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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1908

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Sydney's Tram Traffic

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 27 June 1908 · page 8

Mr. Kneeshaw, Superintendent of Tramway Traffic, stated that in George-street, 3036 trams ran bot ways daily, in Castlereagh and Pitt streets 830 each way, in Elizabeth-street 1568…

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Railway Collision

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 27 June 1908 · page 11

Information has been received in Brisbane that a special train conveying Wirth's Circus Smashed into a goods train at Croydon Junction, a couple of miles on the Brisbane side of…

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Fatal Railway Accidents

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 27 June 1908 · page 11

Thomas Hetherton, railway stationmaster at Tamworth, has been horribly mutilated by a train. It is thought he was run over [?] a goods train when crossing the line to or from his…

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Motor Car on Fire

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 27 June 1908 · page 2

Mr. J. Perry, Minister for Agriculture, and Dr. John Hay, of Coolangatta, while travelling from sant experience near Stanwell Park. The car had just descended the Bald Hill from Otford,…

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Motor Launch Missing

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 27 June 1908 · page 4

Considerable anxiety is felt for the safety of a party of fishermen who left Woolgoolga on Monday evening to fish for schnapper, and have not since been heard…

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Glen Innes-Inverell Motor Service

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 27 June 1908 · page 5

Mr. E. Roos, who has just completed a tour of the old world, arrived in Glen Innes on Saturday for the purpose of promulgating the interests of a company to be formed for the purpose…

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The North Coast Railway

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 30 June 1908 · page 2

When the Member for the Clarence some time ago visited different centres in the Kangaroo Creek and Orara districts, he advised that stops he taken to have an…

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Railway Collision in India

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 30 June 1908 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—A disastrous railway collision has occurred on the Indian railways. The accident took place on the Bombay-Baroda line, an express train…

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Missing Motor Launch Safe. Beached at Brunswick Heads

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 30 June 1908 · page 5

News reached Grafton on Suturday morning to the effect that the motor fishing launch which had been missing from Woolgoolga since Monday last had been-beached…

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Another Train Fatality Sydney. Wednesday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 2 July 1908 · page 5

Alderman Patrick Joseph Dundon, of Rookwood, was run over and killed by a train at Rookwood Railway Station this morning. He intended…

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Round-the-world Motor Race. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 2 July 1908 · page 5

The American and German cars are well ahead of thee Italian in the New York to Paris motor race. All are west of Lake Baikal, in Siberia…

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Dorrigo Settlers' Roads

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 3 July 1908 · page 2

Mr. John Stinson writes:—My attention has been directed to a letter dated the 27th May last from the Under Secretary for Public…

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Braybrook Railway Disaster. Sensational Evidence

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 3 July 1908 · page 3

The inquirp into the Braybrook disaster was continued last week. Frederick G. Kendall, station master at Sunshine, was re-called, and…

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Rival Railway Routes. Evidence Before the Works Committee. E. F. Rudder's Evidence Continued

The Raleigh Sun · Friday 3 July 1908 · page 2

What has been your experience, as a farmer, in this district I have been cultivating land for maize and other products for the last…

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Dorrigo Railway. a Forcible Circular

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 3 July 1908 · page 1

The following circular has been issued by the Eastern Dorrigo [?]ettlers:[?] "In presenting this circular to…

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Early on the Road

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 4 July 1908 · page 4

About 6 p.m. on Sunday, Emil Patterson, aged 18, alfred Doidg, 18, and Thongis Joseph Cahill, 19, calied at A.J. M'Donald's farmhouse, at Werribee, Victoria, and…

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Some Railway Figures

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 4 July 1908 · page 4

Mr. Harper, Chief Traffic Manager, Railway Department. said that during 1907 the railways carried 28,378,046 passengers to and from Redtern. From 1907 till 1907 the suburrban traffic…

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Cycling and Motoring

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 4 July 1908 · page 5

Nazarro is acknowiedged to be the champion motorist of the world. Last year. driving his 120 h.p. Fiat, he was undefeated winning the three biggest races of the year in the Grand…

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North Coast Railway

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 7 July 1908 · page 2

Mr. H. Hutchinson, Chief Engineer for Railways and Tramways, arrived at Stratford on Thursday last, inspecting the survey of the Dungog-Gloucester section. He…

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Northern Railways

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 7 July 1908 · page 2

The "Herald" writes:—inverell certainly has its railway, but it is such a tortuous one that the residents are far from satisfied with it. Moreover, the railway…

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