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1850

• Transportation to Western Australia begun.
  

• Last convict ship arrives in Moreton Bay.
  

• Anti-transportation League formed in Sydney.
  

• Imperial statute 'for the Better Government of the Australian Colonies' passed.
  

• University of Sydney founded.
  

• Gundagai Reports read 9 March 1850 (600 words)
  

• River Lachlan is without Law and Religion html 23 March 1850 (184  words)
  

• Report from Tumut  html 30 March 1850 (316 words)
  

• Report from Yass html 30 March 1850 (1,114 words)
  

• Observe a Few Simple Things of Great Importance html 27 July 1850 (665 words)
  

• New Chief Constable at Tumut  html 27 July 1850 (33 words)
  

• Cattle from Brungle to Adelaide html pdf 19 September 1849 (141 words)
  

• Report from Tumut html 21 December 1850 (855 words)
  

1851

• Port Phillip district constituted the colony of Victoria.
  

• Governor of New South Wales appointed governor-general of Australia.
  

• Gold discovered in New South Wales and Victoria in payable quantities.
  

• Australian Anti-transporta¬tion League organized.
  

• First representative legislatures met in South Australia, Victoria, and Tasmania.
  

• First telegraph message sent in New South Wales.
  

• Hovell appointed Goulburn Crown Land Commissioner  html 25 January 1851 (53  words)
  

• Insolvent Court, Re Peter Stuckey html 19 February 1851 (108 words)
  

• Boundaries of All Counties html 29 March 1851 (4,826 words)
  

• Raining Hard in the Murrumbidgee html 2 May 1851 (81 words)
  

• Married, Emma Stuckey html 17 May 1851
  

• Married at Tumut html 31 May 1851 (48 words)
  

• News From The Interior, Wagga Wagga read 4 June 1851 (2,371 words)
  

• Henry Hilton Chief Constable, Charged with Drunkenness html 29 June 1850 (630 words)
  

• A Miller Wanted, Jugiong html 29 July 1851 (65 words)
  

• Rain to the Southward read 8 September 1851 (323 words)
  

1852

• Arrival of s.s. Chusan, first mail-steamer via Cape of Good Hope.
  

• Navigation of the Murray? html 16 January 1852 (764 words)
  

• For Sale near Jugiong, Murrumbidgee html 22 January 1852 (230 words)
  

• Steam Boats on the Murray? html 18 February 1852 (965 words)
  

• Southern NSW Completely Emptied Of Men read 6 March 1852 (819 words)
  

• Look Out for Floods html 10 March 1852 (67 words) 
  

• Death of George Shelley html 4 May 1852  (95 words)
  

• Rain at Gundagai html 17 May 1852 (87 words) ;
  

• The Overlanders to Diggings html 17 May 1852 (151 words)
  

• Steam Communication on the Murray html 22 May 1852 (664 words) ;
  

• Gold Delayed by Flooded Creeks html 1 June 1852 (61 words) ;
  

• Victoria Store, Gundagai  html 15 June 1852 (734 words) ;
  

• Goulburn Report, Great Flood html 1 July 1852  (2,638 words) ;
  

• Yass, Country under Water html 1 July 1852 (68 word) ;
  

• Yass, Recovery of Claims html 1 July 1852 (117 words) ; 
  

• Penrith Flood html 1 July 1852 (48 words);
  

• Camden Floods html 1 July 1852 (199 words) ;
  

• Yass, Terrible Flood html 1 July 1852  (114) ;
  

• Flood at Gundaroo html 2 July 1852 (101 words) ;
  

• Extraordinary Floods at Yass html 2 July 1852  (548 words) ;
  

• Flood at Gundagai html 5 July 1852 (379 words) ;
  

• Gundagai, Dreadful Flood html 5 July 1852  (887 words) ;
  

• Unparalleled Flood html 5 July 1852  (879 words) ;
  

• Jugiong Flood html 6 July 1852 (99 words) ;
  

• Yass, The Late Floods html 6 July 1852 (533 words) ;
  

• Legislative Council, The Floods At Gundagai  html 7 July 1852  (211 words) ;
  

• Laid Upon the Table of the House html 7 July 1852 (82 words) ;
  

• Gundagai Injustice html 7 July 1852 (1,376 words) ;
  

• Loss of Over Seventy Lives html 8 July 1852 (633 words) ;
  

• Gundagai-Latest Particulars  html 10 July 1852 (1,183 words) ;
  

• River at Wandadura Rose Very Fast html 10 July 1852  (356 words) ;
  

• Exchange Rooms Subscription for Floods html 10 July 1852 (110 words) ;
  

• Henry Bingham Deserves the Highest Praise html 10 July 1852 (216 words) ;
  

• Incompetent Surveyor html 10 July 1852 (1,587 words) ;
  

• The Gundagai Catastrophe html 10 July 1852 (540 words) ;
  

• The Late Floods at Bundarbo read 12 July 1852 (1,093 words)
  

