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Broken Hill & the Far West · Railways, roads & transport
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A motor car tyre bursting yesterday caused a car to overturn at Penrith. Mrs. Alice O'Grady, of Bourke-street, Sydney, aged 40, was killed. Miss…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the Police Court this morning, before Mr. G. A. Stevenson. S.M., the following cases under the Motor Traffic Act and Regulations were dealt with:—…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A statistician claims to have discovered that a housewife prepares nearly 200,000 meals during 30 years of married life. MRS. SUBBUBS: Do you know, John, I have cooked 125,000 meals for you?…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Detectives so far have failed to discover the perpetrator of the dastardly attempt to kill Dr. J. T. Anderson, Inspector-General for the Insane, whose…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. Joseph Pascoe, licensee of the Mount Gipps Hotel, was driving a motor car in a northerly direction in Argent-street at about 5.30 p.m. to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The management of the Silverton Tramway Company reports that the tonnage carried over the company's lines for the week ended February 18…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. W. F. Dimond, inspector of police, received a telegram from Mrs. Dimond last night stating that her brother, Mr. Cecil Clarence berriman,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Women rode all night through the gale as passengers in the London to Exeter and back motor trial of 337 miles—a ride that was described by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A head-on collision between a fourhouse furniture waggon and a motor cycle occurred on the Parramatta road last night and resulted in the death…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Weighing 112lb. a giant cabbagae was exhibited at the Queenstown Show, Tasmania. An ordinary table knife was useless to cut the stalk. A saw had to be used.—News item. Mr. SUBBUBS: When this cabbage of mine grows up they'll have…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lady Joan Kellett, who claimed £5000 from the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board and John Lane (motor owner), in respect to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In connection with the collision which occurred yesterday between a motor car driven by Mr. J. Pascoe of the Mount Gipps Hotel, and a motor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It was announced yesterday that the Railways Classification Board has reduced the basic wage for railway employees from 13/11 to 13/8 a day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An elderly swagman whilst walking along the railway line between Walloon and Karrabin to-day, was knocked down and killed by a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. J. N. Jonas, the town clerk, said to-day that the City Council had recently erected a plant for heating the bitumen required for surface dressing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Colonel Pope, Commissioner of Railways, has been appointed for 12 months as from March 20 next when his present term of five years expires…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In connection with the arrest of Leonard Hissey af Cockburn on Saturday for alleged passing of valueless cheques in South Australia, Mr. S…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mrs. Rachel May Foster (43), was convicted of manslaughter by a jury on Tuesday, and remanded for sentence (says a Melbourne message in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A young Italian rushed out of Hyde Park and threw himself at a tram which was proceeding along Elizabethstreet to-day. He shouted: "I want to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. J. N. Jonas, the town clerk, said to-day that the tarpaving of the footpaths on the mine side of Argent-street, between…
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