Grand Stand Disaster. Explosion of Motor-cycle. Women Burnt to Death
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 16 October 1909 · page 4
A grievous and extraordinary disaster occurred this evening in the course of a bicycle race in the Botanic Gardens (wires the Berlin correspondent of the…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 October 1909 · page 11
A Select Committee of the Legislative Assembly, appointed at the instance of Mr. Gilbert, M.L.A., to make inquiry concerning losses sustained by Mr. J. S. Gam in respect of the…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 October 1909 · page 2
In connection with the running of the new passenger train from Sydney, to come into operation shortly, Mr. John Gillies, M.L.A., has been informed in regard to a letter forwarded on behalf…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 October 1909 · page 2
We have been shown by Messrs. E. P. Capp and Sons, Limited, the latest motor speed [?] in the shape of a Swiss gunmetal stop—watch, called the "Vitesse," which will bo found very…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General Cable News. Motor Van Fatality. London. Oct. 16
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 October 1909 · page 3
[?] the chauffer who during a fog [?] motor van into a party of London Ter[?] who were returning to the Replestone [?] the [?] on August 12, killing…
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Singleton Argus · Tuesday 19 October 1909 · page 2
A drover named Albert Wilson, aged 17, was run over by the Adelaide express near Pimpinio on Sunday and killed. It is stated that the deceased, in company…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 October 1909 · page 4
A deputation, representing the Maitland and District Chamber of Commerce, and consisting of the president (Mr. Jas. H. F. Waller), Major Cracknell, and Messrs…
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Singleton Argus · Tuesday 19 October 1909 · page 4
William. Kershler, telegraph operator at Bourke, while travelling to Sydney on Saturday last, had a marvellous escape from death. He left the train at…
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Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 19 October 1909 · page 6
It is a somewhat curious circumstance that, although almost every Continent is now either spanned by railways, or is about to be so, there is not one across which a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Train Strikes a Flock of Sheep
Singleton Argus · Tuesday 19 October 1909 · page 2
While the funeral train was proceed ing from Sydney to the Necropolis on Saturday afternoon it ran into it flock of sheep that had wandered on to the…
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The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 19 October 1909 · page 2
THE last of the Scone-Gundy road deviations, that of the "Rocky Crossing," was completed by contractor R. J. Tangney on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Queen Christina's Purse. Royal Charity to a Hungry Tramp
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 October 1909 · page 5
A bricklayer whom the Queen—Mother saw fainting with hunger in the at San Sebastian, Spain, and charitably supplied with money, returned to his home at Manzanares, happy and…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 October 1909 · page 5
Walter Cross, aged 16 years. employed at the railway station as a porter, was knocked down by the mail train this morning The train struck him on the left shoulder,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Princess's Romance. Wedding with Motor-car Agent
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 19 October 1909 · page 6
Extraordinary scenes took place at the wedding of Princess Amalie of Fuerstenberg, one of Austria's historic houses, and ex-Lieutenant Koczian, the handsome…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Subsidy for Motor-cars. German War Office Scheme
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 19 October 1909 · page 6
The German War Office announces that it is prepared to enter into negotiations with motor-car manufacturers and private owners for subsidising their vehicles (says…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Full Speed into a Wall. Two Ladies Killed in Motor Car Accident
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 19 October 1909 · page 5
A motor car catastrophe, resulting in the death of two ladies and serious injury to two gentlemen and a chauffeur, occurred yesterday at sundown between Wiesbaden…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pastoralists and the Railways. Big Deputation. Mr. Wade's Assurance
The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 19 October 1909 · page 4
A LARGE deputation representing the pastoral industry waited upon Mr. Wade (Premier), last Friday, in reference to the shortage of trucks and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Van Disaster. Chauffeur Gets Bight Mouths' Imprisonment. London
Singleton Argus · Tuesday 19 October 1909 · page 2
Saytch, the chauffeur of the motor van which ran into a company of the Territorials, at Tilshead, "Wiltshire, and injured seventeen men, one of whom…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 October 1909 · page 4
Considerable interest is being taken in the forthcoming exhibition of a Wilbur Wright aeroplane which has been secured to appear in Australia and New Zealand, by Messrs. J. and N. Tait of…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 October 1909 · page 4
A number of important alterations have been made in the railway passenger service, commencing on Sunday next. The Sunday morning train to Newcastle and the Lake leaves West Maitland…
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