Motor Accident at Armidale
Mr. E.M.Fisher. draftsman in the Crown Lands Office Armidale, who died on Thursday, at the Armidale Hospital, as the result of ijuries received in a motor cycle…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1909
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Tramway Extension
Mr. J. Gillies, M.L.A., interviewed the Minister of Works yesterday, and was informed that within three weeks from date tenders for the extension of the tramway from High-Street to the…
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The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has allowed the appeal of plaintiff in the New South Wales case Kelly versus Hart, relating to the right of the defendant to sell cigarettes at…
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No trams were run to the racecourse this afternoon. The Newcastle Jockey Club applied to the Railway Commissioners for the usual specials, and the department refused…
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The Railway, Department has taken between 5000 and 6000 tons of slack coal from the Western mines…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Union-won Coal. All Required for the Railways
The Newcastle office of Messrs. A. Kethel and Company was informed yesterday that the Railway Commissioners would in future require the whole of the coal Put out…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murrurundi Railway Fatality. Heroism of Railway Men. Murrurundi
On Saturday afternoon last, C. Jones (driver), and John Percy Smith (fireman), who were taking a goods train from Murrurundi to Werris Creek were severely scalded by an escape of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Railway Disaster Averted
The other morning a terrible railway ancident was averted at Goondah station by a narrow margin. The mail train from Sydney, and the express usually pass at…
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Mr. Waddell, the Treasurer and Minister for Railways, replying to a question asked in the Legislative Assembly, said that from the 10th to the 22nd instant the Chief Railway Commissioner…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Commissioners Want All the Coal. Miners' Mines Threaten to Close Down
The Ebbw Main and Young Wallsend mine managers were informed this morn ing that the Railway Commissioners would require all the coal put out of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatal Accident at Bishop's Bridge Killed While Felling a Tree
A shocking fatal accident occurred at Bishop's Bridge on Saturday, the victim being Mr. Francis Whitman, a well-known resident, who followed the calling of a timber getter…
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The United States railway switchmen's strike has collapsed…
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Young Wallsend and Ebbw-Main collieries are working to-day as if nothing extraordinary had occurred. Both are working two shifts. The representative of the owners of these two mines is…
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John Hill, a wireman, employed by the Government, was walking through a turnel between two sets of rails this morning when he observed two trams…
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When it is stated, without any qualification, that Australia's public debt amounts to about £240,000,000 or over £56 per head of population, it is at once thought…
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Unless something happens to change the outlook it is almost a certainty that the railway services will have to be still further reduced. When the strike began early last month it was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →No Trams for the Races
No trains were run to Newcastle race course on Saturday afternoon. The Newcastle Jockey Club applied to the Railway-Commissioners for the usual…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →[?]Iar Ardglen Railway Fatality the Inquest. Murkurundi
The adjourned inquest touching the death of [?] Perey Smith, died in the hospital here [?] November 28 from injuries by scalding from [?] engine while going through the tunnel near…
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The New York correspondent of the "Times" states that unions representing 100,000 railway workers, demand 10 per cent increase in wages. Sixty…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Overcrowded Trams. Another Fatal Accident
Francis William Reynolds, aged 22, who was knocked off the footboard of a crowded tram car by passengers on a passing tram, in George-street, Sydney…
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