• Transfer of Murrumbidgee Runs html 15 July 1851 (538 words) ;
  

• The Destruction of Gundagai html 15 July 1852 (1,303 words) ;
  

• The Flood at Wagga Wagga html 17 July 1852 (1,529 words) ;
  

• Gundagai The Latest read 17 July 1852
  

• Lamentable Calamity Overtaken Gundagai html 17 July  1852 (1,266 words) ;
  

• The Gundagai Floods - Further Particulars html 21 July 1852  (1537 words) ;
  

• Meeting of Goulburn Inhabitants html 21 July 1852 (818 words) ;
  

• The Murrumbidgee Flood Subscription html 29 July 1852 (81 words) ;
  

• The Dead at Gundagai html 31 July 1852
  

• Untrue Letter from Gundagai html 5 August 1852  (215 words) ;
  

• The Recent Floods html 31 August 1852 (1,453 words) ;
  

• The Estate of The Late George Shelley html 4 September 1852 (48 words) ;
  

• Death of Henry Bingham html 8 September 1852 (47 words)
  

• Horrible Murder at Tarabandra read 16 September 1852 (306 words)
  

• Estate of  Henry Bingham html 24 September 1852  (347 words) ;
  

• Messrs. J. A. and R. K. Broughton html 13 November 1852 (44 words) ;
  

• Estate of Henry Bingham html 29 November 1852  (60 words) ;
  

1853

• Transportation to Norfolk Island and Tasmania abolished.
  

• Establishment of colonial mints authorized.
  

• University of Melbourne and public library of Victoria founded.
  

• Sydney corporation dissolved and a commission appointed.
  

• Cadell takes first river-steamer 1300 miles up the Murray.
  

• A Tour from Yass to the Ovens html 15 January 1853 (2,433 words) ;
  

• Navigation of The River Murray html 18 January 1853 (145 words) ;
  

• Married - Gertrude Bingham html 26 January 1853 (56 words) ;
  

• Gundagai Floods, Rebuttal of Report html 29 January 1853 (749 words) 
  

• The Yass Bridge html 29 January 1853 (1,667 words) 
  

• Southern Road Robberies html 2 February 1853 (91 words)  
  

• New Goldfield at Adelong Creek html 5 February 1853 (639 words) 
  

• The Great Southern Road read 8 March 1853 (1,239 words)
  

• Gold Escort Company and Bushrangers read 9 March 1853 (493 words)
  

• Sale of the Estate of the late William Shelly html 9 April 1853 (223 words) 
  

• Galvanized Wire & Zinc Tiles html 28 June 1853 (38 words) 
  

• Two floods at Gundagai (the latter one being 2 ft. higher than the 1852 flood)
  

• Flood at Gundagai html 20 July 1853 (223 words) 
  

• Jugiong Flood html 3 August 1853 (780 words)
  

• Overland Journey to the Ovens and Melbourne No. 1 read 22 October 1853 (1,545 words)
  

• Overland Journey to the Ovens and Melbourne No. 2 read 31 October 1853 (1,370 words)
  

• Overland Journey to the Ovens and Melbourne No. 3 read 10 November 1853 (1,413 words)
  

• Overland Journey to the Ovens and Melbourne No. IV read 26 November 1853 (1,127 words)
  

• Overland Journey to the Ovens and Melbourne No. V read 10 December 1853 (1,479)
  

• Traveling In The Bush read 12 December 1853 (2,219 words) 
  

• Geelong, Dinner for Captain Hovell read 27 December 1853 (1,512 words)
  

• Overland Journey to the Ovens and Melbourne No. VI read 31 December 1853 (1,387 words)
  

1854

• Eureka Stockade.
  

• First railway in Aus¬tralia opened, from Melbourne to Port Melbourne.
  

• Overland Journey to the Ovens and Melbourne No. VII read 5 January 1854 (1,570 words)
  

• Overland Journey to the Ovens and Melbourne No. VIII read 20 January 1854 (1,517 words)
  

• Overland Journey to the Ovens and Melbourne No. IX read 6 February 1854 (1,610 words)
  

• Estate of Henry Bingham html 9 February 1854 (56 words)
  

• Tumut News (Constable & Pound Keeper) html 11 February 1854 (47 words)
  

• Overland Journey to the Ovens, &C (Letter re article No. IX) read 13 February 1854 (613 words)
  

• Overland Journey to the Ovens and Melbourne No. 10 (includes reply to letter re No. IX) (read 7 March 1854 (1,873 words)
  

• Overland Journey to the Ovens and Melbourne (letter re No. 10) read 29 March 1854 (1,336 words)
  

• Overland Journey to the Ovens and Melbourne (reply to letter re No. 10) read 31 March 1854 (692 words)  
  

• Corrugated Iron for Sale html 8 April 1854
  

• Overland Journey to the Ovens and Melbourne No. XI (Adelong Creek) read 15 April 1854 (1,391 words)
  

• Overland Journey to the Ovens and Melbourne No. XII read 26 April 1854 (1,195 words)
  

• Overland Journey to the Ovens and Melbourne No. XIII read 9 June 1854 (2,101 words)
  

• Marriage of Edward Bingham html 23 August 1854 (55 words)
  

• Safety Matches For Sale html 6 November 1854 (67 words) 
  

• Estate of the Late Henry Bingham for Sale html 1 December 1854 (60 words)
  

• Marriage of Edward Brown & Amelia Shelley html 29 December 1854 (54 words) 
  

1855

• Van Diemen's Land renamed Tasmania.
  

