Treatment of Tramps in France
The French peasant has the deepest respect for proprietorship. Against the vagabond, the tamp, the wanderer on the high road his hatred, instinctive, malevolent,…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1905
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North-coast Railway
At a meeting of the committee of the North Coast Railway Construction and Settlement League held on Tuesday, under the Presidency of the Mayor, it was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →British Railways
The railways of the United Kingdom last your can hardly be described as having been progressive. The total length of line in operation at the end of the year was 22,000 miles, which…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A deputation waited on the Minister for Works and urged the importance of railway extension from Moren to Mungindi, with a branch to…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Mr. W. K. Abbott, at the Pastoralists' Union Conference, trenchantly criticised tho Arbitration Law und Socialism. He said that the railways…
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On Saturday a road race, from tho 5 to the 2 mile peg on the Southgate Road, was run off by the Grafton Bicycle Club. The first prize was a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The South Arm Bridge
About 15 months have elapsed since the ceremony of driving the first pile of the bridge over the South Arm, at Maclean, was performed. The girders for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Telegrams. Attempt to Wreck a Train. Sydney
An attempt was made to wreck the Maryborough train in Victoria, a fish plate being placed on the the rails. The engine struck this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tram Car in Collision. Sydney, Saturday Night
An electric tram car collided with a brewer's waggon at Enmore road. A number of passengers were severely shaken, but no one…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Coastal Railway
The Glen Innes " Examiner," in an able article on the North Coast Railway, for the construction of which £2,000,000 was granted in 1884, says : -- "If the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Coastal Railway
Once again our northern neighbours have started to agitate for raliway communication to the Tableland; little good will such agitation do. Without again threshing out the demerits of…
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A deputation from one of the Friendly Societies got a set back from the Premier on Tuesday. They requested that when officers of theirs were travelling on the railways…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Motor Cars
The speed of Dr. Henry's motor is up to 85 miles an hour. It looks exceedingly attractive in the pictures, and on the road. Fully equipped, it carries four persons— the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Duel in a Train
W.T. Eldridge, a well-known capital-ist, and former vice-President and general manager of the Cane Belt railway, Texas, shot and killed Ed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cycling and Motoring
A question at considerable interest and importance to the automobile movement in these States is the selection of suitable and practical motor cars for Australian conditions. What…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The North Coast Railway
The North Coast Railway proposal has been advanced a step further. Last night Mr. T. T. Bawden, Hon. Secretary of the North Coast Land…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Grafton-Casino Railway
The action of the railway authorities in regard to the Casino-Grafton line since it was opened is absolutely putrid, and it would appear that they are…
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SYDNEY, THURSDAY.—The Minister for Works gave notice of motion affirming the expediency of constructing the Maitland to South Grafton railway…
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"Motoring Illustrated" tells a funny story. Mr. John Phillips, an up-to-date Essex farmer, having several farms at a distance, decided to invest in a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Train Troubles
The people in Sydney who are said to manage the railways, cling to a long and fondly cherished conviction that people in the country look upon their local shows,…
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