Determined Suicide. Stooped in Front of Stock Train
A terrible tragedy occurred on Thursday at Tamworth, when a man named Wm. Cochran, aged about 35, supposed to be a native a Kent, England, and a widower,…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1913
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Train Wrecked. People Drowned Like Rates in a Trap Ottawa, June 26
Spreading of the rails wrecked an immigrant train, and four cars fell into the Ottawa River. No bodies have been recovered. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Correspondence. the Upper Hunter Roads, Mails. Etc. (To the Editor of the scone Advocate.)
Sir,—-What optimists we a[?] to be pure—a few fine days and mails arriving regularly. Even a team or two has safely negotiated the…
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Two trams collided in Elizabeth-street. Both cars were badly damaged. Three passengers were injured. one having his throat gashed by a piece of broken glass…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Railways. Increase in Fares and Freights
The State Cabinet on Thursday arrived at a decision regarding the Chief Commissioner's proposal to Increase the rates for periodical tickets, workmen's weekly fares, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor-car Polo. a Thrilling Spectacle From America
Polo with armoured motor-cars instead of ponies is the entertainment which Mr. R. C. Klegin proposes to offer the British public at Ranelagh. The teams have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Congestion. Mr. Cann Blames Predecessors
Although the Government have decided to import the whole of the locomotives—eighty. asked for by Mr. Johnson. the Chief Railway Commissioner, the question…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Improvement
The long spell of wet weather [?] considerably with the railway works in hand in the district, but a resumption has now been made in some place. A re-start was made…
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The proposed increases in the fares and freights on the New South Wales' railway will take effect at the end of this month…
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The rails are now laid to within three miles this side of Camden Haven, and ballasting is now being done on that section. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Long Hydro-aeroplane Flight. Paris, June 27
Mr. Graham White, the well-known airman, yesterday flew from Paris to Putney in a Morane-Sauluier monoplane fitted with floats…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of a Train
Ottawa, Thursday.-A train conveying immigrants was wreeked through the rails spreading. Four cars fell into the Ottawa River. The bodies have not yet…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Aeroplane in War. Success in Mexico. San Francisco, June 22
The first use of aeroplanes for dropping bombs on warships occurred in Guaymas Harbour, Mexico, last week, when M. Mason, a French airman, who is in the employ of the…
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A commercial traveller, who was a passenger by the passenger train to Armidale on Monday last, which collided with the rear of a goods train,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldier with Axe. Wrecks Railway Station
A private of the Welsh Regiment, named Cox, escaped from the guard-room at Bordon Camp, Hampshire, where he was awaiting court-martial, and lay hidden for a day in a small wood between the camp and the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Railway Rates Season Tickets
The alterations in railway fares were published yesterday in a special issue of the Government "Gazette." The increases will come into operation on July 1. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Comedian Living Up to It. Two Motor Cars
Mr. Charles Austin is a variety artist who has ideas as to the necessity of living up to one's reputation. In an action before Mr. Justice Lash in the King's Bench Division…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Border. Railway Facilities Needed
The Minister of Works (Mr. Griffith) has returned from a visit to Jerilderir, Deniliquin, Moama. Moulamein, and Hay. "I had not been to this border district…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Collision. Trains Delayed
The passenger train from Sydney on Monday ran into the rear of an empty cattle train 20 miles south of Uralla late that evening, as reported in last issue…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Killed by a Tram
At the Courthouse. West Maitland, on Thursday the coroner (Mr. M. J. M'Mahon, P.M.) held a magisterial inquiry concerning the death of James Archer, a…
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