• Responsible government proclaimed in Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales.
  

• Chinese immigration to Victoria restricted.
  

• Sydney mint established.
  

• Hume, A brief Statement of Facts html 20 April 1855 (4,178 words) 
  

• W. Bland Replies to Hume html 1 March 1855 (910 words) 
  

• Hume, Expedition from Lake George to Port Phillip in 1824 html 9 May 1855 (1,888 words) 
  

• Mr. Deas Thomson html 23 July 1855 (583 words) 
  

• New Auctioneers (Henry Hilton) html 11 August 1855 (74 words) 
  

• Review, A Brief Statement of Facts html 11 September 1855 (1,816 words)
  

• Southern District Report read 11 December 1855 (831 words)
  

1856

• Government of Norfolk Island vested in New South Wales.
  

• Responsible government proclaimed in South Australia.
  

• South Australian Institute (with free public reference library) founded.
  

• Voting by ballot introduced in Victoria and South Australia.
  

• Horse Racing html 9 February 1856  (679 words) 
  

• Birth of a son, E.G. Brown  html 12 March 1856  (33 words) 
  

• Cod fish caught by Henry Hilton, Postmaster html 29 March 1856 (105 words)
  

• Death by Drowning in Tumut River html 11 June 1856 (122 words)
  

• Assignment of Estate html 27 August 1856 (202 words)
  

1857

• Manhood suffrage introduced in Victoria.
  

• Sydney corporation reconstituted.
  

• Wreck of the Dunbar.
  

• Dismemberment of New South Wales html 30 January 1857 (3,867 words) 
  

• Farms Wanted html 17 March 1857 (1,006 words)
  

• Mail Late Again html 14th March 1857 (125 words) 
  

• Whitty Appoints Attorneys During Absence html 21 May 1857 (43 words) ;
  

• Adelong Gold Fields html 17 July 1857 (659 words) ;
  

• Death, Grand-nephew of Kosciuszko html 20 July 1857 (47 words) ;
  

• Lands Commissioner has Encounter with Bushrangers html 1 August 1857 (399 words) ;
  

• Capture of Bushrangers html 7 August 1857 (165 words) ;
  

• The Albury Bushrangers html 3 October 1857 (523 words)
  

• Compulsory Vaccination in NSW html 11 November 1857 (388 words) ; 
  

• The Albury Mails html 13 November 1857 (246 words) ; 
  

• Albury News html 11 December 1857 (511 words) ;
  

1858

• Gregory opens up Murchison and Gascoyne districts in Western Australia.
  

• Warburton's expedition to Lake Torrens (S.A.).
  

• Telegraphic communication established between Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney.
  

• Manhood suffrage introduced in New South Wales.
  

• Copper discovered at Cobar (N.S.W.).
  

• Gold discovered at Canoona (Q.).
  

• Torrens act passed in South Australia.
  

• The Hume Testimonial html 9 April 1858 (276 words)
  

• Medical Shylocks html 20 April 1858 (239 words)
  

• Charge Against Medico html 20 April 1858 (120 words)
  

• Fencing html 22 April 1858 (403 words) ;
  

• Cowper Electoral Bill html 22 April 1858 (123 words)
  

• Adelong Quartz Reef html 22 April 1858 (238 words)
  

• To be Let or Sold - the Queens's Arms, Tumut html 5 June 1858 (97 words)
  

• Inauguration of the Hume Monument, Albury html 10 August 1858 (811 words)
  

• Steam Boat to Gundagai read 24 September 1858 (229 words)
  

• The Electric Telegraph, Albury html 5 October 1858 (81 words)
  

• Tumut News 10 read November 1858 (302 words)
  

• To E.G. Brown, a Son html 28 December 1858 (33 words)
  

1859

• Queensland created a separate colony with responsible government.
  

• Brisbane incorporated.
  

• The original site of Gundagai (on the flood plain) finally abandoned in exchange for higher land in North and South Gundagai. (Nearly 30 years after the first settlement.)
  

• Death of Andrew Hamilton Hume html 9 August 1859 (32 words)
  

• The Great Southern Road read 18 August 1859 (1,331 words)
  

• Gundagai and its Environs read 26 August 1859 (3,451 words)
  

• Steam Boat Delivers Saw Mill to Gundagai for Adelong read 8 October 1859 (134 words)
  

• Vaccination figures html 12 October 1859
  

• Description of The Valley of The Tumut read 8 November 1859 (3,285 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.