...one of things of the KellyGang story
Things
All most as soon as the squatters came to North Eastern Victoria there as a need to have a system to develop the letters from home. In a short time there were regular deliveries of news and mail from Sydney and Melbourne. The postmasters in the towns also managed the telegraph.
Mail was carried through the countryside on regular routes. Many of them in the mid 1870s were the coaching routes run by Crawford. The mail contracts were important to provide the coaching companies with a regular income. Of course most of the mail was delivered by train were the lines existed
| From |
To
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| Banawatha (3 days a week) | South Barnawatha North Wooragee |
Yackandandah |
| Beechworth (6 days a week) | Chiltern Indigo |
Rutherglen Wahgunyah |
| Beechworth (6 days a week) | Everton | |
| Beechworth (6 days a week) | Stanley | Hillsbrough |
| Beechworth (6 days a week) | Reid's Creek Woolshed Reidford |
Eldorado Tarawingee Station |
| Benalla (twice a week) | Devenish Dookie South |
Sumpston's store Pine Lodge Shepparton |
| Benalla (once a week) | Devenish Katandra |
Yabba
Yabba Cobram |
| Bobinawarrah (twice a week) | Hedi | |
| Bright (3 days a week) | Freeburgh | Harrietville |
| Buckland (3 days a week) | Lower Buckland | Porepunkah |
| Chiltern (3 days a week) | Browns Plains | Howlong |
| Chiltern (6 days a week) | Doma Mungi | |
| Euroa (3 days a week) | Balmattum | |
| Euroa (once a week) | Lower Moira Barmah |
Broken Creek Ulupna |
| Euroa (twice a week) | Undera Mooroopna |
Shepparton |
| Everton (6 days a week) | Bowman's Forest Taylor's Gap Myrtleford Eurobin |
Porepunka Bright Wandiligong |
| Doon (twice a week) | Dry Creek | |
| Glenrowan (6 days a week) | Greta | |
| Kiewa | Bungoonie Mitta Mitta Talangatta Koetong Wabba |
Cudiewa Corryong School Colac Colac Towong |
| Kiewa (once a week) | Snowy Creek Sandy Creek Noorengong, |
Tallandoon Mitta |
| Longwood (6 days a week) | Merton, Doon, |
Maindample Mansfield |
| Mansfield (once a week) | Delatite | |
| Milawa (twice a week) | Hurdle Creek | |
| Moyhu (once a week) | Hedi | |
| Murchison (twice a week) | Moorilim Pethybridge's Castle Creek |
Spencers Farm Kialla West Arcadia |
| Myrtleford (3 times a week) | Running Creek | |
| Omeo (once a week) | Reedy Creek | |
| Porepunkah (3 times a week) | Lower Buckland | Buckland |
| Stanley (6 days a week) | Hurdle Creek | |
| Wangaratta (6 days a week) |
Oxley Milawa Moyhu Post Office |
Taylor's Gap Murmungee Beechworth |
| Wangaratta (3 times a week) | Estcourt | |
| Wangaratta (once a week in 1876 John Jones) |
Kilawana Peechelba Bandalong |
Yarrawonga
Burramine Cobram |
| Wangaratta (6 days a week) | Bontherambo | |
| Wahgunyah (6 days a week) | Rutherglen | Springhurst |
| Wodonga (once a week) | Bonegilla Bethanga Talgarno Bungil |
Thologolong Burrowye Jingellic Walwa Tintaldra |
| Wodonga (3 days a week) | Osborne's Flat Kiewa |
Yackandadah |
| Yackandandah (3 days a week) | Hillsborough Yackandandah Junction |
Twist's Creek Sutton |
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