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Railways, roads & transport, 1913

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Northern Railway Line. Shorter Route to Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 August 1913 · page 12

Considerable interest is being taken by settlers in the northern part of the State in a proposal to construct a railway that would connect the Sydney-Newcastle line with the…

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Railway Extension. Barraba to Bingara

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 August 1913 · page 7

Mr. R. Schloesser, metal buyer, representing the Gulf Creek copper mine, gave evidence before the Public Works Committee, Sydney, in support of the expeditions construction of…

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Motor Car and Robbers. Dash for Liberty. (By Cable.) London

Singleton Argus · Saturday 23 August 1913 · page 4

A Paris paper publishes a report that while the King and Queen of Roumania were motoring at Wallachia, robbers ordered the chauffeur to pull up but instead…

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Motor Bandits. Rob a Bank. (By Cable.) London

Singleton Argus · Saturday 23 August 1913 · page 4

Two motor bandits visited the Communal Savings Bank at Wilhelmburg, murdered the cashier, and escaped with a school full of bank notes and several…

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The Belmore Bridge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 August 1913 · page 4

In accordance with a promise to Major Nicholson, M.L.A., by the Director-General of Public Works, who was interviewed recently in connection with the widening…

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The World's Fastest Train

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 August 1913 · page 3

In July and August the Gare du Nord is the most Anglo-Saxon place in Paris. A ceaseless tide of English travellers ebbs and flows through it half a dozen times a day. It is a…

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Motor Factory Strike

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 August 1913 · page 5

Fifteen hundred employees at Napier's motor factory at Acton have struck work ewing to an alteration in the method of paying bonuses for time saved on certain work…

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Motor Car Smashed. Struck by a Train

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 26 August 1913 · page 1

Another railway incident occurred on Friday morning at 24-Mile Peg, near Kooringa, on the Gympie (Q.) line. A Gympie goods train to Maryborough,…

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The Maitland Coalmines. Bicycle Road Hack

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 August 1913 · page 4

A bicycle road race took place on Saturday afternoon under the auspices of the Kurri Amateur Bicycle Club. The course chosen was from Kurri to Cessnock and back, a…

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Local and General News. Cadillac and Detroiter Motor Cars

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 August 1913 · page 4

Mr. C. L. Levy, country sales manager for John M'Crath, Ltd., of Pitt-street, Sydney sale agents in, New South Wales for the Cadillac and Detroiter motor cars, is in town…

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Northern Territory. Railway Scheme

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 26 August 1913 · page 1

The Minister for External Affairs (Mr. Glynn) recently had a series of conferences in connection with a scheme of railway construction for the Northern…

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Shortage of Railway Trucks

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 August 1913 · page 4

Our attention has been called to the serious shortage of railway trucks. It is stated that this shortage is very seriously hampering the industries of the district, operators…

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Brick Roads

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 August 1913 · page 7

For more than 150 years brick has been used for paying in several of the principal towns of Holland, and since 872 it has been extensively employed in America on country…

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Train Smash Averted

Singleton Argus · Thursday 28 August 1913 · page 2

Passengers by the 11.30 train from Sydney to Penrith on Tuesday night were thrown into a state of excitement at'Stammore when the driver saw" a…

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Letter to the Editor. Morpeth Road

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 August 1913 · page 5

Sir,-As one of many who have the misfortune to depend on the "bike" as a conveyance to and from work, allow me through your columns to draw attention to the…

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Ahmed Youths Stop Mail Train. Vienna, Aug, 27

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 August 1913 · page 2

Fourteen armed youths, by pulling the alarm cord, stopped a mail train near Lemberg, but the postal officials frustrated other attempt to enter the mail van. The…

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Attack on a Train. Bandits Reaten Off. (By Cable.) London

Singleton Argus · Thursday 28 August 1913 · page 2

An attack was made on. a train at Limberg (Poland). The express was just outside the town, when the driver received a signal…

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Baghdad Railway. British Agreement. Paris, Aug, 27

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 August 1913 · page 5

Great Britain is about to sign in agreement setting out her disinterestedness in the Baghdad railway as far as Baghdad, in the meanwhile the French settlement with…

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All Road Works Shut Down

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 29 August 1913 · page 10

Owing to the withdrawal of the Government subsidy from the Bellingen (Bowraville) Shire Council, all road work in the shire has been…

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Local and General News. Motor Cycle Club

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 29 August 1913 · page 4

Members of the Maitland District Motor Cycle Club are advised by advertisement in this issue that a run of the club to Singleton will take place on Sunday next, leaving…

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