A Bolting Motor Car
Some excitement was caused in Kingstreet, Sydney, on Thursday, when the driver of a motor car apparently lost control and the car commerced to race…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1912
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German Railway Accident. Passengers Killed and Injured. (By Cable.) St. Petersburg
A terrible railway accident has occurred at Salzburg, on the Bavarian frontier, when a passenger train was completely wrecked. Eight persons were…
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Mr. Sam McVea and a party of three ladies, whilst motoring form Narrabeen to Manly last night, crashed into a tramway post. The occupants of the car were thrown…
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The Minister of Works, Mr. Griffith, performed the ceremony of turning the first sod of the Muswellbrook-Merriwa railway line at Merriwa on Saturday afternoon. With the…
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Saturday witnessed the celebration of the start of a railway that has been agitated for for nearly 40 years, when Mr. Griffith, Minister of Works,…
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At a meeting of 3000 Great Eastern railway employees as Stratford a resolution was agreed to supporting the transport workers, and pledging those present to cease work if…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatal Aeroplane Accident. Paris
A serious aeroplane accident is [?] ported from Gavisy. M. Co[?] and M. Robl, his pilot, were flying [?] a biplane, when the machine cap[?]…
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A new petrol electric passenger coach has been supplied to the Great Central Railway Company by the British Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, Ltd. The…
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At the start of the North-West German circular flight at Bremen. Herr Buchstaetter's aeroplane fell, killing the airman and Lieutenant Still, who was accompanying him as a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →COMMERCIAL. John Bridge and Co.'s, Ltd,, Report
Sheep Skins.—Our catalogue, which totalied 8:230, was the largest of the day. In such a fine collection every buyer naturally found something to interest him,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big Robbery in Adelaide. Railway Station Robbed. Expert Gang at Work
The series of sensational burglaries in Adelaide and suburbs reached a climax on Monday, when the most successful and daring of them all was perpetrated. The scene…
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The Royal Commission of Inquiry into the question of the congestion of traffic on the (New South Wales Railways resumed taking) evidence to-day. The goods manager expressed…
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Several thousands of London railwaymen held a demonstration yesterday against the Central London Railway Company's alleged dismissal of employees for trade union…
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Mr. Frew and Mr. S.M. Logan, the well-known building contractors at Albury, while motoring on Saturday evening on the Albury-road, near Wodonga, had, a…
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The Minister for Works, Mr Griffith, performed the ceremony of having the first sod of the Muswellbrook Merriwa railway turned…
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Mrs M'Vea, wife of Sam M'Vea, the colored boxer, with a party of three ladies, while motoring from Narrabeen to Manly, met with a serious accident last…
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The dead body of a woman, with the neck and left arm broken, was found on the main suburban line, near newtown Railway Station, on Saturday. It…
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Indianopolis, Saturday.-Mr Joe Dawson's National car won a 500 mile automobile race in 6h. 21min. 6sec. This is a world's record…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Station Bored. Haul of £1000. Adelaide
A daring robbery toot place at the Adelaide station last night, when a [?] safe was bored, the look picked [?] about £1000 in cash and country [?]…
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