Motor Funerals
A motor hearse has made its appearance in Melbourne. Motor coffin vehicles and care have been used for some time by undertakers, but the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1913
1,906 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 77 of 96
The Main Roads Grant. Shire Councils
MR. MARK MORTON. in Parliament on Tuesday, invited the Minister for Works to say whether he had yet received the report as to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Vagaries of a Tram Motor. Jumps This Rails and Races Over Footpath
The most serious derailment that has taken place since the tram services was instituted in Maitland occurred last night in High-street, a few minutes to eight…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Princess Kills Gipsy. Motor Tragedy. Paris,. Oct. 9
A gipsy girl 12 years of age, was killed by being run over by a motor-car near Melun, and the chauffeur was yesterday placed on trial in connection with the affair…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Labour in South Africa. Railway Retrenchment. Johannesburg. Oct. 9
The Government, announces that 500 railway men have been retrenched owns to the decrease in oversea traffic, due to the industrial unrest on the Rand…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local Railway Matters
Although his Parliamentary duties have occupied much of his time. Major Nicholson, M.L.A., has nevertheless found time to give his attention to a number of local…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Fatality. Tricycle and Express Train
A shocking railway fatality occurred about a mile from Wangaiatta, on the Albury side, on Tuesday night, when the first division of the express train ran into a railway tricycle…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Train Wrecker Sentenced
At the Glen Innes Quarter Sessions on Friday, Selevana Goneila, an Italian as charged that he did at Bolivia Hill, on September 9, 1913,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Attack on a Mail Train
The Bucharest-Berlin mail train was attacked by brigands, just after midnight on the night of August 25, while passing through a thick forest near Sichow, in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →North Shore Bridge. Norton Griffiths' Offer
In the legislative Assembly on Thursday night, Mr Wade asked the Minister for Works (Mr Griffith) if a proposal had been made by Norton Griffiths and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →North Shore Bridge. Norton Griffiths' Offer
In the Legislative Assembly on Thursday night, Mr Wade asked the Minister for Works (Mr Griffith) if a proposal had been made by Norton Griffiths and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Train Outrage. Paticulars of the Occurrence. Muswellbrook
The sensational train outrage has naturally been the chief topic of conversation in Muswellbrook during the week as well as attracting attention through[?] the State,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Cloud Burst in Switzerland. Accident to Train. (By. Cable.) London
The plains around Lugano, in Switzerland, are flooded, as the result of a cloud burst. A train ran into the flood, which had…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cloud Burst in Switzerland. Accident to Train. (By Cable.) London
The plains around Lugano, in Switzerland, are flooded, as the result of a cloud burst. A train ran into the flood, which had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Car Drivers (To the Editor of the Chronicle.)
Sir,—Several fatal motor accidents have happened lately including one to the late Mr E Lonsdale M.L. A. who (parenthetically, I may remark) was one of the straightest…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor-car in River. Tragic Fate of Two Ladies
Mr. and Mrs. Morrison and Mr. and Mrs. Cheyne were motoring from Montreal to inspect some land on the other side of the St. Lawrence, and to cross the river…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tram and Van Gollide. One Man Killed
At 3 o' clock yesterday morning a collision occurred between a goods grain bound for Adelaide and a motor van at a level crossing at Goodwood…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local and General. Tram Conductor Injured
A young man named Perey Hynes, a tram conductor has a narrow escape last evening from meeting with fatal injuries. He was engaged coupling two cars at the team sheds,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Conspiracy Charges. London, Monday evening
The hearing of the motor conspiracy cases was resumed to-day Mr. Neale, of the Commonwealth Customs Department, was cross-examined by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. E. Lonsdale Killed. Run Down by a Motor Car
Word was received late on Saturday night of the death of Mr. Edmund Lonsdale. M.L.A. The late Mr. Lonsdale left his home at haberfield, for Armidale on Friday…
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