Late Wires Assault in a Train. an Extraordinary Affair Woman Battered by a Strange Man: Fremantle, Friday Night
The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 26 January 1914 · page 3
Minnie Thomas, a married woman, left Fremantle for Perth early yesterday evening, for the purpose of going with a friend to an entertainment…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods Up North. Railway Traffic Blocked Brisbane
The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 26 January 1914 · page 3
Extensive damage has been caused by floods on the Cloncurry Mount Cuthbert line. Heavy rain in the Cairns district…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tram to Yamba
The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 26 January 1914 · page 2
"In reply to your letter of the 2nd inst., forwarding a resolution passed by the Clarence River District Conference, urging the construction of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Late Cables. French Railway Disasters. London Express Wrecked. One Man Killed. Paris, Saturday Night
The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 26 January 1914 · page 3
Owing to the frost interfering with the working of the railway signals, the Paris-London express, crowded with English passengers, collided with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Carriage Horror
Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 27 January 1914 · page 5
LONDON, Saturday.—In an interview John Starchfield, the newsvendor, whose six-year-old boy Willie was found strangled under the seat of a railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Am[?] Train Smash. London
Coffs Harbour Advocate · Wednesday 28 January 1914 · page 2
Five were killed and 20 injured in a smash between a passenger and a [?]ght [?] in Michigan, U.S.A. There are still several under the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dublin Railway Strike. Declared Off. London
The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 28 January 1914 · page 3
The Dublin railway strike is off. 460 strikers marched to the railway workshops and offered themselves for re-employment, but the authorities were unable to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Timber Eor Railway Sleepers
Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 29 January 1914 · page 5
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Giving evidence to-day before the Common wealth Timber Commission, Mr. Fraser, Acting Commissioner of Railways, said that if…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Returns
Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 29 January 1914 · page 4
The quarterly railway returns, just published, are a straw which shows the way the wind is blowing. There is an incrcaso of £235,000 in the revenue from railways, and one of £41,000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another Tram Sensation. Attempted Assault on Girl. Fremantle, Thursday Night
The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 30 January 1914 · page 5
The recent railway sensation between Porth and Fremantle, when Mrs. Minnie Thomas was almost battered to death by a stranger, who…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →North Coast Railway
Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 31 January 1914 · page 4
Mr. Watt, chairman of directors, presided over the half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the North Coast Steam Navigation Company, Ltd., held in Sydney on Wednesday,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Man Mangled. Dreadful Railway Fatality Sydney, Friday Night
The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 2 February 1914 · page 3
A shocking railway accident oc[?]rred at Redfern station this morning George Ford, a railway lab[?]er, was working on the line at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Boat Championship
Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 3 February 1914 · page 7
Nautilus II. (Vic.) won the Australasian motor boat championship. The only other competitor was Meteor II. (late Kangaroo), the New South Wales defender of the title…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The City Railway
Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 3 February 1914 · page 5
SYDNEY, Monday.—The rejection of the City Railway Bill by the Legislative Council last year has not deterred the Minister for Works from proceeding with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Main Roads Vote. Orara Shire's Share
The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 4 February 1914 · page 2
At yesterday's meeting of Orara Shire Council, the Main Roads Vote came on for perusal. The department forwarded £500…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Random Readings. a Train Seven Years Late!
Coffs Harbour Advocate · Wednesday 4 February 1914 · page 4
On the authority of an American correspondent, the "Railway Mag[?] ins" records the story of a train which reached its destination more than…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →March of the Motor
Coffs Harbour Advocate · Wednesday 4 February 1914 · page 3
A complete census of the world's motor vehicles was compiled for the first time. United States leads in their oparation. America…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The North Coast Railway
Coffs Harbour Advocate · Wednesday 4 February 1914 · page 2
The Minister for Works will shortly decide, wires the member for Raleigh, the important matter of immediately completing the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →North Coast Railway. Meeting to Urge Completion. Mayor of Kempsey Attacks the Line. Sydney, Monday Night
The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 4 February 1914 · page 3
A meeting of business men, graziers and farmers was held at Kempsey to urge the immediate completion of the North Coast railway…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Britain's Motors. Stupendous Figures. London
The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 4 February 1914 · page 3
There are now 440,000 motorcars of all kinds running in Great Britain, their total value being 55 million pounds. The sum of twenty…
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