NORTH AUSTRALIA.
— * — > A DfiVELOtaiENT SCHEME. ' ' United Press Association —^By El«ctrio TelegrwpSh — Copytitfbi (Received Nov. 28, 10.11 a.m.) HOBART, Nov. 28. With reference to the cable message announcing that the Eastern Cattle, Cold Storage and Land Company is being formed-, at a meeting of the Nqrthern Corpora-' tion, Mr J. S. Butlers — who, on bahalf of the Corporation, has secured large pastoral leases on the Roper and Hodgson Rivers, in the northern territory of Australia — stated that a Scotch syndicate was negotiating for the purchase of half the Corpora•tion's, interests for £25,000.' (An earlier cable message states that the Eastern Cattle, Cold Storage and Land Company, with a capital of £450,000, is being formed in London, with the object of developing 22,000 square milf s on the Port Darwin side of the Gulf of Carpentaria littoral. It is intended to export beef, and it is also proposed to settle a colony of Italian sugar growers.) ■
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7568, 28 November 1902, Page 2
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