Killed on the Railway. SYDNEY
John Marphy, a wheeler at the Holton colliery, Greta, was killed yesterday on the East Greba railway line. A drover named H. Britcher was…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1904
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Motor Drivers
ON February 10 the board of examiners of enginedrivers, under the Mines Inspection Act, 1901, conducted an examination of candidates for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cobar to Wilcannia Railway
WE are sorry to learn the permanent survey of the line froth Cobar to Wilcannia has been discontinued. This of course has been done in pursuance of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Russia and Japan. Japanese Troops in Corea. Martial Law Proclaimed in Seoul. Suez Canal Shut Against Belligerents with Prizes. Coal for the Far East. Harbin-vladivostok Railway Destroyed. [Reuter's Messages.] London
Two thousand fire hundred Japanese troops, have landed, without artillery, at Sen-chen, in Northern Corea, and have started to march on Southern Manohnria. The Russians are entrenching at Autung, on the Manchurian side of the Yalu inlet, where they have 14 guns…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents and Fatalities. [By Telegraph.] Killed on the Railway. SYDNEY
A trolly accident occurred on the railway line at Gosford yesterday afternoon, when Alfred Gardiner (65) received a fractured skull and died…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Silverton Tramway. Half-yearly Meeting. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne
The half-yearly meeting of the Silverton Tramway Company was held in Melbourne yesterday afternoon, Mr. M'Bryde presiding over a large attendance…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Russia and Japan. Bombardment of Vladivostok. Russian Account of Operations. Port Arthur Again Troubled. Successful Japanese Ruse. Germany's Friendship for Russia. Snow-locked Defiles and Sodden Roads. [Reuter's Messages.] London
The following official report has been received at St. Petersburg concerning the bombardment of Vindivosick by the Japanese yesterday (Sunday):— Five battleships, two cruisers, and four destroyers, the fleet including the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Russia and Japan. Corean Soldiers Attack Cossacks. Seizure of Horses by Russia. Attempted Bridge Wrecking in European Russia. Strong Guard on the Railways. Is Coal Contraband of War? Autograph Letter From the Czar. Hopes of Mediation and Arbitration. Japanese Fleet Again Off Vladivostok. [Reuter's Messages.] London
A St. Petersburg telegram states that the Battle shipyards are finishing the construction of six battleships and two protested [?]ers o[?] the Novik type (3000 tons, 18,000 h.p). A body of Corean soldiers, incensed at the Russian excesses and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cobar-wilcannia Railway
THE Grazier reports that the permanent [?]vey of the proposed railway line from Cobar to Wilo[?]nn[?] has been discontinued…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Big Camel Train
A TRAIN of camels, numbering about 82, and carrying 13½ tons of general merchandise and soft goods consigned to Messrs. Wilkinson and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Silverton Tramway. Economies in Working, The Line to be Relaid
FURTEHR changes of an economical nature have recently been effected in staffs of the Silverton Tramway Company. Mr. C Eley, the general…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fall from a Train. PERTH
Mrs. B[?]ba Hogar, of Boulder, who was a passenger by the express train for the coast on Wednesday evening, fell from the train about two miles…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Victorian Railway Strike Partial Reinstratement of Strikers
NOTWITHSTANDING the refusal of the Victorian Chief Commissioner of Railway to reinstate these men who were v[?] of the railway atrike in May…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Transcontinental Railway
Sir John Forrest hopes to be able to circulate his bill to provide for the survey of the proposed transcontinental railway at an early date. It…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transcontinental Railway. South Australian Opposition Withdrawn
Sir John Forest has received a [?] from the Premier of South Australia. stating the his Government considers the there is no necessity to press sit…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →State Politics. [By Telegraph] Premier Bent and Railwaymen. Federal Government Criticised. MELBOURNE
The State Premier (Mr. Thomas Bent), speaking at the annual picnic of railwayman on Saturday afternoon, said: "There will be no more bad…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Arbitration Bill and Railway Employees. Predicted Defeat of Government
Following fast upon a Federal Minister's statement that "the game is up" comes the assertion (says the Melbourne special correspondent of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire at Railway Town
THE Fire, Brigade received a call at about 2 o'clock this morning to Railway Town. The burning of a four-roomed wood-and-iron house in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Killed on the Railway. MELBOURNE
Thomas M'Oarr[?] (19), of Foots oray, was run over and killed by a train at the Yarraville crossing yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An Electric Railway. LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon
The Liverpool [?]athport railway in England has been opened [?] electric line…
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