33054-006485-0001

50/1370 - 9th April 1850.
[pencil addition]
Chf. Commr. forwarding letters from
Crown Land[sic: Lands] Commissioner for the District of Maranoa
[text deleted: to the Chief Commissioner of Crown Lands] respecting
road for Maranoa to Drayton

12/50
Maranoa March 25. 1850
Camp at Yulgulba
April 9/50

Sir,
I have the honor to
report that by following
the course of the Ballonne
River and the Tannin
and Yu'lha' creeks, I have
found a very good road
to Mr. Dangar's station
Darling Downs, in about
Eighty miles.

The distance from
my Head Quarters to
Drayton is thus ascertained
to be two hundred and twn
miles in estimated
extent, and fifty miles
more from Drayton to the
Steam-boat at Ipswich.

By selecting Moreton
Bay for a market, and
adopting this route, the
settlers of Maranoa will
save a land carriage
of three hundred and fifty
miles

The Chief Commissioner of Crown Lands
&c &c &c
Sydney

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50/3682 - 11th. April 1850

Let the Postmaster
General have
the perusal
of this.
18th. Ch FR

Forwarded for the information
of His Excellency the Governor.
Geo. Barney
Chief Comr. of Crown Lands

The Honorable
The Colonial Secretary.
B. C. [...] 10 April 1850.

[faint pencil]
For information of
His Exy. the Governor
[inits; ill.]

To be returned

noted=

Returned CSO
14 May 50