Siberian Railway Construction. Convicts Cruelly Treated. St. Petersburg
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 July 1911 · page 5
Enquiries into the treatment of convicts employed on the Amur railway construction reveal the most wretched conditions. In the Doluy district, prisoners are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mail Train Held Up. Daring Robbers. Erie, July. 2
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 July 1911 · page 2
A mail train was held up near here [?] 12 armed and masked men. The mail [?] were rifled, and the mail clerk and coner[?]tor were both shot, the former being fat[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cronulla Tram
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 8 July 1911 · page 3
The opening of the steam tram to Cronulla makes available to visitors one of the finest beaches within easy reach of Sydney. Previously, only…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Menelik Drives Motor-car. Community on Guard
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 8 July 1911 · page 4
An interesting story of the sale of a 15-h.p. Siddeley motor-car to the Emperor Menelik for £350 was told in Mr Justice Darling's Court yesterday (says…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →North Coast Railway
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 July 1911 · page 4
Inquiries were made in Sydney during the week by Mr. John Gillies, M.L.A., with regard to the opening of the first section of the North Coast railway to Dungog, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →North Coast Railway. First Section
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 July 1911 · page 8
For some time past, the lifting and packing gang on the first section of the North Coast Railway, between Maitland and Dungog, have been engaged working back from the latter…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The North Coast Railway. Taree-wauchope Section
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 July 1911 · page 16
Work on the Taree-Wauchope section of the North Coast, railway is expected to, be in progress within a month's time. Operations are to be carried on from the Taree…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Clergyman Dies in a Tram
Singleton Argus · Saturday 8 July 1911 · page 7
The Row William A. Richards, vector of St. David's Church of England, Surry Hills, collapsed and died in a Bondi tram on Thursday evening. A man…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Aeroplane Race
Singleton Argus · Tuesday 11 July 1911 · page 2
Paris, Saturday.—M. Beaumont (Licutenant Conneau) won the European circuit aeroplane race from Paris to Brussels and London and return. M…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Anglo—german Motor Tour
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 July 1911 · page 5
The competitions in the motoring tour headed by prince Henry of prussia, journeyed from southampton to Oxford, and are proceeding to Leamington…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Returns for June
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 July 1911 · page 3
Also in Singleton Argus
The coaching traffic at the local railway station for the month of June resulted in the receipt of revenue of £698, representing 2944 tickets. For the corresponding…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Our Railway
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 11 July 1911 · page 2
On Friday last Mr. F. H. Small, acting Chief Engineer, Department Public Works, accompanied by Mr. H. Bode, Engineer-in-charge of the first…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Opening
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 11 July 1911 · page 2
The adjourned public meeting, originally called a fortnight ago for the purpose of arranging the details of a demonstration to commemorate…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Serious Tram Collision
Singleton Argus · Tuesday 11 July 1911 · page 2
A serious tram collision occurred on Sunday morning at Gladesville. Two cars mot on a single track in a head-to-head impact. One driver and one passenger were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Papal Railway Carriage
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 July 1911 · page 2
A railway carriage with a story will be shown at the forthcoming exhibition in Rome, During the pontificate of Pius the faithful of France presented his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →United States Railway Accident. Heavy Death Roll. New York, Tuesday
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 July 1911 · page 5
Bridgeport connecticut, reports 13 killed, 42 injured. 20 of when probably fatally, in the week of the colonial express on the NewYork, Newhaven, and Hartford railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Terrible Train Accident. (By Cable). Washington
Singleton Argus · Thursday 13 July 1911 · page 2
The Boston express, when an hour behind time, at Bridgeport, Connecticut, struck an open switch, while travelling at a speed of 60 miles an hour. It…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Train Falls Over Embankment. (By Cable). Vancouver
Singleton Argus · Thursday 13 July 1911 · page 2
An oxpress train on the Oregon trunk line (U.S.A.) toppled over an embankment. Five persons were killed and a number injured…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →American Railway Accidents. a Long Casualty List Bridgeport (Con.), July 12
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 July 1911 · page 5
[?] people were killed and [?] owing to the wreeking of the colonial express on the New York, New haven, and [?] railway…
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