The northern Star. Saturday Morning, July 24Th, 1897. the Railway Station Robbery Case
WITHIN eight weeks from the night of the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1897
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The North Coast Railway. Deputation to the Minister
SEVERAL members of Parliament, including Messrs. john See, F. A. Wright, CruickShank.M.Farlane and Pyers, waited on the Minister-for-Public Works with a memorial…
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A MEETING of delegates from Alstonville, Wollongbar, Springhill, and Rousmet representatives from the Bullina Council at the Australian Hotel on Friday last to urge upon the Minister the necessity…
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ON Wednesday afternoon, the 11th instant, the local branch (of) the League will give the public a fall afternoon's sport, on the Recreation ground, in the shape of a two mile mad road and a shoo race…
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BY the mail steamer Warrimoo letters have been received at Government House from Lady Hampden and her party on their way across Canada to England…
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THE proposal to establish a Railway Orphanage as a memorial of the late Mr. Eddy has been everywhere received with favour, and despite the numerous claims in connection…
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AN Act to aimend and consolidate the law relating to roads and dealing with same, became Jaw on 30th June, and will be known us the " Public Reads Act of-1987." Section 67 of the Crown: Lands Act of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Northern Star. Wednesday Morning, 25Ta August, 1897. the Railway Commissioners' Annual Report
THE report of the RAILWAY COMMISSIONERS on the working of the…
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The railway report presented by Messrs. Oliver and Fehon has a sad interest this year when we remember that the man who was chiefly responsible for the…
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IN the Assembly Mr. F. Clarke moved-"That, in the opinion of this House, and in view of the heavy losses of produce incurred by shippers of the northern rivers, owing to the unnavigable and dangerous…
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A copy of Mr. Edward's report, dated June 1, states— The total length of the proposed railwayCasino to Tenterfield, via Acacia Creek-would…
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TENDERS were opened yesterday by Mr. F. S. Murruy, Roads Engineor, Lismore, and the following were the lowest for the respective works— Contract. 10, Lismore to Blue Knob, F. Jensen,…
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We have consistently advocated the construction of a line of railway connecting Coraki on the Richmond and Maclean on the Clarence, and are now more than ever…
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BRITAIN beats the world bollow in the value of its railways even the immence lines of Canada and the United States not coming up to the Midland on North-Western in value The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sugar Growing in N. S. Wales. No Iii. Colored Labor on the Northern Riversmonopoly in Sugar Manufacture-richmond-tweed Railway
When the writer left Sydney he was prepared; from the rumours that he had heard, to see hordes of Hindoos on the northern rivers grow-' ing cane, and some of them ' manufacturing '…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The northern Star. Saturday Morning, 18Th September, 1897. Fawcett Bridge As a Drawbridge
THE suspension of traffic' over Fawcett Bridge on Thursday, and the great…
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ON account o9f the early spring and late refreshing showers grass and vegetation ingeneral, look' unusually well. Dairying seems to be gone into with more energy,…
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Our attention has been recently culled to the wretched state of the highway between Woodburn and Evans River, and there is no reason to doubt that the…
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At the risk of being considered iterative, we propose to say a fow more words concerning the Grafton-Lismore railway route. We are impelled to do so…
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SIR— With reference to the above matter, Mr. Hosking, it appears from Saturday's Star, stated that your correspondent's allusion to the matter was likely to give rise to a moat…
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