Motor Boat Fatality. Seventeen Lives Lost. (By Cable.) Home
While a motor boat crowded with tourists was crossing a lake, near Perugia (Italy), the vessel sank, and 17 persons were drowned…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1911
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Delightful Roads
The virtual disppearance of the road dust nuisance In the driest summer which Britain has experienced since motor-cars first ran upon the roads in a matter of general…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Express Train Derailed
Owing to a fall of rock, an express train was derailed near Oporto on Monday and night carriages fell into the river Douro. Many passengers were rescued with great…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Illinois Railway. Chicago, Sept 12
The possibility of a strike on the Illinois Central Railway has been averted as the men's union headquarters has refused to sanction the storage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Motor Car Fatality
At the inquest on the body of Norman Hall, the Coroner found that deceased died from injuries received by being knocked down by a motor car recklessly driven by James…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Railway Fatality. Inquest and Finding
The Coroner (Mr. T. C. K. McKell, P.M.), held an inquest to-day at the Courthouse, West Maitland, touching the death of Thomas Robert Bennett, whose body…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Disputes Commission. Non-unionists' Evidence. London, Tuesday afternoon
A non-unionist, giving evidence before the Railway Disputes Royal Commission, testified that the majority of the men were against the recognition of unions. Witness favoured a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dissatisfied Railway Men. Talking Strike Again. London, Tuesday night
The London and North-western railway men are agitating for a national strike unless the Board of Trade re-opens Sir Edward Fry's award, which settled labour conditions…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Chinese Railway Trouble. a Turbulent Crowd. Peking
Huge crowds continue to surround the Viceroy's yamen at Cheng to protesting against the nationalisation of railways. The Viceroy ordered the troops to fire on the mob…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cross Country Railway Urged. Maryvale to Port Stephens. Sydney
Mr. Dunn, M.L.A. for Mudgee, introduced a deputation to the Minister of Works to urge the construction at an early date of a railway from Maryvale to Gulgong, thence on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Expectorating in Railway Carriages
The disgusting and filthy habit of expectorating in railway carriages was made the subject of two prosecutions at the West Maitland Police Court, to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Railway Disputes. Royal Commission Inquiry London, Sept. 13
A non-unionist signalman, in giving evidence before the Railway Disputes Commission yesterday, said that the agitation leading to the 1907 conciliation was the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatal Motor Accident. Alleged Manslaughter. (By Telegraph). Sydney
At the inquest concerning the death of Norman Stanley Hall, aged 30, who was killed while riding a bicycle neir Manly by being struck by a moter car…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Collision
The van of a train got out of control near Scarsdale, Victoria, on Monday, dashed down an incline, and collided with a number of stationary trucks. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Fatality. a Man Run. Down
On Tuesday morning the body of a man was found dying in the water beneath the East Maitland side of the railway bridge which spans Wallis Creek…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railway Disputes Commission. Recognition of Unions. (By Cable.) London
The sitting of the Railway Commission testified that the majority of the men were against the recognition of the unions…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Aeroplane in War. Continkntal Manoeuvres. Paris, Sept. 11
Consistently trustworthy reconnaisances by the air scouts have been a feature of the military manocuvres and the Minister of War has recommended the airmen, MM. Aubrun,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →?British Railway Disputes. Further Trouble London, Sept. 14
The executive of the Amaigamated society of Railway Servants is sitting, daily to consider the diffculty that has arison owing to some of the companies contending that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Romantic Motor Drive
Helen Stamford hurried into the noisy bustling station at Ironminster, and, with one glance at the big clack, tore up the grimy stairs leading to the down…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shocking Railway Accident. Man Run Down by Train
Shortly after 11 a.m. on Tuesday information was received at the West Maitland Police Station that the body of man was lying in the water beneath the East Maitland side of…
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