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COLINTON
Proclamation: Saturday 5th January 1861
From - The Golden Age Saturday 16th February 1861.
A sale of crown lands was held at the court-house on Saturday last, when some of allotments at the new township of Colinton, on Collyer's creek, situated about 27 miles from Cooma on the Queanbeyan road, met with a ready sale at little over the upset price. There is no prospect of this township for a long time to come arriving at anything like importance; I therefore don't envy the holders of these allotments. Had the road traffic continued to be as good as when the diggings first commenced, this ground would no doubt have brought a much higher price.
From - New South
Wale Government Gazette Friday 9th May1862
Department of Lands, Sydney, 8th May, 1862.
COLINTON.
NOTICE is hereby given, that a Site has been fixed upon at the undermentioned place, for a Village to be called Colinton, and that copies of the approved Plan have been deposited for public inspection and information, at the Offices of the Surveyor General in Sydney, and of the Land Agent, at Cooma, viz.:— Colinton, situated on Colyer's Creek, on the road from Cooma to Queanbeyan, about 26 miles north of Cooma, and 35 miles south of Queanbeyan. in the County of Beresford, and District of Monaro.
GOLD
From - The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser – Saturday 22nd
June 1878, Page 3
Colinton Gold Field
In pursuance of the provisions of the Mining Act of
1874, I, Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, Governor of the colony of New
South Wales aforesaid, with the advice of the Executive Council, do hereby
proclaim that the following shall be deemed a gold field within the meaning
and for the purposes of the said Act, that is to say: — County of Beresford,
parishes of Tinderry, Micalago, Colinton, and Gungoandra, area about 80
square miles. The Crown lands within the following boundaries: Commencing on
the right bank of the Murrumbidgee River, at its confluence with Micalago
Creek; bounded thence by that creek upward and by the boundary dividing the
counties of Beresford and Murray, bearing generally north-easterly to the
intersection of the north-eastern boundary of the parish of Tinderry, near
"Tinderry Pie" or "The Twins;" thence by that boundary and by the
south-eastern boundary of that parish, being partly an eastern branch of
Ryrie's Creek, bearing southerly and westerly to Ryrie's Creek, thence by
part of the eastern boundary of the parish of Micalago, being the southern
branch of Ryrie's Creek upward, to the north east corner of portion No. 9;
thence by the east boundary of the parishes of Micalago and Colinton, partly
forming the east boundary of that portion, bearing south to the south-east
corner of the parish last named; thence by a north-western boundary of the
parish of Gungoandra, bearing north-easterly to the north-east boundary of
that parish; thence by the boundary last named, bearing south-easterly to
Tinderry Creek, and by part of that creek downward to its intersection with
a south boundary of the parish of Gungoandra; thence by that south boundary,
bearing west to the east boundary of portion No. 10; thence by part of that
east boundary, bearing south to the southeast comer of the portion; thence
by the south boundary of that portion ; a line, and the south boundary of
portion No. 27, bearing westerly to the south west comer of the portion last
named ; thence by the west boundary of that portion, bearing north to the
south boundary of portion No. 2; thence by part of that south boundary,
bearing west to the south-west corner of the portion ; thence by the west
boundary of that portion, bearing north to its north-west corner; thence by
a south boundary of the parish of Gungoandra, bearing west to a road forming
the eastern boundary of portion No. 33, parish of Bransby ; thence by that
road bearing north-easterly to Gungoandra Creek, at the north-east corner of
the portion last named ; thence by Gungoandra Creek, downward to the
Murrumbidgee River; and thence by that river downward to the point of
commencement; but exclusively of the village of Colinton and the suburban
lands attached thereto, as proclaimed 26th April, 1863.
To be called the
“Colinton Gold Field.”
COLINTON LAND HOLDERS in 1934