Capricornian (Rockhampton),
Saturday 7 April 1900, page 27
Boulia(From Our Own Correspondent)
Still no relief from the intense drought. Its severity may be best
judged by the action of the postal authorities in making the mail service from
Birdsville to Bedourie fortnightly instead of weekly: the service from Bedourie
to here to continue weekly for a little longer. The Urandangie buggy service is
to be made a pack-horse service, the parcels post being for the time suspended,
the contractor to run from here to Glenormiston and back, and his mate at the
other end to run from Urandangie to Roxburgh Downs and back, thus leaving the
thirty miles between Roxburgh and Glenormiston untraversed. All letters and
papers for Urandangie, Carandotta, and Roxburgh Downs will soon go round by
Cloncurry.
Cobb and Coy.'s Winton-Boulia coach, due on Friday, reached here on
Saturday with twenty-two big bags of parcels and mail, principally parcels. The
company is finding much difficulty in running anywhere near to time, but I do
not suppose they will want the parcels post service suspended. They generally
manage to worry through their difficulties.Capricornian (Rockhampton), Saturday 1 October 1898, page 28
Boulia
(From Our Own Correspondent)
The parcels post has been so freely used out here lately that Cobb and Co. have found it necessary to
put a special wagon on the line to cope with the difficulty. This change will
certainly be very much better for the parcels, but hardly so for any
passengers, of whom there are generally some going one way or the other. We
should think that for such a central place— as regards postal service at all
events, and also far removed from the more modern conveniences of civilisation
— as Boulia is, they could almost run this conveyance, say, once a fortnight in
addition to the usual coach service when the parcels post was particularly
heavy.
