Sir Wm. Lyne's Motor Car. "An Insulting Letter."
Correspondence, tinged with considerable anger on one side, has lately passed between Sir William Lyne and the Melbourne Harbour Trust with reference to…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1909
1,317 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 36 of 66
General Cables. Wright Bros.' Aeroplane
Mr. Orville Wright, with a passenger aeroplaned in a straight line five miles and back in 14 mins, 40 seconds, thus fulfilling the Washington Government's required test…
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THE annual report of the Chief Commissioner for Railways shows a surplus of £469,066 on the working on the railways and tramways for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Topics of the Day. Launceston Tramways
The Launceston people, by a very large majority, have decided that they will have electrical tramways, and thus show that they do not mean to be behind Hobart in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Our Railways
The annual report of the Chief Commissioner of Railways reminds us that the citizens of the State are partners in a huge business concern, an enterprise in which they have good reason, to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Horses for the North Coast Railway
In the natural course of events, it is only a matter of time when the iron horse will be puffing and wheezing its way over hill and dale…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bad Roads
The Wollombi-road between Cessnock and [?]bird is in a bad state, there being numerous nasty holes cut in it by the heavy traffic. Of course the Shire Council is aware of the condition of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bulga Bridge
Since writing a few days ago in reference to the above bridge I have ascertained that officers from tho Works Department have taken the initiatory steps in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Civic Powers and Duties. Road Making
In the absence of legal subjects for discussion at the present juncture, an excursion into the practical field of municipal services may not be uninteresting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Station
A gang of men is engaged at the local railway station forming and levelling the ground for a new goods siding. The stationmaster (Mr. M'Farlane) says there has been an enormous increase…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two Trams Collide in Sydney. Seven Passengers Injured. Sydney
There was a scene of great excitement at eight o'clock this morning at Eddy-avenue and Elizabeth-street, Sydney, when a Botany train, bound for Circular Quay, crashed into a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Female Tramp
The Moree "News" says:-Accustomed as we are to hearing of the hardships and the adversities of the Australian bush tramp, an incident in this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tram Collision. Seven Persons Injured. (By Telegraph). Sydney
A collision between two trams occur red this morning in Elizabeth-street, near Toohey's brewery. Both trams were considerably damaged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Belmore Bridge Footwalk
Attention is drawn to the fact that one of the small gates protecting the entrance to the footwalk of the Belmore Bridge has been broken off for some time, rendering it…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Topics of the Day. an Australian Aeroplane
As machines in the air are likely to be the great destructive media of the future, for national defence as well as for modes of attack, the Federal Government has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tennis and Motoring
The Morpeth team journeyed by motor to Raymond Terrace Wednesday (says a correspondent) and played a match in the keen biting wind. The result was a win for Raymond Terrace by 57 games…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Boat Mystery. Notes on a Crime in a Suicide's Letters. New York, June 27
The discovery of a series of extraordinary letters on the body of Robert E. Eastman, alias E. Roberts, the absconding New York broker, intensifies the mystery surrounding…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Pope's Motor Car
The Pope inspected his new motor-car presented to him by American Catholics, in the Vatican gardens recently (writes the Rome correspondent of the "Daily Mail,")…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Railways
IF any reliance is to be placed on figures, the railways and tramways are still in a position to make considerable concessions to their…
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