Road-making Machinery
Many, loud, and widespread are the complains that are made of the bad condition of our roads in municipalities and shires. The trouble is largely one of insufficient funds…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1911
1,611 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 63 of 81
The Motor Show
More worthy, and perhaps more typical of 20th century civilisation than the reversion to prize-fighting, is the Motor Show. Here also the…
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Vancouver, Thursday.—A train on the Missuri Kansas-Texas line was held up by four bandits yesterday at Bartlesvilleo, between Kansas City and Oklahoma…
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The business of the Railway Hotel has changed hands, Mr. A. E. Capp having sold out to Mr. C. Clayton, who has long been known in Muswellbrook as an ardent lover…
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It has now transpired that eleven persons were drowned in the motor 'bus accident in the Seine, including the driver and three children. An enginedriver lost his wife, his brother, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Strikes in Ireland. Men's Case Weakens. London, Sept. 28
Despite the absence of cargoes the Great Western Company are maintaining their steamboat service between Fishguard and Rossiare. The daily loss on the service is…
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In the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday, the second, reading of the Parkes to Peak Hill Railway Bill was carried on the voices, and the Bill was taken into…
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The executive of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants in Dublin has reopened negotiations with the companies…
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The Irish railway strike lias ended, and the men are returning to work…
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a conference held in connection with the Amalgamated Society of railway Servants has passed a resolution regretting that the railway men of the Great. Northern,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →COMMERCIAL. John Bridge and Co.'s, Ltd., Report
Rabbit Skins.—Catalogues showed considerable falling off, both in quality and quantity. Prices of the lower sorts were without material change, but the better…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Good Roads in the Old Country. a Maitlander's Comments
Dr. J.W. Harbison, of West Maitland, writes as follows from Carlisle, England, Sept. 1st, 1911, to the editor of the "Mercury" :—"Reading a copy of the "Mercury"…
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A well attended meeting of the residents was held in the Council Cham bers on Monday night for the purpose of forming in Muswellbrook a branch…
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The anarchists who attempted to derail 30 trains in Eastern Bengal, tore up eighteen feet of the railway in order to wreck the Darjelling mail that was crowded with…
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There hundred and fifty boiler-makers and machinists, employed by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, have struck. Negotiations for settlement have been pending for two months,…
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Frequent complaints are heard, regarding the bad condition' of the road between Kurri and the North Kurri railway station. Beyond having been cleared this portion of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Anarchists in India. Attempt to Wreck a Train. (By Cable) London
Advices from India state that a number of Hindoo anarchists attempted to wreck the Darjeeling mail train which was crowded with passengers at the time,…
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The now summer time-tables to come into force on and after Sunday next have been by issued by the Railway Deportment and we are indebted to the courtesy of Mr. Thomson…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Song of the Tramps. Ode to an Irish Workhouse
At a meeting of the Rathkcalo (County Lim-crick) Union says the "Cork Examiner," the clark mentioned that a deputation of tramps waited on him and handed him a piece of…
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As in so many branches of mechanical science, evolution has been a prevailing rule in developing the system of railway signals, as shown by the advance from tho use of a…
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