Unexpended Road Votes
THE recent rainfall has forcibly brought under notice the necessity of prompt measures being taken to improve the disgraceful condition of the numerous…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1894
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The Poultry Road to Wealth
MANY well-meaning people are speculating on the chances for success in poultry farming. The poultry journals are filled with rose-colored views that are decidedly…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Lismore-Tweed Railway. The First Passenger Train
ANXIOUS to avail ourselves of an opportunity to inspect that portion of the Lismore Tweed Railway, now so rapidly Hearing completion, lying between our town and the now famous Byron Bay we (the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Northern Star. Wednesday Morning, 17Th January, 1894. "Appearance of the Train-Wrecker
THE, trainâwrecker has matin his existence amongst us very soon. The first occasion on…
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IN the Assembly on 23rd instant Mr. Farnell moved the adjournment of the House to direct attention to the action of the Government in disregarding a…
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SIR,—Will you kindly allow me to draw the attention, through your columns, of those (fortunately) unaware of the fact, to the state of the Broadwater-Woodburn…
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IN this issue we publish from the Estimates for 1894 the amounts available for expenditure on the roads of this district during the present year. While…
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THE following letters received through the members have been forwarded to us for publication:— "Public Works Department, Sydney, 16th February, 1894. Sir,—With reference to your letter of…
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ONE of the most infinential and enthuslastic meetings every held at Goolmangar took place on Monday, 5th March, in conjunction with the Nirnbin Progress Association, for the purpose of asking the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Northern Star. Saturday Morning, 10Th March, 1894. The Approaching Railway Opening
THE near completion of the two sections of the Lismore-Tweed…
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IN Parliament on Wednesday evening a number of Labor members, backed up by Mr. Crick, were assailing the railway management, when the following remarks were made by the Colonial…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Opening of the Railway. Public Meeting
A PUBLIC meeting was held at the Council Chambers on Monday evening to decide what steps should be taken in the shape of a reception and public demonstration on the opening of the railway. There…
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A PUBLIC meeting was held at the Council Chamber, Lismore, on Monday evening; last fur the purpose of deciding the nature of the demonstration upon the occasion of…
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THE above was the subject of a lengthy minute from the Mayor (Alderman Bernstein) submitted to the meeting of the Council on Monday evening. It was as follows:—…
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THE following correspondence, received by the Council from Mr. T. T. Ewing, M.P., has been handed to us for publication:— Public Works Depurtment…
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THIS following committees were appointed at last meeting of general committee:— Reception Committee.—Bishop Doyle, Rev. W. F. Craigrie, Rev. A. Poole, Rev. Father…
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A MEETING of the executive committee was held at the Council Chambers last Friday evening. There was, with three exceptions, a full attendance, and Mr. J. Barrie was voted to the chair…
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WITH such appliances only as were available here, the work of landing the railway carriages has been one of considerable difficulty and some risk. They are over 50 feet in length, and, with the packing…
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ON Thursday, before the dinner adjournment, was devoted to the consideration, in Committee of the Whole, of the expediency of bringing in a bill to sanction the construction of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Train Robbers Trapped
AN attempt by a gang of bandits to rob a passenger train on the Council Bluffs line has been foiled by clever stratagem on the part of the railway authorities…
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