1868 (608 words)
  

• Legality of Crossing the River by the Old Ford at Gundagai read 23 May 1868 (705 words)
  

• Marked Tree Line and Wantabadgery Road Work read 27 June 1868 (151 words)
  

• Rapid Progress with the Permanent Approach to new Gundagai Bridge read 4 July 1868 (98 words)
  

• Rapid Progress made in High Level Approach to the Gundagai Bridge read 5 December 1868 (185 words)
  

1869

• Electric cable laid between Cape Schanck (Vic.) and Low Head (Tas.).
  

• Sydney free public library opened.
  

• Kendall's Leaves from Australian Forests published.
  

• Tumut (from our Correspondent) read 30 January 1869 (1,183)
  

• Artistically Executed Drawing of Bridge read 10 April 1869 (207 words)
  

• Where is the Gundagai Celebration? read 29 May 1869 (293 words)
  

• The Late John Pascoe Fawkner (Melbourne) read 1 October 1869 (2,527 words)
  

• Henry Hilton Appointed Acting Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages read 23 October 1869 (67 words)
  

• Crop Reports read 25 December 1869 (274 words)
  

Items in black below are not newspaper articles.

These items are a reprint of the

"The Australian Encyclodaedia"

Vol. 1, pages 257 - 261

Edited by Arthur Wilberforce Jose and Herbert James Carter

in collaboration with T.G. Tucker C.B.G, Litt.D. (camb.)

Originally printed by Angus & Robertson Limited in1927.