Cycling Road Race
THE following handicaps have been declared for the North Suburban Road Race, 10 miles, from the Mulga Hotel to Strachan's Paddock and back, to take place on Wednesday,…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1899
350 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 7 of 18
Railway Collision. London, May 14
By a railway collision in America 34 persons were killed and 50 injured…
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THE South Australian Railway Commissioner, Mr. A G. Pendleton, accompanied by Messrs. A. B. Moncreiff (engineer-in-chief), T. Roberts (locomotive engineer), and J. B…
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The weather was most unfavorable for the North Suburban Cycling Club's 10-mile road race which took pince yesterday. Nevertheless, a dozen riders faced the south-westerly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An Earl Killed. Decapitated by a Train. [Reuter's Message.] London
The Earl of Strafford, while standing on the railway platform at Potter's Bar Station, on the Great Northern line, yesterday, fell in front of an express…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General Cable News. [Reuter's Messages.] Railway Enterprise in China. LONDON
Lord Salisbury, addressing a public meeting in connection with the Railway Benevolent Institution last night, ridiculed the idea that the participation of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General Cable News. [Reuter's Messages.] Railways in China. LONDON
M. Giers, Russian Ambassador at Pekin, has informed the Tsung-li-Yamen that the Russian demand for a concession for the extension of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Death of Morgan Darcy. Found Dead on a Railway Line. [By Telegraph.] Kalgoorlie
Mr. Morgan Darcy, formerly of Broken Hill, was found dead on the Boulder railway line on Saturday. He was last seen alive late on Friday night. It is believed that he…
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THE following notice appears in the Government Gazette dated May 17:—His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, directs it to be notified…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Glenelg Railway. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide, Tuesday Afternoon
In the Banco Court to-day Sir John Downer, on behalf of the Government, moved for a rule nisi for a mandamus calling on the directors of the Gleneig Railway Company to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Death in a Train. SYDNEY
T. Hickman, a passenger by the western mail train bound for Sydney, died in the train yesterday. He intended going to the Sydney Hospital to be tieated for consumption. On…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Attempted Train Wrecking. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne
Two deliberate attempts at train wrecking were made at Drouin yesterday. Fishplates were placed in front of a passengers' train but luckily no damage was done…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Rich Nugget. Picked up on the Road. [By Telegraph] Coolgardie
On Saturday afternoon a local dry-blower picked up a specimen weighing 144oz. 17dwt. of gold about a mile and a half from Coolgardie, on the Kalgoorlie road. The specimen…
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MR JOSIAH THOMAS appears at any rate to be determined to supply Railway Town with a post-office before he fulfils a recent prediction and interviews Peter. With an eye…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sudden Death. a Tramway Employee
AN employee of the Silverton Tramway Company named D. Fitzgerald died very suddenly this morning. The particulars to hand so far are very meagre, but it appears that while…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →[By Telegraph.] Cycling Road Record. ADELAIDE
A. E. Fryar, cyclist, of Clare, has lowered P. T. Miller's South Australian 100 mile road record of 6 hours 56 minutes, by covering the distance in 6 hours 12 minutes over hilly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sudden Death. a Tramway Employee
AN employee of the Silverton Tramway Company named D. Fitzgerald died very suddenly this morning. The particulars to hand so far are very meagre, but it appears that while…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Killed on the Railway. AUCKLAND
Thomas Scott was knocked down by a railway truck at Oamaru yesterday and killed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Killed by a Tram. ADELAIDE
The police have been unable to idenlify the old man who was run over and killed in rulteney-street by a tramcar on April 8. It is supposed that he was a swngman and had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General Cable News. [Reuter's Messages.] a Railway Smash. LONDON
An accident occurred to the express train at a wayside vi lage in Holland yesterday through the pneumatic brake failing to act. Miss Roth, the daughter…
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