The Very Latest. London, Sunday afternoon. Fatal Motor Accident
containing the Duchess of [?] daughter, killed a boy at [?] the accident occurred through [?] fault…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1906
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Escape of a Lunatic. Through a Railway Car Window
On arrival of the second mail train at Bathurst on Saturday night, Constable Luckman, of Wellington, reported to Senior constable Meagher, that a lunatic patient…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Condition of Roads
Mombers of deputations who occasionally- -unfold tales of wee lo the State Minister for Works because of what they term the "almost…
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At a meeting of the Tamarang Temporary Shire Council, hold to-day, strong remarks were made concerning the state of the roads and: the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Lunatic Escapes Jumps from a Train
Whilst being escorted by Constable Luckman from Wellington to Parramalta, in the second division of the Western mail train on Saturday night,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Maitland Tramway
With regard to the Maitland tramway movement, Mr. John Gillies, M.L.A., interviewed the Hon. C. A. Lee, Minister of Works, on Thursday last as to when he…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Explosives on a Railway Line Picnic Party's Narrow Escape
A sensational incident occurred on the railway line at Kangnroo Flat on. Saturday, one of the Bondigo picnic trains narrowly escaping destrneti on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Left on the Trams a Mixed Collection
The number, of articles left in the Sydney trams is very great. It is stated that last year they totalled 6100, of which 2100 we a claim or) and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Boy Killed by Motor London
A motor containing the Duehess of Connaught and her daughter ran over a boy and killed him. It is stated that it was the boy's own fault…
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Mr. G. W. N. Brunker, secretary of the Maitland District Council has received a communication from the Public Works Department, intimating the Under-secretary for Finance and Trade, had…
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Mr. W. Bennett, M.L.A., has received word from the Public Works Department that in response to representations made by him for a special grant for the road from Rutherford to Maryvale prior to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Current Topics. the Railway Commissioners
The fight put up in the Council on behalf of the Chief Railway Commissioner was mainly talk. When it came to the vote the Government proposals…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Our Railway System and Centralisation
The very forcible letters from the pen of Mr. W. E. Abbott on the absurdities and injustice of the differential railway rates which have recently appeared in the "Mercury," should convince readers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Asia Minor Railways
[?] granted the railway company [?] the line from S[?]na to Aidin, [?] a prolongation of its conces[?] and its extension eastwards…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Letter to the Editor Differential Railway Rates to Morpeth
Sir.—Hunter River residents who are old enough to remember how the shipping and distributing business of the Hunter and Northern districts of New South Wales arranged…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Tramway Proposal
A meeting of the executive committee of the Maitland tramway proposal will be held in the mayor's room at the Town Hall on Monday evening next, at 8.15 o'clock, for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Gmnibuses
A Berlin compnny has secured the contract for the supply of 500 London motor omnibuses at a cost of £825,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Disaster
A terrible disaster is reported from Oklahoma, a railway train falling into a river and many lives being lost, Owing to the track yielding the train, while running on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Killed on the Railway
A fatal accident occurred on the railway line at Islington Junction, Newcastle, at about 5 O'clock on Monday afternoon. Ernest Owens, 13…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Electric Tramways
"Hear that tapping under the car?" asked the conductor the other day. I had heard it; a low, monotonous, bumping, exceedingly…
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